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You know, they know how to deal with it but they've also experienced significant damage from these hurricanes. they're trying to make the human damage minimal here and make sure people don't get trapped because this storm was so slow and they did not expect it to affect them. now, again, as everybody has been saying we don't really know what the storm is go inging it. how significant it's going to be. in florida, ana, they don't want to take any chances. they want people to be safe and don't want to go out rescuing people because they say they didn't have enough time to get out. so there's ple...

Was to increase consequences for those who choose to break the law. that's a bedrock of our criminal, as you know, the way that our criminal system works. if there's no consequences, we do not see the instances of the crime decreasing. so what we did was we increased the number of prosecutions. we didn't make up the law. the law was already there. former administrations also referred adult parents for prosecution. >> okay. in case you didn't notice, that is in direct opposition to what sessions and kelly are on the record on camera saying. apparently to secretary nielsen, designing a policy wi...

Consequences then using the word "deterrent" in describing this deterrent that you're trying to defer people with, is not a deterrent. that's what she said today. and in fairness, she is being consistent. it's also what she said last june when she apparently considered a question about the policy more offensive than the very real human damage that the policy was causing at the time. >> are you intending for this to play out as it is playing out? are you intending for parents to be separated from their children? are you intending to send a message? >> i -- i find that offensive. no. because why...

Border, children being separated, lives being ruined. are the democrats in a position to do anything about that? are there teeth in those kinds of roles? >> absolutely. now they're seeing subpoenas that the trump administration is saying, we don't have to respond to those. as a matter of law, they probably do. so there is a tension between congress ask ind its need to ads appropriate oversight and the white house in a desire to have confidential communications. what happens typically in other administrations is that they work it out. they negotiate, the white house does, with congress. but thi...

Paul: in terms of the human damage, the towns and homes and so on it's because people are building closer -- >> that's right. increasing development. i don't think environmentalists complained about that but that's also partly because of zoning regulations on the coast that really restricted development. that's exactly. paul: what about this trump point, that's gross mismanagement. he got a lot of criticism for the threat which turned out to be phoney threat that he'd cut off funding but does he have a point about forest mismanagement? >> yes, the federal government and state government have r...