so congress has to address this. i'm encouraged that i see members of congress and the senate saying that they're going to address this. but i think a lot of folks are disappointed that it hasn't been addressed already by the folks we elected and sent to washington. >> "the new york times" is reporting president trump had been looking for a way out of daca, the daca dilemma. first he promised to deport those impacted. then he said he would treat them with heart. do you think what he did today was what he really wanted to do, peter? >> you know, as on many policy issues, my strong suspicion is donald trump doesn't actually know the details here very much at all. and would be hard-pressed. this is why i think he can't offer any leadership towards congress, because just as on health care, he doesn't understand the issue well enough, i think, in fact to chart a path forward. congress could have acted anyway, right? there's nothing stopping congress from passing comprehensive immigration reform, for instance, and actually

and calling on congress to act. daca was initiated after congress explicitly rejected the same proposal in legislative form. in other words, president obama didn't just suspend federal law but implemented a policy congress had explicitly rejected. there's a misconception that daca primarily serves as a shield from deportation. this is misleading. daca grants work authorization to nearly 800,000 individuals who are not legally authorized to work. daca recipients whose average age is in their 20's were not in an enforcement priority before and they certainly won't become a priority now. the priorities remain the same. criminals, security threats and those who repeatedly violate our immigration laws. the main effect of today's announcement is that work permits and other government benefits are being gradually phased out. but rather than leave daca recipients and men of women of immigration enforcement in confusing limbo while the daca program was challenged by states in the same court that struck down another of the pr

implemented a policy congress explicitly rejected. there is a misconception that they primarily serve as a shield from deportation and this is misleading. the grants work authorization to nearly 800,000 individuals that are not legally authorized to work. recipients that average ages in their 20s were not in the priority before and they certainly won't become a priority now. they remain the same, criminals, security threats and those that violate immigration law. of the main effecthe main effecs announcement as work programs and other events are being gradually phased out rather than leave the recipients as the men and women of the enforcement and confusing limbo once the program was challenged by states that struck down another of the administrationadministration's r workers earlier this year president obama is laying out the responsible 24 month phase out. [laughter] sorry, president trump. permits will remain active for two two full years. for the meaningful immigration reform that puts the child wages and security of the american

i was part of the congress had time and was part of the congress that passed the 2001 authorization for the use of military force. p that was targeted toward afghanistan, and i was part of the congress that willie took up the 2002 authorization for use of military force against iraq, i voted against that authorization. it's now been 14 years after the u.s. invasion and the end of the saddam hussein regime and we still have the authority of military force against iraq and it still being used. it's time for that authorization to end. i take this time to support senator paul's efforts andon put it termination date on the 2001 authorization. that was the first that we passed. it was gonn virtually an illness because we wanted our country to hold those responsible and afghanistan for the attack against america. that is now 16 years old. a the terrorist attacks that occurred on september the 11th o 2191 that's the authorization. pretty specific. our military took action as a result of the attack against our country and that was authorized by congress. it's hard to understand how you can get f

i don't know about priorities for congress. i don't think about congress. i'm not concerned about them. i don't it's possible to throw all of the young people out of the country. it's impossible. businesspeople people talking about throwing 80,000 people back to their so-called countries of origin -- they don't remember them to start with. i would remind them that as you do unto the least of us, you do on to me. 787,580. that's the number of individuals who have received daca status since the program was launched in august 2012. the migration policy institute will dive into those numbers more when we are joined by doris meissner. joel is in texas on the line for democrats. good morning. what's your priority for congress? last week the democrats failed to jump on it. trump's and paul ryan a letter going to cut all the federal wages. and this is something that was agreed to by both parties. wage increases and you wonder stagnant ins are this country. people have to realize corporations don't love america. they don't love the workers. they could care less abou

it's not something that congress like to do. and so the key element is that there has to be a champion. there has to be someone in congress who is highly respected who is really taking this on and pushing it forward and of necessity that needs to be someone who chairs one of the two armed services committee because that's the position you need to be in to really serve as the champion. and in the past various folks have served that role. the last 2005 round it was senator warner who served that role and what is interesting and notable and i think very i guess significant this year is that we have a champion who has stepped forward in senator mccain, along with senator reid, the two of them together to serve as a champion. that is the critical event. and i should recognize obviously congressman smith mhas been thee for some time as a ranking member, pushing the issue and been incredibly helpful and moved the process forward. but as the ranking member he hasn't been in a position to push it through. and that's a key element that's

