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The budget and government shutdown season in washington. youll have a big debate about funding for some of the response efforts and as sara pointed out in, during sandy, a big partisan fight over that. got to see where trumps priorities are on that. his budget presented to congress cut a lot of programs or wanted to cut a lot of programs helpful in a natural disaster like that and threatened to shut down the government is the border swaul not built. in the wake of a natural disaster, the federal...

Ive heard people making parallels to katrina, that was a mix of things that went wrong and levees broken storm surge, it was a perfect storm, this is rain. were not near the coast. we are inland. this is just from rain falling at rates of five or 6 inches per hour. when you hear the forecast and see more rain is projected for the remainder of today and monday, tuesday, and wednesday could still be raining. wheres a good ago? >> according to meteorologist its going to get worse before it gets bet...

It is a difficult time here for the houston county area as it is for the whole gulf region. i was outside already this morning and we have heavy pointing and certainly constant rain, a lot of wind. my rain, a lot of wind. my constituents are resilient. we have two emergency centers, one for the city of houston emergency center and transstar utilized by the county. so my constituents did the right thing. they prepared themselves, but still were in the eye of danger. my concern, of course is the c...

On top of hurricane harvey. dont make the same mistake president bush made with katrina. i mean, one would hope, jeremy peters, that a president or anybody who is in a position to deal with a natural disaster like this, would not have to be reminded that its probably not a good idea to let people die. to let what happened after hurricane katrina during hurricane katrina happen again. but what is your sense of how the white house feels? do they feel this is a test? how much nervousness is there o...

Health care. >> before the august recess, has he had a chance? >> we are committed to continuing to make sure that we have the best health care we can. if we could do that in that direction, i think its great. >> health care may be the least of the presidents worries. in a speech this morning, mcconnell appeared to indicate the timetable for tax reform which the president wants this fall may extend into next year. >> i think well be able to produce a much better tax code that will make a huge di...

Accords. the giving very little room on making concessions. as for the palestinians own concerns about this peace process or what he is start to go start, the trump administration has never clearly said two-state solution. theyve never made that the goal. thats a problem for the palestinians who see that z at only possible future here. see that as the ultimate goal. and yet, trump wont commit to it. that lack of vision here is problematic. so were looking for specifics in the meeting between kus...

>> one of the central figures, as you know, in this investigation is the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. he is a hard person, a hard man to pin down, at least by the media. however, our intrepid reporter, matthew chance, found him in moscow and had a conversation with him. so listen to a moment of this. >> what about this allegation that youre a spy master, a spy recruiter -- >> nonsense. >> did you attempt to recruit any members of the trump administration? >> you should be ashamed. cnn is t...

Surprised when donald trump disclosed secret information to you about syria. >> im not sure i heard anything that would be secret. but it was a good meeting and we were discussing things that were important to your country and mine. >> what about this allegation that you are a spy master? did you recruit any members of the trump administration? >> you should be ashamed because cnn is the company that keeps up pointing to this allegation. its nonsense. >> u.s. security officials, intelligence off...

Do not discuss the discussions with our american people with the media. >> reporter: but when you met president trump, were you surprised to hear that he was contacting russia? >> we spoke of many things. >> reporter: what about this spy master, spy recruiter. did you attempt to recruit any members of the trump administration? >> you should be ashamed because cnn is the company that keeps pointing to these allegations. its nonsense. >> reporter: its u.s. security officials and intelligence offic...

Next day though came out taking shots at white supremacists, kkk, and neo nazis as well. ainsley: when he was talking about the media and how outraged he was with them spinning the story and taking his words out of context, he pointed to the media up there. he said all those guys basically on this platform or in the rafters and the whole crowd, this huge crowd turns around and they look at the media and they go boo! and one guy in particular was pointing. steve: cnn changt for a while. ainsley: ...