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Even was talking about it. the president, albeit belatedly, is going there. does that show he is responsive to criticism ? >> well, there is no question. this is an area like we discussed yesterday when he was giving good marks. you know, any politician has to understand that your response to a natural disaster is your bread and butter as a politician. it is is your core function, government's core function is to protect its people. i remember back to hurricane katrina. there were a lot of factors in that. one of the reasons president bush was criticized so heavily, he was a governor in texas....

People have to remember this is the poor function of government, to look after people, take care of people who have no other place to go, not even to their local government or the state government. they have to be able to rely on the federal government when something is this large. i think it's a huge opportunity for a president who claims to want to dig in on details around infrastructure, to understand core function as president is to lead a federal effort to respond to disasters. >> so what do you think trump's options are? hopefully it doesn't happen. if we see a repeat of the sandy situat...

Critical of the congressional budget office back in march during the house process. so my question is, does the president believe that his discussions with lawmakers about what they want and their concern about the legislation, should it be guided by the cbo score and will it influence his thinking as he looks at the bill? >> i think one of the points that i made last time, alexis, which stands, is that the cbo core function is budgetary and fiscal impacts and not on people and they've been wildly off by a huge percentage when they've tried to score people. their track record on doing that is ...

Integrity commission headed by chris coback who none other single handedly has had an anti-voting rights agenda trying to make voting exclusive and inaccessible. courts found his actions to be unlawful. he is now heading up an effort that is widely seen as a way to legitimize mass voter suppression around the country in the months and years ahead. you know, similarly, "the washington post" last monday knit together a story of the cuts that are being made to federal civil rights offices across all of the federal government which are tasked, career lawyers tasked with ensuring that our federal d...

Dollars are not going to fund discrimination ain federally funded programs. that's what this agency is going to do and we can't stand for it. >> and are you concerned that the agencies, morale of the people who are doing this work in these agencies, you know, how will they even continue to do the work that they, you know, signed on to do and not create pay. >> absolutely. i think that the career men and women who signed on to do the important work of enforcing laws. it's a law enforcement job that they are taxed to do. that the morale is suffering. i also worry very much about the impact in co...