Word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. Such a sad kind of loss. People losing everything that theyve held dear. I mean, objects that theyve held dear. Souvenirs, all that kind of stuff. Just floated away. Its just its such an impossible thing to imagine going through. And flooding is always a persistent disaster anyway. Anything that gets flooded is a disaster for a long time. Yeah. For them to be in day five of this storm looking ahead tonight to a second landfall, to more rain, to further flooding but the waters not yet receding, the duration of this one is particularly cruel and this is going to be a long, long time digging out. Yeah. Youre one of the thousands of people in a shelter in and around houston tonight and no one can tell you, no one can tell you how long you might expect to be there, when you might next have something that you will call a home. Thats right. Because as flooding is hard anyway, but houston with flooding this widespread in such a gigantic metropolitan area, its going to change houston forever. Its going to change that region for a long time to come. This is something with he have to take very seriously in terms of a national sized emergency. Thats going to go on for a really long time. Rachel, later on in the show we have Michael Isikoff. Hes reporting that theres a movement in the National HouseIntelligence Committee to get President Trump eventually as a witness testifying to that committee. Its going to be interesting. I would love to follow the course of that subpoena. Yeah. Well see how that one goes. Thank you, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. Today President Trump visited texas but he forgot to bring any empathy with him but he did bring a hat, a hat that is for sale. I thought i was going to die. Like, i felt like this was the last day i was going to live, the last day i was going to see my son, breathe. I felt like this was the end. We wont say congratulations. We dont want to do that. We dont want to congratulate. Well congratulate each other when its all finished. He seems to be just concerned about optics. I wish they would be concerned about people. We want to do it better than ever before. We want to be looked at in five years and ten years from now as this is the way to do it. He didnt hug a mom or hold a baby or shake someones hand or ask a senior how they were doing. It was typical donald trump without an ounce of empathy. Had there not been for harvey, the president would be tweeting about the various russia stories breaking in the last two days. Mueller is going after this like hes investigating the gambino family. It clouds your judgment and makes you choose between your family and your country. So the president went to texas today. As politico reports, he did not meet a single storm victim, get close to a flooded street. This is explained by what he said in a tweet in 2012 after hurricane sandy. Obama will be seen today standing in water and rain like he is a real president. Dont fall for it. So no standing in water and rain for donald trump today. 12 years ago today, thousands and thousands of people from new orleans found salvation in houston as they fled Hurricane Katrina. New orleans is still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina and now houston is flooded as it has never been before from Hurricane Harvey, which has killed at least eight people now. We dont know what the final death toll will be. It is likely to be higher. There may be some people who may have drowned who will not be found for weeks. The fourth largest city in america is under water tonight and we dont know when we will see it again. We dont know how long it will take for the waters to subside. We dont know how long it will be before we see the highways and the houses and the buses and the bicycles and the televisions and the toys that are now under water. 9,000 people have taken shelter in the houston civic center. Many of them have lost every single thing. Every object that mattered to them. Every single thing that they loved. Childrens artwork on their refrigerators washed away forever. Laptops with family foet dprpho destroyed. Lost forever. The luckier ones didnt lose any loved ones but theyve all lost a lot. This is the stuff of human tragedy. There are bright spots of heroism but its born of horrific disaster and tragedy and in that tragedy stepped today the president of the United States. We wont say congratulations. We dont want to do that. We dont want to congratulate. Well congratulate each other when its all finished. We have had a tremendous group of folks, our acting director, elaine, thank you very much for the job youve done, and a man who really has become very famous on television the last couple of days, mr. Long. What a crowd. What a turnout. If you think the president s language was a little too celebratory about sudden fame that can happen to people during hurricane coverage, a fame no one should welcome. If you think the president missed the mark and was undignified, then you might also want to think about what the president was wearing. That hat is for sale. On a trump website. So the president used todays hurricane coverage to promote trump merchandise. Just as he uses the presidency every day to promote all things trump that have a price tag on them. Hotel rooms, restaurant meals, golf courses. That hat is for sale on the president s campaign website. The 40 that you send to the campaign to buy that hat will be used to pay for some of the costs of Donald Trumps next rally or it can be used to pay for Donald Trumps criminal defense lawyers who are representing him in the special prosecutors investigation, which according to one report, is getting closer and closer to the president himself. One