you have breitbart going after mitch mcconnell.nald trump going to do at this point in terms of his relationship with mitch mcconnell? >> david, go ahead. >>decapito ended up voting for him, and kelli ward said she felt when he leaked the secretary on her too try to pressure her for some funding to alaska, that backfired. she felt boxed in and she ended up voting against. remember, he needed only one more vote. that would have been a game changer. so donald trump is clearly still learning how to deal with mitch mcconnell's conference. and i'll just note that after being in racine, wisconsin for the town hall with paul ryan last night, just how different the worlds are we're talking about with the house leadership and the senate leadership. paul ryan who, yes, criticized the president for his charlottesville comment but basically said, well, he sounded better last night, and so let's forgive and move on because he's in a better place now, he's ready to move on and keep this relationship intact. mitch mcconnell taking to the pages of

tweeting it about mitch mcconnell.e said the on problem with mitch mcconnell is hearing about repeal and replace for seven years and nothing happening. sarah huckabee sanders said everything is fine, the relationships with great between the white house and congress that they have a shared agenda, that they're going to move forward on. listen to how she put it. >> i can tell you the president continues to be committed to repealing and replacing obamacare and making sure that america has good healthcare and the healthcare that they deserve. >> but given what happened before the august recess, does he really have a chance of getting it through? >> look, we're committed to continuing to make sure that we have the best healthcare we can. if we can do that in that direction, that is great. if we can, we need to look for other ways to make solutions. >> sarah huckabee sanders replying to a question that i put to her because i had heard from white house officials that in the meeting that he had with the senate majority leader,

but the president is criticizing senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for comments that -- that mitch mcconnell said about the president not quite understanding or not having enough patience with the legislative process this morning. president trump tweeted, can you believe that mitch mcconnell, who has screamed repeal and replace for seven years couldn't get it done? must repeal and replace obamacare. why do you think that the president is going after mitch mcconnell, who he needs for any legislative victory? >> well, probably a pretty silly thing for a congressman to get in a dispute between the president and the majority leader in the united states senate. so i certainly wouldn't take sides for something like that. but i will say this. i really do believe this was a congressional failure. this was not a presidential failure. and republicans of all stripes need to look in the mirror and recognize that. we made this commitment for seven years. we got it through the house, and i'm proud that we did. it was a struggle. i'm really disappointed and i'm sorry that my friends in the senate

but can he pit mitch mcconnell against him?s absolutely the establishment, everything that the trump campaign worked to disrupt in this election? in this spat donald trump has the right target. as long as he cowers away, he'll win. >> do you agree? >> not really. what donald trump is doing is donald trump is prodding obviously mitch mcconnell but i think he's prodding the entire senate. he is absolutely committed to getting this health care bill done and he feels let down, not by just mitch mcconnell, i would say, but paul ryan. he trusted both leaders to put together a bill. he didn't put together a bill because as he said, you guys have been running on this for seven years. give me a bill i can sign. this is paul ryan's bill that mitch mcconnell got handed. he tweaked it and tried to make it work. he told the president up until the last day that he thought he had a plan b. it didn't work. the president feels let down and he's going to continue to prod them, as he should, to get back to the table and get a bill passed. i can t

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he tweeted, saying this about mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, saying i requested that mitch m. and paul r. tie the debt ceiling legislation into the popular veterans affair bill, which just passed for easy approval. they didn't do it so now we have a big deal with democrats holding them up, as usual on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy. now it's a mess. it's very obvious, john, doing the debt ceiling is not easy for the president. we are seeing how his frustration with mitch mcconnell and republicans on the hill as a whole is escalating. he and the senate majority leader have not spoken since august 9th in an angry, profane phone call. the president and mitch mcconnell are still unified and working on multiple issues together, but the president is still angry with mitch mcconnell. that's not the only thing. he's lashing out about the coverage of his three speeches this week. we had one where he outlined the afghanistan policy on monday night outside of washington. hen he had his rally in phoenix on tuesday night, then we saw him again yesterday in reno, where he ad