is giving congress six months. president obama, former president obama who implemented daca in 2012 was of a different mind over what president trump announced the afternoon saying "to target these young people is wrong because they have done nothing wrong. it's self-defeating because they want to start new businesses, staff labs, serving the military and otherwise contribute to the country we love. and it's cruel." unless and until congress does something about it, people in the daca, no new applications for daca status will be accepted after today. applications that are already in the process will go ahead. renewals already received will be adjudicated on a case-by-case basis. dreamers whose benefits expire by march 5 of next year have until october 5 to file a renewal request. if your benefits expire after that march 5 date and you haven't gotten request for renewal, you are out of luck. no more new requests for renewals will be accepted if the expiration date is after march 5 of 2018. that marks exactly six mon

think what would happen today if congress were to say no sex discrimination? it would be indisputable that didn't cover sexual orientation. >> okay, the case law saying what you are witnessing and several prior acts of congress so if that is the case today then surely in 1964 when congress passed the same word they didn't have a broader notion of sex determination compared to today. it makes no center on us. >> the suggestion that sometimes the statute can be read to prohibit a comparable evil. >> i don't dispute the proposition. it is not applicable here. the point was the statute was sexual harassment and only questions whether it is from single-sex and clearly does and the fact that congress wasn't thinking -- >> you said it covers sexual harassment but that is not written in the statute, just discrimination because of sex, took a series of cases to include sexual harassment. >> i am not sure how long it took but it seems you can't discriminate based on current conditions of sex that readily supports the proposition that it covers sexual harassment. >> dc c

that's congress. i thought what he did was very compassionate and the left no matter how he behaves or what he does will come out and criticize him. i thought he was spot on. this gives us an opportunity to not just deal with the dreamers but also deal with the root cause of what brought us dreamers, an insecure southern border to whether we build a wall, fence, use drones or sensors. we have to secure the southern border. this trying to accomplish both things. >> julie: i want to listen to chuck schumer as he is speaking now for the president concerning daca. >> senators are here. >> thank you very much, senator, i want to thank the senate and the house for their incredible, fearless leadership on a hallmark issue of our time which is making sure that american values play out productively by protecting dreamers and their families. you will hear it over and over and over again because the president's decision to end daca stands as an indefensible and unjust act of cruelty against nearly 800,000 young

does congress want this football that they described as being punted? >> they have so much to do and you'll read this is another thing.th but sometimes when you have a lot of legislative things you need to do maybe you can trade if you give me this all give you that. we haven't seen that trading in recent years that's been successful. they've tried it was certainly a even if some supporters are saying why his truck backing down and yielding to congress? you should just and it. so he could get some backlash. >> to think that's why jeff sessions is making that announcement? >> it's within his jurisdiction. trump was asked about it last week and the announcement was forthcoming remember, the relationship between jeff sessions and trump has been strained at times over his decision to recuse himself. i think it's a normal thing to yield to the cabinet a secretary who has jurisdiction over this issue. >> the attorney general will not be taking questions today does that surprise you? >> no, they want to control thea message and say what they want. to say. it's

it means we are properly enforcing our laws as congress has passed them. it is with these principles and duties in mind, and in light of imminent litigation, that we reviewed the obama administration's daca policy. our collective wisdom is that the policy is vulnerable to the same legal challenges the courts recognized with respect to the dapa program enjoined on a nationwide basis on a decision affirmed by the fifth circuit court of appeals. the fifth circuit specifically concluded that daca had not been implemented in a fashion that allowed sufficient discretion and that daca was foreclosed by -- dapa was foreclosed by congress' careful plan. in other words, the immigration law that congress passed for closed this -- foreclosed this possibility of daca. in other words, it was inconsistent with the constitution and separation of powers. that decision was affirmed by the supreme court on an equally undivided basis. if we were to -- a uniquely undivided basis. if we were to keep the obama administration's executive amnesty policy, the likeliest outcome is t

