15 minutes. sen. schumer: good afternoon everyone. i want to thank my colleagues, two wonderful colleagues, for joining me here today. as everyone knows, president trump put down his phone for an hour to come to the senate republican luncheon to talk tax reform. unfortunately, what the president says about tax reform has been correctly characterized by senator corker as "untruths," and corker was being kind. let's review a few of what the president says that is totally divorced, what the president says and what the republican plan does are polar opposites. the president said this is not a plan for the rich. blatantly untrue. untruth number one that this plan is not a plan for the rich. it repeals the estate tax, which benefits the 11,000 wealthiest estates in the country, each one more than $5 million. it lowers the top rate. untruth number two. allowing hedge fund owners and big law firms to take advantage. three, it provides a path -- a pass-through so very wealthy people can pay a lower rate than average americans. it is totally untrue, shall we say, that this is not a plan f

families. thank you. sen. mcconnell: my republican colleagues -- sen. schumer: my republican colleagues say this is all aimed at the middle class. what is in the next to the president is spreading to them. this is not a bill aimed at the middle-class. is only way they may benefit the dirty word that they never use, trickle-down. they ultimately believe tax breaks on the rich and the biggest corporations will create jobs. no one else in america believe that anymore. that is their fundamental problem. a point.ean made if this bill goes down, we will sit down with our republican colleagues and try to come up with a product that we will be happy to show in the sunlight, that will make the american people proud, and that can actually pass. >> president trump says that corker is a "lightweight and incompetent." sen. schumer: his reputation is excellent. he is thoughtful, hard-working, bipartisan. he has a strong beliefs. president trump ought to stop tweeting and start leading. we have seen no leadership from this president, whether on tax reform, health care, north korea. all he does is twee

schumer: in the 10 republican districts in new york state, nine republican districts in new york state, taxes for the middle class and upper middle class would go up significantly even with this compromise. so they shouldn't -- so they shouldn't be fooled. there are about 60 districts throughout the country where over 30% of the taxpayers get an average break of $8,000 or $9,000. and the idea that the standard deduction would make up for it is a total, total -- the misstatement of facts is appalling. yeah, they're doubling the standard deduction and taking away the personal exemption. if you're a family of three, it's a wash. if you're a family of more than three you lose money on that too. >> talk about the dissonance between the president and chairman brady about what's in this bill. to the degree you're interested in negotiating or knowing what to oppose, who speaks for the republican party on their tax plan? senator schumer: what donald trump says is in the tax plan and what's in the tax plan are light years apart. what donald trump campaigned on and what's in the tax plan ar

senator schumer: state and local deductibility. first, i would like to show you how widespread it is and doesn't just effect 4 states and why the proposals that the republicans are now making. the republicans know they are in trouble with state and local tax deductibility. so they are trying to make come prime misses. they either give it up or end this idea that they are going to remove state and local deductibility. first, there are 44 american taxpayers who take the state and local deduction. that's not a small number. that's a third of all taxpayers. we are talking about taxpayers, a family of four who submits one tax return as a taxpayer. 44 million out of 130 million taxpayers. a third of americans are affected. and the amount of money they get is large, thousands and thousands of dollars a year. lmost no place is it less than $5,000. and finally, the myth, oh, this just affects, new york, new jersey, california and massachusetts. so the bottom line is simple. every state is affected. large numbers of people are affected in every state. and they are affected in a very deep wa

conference. this is about 25 minutes. senator schumer: ok. good afternoon. yes, it is afternoon. i want to thank our great ranking member of the finance committee, senator wyden, for being here with us today. well, there's a lot to uncap in this outline. let's get right to it. for the last several months we democrats have been united in arguing that not one penny of tax relief should go to the top 1%. that any tax reform plan should be fiscally responsible. so as not to put important programs like medicare at risk. under this plan, the wealthiest americans and wealthiest corporations make out like bandits while middle class americans are left holding the bag. when donald trump was talking about this plan over the last few days, he talked about focusing on the middle class and not helping the wealthy. the plan is a major disappointment because it so deviates from everything the president said. he's walking the walk -- sorry, he's talking the talk, but this plan shows he is not walking the walk. just look at the way this is plan is a boon for the wealthy. corporations have hired lawyers a

