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Incapable. i mean, all of us all of us gear up to to handle things in the normal course of business, but had things become outside of that norm, when you have monster hurricanes or earthquakes or monster tornadoes, well, that s when we do expect that our federal strength will come forward. you know, we re stronger together as a nation. we re stronger together as a country. and that s why we do call upon our federal government for support to protect americans with our borders when the situations or these sorts of natural disasters overwhelm the normal level of funding that all of us support in state and local governments. governor rendell, or i can call you ed, because you re no longer a governor. abosolutely. many republicans governors have jumped on the gop bandwagon about federal spending is a problem. i don t want any federal money coming here. does all that go out the window when the roof starts blowing off ....
That we re facing as a nation. is the fact that most states are simply incapable of handling a major natural disaster like this, is that the reality? well, you know, you say incapable. i mean, all of us all of us gear up to to handle things in the normal course of business, but had things become outside of that norm, when you have monster hurricanes or earthquakes or monster tornadoes, well, that s when we do expect that our federal strength will come forward. you know, we re stronger together as a nation. we re stronger together as a country. and that s why we do call upon our federal government for support to protect americans with our borders when the situations or these sorts of natural disasters overwhelm the normal level of funding that all of us support in state and local governments. governor rendell, or i can call you ed, because you re no longer a governor. absolutely. ....
We were talking about governor perry earlier. they ve had quite a drought down there in texas for some time now, which i guess probably does amount to a natural disaster. has governor perry taken any federal money to hand that? does anybody know? well, they all do. they all do and then beat their chests and say this was horrible. this was awful, and big spending in washington and the truth ever the matter is, ron, there s not a state capitol governed by either a democratic or republican governor that would be standing right now were it not for president obama s courage in passing the recovery and reinvestment act. that is what has allowed us to provide essential services and public health and public safety and public education, and you know, that s why i believe we should have a federal government. we re stronger together. and we need to act together and act like a nation especially when we re under threat or digging out of a deep recession. and, ed, federal disaster relief is no ....
About no federal spending, cut spending and all that. if we did have a republican president next term and some disaster struck somewhere in the united states as it almost surely would, do you think that that republican president would deny federal funds to that state? of course not. as president, again, you have to govern. it s a little different than like representative cantor s office did. by the way, everyone tells me he s such a bright guy. that was a dumb statement. good lord. yeah. pretty much defines tone deaf. doesn t it? can you imagine saying, okay, virginia i can t give you disaster relief until congress cuts equal a funding from the federal budget. that will work. joplin, missouri i guess he s sticking to his guns. we ll have to leave it there. hope you guys stay dry and stay safe there on the east coast. let s pray that that hurricane veers out to sea. absolutely. thank you. thank you. governor ed o malley and former governor ed rendell. settles scores, d ....
State? of course not. as president, again, you have to govern. it s a little different than like representative cantor s office did. by the way, everyone tells me he s such a bright guy. that was a dumb statement. good lord. yeah. pretty much defines tone deaf. doesn t it? can you imagine saying, okay, virginia i can t give you disaster relief until congress cuts equal a funding from the federal budget. that will work. joplin, missouri i guess he s sticking to his guns. we ll have to leave it there. hope you guys stay dry and stay safe there on the east coast. let s pray that that hurricane veers out to sea. absolutely. thank you. thank you. governor ed o malley and former governor ed rendell. settles scores, dick cheney, a new book that will make a lot of peoplening gri. sdp he express regret? what do you think? you re watching hardball only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities. ....