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There are about 200 people working tonight around the clock. trying to respond to a whole series of storms. also floods that have been in missouri. wildfires out in california. they are working on that as well. on duty at this hour, what is known as the blue team for fema. basically two different groups of people working 12-hour shifts. sean, they have been working since last thursday dealing with harvey. they are going to go to this coming thursday dealing with irma, and harvey -- since that recovery and response is not finished, by the way, they will potentially be able to jose. then they ha...

Clock. trying to respond to a whole series of storms. also floods that have been in missouri, wildfires out in california. they are working on that as well. on duty at this hour, what is known as the blue team for fema. basically two different groups of people working 12-hour shifts, sean, they have been working since last thursday dealing with harvey. they are going to go to this coming thursday dealing with irma and harvey -- since that recovery and response is not finished, by the way, they will potentially be able to jose. then they handed off to the gold team that comes in with two more g...

Realign the legislative agenda turn out onto the end of the year. it will get the debt ceiling debate off of the table, you guys are going to focus on tax reform. that is the winning issue if you look at the state level pole and needs a lot of 2018 senate races, this is pulling in the high 60s to mid 70s. by him realigning on tax reform, the other thing he did it was really interesting, by putting it into december, he has said if you're going to try and get this done before the end of the year, let's face it, a lot of these guys are not going to want to vote on raising the debt ceiling in 2018...

You'll understand how totally, morally bankrupt the modern democratic party is. >> the speaker of the house has made an unprecedented threat. yesterday mr. gingrich said he was willing to let the united states default on its debt. >> the republicans decided to go to the wall and to shut down the government. >> we're prepared to negotiate on the budget issues, but let's not threaten the country with shutdown. >> the president said we really ought to meet at the white house in the oval office. it came down to whether or not we were going to cut medicare deeper. the president said something i'll ...

There's a piece in politico this morning saying that trump is putting together a campaign organization for 2020. i think the jury is way, way out on this. i think he personally thinks he could run again. >> this president has a lot of work to do in september with congress, republican leaders in congress fork get stuff done. a little thing called the debt ceiling. you've got to fund the government. >> yep. >> mitch mcconnell and steve mnuchin, treasury secretary, and the republican senate leader, both say congress will raise the debt ceiling. the treasury chief says prioritizing payments is not...