The history of disaster management. Why do you give this effort so far good marks . Thank you for having me. I notice you said so far three times which is important because things can often go off the rails. But the first initial phase of response in terms of getting materials to people who need it and you have people on top of it who have practice and know what they are doing. What we have seen thus far is these things are coming together, and you have a top leader in brock long over at fema who did have table top exercise with his cabinet on the first day after he was confirmed. You had the governor of texas, governor abbott, saying he gives an a plus to the federals. Paul getting resources on the ground as the storm is approaching. So once it gets you dont have to scramble. They are listening and can respond faster . That is one key. Necessity did do that in this case. Once the storm hits, its hard to get stuff in there. You see people on the roads and on the river backed up trying to get their boats there to help out. You also said listening. There is a social media component to this. They are using electronic tools listen to what people are saying, snapchat, facebook, twitter. Paul they are listening to social media and watching and they can pint point where some people pinpoint where some people are. Which brings up the point about communications. One of the things thats interesting, the Cell Phone Networks have stayed mostly up. Why is that . That seems crucial when it comes to communicating with people who are strands and need help. We just have Better Technology and its more advanced. But there have been investments in hardening the system so they are more resilient. I remember work in Bush Administration during 9 11 and all the Cell Networks went down 367. Paul you had to use packet switching on the internet to communicate. This is something private companies have made an investment in. The private sector plays an important role. The government is doing a good job in this case. But its not just the governments job. Private Sector Companies like twitter and snapchat, and Companies Like at t and verizon have hardened their neat works so the cell towers stay up and are more effective. Paul the National Guard and fire and police in houston. I have seen fewer reports of criminal behavior and looting. Relatively few compared to previous disasters. The National Guard deployment depends on coordination between the state and federal government. In katrina you had large percentages of the New Orleans Police Department not showing you have and being mia. Here in houston, we saw that terrible incident who was killed. His wife and fatherinlaw begged him not to go. He wanted to do his duty and unfortunately he passed away. Paul where do we go from here in managing this . The cameras are going to leave and the water will recede. But the damage, the mess will still be there. What happens next . We go from the response stage to the recovery stage. As you said, that takes a lot longer. Its a lot more expensive. You have a lot of people who are displaced from their homes. They are destroyed. And you need to get them assistance to see how we can get them back into making houston the vibrant city it has been again. It will be costly and expensive. You will see a package Going Forward in congress the next month that will provide assistance. Sandy, 60 billion. Some of that money did not go to sandy itself. Which was unfortunate. Paul temporary housing will be part of this. You have 30,000, 40,000 people in houston who are displaced. I hope they have come up with Better Solutions than the fema trailers. There was some real learning from the katrina failures that are making this a more successful response. Paul when we come back, federal, state and local authorities continue to respond to harvey victims. 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Lets bring in kim crossle, James Freeman and jason riley. Lets start with you. You share his view that this is a relatively good effort in Emergency Management so far . I think its one of the best efforts we have seen since the history of Emergency Management. Great cooperation between the state and federal authorities. And that is key to this. And just the people of houston and the people of texas who used all the technology and Everything Else at their disposal to help each other out. Paul thats an interesting part of this. The cooperative spirit of texas. It has thrown trump critics off their game. They were anticipating and were ready to go to school on it. We have seen cooperation between the local official, the labor tech scary of transportation. We are talking about the first ladys footwear on the left. Paul you have got to give credit to the mayor and the governor. The coordination does start with the local officials. They had security people out in force, and you dont see a lot there is a a little bit of not evacuating. But it seems it saved lives. Its a perfect storm of liberal annoyance where you combine Good Management at the federal level and see an amazing example of volunteerism. You see these guys in fishing boats carrying their weapons just in case there is any problem. But they are helping people regardless of color or creed and an inspiring example example and distorts what we have heard