of people. so you are going to have viruses that are just spread easily. as i said with overflowing sewage systems, you are going to have a lot of disease spread quickly. pete: better to be informed than caught off guard. i appreciate your expertise this morning. thanks. ainsley: you have seen dramatic images coming out of texas this week. americans coming together to help one another in times of crisis. can this tragedy finally unite our country? a can t miss discussion with our bipartisan panel. pete: plus, heading home. thousands of texans finally returning to texas or to their homes in their neighborhoods to see what s left behind. own rob schmidt caught up with one of them. like i told the guy across the street next door. two inches, four feet about the same. i mean, it s soaking ground. you are done.
using texas an example? let s ask the former chairman the oversight committee, former utah congressman now turned fox news contributor jason chaffetz. congressman, is this a texas thing and can this be an american thing. i think it s an american thing. you can bring the country together in times of need and ordinary americans doing extraordinary things inspire all of us. but it does change once you start voting. once you go back to work and start voting on tax reform and dealing with dacca and ceiling with the budget, you know, people are elected to stand up for their principles. we are supposed to have a vigorous debate. what i hope changes you can disagree but let s not be disagreeable. how you do it does say a lot of things about the country and how are. and we can keep it civil but have vigorous debate. ainsley: president is something asking for 5.9 in aid. how does that happen? congress has to pass that
show hands who is a conservative in the audience? who is considered a liberal? [laughter] kind of? you are on the fence? and the rest of you raise your hands, independents? four independents. how can we come together as a country and i will start with you, hope. i think we need to take this moment to come together as a country. one country. we are one nation under god. we are all created in equal dignity as human beings. we need to put aside the politics and really focus on what s important. this hurricane, this tragedy in houston and the surrounding area of harvey is breaking august of our hearts. we need to come together. americans are generous. we have generous hearts. helping hands. we need to come together. we need to put away our differences. we are a big family. sometimes kids fight. you know, but then your house burns down. so are the kids still fighting? no they are focusing on the tragedy. that s what we need to do. ainsley: why, darryl, when the president wants to give a
we have got to recognize that first and foremost we are americans. it s part of being american is elm praising our diversity. apes ains cathy, on that note is, it time to move past race as identifier? he brings up charlesville. the identity politics is a manufactured issue. it s not an authentic issue. it s kind of like russia, russia, russia. identity politics is just another tool of the left to resist this president. i absolutely think it s time to move forward. but i also think it s time for americans to realize that if we want unity in our nation from a political perspective, we re going to have to force that unity upon them. it s unrealistic to expect the leper to change his spots and also unrealistic for us to expect mainstream media and many throughout our political spectrum to suddenly have a consume by yaw moment when their whole mantra has been to resist this president. ainsley: do you agree? i do agree that we
should stop surprising us. do you know what i mean? americans are exceedingly generous. we are a country of capitalism where profit is valued. so many people take that profit in sometimes of need or any other time and give it back through charitable works. it s amazing. abs whans raw hearing? what organization should we donate to? i said donate a little bit to each organization you think is worthwhile. heard one person talk about samaritans purse. talk about the baptist men s organization there in texas. the governor said they do a hot of work. also the salvation army, red cross. pete: god bless texas. they have shown us how to do it and grateful for everyone who is pitching in. brian brian 12 minutes after the hour. forget climate change, liberals have someone else new to blame for flooding disaster. capitalism. stuart varney weighs in to try to make sense of it. ainsley: as houston begins to pick up all the pieces. working to reunite families with their pets. emotional reunion ahead.