representatives. i have a great relationship with political people. if you read the papers you think i m like on one island and they re on the other. well, that s not the way it is. just so you understand, the republican party is very, very unified. when we get things approved, we have to go through hell, because we have no democrat support. let s bring in tonight s panel. an msnbc contributor and political reporter with the new york times. and also an adviser on the clinton campaign now the director of progressive programming at sirius xm and also a republican strategist. guys, welcome. there is a trump tweet for absolutely everything. we all know this. yes. here s one for today obama s complaints about republicans stopping his agenda are b.s. since he had full control for two years. he can never take responsibility. i mean, it s almost like you can you can predict the future by going back and looking
reporter: i would loik ike tk you, do you support the plan by people who previously served in your administration such as steve bannon to primary republican candidates in the 2018 election who do not support your agenda? i have a very good relationship as you know with steve bannon. steve has been a friend of mine for a long time. i like steve a lot. steve is doing what steve thinks is the right thing. some of the people that he may be looking at, i m going to see, if we talk him out of that because frankly, they are great people. what mitch will tell you is that maybe with the exception of a few and that is a very small few, i have a fantastic relationship with the people in the senate and with the people in congress. i mean, our house of representatives, i have a great relationship with political people. if you read the papers, you think i m like on one island and they re like on the other. well, it s not the way it is. we have a fantastic relationship. i m friends with most of t
virgin islands, places like st. martin and saint barts decimated. i got an e-mail this morning from his team saying they all hunkered down and were in yes, a wine cellar but now that they have emerged when you look around, whether it s virgin toretoll la the pictures from st. martin are incredible. it looks like destruction everywhere in the island. and i will be speaking today at 3:00 to the u.s. representative to from the u.s. virgin islands and she has just returned from there. i m going to talk to her about that. with key biscayne, the bridge was found to be structurally defishl years ago. the chief talks about when the flood recedes they have to inspect this, can t just let people go back. that s something important to think about if you re in key biscayne or barrier islands, the access may be danged.
to maintain that altitude. every storm has their own personality. just because irma is a cat 5, doesn t mean it will necessarily have a rough ride at 12,000 feet. i ve had a reports from the crews that said it has been a pretty rough ride on those guys but what they are experiencing at 10,000 feet is in no way indicative of what s going on down at the ground. what do you mean? i can tell you this personally. i flew katrina. only a half of us who flew katrina left. those people most retired and moved on. i flew it and next morning i landed back here in biloxi, mississippi, rode the storm out 25 miles north of the coast. it was a very rough ride. my life evolves around hurricanes and i experienced andrew as it made landfall in louisiana, i ve ridden out opal and ivan, multiple hurricanes in the florida panhandle. i can tell you, i would fly an airplane through the eye of a hurricane any day before ride it
responses to them and giving them the option of what s actually going to happen is the only way we can deal with them at this point. and at the end of the day, some people just aren t going to leave. so what we do is we make sure that we know where they are at, how many folks are going to stay in that apartment or in that home and when we make our return to the island as we do our rescue operations initially you know where to go. we ll probably identify those places that we need to go to first and see if we can t get to them. i know your people spent three hours last night convincing a 93-year-old woman to leave and she finally did but she didn t have family. so this becomes very tough. just in terms of infrastructure, sir, your storm surge is going to be probably one of your biggest issues and you are an island. do you have infrastructure concerns about the fact that access to the island may be damaged or you think once it recedes people can get back on?