about people in that part of the country. Paul this is what happens after disasters. You can regret it and say we should preplan. The sandy bill was 60 billion. This might be better. Will it change what republicans do in the fall . It will have to be their first priority. When they get back they will be expected to write that check. There will be support on that from right and left. The big question from republicans is how do they use that moment to try to also accomplish some of their agenda. You see discussions about perhaps attaching to a spending bill emergency relief bill, the debt ceiling increase that paul ryan needs to get through the house. By the way which i think is totally legitimate. America is about to run out of its ability to boor oh. I think that will be one thing. They give a little bit of a boost because the Republican Administration has managed things well and potentially a little bit more unity and momentum behind these big agenda items they need to accomplish. Paul its a chance to govern. Its a chance to govern and so far the administration seems to be making good use of this opportunity. Well see how long that lasts. Paul what about this narrative we are seeing on the left. A couple days already casting the first stone, blaming the oil and gas industry in houston for contributing to Global Warming which they say contributes to more hurricanes and zoning laws in houston. It has relatively fewer building restricts and that contributed to lower housing prices and faster growth. Is any of that legitimate . There were floods in houston a century ago when there was he singly no building like we have now. When you get a once in a millennial storm, you are going to have a problem. Paul what about the Global Warming business . The predictions that Global Warming would lead to more hurricane and tornadoes have been proven false. The obama era was the most of benign in that sense for decade and decade. So this isnt part of a pattern. As written in our pages friday we have had fewer of these storms in recent years. There is no evidence there has been an increase in flooding. Its due mostly to the soil. You had Superstorm Sandy here in new york where there has been plenty. Smart growth policies that didnt seem to help much. We need to put this in context. This was a freakishly intense and slowmoving storm. There was going to be a lot of devastation no matter what. Paul the federal flood understand program which is in trouble already, will it take a big check to bail this out . It will. I hope they put to real reforms in there. This has been in place since the 60s, its using taxpayerbacked funding to provide subsidized understand giving people incentive to build in floodprone areas. Paul do you want riskbased pricing for insurance . I know this is a tough time to argue for spending restraint. But everything they are doing without government is an example of what can be done without government. Paul rsh the cost of rebuilding will be easier and cheaper because they have a resilient economy based on oil and gas and fewer zoning restrictions. President trump makes his pitch for tax reform. Can Congress Deliver a bill before the end of the year . I dont want to be disappointed by congress. You understand me. You understand. Its time to rethink whats possible. Rethink the experience. 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I think its good went out there and hes talking to the American People and talking about tax reform. I wish he would talk more about growth instead of focusing on this is what middle class families need. He tended to sort of lean a little bit too much in my opinion toward the idea of middle class thanks cuts and what this country needs are cuts in marginal rates that will spur growth. That should be his main message. Hes not doing enough of that. Paul what we need is to make the american public, voting public, to make this work for them. He talked about how he wants 3 a year and more than that. He said i dont see why we cant grow faster. Thats his goal. And he talked about the benefits to the average worker by lowering the income tax rates. When you reduce the corporate thanks rate, corn races invest more in their businesses and that makes workers more productive. Paul you dont think a corporate tack cut like the left does goes to share hold hers and capital . I agree he has mentioned these things. But he hasnt put the emphasis enough on growth. This will be a fight in congress between those people saying that the tax reform has to be about fairness and taxing the rich, and people who believe in growth. The president should be out there talking about growth all the time and the importance of lowering thanks on the wealthiest because they are the ones with the money and they are the ones who create jobs. I think the president s job he did not do this on healthcare. This was one of his big failures. He did not come out and make a public address and back republicans on the healthcare effort. This is good to see. Im told by people in the white house they are going to make sure he stays on task and makes the case for tax reform. They see his job to be selling this and drumming up public support for it. I think the real question you have is in fact the views of those in the senate and house ask on the republic