$15 billion that are going to be available for the small tranche. speaker ryan and others have assured us there will be other supplementals. the thing that i m really concerned about is, you know, as you said, we have seen we seem to be forgotten in the media. i m really grateful to msnbc for the coverage that you have given the virgin islands and puerto rico. remembering that we are part of the united states. we are getting blasted note only by this hurricane, but jose that s a going to come right after. and our needs are really unique because we re isolated. because we re islands. it s taking quite a while for the navy ships to get there. and we re all hunkered down. we re really prepared but this is going to take some time and we need everyone s support. well, we at msnbc cover all of america and as you know we have a particular affinity for the u.s. virgin islands and we will continue to stay in touch with you. i ll be anchoring all through the weekend so if you got down there
every one of these disasters, it takes time to spend the money and the needs change. but, chris, it has been five years. as you know, there are people who i think probably legitimately feel that they were owed some reimbursement, who have had difficulty getting it. not now, but years after, years after katrina, trying to help people who felt they had a legitimate claim that was not being paid. it is these things are difficult. i think my opinion has always been, number one, i d like to see us budget for disasters rather than come and do supplementals after the fact. in fact, when i was just a regular guy and they had big flooding in the upper mississippi back in the early part of the clinton administration, why isn t there a fund there that is appropriated just for that and then used as sort of that first response? they didn t do it then. we don t do it now. i don t quite understand why, but given the fact that we have
with me, congressman bill pascrell, democrat from the great state of new jersey, who filed that resolution demanding president trump s tax returns. nice to see you, sir. greta, how are you this evening? now, tell me, sir, looking at a tax return in general, what would you expect or define in someone s tax returns let s take president trump s that might be helpful to this russia investigation? what are you looking for? very little. we need the supplementals. we need all the information that goes with tax reforms. then there s all kinds of schedules, particularly if you have debts, if you have investments in other countries. the rules become very, very interesting. so an ordinary person really could not decide or discern what he would have to do if he owned all of this like mr. trump has 560 investments in all countries in this world. we have a right to know this, i
family and said he would decide whether fund-raising is strong enough to stay in the race at least through the iowa caucuses 35 days from now. steve grubs is cain s chairman, on the conference call this morning and is with us live to start the program from davenport, iowa. tell me your gut. does your gut tell you yes or no you ll have a candidate come saturday or sunday? i think we ll definitely have a campaign and a candidate come this weekend and all the way to january 3rd. the real issue is, you know, the impact on the iowa cam. . we ve got almost 900 precinct captains in place, working to keep them. today we added more, we lost a couple. for most part we added more than we lost. we re charging ahead, with a lot of effort i think we re going to storm the gates january 3rd. on the call this morning, i want to be clear, you were listening, mr. cain said he was doing a reassessment, because of the new allegations and within several days he would make a decision, is that c
there was discouraging silence after the vote failed in which you didn t hear gibbs said all the right things about the republicans blocking the filibuster and being obstructionist and how much the president wants to repeal don t ask, don t tell and how committed he was to it. but there wasn t much call it anger or passion in the way he was describing it. didn t seem like a number one priority. i think i would exempt i think carl levin expressed it. he s not a table pounder, but he got angry within his context, i thought. and as you said, one of the major leaders of our society today, lady gaga certainly did her part. but it does raise this larger issue. when the republicans held congress in first six years of the bush presidency, anything that got in the way of getting what they wanted attached to this particular bill and other supplementals in particular for iraq, immediately resulted in this chorus of blood curdling screams that the democrats were putting our troops in the f