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Impact weve seen this season. when president trump did finally address the situation he tweeted and wrote the island is in, quote, deep trouble, and then suggested it was their fault because of financial trouble and infrastructure. and president trump continues to slam the nfl players who are kneeling, and focussing on the dallas cowboys. so lets talk about all of this. lets bring in our political panel. cnn political director, david chalian, and cnn political analyst, david gregory, and wesle...

And get more resources there. the numbers are moving targets right now. >> the airport being open is huge. the ports being open arguably just as huge because you have the tankers and major vessels that can carry so much equipment. how involved is it to open the port? >> right now we are working with our partners at noaa, and we are trying to open up the ports for life-saving commodity shipments coming in, and then we have over millions of mills and millions of liters of water, and one ship has g...

Capitol hill and in the senate are hearing from, and thats why they restarted this debate in the first place. we all thought health care was dead and gone and over with, and they went home for august recess, heard from their constituents who were still worried about this issue, couldnt understand why republicans had promised them that they would repeal obama care for years and then didnt do it when they finally had the ability to do so in terms their governing majority, and so those are the peop...

Men. none, thats something to think about. >> thats probably not true as well. he did the meme of wrestling. and it was not a woman. news flash for you, lighten up, take a joke. >> lets pivot to something else. robert, this week weve heard about hillary clintons book tour, bernie sanders is out there campaigning with a new piece of legislation. weve also seen joe biden out there as well. he pinned an op-ed on american values recently. where are the new faces for the democrats? it seems like a lo...

Will appeal to the supreme court. >> the judge overseeing menendezs trial is vowing that the proceedings will not turn into a tabloid trial. his comments came after an attorney for menendezs co-defendant accused prosecutors of using the case as an attack on the entire hispanic-american community. also after the judge admonished the prosecution for focussing on irrelevant details while questioning their first witness. senator menendez is are accused of accepting lavish gifts, political donations,...

Is, our job is to find out with great certainty the extent to which russia intervened and take steps necessary to protect ourselves, russia wants nothing more, putin wants nothing more than to see western liberalism, democracies discredited. he wants to show that being in a dictator ship is a much more viable form of government. we have got to push back on that, and i would say to our president, its important for him to be joining with us in making sure that the russia connection, the russian in...

On the koch brothers, are you? >> im blaming it on lack of participation and lack of a plan. i know president obama is in charge in terms of focusing the efforts in state legislative house races so we can get back into the game in state legislatures around the country. focussing on winning the governor races, the silver bullet to help us in reapportionment coming up in 2020 and 2022. >> i know ben asked -- youve been asked this question before. what does somebody in the deep south or midwest, wh...

Thank you. >> one important piece of information and that is to go online go to disasterassistan disasterassistance.gov. if you are in one of the counties that has been declared a federal disaster you can get assistance. we urge you to go online and register as quickly as possible as disasterassistance.gov. >> thank you, governor. >> jennifer jacobs from bloomberg news. do you stand by your position from 2005 that disaster relief funding should be offset by cuts elsewhere? can you tell us what t...

Is a damning condemnation for a christian man. >> and it was definitely a pr debacle. he probably wouldnt think itd be something hed have to deal with. i dont know if he dealt with it appropriately. i guess it was late but like you say, if you tweet something thats wrong, everybody sees it and you tweet an apology or correction nobody sees it. >> are you okay? youre projecting. >> look, there is of course an expectation for churches especially one of this amount of resources to give back to thei...

Administrations flood risk imagine mgt standard, under standing that did not impact the response were seeing now, how is that playing into the administration looking at how you prepare for those disasters going forward and reconsidering some of those decisions that were made in the prior months? >> right now were focusing on this specific disaster. i think that the planning that the communities do as grown over the years and were looking at having grant program that is are appropriate to have 24...