unless congress comes up with a fix. the attorney general is announcing this, it was the president who made this decision. there are a number of memos who have gone back and forth as well between the department of justice and the department of homeland security. what we're going to take a look at, clearly there will be a lot of people who are wondering what their status here in the united states will be, but also come out with the political fallout of all of this will be. clearly there are a lot of people who support the daca program will be upset about this, but then there are people who are supporting the rescinding of the speethirteen program. in congress who were trying as hard as they can to not grant legal status to people who were here or grant some sort of status that may not comport with what other people want. there is a big risk here, particularly on the conservative side who think this will ignite a civil war in the republican party which could potentially end with them losing control of congress. the attorne

congress shall declare war. or will the senators idly sit by and let the wars continue unabated and unauthorized? some will argue that sunsetting the old authorizations is too soon, too dramatic. really? six months and 16 years later we haven't decided whether we should be at war, where we should be and we can't decide in six months? took us 24 hours to decide in pearl harbor. took us three days to decide in 9/11. i think six months is more than enough time. will congress do their job unless they are forced to? all history says no. why does congress have 11% approval rating from the people? because they're not doing their job. how do we force congress to do their job? give them deadlines. how can we get a deadline? let's pass this. let's have a full-throated, deep, heartfelt debate over whether we should be at war and where. should we be at war in afghanistan? is there a winnable and foreseeable, winnable future there? should we be at war in iraq, syria, yemen, libya? today's vote can be seen as a proxy vote for

handle this. >> that is where congress is heading but what chuck did was right, diluting congress way in and if congress chooses not to act donald trump would be leveling the playing field. when it comes to immigration we need policy based on merit, not the fact your parents committed an illegal act. people say it happened through no fault of their own and then it is the republicans fault, the fault was the parents, the parents did an illegal act and we are rewarding and subsidizing it. my favorite economy start laffer points out when you tax something you get less of it, they are attacking american taxpayers to give free education to illegal people who are here, breaking our laws and thinking their children, if i showed up at stanford university and said i won an mba, you didn't accept me but i deserve to get one that doesn't mean i deserve to get one. rob: a lot of immigration groups referred to president obama as the deep order in chief, he was strong on immigration, deported a lot of people before he came to the daca realization and i think the kids, a sensitive issue and i have a

that could happen again at the end of this september and congress doesn't act -- if congress doesn't act. if that happens, millions of americans could literally be left with zero options to buy insurance in the individual market. last year, only 4% of american counties have one insurance commissioner on the exchange. this year, 36% have one insurer. 50% of the counties will have one insurer only on the exchange . if we do act, we can limit increases next year. 2018. we can continue support for co-pays and untouchables for many low-income families. we can make certain that health insurance is available in every county and lay groundwork for future premium decreases. i would suggest we do this by taking two actions, although there may be others. appropriate cost-sharing payments through the end of 2018 to help with co-pays and deductibles for low income americans. the section 1332 waiver in the affordable care have moretes can flexibility to devise ways to provide coverage with more choices and lower costs. on the first, payments are extra subsidies or discounts for low income individu

congress has yet to accomplish anything this year. republican leaders have spent more time fighting and insulting the people's president than anything that they could even imagine doing in the national interests and for the american people. during the august recess, speaker ryan actually repeatedly attacked president trump, begging the president not to end daca, attacking the president's entirely appropriate and correct pardon of sheriff arpaio, and also, claiming that the president messed up in his charlottesville response. by god, they're fools! even though even the left ultimately joined president trump acknowledging he is on the right side of history in his statements following charlottesville, acknowledging the evil of the leftist forces of antifa, as well as evil of white supremacists. as for senator mcconnell, he blamed the president's excessive expectations for the majority leader's failures in the senate. and he publicly questioned whether the president can salvage his presidency. don't worry, majority leader, the president i