print of their long-awaited tax plan. senator schumer: at the risk of using a halloween pun, we're sure it will be full of tricks for the middle class and treats for the wealthiest americans an biggest corporations. we don't know yet what is -- what the republicans will do to middle class americans' 401k retirement accounts. but many republicans have sugg scrested that they may move the cap on pretax contributions to 401k's all way down to $2,400 per year. it's now $18,000 if you're below $50,000 and $24,000 -- if you're below 50 and $24,000 if you're above 50 years of age. no matter how you slice it, it's an immediate tax hike on american families' retirement plans period. it would be bad for millions of families which is why it's opposed by groups like the aarp. the president suggested that these accounts won't change at all. but then immediately backed off and said it's a negotiation. maybe that will be included in the bill and maybe it won't. and the chief tax writer of the republicans, congressman brady, has refused to rule out a middle class tax on americans' retirement. we d

trump administration, he's on the phone with chuck schumer. chuck schumer says, here is what he said, the president wanted to make another run at repeal and replace, i told the president that's off the table. if he wants to work together to improve the existing health care system, we democrats are open to

health care battle tweeting i called chuck schumer yesterday to see if the dems want to do a great health care bill. wa obamacare is badly broken, big preel yums. who knows. let's go to the white house and peter alexander. peter, with a good day to you, what more are you hearing about that phone call and is the president strictly focused on repeal and replace? >> reporter: we are hearing from both sides, a little from the president on twitter and chuck schumer posting his own statement. this is what chuck schumer says. he says that the president wanted to make another run at repeal and replace. i told the president that, as you noted, is off the table. if he wants to work together to improve the existing health care system, we democrats are open to his suggestions. a good place to start might be the lamar alexander, a republican, and patty murray negotiations that would stabilize the system and lower costs. so the bottom line is there is a bipartisan bill in the system right now. it's what the democrats want the focus to be on. republicans have been campaigning from the very beginn

every effort to repeal obamacare. neil amy what do you think? >> amy: the one thing senator schumer said i agree with was doing it by regular order unlike obamacare. neil what would regular order be by the way? >> i think they throwing around this $3 word. >> amy: that means it goes to committee and then committee vote and then senate. >> but there's no mystery in it. >> amy: on the calendar and then 60%. >> but the democrats won't play ball but when i was looking at the hipocracy of the democrats this issue with taxes and if you cut taxes you're cutting federal revenue. they don't seem to know when you tax something you get less of it when they want to apply taxes on cigarettes, soda, sugar if you raise the price of something you get less so of you raise the price of work you'll get less. neil who puts taxes on sugar find me that one. >> [laughter] >> it's a big deal neil. >> amy: because if you make something more expensive you get less of it. >> neil: adam i'm sure you concur. >> adam: i'm shocked that we're passing around allegations of hipocracy in the united states congress he

since august and our negotiations have gotten better. [indiscernible] [reporter question] sen. schumer: we'd like to focus on the key issues which are tax increases for the middle class, cutting that benefits of medicare and medicaid and would like to focus on those days. -- focus on those things. [indiscernible] [reporter question] sen. schumer: we give some states flexibility that we did focus -- to fall below the score. [inaudible] >> we have made proposals to bring down drug prices. thank you, everybody.

