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Monroe county, george nugent. mayor, i understand you spoke to governor rick scott this morning. tell me whats developed? >> you pretty much described most of it by your reporting. ali, i want to thank you guys because hyperbole does not describe this storm. it is so devastatingly large, big and its something so we cant impress on our residents enough to get out of the florida keys, were so vulnerable to situations that can happen and were experiencing some fuel shortages that the governor point...

Politics. >> imagine that in the politicized supreme court that weve had in our recent history. >> while nixon tried to put on the pretend act that operations were going on as normal, they werent. they were disintegrating every day. >> three days after the supreme court ruling house of representatives took the step most dreaded by the president. impeachment. nixons fate now rested in the hands of the committee. >> today i am an inquisitor and hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overst...

That are doing business with north korea is not just about making sort of increasing the pain point for north korea, it is also about getting the chinese to change their calculus about how they see the north korean situation and deciding that at the end of the day, theyre not willing to prop up this regime anymore. >> all right, but in that -- to that end, donald trump tweeted a couple of days ago that were going to cut off all trade ties with anybody who does any business with north korea. chin...

They both supported the u.n. sanctions in august, i suspect if, you know if ambassador haley does try to go back for further tightening of sanctions, there will be some degree of support, but the north -- the chinese and the russian position is not going to change, which is that ultimately they want to see people get to the table and negotiate sooner rather than later. >> lindsey, thank you so much. is it not stunning on a regular basis, you say, well, maybe it is hyperbole, the president has be...

Trade, of course, was an issue in his relationship with the japanese president. now these relationships have changed and morphed. lots of people were concerned about that threat, that chiding of south korea, when that country is going to be a really key ally here. >> david listen to what former cia and nsa director michael hayden said on state of the union yesterday, that he is concerned about. >> i fear two things, the tweet that just goes out at 5:00 a.m. and unintentionally creates effects th...

Not be able to accept. >> you talk about sort of the erratic policy and some of the tweets. do you have confidence that president trump can handle this? >> i have confidence that he has a very good team that will lay out very good options. i fear two things. number one, the stray electron. all right? the tweet that just goes out at 5:00 a.m. and unintentionally creates effects that make this go to a place that we dont want it to go. the other one is this. all right? we just got into a duel with ...

Make me stop. and i think theres a proposition that mr. xi might not be able to accept. >> do you have confidence that president trump can handle this? >> im confident that he has a very good team. but the tweet that goes out at 5:00 a.m., that unintentionally makes this go to a place we dont want it to go. the other one is this, we just got into a duel with the north korean leader, kim jong-un, i think it was a bad time to get into a hyperbole contest with that guy. the only think i fear is thi...

Neighborhoods, subdivisions flooded out to the scene at the george r. brown convention center with just cots and people as far as the eye could see, which really reminded me of katrina, to the rescue shots, to just -- we have a picture on the front page this morning of an 80-year-old woman being advise visited by meals on wheels and just surrounded by stuff in her living room. they are all just incredibly moving. >> you wrote a piece for the washington post and i will put some portions up on the...

51 inches in the houston area. that is a record for the continental united states. the red cross says that at least 17,000 evacuees are in texas shelters tonight as rescuers continue going through flooded neighborhoods in and around houston, house to house in some cases. president trump wrapping up his own visit to texas. i want to begin with you, because youre from the houston area. i understand your parents are still down there. help put the size, the scope of this into context for our viewers...

Dan forth goes on to say that the president has no interest in uniting the country. he describes mr. trump as the most divisive president ever, since george wallace. its an blooebl op-ed. and mr. dan forth joins me now. he served in the senate for nearly two decades. he was ambassador in the united nations among other things. hes been an envoy for multiple administrations. welcome to the show, sir. >> thank you very much. >> youre not somebody that uses hyperbole very often, so, you know, most p...