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Violence, whatever else, and a very daily basis. >> shannon: of course, he and the president happen -- the mayor and the president -- have been very combative. they have many differences on a number of topics. he didnt want the national guard on the streets, thought it wouldnt be helpful. they have except additional atf agents working on the gun issue issues. but the idea of u.n. folks roaming the streets of chicago, for a lot of americans, that is not something they are prepared for. do you thi...

Possible that widow was offended. those two things, you know -- >> seems like thats the case. >> yeah. thank you all very much. important discussion. well have you back. have a nice weekend. this morning the gop is one step closer to their top priority for now, health care reform didnt work, so on to tax reform. theyve passed their budget resolution with a simple majority, 51 votes. >> joining us now live on capitol hill, cnns sunlen serfaty. you know, a significant step but not all the way for ...

And continues reporting from san juan. look at this. >> john, poppy, it is hard to put an olympic-style judges score on a recovery like this. i can tell you this is my tenth hurricane. i did the haiti quake and the tsunami in indonesia. its by far the most lacking response personally ive seen. theres 2.6 million people still without power, over a million people still without water, and put those in terms maybe donald trump could understand, as a real estate guy, imagine if he had an apartment bu...

Resolution last night, but the republican party is not all in line on tax reform and what thats going to look like. is that fighting for the american people to have arguments like this over he said/she said? >> i actually think andre is right in part that there is a group of americans who believe that president is fighting for them in a way that nobody else has. i think the issue is, is that is not necessarily the majority of americans and certainly not a unified america that the president is fi...

Saying she was assaulted in 2013. police looking into that. it just increases the possibility that weinstein will be criminally charged in the future. >> so quentin tarantino is among a number of men now who are speaking up saying i should have done more, i wish i had done more. that is very important to hear these voices of power and men in this discussion. >> you can hear his regret coming through in these quotes from the "new york times." part of what he said to jody cantor, i knew enough to ...

Impressed with the size of this storm. listen here. >> president trump: we have never had a thing like this, where you get hit with harvey, which was about as bad as it gets certainly from the standpoint of a water dump. and then you get hit with irma. theres one right behind irma. i think fema has been -- i dont think anybody has done anything like theyve done at fema, they have done a really good job. >> one of the problems, you talk about fema prepositioning materials in the millions of liter...

Craft? >> i think when we talk about u.s. presidential elections, we know the russians were trying to influence outcomes, as well as perceptions back to the 1960s, i believe. but again, the cyber environment now really provides so much more opportunity for a variety of trouble making, and the russians take advantage of it. so the ability to go in and to collect and to use different types ofechniques, spearfishing, whatever else, so they can then gain access to peoples e-mails, computer systems a...

>> well, i think when we talk about u.s. presidential elections, and we know that the russians were trying to influence outcomes as well as perceptions, back to the 1960s, i believe. but again, the cyber environment now really provides so much more opportunity for a variety of trouble-making, and the russians take advantage of it. so, the ability to go in and to collect and to use different types of techniques, fear-phishing, whatever else, so they can then gain access to peoples e-mails, comput...

Days with president trump, and perhaps fewer from his time under president obama or none or whatever the case is, i think we have to accept the fact that that is a function not of any sort of political preference, but of his experience in the trump administration, feeling put under the gun and perhaps boxed in. >> of course, at this time, the russians trying to hack into the american election, so that puts a different set of circumstances on all of this. appreciate your time to both of you. have...

>> that would be of enormous help, but there are lots of problems. they havent even nominated people for key positions in treasury, in state, in the labor department, federal reserve. basically throughout the executive branch, there are all of these important openings that have not been filled. take tax reform for example. this is supposedly one of the presidents most important priorities and if you look at the top jobs in the treasury, you know, there are a number of political appointees who ar...