joining us is the executive vice president of the communications firm corbis.nd working for several years on budget committees. post -- in a recent thus we had the situation here. they had barack obama. then they had hillary clinton. thathey have republicans -- it is a difficult problem for them. given a narrowss republican majority in the senate. are some saying let's delay the august recess. >> but not clear delaying the august recess will change the calculus on health care. is not clear anything on health care can pass the senate. you are going to be delaying tax reform. i would argue the tax reform and -- >> they need health care for tax reform. >> they believe they can leave it he hind but that half the pass another budget. if they keep working on tax reform to august and health care through august, they're going to make tax reform impossible this year. >> am going to get the end of the year. busy dreaming? >> i think he is fantasizing. this is the same secretary of the treasury. now it is the end of the year. impact on thetle legislative process and the w

they will take part in what is corby family photo in the morning and they have own meeting in the afternoonfamily photo in the morning. it's the planet closest to the sun — with temperatures as high as four and fifty degrees celsius. that's the challenge european and japanese scientists face as they unveiled a space mission to mercury, due to launch next year. our science correspondent rebecca morelle has more. a mysterious world, mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system, and the closest to the sun. covered in craters, towering cliffs and ancient volcanoes, until now, it has been little explored. a major new mission is set to change that. this is the spacecraft cold becky columbo, called becky columbo, after a famous italian scientist. it has taken nearly a decade to build. it is only when you get up close that you really get a sense of the size of this huge piece of kit. and this is a spacecraft built to withstand extremes. to get to mercury, it has to travel towards the sun, and that means dealing with intense radiation and heat. on the surface of mercury, temperatures can reach

this amendment would help reduce the hard corby the administration, increase enforcement efforts. it would protect children and families from damaging separations by preventing i.c.e. from removing parents of citizen children absent some serious criminality on the part of that parent. let me repeat that again. if the parent is a criminal determined by the court, this does not apply. this is a serious problem according to a 2015 report more than 500,000 parents of u.s. citizens children were deported between 2009 and 2013. the two options available for citizen children in these circumstances are harsh. first, if a child chooses to remain in the united states, then they can loose contact with their parent and often come to rely on the child welfare state at significant cost to state and local governments. second, if a citizen child decides to remain with their deported parent, then they are de facto deported to a country they are likely unfamiliar with and forced to abandon their country, the united states. by the way, i'm not a lawyer, but i would ask those of you who are, i wonder