of the deaths in houston ignored by President Trump is Police Sergeant steve perez who had been missing since sunday morning. We cant find him and once our dive team got there, it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. So we made a decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put another one officer at risk for what we knew in our hearts would be a recovery mission. President trump did not mention Sergeant Perez today. And he has not tweeted about Sergeant Perez today and he has tweeted about some unrelated, idiotic trumpian things. Hurricane harvey now a Tropical Storm has broken the record for the most rain of any storm in the continental United States ever. Harvey could make a second landfall near houston tomorrow morning. The red cross says 17,000 people are in shelters across texas tonight. Heres houstons mayor Sylvester Turner this afternoon. With respect to shelters, we have expanded our capacity. The reality is that not only are we providing shelter for houstonians but were providing shelters for people coming outside the city of houston who have been directly impacted by the storm. Were not turning anybody away. Joining us now is james fellow, national correspondent, and former White House Press secretary for president obama and also an msnbc political analyst. Josh, i wanted to get your reaction to the way the president handled himself in texas today. Let me start by saying that as an 18yearold young man in 1993, i moved to the city of houston to attend college and i lived in houston for a couple of years after i graduated. The first job i had in politics was the houstons mayors race in 1997. Its a community that i know well. I have loved ones there today and its a city that is struggling and tonight were y praying for the people in that city as we have been for the last several days. When it comes to the president s conduct, lawrence, i had an opportunity to travel with president obama on numerous occasions, unfortunately, to communities who had sustained significant damage from a storm. Just over a year ago, president obama was on the ground in a suburb outside of baton rouge, louisiana, surveying a community that had recently sustained terrible flood damage. Everybody who observed president obama on that trip watched him interact with the local officials, watched him interact with local first responders, watched him interact with people whose lives had been upended by tragedy. Recognized that that trip was not about barack obama. That trip was about the president of the United States. The Person Holding that office. Offering support and ongoing resilience to that community. To make sure that they understood that the rest of the court stood with them in their darkest hour. And i hope that in spite of President Trumps refusal or at least misstetake in omitting reference to those who have lost so much in this tragedy, that the people of houston understand that the rest of this country, as symbolized by the president s visit, are standing with them in this dark hour and will be standing with them long after the Television Cameras leave and were ready. Weve got your back. Well be there with you as you recover from this terrible tragedy. Lets listen to another press secretary, ari fleischer, george w. Bushs press secretary. Lets hear what he had to say about this today. There was something missing from what President Trump said. I hope hell say it later today but thats the empathy for the people who suffer. That, in my opinion, should have been the first thing that he said, was that his heart goes out to those people in houston who are going through this and the government is here to help them recover from this. And secondly, the job of the president is to thank those who are the first responders. James fellows, you worked for president carter and these are the nights when were talking about how a presidency is conducted, its really invaluable to have people who worked in the white house for the president. Can you imagine jimmy carter or any other president complimenting someone about how much time theyve spent in Television Coverage and how famous theyre getting as a result of this kind of coverage of a tragedy . It is extraordinary, as josh was pointing out. And you, too. I think of it as sort of three layers of tasks that a president faces with this kind of a disaster. The first is the very longterm effort of rebuilding a city or industry. Thats going to take a long time, years, maybe even decades. Thats the hardest of all to do. Well see how the Trump Administration fairs with that. The second, which most president s would have done today or in the last two or three days, is to speak for the nation. As job earnest was saying, theres a responsibility that the president has to express the wishes of the entire country in solidarity and sympathy and support and longterm hope. We saw george w. Bush was interviewed informally today and he in 30 seconds rattled off from the top of his head that kind of supportive message that Ronald Reagan gave after the challenger explosion and barack obama gave after many disasters and george w. Bush gave after 9 11. The third thing that president s usually do and human beings do is have empathy and warmth with people who have lost everything. Politicians do things as stage people but most of us have that vibe of fueling, as bill clinton put it, feeling your pain, of just wanting to hold people and see them and bear witness and say that i am the representative of the country but i also am a person. And im here to say youve been through something terrible and im here to offer support and sympathy and people are better or worse at that. Richard nixon wasnt so great. The fact that donald trump didnt even try one of these two things