he knew congress would have rejected it. majorities in both houses of congress voted against the deal. among the no votes were leading like senator chuck schumer, ben cardin, and bob menendez. obama'spresident constitutionally questionable dodge of congress, the body did attempt to exercise some authority with the passage of the corker cardin law. the l requires the president make a certification to congress every 90 ds, but the law asks the president to certify several things, not just one. the first is that iran has not breached the jcpoe. that is the one everyone focuses on. law alsor-cardin requires something else, something that is overlooked. it asks the president to certify the suspension of sanctioned against ironic -- against ira is appropriate and proportionate to buy ron's nuclear measured -- iran's nuclear measures. regardless of whether one flouting of the u.s. resolution on its list of missile technology to be nonnuclear, u.s. law requires the president to look at whether deal appropriate, proportionate, and in

congress. they'll be plenty of time for them to talk about why they're better than the other folks in the race, whether at the primary level or if they progress out of the primary which we hope to the general but in the opening comments, if you could just focus on a little bit of your background, let everybody get a better sense of who you are as individuals and then why you decided to take this plunge which i would say as someone who has worked in politics for now over 20 years, choosing to run for congress in particular is not an easy decision. it is not something that is taken lightly and these two people are going to have to work very hard over the course of the next year and a half. it's tough. it involves raising money and shoe leather, going to potluck dinners, talking to people who will scream in your face. you know you'll never get your vote but you got to sit there and put the smile on your face and deal with them professionally because that's what being a member of congress is all ab

congress, this suspect to you now. i think where the real challenge is going to be is within the republican party. two different factions going on. some that say that are same pathetic. paul ryan siding with nancy pelosi on this one. pete: i love it when paul ryan swidz nancy pelosi. abby: how did l. that infighting go? how will that play out? pete: what do you think about this topic and emails and facebook posts have been pouring in. thomas on facebook says you caused this, mr. obama not working with congress but doing everything by executive order. don't blame trump for your shortcomings. what you ordered was unconstitutional. steve: that's what the attorney general said yesterday. meanwhile an email from linda, president trump did what was right and corrected an overreach made by mr. obama. real people, dreamers, my children are real people with dreams. congress has seemed to have foregotten that. abby: sounds like trump and obama want the same thing. immigration reform and protection for daca youth. maybe the presi

on the congress. and after that was over when it came time for -- it was the biseven ten call -- bicentennial, 1989, i was asked to come and give a shorter version of the speech i gave at that gathering at the library of congress. >> shorter version because members of congress don't like long speeches or -- [laughter] >> i was, i imagine they were afraid that i'd get, run away with my excitement -- >> okay, all right. >> -- and go on forever. but it was a very, very high compliment, honor. >> i agree. >> and i worked extremely hard on preparing that speech. >> one of the people you talk wk about there was john quincy adams -- >> yes. >> -- who had been a member of t congress for 20 years after he left the presidency. why did you talk about him, and what do you think is so appealing about john quincy adams? >> john quincy adams had been a diplomat, served in several diplomatic posts, very important diplomatic posts, he'd been a senator, and he'd been president of the united states. and after he left th

what's the next move for congress? >>> good morning and welcome to "early start." >> it's wednesday, september 6th. it's 5:00 a.m. in miami and puerto rico where there are concerns about this monster storm on the way. that's where we begin with hurricane irma, the most powerful atlantic hurricane in a decade hitting the caribbean with an eye on the united states. right now irma a category 5 hurricane packing 185-mile-per-hour winds and the latest update shows irma could hit florida head on this weekend. >> president trump declaring emergencies for florida, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands to help with storm preparations. we'll have the full hurricane forecast in a moment. >>> the most immediate concern is for people in the north eastern caribbean. overnight a 36 hour curfew was issued for the entire territory of the u.s. virgin islands. >> and the biggest evacuation in history. in the history of the bahamas has been ordered. residents of six southern islands have been told to evacuate. the potentially catastroph

do your job, congress. let's talk about it with simon rosenberg, president and founder of the new democrat network and former clinton campaign adviser and vince colinaise, editorial director for the daily column. always good to see you. vince, i'm going to start with you. sarah was very strong on that point today. she said it several times, congress needs to step up and do its job. the president has handed them yet something else to do. can they get it done? >> well, i think so. especially now democrats will be forced to come to the table. this has now become a litmus test for democratic party. just look how we've spent the hours since we found out that this was even a possibility. democrats everywhere have been pulling the fire alarms that the president of the united states is ending daca. but understand that even leading up to this we all were under the understanding that he was going to use this as leverage ultimately to get a legislative version of daca passed through congress and some of the concession

