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Opposition to moving funds around for emergency issues. but more importantly i feel like there's this issue where people decide on different days of the week that we do have a crisis on the border but we don't have a crisis on the board and i guess today is one of those days where we don't have a crisis on the border according to people who are opposed to the idea that we would spend emergency funds at the border. previously we've been talking about humanitarian crisis down there and all the problems that have been the result of congress' long-standing bipartisan failure to handle border probl...

Increase the pumping capacity. the reality is, new orleans is sinking at about an inches to 1 1/2 inches a year. until we can get better structure, better infrastructure, the problems will continue. my thoughts and prayers are with the people of new orleans. they're amazing people. they'll get through this. i don't think it's going to be as bad as katrina but certainly it's going to be significant impact to the area for many days if not weeks. >> all eyes will be on fema once the storm passes what changes have been made to make sure that fema addresses the emergency issues once they arise? >> ...

Team just exactly what this means long-term for our, con ec, i think we don't have a lot of time before we have to have this addressed. part of what we have to do is say do we want the perfect to be the enemy of the good? this may not be perfect, but is it better than what we have today? the answer clearly is yes, it is better. it takes care of a lot of the emergency issues that are up in front of us right now, but it also lays the ground work for future immigration reform that is critical to the success and viability of our economy. >> it will allow the dreamers to have a legal presence and s...

Unemployed, don, people out of work for six months or longer, prospects are dimming. that is challenge for the president at 11:15 today to talk to the nation about the economy. how you take a look at this kind of anemic jobs growth and try to explain how you're going to get the juice going again in the labor market. >> ali, you and i were talking about this, doesn't help the president's agenda and talking about that today, these are not good numbers. >> we have two emergency issues. one is jockeying in washington about tax cuts for the wealthy that the republicans want. in exchange for the dem...