thank dr. frees. the deeper wounds of needless loss of life, severe injury of co-workers and community members and the sadness over this act of violence will take much longer to heal. i am touched and encouraged by the tremendous caring and coming together of the community, and i believe that in the days and weeks ahead that we will work together to solve challenges and promote healing. i ask for your continued prayers for gabrielle, my congresswoman and my friend, and that she has a full recovery. she is a leader who is truly needed in this nation. my special thanks to my wonderful husband, bruce, for his love and support and for my children, fritz and summer, for being here throughout this time. thank you. okay. we ll open it up for a couple of questions to the simon s family. simon s? i m sorry. to the barber family. obviously you suffered you
himself? somebody who doesn t even face a primary in 2012. shannon: and there s been criticism from house democrats and others on the hill who say, we need your help now. simon s the president too focused on saving the president versus democrats in general? no. i think in regard to this specific matter, i don t think the president s response has been incompetent. i think you saw him negotiate a $20 billion deal with bp to pay out to affected communities, we ve seen recently in the last week to ten days it looks like the well itself may be capped, and there has been criticism in these affected communities, so the president s dispatched more resources and people to make sure they re doing everything they can. what the president s focused on is fixing the problem. let the politics fall where they may at the end of the day. if in a few months, you know, the well is capped, the money s going out to the people who knee it, need it, i think this wil
administration for how much they ve been, frankly, responsible to the people on fox and bobby jindal and others have been critical of them, i think they ve done the right thing. shannon: brad, are they more political players? these are absolutely political people. these aren t people fema people. this isn t administration people who are serving this government. these are people that are serving the president. brad, they re actually all administration officials. they re actually all in the government of the united states. simon, this is the most selfish white house that has ever existed. brad it s all about president obama. listen to your democrats. they re being thrown over the side in 2010. the president could care less about them, and, in fact, he s going to pick up the pieces like bill clinton and figure out how best to stay in office, and that s why he s sending political people down there. what he should be worried is good government makes good politics. treat the pe
if you worked on a campaign to be able to work in government. john roberts was a legal advisor to the bush/cheney campaign, and simon, these are not government people. brad, brad, read the article, brad! they all serve in the government. in commerce in different positions, and they ve been dispatched to go down there and do their jobs! brad, you ve got your facts wrong, brad. that s why they re no, that s why they re being dispatched. they re political people, not government people, paid for by politics, not government, to save this president. that s why they re they all work for the federal government, brad. all of them. shannon: all right. let s leave it there, gentleman. brad blakeman and simon rosenberg, thanks for the debate. it takes a lot to stop a rock star from playing live for the fans. how a pigeon shut down an entire concert. and what happens when with one of the word s coolest cars goes green? coming up, we re going to get a
is the water that that wind is pushing and when it pushes it against the shore, and it pushes it up the rivers and it pushes it into st. john s and into savannah and tybee, st. simon s, into charleston, those areas can flood easily even without significant wind, just because of rain. and there s a lot of rain coming. this is a very wet storm. later today, we are just about to the parallel of tybee and savannah, then charleston and finally out to sea. but as this storm runs up the coast, it will make a lot of rainfall. significant rainfall, up to ten inches. that concerns me a little bit even with the potential for some sinkholes. that s always a potential when you get so much water in florida and you have an aquifer that s been drawn down a little bit. think about that as you re driving around. if you say that doesn t look right, stop the car and make sure. we will have ten inches of rain from jacksonville all the way north even into almost the upstate of south carolina and the piedmon