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quorum call: mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent to use leader time. the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent to use leader time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: well, mr. president, first on health care, my two good friends, senators alexander and murray, have constructed a good, fair, bipartisan agreement that gives us a way forward on health care. it will offer stability to the markets. it will help lower premiums. and we've seen president trump's near constant equivocation on the agreement. we shouldn't let it impede the progress of this very important bipartisan compromise. he's for the bill one day, against it the next. that's not uncommon. the president sometimes is for and against something in the same sentence. we can only hope he comes around and grasps what's in the bill. the alexander-murray bill is not a bailout to the insurance companies at all. it's the opposite. we've taken pain

? senator schumer: it depends how much you want to save. our idea of a credit for employers who contribute will benefit low-income too. >> what do you say to republicans who say if all you have to do is increase g.d.p. rowth by .4% per year. senator schumer: that doesn't pay for the whole package, at least a $5 trillion package we've seen. we don't know how many offsets they'll put in there like this one. second, the bottom line is, this theory churned out by right wing think tanks that growth will occur because of these tax cuts is absurd and all of our examples, president bush said this in the same right wing think tank said it in 2001 and 2003 they predicted a surplus in 10 years. instead, according to c.b.o. the deficit was $1.6 trillion because of the bush tax cuts. the state of kansas, so obvious what happened, again, home of the koch brothers, great experiment, dramatically cut taxes, we'll have real growth. they predicted, for instance, that the government income would be up $300 million. it was down $700 million. they predicted that growth would soar, last year, kansas

mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispepsed with. the presiding officer: the senate is not in a quorum call. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. now, madam president, last week, first on the issue of health care, last week, president trump committed two acts of pointless sabotage to our nation's health care system. he signed an executive order that would give insurers more latitude to sell temporary junk plans that are not only incredibly risky to the consumer but undermine the rest of the health care market by drawing healthy americans out of the pool. even worse, president trump decided to stop the cost-sharing program that reduces premiums, deductibles, and co-pays for seven million americans a year. there is literally no upside to the president's decision to end the cost-sharing program. because of the president's actions, premiums will go up between 20% and 25%, according to c.b.o. just today, in pennsylvania, we saw premiums rise by 30% as a direct result of the president's a

bipartisan interim deal, a short-term deal. i called chuck schumer and told him that. the president said to me, why don't you negotiate with senator murray and try to get one, meaning a short-term bipartisan deal. i said, well, what about the c.s.r. payments? he said, i can put them back and you can use that to -- that as a negotiating deal. i told him i was working on an agreement with senator murray. he said finish it and let me know. he called me saturday and we talked twice yesterday. i reported to the president that we had finished our negotiations and that we're here today to present to the senate the agreement we recommend. the bill has 22 sponsors, half democrat, half republican. very few bills come to the floor with that many cosponsors originally. there are a number on the republican side and a number on the democratic side who support the idea. i ask consent that the text of the cosponsors that i'm about to read be inserted in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: i ask consent that the text of the agreement that senator murray and i would like to p

. trump tweeting that he called senate minority leader charles schumer to talk about what he said, quote, the great health care bill. this after the administration dealt another blow to the affordable care act, rolling back the law's birth control mandate. the big question now, would the president get democrats on board on a new health care plan? kristin fisher explains. reporter: at the same time the trump administration is dealing this pretty big blow to obamacare, the president is also continuing to try to cut a deal with democrats about a health care bill. he said this morning on twitter, quote, i called chuck schumer, the senate minority leader, yesterday to see if the dems want to do a great health care bill. obamacare is badly broken, big premiums. who knows? but schumer seems a little less optimistic. he says that the president wanted to make another run and repeal and replace. i told the president that is off the table. if he wants to work together to improve the existing health care system. we democrats are open to his suggestions. but working together with democrats will only

that. with the president tweeting this morning he reach out to senate minority leader chuck schumer about working together on that very issue. we also continue to monitor the calm before a real storm, hurricane nate which could impact as many as 18 million people along the gulf coast. when it makes landfall later this weekend. >>> plus this -- new details of what police found inside the las vegas gunman's hotel suite. could a phone charger and a note with numbers on it answer some of their questions about the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history? >>> all right. we begin in washington and that tweet from the president this morning. i called chuck schumer yesterday to see if the dems want to do a great health care bill. obamacare is badly broken. big premiums. who knows. that call came a little more two weeks after senate republicans latest attempt to repeal and replace obamacare failed. it came about a month after the president stunned republicans by striking a deal with schumer and nancy pelosi to raise the debt krelg. n -- ceiling. >> what's the presidentreaction presiden

