how soon until we read someone saying obviously we didn t mind taking a swing at that bee s nest, that no fix was in prior to this? that s what i was thinking all dow because i think like that, and maybe it s cynicism. but i thought if there was a way for him to kill the narrative that he s in bed with putin, it would be this. take on putin s fresh water port, take on his ally, his satellite, his loyal ally assad. that would be a way of saying, i never was in bed with these guys. i never planned any kind of coalition with this guy in moscow. you re right, i was thinking of it. who knows? it certainly isn t going to go well with putin unless we find out they had a phone call this afternoon and worked this thing out and it was a set piece that was not meant to be particularly antagonistic to moscow. a bunch of cynics in the political business, right? speak for yourself, brian. joining us in studio in new york is nick christophe from the new york times.
seven years post-katrina is what with are we doing now in the country as a state and local level. that we are the vulnerable cities and areas in the country because natural disasters are going to happen. and yet this was only yet this was only partly a natural disaster. the other piece was the levee failure. not just the levees but the wisemen of the new orleans in the 50s aproufed the mississippi gulf outlet, thank goodness it s now bulldozed out of commission. that is stopped. it s stopped because that created wind funnel effect. and the idea was green. they were going to turn the fresh water port of new orleans into a seaport and compete with galveston. it was the worst boon dock imagine blg. so there were many failures in the infrastructure of new orleans, which saddens me because the ducks were able to save afternoon ster dam, amsterdam. new orleans, to sit in our culture, it was a great american