cab side whether they have the ability to ignore the democratic class worker argument and follow the nod of paul ryan and the head of the house ways and Means Committee which are pushing for the policies mary is talking about. Those are the weak links out there. I think the president the job is to make the case to the public. Paul will they be able to hold up . The left is going to its usual playbook, this is for the 1 . One of the problems is President Trump allowed the discussion to get into the area of revenue neutral. Once you go down that once you get trapped in that, its going to be very tough because then people will start saying who is going to pay for this cut . Of course it will return to the class warfare argument. One of the things we want out of this is someone to pay for it in the sense we want to get rid of some of these loopholes. Some corporations pay 12 while others pay the full rate of 35 , james. I think cutting the rate is the goal here. Paul to cut the rate to the 0 you or i want, to get there you have to get rid of some of these loopholes. I think this is maybe a track for republicans if they are thinking of fixing all the problems in the american tax code the next three months. I think that will be a challenge. We are fairly late in the year. I would focus on tax relief and getting the economy moving. Paul still ahead, with the effort to repeal and replace obamacare still stalled on capitol hill. Some muchneeded good news from the food and Drug Administration which is moving to lower the cost of prescription drugs for patients across the country. The fda commissioioioioio ah, my poor mouth breather. Allergies . Stuffy nose . Cant sleep . Enough. Take that. A breathe right nasal strip of course. Imagine just put one on and pow it instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than allergy medicine alone. So you can breathe, and sleep. Better than a catnap. Shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. Breathe right. So we sent that sample i doff to ancestry. I was from ethnically. My ancestry dna results are that i am 26 nigerian. I am just trying to learn as much as i can about my culture. I put the gele on my head and i looked into the mirror and i was trying not to cry. Because its a hat, but its like the most important hat ive ever owned. Discover the story only your dna can tell. Order your kit now at ancestrydna. Com. Paul with the effort to repeal and replace obamacare stalled on cap til, some welcome news from the food and Drug Administration which is on target to approve a Record Number of generic drugs that could lower the cost for millions of patients. Joining me is the commissioner scott gottleib. You have been making generic approvals a priority. We dont do drug pricing. But we do increase competition by facilitating access to more drugs. What we are look at is ways to bring generic drugs to the market. There are policies preventing generic drugs from the market. We have seen Generic Companies have difficulties getting access to the drugs they need to do the samples they need. Paul i have been told they use fda safety as an excuse not to provide the samples. There are things we can do. These are Risk Management plans we put in place to protect certain drugs that are risky to use. Branded Companies Use those rules to block the Generic Companies from going into the market to prove sameness. Branded Companies Use those measures to keep them from getting the samples they need. Thats what we are focusing our attention on. Paul one of the priorities you have written is to improve drug approvals and make public when the fda rejects something. Make that letter of rejection public. Those are the complete response layers that explains the rationale why the fda rejected a drug. Well probably be making public more of the data with drug approval. So people have access into the under lying data to approve drugs. There will be additional steps around the overall review process. Paul the cures act is suppose to let you look at randomized Clinical Trial to the say how can we introduce more evidence into these trials to provide faster approvals. This is a false dichotomy in washington that there is a choice between speed versus safety. I think you can make the process smarter and more efficient. Learn more and make it go more quickly. We have a more efficient process overall. Paul prr particularly in this world where drugs will be patient specific. There are smaller pools of patients they can hit. It might work for those people but not for a larger pool of a randomized trial. Dont you have to change trials to meet that change in medicine . We are going to allow approval. Lets say a drug treats a certain target. Rather than having to get approval for the cancer a lung and separate approval for the cancer and liver. If the drug works for a molecular tumor in all those organs. Paul the right to try legislation passed the senate. In 30 states i think they passed some version of it. Patients who are dying are look for treatment that gives them faster access to an experimental treatment. Are you in favor of that . Well allow patients to get access to more drugs. These drugs can reach market more efficiently. Well take steps in the coming months to help facilitate the ability to use the drug. Congress might pass