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Benefit your kids. >> here's the funny thing. we do agree on this. whether you're a republican or a democrat, we all use roads and bridges. there's only american roads and bridges. there's not republican, democrat or independent. let's make sure those roads and bridges are fixed and we bring our infrastructure back to number one. we're 13th in infrastructure right now in the entire world. that's ridiculous. and similarly, we have one of the highest maternal death rates. that's ridiculous too. so -- and i'll just go back to texas. in a state where they refuse to expand medicaid, where they have...

After andrew, there were new building codes in much of florida, but does there have to be a focus on reconstruction and where residential areas can build? >> i think we know a lot more now post-katrina in 2005. people thought that was just because we were below sea level. now you saw houston. you saw sandy really hurt the northeast and now you see florida devastated. these storms are going to continue to come our way. we have to build more solid, we have to build better. as you can see, each one of these storms is different. they'll bring you a different threat. in harvey, it was about poundin...

The electrical grid problem is is a problem but we'll have it solved relatively soon. we must work with private sector. the private sector way ahead of government in this case to ensure that owners and operators of critical infrastructure have the support they need from the federal government to defend against cyber threats. now, i think a pretty good example of this was despite having spent hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars more money unanimous we did, the democratic national committee was hacked successfully, very successfully. and terribly, frankly. and the republican national co...

Federal government against cyber threats. i will hold my cabinet secretaries and agency heads accountable, totally accountable, for the cyber security of their organization of which we probably don't have as much, certainly not as much as we should have. we must defend and protect federal networks and data. we operate these networks on behalf of the american people. and they are very important and very sacred. we will empower these agencies to modernize their it systems for better security and other reasons. we will protect our critical infrastructure such as power plants and electrical grids....