people who live here, locals who decided to get away from the town of steinhatchee and get farther away from the river itself to ride out the storm and now they are coming back in for the first time to assess the damage. of course, all of them have been keeping up to date with people who rode out the storm in steinhatchee trying to talk to them on social media and ma am, do you live here? have you seen your house yet? i can t get over there. you will go over to see if you can see it. hopefully it s okay. take care. dana, that s what we re seeing. people coming back to assess the damage for the first time. from what i can see from this vantage point and for some people it won t be good. dana: i have a question. i know looks can be deceiving. the area where you are seems maybe to have come through everything okay. is that your general assessment
that just explicit threat in that kevin mccarthy statement. there s a lot of folks saying that that itself should trigger some ethics investigation. that it itself violates certain codes of conduct. what was your reaction? i think it s worse than an ethics violation. what mccarthy did is what i ve been calling autocratic capture which is when the actors use government powers to bully private businesses into being their political allies, or in this case their political lackeys. it s something a regime didn t egypt, it s one-timer putin doesn t russia, it s not a dynamic that any american ceos should want to take hold here, and if they give into this behavior it won t be good. i think that what we should be talking about is forming a nato article five like neutral defense pact that if autocratic politicians are gonna come after one of them they re gonna come after all of them, let mccarthy take on the entire private sector. yeah, it is interesting
or something to that effect. again, i still think she should be fired. and i still think what she said is disgusting just like i think what he said about john mccain in the first instance was disgusting. but this is the way his depp ra additions against the office filter down for months and months into the future because it creates these situations where when someone else does something that is in the mold of donald trump, how can you ever punish that person when the person at the top has set the tone, not just set the tone, but set a precedent that you will be called on, if they fired her, people would be saying, wait a minute, why did you fire her? didn t the president do something just as bad? kristen welker, we covered the first lady s, i don t know, go ged, be good be best. i mean, how does this comport with that? it s a great point, nicolle. in fact, we went back, we looked up some of the quotes from that day. the first lady calling for a high moral ethical standard.