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>> so, carl, in essence, you stayed because you were in a high rise, but had you been in a lower story building, one or two-story building, would you have chosen to stay or would you have gotten out of there? >> no, i absolutely would have evacuated. >> okay. >> they say what kills you is not the wind but the rising water. >> we have heard that many times. ive got my meteorologist, steve sosna here, nodding in agreement. hes listening to you. thats very true. were glad to know youre safe. i hope...

Sort of experiencing the same thing and just as an aside, you know, its been kind of exhausting to be out here and to have the wind let up like this is a welcome relief. >> yeah. im going show our viewers now mike bettis who is on camera not far from where carrie is. dont be fooled kerrys lens is fogged because the camera got wet at the height of it. kerry is not in a fog bank. this is mike bettis who is in what passes for the eye now. im kind of nodding to bill carons. thats as calm as weve see...

Mccarran-ferguson antitrust act of 1945. yes, the government specifically exempts health insurance for most federal antitrust laws. this means that markets are artificially restricted and have what the congressman calls government sanctioned oligopolys in health insurance. the house financial services committee regulate the banks, guess which industry is the biggest donor? the amount of money slushing around this committee made it highly desirable governor congressman. so much so that its known ...

D.c. there was a makeshift city council meeting down there in houston. perhaps some bipartisanship that might grow from here? >> that might grow from this? probably. lets just start with the here and now. i stopped in my tracks when i saw that moment this morning when ted cruz was speaking, the most conservative of politicians, and sheila jackson lee, the most democratic of politicians and both of whom are, and most liberal of poll tickets, both of whom who are aggressively outspoken about their...

Going to be who he is after this comes, some people wont like what he says, some people didnt like what he said yesterday. but most people are worried about what is the government response going to be going forward. so theyre just getting past the immediate urgency in houston and thats when the immediacy is how its going to be done. >> and the editorial board, theyre not shy about thumping this president from time to time. "the washington post" saying that its impossible to ignore the improved r...

Pedestrian thoroughfares. youre going to see a separation between vehicular traffic and pedestrian traffic. thats where were moving. >> youre nodding. you agree? >> i think thats true. i think theres something interesting about this attack in terms of taking the isis plan if thats what it turns out to be a little further which is a number of these van attacks have resulted in death of the drivers. right? and so theyve been almost like suicide by cop in a very certain way. this one, no. this one ...

>> youre talking about the president? >> the president. >> he has condemned, he said that. >> with great hesitation. if you remember during the campaign, he hesitated to condemn david duke and he has used lots of -- >> ultimately did condemn david duke. >> it took him a while. whether or not he believes this stuff, he clearly harnessed these forces of the alt-right, great amounts in his rhetoric and among his supporters to pave his way to the white house. even if hes not personally a racist, hey...

To have these racist and extremist views. >> i feel that as a society, we need to be talking about this phenomenon of, like, white -- young white asocial men who are going into these internet spaces and becoming radicalized, often without their familys knowledge and its becoming a real problem in our society. we see the explosion in popularity of these neofascist groups among these young white men and its tearing families apart. its torn my team apart and it bears, frankly, a scary resemblance t...

>> reverend al, im a friend and admirer. look, youre right. there cannot be a moral equivalent. i get that. i believe, however ambiguous it may sometimes appear in the heat of the news conferences, that president trump agrees with that, too. there is no room in the republican party or the conservative party or, if you ask me, any party, for this kind of white supremacy bigotry, hatred. >> dog-whistling, winking and nodding. >> whatever you want to call it. years ago, my dear friend and mentor, t...

Want to see because it has been proven time and time again that we cannot, unfortunately, rely on the leader of our country, and to my fellow republicans, speaker ryan in the house, mitch mcconnell in the senate, the executive branch is failing the american people. we can no longer put party politics as the country around us goes up in flames. we have to step up and be the voice and speak not only to the people who voted for us but to all americans, to this great collective that we call the unit...