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Reforms, adding into this mix, of course, this is now a Midterm Election years year. Things are not easy in an Election Year so that adds into this complicated agenda they have. Up here on the hill tomorrow white house aides will be meeting with top congressional leadership trying to work towards that Government Potential Shutdown Showdown that we might have in a couple weeks and this weekend, speaker of the house, paul ryan, and Mitch Mcconnell, will be heading to camp david to meet with the president about the legislative agenda ahead. Also changes in the senate. Al franken, minnesota senato...

How he's sort of given a lot of tug of war in terms of whether he's going to show up or not. i think both sides, he's going to be a volleyball and we're also going to hear why he felt threatened and why he couldn't show up the last time he was supposed to in front of house oversight. >> open a scale of one to ten, how do you rate the action that we're going to be seeing on capitol hill this week with ten being the most dramatic? >> oh, man, alisyn, that's so hard. it's going to be a dramatic week for sure. real question is, how much of this drama is sort of kabooki theater which we're used to ...

Just for a political perspective, get it all out at once. if you're going to rip the band-aid off, do it fast? >> in a normal political context, you try to take out all your dirty laundry at once. this president is just not capable of that. he lives off drama, he thrives off drama. what happened last night, that was a self-inflicted wound. he was proud to talk about how he lied. so, yes, he should try to rearrange this cabinet as quickly as possible and stabilize things. but, boy, i don't -- i've never seen stability at all in the last year since the first day he stepped into office. i don't s...

Deficit. let me read this to you. he said, we do have a trade deficit with canada as we do with almost all countries. here is the thing, in one sentence, i can sum this up, the united states does not have a trade deficit with canada. joining me to discuss, cnn political analyst jackie cue cynic frsi kucinich from the daily beast and robby mook. i want to start with bragging about the lie to the prime minister of canada. the president at this fund-raiser last night, "the washington post" got audio of it, the president saying i met with the prime minister, i made it up, i didn't know. i just sai...

Year. >> brian fallon, final word? >> i think mitch mcconnell is a realist and the idea some kind of big cut slashing of medicare and medicaid is going to make it ways through both chambers would be pushing republicans politically to the limit. you saw susan collins stretched to vote in favor of the tax package hear it from her constituents in maine. they lost a senate seat in alabama a new democrat sworn in, a one-seat majority. democrats are going to run on entitlement cuts based on what the tax bill will likely mean for those programs. if they actually make it even more plain by putting a b...