>> you know, i think mitch mcconnell is right. there has been some expectation in the white house that not everybody is an old hand in washington. but i think on the other hand, the president's point is, listen, we promised people for seven years we are going to repeal and replace. we promised them tax reform and infrastructure bill. we promised to build up the military and i've got to say every republican since 2005 has talked about building a border wall or clamping down on border security. so the way i look at it, jim, is sometimes the wide receiver and the quarterback don't necessarily have to be the best of friends to score the touchdown, but they both understand the importance of winning the game and what that touchdown means. as a republican, i tell you, we have got to get some points on the board. >> it helps if they are not throwing punches at each other in the locker room, too. hunter, if i could ask you, to be fair again, and this is not going to unnamed sources here. it is not just mcconnell that trump appears to be al

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and time to ditch mitch. president trump firing back with the lazy senator for complaining about american's expectations of the elected officials. ♪ track your pack. set a curfew, or two. make dinner-time device free. [ music stops ] [ music plays again ] a smarter way to wifi is awesome. introducing xfinity xfi. amazing speed, coverage and control. change the way you wifi. xfinity. the future of awesome. >> lou: breaking news now. get ready. defense officials tell fox news that russian spy plane flow over where the president is staying. the russian plane flew near golf's golf club at 4000 and then 5000 and then flying in new york air space. it was allowed to fly as part of the open sky treaty with russia. u.s. officials were on board of the russian aircraft. don't we all feel better? president trump fired back at mitch mcconnell. the president tweeted. senator mitch mcconnell said i had xelszive expectations. i don't show after seven years of hearing repeal and replace, why not done? to find out whether it i

mitch mcconnell gave him his only important accomplishment, which is justice neil gorsuch. i think almost breaking the senate, unfairly denying president obama the nomination of judge merrick garland. but whatever. the only important accomplishment trump has is because of mitch mcconnell's insider expertise of the senate. they're going to -- he's going to need mitch to get him a budget, to get him a debt deal, and yet he has to attack these guys, ryan and mcconnell especially. >> the week before he was attacking murkowski. he's -- you know, his people, his trump world has advertised against heller in a swing state in nevada. they are raising money in a primary against flake in a swing state of arizona. so at some point you begin to ask yourself, do you actually want a republican majority? or do you want to be able to say -- >> he only needs 34 to be kept from being removed in the impeachment trial to come. >> but they've also read nate silver's analysis where it essentially says 2018's the best year for republicans if you look at how the map is drawn and how these congressi

mitch mcconnell was silent. donald trump is not repaying mitch mcconnell in kind. and in truth, mitch mcconnell has shown an ability to get much more done in congress than paul ryan has ever shown. donald trump needs mitch mcconnell. the good thing for donald trump is that mitch mcconnell has an interest in accomplishing things. i don't see him trying to hurt trump's agenda in any way because they have a mutual interest in getting something done. >> absolutely. >> but mitch mcconnell will find ways. >> right. look, this health care failure, it was a failure, is the exception. a glaring exception, but it was. >> mcconnell has colleagues coming to his defense. leadership, john cornyn tweeted something in support. also people who are not as kind of onboard, rah, rah leadership. jeff flake, republican senator from arizona, senate majority leader does a tough job well, has my support. dean heller, one of the most vulnerable republicans. i look forward to senate majority leader's leadership as we reduce american taxes. >> and a giant war chest a giant one, can use to hel

can we get rid of mitch mcconnell?h a bad job of taking the right lesson out of this past election, if he would say something like that, and certainly believe something like that, then i think he's in real danger personally back home and also as a leader. it's a real problem. lou: are you astonished republican senators haven't said this man is out of his minds and we have to get rid of him? mark: i don't trust any of them right now. lou: i had a friend who once said to me, a connecticut man wouldn't be very good if he wasn't real likeable. and i'm telling you, they all fifth the bill. mark: they are all alligator hospital like the swamp the way it is. they are also under estimating how smart donald trump is. i have seen him do this over the years with bad i councils and governments. he will figure it out. lou: north korea is a tough one. in the midst of this the president is deliberating and dealing with this crisis, and it's a major crisis. we have a russian plane overfly bed minister, new jersey with the president be