he's asked congress to fix it. i think we look forward to provide them some guidelines and seeing how they work through the process and put together a solution they think works. >> john from news max. >> thank you, dave. thank you, marc. one of the things that's come up recently, the president and the campaign said that he was fully committed to maintaining entitlements. and said this over and over. the chairman of the republican study committee as well as congressman schweiker who participated in a recent tax reform conference said that the only way to achieve true tax reform is to put medicare and medicaid on the table for reform. the president's campaign statements notwithstanding, are entitlements on the table in tax reform? >> i think the president remains committed to keeping promise he made to the american people and not cutting medicare or social security. i think as you know, john, the repeal and replace legislation was i think our best opportunity for real entitlement reform in medicaid. and now it's some

and calling on congress to act. daca was initiated after congress rejected the same proposal in legislative form. in other words, president obama didn't just suspend federal law, but implemented a policy congress husbaad rejected. there's a misconspception is a shield to immigration. they apply visas to 800,000 individuals are not able to work. they won't become a priority now. the priorities remain the same. criminals, security threats, and those who repeatedly violate our immigration laws. the main effect of today's announcement is that work permits and other government benefits are being gradually phased out. rather than leave daca recipients and the men and women of immigration enforcement in confusing limbo while the program was challenged by states in the same court that struck down another of the previous administration's unlawful orders last year. president obama is laying out a 24 -- sorry president trump. no permits will be expiring for another six months and permits will remain active for up to two full y

the librarian of congress is not so bad. tony bennett, the first person to be given the gershwin award for his interpretation of popular songs and he was so touched and said am i really the first person. the people who are going to be part of this program, let's just say mature, old song, country, everybody's gonna be there to pay tribute to tony bennett. >> no one has bee done more in the u.s. collection. >> just think of all the people. >> the last one was really something. our experience for the library of congress and this festival is also illustrating the unifying power of the arts, music, literature and female jackson was the mc. at one particular smoky robinson song, wasn't my girl. >> i think it was. >> because you were singing. >> let's just say we got everybody from every party, every state and as mr. jackson said, this is bipartisan karaok karaoke. [applause] it was something. everybody knew the words. >> of course on the news, we see all of the divisiveness between the parties, but this is something that brings p

congress, congress, congress, term limits and force the old adage of compromise. it makes me sick to hear left and right, we are americans, i'm a moderate, the majority of americans are in the middle and not on one floor and the other. host: stick around for our 9:00 hour when we will be getting into some of the issues you bring up, the economic impact of the dreamer population. how many there are and where they live. we will be joined by doris meissner of the migration policy institute to talk about a lot of those issues. bob cusack? guest: you mention deportation. at one point, groups on the left were criticizing president obama and called him the deep order in chief. deporter inr -- chielf. -- chief. democrats had control in 2009 and 2010 but they were afraid of pushing reform. host: michigan, an independent, sue. caller: my question is -- i have not heard much about the democratic, i think his name is menendez, his trial, harry reid is implicated. can you tell me how that will affect congress? guest: great question, the menendez trial i believe starts tomorrow

the congress is going to have to up its game. as to the president, i think he was right to terminate daca. i believe from day one it was an unconstitutional overreach by president obama. he had a dilemma on his hand. i understand why dick wrote the letter. i've tried to do my part to find comprehensive immigration reform, not only for the dream act kids but also for their parents. the main thing i've tried to do is make sure 20 years from now we don't have 11 million more illegal immigrants. i think the president did the country a service by going back to constitutional order in a way that allows a six-month opportunity for the congress to take care of these kids. so the president was right on the law. but he was also right to give us six months to figure out a solution to this. and my challenge to the president is that you talked very glowingly about these kids. help us. help us in the house. help us in the senate. i think you're a good man. get involved personally. work the phones. try to find a consensus here. here's what i th