this legislation. Paul some of the frustrations patients have, you have compassionate use ability now. By the many very difficult particularly if the obstacle of efficacy of the drug is put in front of patients over safety. I understand safety. But on the efficacy ground, if somebody is dying, isnt it immoral to deny them to an experimental treatment . We do that now. Some of the expanded access you see right now where the efficacy isnt established for the drug, and there is a plausible reason to think the drug might work. A lot of companies dont make these drugs available. How obviously you cant force the companies to do that. It makes it easyier. Trying to compel companies to make drugs available like an accelerated approval its a big enough break through, why not also ask the company and make the drug available for people who have no medical options. So we couldnt do that as a matter of policy. Paul thank you. Still ahead. Americans celebrate labor day weekends. A closer look at the growing worker short najt United States and what it means for the economy. Its a highly contagious disease that can be really serious. Especially for my precious new grandchild. Its whooping cough. Every family member, including those around new babies, should talk to their doctor or pharmacist about getting vaccinated. You know win control . Be this guy. Check it out selfappendectomy oh, thats really attached. Thats why i rent from national. Where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. Which makes me one smooth operator. Ah still a little tender. vo go national. Go like a pro. Paul just in time for labor day weekends, a closer look at the state of the american workforce. A new report shows the economy adding 156,000 jobs in august with the Unemployment Rate ticking up to 4. 4 . This as Companies Reporting they cant find enough workers to fill available slots. Jason, a big labor day story. Kinds of a moderate increase in jobs . August. But overall. Still a very, very around the country employers tell us they are having a hard time finding workers. There is a mismatch problem. They are having problems finding people with the skills they need. It is on an industrybytribasis its also regional. Arizona, california, wisconsin, agriculture is another area and construction. We have an aging workforce. We have 77 million baby boomers retiring the next 15 years. 10,000 a day. Its not just if there are enough newer workers coming in to replace them. Fewer americans are going to college, fewer are being trained in the trades. Paul the Labor Participation rate, the share of the workingaged population is back at levels in the 70s. Its no longer falling, but its not where we would like to see it. I think there is a whole group of baby boomers in their late close to retirement. They have given up because the salaries they are offered to go back into the workforce arent worth it. Paille the Labor Participation rate for young men is not what we want to see. The government benefits are too good. Staying unemployed. They say i cant afford to take this job because i would lose my benefits. Jason mentioned the skills mismatched. Employers say they cant find people who pass the drug test, say please and thank you and show up on time and do what the boss asks them to do. There is something going on in education k12 more than getting people going through college. A lot of employers will hire someone from high school with simple path mattics skills and mathematics skills and train them. Paul 25 of the People Companies try to get cant pass the drug test. Month after month. Single most of important business problem is not being able to find qualified workers and part of being qualified is being able to act in a professional manner in a professional environment. So you do have that issue. And you have the issue of not pulling people back into the workforce. Employers are having a hard time finding workers. But we havent seen wages go up much. You would think they would need to do that. I think part of that is the confidence to spend more on your workforce if you think revenues are going to be good and the government is going to take less of your profits. There is some evidence on the wage issue that part of it is aging baby boomers retiring. They were highly paid. And younger people coming into the workforce are not earning as much. I think we just have to let the recovery play out. This has been a slow depressed economy. Even thought its been growing for 9 years, its been growing slowly. You are seeing a change, i think think. Paul what do we do about the workforce . We should open the market to more foreign workers. President trumps going for fewer legal immigrants is a way to exacerbate this problem. If they cant find them in native workers they can find them in guest workers. Paul they fill needs when they are open then go back to where they came from. Maybe, maybe not. Some groups have gone back, some have come and stayed. But let the market make that decision. The market will do a much better job of allocating the market including labor. Paul a call for u. C. Berkeley to cancel a planned free speech week later this month. Rethink whats possible. Rethink your allergy pills. Flonase sensimist allergy relief helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. Most allergy pills only block one. And 6 is greater than one. Flonase sensimist. I was playing golf love golf. I used to love golf. Wait, what, what happened . I was having a good round, and then my friend, sheila, right as i was stepping into the tee box mentioned a tip a pro gave her. No. Yep. Did it help . It completely ruined my game. Well, the truth is, that advice was never meant for you. I like you. You want to show me your swing . Its too soon. Get advice thats right for you. Investment Management Services from td ameritrade. So new touch screens. And biometrics. In 574 branches. All done by. Yesterday. Banks arent just undergoing a face lift. 