david axelrod. >> listen, i have experience with mitch mcconnell. when i was in the administration we had to deal with him or not deal with him. whatever donald trump thinks, mitch mcconnell is a wiley coyote and he knows how to operate that chamber in 1,000 different ways that can be either helpful to the president or unhelpful to the president. i don't think the president has even the faintest knowledge of what all of that entails but if he has any hope of getting his legislative program through, then it seems like a very foolish long-term strategy to be in this sort of tete-e-tete with mitch mcconnell. >> very quickly. >> newt gingrich in an interview earlier was very critical of the president's approach to mitch mcconnell. newt gingrich obviously understands how congress works and said the president needs to understand that he's not in the stands as an observer of this game, he is on the field right there with mitch mcconnell, with paul ryan. he's a part of this and he needs to take a leadership role. >> we have a lot more coming up. i quickly w

i like both the president and mitch mcconnell. try to do, he runs this based on his experience as a chief executive officer. >> of a company that rebankruhe bankrupted four times. >> you try to put pressure on the people to get the job done. i think he's trying to put pressure on mitch mcconnell to get the job done. i can't tell you whether it will approach but it's an approach. >> as a very successful businessman, there's putting pressure and there's public shaming. and what president trump is doing to mitch mcconnell, a member of his own team is public shaming. >> yeah, i think part of this started with senate mcconnell's statement that the president has exaggerated expectations for what could be done, which i think irritated the president because for seven years the people in congress have been saying -- republicans in congress have been saying we will repeal and replace obamacare. the house passes a bill, we have a president ready to sign a bill, it gets stalled in the senate where a lot of the senators who voted against a ver

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let's begin with ditch mitch, mollie.ok off last year was because republican voters were fed up to republican leadership. the fact that donald trump continues to rail against mitch mcconnell. fewer than 4 in 10 republican voters are happy with their leadership. lou: mitch mcconnell saying the president's expectations are too high. why not do the hon year yoobl thing -- honorable thing and move on. you have been there for 30-some years. charlie: you campaigned on it for 7 years. lou: mitch mcconnell and john cornyn are walk up at a crawl on camera. they can barely move, for god's sake. charlie: is this an excessive expectation of voters or the president to have of congress, then why did necessity campaign on it. they should have said we'll never repeal obamacare, but we'll do some little thing around the edges. lou: mitch mcconnell put forth the agenda of the dates of deliverance it was their deliver anls, not the president's. general john kelly talking to the staff of the white house saying here are your priorities. count

i don't think it's because mitch mcconnell is contentious. i think it's because president trump is not capable of governing. >> we will get to you. you will have the last word. the president suggested last night that he would be willing to shut down the government over funding for the border wall. the democrats welcome that fight? >> no. the president of the united states should be concerned with the government running probably, with things running on time, not with shutting down the government so that he can get an arbitrary wall built that will do nothing. a wall that he told us mexico was going to pay for. another lie he told us. democrats are willing to come to the table with republicans in congress and with the president when they are willing to offer something substantive. democrats will come to the table on health care if folks are willing to fix obamacare. we are not coming to the table on repeal and replace and neither are some republicans. i think it's high time folks stop with this arbitrary rhetoric and deadlines and arbitrary thi

i don't want to get inside mitch mcconnell's mind. until they are public about what each is saying about the other, you know, i'll wait and see and see how that plays out. again, it's conjecture at this point to say what mcconnell is really thinking given this report that came from "the new york times." >> but, congressman, if the relationship between the republican president of the united states and the republican leader in the senate, the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, has so deteriorated that they're not even speaking to each other right now, and that mitch mcconnell is privately, according to "the new york times," expressed uncertainty the president will be able to salvage his administration. how extraordinary -- you've been around for a while, so have i. this is pretty extraordinary, isn't it? >> it is. to that point, which is a different point, i would say it's a real problem because, again, i've been in executive capacity. your hands, at the end of the day, are going to be driven by what the legislature does or does n

