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Effort towards legalization mean. is this a major turning point not just for the industry which is growing but also legal applications? >> right you need gop support to pass legislation and this idea that you mention at the beginning of each state passing his own legislation is not going to work from an infrastructure standpoint you need to create a federal legal industry you need federal legislation supported by both houses and whereby you could have a decriminalization of marijuana and therefore you could stop illegal trade that is going on right now or will go one in the future you also nee...

That's not necessarily a favorable place for them either because the courts have been so beefed up with trump nominees through don mcgahn over the past -- during trump's tenure. >> let me give you the last word, brian fallon, and ask you if this reality, which is laid bare in mike's reporting, even if the house does muster the votes for their law, i think we're all saying the same thing. it meets a certain fate in the senate or in the courts. does it reanimate the conversation about court reform in your view? and is that an effort that you are engaged in actively right now with this white hous...

In a hurricane, it's like a fog of war situation. we may not know exactly what happens in realtime. you, of course, were on the air during katrina and for the hurricanes since. do you feel new orleans is better prepared than it ever has been for this size of a hurricane? >> from an infrastructure standpoint, there's no doubt about that, that the levees are taller and more sturdy and they've been armored and built now to be resilient and with withstand over toppling, like they did in katrina, 80% of the city being flooded and the worst disaster in u.s. history at the time. the billions spent in...

Closed as they were dealing with that. the good news, though, is that dr. lucy jones, the world renown seismologist tweeted that looks like we're in for less earthquakes as she puts it the sequence is decaying so the probability of more aftershocks is dropping. next week could still see magnitudes 4 and 5s. that's going to be less damaging than those larger earthquakes which she says now look like they are improbable. so that's good news here and from an infrastructure standpoint, especially when you look at what's behind me here, this home that caught on fire after the earthquake. so you do s...

Developed or implemented. >> now that people have more access to insurance, we would potentially have a problem where there is less access to care. >> um-hum. we actually saw that in boston. obviously in massachusetts, we covered another 500,000 people. what we saw is the cost in massachusetts of health care go up by 33%. why? everyone got an insurance card, but didn't have the primary care capacity. they got the insurance card and where did they end up? the emergency room. most costly setting in medicine. the cost of health care went up. not only do you have to cover people, but you have to f...