negotiate over obamacare. that was the opposite of what democrats wanted to do. kicking 24 million people off the rolls, raising rates for the middle class, cutting taxes for the rich, that is exactly the opposite of what anybody wanted on the democratic side. martha: let s talk syria because the president did seem genuinely moved into a different place on this today. do you believe he is and if he is, once he put that line down, we seen what happens if you don t take action. one thing that both parties agree in washington is that the way things panned out in syria, red line and all of that stuff, this has been a thoroughgoing disaster. trump is facing similar he cannot go back in time. he cannot undo the mistakes of the past. you have to live in the world as it is. here s a serious challenge. we thought we were getting a share of what trump is him was on the international stage and that was america first, not isolationist but certainly a withdrawal from the traditional
democrats, there was no way to negotiate over obamacare. that was the opposite of what democrats wanted to do. kicking 24 million people off the rolls, raising rates for the middle class, cutting taxes for the rich, that is exactly the opposite of what anybody wanted on the democratic side. martha: let s talk syria because the president did seem genuinely moved into a different place on this today. do you believe he is and if he is, once he put that line down, we seen what happens if you don t take action. one thing that both parties agree in washington is that the way things panned out in syria, red line and all of that stuff, this has been a thoroughgoing disaster. trump is facing similar he cannot go back in time. he cannot undo the mistakes of the past. you have to live in the world as it is. here s a serious challenge. we thought we were getting a share of what trump is him was on the international stage and that was america first, not isolationist but certainly a withdrawal
and the wind passes or the rain passes and people want to come out and check out their neighborhood, i know that you have a big warning for them because just because they don t have power doesn t mean that the lines aren t still hot. what do you waurnt pent people ? bottom line is, if you see a line down, do not go near it. it could be energized. if you see flooded waters, stay away from it. there could be a power line down. again, we ve invested $2 billion since the past decade, but this is a force of mother nature that candidly we have not seen in a very, very long time. and mother nature has not done a clearing effort, either, in that time. so, we re seeing a lot of flying debris. a lot of trees down. things of that nature. so, there s no way to hurricane proof a system. we think we have a very strong and resilient system. but we re talking about a category 4 storm, category 3 now. we have a long way to go and
independent country until they joined the united states. john: but they were broke, they needed money and sold off parts of the united states to pay debt. they did. it was kind of a dance to get texas in the union, we wanted them, and we wanted that buffer. john: kentucky-tennessee. so by and large the border is pretty flat, except it s got this blip called the simpson offset. when a surveyor goes through in that time frame, 1700s to 1800s, it was pretty accurate. wherever they lined that line down, that was the permanent line. there was the incentive to say hey, survivor, i want to be in this state or that state. what happened is there was an iron ore thing it started going to the south. mr. middleton did not want to be in kentucky. he said here s the deal. i ll give you a keg of whiskey if you put me in tennessee. [ laughter ] and that little notch just for him.
independent country until they joined the united states. john: but they were broke, they needed money and sold off parts of the united states to pay debt. they did. it was kind of a dance to get texas in the union, we wanted them, and we wanted that buffer. john: kentucky-tennessee. so by and large the border is pretty flat, except it s got this blip called the simpson offset. when a surveyor goes through in that time frame, 1700s to 1800s, it was pretty accurate. wherever they lined that line down, that was the permanent line. there was the incentive to say hey, survivor, i want to be in this state or that state. what happened is there was an iron ore thing it started going to the south. mr. middleton did not want to be in kentucky. he said here s the deal. i ll give you a keg of whiskey if you put me in tennessee. [ laughter ] and that little notch just