bigger than minimum wage. that s fair. yeah, that s 100% fair. we asked because we wanted the question. cornell has the answers. hot take is a pejorative term. i would say it s a lit take. in the sense that you gave us food for thought, sir. well, you know, the block is hot right now, ari. block is hot. the block is always hot. cornell, good to see you. let me tell folks what s coming up. we have the giuliani update, including why he s fighting to hide evidence. but we have our shortest break right now, 60 seconds. when we come back, we turn to some other races, including some historic firsts. we ll explain in 60 seconds. fi. we ll explain in 6se0 conds. when the chapstick goes on. it s on. get yours on at chapstick.com
administrator has said multiple times he s looking to reduce repetitive loss. i think a you re going the see a bigger focus on fema s mitigation and resiliency programs along with other federal partners like housing and urban development. lit take so much money to repild. i want to talk about insurance for a minute, nicole. people in the houston area, many, many people didn t have to flood insurance. they wouldn t think of it. hurricane sandy, lots of people along the coast of new jersey knew to have flood insurance. the fact that so many people don t, what s going to happen to them? they ve lost everything. homeowners insurance typically doesn t cover flooding so people have to buy it separately from the federal government. hoenl owners are required to fete that flood insurance if they live if a 100-year flood zone, but this torrential downpour we re seeing 50 inches of rain in some parts of houston, it s exceeding those flood zones in some areas, and so there are people who were
militaryistic of all the candidates. he talks about the isis videos and connects. with the sole exception of lindsey gram who said i will sends 10,000 grand troops to iraq. all the candidates stopped short of saying we send troops, when pressed, we mean arab boots on the ground. unfortunately, we have not had an american president able to inspire arab soldiers to win a war against islamic extremists, hopefully what they are talking about is american boots on the ground. it remains the case that the american public has an appetite for that. robert, what s your sense after looking at it and writing about it the issue the foreign policy in the middle east candidates, what would be the prospect for a candidate who basically told the truth and said we re going to be in there for the long haul. lit take another ten years, we will have to do it sensibly. there will be ups, there will be
things. it takes democracy and education. it took seven years for the last battle in new york town. lit take time. 18 months ago we have dick tas or the and the police use actual actually to protect the regimes and today, the police are the people who are supposed to be in charge of protecting embassies and protecting the nation are confused, because suddenly the people they used to arrest who are the morsis and the muslim brothers are the people running the government. it is a confusing moment. they need to settle and reset all of that. lit take longer, but it is a process. one thing about the revolution is clear, thomas el freedmont that we used to call the tiger, and that tyiiger will never be tamed again by the islamists, and they can eat to beef and nobody can lie to the tiger, because it is out there and it has to find its own way to and show all of us and themselves that if they are capable of
i m christine romans. a warning from the 9/11 commission. america is not properly prepared for another terrorist attack because nine of the commission s security recommendations made back in 2004, nine of them, have been ignored by the government. i m carol costello. the stand-off is over. the president agreeing to reschedule his big jobs speech next week. backing down from john boehner on this american morning. good morning. good morning, good morning. thursday, september 1. welcome to american morning. september 1. can you believe that n. no. september is supposed to be newsy. four months in a row for the dow. libya. okay. but tomorrow is friday. so good morning. there you go. suffering after the storm, still following the devastation from hurricane irene, it was another dark night for close to 2 million people days after irene knocked out power. the floodwaters started to recede and revealing muddy, awful marks that are being left behind in new