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Political reporter, carroll lee, nick and associate editor of commenta commentary. president trump expected to travel to texas again saturday after making two stops there yesterday. they visited corpus christi for an update an relief efforts and arrived in austin for reli. they thanked officials for response and promised federal aid. >> we'll be working with congress on helping out the state of texas. it will be -- again, senator, thank you very much. we'll be working with those characters over there and i think we'll come through with the right solution.

>> so the washington post did have a fact check on it. nick, you scoured through the bill and sow there wasn't really that much! there was a very small amount of money that could have been put into a different pot than long term relief. it was almost all for projects that were intended. it was not all emergency direct aid. >> right. >> what's troublesome here is the characterization alied to things like fixing roads and community centers. i think what the governor is saying is it's not a real label to call pork. >> and also two-thirds, where do you get a number like two third sns. >> he just m...

>> provoking a response. >> i'm just winging it, but it's sort of like being the alice cooper of politics. where, you know, running around and shocking people. >> it's the political equivalent of biting a head off a bat. >> i'm mixing my metaphors. >> unfortunately that has made its way to politics. >> nick has stripped it down even more. >> help me. >> this is for your viewers who are unsure of how to talk about the plan. i don't know if you can read this. the plan is bad. they're not good, bad. let's just go with that. >> hold that up for the president. he needs a little more time to

And now with mattis's announcement, i have to wonder if this was kind of the point, that the second stage was intended to back up the president's tweet and give him the chance to say, look, i did it, but he didn't really want to do it and he gave gave it to mattis. >> no one has accused johnson mattis of being a dumb man, nor has anyone accused him of not obeying orders going up and down the chain of command. so what nick says makes a lot of sense. donald trump saying i really don't want to do this, i got to throw red meat to the crazies at my base, why don't you give me some cover here. >> i'...

As the search and rescue efforts from harvey continue, the question many are asking or beginning to ask is how did the flooding in america's fourth most populated city get so bad? the answer may lie in houston's growth and urban planning. houston bills itself as the "city with no limits" and has no zoning laws. as such city expansion has gone virtually unchecked including in areas known to be susceptible to flooding. >> it's what is talked about before. nick you were surprised there's no zoning. when my brother first went to houston to work there back in the '80s i would go, there would be a s...