conduct schumer yesterday to see if the democrats want to do a great health care bail. obamacare is badly broken. big premiums who knows? let's go to the white house, peter alexander, sfwrm to you, what prompted this tweet? do you have any idea? >> reporter: i think that's generous, obviously the president trying to re-ic into it this conversation over obamacare. he's been incredibly frustrated by the republican's inability to repeal and replace over the last eight months despite repeated tries. what is notable here is this is the president reaching out. he's the one making the call now to chuck schumer. it comes in the wake of a series of deals between his presidents and friends chuck and nancy, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi in the senate and house right now on immigration about daca, those dreamers in this country and their potential future, also specifically about other issues, including the debt limit. so it looks like he is opened to another conversation, certainly sends a message to republicans that they're not the only game in town. if you can't get a deal with them, he may

your way next. >>> obamacare fix take two. president trump reaches out to chuck schumer on health care. what's behind the latest overture? >>> calm before the storm, the president's cryptic phrase leaves everyone wondering, even apparently some who work in the white house. those details ahead. >>> hurricane watch. nate is now a category 1. it is expected to make landfall in the southeast possibly as a category 2. the latest on nate's path, strength and timing sglchbl. >>> we begin with breaking news f from london. a car rolled into a crowd outside of a museum. let's go to ali aruzi. pretty frightening times since this developed, ali, what do you know? >> reporter: that's right, alex. at about 2:20 local time, about 9:00 eastern, a car careened off the pavement, off the road into the pavement, crashing into several people. we don't know how many people were hit and how many people have been taken to hospital or the extent of their injuries, but we know this car crashed into a bunch of people. let me set the scene for you there, alex. this is an area called south ken kensington. the

americans. who has ever followed dianne feinstein and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and come out on the right side of anything until they should not be in charge of determining rights. judge jeanine: when you do follow them, there is someone with a gun. we'll see what congress does with this. the republicans seem to be open to this bump stock banning, so that would have made a difference? would it have made a difference? you say we don't know if it was used. >> we don't 10 know it was used. i wish that lawmakers when they look at the number of lives saved because it greatly outweighs the number of lives lost. judge jeanine: what is the president planning in north korea? >> you will all figure that out pretty soon. republican congressman lee ♪ there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company.

followed dianne feinstein and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and come out on the right side of anything until they should not be in charge of determining rights. judge jeanine: when you do follow them, there is someone with a gun. we'll see what congress does with this. the republicans seem to be open to this bump stock banning, so that would have made a difference? would it have made a difference? you say we don't know if it was used. >> we don't 10 know it was used. i wish that lawmakers when they look at the number of lives saved because it greatly outweighs the number of lives lost. judge jeanine: what is the president planning in north korea? >> you will all figure that out pretty soon. republican congressman lee prudential asked these couples: how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how many years that money would last them. how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9? how did this happen? it turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. we have t

c-span3. online at c-span.org. or listen live on the free c-span at -- c-span app. senator schumer and senator nelson spoke about the indictment during remarks on the senate floor. schumer: this morning the campaign manager for president trump and a close associate turn themselves into federal authorities on a dozen charges. including acting as unregistered agents of a foreign power, and conspiracy against the united states. the indictments of mr. manafort and mr. gates, show that the iscial counsel's probe progressing in a very serious way. mueller is moving forward. what we know now is that an alleged unregistered foreign agent who was charged laundering tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments on behalf of their agenda was given the chairmanship of the campaign for the presidency and united states, and with it, untold influence on a future president and his party. we know that mr. manafort has had continuing contact with the president since his resignation from the campaign. just a shocking was the admission by trump campaign manager that he met with the kremlin cont

