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Reservation, credit card statements and federal election commission filings. the justice department detailing its case against new jersey democratic senator robert menendez and now a vicious war of words has erupted between the prosecutors and senators defense team. in an unsolicited letter, justice department prosecutors wrote the presiding judge suggesting he "prohibit the defendants from distracting and using the jury with their claims that the investigation and indictment are political retribution." a reference to widespread speculation in 2015 that the obama justice department indicted me...

Cruz, john cornyn, who have a lot of sway in the senate -- why is this an emergency that the federal government is protected from having to put skin in the game? if this is an emergency, the entire federal bureaucracy should be forced to put skin in the game and give up something. why not cut to offset what everybody wants to give people in houston? >> bret: there is the question that we all start to get the answer to on tuesday. on the meantime, on the so-called dreamers, word is that the president is going to end that program with caveats. >> in a trump administration, all immigration laws w...

All the wrong incentives are in place. all that has led to his more building in these areas because the owners know that if there is a flood of someone else is going to be picking up the tab. the goal here should be to get the federal government out of the flood insurance business and collect the insurers prices to market. >> bret: anna, the white house was asked, treasury secretary was asked whether the administration will push to tie the debt ceiling increase to a funding request. if they wouldn't answer the question. it's process, and congress will get into it, but it's interesting prospect...

The department has over 40 staff in ground, air, transit, railways, waterways on the ground coordinating, getting transit assets back up and running. finding drivers for buses and trucks. the federal highways of administration has been on the ground before the storm even made landfall providing technical assistance to the texas department of transportation. we are working with the state of texas to reopen the airports. as you have heard, corpus christi, new orleans, houston iah, houston hobby and victoria. beaumont airport remains closed except for military flights. roads in the impacted areas...

Thank you. >> i wanted to add an important piece of information, and that's come up to online, go to disasterassistance.gov. if you are in one of the counties that's been declared a federal disaster, you can get assistance. and we urge you to go online and register as quickly as possible at disasterassistance.gov. >> reporter: mr. vice president, bloomberg news. do you still stand by your position from 2005 that disaster relief funding should be offset by cuts elsewhere? can you tell us what the trump administration's position will be on offsets? >> vice president pence: i know president trump...