conversation. many of them are trying to figure out, is my family safe? is my home drestroyed? will i see my precious pets and the like. precious documents? it s a fact of life, that the money and help they need will get caught up in these washington conversations. will get caught up in the effectiveness of this president. 0 i don t say it critically. it s just a question. nerve her to deal with emergency funding bill, get it now. more next year, more the year after. look at this flooding and look at the map of the region and understand the area we are talking about here, the number of people we re talking about here and we have no clue yet the total scope of this. this is going to be a challenge for the entire heap of the first trump term and beyond. yes. and the president showing up here and doing it in a way that doesn t endanger anyone else or take resources away is part of the process of putting the spotlight on congress, pressure on them. good news is, something that democrats
and we may see a little bit less of that but the sky is not falling. the rule of law will prevail and we will survive whoever is appointed to replace a justice kennedy. and we re talking about it this weekend, there s a meeting of the past clerks from the supreme court that are coming to washington and so that s where the rumors start to bubble up. is there going to be a big announcement. would you see be surprised to see kennedy retire right now? i would. i think that he very much he wanted to serve for a year on the court with his former law clerk. it s an honor to serve with your former law clerk and he s served now for a few months but my own suspicion is he d like to serve out the one additional year but i think he ll retire before the end of the first trump term. if it s now or next year we can assume that president trump will get at least one appointment and then of course nature takes its course. we have so many justices now who