because he's still going after mitch mcconnell. the president doesn't feel like he has anything to lose and our new poll shows that. >> i don't feel he has anything to lose and completely consistent with his style. whether somebody he needs or doesn't need. if he feels like they haven't produced what he's looking for, or feels like they've offended him in some way or in some general way has not done what he wanted, he's going to go after them and does it on twitter. he does it in speeches. he does it in any sort of platform he has. particularly, in social media. >> carl, you mentioned that there is a special election going on for the senate street to replace jeff sessions in alabama. and there is an -- sort of the republican fight for where they are is playing out, in alabama. you mentioned that the president endorsed the establishment figure, luther strange, earlier this week, and on conservative radio that is not going over very well. listen to what mark levin said the other day. >> the president of the united states did somethin

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i'm very disappointed in mitch.he gets these bills passed, i'll be very happy with him. >> joining us now, jennifer rubin, opinion writer at "the washington post," and donald trump's biographer tim o'brien is still with us. jennifer, i'm sure that trump voters are now smarter than donald trump about what it takes to pass a bill. there's the president today after more than six months in office saying he expected the republicans in the congress, including mitch mcconnell, to pass a bill on the first day of his presidency, and he was very disappointed when he didn't have that to sign on the first day. >> yeah. he didn't get a pony either. you know, this is the problem with dealing with someone who does not function in the rational world, refuses to learn his job, refuses to learn how government works. so at this point you're right. this is like watching the iran/iraq war in the old days in the 1980s. the democrats are just sitting back and, you know, popping popcorn because this is only going to help them. the last thi

mitch mcconnell has a high tolerance for unpopularity. he has won multiple times in kentucky not as the most popular guy. he's comfortable being, fine, you want to -- i don't care. i'll take the hits. meaning he may not back down anytime soon is my point. >> and not only unpopularity, but social awkwardness and tension with people not only in the republican side but the democratic side. the interesting to me about this spat is how mitch mcconnell has become a tool in trump's political world, because trump campaigned against washington. this is a sense in which he's -- he transcends both parties. and to me he's saying mitch mcconnell is a if he canless loser, useless, he's not get approximating anything done. that was very much the troep of his political campaign and the republican party and the gop's agenda is becoming collateral damage and trump continuing to do what he does best which is act like a campaigner. >> it's none any, i was talking to my staff earlier today. i've seen this when presidents are backed into a corner, they do sort

mitch mcconnell is not saying much about president trump. did not answer questions from reporters or bring up the president during a public speech in kentucky. wants to get back to that agenda jim was talking about, what they have to do in september. the president himself is taking a separate tactic going after mitch mcconnell. >> manu a new wrinkle in that entire russia investigation. tell us about that. >> reporter: right. in fact, a new e-mail turned up by congressional investigators from 20,000 or so pages of documents that were given by the trump campaign over to multiple committees on capitol hill. this new e-mail came from rick dearborn, now the president's deputy chief of staff. last june, june 2016, he sent an e-mail to other officials saying that someone from west virginia wanted to have a meeting with the trump campaign, and vladimir putin. now, this person from west virginia was not identified in the e-mail, but dearborn was passing along information they wanted to set up this meeting between putin and the campaign. now, dearborn