going to happen going forward to account for situations like niger. chuck schumer, senator from new york. here's what he had to say. lindsey graham, republican, schumer a democrat. both on the same page. >> i can say this to the families. they were there to defend american. i didn't know there was 1,000 troops in niger. john mccain is right to say because this is an endless war without boundaries, you've got to tell us more. >> he didn't know we had 1,000 troops in niger. did you? >> no, i did not. >> let's deal with how terrible this is. it is is their job to vote on these. they haven't held a vote since 2002 for the iraq war. why aren't they to blame for what happened in niger? you want to look at trump and how he deals with the families of the fall especially, fine. they won't hold a debate. they did one in 2002 for the iraq war. they have never touched it again. they got burned. lawmaker after lawmaker will say we're going to take it up. we're going to talk bit. they never do a damn thing. obama put the troops in there in 2013. schumer didn't know? graham talks about our role ar

michael graham on what the reach out to chuck schumer on health care might mean. the president announcing that on twitter this morning. a major republican donor on what it's like to raise money as republicans in congress struggle to get things done. elizabeth: a fox news alert. louisiana, mississippi and alabama have all been declared a state of emergency as hurricane nate heads directly toward the gulf coast. the mayor of new orleans has issued some mandatory evacuations and our own rick leventhal has the latest. hi, rick. >> hey, elizabeth, the last time a hurricane hit louisiana in october was 15 years ago, lili in 2002 as a category 1. nate could be a cat 2. there are warnings and watches across the gulf coast, west of new orleans to florida and there are states of emergency that have been declared. and there are a lot of preps going on right now. the obvious thing is, this isn't harvey, it's not irma, but the governor says we need to pay close attention to this storm. >> no one should take this storm lightly. it is already claimed the lives of at least 20 people in nicarag

chuck schumer said. we are open to reasonable border security. but this list goes so far beyond what is reasonable. >> well, i would like to know what chuck schumer think so is reasonable because you almost every day, every week, certainly, have somebody on who has lost loved ones because an illegal immigrant has murdered them or killed them or i've stood shoulder to shoulder. i've met these families. the president, more importantly, has acknowledged them. and if we would just enforce the laws that exist. if we would stop providing sanctuary to folks who have been deported multiple times, broken the law multiple times. if we would lift up the american worker, raise their pay. if we would make sure that simple things. what's reasonable is to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and also of the drugs coming over the border. the president has been very clear about that too. all the drugs coming over the border has to stop as well. and i would like to know what senator schumer think so is reasonable when we just see the statistics alone in terms of people ignoring the law. brian: it'

people will know that. senator cardin -- >> thank you, senator schumer. the more we are learning about the tax proposal that the republicans will be unveiling next week, the more we have concerned that this is certainly not in the interest of the american people. senator schumer talked about the fact, one thing is clear it will blow a hole in the deficit. they allow one point trillion dollar hole to be created on the tax proposal. in addition, we know there are a lot of gaps and even reaching a $1.5 trillion deficit. secondly, we know that it will benefit higher income families. the wealthiest of the ones that will get the big tax cuts. senator schumer mentioned the state tax repeal, issues minimum text that will benefit wealthy families. that is all clear. one thing that is also clear is middle income families will be asked to pay more. they will not beginning a tax cut. they will actually be asked to pay more. you start looking at the way they will be paying for this -- julia: we are going to leave the democrats speaking there. we listened to chuck schumer making pretty potent

health care reform. this morning, the president tweeting, i called chuck schumer yesterday to see if the dems want to do a great health care bill. obamacare is badly broken.

