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Happy with what senator scott had to say when it came to issues of race, but he listened, nonetheless, but he's taken a beating. he knows he's taken a beating on this. and he listened. tim scott brought up issues of charlottesville, but he also brought up issues of the fact that this administration does not have certain times of african americans in leadership. when i say certain types, republicans, high ranking republicans who know how to work washington, who know how to work both ends of pennsylvania avenue. and they feel that's missing and that's some of the problem here, you know, because ...

What other topics were on the table with the president beyond charlottesville with tim scott? >> they talked about tax reform. they talked about moving to a -- looking at different ways to bring the country together and about continuing ongoing conversations, making sure that they stayed in constant contact with one another and having a pretty open and regular conversation. >> were there conversations about hbcu '-- >> sources were saying that there was a conversation about a request from black republicans to have a high ranking black republican within this administration who knows issues and ...

Mcconnell is the person who knows how to make legislation happen in washington, and trust -- trump does not trust him at least not yet so if they're going to get anything done they have to repair that first and foremost, they have to get on the same page about what they want to get done, they have to decide what the framework is going to look like for tax reform, what are we going to bundle together, are we going to bundle the border wall, and the d.r.e.a.m.ers, are they going to bundle the hurricane funding for the government, these are important decisions about strategy and tactics that need...

List what have congress is doing this fall is russia. lot of folks in congress are concentrating on russia right now in these investigations and these committees, the intelligence committees in both chambers have a lot of work to do this fall. >> they do and the senate will have nominations to process so there is just a lot on congress's plate here, dealing with a party leader in the president that as abby mentioned number one has not figured out how to work a deal in washington. it's not like working a deal in business. everything is interconnected. it's not totally rational and on top of tha...

>> look, they're in a marriage of convenience, no trust, bad blood and the president keeps adding to it. >> hold on, we're going to see it at 4:00 p.m. today. so the president is meeting with speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell today. >> their game faces will be on presumably the democrats and republicans and it's a glimmer of what might have been if the president pursued the art of the deal and for example led with infrastructure, tried to forge bipartisan coalitions but he hasn't. he's played to his base and attacked his own party in congress and the to do-list is serious and nose saerl the mos...