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>> smart thing for us to do would have been to wait and not spend any money on the house until we realize how high up it has to go because it's wasting money because if the house can't be raised you have to tear it down. >> reporter: all these maps haven't been finished yet so a lot of people still don't foe know if they should spend their insurance money if it will be waste of time down the road. >> shep: experts have been telling us for years the security functions we have set up at the airlifts are basically worth less. people have wondered about this for the entire time. now we're hearing ...

>> he's evolved from being the president of the united states to being a candidate for president of the united states. the reelection campaign has begun. before he was sitting in a situation where it was like a referendum. the president, how is he doing, do i like the economy? and now he's trying to turn that into a choice and the people when they are presented with a choice are choosing -- more and more people are choosing the president. >> today speaking in front of the key bridge which connects washington with virginia. here in washington, president obama said even president reagan would su...

My predecessors. one of the previous presidents. he said that, and i'm quoting here. the bridges and highways we fail to repair today will have to be rebuilt tomorrow at many times the cost. he went on to say that rebuilding our infrastructure is common sense. that's a quote, and, quote, an investment in tomorrow that we must make today. that president was ronald reagan. since when do we have republicans voting against ronald reagan's ideas? >> well, there you have it, ron. the president out there building bridges, saying the smart thing for us with so many unemployed out there in the country ...

Bridges, saying the smart thing for us with so many unemployed out there in the country is to begin working on our public sector an working on things that are below safety code and need to be fixed. what's your counterargument? >> my counterargument is i'm glad he invoked ronald reagan. he was exactly right. the truth of the matter is when president obama came into office in 2009, the highway bill needed to be reauthorized. it expired in 2009. that is a six-year multi-year effort to build our roads, bridges, et cetera, so while the president is attacking republicans for refusing to go along wi...

hello, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront," taxes, presidential candidate rick perry on the heels of last night's presidential debate, proposing a flat tax. >> scrapping the 3 million words of the current tax code starting over with something simpler. a flat tax. >> a flat tax has one big problem. if you tax everyone at the same rate, people who make less get hit harder and pay more than the current system. the flat tax was popularized by steve forbes during his two presidential runs, but he actually exempted families of four making less than $36,000. bold ideas are something we c...