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Relief but you wanted some cuts with it. why should hurricane relief for harvey, irma, maria, now nate be handled the same way? >> we're not there yet. keep in mind there are a couple different ways we address disaster relief funding in this country, and right now we're sort of in the emergency, making sure people have drinking water and electricity -- >> that's another thing that's changed for you since being a congressman? >> no, because the fight we had in congress, i think it was in 2012, i lose track of the years -- >> sandy. >> -- sandy, yeah, that was the area that people wanted to rebu...

Well as the gulf coast emergency management agencies is prepositioning, personnel, equipment, and supplies to the gulf in anticipation of what is likely to be a category 2 storm. of course we're doing this at the same time as actively providing commodities, personnel and other support to puerto rico and the rir gin islands -- virgin islands which is still very much an active disaster. >> you talk about commodities and funds. you hear so often from people that they simply need money. they need money to rebuild, to get access to food and water. the national flood insurance program already in deb...

In collaboration with mother jones magazine, miller calculated both direct and indirect costs of gun violence. in addition to the medical care, direct costs include things like police investigations, emergency transport, mental health counseling, legal services, and incarceration. all of the things add up to $8.6 billion per year. the indirect costs include things like lost wages of victims, cost to employers, and losses in quality of life. indirect costs add up to $221 billion. all told, miller estimates that the cost of gun violence in america exceeds $229 billion every year. miller says it'...

This aid package that white house is sending over, do you foresee any issues getting this aid package passed? >> i hope not. they've sent down $29 billion about half is debt forgiveness which will give the fema some additional head room, but the fact of the matter is we're going to need much more than that over the long term. but things is a significant figure and i expect more to come. hopefully they will not be burdened down with politically controversial items that the majority may want to put in these bills. i hope that's the case. this is a humanitarian crisis. kate, it's interesting, in ...

>> who's dropping the ball? does fema need more people? >> my own view is the president needs to authorize both fema, but also the armed forces, which do have the resources, do have the money, to respond to the crisis now and certainly we're going to pay for it. that $29 billion and we've done billions before that, is a start. >> when governor rossello says, when he was -- the president was down there was complimentary everything the president and the white house and the administration has done, you say you don't believe it? >> kate, i think that governor rossello knows he's dealing with presi...