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I'm tamron hall. the "news nation" is following the knock down of senator roy blunt's amendment that would allowed employers to cover certain health services. the volt was 51-48 against the measure. the debate was intense, personal and even times came down to gender. >> we have men on the other side of the aisle here for the most part with a little assist telling women what their rights should be. i cannot believe this battle. >> the united states senate had 83 women and 17 men rather than 83 men and 17 women. a bill like this would never even make it to the floor. >> kelly o' donnel joins us

While the president wads takie i -- was taking a victory lap new documents show that earlier this year the trump administration transferred nearly $10 million from fema's budget to i.c.e. according to the document, that money was used to support the administration's zero tolerance policy that separated children from their parents at the southern border. that brings us to today's big question. is the federal government as ready for the 2018 hurricane season as it could be? joining me from the white house nbc news correspondent kelly o' donnel. i want to talk to this document we got from jeff mu...

Just blow up his base. i mean, this was a straight-up promise all the way through his campaign. >> reporter: and halle, you covered that campaign. it's a little more gray than steve king describes it there. this will be a moment where we'll get a much better idea whether it's the republican party space as how this breaks out. as kelly o'donnel pointed out, a lot of this, now, is going to fall on speaker ryan, nothing comes to the floor without his say so and it's very clear that the president doesn't have his say so yet. when paul ryan speaks later today, we'll get a lot more information. you'...

The influence and weight of the white house was going to be particularly important to lean on senators against this legislation. the entire day went to talking about these tweets. >> yeah, very little gets done on capitol hill when it comes to really big things without presidential leadership. in this case a number of republican senators have said the most helpful thing the president could do is to let the senate do its job. they didn't want him meddling in this process. by injecting himself into the story of the day and creating this enormous distraction for folks on the hill he complicates t...

He said that former president obama wasn't born in this country. he clearly was a part of criticizing the past president who was not immune to criticism himself. i wonder how you make that argument. >> again, i think i've been pretty clear that when the president gets hit high pressure he -- he's going to hit back harder. >> that program that sarah huckabee sanders was talking about is "morning joe." kelly, this is the second on camera press briefing that we've had this week. both times she's koum against this president versus the kmeed -- media. the president and his staff need to live up to ...