the congress comes with the job passed by the congress. if you worry about these kids the d.r.e.a.m. act gives them what they deserve, a new life in their home country. i respect it. i respect your decision. let's have a healthy debate. make the case they don't belong here. i'm going to make the case they do and we're all going to vote. this is a defining moment. we need to create a process to fix a broken immigration system. it is a good down payment on what will eventually be a comprehensive solution to a broken immigration system to the president. you have the chance as the leader of the republican party to do two things, say that we are the party of constitutional process, that we believe in doing it right but right means taking care of these kids. >> there are a lot of republicans -- >> all right. we have been watching senator dick durbin of illinois and lindsey graham of south carolina, who i just learned is of scottish heritage. lindsey graham saying to the d.r.e.a.m.ers you've done nothing wrong. he wants the fix to come from congr

the ball is now in congress's court. they have six months to come up with a legislative plan b for those 800,000 people brought here as children. our reporters and analysts are covering all angles of this story. let us start with nbc's kristen welker, live at the white house in that press briefing. kristen. sarah huckabee sanders said that this was something the president ran on, also, when asked if he has faith on whether congress will actually act on this, and get something done, she said, it's not about faith, it's about the fact that the american public voted them into office so they would get something done. give me more. >> that's right, katy. that was effectively the theme of this briefing, sarah huckabee sanders saying it is up to congress to take action on this very critical issue. she was pressed over and over again on why the president would have the attorney general come out and make this announcement and this decision, which presumably is the presidents. she said, this has to do with the rule of law, and tha

look, congress, it is very hard to get anything passed in congress. there's a lot of sympathy for these group of immigrants. more than any other group of undocumented immigrants. you saw that with paul ryan's talk earlier today on the radio. but getting anything through this congress has been difficult. >> yeah. getting them to agree on what the actual weather is is difficult. franco, stay with us. dara, thank you for being here. always a pleasurpleasure. >>> one senator calls the president poorly informed and reminds his colleagues, we answer to the american people. that senator, republican john mccain. much more on that when "the 11th hour" continues. ight of mount everest. because each day she chooses to take the stairs. at work, at home... even on the escalator. that can be hard on her lower body, so now she does it with dr. scholl's orthotics. clinically proven to relieve and prevent foot, knee or lower back pain, by reducing the shock and stress that travel up her body with every step she takes. so keep on climbing, sarah. you're killing it. dr.

there is too much congress has to do. i think the president cleared the decks effectively and the american people are relieved they are not having a crisis conversation about a government resolution or debt ceiling. i think he was looking out for the best interest of the nation. >> john bennett. >> you mentioned speaker ryan and taxes. speaker ryan has talked about a corporate rate somewhere maybe around 20%. the president firmly said 15%. is there any wiggle room on the 15% to bring this deal together or is 15% nonnegotiable? marc: the president wants 15%. it does not help us to negotiate against ourselves. i think we should aim for what we think is best and i think we all understand that ultimately there is probably compromise to get to the best deal. we think what is best is a 15% corporate rate. we think it is more competitive on the international stage. this is not just about corporate rates. it is about jobs. what we have seen is because of the unfair tax code that many companies have decided to leave america and ta

he's been serving in congress since 2004. one of the reasons i'm excited for him to be here today season appropriate her. he helps decide how we spend our money. there is anything i was told in the aftermath of hurricane harvey, the five most important members of congressman are john cornyn, the senate majority whip in the floor park breeders. is a democrat. have delayed in the democratic efforts from the state of texas to get as much money for harvey as possible. my for the left is a cars man from louisville elected in 2002. his the most important texan from congress on the healthcare issue. very powerful committee chairmanship. i once asked if he was the quarterback of the effort for healthcare reform and he said i'm the water boy. but he's very important on this issue. i follow these guys around the capital and annoy them and asked some questions. they're very much believe in their issues, they work hard. i'm honored to have them here talking to us about their life in congress. [applause] >> and will start off with the be