to speak for the country or to deal with the people, theres something unusual about him as a person that i think we saw today. Lets listen to what james just mentioned. George w. Bush, and what he had to say. I know theres some people from houston here. And in the houston area. And i know youre going through a really tough time. And just know that there will be a lot of people that are going to help you. A lot. The country right now, theyre recovering and so the key thing on the recovery is to keep people safe. And then theres going to be rebuilding and if youre from that area, youd be amazed at the people who come down there to help. All kinds of people. And so the days are dark now but theyre going to get better. And josh earnest, that was not news footage, that was not president bush going somewhere where he was expecting to make a Public Statement to texas for the nation, that was captured on personal video at that football field. I think its a natural human response and i also think those are the kinds of Leadership Qualities that we typically look for in a president and this is he have dend that these are the kind of things that transcend party. This is what we expect of democratic and republican president s, what we expert of american president s. And look, lawrence, i think the other part of this that is important for people to understand, its easy to dismiss these sorts of visits as mere photo ops. Lets be honest, thats what they are. But its important, as the president of the United States, whether thats george w. Bush or barack obama, puts their arm around a Police Officer or puts their arm around somebody whose home has been destroyed in a flood. That is sending a signal to all of the millions of other people who live in Southeast Texas that the country stands with you. The country wont forget about you. The country understands that what youre going through is arduous and painful and will take a long time to recover and that we will stand with you as you do. These this is a situation where that image is every bit as powerful as the words and, unfortunately, during President Trumps daylong visit today, we didnt see either the image or the words expressing that important sentiment. And james, perhaps definitely its more important than all of this. Theres absolutely no evidence that President Trump has the vaguest idea of how to put the machinery of government to work for those people. Indeed. Theres been a rhetorical emphasis on government of being bad and the cradle, et cetera, et cetera, over the past decade or more from his party. But also, in the past now eight months of his refusal to staff up the government, to something that is better to have all of these posts standing vacant. And so this is the time when we see a local government, these brave policemen, the firefighters, the local news organizations, we see citizens. We see the way in which a Public Infrastructure actually matters and will for years to come. It matters at the federal level, too. So well see whether people around him are able to, we hope, get the machine moving. James fallows and josh earnest, i really appreciate you joining me tonight. Thanks, lawrence. 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Get 0 apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 legacys. Ends august 31st. Michael isikoff reports tonight that, quote, a key democrat on the house panel needs to seek testimony from felix sayer in light of newly disclosed emails about a trump tower project in moscow that was being pursued during the early stages of last years president ial campaign. This is a bright light in an ever growing constellation of contacts between donald trump and russia. Democratic congressman eric swallel told yahoo news. And a relevant witness may have been a pif tell player and the committee will likely have to go further to resolve the questions around this issue including seeking testimony directly from the president. We dont want to be reckless, says slalwell and it looks like he, President Trump, is likely relevant. Also tonight, the Senate Judiciary committee and donald trump jr. Have agreed to a date for a transcribed interview behind closed doors about his meeting with a russian lawyer and several other people, including other russians at trump tower, including a man suspected of having ties to russian intelligence. The president s son will not be under oath and we dont know the exact date of that interview but politico reports tonight that a source familiar with the matter said the testimony would likely owe occ occur in the next few weeks. Joining me is Michael Isikoff and former prosecutor and msnbc contributor. Michael, this report that you have from Eric Swalwell says it would make sense to include him on the witness list. Will that require the cooperation of republicans on the committee in order to get President Trump to testify . Sure. And theres inevitably going to be conflict about that. Look, to some extent, swalwell is stating the evidence. This entire investigation is about potential links between Trump Associates and the russian government. The central question is ultimately going to be what did the president know about such contacts and when did he know them. And the only way ultimately that you can get responses to those questions is to question the president himself. Now, whether politically you can pull it off, you know, thats a whole other question. Obviously to the extent that republicans remain behind the president , they would resist. Right now they control the house and the senate. So its not likely. But as the pressure builds and as more and more evidence comes out and if you get conflicts in the testimony that the committee gets from some of the participants, its hard to see how