schumer, who is the most powerful democrat on capitol hill, he responds saying the president's m.o., failure to lead. throws destructive bones to his base, then tells congress to fix

didn't think that was funny. [laughter] this evening, i noticed that chuck schumer is not here. [cheers and applause] make sure everybody knows that. against taxing reform are now. >> these voting against tax reform, yes. i have known chuck schumer for many years. he was a congressman from brooklyn. you know how things change so rapidly in washington,, or carry all they are. ever since president trump reached across the aisle to make that debt limit deal with chuck --mer, told that i'm told friends i'm understand now chuck has offered to officiate at their oldest son's bar mitzvah. governor cuomo is here. nice to see you. the governor always canceled lunch with me. he has done it several times. [laughter] i guess he knows i am a republican. know, the word is around that the governor has presidential ambitions. he is keen himself to be a candidate in 2020. however, governor, i understand that in the event that does not work out, that the cardinal has arranged a consolation job. you can be an altar boy at st. patrick's. [laughter] [applause] i see mayor deblasio is here also this

was a press conference when ben affleck was help with chuck schumer. a very close relationship between democrats and hollywood. i think that's why this whole story has become a politics story about harvey wine steen because there is is close relationship. obama, hillary clinton, bill clinton, they were personal friends with harvey winestein, it is not clear how close they were but they appeared together, the candidates came to his house to do fund raisers. and it's not entirely sure how much way winestein had on democrats but he had a direct line i think generally to bill clinton and obama and hillary as well. host: that being said, how have democrats responded so far to the sexual harassment story? guest: i think the response has been a little bit slow. i think a lot of people were caught off guard by this story. and i think people who cover him, this has been an unspoken story that there have been whispers and rumors but no one had nailed the story until the "new york times" did on october 5. and so that big story came out. the new yorker one that came out a little later. but

schumer and his colleagues following their weekly lunch. >> ok. shhh good afternoon everybody directly or here to talk about the budget on the board on thursday. some new developments occurred of course, so i will say a few words about the health care, the general outline agreement that senators alexander and marie --e come together on -- mar senator murray have come together on. then she will speak and you can do questions next. first, i would like to salute with lamar alexander and heading mare for working hard -- patty to readn working hard we think it is a good solution and it got broad support when patty and i talked about it at the caucus at lunch today. first, it stabilizes the system. this providesood stability to the system and we want to make sure it happens. we went to work in the long term to reduce premiums and increase coverage and our republican colleagues seems to be an opposite place in the long-term but i think there is growing consensus that in the short term, we need stability in the market. we achieve stability if this agreement becomes law. put in some very significa

leader chuck schumer about the issue. peter alexander is at the white house with more. >> reporter: tonight president trump off to fund-raise for republicans, but calling the senates top democrat chuck schumer to revive obama care talks. >> if we could do a one year deal or a two year deal as a temporary measure, you'll have block granting ultimately to the states, which is what the republicans want. >> reporter: the president on twitter announcing the call to see if the dems want to do a great health care bill, adding, who knows? his presidential pivot following republicans repeated failures to repeal and replace obama care. schumer telling the president that's off the table. instead, promoting a bipartisan deal already in the works that would stabilize the existing system. many democrats remain skeptical of his intentions. arguing his administration is sabotaging obama care. rolling back a key requirement that employers provide free birth control coverage. >> chuck and nancy would like to see something happen, and so would i. >> reporter: last month, siding with schumer and pelos

chuck schumer about the issue. nbc's peter alexander is at the white house with more. >> reporter: tonight president trump off to fund raise for republicans but calling the senate's top democrat chuck schumer to revive obamacare talks. >> if we could do a bun-year deal or two-year deal as a temporary measure, you'll have block granting ultimately to the states, which is what the republicans want. >> reporter: the president on twitter announcing the call to see if the dems want to do a great health care bill, adding "who knows?" his presidential pivot following republicans' repeated failures to repeal and replace obamacare. schumer telling the president that's off the table, instead promoting a bipartisan deal already in the works that would stabilize the existing system. many democrats remain skeptical of mr. trump's intentions, arguing his administration's sabotaging obamacare. just yesterday rolling back a key requirement that employers provide free birth control coverage. still, it's not the president's first dance with democrats. >> chuck and nancy would like to see something