>> no, i'm very disappointed in mitch. but if he gets these bills passed, i will very happy with him. i'll be the first to admit it. >> why did you decide to announce the transgender ban a couple weeks ago? are you betraying a community pledged to support? >> no, i have great respect for the community. it's been a very complicated issue for the military. spend it very the military. i think i'm doing the military a great favor. >> bret: before that session, president trump issued an ultimatum to north korea. period get your act together or experience trouble like few nations have ever seen. north korea's regime insists it's about to finalize a plan to shoot missiles toward the u.s. territory of guam. moments ago, more bellicose language from the north. we begin a busy newsnight with rich edson at the state department. >> good evening. secretary of state rex tillerson just landed in the united states after a week in asia trying to rein in north korea's weapons program. as he returns to the u.s., rhetoric between the administ

why do we continue to say it was all mitch mcconnell. >> i don't think it was mitch at all. cats. they had a plan, they had a policy. the president's own behavior made him so unpopular it was impossible. going after health care reform, i think, was one of the smarter things and that would help with the tax reform later. mcmcka mitch mcconnell couldn't do anything -- >> can you believe jason johnson is defending mitch mcconnell. it is like a whole new world. >> just a minute ago the president tweeted, again. if republican senate doesn't get rid of the filibuster rule and go to a simple majority, which the dems would do, they are just wasting time. president trump is clearly -- listen. he wants control. he hates having to get consensus here. can he pressure mitch mcconnell via twitter? >> i don't think he can pressure mitch mcconnell. i think a lot of these senators now, like i said, i thought about this with corker and tim scott last week. people by states that won by 20 points if mitch mcconnell can let the story come out and not really deny it, they feel safe in their posit

senate, mitch mcconnell.the new york times" claiming the two men have not spoken in weeks and that mcconnell has privately voiced doubts about whether the administration will be able to accomplish much at all. this is president trump once again calls on the senate to change its 60 vote threshold. >> our friends in the senate -- oh, boy, . [boos] the senate, remember this -- look. the senate, we have to get rid of what's called the filibuster rule. we have to. and if we don't, the republicans will never get anything passed. we have to speak to mitch and we have to speak to everybody. >> jon: let's bring in joe trippi, former howard dean campaign manager, match lamp is chairman of the american conservative union. you just heard him say we have to speak to mitch, but according to this times report, they haven't spoken in weeks. >> people who know mitch mcconnell well know he is a man of few words and he's not exactly a guy who gets real chummy, so it's not surprising to me that they have tourist conversations an

mitch m, go to 51 votes now and win." mcconnell replied in the senate and at home in kentucky earlier this week. take a listen. >> i mean, it's pretty obvious that our problem on health care was not the democrats. we didn't have 50 republicans. there are not the votes in the senate, as i have said repeatedly to the president, and to all of you, to change the rules of the senate. >> our new president has, of course, not been in this line of work before, and i think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process. >> that last comment about excessive expectations caught the president's attention, of course, and he tweeted, "senator mitch mcconnell said i had excessive expectations, but i don't think so. after seven years of hearing repeal and replace, why not done?" for reaction we're joined by washington -- we're joined from washington by capitol hill reporter for "the hill" molly. good to see you this morning. >> wonderful to see you. >> how are our senate republicans staffers here rea

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mitch mcconnell is the block. >> scott, it's all mitch mcconnell's fault, go. >> spoken like a true ted cruz staffer. >> yeah. >> it is a miracle the repeal got to the floor in the first place and a bloody miracle they got 49 votes. mitch mcconnell and the conservatives voted in the same way. the president personally insulted people coming to the vote. this is not mitch mcconnell's fault. there's time to come back and do it. the trump mission is to, a, get north korea right and, b, get on to tax reform and get that right. if you are not doing things on a daily basis jermaine to that you ought not be doing it. >> i was intrigued in how mcconnell is having deadlines to do things. he will jam things up against a deadline. he wants to put a figurative gun to people's head to do what he wants, but he's had all this time. look at his past. he appeases party again and again. for once, i am glad donald trump is recognizing where his allies may be. mitch mcconnell is not one. >> if i could interject myself. >> ned, i know you are going to calm it do. go on. >> i'm totally going to calm it down.

