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After hurricane irma, just about everyone in the u.s. virgin islands needs something. a lot of homes are left in ruins. lives have to be rebuilt. nba star tim duncan is lot of h lot of money so far to help people start over. i spoke to tim duncan earlier. >> tim, you just got back from st. john. i'm wondering what you saw there. how bad was it? >> it's the island is pretty megsd up. lots of trees and debris. lots of homes without roofs and a lot of them just totally blown away. so a lot of destruction over there, but a lot of people out and working to cleanup everything. a lot of guys with ver...

Nba player and virgin islands native tim duncan, who's concerned about the american citizens that aren't getting enough help or attention. >> hammer into people's minds that we're going to need the help, support and the rebuilding process to make this place great. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. good evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington. and happy friday. welcome to "mtp daily." it makes sense if the president's deals with democrats, get in line. the theories this week have gone something like this. punishing mcconnell. no, wait. luring schumer into a trap. wrong. he's j...

But i have to say, poppy, critics of any agreement, even short of citizenship, saying that allowing the d.r.e.a.m.ers to stay, will be amnesty. >> steve king of iowa, right, john. also headline from the president making a lot of news just there, saying on taxes, the question about his remarks on taxes and rates and what he said yesterday about maybe the wealthy will have to pay more in taxes, he said the wealthy americans are not my priority. this is about the middle class. john, as we watch the president depart air force 1 there, headed to see the recovery and rebuilding process in florida, l...

Expose ed to potential future hurricanes. the problem with trailers, they're very expensive. and the return on trailers as we did in louisiana last year, the three to four months to use that trailer, we paid more for the trailer than people got to repair their homes. there's an awkward tradeoff for the cost of that temporary housing. it's going to take a while to get the infrastructure up. so the community can take care of one another. >> in some places you're saying city officials or town officials may start to think about encouraging people to evacuate if it's going to be a long rebuilding p...

Get the infrastructure up. so the community can take care of one another. >> in some places you're saying city officials are town officials may start to think about encouraging people to evacuate if it's going to be a long rebuilding process in that neighborhood, in that community? >> absolutely. every one of those individuals have to now negotiate with fema. they have to negotiate with an insurance company. or they have to negotiate with the small business loan, unless they're independently wealth. all that takes time. they have the build the buildings back with new building codes. always tak...