People in the devastated
Florida Keys now returning to see what is left of their homes as five people are confirmed dead in a South
Florida nursing home that had no power
Good morning to you. I'm John Scott. It's such a horrific story new at this hour
I'm Melissa Francis and FEMA saying 90% of homes on the keys were damaged and
One in four homes on the fragile island chain were destroyed a woman who decided to ride out the storm
saying it was terrifying I
Stayed in the bathroom me and my girlfriend Donna we stayed in the bathroom in the hallways it was for two days
it was hell you didn't know if
You were gonna make it or not
Amanda go ahead meantime there are
Five deaths reported at a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida. Now. This is this is not in the boonies
This is basically a suburb of Fort Lauderdale
WSVN our Fox affiliate in South Florida giving us these helicopter pictures where more than a hundred residents had to be
Evacuated and five deaths have been confirmed now. They apparently have no power
There as a result of the hurricane and the heat in South Florida intense even in September
They're now launching a criminal investigation into this to see exactly what happened this horrific finding
And we also heard
officials in the last hour saying that they are sending people out to check all of the nursing homes that are in the city of
Hollywood to make sure that this hasn't happened in other places meantime you have to figure they'll be looking at
Residential facilities for the elderly all across the state of Florida after something like this because so much of the state is
without power two-thirds of the state
two-thirds of the customers in the state we're lacking power in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Emma
And it's going to take maybe ten days to two weeks to get everything back online
So obviously in a situation like this where you have people who are susceptible
To environmental conditions, and you have no power you have no air conditioning, and it's what the concern is right now. Yeah absolutely
frightening times
In the meantime our Griff Jenkins is live in Marco Island, Florida where Emma made its second
Florida landfall Griff what's the situation today?
Well John you know the people here on Marco Island were lucky there were zero deaths reported
It's certainly ravaged buildings crushed boats lying in yards
But it's very much a much better story than that of the keys that we're hearing so much about
the Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsey confirming three fatalities down there
the sheriff speaking with our own Phil Keating saying that the roads are a
Messing that it looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off south of that mile marker 15
Here's how the sheriff described it to Phil Keating take a listen
My first came out that the hurricane became on the roads
You couldn't drive anywhere the entire road was full of boats and cars and trailers and sheds the roads were impassable
We used front-end loaders and bulldozers just to clear one lane Pat forget police cars passed
But devastation you'll see structures that are just one there one aren't gone
Now residents of course getting into the upper Keys up in Key Largo
Tavernier and Isla, Mirada but down in those lower Keys
It is still very much a crisis the sheriff also
Telling Phil that you know hospitals down in Key West not open. They don't have water. They don't have power
They don't have fuel
They don't have cell service very difficult situation as they try and get some people still in there they have I'm told
Opened up the Key West
Airport for emergency crews so they can get supplies in but that's the situation very much still playing out
at this hour John
Grif Jenkins reporting from Marco Island, Florida, thank you
So just in on the White House push for
Bipartisan tax reform with the president now gearing up for a new meeting with more than a dozen Democratic and Republican
lawmakers after his dinner last night with a group of senators from both sides of the aisle Sarah Sanders White House press secretary
Addressed this at the briefing yesterday
the president
I think has demonstrated both in his business world and as
president that he can make deals and
That's certainly what he's looking to do and he's going to work hard to make sure that we get the best deal possible
On tax reform, and I think that starts with things like tonight and having this conversation and moving that ball forward working
bipartisan support from both sides
chief White House correspondent John Roberts is live with the story now, John, Melissa
Good morning to you the president about two o'clock this afternoon will be meeting with the but it doesn't maybe a little more
moderate members of the House on both sides of the aisle many of the members of the so-called
Problem-solvers caucus the president will be talking to them about a number of items on his agenda for the Fall
And among those agenda items of course will include tax reform. Also what to do about daca, and maybe even
Another push to try to reform health care the president's willingness to cut a deal with Democratic leaders
Chuck Schumer Nancy Pelosi there you see them in the Oval Office last week really sent shockwaves
through the Republican Party this morning the president's chief counselor, Kellyanne, Conway said welcome to the new, Washington
He has come to Washington as a disrupter
But he was a successful businessman non-politician for decades
And he brings those skill sets and that effectiveness to bear on this job in that
He's an excellent negotiator exil listener and once anybody who is going to support his agenda on behalf of all Americans
He is committed to
Representing he wants them to come to the table
You mentioned that bipartisan dinner the president had last night among the attendees you see there, West, Virginia Senator Joe Manchin
He said this morning that he could sign on to the right formula for tax reform
And that if the president wants to get tax reform through he may have to abandon
conservatives and shoot for the middle listen here
There's a few moderate conservative Democrats like myself
I'd say I'm fiscally responsible and socially compassionate
And I think a perfect scenario would be can you get 30 Republicans and 30 Democrats?