they dont get the president s testimony. Jill, isnt that the point, that its going to be a matter of how the evidence develops and if it develops to the point of as michael says, conflict in the testimony or incriminating testimony about the president that only he can resolve, thats when you can develop a momentum where it becomes difficult to resist the demand that the president testify. Im not saying the president couldnt resist it but that the republican members of congress at some point may have to say, yes, this testimony is required. Every time i ask when is enough sufficient, i am surprised by how much the president can get away with. So, yes, he may not ever really have to testify because the republicans may not have the courage to force them to but it is a logical next step. We definitely need to know. And the difference between when he says something in public, even if hes lying and many of the statements hes made seem to be lies, in conflict with other peoples testimony but if he says it under oath, then its a crime. So he either has to contradict what hes said in the past or in conflict with prior testimony. Thats the danger with him testifying and everybody would like him to testify under oath. I want to point out, it is a crime to lie to congress in any investigative session that theyre doing, whether its under oath or not. And so whether hes under oath or not, hes still exposed to what is in effect possible perjury charge, even though its technically called something else. If hes not under oath lying is similar to lying to an fbi agent. I want to hear what adam schiff said about this. The president had a financial interest, a potential financial interest in doing business with russia during the course of the president ial campaign and that financial interest may have caused the president to have a prorussian Foreign Policy during the campaign. The president was being less than truthful about pursing business during the campaign. This was part of a pattern that weve seen not only with the president but with his son and others being less than truthful when it comes to russian ties. Michael, thats the case. The question is, will the pressure continue to build in that direction . If you just look at the record here on what trump has said about the various issues that relate to these emails, trump, of course, famously said in the interview with lester holt last year, i have zero interest this year, nothing to do with russia. He actually did respond to questions under oath in a deposition about felix sater, the twice convicted felon who actually pitched the whole trump tower and moscow idea and he said i wouldnt know him if he walked into a room. There are multiple pictures of trump with him, breaking ground for trump soho. Sater had a Business Card that listed his office at trump tower and identifying him as a Senior Adviser to donald trump when allen garten was asked about this last year, he said the Business Card was in 2010 and the arrangement that sater had with the Trump Organization ended six months later. Well, these emails show sater pitching a project in late 2015 and early 2016 to the Trump Organization. So there are a lot of reasons to question the credibility of the statements that the president and his top people have made about this for quite some time. Jill, ive got an important question tonight about a report on subpoenas from the special prosecutors office. Robert mueller has subpoenas a spokesman for Paul Manafort demanding records related to his work with manafort, seeking that testimony. Also subpoenaing a former lawyer for manafort has also received the subpoena. This goes straight to the attorneyclient privilege. Jill, what are the exceptions in the attorneyclient privilege that allow a former lawyer, Paul Manafort, to be subpoenaed. There are a few, not very many. Its really a bond that is hard to brake. But, for example, if they were engaged in a business deal together, outside their attorneyclient relationship, which it does seem that some of trumps lawyers were business employees of his. That would not be covered by the privilege. If they were won spconspireing commit a crime, that would not be covered. If they were plotting something that violated federal law or state law, that wouldnt be covered. So there are a few things that could be but without any more information, its really speculation as to whether the attorney for anybody could ever be forced to testify against that client. So just getting this out for a little bit, this is one of Paul Manaforts former lawyers. If that lawyer resists the subpoena, do they end up in some kind of evidentiary hearing in court where it is revealed or revealed to us publicly why that lawyer is actually getting subpoenaed . It could be. And, of course, there is a lot of pressure now to have some of these witnesses who are cooperating in closeddoor sessions to be public in their testimony because the public has a right to know before the elections what is going on. We shouldnt jump to the c conclusion that something criminal has happened but theres enough suspicion that you cant help but do that. They are acting guilty. The president does everything that makes him look guilty. His son looks guilty. Thats just something that can only be taken care of if they testify in public and can explain themselves in some way. So, yes, its quite possible that we could find out why exactly the attorney is being questioned. And michael, we have at the same time the democrats are developing the possibility of demanding president s trump testimony. We have at least one republican in congress trying to pass an amendment basically on a budget bill to limit the special prosecutors investigation, saying that it must end in six months, saying that it cant investigate anything that happened before the president ial campaign. Yeah. I dont think that has much prospect of passing. Evangelical if House Republicans were going to go down the line and keep that in the house bill, i cant imagine the senate doing the same, especially given the frosty relationship that the president has with republican senators at the moment. Yeah. 