it just came super fast. the worst i ve ever seen it. how did you guys get out? by kayak. i borrowed a kayak from one of my friends, when it was up to my knees, it was time to go. you got your girls and wife out? two daughters and my wife. when were you able to come back to the house? this morning. what was your reaction? it s devastating. you lose everything. every flood you lose all your belongings, all your photos. you can t have any valuables. they just go. let me ask you, what now? are you going to stay in the house? will you try to recover and rebuild? i m not sure at this time. i m hoping that this time the government will come in and buy them out. condemn the house. condemn the house, plant some trees and make it a park and call it a day. i don t know how much more structural with the pressure these walls can take without it imploding.
offer hip a piece of cake, and you think he s just going to abandon his country. no that s not how it works. nations don t have permanent friends and enemies they have permanent interests. our issue is china has deep interest in north korea. it s a next door neighbor. they have worries about it imploding. we need to get at that rather than thinking we can wow the leader. so similarly with putin, putin is a russian nationalist. he has a very cheer and intelligent view of russia s interest. you ve got to get to him at that level rather than thinking you can power around and somehow and say oh i forget yes, just sign up with the american agenda. i m glad you mentioned putin. you called him the most powerful map in the world. you met with him about a year ago. so tell us these two personalities coming together. take us into that.
nations don t have permanent friends and enemies. they have permanent interests. and our issue is that china has deep strategic interests in north korea. look, it s the next door neighbor. they have worries about it imploding. we need to get at that rather than thinking we can wow similarly with putin, he s a russian nationalist. he has a very clear view. you have to get to him at that level rather than thinking that he can pal around and somehow i forgot and i ll sign up with the american agenda. you said the most powerful man one of the most powerful men in the world. you met with him a year ago? a year ago. so tell us, these two personalities coming together, big personalities coming together, take us to that. couldn t be more different. putin is quiet.
session of congress. that s the emphasis i think the administration wants to put on this. the art is is it imploding, especially when there are critics of this new gop plan that say actually maybe upwards of 11 to 15 million people would lose their coverage as a result of this plan? how does this white house combat that? how do republicans on the hill combat that? of course it s going to be difficult. as we see the president as well as the vice president messaging around this. much of their conversation is going to be about the affordable care act as opposed to now the republicans repeal and replace bill. in part because the more conversation had about the current bill on the floor, the more confusion and perhaps frustration there will be among people who otherwise might have supported or said previously they supported repealing the affordable care act. what we an z obamacare has never been more popular. in part because it has become clear to voters across the
shouted question. nbc s kristen welker is at the white house. she was in that room with the president. and chief business correspondent ali velshi is in new york. thank you, kristen, for rushing to the camera, after hearing the president say things like we need to save americans from obamacare, he talks about it imploding. is it clear within the white house that there s a unified view about how to make that happen? it s not clear, chris. it s one of the thorny topics here, how to proceed. of course this comes on the heels of last week we got our first glimpse at the top republican proposal for repealing and replacing obamacare and it would call for getting rid o the individual ndate, capping the medicaid expansion among other major changes. now i ve been talking to top republicans on capitol hill. they say, look, their goal is to put some of the power back in the hands of the states, to regulate this. but of course a lot of questions