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Government sensor. speech and civility codes often violate what are called the first action of the first amendment. which is that as a general rule, the state has no power to ban speech on the basis of conflict. >> heather: rachel brands associate attorney general for the justice department and she joins us now with some more insight. thank you for joining us first of all. >> thank you for having me. >> heather: lets get right to it happening. theres a group of georgetown university professors a...

The money back home. [ applause ] our framework will stop punishing companies for keeping their headquarters in the united states. we are punishing companies under our codes for being in the united states. we will impose a one time low tax on returning money that is already offshore so that it can be brought back home to america, where it belongs, and where it can be put to work, and work, and work. [ applause ] the framework ive just described represents a once in a generation opportunity to re...

Come back from the break. plus, well explain how americas nuclear codes work and exactly how long itd take for president trump to pull the trigger. hi, im the internet! you know whats difficult?

You have been making a point all along, harvey, irma, jose and now maria, you say you have to pay attention to the standards and codes and you have to rebuild better, and thats not just political speak, and this is an opportunity and we will see if the governments take it. we know you have your hands full as the administrator of fema right now. let us know how to help. >> thank you. to north korea, the insults are flying and a nuclear showdown is brewing. we will speak to the state department ...

Save lives in tokyo and now mexico city. >> i think building codes and seismic alerts but also protocols for collaboration. andrea, you also have had some very important tragic learning experiences. 9/11 in new york, i think, triggered a new way local law enforcement, city standards work together to confront things like this. in many ways, this is what has developed in mexico, too. so i think a lot of what we can see happening right now across the border is this exchange of experiences, of best ...

Structurally sound. >> after the et quake in 85 the standards has been really updated and right now in mexico city if you were trying to build like a new building, you must be into the -- which i think that its been like -- it help in this condition for having like a lot of buildings coming down. if you go to the neighborhoods which were the main neighborhoods in 85, it hasnt been the same situation right now. >> which there have been some new buildings. a hospital which was constructed just fou...

>> there have been some new buildings which came. they have a hospital just constructed four or five years ago that collapsed. so are these codes up to standards? >> the ground in mexico city is very soft, because it was a lake. so mexico city is surrounded by mountains. if you drop something into a bathtub, the waves -- >> they say its like building on jelly. >> sometimes. in this case, if you try to go deeper, you can find water 50 centimeters under the surface. so the underground is very unst...

Confirm as dead. thats extremely unfortunate. 32 years ago, exactly the same date, an earthquake that hit mexico city killed thousands of people. major buildings collapsed. right now were talking about 50 sites. this is still a very dramatic tragedy and all of mexico is putting effort into the rescue operations. but its clearly that particularly modern buildings, the tallest buildings that you see around mexico city held up very well. so the engineering codes, the construction codes, codes have ...

And rescue still continues. so please pray for the area. they are finding people in just the last hour. >> we have reporter there is and will go to them very shortly. i want to go back to san juan, puerto rico. the weather channels paul goodloe is live in san juan. paul, what is the situation where you are? >> reporter: right now we are seeing the winds twist around to the east, east/southeast with the backside of maria coming through here making landfall at 6:15 as a category 4 hurricane. 165-m...

Higher codes, safety procedures to prepare for earthquakes. given what you have seen in the last couple hours, we have seen some buildings collapse. but 140 people dead. a high death toll but not as high as it could be. do you think mexico was as prepared as it could be for this event? >> with every earthquake we learn how to build better and prepare better. but there is no obligation to correct or retrofit older buildings and perhaps a lot of the buildings that collapsed today were older buildi...