florida and will meeting with governor desantis to put their differences to help hurricane ian victims get back on their feet. we have you covered with a void in fort myers with the latest on that meeting. steve, the recovery is just beginning. the white house john kirby and where these recovery efforts are going. welcome, everybody, a very, very busy news day and something rare you seek cooperation from both sides of the aisle because the people in florida demanded it but more to the point, the leaders offered it. momentarily. let s go to nate boyd in fort myers with more. good afternoon, neil a cordial vision cor to mike visit between president biden and governor ron desantis and over s over into fort myers beach. they were there recently and the president just left under an hour ago at this point and you mentioned it was cordial. the president said he has done a good job responding to this hurricane but governor desantis is very thankful of the government assistance he r
ever since the federal ruling came down friday, all it really does is keeps the status quo in place. illegal crossings continue and they have continued over the weekend in the hours after the ruling. take a look at this video saturday morning. this is a group of 60 here in eagle pass. some waving to the fox news drone. once they get to the u.s. side, it s single adults. many are from cuba, venezuela, nicaragua. the administration is not enforcing title 42 for the most part on those countries, so they know now that they have gotten to the u.s., they won t be expelled backs to mexico. that was not the only group. same day, hours after that ruling saturday morning, this was a single group of 120 that crossed illegally hear in to eagle pass. ones again single a ducts from the same country. cuba, venezuela, nicaragua and peruvians. take a look at this video out of big bend. that desolate remote terrain, this was the texas dps helicopter over a group of 32 illegals. they start ru
And i just want to make one further comment. I know this misunderstanding, but there is a reason we do this the way that we do. In my state of oklahoma we will list a number of projects. People going out in transportation districts in the state of oklahoma, make there own priorities so that my job is not so much to see what can be done in a state of oklahoma but where the priorities come from the state. People just overlook that. That is one of the systems it does seem to work well. Hopefully we we will be able to do a good a good job with this bill. Any further comments you want to make. Mr. Chair, mr. Chair, i want to thank you and the Committee Members. You you have a tough job and it is an incredibly important job. The governors will partner with you in any way that can be useful to get predictability, get the trust fund reauthorized and give a certainty. Within your states. That is that is so important that we do that. Absolutely. There is another thing that you can do apply the p
[ room noise ] okay. All our new mayors that are in the audience, please stand up. We need to see you and know who you are. [ applause ] all right. We know this group will be instrumental in defining our priorities and helping this organization go forward. I am now very pleased to bring to the podium one of those rookie mayors. She is from the great city the District Of Columbia. Mayor bowser served as a City Council Member for eight years prior to being elected. For yearly 35 years the conference has been fully supportive of full Voting Rights for the District Of Columbia. [ applause ] mayors lets give a round of applause for Muriel Bowser thank you. Well, good afternoon, mayors. And welcome to your nations capital, my hometown, our capital city, washington, d. C. And thank you, mayor johnson, for your kind introduction. But most importantly for your leadership of this conference and your great city. Im honored to stand before you as mayor of the District Of Columbia and bring you gre
Will say well, we have a different core ethical values in europe. Thats great okay. And greece . In europe generally. Ro romania . No offense to those countries, but we have a different value system here. We dont need all those rules and regulations because we know whats right and wrong. Well, i think we need a certain amount of regulation of law but we also have to have people going into Public Service that remember why they went into it, which is Public Service. Maybe to shrink government but also to solve problems. And they forget that sometimes because absolute power corrupts absolutely sometimes, theyre pursuing things for themselves their family. They forget. And this class that i teach we start out with some philosophy from madison and others to talk about that, because it is something in your lives that you have to figure out what youre willing to do. And you will face that. I have faced that. Youll face it and youll have to determine whats right and wrong, and theres no someti