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People have to remember this is the poor function of government, to look after people, take care of people who have no other place to go, not even to their local government or the state government. they have to be able to rely on the federal government when something is this large. i think its a huge opportunity for a president who claims to want to dig in on details around infrastructure, to understand core function as president is to lead a federal effort to respond to disasters. >> so what do...

Because in katrina, we had a lot of folks that just let their homes go, go into foreclosure? what can we do to keep that from happening? >> let me allow the response to people that are experts in this. >> sure. >> let me back up and let you guys get up here. >> what can the state do to prevent a repeat of katrina where people lost their homes to foreclosure because they were inundated, did not have insurance and they just department have the funds or help to save their homes and not only homes b...

Taking shelter from a hurricane is it going to be a repeat of katrina. a repeat of the super dome situation. and the chaos that took place there. i can tell you, my team and i went in here, not long age talked to a lot of people. it its not that situation, don. it is very come posed. orderly. it is very organized. there are a lot of people in here who are stressed. devastated. and exhausted. but they are, just, you know theyre really acting in a very, graceful manner. and there are a lot of poli...

Get a repeat of what we call training in and around the houston area. harvey is going to continue eastward underneath galveston late tonight and tomorrow and turn northeast. in the meantime the bands keep pivoting in over top of houston and piling on. theres a chance the storm starts to intensify and pulls the bands back in towards it. >> sean: how many more inches are you talking about? and how bad does louisiana get it? >> well, we are going for new orleans in an a little bit because of the fa...

This? >> caller: i think for now i can manage it. my operations with fema, we did disaster recovery cleanup. after the president assesses what monies are going to be distributed into the cleanup, fema would hire subcontractors to clean up all the left behind vegetation or refrigerators and stuff. thats what i managed. as far as first responders, im confident we will be well taken care of. hoping this wont be a repeat of katrina or the like. i have my spirits up. >> since you were with cleanup, i...

You raise an important point. our viewers should know the president moved swiftly from camp david to declare a state of disaster, emergency, to make sure resources are moved to texas as soon as possible to deal with the storm and the aftermath. on top of that, the president also sent out a large symbolic move meeting with officials from dhs, and fema and he was briefed by his homeland security adviser. the last thing they want is for this to be a repeat of hurricane katrina. a slow or perceived ...

Saying president trump corrupted the republican party. exactly what republicans or not. what weve opposed in our 160-year party. he is the most divisive president in our history. that hasnt been a more divisive person in national politics since george wallace. compares trump to the infamous former alabama governor and opponent of desegregation and the civil rights movement and calls on republicans to distance themselves from trump. you can add this to the collection of voices, former new hampshi...

Know, i think hes inviting one. >> a republican senator, conservative saying the incumbent conservative president is inviting a republican challenge? >> things that work in a campaign and in a white house. in a campaign, you have lots of time to read teleprompter speeches, say something crazy, clean up the mess from saying the crazy thing. read another teleprompter speech, rinse, repeat, make everyone happy and move on. when in white house you have to do governing. have policies, push them. get ...

Island. people are still on the beach enjoying a hot, warm day here around corpus. air temperature in the low 90s. it was breezy here but humid. dewpoints in the mid 70s. you can see more people in the surf, notice gulf of mexico more angry here as were waiting for hurricane harvey to approach this way. this part of the texas coast has not seen a major hurricane, category 3 or stronger, in 47 years. last one was hurricane celia in 1970 which devastated this parlt of t part of the island, they ho...

Position he came out with. thats what i was prepared to speak to. and then the bizarre performance at this rally, which i found very disturbing, and one other point i need to make, repeat something i did say last night, which has not been quoted as i dont speak for the intelligence community. this is me as a private citizen now, so im not representing the ic. so i do want to make that clear. >> i understand. >> just the pattern of on again/off again and of course, you know, as i mentioned last n...