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To splition has seems this into two nations. Watch this labor day on cspan and on cspan. Org and listen on the free cspan radio app. Washington journal continues. Host welcome back. Stephen ellis is with us. He is Vice President of taxpayers for common sense. Were talking about the cost and effectiveness of federally funded Disaster Relief programs, particularly Hurricane Harvey. Guest thank you. Host what are the copper getting factors facing the white house and congress as they figure out how much money is needed for houston and louisiana . About with they talk a fog of war, there is a fog of disaster. Immediately the efforts are about First Responders and getting people out of harms way, but as you move into recovery, it is hard to know exactly what the needs are. You want to start slowly in some respects. You want to make sure the money is being spent wisely and appropriately. Initially it is going to be a. Ot of debris removal things just have to be taken away. Then trying to figu
Figure out how much money is needed for houston and louisiana . Stephen like they talk about with a fog of war, there is a fog of disaster. Immediately the efforts are about First Responders and getting people out of harms way. And then as you start to move into recovery it is hard to know , exactly what the needs are. You want to start slowly in some respects. In that you need to open up this spicket ofcash cash. You want to make sure that money is being spent wisely and appropriately. Initially it is going to be a lot of debris removal. Things just have to be taken away. Then trying to figure out what can be saved, what has to be torn down, what is where are the places that you should not rebuild and invest. It is going to take time. It is a long process. Host we know the Trump Administration is going to ask initially for 6 billion. How did they arrive at the number . Stephen it is hard. What i read was 5. 9 billion, not even quite 6 billion. Host i rounded up. Stephen i understand.
Peaker, newt gingrich. The book is called understanding trump. I know youve been working on this for a while. Gerry i really started in late november. Because it was obvious you had a president who nobody understood and whos totally outside the normal political process. And so trying to figure out how to explain him is not called predicting trump, because i dont think anybodyan predict him. But trying to figure out how to set up an understanding of what his patterns are, what drives him, what his experiences have been, i thought would be helpful. Host lets go inside the book. It is astonishing to me how the elite media and much of the political establishment refused to try to understand donald trump. They have so rabidly opposed him, so ideologically committed to leftwing values, and so terrified of the future that they havent stopped and considered how extraordinary his success has been. You go on to say, he is one of the most remarkable individuals to ever occupy the white house. Is
Peaker, newt gingrich. The book is called understanding trump. I know youve been working on this for a while. Gerry i really started in late november. Because it was obvious you had a president who nobody understood and whos totally outside the normal political process. And so trying to figure out how to explain him is not called predicting trump, because i dont think anybodyan predict him. But trying to figure out how to set up an understanding of what his patterns are, what drives him, what his experiences have been, i thought would be helpful. Host lets go inside the book. It is astonishing to me how the elite media and much of the political establishment refused to try to understand donald trump. They have so rabidly opposed him, so ideologically committed to leftwing values, and so terrified of the future that they havent stopped and considered how extraordinary his success has been. You go on to say, he is one of the most remarkable individuals to ever occupy the white house. Is