taxes. reporter: the question, can chuck schumer and democrats hold their minority coalition together in the senate because they are going to be close with but there are democrats that worked with the president in other situations. think of joe manchin from west virginia. here is what chuck schumer, the minority leader in the senate said in response to the tax reform bill. >> the republican tax plan will be full of tricks for the middle class, and full of treats for the wealthiest americans. this theory churned out by right-wing think tanks that growth will occur because of these tax cuts is absurd. it is utter self-serving bull. reporter: so chuck schumer calling it what you heard him say. let's hear what kevin brady said this morning what is coming tomorrow, he is the one writing tax reform bill in the house. there is tax relief at every level. we're doing it in the way people keep more of what they earn regardless where they live. back to you, trish. trish: thanks so much, adam. joining me for more, bell point chief strategist david nelson and heritage capital president paul fast.

the next few years. if you look at what chuck schumer said the president last week over the phone, which was allegedly repeal and replace is now dead for the final time. he won the president and chuck schumer talk in the president talked about maybe doing day deal with democrats and chuck schumer said -- >> chuck schumer said repeal and replace obamacare is officially dead, it died its last breath a couple of weeks ago. if we take him at his word, the president has two path forward. it will be incredibly painful for everybody involved. you can try to cut a deal with them. the president is showing this past week is time to pursue vocals offered at one. maybe he will forge a certain degree of success with congressional democrats on this, but he will not get a deal to replace and repeal obamacare. whatever way you look at this going forward because the republicans failure to get this done for the president will be painful. the one i want to pick up on this because i'm curious about the politics of it. the president promised to keeping a promise to help get him elected. it on the othe

65%. they are holding up every nomination. schumer and the group are holding up every single nomination. they are not good politicians but they are good at obstruction. it is not right. they will bring them out to the end at last minute. what they are doing is unfair. you look at bush, clinton, obama, bush original, you look at clinton, 357 versus 182. these are nominations approved and what they are doing to us. we have unbelievable people waiting to be approved.

fundraiser. the president talking about his outreach to senate minority leader schumer and floating the possibility of a compromise. >> well, if we could make a deal at least on a temporary basis because obamacare is exploding. it's gone. the premiums are through the roof, you see what's happening. if we could make a temporary deal because ultimately we have it back to the states. we will block grant back to the states. but if we made a temporary deal, i think it would be a great thing for people, but it's really up to them. obamacare is a disaster. the numbers are out. it's exploding like i said it would. so, basically, if we could do a one-year deal or a two-year deal, as a temporary measure, you will have block granting ultimately to the states, which is what the republicans want. that really is a repeal and replace. molly: we will have more on this potential wheeling and dealing later in the hour with philip wegman from "the washington examiner." and while the gulf coast braces for hurricane nate, storm recovery continues in puerto rico. we will check in on the island's progress. an

. lawmakers can debate the white house policies later. and senate minority leader chuck schumer and house minority leader nancy pelosi saying this in a statement. "we told the president at our meeting that we were open to reasonable border security measures alongside the dream ac act. but this goes so far beyond what is reasonable. this proposal failed to represent any attempt to compromise paired" the white house counselor kellyanne conway said it's up to democrats know to make this work. >> they should be calling their friends chuck and nancy and saying are you going to give up this deal because you don't want -- why don't you want a border wall constructed? why don't you want more immigration judges and agents and why is it a reasonable policy to limit chain migration and to stop these visa overstates in the make sure people that are flouting the law once they're here, breaking the law once or here go back? >> sandra: so democrats calling the president suggestion, their wish list if you will, so far beyond reasonable. it leads to the question kellyanne conway post, what is reasonable t

senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york. welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning. >> i want to start. as the senate democratic leader have you been briefed? sgr >> was jack reed briefed? >> i don't believe he was either. he sent a letter along with john mccain demanding that they come in and brief them. >> i understand that. if you get this briefing and you heard what senator graham believes this is part of the larger battle against radical islamist fundamentalism and the spread of it taking place in africa, what does this mean for the war authorization? senator graham didn't know we had a thousand troops there. did you? >> i did not. what it means for the war authorization is i agreed with senator paul that we ought to look at this carefully. we are in a brave new world. there are no set battle plans. you don't declare war and fight three weeks later. having said that the constitution says congress has the power to declare war. if you are in a long term war congress ought to keep that. we need to reexamine this. we are on an aumf that extends 16 years from right

says we have to take it then we will. >> if that happened you think that senator schumer in warren both complained that the tax plan doesn't do enough to the tax on the rich, do you think they could come on board? >> no chance. i have asked some democrats if they would ever go to lower the corporate tax rate and they said no. some democrats supported bills that schumer talked about, and actually lower the corporate tax rate.president obama talked about this. it is almost as since this is the president trump's administration as a republican plan now they are against it. i grew up in wyoming and colorado. they are not high-tech. and i have been trying to understand the state and local tax deductions for this something that could be a big sticking point. where it is a big revenue raiser , but there are 40 house republicans that represent this and they say this is a dealbreaker for them. >> i hope it is not because the foundation here, one of the things is fairness. you live in wyoming and i live in new york and we make the same amount of money. all of things being equal, should we pay

plan do for you and what do democrats want. chuck schumer will be here, plus cbs newsman bob schieffer will join us, his new book "over load" takes a look at the news deluge in the trump era. plus we'll have plenty of political analysis it's all coming up on "face the nation." good morning, welcome to "face the nation" i'm john dickerson. we've got a lot of news to get to today but we want to begin with the ongoing humanitarian cries in puerto rico following hurricane maria. cbs news correspondent is in san juan. david, right now what is the most urgent need? >> john, physically getting food and water to the people who so desperately are still begging for it. yet people are still desperately finding clean watt are. fema is there, bee saw the good work that they are doing but we also talked to the mayor who said it's not enough. i've got 60,000 people in town but only got 2,000 meals that i can hand out. john, there were people who got in line to get food and were given four bottles of water and four snacks, adults and kids. when some people came back for second they were turn

reached out to senator chuck schumer about repealing and replacing obamacare. here's what he said during an interview last night. >> you know, in theory, i want to focus on north korea, i want to focus on iran, i want to focus on other things. i don't want to focus on fixing somebody's back or their knee or something. let the states do that. i could almost say we are just about there in terms of the vote. >> meanwhile, president trump is slamming rumors of yet another white house shakeup signaling to his chief of staff and secretary of state, their jobs are secure. >> john kelly is one of the best people i've ever worked with. he's doing an incredible job. he will be here in my opinion for the entire seven remaining years. he likes -- he likes secretary tillerson, so do i. we have a very good relationship. we disagree on a couple of things. sometimes i like him to be a little bit tougher. but other than that, we have a very good relationship. >> let's bring in adrian elrod and msnbc analyst robert traynham. guys, good to see you both. robert, i'm going to begin with you here. is the writ

the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer, mr. trump calling schumer this weekend to try to explore the democrat's interest in a health care deal after republicans repeated failures to repeal and replace obamacare. >> if we could do a one-year deal or two-year deal as a temporary measure, you'll have block granting ultimately to the states, which is what the republicans want. >> reporter: of course, repeal and replace is a non-starter for democrats. they have accused the president of trying to sabotage obamacare. they said they're open to a deal that repairs obamacare but not one that replaces it. hallie, full plate of politics this sunday. back to you. >> no kidding. busy week ahead. peter, thank you very much. let's bring in chuck todd, nbc's political commentator and director of "meet the press." good morning. >> good morning. >> chuck schumer and the democrats say there's no chaps we're going to negotiate on repeal and replace. when president trump calls schumer, is that a message aimed at republicans? >> reporter: it's interesting. i thought schumer's message was a message aimed at