as i said, it's tough talking millennials into liking mitch mcconnell.ometimes they just don't connect. trump has a point. didn't mcconnell promise? he said we would get this done. arguably, not even arguable, the president hasn't had much experience in washington. he is new to the game. at the same time you could argue mitch mcconnell has had too much experience in washington. there is an argument about seven years. running a radio show and saying to tom price, do you have a plan? didn't have a plan. they should have. >> bret: eli, what about poking the bear before you got this calendar that includes a debt ceiling, a budget, tax reform, all these things you want to get through with senate leadership, house leadership in the administration. >> you could argue one tangible achievement for conservatives and republicans was gorsuch. do they need him as much now as it looks like obamacare is in limbo. during the whole health care process, one day it was a great bill, the next day it was too mean. it was very difficult to follow his lead. normally a presiden

mitch mcconnell has a very short calendar and a very small majority.president's frustration on health care, but lord knows he tried and tried to get that across the finish line. the notion that we're going to get this done and infrastructure, too, good luck with that. >> nick, mitch mcconnell is very popular with his caucus. >> look, he's been an ervegtiff leader and led them to majority. but the president is that mitch mcconnell and the president was right. the republicans had years and years and years to build a replacement plan and build a consensus around it and run on it and get public support from it, and they did not. at the same time, the president was sort of disengaged from the process. he was always over the place and would criticize the house version of the bill and then support it. he was involved in the not involved. he often seemed like he wanted some kind of bill instead of having a real bill of his own. it's a real conundrum for the party. >> to be continued, thank you, nick and ruth. more ahead. we'll be right back. thank you so much.

i mean, ditch mitch. let's start with ditch mitch. and ryan don't get the idea that means you are off the hook either. we have plans for you too. ed, thank you. >> my pleasure. lou: ed rollins, vote in our poll, question, do you believe senator mitch mcconnell has excessive expectations as he pit it, for his own future as majority leader? cast your vote on twitter, at lo lou dobbs, follow he on twittering like me on facebook and instagram, and on wall street, stocks closing lower but still just off record highs, dow fell 33,' volume big board 3.3 billion shares, disney shares falling 2% in after-hours trading, following a miss on revenue, disney announcing they will put all their movies from netflix to create its own streaming service. by 2019. job openings hitting a 16 year high on july. how about that. and a tightening labor market and wages are sure to move higher as a result. a reminder to listen to my reports 3 time a day coast-to-coast on salem radio network, up next, president trump vows to win th fight against the nation's dea

the president is right to critique mitch mcconnell. the president did receive the bid from the republicans last summer. he's been in office since january. my question would be where is the conversation over the past year about a sophisticated replace plan so americans and the congress would say we're okay with repeal because we know what happens afterward. at some point you've got to own it. a year after winning the nomination, i think you have enough time to come up with a reasonable replace plan. i haven't seen it. >> and also to that point, phil makes a good point, yesterday we had senator ron johnson on here, one the first republicans i've heard where he said maybe repeal and replace didn't work, we've got to leave that alone. let's find what's wrong and fix it. he came on. you can look online and see a lot of his economic reckoning. maybe that's starting to go in the right direction. i appreciate that, guys, thanks for stepping up, brianna. nice of you. >> but they share responsibility, right? that's what happens. the president sh

mcconnell. >> i'm very disappointed in mitch. honestly, repeal and replace of obama care should have taken place, and it should have been on my desk the first day or the first week i was here. i have been hearing about it for seven years. >> for the first time he responded to vladimir putin to drastically cut staff to help sanctions. >> i want to thank him because we're trying to cut gown on payroll, and i'm very thankful he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll. no real reason for them to go back. i greatly appreciate that he has been able to help our payroll. >> the president also talks about the russian investigation including the fbi raid on his former campaign chairman saying the news took him by surprise and the predawn raid was pretty tough stuff. he also said he has no intention in firing robert mueller. >> have you considered a dismissal of the special council. >> i have not given it any thought, i'm not dismissing anybody. i want them to get on with the task, but i also want the senate