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Their beliefs are surprisingly. They came out of the punk rock culture. They view words as violence. They want to use this tactic of showing up using grenades and molotov cocktails to shut down ideas they think are violent. Paul ideas are a form of violence so its okay to use rhetorical violence but its okay to use physical violence to prevent that. They believe you have meet those words with violence in a preventative violence. These are anarchists, they dont want state censorship. But they believe they should be the censors. Paul jason, you have seen this around the country. I was glad to see nancy pelosi the former speaker of the house denounce this kind of thinking. What do you make of it . It was the right thing to do. The problem is she is the exemption, not the rule. She took her time getting around to doing it. I dont recall similar delays when the right wanted to denounce rightwing bad behavior. The other thing is the message they are sending to kids on campus. Its not only right to silence people you disagree with, but to use violence to silence people you disagree with. They claim to be opposed to fascism but their definition of who is the fascist is anyone that disagrees with them about anything. Paul on berkeley, this next month could be interesting. We have a new chancellor who wants to have multiple vices on congress. Contrasting with the mayor saying no, no, no. How is this going to play out . It will be ground zero for these free speech wars. We are seeing the chancellor say the right things. That its her moral and legal obligation to protect free speech on campus. But having to stand up to the mayor is her first challenge. Standing up to the students is the second and standing up to violent antifa protesters, i can see that coming. Paul when we look at the white supremacist neonazis. We know who they are. But these people on the left, antifa, they wear masks, you dont see them quoted by name. Why not . In the 60s we knew tom hayden and the radicals. They are borrowing black block tactics. They say they are not only afraid of Law Enforcement and also rightwing activists. I think its a Law Enforcement problem. When you post all of someones information onlights easy for someone to show up at their door oh contact their parents. A group of Ivy League Professors sent out a letter telling them to avoid group think and think for themselves. But common sense is in short supply on college campuses. Paul great letter, but there were not thats professors who signed it. We have to take one more break. When we come back. Hits and misses of the week. You know how painful heartburn can be. For fastacting, longlasting relief, try doctor recommended gaviscon. It quickly neutralizes stomach acid and helps keep acid down for hours. Relieve heartburn with fast acting, longlasting gaviscon. Tap one little bumper and up go your rates. What good is having insurance if you get punished for using it . 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Kite developed a revolutionary new Cancer Therapy which uses a persons own cells, reengineers them to go back and fight cancer. This is a hit to American Financial newt and risk taking. A taco week was canceled, they ran out of tacos. But more accusations of cultural appropriation. Here is why i think this is hate. Enough portlanders didnt care about p. C. Sensibility, they just wanted a taco. The founders errandsed up defending it saying this gives you and opportunity to enjoy it. A 25,000 settlement was thrown out on whether a foot long sandwich is actually 12 inches. On appeal it turns out at the dough before its cooks is 12 inches long and the court says customers could use their common sense. If common sense gets into court rooms we are in trouble. The Trump Administration announced it will reinstitute tougher work requirements for welfare. A big part of welfare reform in 1996. They believe ablebodied people should be encouraged to work. You dont help people by making them more dependent on government. Paul thats it for this weeks show. Thanks to my panel. Thanks to all you for watching. Im paul gigot. Hope to see you next week. Tonight on war stories, reviled and revered, no middle ground when it came to this legendary military man. He said, gentlemen, i will be landing on the 15th of september or you will have a new commander. From those that worked with him i said relieved of your four commands. To those that loved him. Always say that. The young ones. Theyre all part of the life and times of general douglas macarthur. Thats next on war stories
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