McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Little Brown, 2015), and Ana Marie Cox, host of the podcast With Friends Like These and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, look ahead to the return of Congress and offer analysis of current political news. President Trump made a lot of news in the shadow of Hurricane Harvey, Cox explains, as he pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio and told the military to ban transgender individuals from serving. Additionally, Cox and Coppins unpack Sebastian Gorka's firing, as well as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's comments distancing himself from Trump's response to Charlottesville.