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that that is something you can t even think is in the possible. i think he needs to do that because it normalizes him with a lot of people that need to grow to understand, this is not the america that you were with your biasses and prejudgments grown up to be. i think it is a mistake to focus on pete though this kind of opened the door. he has a challenge right? if i look at the top tier of the democratic field other than joe biden who has real support especially among older african americans, real support. bernie sanders, amy klobuchar, pete, every single one of them has the same challenge. none of those people has ever drawn a substantial amount of african-american votes. not one. some of their policies would be good for the african-american community and some bank on that working. i don t know how well it will
we have to reduce the size of government, do you see this sort of sparking a larger conversation now about the role of government, and about how congress apportions its money and the support that the president does or does not give to organizations like fema? well, certainly this is where the efficacy of our government gets tested. how will it respond to and deliver the services that are desperately needed. and that s at the federal level, and local and state level too. and the degree that all of these levels of government are cooperating with each other is really important. i think the other thing too, having worked in government a number of times, not necessarily the quantity of people that are working there, it is the quality of the work that they re able to do and the leadership that they are that they are given and certainly the resources to be able to deliver services is important. so this is it doesn t surprise me that this particular shouldn t surprise
he s getting briefed, he s meeting with families who have been impacted and then one other key point i think that we learned from sarah huckabee sanders is that the president does want to be very cautious about not getting in the way of the work that is being done and that s why you re seeing him there in corpus christi, that s why he s traveling to austin, he s not going to be traveling to the areas that are hardest hit, chris. and then look at the optics of this, the fact he s there with his cabinet secretary, clearly administration wants to send a whole of government response to all hands on deck. all hands on deck, absolutely right. hhs secretary tom price, ben carson, hud secretary, elaine duke, the acting dhs secretary, even linda mcmahon, small business administrator, all there on the ground. they re going to be meeting with their counterparts, chris, throughout the day. so this is a robust response, the optics are important as you were talking about, the president there,
function, function competently and be responsive to their needs. and this is a time of need. and we ll see a tremendous outpouring by americans to be supportive and a lot of organizations, as you noted, but our federal government needs to be engaged, and competent in this situation. that s what president trump is trying to convey today at his visit, appropriately so. he is going to have to show some real feeling, some real empathy, to the people in texas that have been hit in this devastating manner and then it is going to have to be followed by real work, real support. i think we did a pretty good job at that under james lee witt with president clinton. we were able to balance the budget in the process, spend the money wisely and our government was smaller than at any time since john kennedy. that goes to the points that anita i thought very eloquently made in her comments. matt mccartney, and anita