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Maria: welcome back. back to our top story right now florence has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but the danger is far from over as we told you earlier it continues to dump heavy rainfall on the already flooded carolinas the white house keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation, with all eyes on fema and its response. texas republican congressman john ratcliffe sits on the house judiciary and homeland security committees that committee overseas fema and also a member of the house judiciary committee and former federal prosecutor congressman good to see you thanks for joining us. you bet good morning maria. maria: i want to get into one of our top stories and that s the fbi and doj investigation but first let me kick it off with florence because 12 people are dead as a result of this storm. hasselberg how has fema done in this event and were there things that needed to be done that have not been done so far, give us your take on where we stand in terms of hurricane flo ....
Without consequences, while response for them rests with washington, london and paris, insulting the president of russia is unacceptable and inadmissible. the u.s. , the possessor of the biggest asker en all of chemical weapons has no moral right to blame other countries, retired u.s. army general and former pentagon deputy secretary secretary of intelligence joining us on the phone. general, obviously the russians were not even consulted we re told or given a heads up on this as they were last year. i m sure that was by design and quite deliberate. what do you think of that? well first of all, the de conflict process certainly did give them some indication of what hasselberg was happening not to mention the fact we ve been talking about this for a week but look neil, this is what i think is important. we need to remember that the russians are complicit in this. it was the russians that were ....
You. by mr. hasselberg: let s start with steve bannon s removal from the white house the president begins this new week without that council and that strategist and of course, we want to get into the south korean missle exercises thomas the military exercises rather as well as tuesday s rally, what s your sense of how things changed this upcoming week? well, i think when steve bannon left, i had it on good authority that as he was leaving the white house, he was screaming free at least, free at last but i think steve bannon is going to be much happier outside the confines of all of the restrictions of government, he s gone back to brightbart, he s going to be free to continue to speak very clearly about the kind of american populism that frankly had a lot to do with donald trump being elected president and i think steve bannon is going to be much more effective outside the white house, outside the walls of government than he was inside the walls of government. yeah, the president ....