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The nra's feet lie. they're in cinder blocks right now. my big theory is this. republicans will find a way to suggest that they're moving on this but simply compromising with the democratic bills that have been sent to the house. and credit to the democrats for finally moving those bills. republicans never did. but understand what -- how incremental they really are. what those bills do is they say if you're selling guns at a fire -- at a gun show and you're not a federally licensed firearm dealer are you still have to subject the buyer to a background check. they say if you sell a gun on the i...

The border recently. you pair this immigration -- chaos policy with the inhumanity that i saw at the border, women, 56 days held in the elements and came inside the very day that we were there. their lips were cracked open with exposure. they were in a cell -- i counted it, ten cinder blocks by 13 cinder blocks. they had one toilet for 15 women. they had no running water and they were told to drink out of the toilet. that water was clean enough. this is the inhumanity. and the utter incompetence of this administration and then you pair that with this weekend's fear tactic, we're going to come ...

Far as just being prepared. we've gotten cinder blocks ready in case we need to lift the furniture. we have a two-story so we'll take things upstairs. we're ready to see what happens. crest won't happen for a couple of days, somewhere around tuesday. we have friends who have already moved furniture out of their homes or lifted things, moved their cars, just in anticipation of the unknown. arthel: do you have a generator there? >> we don't. it's a good question. we've been going back and forth. i have a feeling by next hurricane season or the end of this one, we will. arthel: that's a good idea...

We've gone out for a lot of cinder blocks. in case you don't get a lot of water. we have friends moving furniture into other locations if they are fortunate enough to do that. the schools are opening the parking lots for areas that did flood can bring their vehicles. people are just so much more prepared this time than in 2016. no one saw it coming in 2016. now, you know, just driving around and you see people who are preparing sandbags. sandbags have been placed around a lot of the homes. we're hoping we're over prepared. we don't want to go through what we did in 2016. >> you certainly don't...

This camp will only get harder for them now. and his family have been told to move into a tent made of toppled and plastic electricity and running water have not been connected yet it off as little shelter from the summer heat and the bitterly cold winter. so some devastating accounts are there before like as the refugee rights director of human rights watch in washington and he has just returned from lebanon where he met with the refugees and are saw. yes i spent the last month with the refugees watching them dismantle their own homes it's a really heartbreaking thing to watch firsthand and t...