Having to help people, so many people who didn t have homes to return to, get them into apartments, health care, kids in school, a whole range of needs, pharmacies, medical triage, getting people transportation, we got 35,000 households and two apartments up here, within three months, people who didn t have anything else. there were many, many tens of other thousands of households who had the resources and safety net to make the transition smoothly. and if we could do that with folks in new orleans and houstonians, people in this region, with the help of people from new orleans and other places, can do it for ourselves. okay, bill white, mayor of houston 12 years ago, who took in so many after hurricane katrina, now a victim of hurricane harvey. but sir, thanks so much for being with us. i wish you all the best.
Because of the one out of ten brave souls who did report these cases, 62% were retaliated against. so you have a culture, and unfortunately a climate within our military where there s too much fear to be able to seek justice and it s so broken. even the commandant of the marine corps says the reason they don t report these cases is they don t trust us they don t trust the chain of command. there has been some reform. what are some of the reforms what has been done recently? as chair of the personnel subcommittee, we moved forward into the base bill a lot of reforms that will make a difference once a case is actually reported. so, for example, if you report a rape, you will get a victim s advocate. there will be better record-keeping, better rules of evidence. but all of those benefits only accrue to those 3,000 people who reported last year. there were 23,000 people who didn t report because they didn t believe the chain of command would do anything or they feared retaliation. so
Pli politico trying to go deeper in addition to living in the moment. and thrush here has taken us deeper than anyone has ever taken us. where is his hat? i don t know. i ve never seen him this way. i didn t realize he was bald. so let s talk about your look at the obama cabinet. there s a description of a fun house mirror that has this idiosyncratic lurching management style. explain. i think we ve seen it pretty much played out over the last six weeks with the obama care rollout. but essentially the president started off in 2008 telling joe klein he wanted to have a team at the top bob gates, hillary clinton, tim geithner, he had that. but when you got below the headlines with that cabinet, they were systemically marginalized, people who didn t really necessarily have a lot of access to the president. and by and large as you drifted closer to the 2012 campaign, the management particularly from guys like david plouffe really
Situations. i think we ll see a real flight of talent at all levels throughout the federal government earlier than we see it in the second term. because they re so clexclude? why stay. people are typically in government for the right reasons. they like to make a difference. and if you re not making a difference, you re being kind of systemically humiliated by the 35-year-old white house aide, the most talented people won t stay in those circumstances. and it really is amazing that you do have all of these talented people that have won locations and understand politics, and then you have a bunch of young people that are making all the decisions excluding you simply because of their proximity to president obama. and i m curious, glenn, if you found a difference between the way that people like hillary clinton and lee on that panetta were treated versus someone like a steven chu who didn t have the national profile. exactly.
Mandated a crackdown on more or less everything. people had to clear their schedules. and i think in the most one of the most telling problems that they had is that they clogged up a lot of the obama care regulations that were necessary to get the website going for months and months. so chaotic management style? not so much chaotic management style. it s a her met particularly sealed management style in which you have a west wing and white house that functions i think fairly competent tently. didn t necessarily seek output from the outside. that doesn t necessarily hold true just for people on the outside. it also holds true for these massive cabinet departments that control enormous amounts of the federal government. one thing that gets me, they have in this cabinet throughout the five years a lot of people who faced voters. i don t think any of the white house staff has ever faced a voter. maybe an exception or two. and this is a political town and yet when it comes to politi