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At his rally last week in find ni phoenix, the president believed that kim jongun had a new found respect for the United States and President Trump. Kim jongun, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. I respect that fact very much. Respect that fact. Joining us now, christopher dickey, daily beast and msnbc contributor and max boots, former Foreign Policy adviser for campaigns of john mccain and marco rubio. There he was a week ago thinking there was a new found respect. Max is laughing. Well, in fact, its almost funny. I mean, its sad. I think if you look at the pictures that kim jonguns press people have put out of him laughing, joyously as these missiles are going up, i dont think they theres the picture. Go ahead. I dont think that shows him looking particularly intimidated by donald trump or Rex Tillerson or american policy. I think he understands perfectly well that unless russia and china were to get on board with the United States for much harsher measures than they have ever been willing to do or show any signs of willingness to do, not much is going to happen to him to change his mind. In the meantime, hes at the center of the world attention. He is making little north korea this cruddy Little Country with no resources virtually, the world figure on the world stage. So of course hes laughing. There was a north korean news publication that released that photo tonight. I want to go back to what Rex Tillerson said about the north korean situation last week. Listen to this. I think it is worth noting that we have had no missile launches or provocative acts on the part of north korea since the unanimous adoption of the u. N. Security resolution. I want to take note of that, i want to acknowledge it. I am pleased to see that the regime and pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint that weve not seen in the past. Max, it almost seems like that was taken in north korea as a challenge. Well, its kind of pathetic that this administration is so desperate for its Mission Accomplishment moment, if two days go by they say north korea is behaving and clearly thats not the case at all. This was really just showing how hallow trump has rolled out this fire and fury and lock and loaded. Kim jongun is not scared about that because he has a formidable convention of force and 10,000 Artillery Forces trained and steve bannon acknowledged as he was going out the door, its obvious to anybody who understands the situation and kim jongun understands the situation. And chris, the bannon comments were essentially from deep inside the Trump White House saying theres absolutely no military option there that doesnt get too Many South Koreans killed instantly. Therefore, theres no military option. Theres no military option that doesnt get a lot of south koreans killed and americans based there killed. Theres no question about that. But that doesnt mean that donald trump will eventually accept the idea that north korea is a Nuclear Power within the intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Is donald trump the kind of man who can accept that . Can he listen to the people or really listen to the people and say who lost north korea . Who put us in a position were endangered by this madman, kim jongun . Im not sure he will and that creates an incredibly dangerous situation. Max, what is the reasonable counsel now to the president in this situation . I think the only thing we can do reasonably at this point is to do the same thing that we did with the soviet union. Remember, were very alarmed right now that the north koreans have maybe a dozen, two dozen Nuclear Weapons and they are about to acquire the ability to put it on an icbm that can hit the United States. But the soviets had that capability for decades and nobody in his right mind talked about a preemptive strike on moscow to wipe out the threat. What we relied on was deterrence. Im convinced we dont have any other option with north korea. Its not a great option because youre seeing now with the Ballistic Missile test over japan, north korea is a scary place. They are dangerous and unpredictable. At the end of the day, i dont see anything to indicate that they are suicidal. Kim jongun does not have any desire to become a martyr. He just wants to stay in power and enjoy his illgotten gains, basically, and i think he understands he may have a few dozen Nuclear Weapons and i give him the strong hand but we have thousands of Nuclear Weapons. If he attacks south korea or japan, we have the capability to wipe him from the face of the earth and i think hes smart enough not to do that. Hes basically playing a game to get as much as he can as christopher said. I mean, its this rinky dink country would no other resources. I think we need to be sure we dont get carried away and overreact and put ourselves out on a ledge the way trump has done with all of this over the top rhetoric saying hes going to stop them from getting Nuclear Weapons that can hit us, lo locked and loaded. It escalates this war of words and does not help in any way. Kim jongun is trying to do what, is the question, because as he does these things, he gets more sanctions and life becomes more difficult in north korea. Well, i think eventually he believes the world will have to come around. It will accept that he has this arsenal, that he can be deterred so he doesnt have to be completely eliminated and then hes in a much more powerful position to negotiate and also to intimidate south korea. Once we accept that north korea has a Nuclear Arsenal and we live with that, how can south korea deal with that . South korea is really his goal, much more than anything else. Max and chris, thank you for joining us. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up, what a former speechwriter for george w. Bush calls the, quote, most forthright incitement of the trump era. How do you chase what you love with moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis . Do what i did. Ask your doctor about humira. Its proven to help relieve pain and protect joints from further irreversible damage in many adults. Humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. Humira has been clinically studied for over 20 years. 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I want to you listen to something that President Trump said yesterday about joe arpaio and i want to get your reaction to this. Yes, sir. When i mentioned him the other day. You saw the massive crowd we had. The people went crazy when i said what do you think of sheriff joe. The place went absolutely crazy. So i stand by my pardon of sheriff joe. And i think the people of arizona who really know him best would agree with me. Sheriff, the president seems to think joe arpaio is the most popular guy in arizona how did you beat him by 13 points if the people of arizona are such fans of joe arpaio. Obviously our Community Felt otherwise. The victory in november was considerable, because of the actions that have gone on for many years. This was not a popularity contest. Informs a contest to determine who was best suited to lead Public Safety on the community we have. Although that room may have been supportive of in decision in community is not. Because there are still a lot of healing to do, a lot of losses both financial and otherwise that have affected us adversely. Thats the mistake the president makes all the time if the people in this room are all trump fans agree with President Trump nonthe world agrees or the whole state of arizona. Talk about what the voters were in effect revolting against in the last election during the arpaio experience. It was a very expensive experience for these voters, wasnt it . It was. The contempt hearing was really the conclusion of a lot of just bad policing, politicly driven decisions. And what turned out to be not Public Safety but political agendas. Over the course of the final few terms we had cases nearly 400 that were crimes against children not properly investigated under my predecessor additionally it cost us over 70 million to the taxpayers to address lawsuits and legal fees due to the civil Rights Violations which under any terms are unacceptable. We in Law Enforcement have an obligation. Thats to ensure that we stand and define the constitution and laws and what they are and never ever violate those. Because if we do we lose the public trust. This litany of things he did which was more about politics than Police Policing led to the ultimate outcome which was a community that had enough and was ready to move forward. Again it wasnt about the person whether you like that person or not. It was about the person who was inept at the job of being sheriff which for all of us is far too important. And some of the points you made since youve taken office is that there is two things, what joe arpaio was doing wrong and was unconstitutional. And thats been fairly well publishized. And then there is the things he wasnt doing, all the normal pur suits of Law Enforcement that he was not doing or wasnt doing adequately. Talk about some of those. Well, the problem is this. Law enforcement is a very serious job. The community is dependent on us for safety. So smoke and mirror that is dedicated solely are for misdirecting issues or political agendas is never acceptable. As i spoke of before we had 400 cases of crimes against children that were not properly investigated. At the same time my predecessor created a squad that was specifically designed to investigate and attack political adverses. He had sent people to hawaii to investigate the birther investigation. At the same time we had Patrol Division that is were understaffed or challenged with every day investigations without having enough deputies on the street to keep them safe. So we have to be fundamentally sound. Politics has no place in Law Enforcement. At the end of the day this community expects were going to be the stable force that no matter who you are what you look like where you come from that our job is to keep you safe and to enforce the laws based off of behaviors and not off the color of the skin or any of the other factors. It was time to remove the nonsense from the office and get back to a stable legitimate Law Enforcement agency that was professional ethical and led with integrity. Thank you very much for joining us tonight, sheriff we appreciate it. My honor sir thank you. Tonights last word is next. A basketball costs 14. Whats team spirit worth . cheers whats it worth to talk to your mom . Whats the value of a walk in the woods . The value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. Morgan stanley you dont let anything lkeep you sidelined. Come on thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein, and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy, to get back to doing what you love. Ensure, always be you. Houston police chief described a conversation he had the widow of houston Police Sergeant steve perez who was publicly announced as one of the fatalities in Hurricane Harvey today. 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