all right. as we've been covering tropical storm harvey hammering texas and critics have said that the white house waited until there was a perfect storm. basically, a cat 4 hurricane yesterday, to dump some serious news of its own. so within just hours, yesterday, the president pardoned former sheriff joe arpaio in arizona, expanded his ban on transgender people serving in the military, basically reversing what the obama administration had done, and parted ways with sebastian gorka, a close ally of steve bannon. and it's not clear whether gorka resigned or was fired. the president himself, he's at camp david this weekend and these photos show him overseeing the first national disaster that is under his watch. i want to bring in allen smith and elana treen. allen, there's an episode of the series "the west wing" called