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Is not just chris christie, there are others in the region, lawmakers who remember super storm sandy, almost every lawmaker voted against that to relieve bill, saying that it was -- senator cruz was the most vocal about it, saying that they did not need to the unrelated things, two-thirds of the bill was unrelated. an analysis by the congressional research office that shows that that just was not true, and thats most of the built in fact adults with disaster relief, emergency and, most of it, bu...

That is what this country is made of. people doing their best to make sure their friends, neighbors, loved ones, are all okay. the recovery effort will start soon. who is -- what is left in these houses. and this is going to last months. we saw flooding like this all over the country from other storms. in sandy, the water was not this high, did not last this long. and the recovery effort out there took months and months and months. this is texas, the end of august, but september is still a hot m...

Same reprehensible lies about what happened in sandy, and its unacceptable to me. absolutely unacceptable. im not going to let him get away from it. one of the reasons i came on this show is to remind people past is prologue. if we allow this politics to be played by either party in the next few days, the only people who will suffer are the people in houston. >> what you ignore you em power. if we ignore, we -- governor, thanks as always. a >> okay chris, here in houston this morning. at the buf...

American families and the need to simplify the tax code. our tax code today occupies nearly 100,000 pages of code. that is absurd. it empowers a small elite few inside washington, d.c. and a small handful of experts around the country. its bad for everyone else. thats one of the things hes going to try to address. >> sandra: gary cohn said it will completely resolve around tax reform. so this is really the kickoff moment there. i want to go back to harvey, because we do expect that the president...

Back with you throughout the day. thanks so much for being with us. >> all right, alisyn, thank you very much. there is no substitute for experience. the making it through a storm like harvey, like sandy, it takes experience. new jersey governor, chris christie, knows first hand what these storms can do and what it takes to respond. he learned it in 2012. . he joins us now. governor, always a pleasure. so your perspective on what youre seeing in harvey. where do you think the heads of those in c...

People of new jersey. then the third part is remember, what your people are expecting is, how do you return me to some sense of normalcy? it was four things on get done. first get power back on, second, get your roads repaired. generators. and get kids back this school. if you do that, you get to more of a sense of normalcy. >> the scope is beyond historic. this is record for the continental u.s. weve never seen this much rainfall. were dealing with a crazy scope. i want to play for you somethin...

Their communities as rapidly as possible. its the chronic disease challenges that tend to harm folks more than the storm itself. >> we havent even seen the wave of water-borne illness that comes from this toxic soup that people are forced to live in. let me ask you something else, >> is better than the one we saw with sandy? there are a lot of hard feelings about how many republicans didnt vote for that big bill. do you think the politics will play out differently this time? >> i think its impor...

Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with sandy. what i said then and still believe now, it is not right for politicians to exploit a disaster and people are hurting to pay for their own political wish list. >> what was wrong was for ted cruz to exploit the disaster for political gainful thats what he was doing. >> the fact is, that is an absolute falsehood that two-thirds of the $50 billion did not go to sandy aid. it was untrue when it was said then. and lets remember what senator cruz wa...

Between our focus on get the dollars here so that people can go on with their life. >> do you have a sense of what kind of scope the people are looking at in terms of the level of destruction? >> we know about a vast number of people and struck trurs underwater. it might be a large assessment of what has happened to those businesses, for example. thats the property aspect. we know city hall is underwater and having to be repaired. and we know the housing stock, from low income to high income hou...

For her. >> and you were saying that as you were leaving, you were telling me that your cell phone broke. >> yes. >> or got damaged. >> yes. it did get damaged by water, so im unable to reach out to make phone calls and let everybody know that im all right and that my mother is safe. >> and you were telling me that you wanted to let your family know out there. >> i would like to let my sister, sandy, know in new york city and bronx, new york, that i have mom. were in the george r. brown and were...