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Impressed with the size of this storm. listen here. >> president trump: we have never had a thing like this, where you get hit with harvey, which was about as bad as it gets certainly from the standpoint of a water dump. and then you get hit with irma. there's one right behind irma. i think fema has been -- i don't think anybody has done anything like they've done at fema, they have done a really good job. >> one of the problems, you talk about fema prepositioning materials in the millions of liters of water and millions of meals, infant formula, cotts, generators, whatever else, tarps, people...

Craft? >> i think when we talk about u.s. presidential elections, we know the russians were trying to influence outcomes, as well as perceptions back to the 1960s, i believe. but again, the cyber environment now really provides so much more opportunity for a variety of trouble making, and the russians take advantage of it. so the ability to go in and to collect and to use different types ofechniques, spearfishing, whatever else, so they can then gain access to people's e-mails, computer systems and networks, it is something that the russians are quite adept at. what we've seen recently is the ...

>> well, i think when we talk about u.s. presidential elections, and we know that the russians were trying to influence outcomes as well as perceptions, back to the 1960s, i believe. but again, the cyber environment now really provides so much more opportunity for a variety of trouble-making, and the russians take advantage of it. so, the ability to go in and to collect and to use different types of techniques, fear-phishing, whatever else, so they can then gain access to people's e-mails, computer systems and networks, it is something that the russians are quite adept at. and what we've seen ...

Days with president trump, and perhaps fewer from his time under president obama or none or whatever the case is, i think we have to accept the fact that that is a function not of any sort of political preference, but of his experience in the trump administration, feeling put under the gun and perhaps boxed in. >> of course, at this time, the russians trying to hack into the american election, so that puts a different set of circumstances on all of this. appreciate your time to both of you. have a good weekend, guys. >> thank you. let's see what you're saying today. would joe lieberman be a ...

>> that would be of enormous help, but there are lots of problems. they haven't even nominated people for key positions in treasury, in state, in the labor department, federal reserve. basically throughout the executive branch, there are all of these important openings that have not been filled. take tax reform for example. this is supposedly one of the president's most important priorities and if you look at the top jobs in the treasury, you know, there are a number of political appointees who are supposed to be in charge of tax and they don't even have names for possible nominees. so even if...