what happens next is significantly in congress' hands. this is critically important and almost completely overlooked. if the president chooses not to certify iranian compliance, that does not mean the united states is withdrawing from the jcpoa. withdraw from the agreement is governed by the terms of the jcpoa. the corker-cardin law governs the relationship between the congress. if the president can't certify, it would signal one or more of the following messages to congress. either the administration believes iran is in violation of the deal. or the lifting of sanctions against iran is not appropriate and proportional to the regime's behavior. or the lifting of sanctions is not in the u.s. national security interest. under the law, congress then has 60 days to consider whether to reimpose sanctions on iran. during that time, congress could take the opportunity to debate iran's support for terrorism, its past nuclear activity, and its massive human rights violations. all of which are called for in the corker-cardin. congress could debate

if the deficit is rising or is static, congress has to debate it. that forces us to get back to , how are we dealing with the issue of deficit? for me, we have half a trillion dollars in overspending this year. we cannot pretend that will go away. we have to address it and i believe a debt ceiling moment is a moment to address it, but if we are actually cutting away at the deficit, i think that should be a process that is ongoing and very predictable. the only time it is not predictable, is the moment when the deficit is static, because something has to be addressed at that moment and we have to take that on. >> cristina marcos is with us, a reporter for the hill. the trump administration called on congress to vote to raise the debt ceiling before the august recess. obviously, they did not do that. what have you heard from house and senate leaders about their plans to schedule a vote on the debt ceiling? and when is the deadline to avoid default? guest: the default deadline that has been issued by the treasury department is september 29, which incid

. >> shouldn't it be congress? shouldn't it have been congress all along that solved this dilem dilemma? >> sure. but let's remember we tried to do that and the dream act came in as executive orders because it failed back in the day when it did not get back through the senate. this is not something that ilegally that we wanted but established law. now the problem that you have right now president trump just kicked this to congress without any idea what he would be willing to sign or not. >> but, congressman, congressman, would you, you can see that the dream act failed more than a dozen times. i mean, lawmakers in both chambers have taken this up more than a dozen times and it has failed every time. >> yes. again, that's why the executive order was in place after failing so many times to make sure that people had protection from deportation. >> but should that be what executive orders do? should executive orders be in and around the legislative branch? if elected lawmakers have said no, then why should the presiden

not while democrats were controlling congress. there's been some bipartisan talks over the years to try to get some type of deal. the dream act did pass under barack obama, it died in the senate but very few republicans voted for that. speaker ryan voted at the time against it. this is going to be very difficult in just six months to get something that has been in the works to try to get done for more than six years. >> jon: typically congress is pretty protective of its turf, we are looking live at some protests right now, we believe this is in washington, d.c., area. protesting the announcement of this policy. congress is pretty protective of its turf, the attorney general said hey, it's not for a president to simply rule and announce his own interpretation of the law, that is up to congress. why does congress not seem eager to jump into the fray here and write a law? >> it's so polarizing, it divides the republican party and this is another headache for republican leaders to try to get some type of deal on this. as you mentione

the president has gone out of his way to break with congress. and then the charlottesville stuff happened. we have talk from members of congress that in a lot of ways they need to go it alone even on the issue of daca we'll be talking about later in the show. a lot of members of congress are saying we need to to get work done. >> with russia there is a lot of smoke here it's not just documents burned at the russian consulate in san francisco. the pile gets higher and higher. at some point in time the republicans on the hill won't be able to peer over and ignore it. but i grow the other problem he has a fundamentally broken relationship with the republicans in congress. at war with mitch mcconnell. at occasional war on and off with paul ryan. john mccain one of the senior republicans of the senate published an op-ed this woke calling the president reckless and unreliable. and that's not the basis -- he has a huge september ahead, daca potentially in congress, debt, the details on the spending bill. disaster relief, four big ds to deal with in sep

yet there has been no vote in congress. we have problems here at home and they are costing trillions of dollars and are unauthorized. we have not voted on them. let's pay attention to some of the problems we have here at home, we have $150 billion tab for damage in texas, even yet we continue with unauthorized, unconstitutionally undeclared war.e' i think it is time to think about the problems we have here at home and about the 20 trillion-dollar debt that we've got. but still we have this wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth was if congress didn't do its job, but if we allow that these authorization of force is to expire and we didn't get another one. that's abdicating the constitutional duty. the trick is to do what is in w your constitutional duty. it's not to say the other congressmen won't do with theirr job is, so i'm not going to do my job. our job is to enforce and execute the constitution.he the constitution says congress shall declare a war it doesn't say the president can go to war anytime and anywhere around

