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Welcome back. i'm stephanie ruhle. the most powerful atlantic ocean hurricane ever recorded in history is now ripping through the caribbean on a track toward florida. just as congress prepares to take a vote as early as today for funding for harvey relief, many residents in both texas and louisiana are struggling to pick up the pieces after that devastating storm. i want to bring in two of my favorites, the co-chairs from the problem solvers caucus. they met last night to plan the road ahead. democratic congressman josh gottheimer of new jersey and tom reed of new york. gentlemen, welcome. >> ...

Legislation raising the nation's borrowing limit, the debt ceiling. is that a good idea? >> i think we should be voting up or down on harvey. i think these things should be separate. if they're ultimately packaged together, i'm going to stand by those who are devastated in texas, but i really think we should be voting separately on those. >> all right then. well, if congress doesn't pass a spending bill, we could see a partial government shutdown. that's not something anybody wants to see. congressman reed, what do you think? >> yeah, we had another item of discussion last night in the caucus ...

Able to say i tried, because it's such a sympathetic issue. >> you recover the white house every day. you see steve bannon on the outsaid he's surrounded by globalists. that's kind of criticizing the president. listen to mark levine on the road the other day. >> mr. president, look around the oval office, look around the white house. where are all the conservatives? where are the people who supported you in the campaign? so president trump does himself a disservice, i believe, when the diversity of opinion is between a liberal democrat from manhattan and a liberal democrat from queens. there n...

North korea, all the budget battles, and of course harvey. and we're entering a phase where trump's inner circle is coming to talk to members on the senate side for the first time. members of the intelligence committee, and don junior is coming in to talk about that meeting this month, so it could be interesting to watch people closely when the world isn't watching closely. they may show their sympathies more when the cameras aren't quite as focused on that probe. >> missing a bit, but not forgotten. >> right. tomorrow in buena vista, virginia is the annual labor day parade, which for the la...

That his own base is stirring p up. >> first, some of these are gone, but some of them aren't. immigration is a great place to see that trump hasn't actually abandoned his base in any way on this issue. we are talking about what's going on with daca, that's a huge decision. some republicans i think would be fine with lets the kids stay here, others want them out, but we have seen an immigration crackdown throughout the country that really hasn't gotten much attention. this is the president living up to his campaign promises. acting director of i.c.e. has been unapologetic about yes, they are t...