louisiana. look at all this moisture drug behind it. the heavy rain stays behind this system bringing with it what will be downpours. such little movement tells you it will have a lot of time to rain. the greatest flood risk continues to be off toward the center of the state and it runs all the way up to memphis. it s a lot of moisture and it s moving slow. there is a long ways to go at this point. eric: we can t forget hurricane katrina. it claimed the lives of about 1,800 people. they say a lot of lessons have been learned since that disaster. a sophisticated system of pulls and barriers and levees have been built. louisiana is responding to the storm. mike steel, the communications director at office of homeland
welcome back. with former attorney general jeff sessions ousted this week, the president seems to have found the loyalist he always wanted. acting ag matt whittaker, will he now have the protection he always sought from the escalating mueller probe. back with me new york times editorial board member mara gay, author and fordham university professor greer, mike steel and joining me msnbc legal analyst paul butler. let me go to you first, paul. there s a question of whether or not he is constitutionally in line to be in the position he s in. what is your view? so the constitution requires a principle officer to be confirmed by the senate. a principle officer is someone
we had just elected the first african-american president and that was a big deal and in cynicism, what do we do this is a terrible. we elected mike steel to be the rnc chair because he was a black guy and that was the wrong thing to do. the first black chairman of the republican national committee served from 2009 to 2011 and a former maryland lieutenant governor and the first black person elected to office in that state and selected by the republican peers in the wake of barack obama becoming the first black president. they suffered one of the worst defeat in 70 years when republicans pummelled opponents in the 2010 mid-term elections retaking the house by picking up 63 seats. republicans also wound up controlling 26 state legislatures and 29 state governorships. walter apologized to steele but cpac isn t backing down. so why don t they like former rnc head the former rnc head
trump team in placing african americans in the administration, men and women of not just good will, but high competence and qualifications. that was rebuffed. and so, okay, fine, i get it. but with matt, i have not asked him, you know, where was his grace for me. my attitude is you re a big boy. you re speaking presumably from your heart and your mind when you re looking at me eye to eye. that s all i need to know. again, i go back to the point that some feel so beholden and it is so important to them to either be liked, to stay out of the pathway of this president s tweet storm, that they don t want to challenge him. well, that s not how i was raised by my mama. and i m not going to sit back your mama knew my mama, mike many exactly. it doesn t work like that in the real world. donnie has a question. my good friend michael, i
situations. kellyanne: we havsituations. kelly: we have to keep ourize on ways east of you. patti ann: we are joined on the phone by the communications director, mike steel. thank you for being with us. we have been running video of from casey stegall from grand isle, louisiana where the flooding looks quite severe. we feel like for the most of part we have been blessed with this event. we continue 24 hour coverage in our state emergency operations center and that will tint next day or so. the governor s office and homeland security serves as coordinating agency for the resources. that surge threat that you have