vladimir putin illegally annexes four regions. there s no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep him under control? plus the road to 2018, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. you look across the spectrum, the number is 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the numbers and images are staggering. at least 67 are dead in florida, four in north carolina, more than 850,000 still in the dark this morning. hundreds of thousands now essentially refugees days after hurricane ian swept ashore and swept away life as many know it. already more than a thousand civilians have been rescued and evacuated according to the governor s office. we re getting a clearer view of ian s map-altering impact. entire stretches of florida s coastline are gone. once sprawling community like sanibel island
800,000 still without power. hundreds of thousands are now homeless. it s just destroyed and it s ruined. you have to start all over again. as hurricanes worsen, are there some areas where americans shouldn t rebuild? i ll speak to fema administrator deanne criswell and florida senators rick scott and marco rubio. upping the ante, ukraine takes back a key city one day after vladimir putin illegally annexs four regions of ukraine and again threatens to go nuclear. there are no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep the russian leader under control? plus, the road to 218, with the democrats majority threat earned in congress, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. if you look across the spectrum in the country, this is road to 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive? hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the number
hurricane ian relief contains anything that smells like pork, you ll vote no? sure. i ll fight against it having pork in it. that s the key. we shouldn t have that in there. it undermines the ability to come back and do this in the future. here is what happens and people need to understand this, it s possible to do it without loading it with these other things. otherwise you ll have people in the senate and the house that will vote against disaster relief because they view these disaster relief bills as ways for other people to get their pork and pet projects done. it undermines the ability to go back and do it again in the future. i have consistently voted for disaster relief for all parts of this country i ve never even insisted on it being paid for
are you telling me that if hurricane ian relief contains anything that smells like pork, you ll vote no? sure. i ll fight against it having pork in it. that s the key. we shouldn t have that in there. it undermines the ability to come back and do this in the future. here is what happens and people need to understand this, it s possible to do it without loading it with these other things. otherwise you ll have people in the senate and the house that will vote against disaster relief because they view these disaster relief bills as ways for other people to get their pork and pet projects done. it undermines the ability to go back and do it again in the future. i have consistently voted for disaster relief for all parts of this country i ve never even insisted on it being paid for like some people do, like where they want cuts some other parts of the budget. we shouldn t place around with this for voting for relief after key events without using it as a vehicle or mechanism for peop
these places need it? remember, disaster relief bills, these things would always loose, and they would pass fairly quickly and easily. the president had problems with puerto rico funding and imgracious funding came in and muddied things up. democrats very staunch on things. it s a mess and this republican, well within his rights chip roy, said, no, not right now. the most important thing, as you said, it s going pass and it would have passed had house members stayed around and not left for memorial day recession, and if you re out there saying washington is broken, this might be an important data point. just one of those things, where to be fair, when when the house recessed yesterday, not to get too technical about it. there was no deal. that s an important point. senate republicans made the deal and locked it in and had they stayed they would have been able to go on the recess and now