it mitch mcconnell's fault that john mccain voted no? guest: i don't lay this at mitch mcconnell's feet did he did one i havegreatest thing ever seen in politics by keeping that supreme court seat open. that is something we have not seen in the history of the senate. i give him great kudos for that. on the repeal and replace of obamacare, mitch mcconnell was totally in line with the president. he knows the political situation if they don't get it done. he is completely committed to getting it done. the president is there to say hey, you failed. that is fair. you shouldn't question whether mitch mcconnell wants to get this done. he wants to get it done. the real culprit here is john mccain who i am sorry that he is sick and i pray for his recovery, but i am tired of him being in the senate. i am tired of this bamboozling on big issues. a lot of people thought he was coming out of the sickbed to keep his campaign promise. ran, he would repeal and replace obamacare. he voted the opposite and that is why people hate politics. take of thes yo

mitch mcconnell, of course, is the top republican in the senate. whaf you think of him as a politician, as a leader and a republican, mitch mcconnell does take seriously his own responsibility in the senate to help other republican senators keep their seats. to help sitting republican senators fight off primary challenge challengers, to win their elections against candidates. at the very least mitch mcconnell needs to keep 50 other republicans in the nate so he gets to keep his job running the senate. but he just habitually goes to bat for any sitting senator. now that the republican president has moved on from unsulting one senator in arizona to trying to unseat the other republican senator in arizona, heading into this arizona rally tonight we knew that mitch mcconnell was upset with the president's behavior. we knew that he was trying to undercut the impact of what the president is doing. we knew that mitch mcconnell was going to try to blunt the effect of trump's trip to arizona by hosting his own mitch mcconnell high dollar fundraiser for jeff

is mitch mcconnell going to call the president?he residence when the president gets back from bedminster? is he going to go to new jersey? what do you know? >> i think he'll put all of his energies the into getting 50 votes for tax reform and potentially a health care repeal bill. >> appreciate it. president trump seems to be catching some of his advisers by surprise with that fire and fury threat to north korea. so what power does the commander in chief actually have to follow through on that? and where is congress in all of this? a member of the armed services committee and marine corps veteran is going to join us to weigh in. during our made to move 2017 clearance event, you can do endless online research. or, you can take advantage of our best offer ever on an xt5. don't wait. our 2017 models will be moving fast. you can drive a car... or you can drive a cadillac. come in now before the end of our made to move 2017 clearance event and leave with the perfect cadillac xt5 for your next adventure. choose a low mileage lease on thi

president trump and mitch mcconnell are not talking.weeks since a phone call between the two men erupted into a profanity laced shouting match. the august 9th conversation unravelled when the president began to express frustration with the russia investigation and the russia sanctions bill passed by congress. >> since then the president and mcconnell has been publicly questioning each other. the times now reports mcconnell is privately questioning whether trump can salvage his presidency. >> senior white house official dismissing the seriousness of the rift. they'll have to work together though if republicans want to tackle tax reform, a spending package and raising the debt ceiling. here's what the president said about doing away with the filibuster and working with mitch mcconnell many the future last night. >> the senate, we have to get rid of what's called the filibuster rule. we have to. and if we don't, the republicans will never get anything passed. you're wasting your time. we have to get rid of the filibuster rule right now we

mitch mcconnell has done more for donald trump than donald trump has done for mitch mcconnell.nd in a way, when they talk about health care and the legislative process, both are right. trump makes it clear every day that he doesn't quite understand the realities and the slowness of legislating. but, you know, the president also has a point when he says that republicans talked about repealing and replacing obamacare for seven years and have yet to deliver on that. that is obviously a true statement, as well. >> kelsey, so now you've got republicans in congress who find themselves in quite the uncomfortable spot. this is illinois republican adamkinsinger this morning on "morning joe." take a listen. >> i wish the president, instead of going after mcconnell and whatever the ball is of the day, the shiny red ball, stick to this one message and unite the american people. >> and just a few minutes ago, there was this tweet from maine's senator, susan collins. majority leader mitch mcconnell understands the senate is a deliberative and diverse body. he enjoys broad support in our cauc