We're not going to get the far fringes Bill's not going to happen
The president also making it clear through his budget director Mick Mulvaney
Just a short time ago the tax reform must reduce the corporate tax rate to 15 percent. Here's Mulvaney earlier
We'll go to whoever will help us and get it down to 15% the president, and I just talked not 15 minutes ago
And he's adamant about this 15 percent rate
short time ago
Speaker Paul Ryan said he is positive that the president will pursue a conservative tax reform proposal however
His legislative affairs director mark short said yesterday that what the president learned from the Obamacare debacle is that he cannot rely on?
members of his own party to get his legislative agenda across the goal-line
But mark this Melissa if he does intend to cut a deal with Democrats on tax reform
You can bet that there will likely be a lowering of the corporate tax rate and there will be tax cuts for the middle class
But a big question mark is whether the upper income earners will get any kind of tax cut Melissa
And now we're hearing at this hour that The Daily Beast is reporting that
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are going to be having dinner at the White House with the president
Potentially tonight it'll be interesting to see if that happens
And why wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall for that one?
I'm telling you he's going to cut deals with people who he thinks he can get success with by the way
The details of the tax reform legislation we're supposed to get those the week of September 25th
Interesting all right can't wait for that a lot going on John Roberts yet all of it
Thank you. Thanks interesting guest lists at the white White House these days for more on all of this
let's bring in Jake Sherman senior writer for Politico and co-author of
politico's playbook so you had three moderate Democrats in at the White House for dinner last night you have
At least according to Sam Stein from The Daily Beast you have Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi dining with the president tonight Jake
what is going on the president is clearly sees it in his interest to work with Democrats who he's
Seems more comfortable with and seems more in line with on a lot of key issues now
I will point out a few whose notes of skepticism as I usually do
He needs Republicans to bring bills to the floor if the president wants Democrats to be able to bring bills to the floor
He should help Democrats win the majority here on Capitol Hill
Republicans have the majority in the House in the Senate so Democrats have very limited ability to get things through the legislature
That's number one number two
rank-and-file Republicans
Are not going to be happy nor are they going to support the president cutting deals endlessly with Democrats
It's just I mean they won majorities in both chambers
So they could govern not so they could have a Republican president go behind their backs with
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer who by the way Republicans have been campaigning against for the last decade so
This is kind of stunning stuff. I'm not I'm not intimating that this is you know gonna be the deal of the century
But I do think this is significant to keep in mind that the president who?
lambasted Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi a few months ago is now it seems perfectly willing to cut deals with them right and
interesting the three Democratic senators who dined with the president last night
Are the only three Democrats who did not sign a tax reform letter the Chuck Schumer sent to the president?
About a month ago outlining the demands that the Democrats had for tax reform
So so you might see that that as part of the reason those three got invited last night now all the sudden tonight
It's gonna be Chuck Schumer and Nancy well actually think about it this way Joe Manchin Heidi Heitkamp
And Joe Donnelly who were all at the White House last night are all from States
President Trump one they all could now go home and say I'm not a partisan Democrat
I'm a repop i'ma I'm a I'm not a Republican
I'm not a partisan Democrat, but I'm willing to work with the president when our interests align
And when it's good for the people of West, Virginia or Indiana or North Dakota?
That's a pretty
Stunning thing that Democrats now could able to say president Trump and has handed three Democrats a talking point in their 2018 campaign
So that's an important thing, and we shouldn't underestimate that the substantive level
I if I had to guess these three Democrats are not going to be for the Republican tax package
But at the end of the day they could go home, and they could say listen
I'll meet with the president his door is open to me. I have met with him
I've talked to him and I'm and he's here for me when I need to get things done for my state a very powerful message
For Senate Democrats you have an interesting item in the playbook this morning that suggests
Democrats may be a little too giddy about their prospects in the 2018 elections and 2020
That despite the president's
unpopularity ratings
It doesn't seem particularly good for Democrats as weapons well Democrats
Have not been able to kind of knock Trump down a notch, which they thought that would be able to do is his
unapproved disapproval ratings or high or low rather but
He has not been in the Democrats have not been able to kind of knock him off his perch with the votes the voters that
Matter, but I think more immediately like if we look at 2018
Democrats are getting what they want and that's important here on Capitol Hill for the balance of power
And I've talked to a lot of Republicans who have said to me in the last week
Why are we handing the keys over to Democrats? We've waited a decade to get majorities and get the white house
Why is the president handing the keys over to Democrats? That's not what they wanted?
