party groups, and this benghazi situation, and i think you have to start to wonder about the second term. remember katrina hit in august of 2005, a couple months after the point we are at in the second term. i remember a former bush administration official telling me long ago they were having staff problems, long after robert left. i said, are you guys on the b team? and they said, no we re on the vertical team. the obama administration is going to have some difficulties, you know, staffing is the white house with top-tier really smart officials, because those officials they went through in the first five and eventually six years get tired and burned out. so this is the cycle, this is the big problem that any second-term white house faces. i think the obama folks are getting the taste of it. robert appreciated that. i m just speaking for him. congressman says tack, our next
problem for chuck hagel in the long run. first of all, are the american people paying attention to this? i mean, i think if you could get the american people involved and they start representatives and say i have a problem with this or i light chuck hagel, then it becomes a hotter topic and you might see some sort of possibility that it doesn t happen. but if you don t get the american people involved, i think it is an easy situation for him. people talk about political capital. why would the president do this kind of fight? he was elected for four more years. to me, this president has shown in the first four years that he s willing to go to battle for these types of things because remember when he won the first election, one of the first thing he said was i won the election. steve: after george bush and george bush lost all his political capital by the time katrina hit. he was not able to use his political capital to get social security passed. that was after winning the election a
heart to say god bless me. i just knew i had to help him. bob: you know, this policeman is 25 years old from staten island, new york, who got devastated in the flood and lives with his parents. they must have raised him right is all i can say. brian: he was a history teacher and didn t feel like he made enough impact so he quit to become a cop. he was going to quit school when katrina hit and his parents convinced him not to drop out of school, it was finals. but he wants to give back. everybody is making a big deal. i have a sense this will be con stayous. they are overwhelming this guy. bob: what do you think? containous? dana: i hope so.- contagious. but a lot of people do things without recognition. but tourist got a photograph so we could see it and be reminded what the season, christmas season is all about. dana: told to tease. either one of you have anything to say? andrea: the nypd are some
heart to say god bless me. i just knew i had to help him. bob: you know, this policeman is 25 years old from staten island, new york, who got devastated in the flood and lives with his parents. they must have raised him right is all i can say. brian: he was a history teacher and didn t feel like he made enough impact so he quit to become a cop. he was going to quit school when katrina hit and his parents convinced him not to drop out of school, it was finals. but he wants to give back. everybody is making a big deal. i have a sense this will be con stayous. they are overwhelming this guy. bob: what do you think? containous? dana: i hope so.- contagious. but a lot of people do things without recognition. but tourist got a photograph so we could see it and be reminded what the season, christmas season is all about. dana: told to tease. either one of you have anything to say?
reporter: it is painted like any other fdny rig, on the streets of long beach after the most unlikely of journeys. we all live here. we grew up here. we went to school here. we shop here. it is very emotional seeing our neighbors, our friends, our family just completely wiped out. reporter: at the height of hurricane sandy, the long beach fire department lost three of its four engines to the devastating surge of water. you know, we got to come up and help our friends, you know. reporter: but now their brothers from the bayou have come to the rescue. the rig was donated to the fdny, served for several years until katrina hit. then they returned it so new orleans firefighters could put it to use. but they sent it back. officials so moved by long beach s flight, they redonated the gift that has kept on giving. we share a bond that can never be broken by any storm, by any bit of politics by any negativity, we share a bond that it s all about protecting people. reporter: now t