that was cool. american morning continues right now. after the deluge, i m christine romans, tropical storm lee now a tropical depression, but still, packing plenty of rain after dumping a foot on parts of the gulf coast. i m carol costello. right now massive wildfires threatening to burn down thousands of homes in texas. it is the worst fire season in state history and it s far from over on this american morning. all right. good morning, everybody. it s monday, september 5th. labor day. welcome to american morning. ali is off today. happy labor day. i hope you re not laboring. i really do. up first this morning, tropical storm lee now downgraded to a tropical depression but it s still a major rainmaker as it moves across the southeast. the storm dumping a foot of rain along the gulf coast. it also spawned several tornadoes including one in mobile county, alabama. it ripped the roof off of one home, uprooted trees, and brought down power lines. here s what lee
she s about as right wing as you get. two reasons, i think. he had the advantage of a totally democratic congress. he could try anything. he did. you had a sense he was throwing things at the wall seeing what would land. the works projects and getting people to work on infrastructure. all that sort of thing, he was willing to do it. it didn t pull the people out of the depression, no, it did not. it gave people the sense of if you wanted to find work, you could find work. he was an inspiring speaker. when he got on the radio and he spoke to the country about where we were headed, he just gave people a sense that if you just hang in there, it will get better. new york times when did president obama become such a lousy speech maker?
i was part of the reagan delegation that went and spoke. it was a fabulous, fabulous experience. was reagan big in budapest? reagan is big in budapest. when you go through america, republicans say, i loved ronnie. when you go to budapest, people walk up to you and say i loved president reagan because i am no longer in political prison. it s a different thing. it s a positive. it was a wonderful experience and marks the end of his festivities. it s more compelling than i think that guy is a good speech maker. the great communique tor. with weeks to go, congressional leaders are heading back to the white house for another meeting to raise the deal on the debt ceiling. after a 75 minute session, president obama is expected to
and the combination of peggy noonan and ronald reagan, quite frankly, is of a speech writer and a speech maker, is probably one of the best, if not the best that certainly in my lifetime that i ve ever seen. peggy, talk about how a tragedy occurs like this and how you what goes through your mind in taking just an absolutely horrific earth shattering moment, a moment that we all remember where we were. oh, my goodness, we do. it was an extraordinary moment. it happened in front of everybody in america. it was the live broadcast of the nasa shuttle launch. not only were the adults in america watching it on tv, joe, but the kids of america were watching it in their schools because there was a teacher aboard were you one of those kids? sitting at lafayette elementary in d.c. whatn what grade?
in president obama. joe, you said you never had confidence in the first place. he is mainly a speech maker? yeah. can we agree he is a campaign speech maker? he doesn t make good speeches anymore. and right into my point there, andy. exactly. we are testing res resolutions. greg-alogue, america s poor is better off than the rest of the world. you said, the richest person in a third world country would trade that spot for the lowest running on the american ladder. probably not because that person is usually a dictator. i left them out of they i can qa. like pablo escobar, you know. although right now he would probably trade places. bill, your issue are with rand paul, what would you call the poorest state? mississippi is considered the poorest state in the country. i measured it differently. clearly. there are different ways to measure it correctly and