Members of Congress leave Washington for a month-long recess with no deal on President Trump's nominees.

That says Texas Democrats risk arrest as they flee the state to block GOP-led redistricting.

Time now for Politics Monday with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Jasmine Wright, White House correspondent for notice.

Tamara Keith is away this evening. It's always

great to see you both. So let's begin with President Trump firing the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor

Statistics after that week jobs report, Jasmine. This is another scenario where the White House is

working to create an environment that retroactively justifies what President Trump has already done. What are you hearing from your

White House sources? And how is that justification landing with some Republicans on the Hill?

Yeah. Well, the White House is really sticking to this idea that firing the BLS head was because of all

of these mistakes that they say the BLS made under her leadership, basically.

Right after the firing happened, the White House put out kind of this one sheet,

looking at all of the amount of resisions that have happened under her leadership,

highlighting the number of them, basically trying to support their narrative,

that this is not because of a badge job support, but this is because of what they called

incompetency.

And, you know, some Republicans are certainly buying it.

Obviously, this is within the president's threshold to do this.

Others are not.

We talked to Tom Tillis at notice.

And he basically made the case that if there was some evidence that showed that these

numbers were manipulated as the president said, then yes, this person should be fired.

But if this was just a firing because they did not like the jobs numbers, he said, quote,

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