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History, but the destructive toll it struck can be hard to comprehend. 51.88, that's the number of inches that fell in cedar bayou outside of houston, the greatest rain event ever in the continental united states. 436,000, the number of households seeking help from fema. 7.85 billion dollars, the amount of money president trump has initially requested in federal funds for first-round of harvey relief. 250,000, the number of harris county homes with flood insurance policies. there are 1.75 million housing units in the county including apartments. 9%, the drop over the past five years in harris ...

They're bound together by common purpose, mutual trust and selfless devotion to our nation and to each other. >> donald trump on monday saying veterans are all part of one family. today a new report in the wall street journal that he's moving forward demanding the u.s. military break up that family and kick out people who self-identify as transgender. joining me now for a special discussion is eric fanning. he's a former secretary of the army under barack obama. he happens to be the first openly gay man to hold that post. your reaction to what the president proposes now. >> i think he's the co...

Rob: one more topic, steve scalise shooting this week. is this message they need to toni itone it down. >> i hope so, tom price using word crazy as a metaphor for turn out, democrats, we have to stop that. stop it on both sides, this is horrific. it really, emboldened and empowers our enemies in world when when we this divided this rhetoric just rized our country, we're all americans, we all have a common purpose, i believe, and i hope out of tragedy of representative scalise shooting we come together with common purpose, we're all americans, not democrats or republicans, first and foremost. r...

Divisions. how do we move together going forward? >> i think more than division, it's about pointing out the stark difference between what's been happening over the last eight years, chris. he was talking about truly fixing health care. how do we secure our border? issues that i think a lot of americans tapped into and agreed with. moving forward what i saw when i came in in 2010 is if you think you can just have one party rule i washington, or in state government, it never works. you have to bring the other side in, and you have to work together on common purpose. and if you look at the way t...

That afflict us, in particular, our brothers and sisters who are members of the clergy, having devoted themselves to comforting and supporting people in all sorts of situations. yet tonight, there was a particular sense of challenge and of pain. i want to thank everyone who gathered together in common purpose. i want to thank bishop brown for hosting us, for his leadership. i want to thank speaker melissa mark and public advocate and tish james. i want to thank borough president jimmie otto. i want to offer a special thank you to council member debbie roads, who has been in the center of so mu...