It's a bizarre dynamic that no one is comfortable with here on Capitol Hill
It is keeping things interesting gives you a lot to write about
Jake Sherman the lead author from Politico, thank you. Thank you. It was a great interview interesting stuff there
Yeah, thanks all right up next more politics Karl
Rove is here to discuss the speculation about a third major political party forming plus
North Korea seems unfazed by more, UN sanctions what they're doing in response
And Hollywood gathering to raise money for hurricane victims, but it turned political pretty quickly
This is a pattern. This is real. This is not fake news
So a new op-ed in the New York Times arguing that some members of the Republican Party may break off and create a third party
the piece is blaming President Trump for getting caught between anti-establishment and
Republican forces in Washington press secretary Sarah Sanders responding to a question about
GOP leaders of the Senate and House not wanting to follow
president Trump's populist agenda
The president's committed to working with Congress to get some big things done
We've got a very big agenda the president wants to work with all members of Congress
Obviously that includes Republican leadership as well as Democrats
I think he saw some of the president's leadership last week
When he helped strike a deal to make sure that we got the funding that was necessary
Karl Rove joins me now. He is the former deputy chief of staff for President George W Bush
He is a Fox News contributor. What do you what do you make of this thinking Karl? I?
think a little overblown
on a number of grounds first of all very hard to start a third party in American be
Successful our state laws and the Electoral College are biased towards a two-party system think about Ross Perot got 19% of the vote
When he first ran for president and got no electoral college votes
second of all this is
This is overblown because it assumes that the disruptive forces inside the Republican Party whether they are the freedom caucus
or the Bannen economic nationalists of which
Incidentally have a distinctly different views of which way they want the country to go this assumes that
both of these groups have decided that they can't
control of the
Republican Party and so the only thing they're allowed to do is to go start a third one both of these groups whether it's banning
or the freedom caucus
Still believe that they can take over the Republican Party and dominate it so why give up why give up a major party and start?
a new one if you if you think you still got a shot of taking over the
With more the details that are in there and you can knock it down
You know so they so this is a presidential historian
Who said that it used to be that basically you needed the blessing of party leaders in order to win the presidency it was that
Kind of thinking that you had to be part of the - one of the two major parties
But now we had a political neophyte and a former Democrat who was resisted all through the primaries
And and basically didn't get the blessing of the party until the very end if at all
That now entry is easy basically all you need money TV communications
And maybe one issue the political game has just changed entirely you disagree with that
Well look I respect Michael Beschloss a lot. I disagree with them a little bit on this
We've seen insurgent candidates before takeover political parties
Most of the time those insurgent candidates for example William Jennings Bryan in 1896 they don't go on to win the presidency
But this one did and I think it was because this candidate had more than
It's easy to say all you need is money and prestige and media and communications Donald Trump has spent 20 years sort of
Making himself part and parcel of the American psyche by being a constant figure in New York the center of the media in America
By having a popular TV show by being outrageous by being on the front pages as often as possible
I'm not certain that that's easy to duplicate now both political parties are being disrupted. Don't get me wrong
Nothing is hunky-dory with the Republicans or the Democrats both of them have populist insurgencies Donald Trump
Got about 46 percent of the vote in the Republican primaries
Bernie Sanders got about 46% the vote in the Democratic primaries the difference was Trump was full of running to get 16 candidates
the Bernie Sanders was running against basically one
Yeah, so 46 wasn't good enough, but both political parties are being roiled both political parties are being disrupted
Yeah, how this plays out is is not yet certain
But I think it's unlikely to end a third party and of course you're so smart there
You knew exactly what presidential historian we were talking about Carl
Let me ask you the quote from Bill Kristol then
From the Weekly Standard saying that he thinks people are under estimating the extent to which the Republican Party could be in full-blown Civil War
By March or April of next year maybe adding in what the president is doing now
Meeting with Democrats and making deals with Democrats potentially does that push?
Republicans into even more of an internal Civil War and maybe do they lose the house as a result
Yeah, look. I don't think that meeting with Democrats is necessarily a thing that causes the Civil War
the
Smart presidents meet with leaders of the opposition party there the president of all the country not just the president of their political party
So I think President Trump was doing belatedly a very smart thing by making by reaching out to Democrats
We can have a separate conversation about whether it was a good deal, or a bad deal, but presidents ought to do that
Bill Kristol, I have one monitor disagreement
I think we're already in civil war and I've written about this in my column tomorrow for The Wall Street Journal in July
one faction of the House Republicans the freedom caucus
Basically said we're going to stop
But we may vote no on the budget resolution we may vote with Nancy Pelosi on the budget resolution unless
you in essence give us final authority to examine all the
Ideas that you're talking about for the tax reform bill and approve them or disapprove them in advance now
Why is that important because look even if the president successful in getting some Democrats to agree to support tax reform in the Senate?
He's not going to get eight Democrats to get to sixty and avoid a filibuster
So this is going to have to be done under reconciliation
Which means the House and Senate must both pass a budget resolution the House Budget Committee has passed out a resolution
But the freedom caucus has said we're not going to vote for it. Ya know these are these are great points crawling
I can't wait to see your article tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal good plug. Can't wait for it
Thank you, my friends Melissa. Thank you bit
Sad note in the world of politics longtime former, New Mexico
New Mexico senator pete Domenici has died the son of Italian immigrants he became the longest serving u.s.
Senator in New Mexico's history he died this morning at the age of 85
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