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destruction in its wake. governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made so far. after the storm turned roads into rivers, destroyed or damaged thousands of buildings and homes, leaving some coastal communities just unrecognizable. >> thats right. and right now nearly 600,000 homes and businesses are still this morning without power in florida. some floridians still have no clean water. officials say they are only now beginning to really assess the full scope of the d...

It will be a huge endeavor, tens of becomes of dollars, obviously. and we not only need the infrastructure aid that, thank god, is starting to move in washington for the first time really in decades, serious, serious infrastructure aid. but we need congestion pricing here in new york city to provide constant revenue so that our subway system, it is not only the life blood of new york city, its the life blood of the entire metropolitan region, over 20 million people that everything keys off of wh...

All right. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios a.m., editor in chief for axios nicholas johnson. walk us through t what is axios one big thing. >> todays one big thing is the next super power show down. we have seen the images of devastation from hurricane dorian as it reeked havoc in the bahamas. they will need billions of dollars in infrastructure aid and investment. trump officials are beginning to think about the national security implications if china rushes to provide...

Have now is still lower than the budget that we had put in place in 2011 that we passed so if you go back to the bca, action was budget shared then but the discretionary spending we have today is lower than levels we were envisioning back in 2011 and the other point id make is the sequester no one intended the sequester so kick inlet alone do what it did to the military so we want to rebuild our military and we did a few things since those days. weve put in about $250 billion of permanent mandat...

$700 billion defense budget. as chris said, there has to be a lot of things in there we can ratchet down. >> glenn: give me the bridge to nowhere ad. >> this is a tv spot, give you a taste for what you could do with the program like what youve talked about this week. [ beeping ] [ key stroking ] >> we need bridges because we need to get from one private area to another private area. >> the government spends $70 billion of your money each year on infrastructure aid for state projects. often resul...

"b." $700 billion defense budget. as chris said, there has to be a lot of things in there we can ratchet down. >> glenn: give me the bridge to nowhere ad. >> this is a tv spot, give you a taste for what you could do with the program like what youve talked about this week. [ beeping ] [ key stroking ] >> we need bridges because we need to get from one private area to another private area. >> the government spends $70 billion of your money each year on infrastructure aid for state projects. often ...