it is in the hands of congress. congress is the one that makes immigration law. congress has the power to do something about it. yes, democrats are in the minority, but you have republican leaders who have been supportive of some form of protections of dreamers. if folks are floating the idea that protections for dreamers, daca would be linked to money for the border wall, if that happened, would you vote against protections for dreamers? >> i think if the president or the republican party linked this to the border wall, we should call the fbi. it's taking. they will be taking these young people in their lives as hostages to build a wall, a $40 billion wall that does nothing for the economy of the united states and doesn't make us any safer. >> you would get protections, legal by law protections. >> it is morally a waste of money of the taxpayer money. $40 billion. we should not hold them hostage. deal with this issue on merits alone. that's what congress needs to do. deal with this on the merits alone, that is these 850 lives. >> congressman, i appreciate your t

congress headed back to work today and one of the presidnt's pry orts for this congress is the tax reform. so far he's only speaking -- spoken broadly about the issue. we still haven't seen a big plan. any de tails. today the president sat down with a republican congressional leadership as you you a to talk about tax reform. we must bring back trillions of dollars that are currently parked oversees. we have, in my opinion, four trild, four trild, massive amounts of money that can't come back to our country because of our tax code and because of the rates. >> tax reform is a major goal but the more pressing issues for congress are harvey the debt ceiling. the house is expected to pass a harvey relief billion tomorrow and then send it onto the senate. gop senator john correspond in of texas says he will be attaching legislation to the billion to also race the debt limit. however, some of the more conservative gop legislators might fight tieing the two together. disaster relief funds may run out by the end of the week so they have to act now. there hewed be a billion for the president ready

it's the role of congress. interestingly, the folks you've heard on other side of the issue said it's our job, it's what we should be doing and yet, we haven't done it for 16 yea years. who in their right mind thinks that congress will do their job unless they're forced to do their job. and what we previously passed will expire. i don't believe it's to do with the seven wars we were involved with currently. if we would force them to expire we would have a debate. for those who say that congress should use their authority and they don't believe that unless they're going to vote that way. what will happen is the continuation of the same. if we abdicate that role let the president do whatever he wants. it's worse than that. lets say we were to vote for my resolution, do you think in any of the wars would end? no, they believe that the president has unlimited authority. called article 2 authority for war. there is some authority given to the president, tremendous amount of authority to execute the war, but not to i

it's congress' job to do that. we would like to have confidence that congress will actually do their job. we want to have laws that address these problems. but it's congress' job to legislate, not the president's. i think he is giving congress the ability to do their job. the goal here is that congress actually fixes the problem. congress has six months, which is a pretty long time to get something done. >> after about the 12th example, you get the distinct feeling that she's trying to deflect the attention to congress and their role in this. welcome back to our broad cast. that was white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today, making it clear the administration expects, as you may have heard there, congress to figure out a solution to daca. the president preemted the official notice tweeting, congress, get ready to do your job. a week from tonight, billions more for hurricane irma. a new budget, a new debt limit, tax reform, infrastructure, maybe even another shot at repeal and replace. all this in a m

and so congress has to start the debate. i know there's been two democrats who have introduced legislation saying that donald trump cannot go into nuclear war without consulting congress first. but the buck really does stop with the trump administration. and we have been told over and over again there is no military solution, none. and military experts have told us this. so we're just in a really dire situation here and donald trump has to -- we have to continue talking to him and saying to him this is not okay and congress has to step up here and continue to step up. >> so robert, what do you expect to happen tomorrow when congress comes back into session? what are we expecting to hear? and does it give you any comfort or do you think that people are being unrealistic when they say -- and we've heard it from a lot of republicans -- what they sort of are holding onto is that the president has surrounded himself with generals, people he respects, people who know the consequences of war, people who have paid the consequences f