Recovery operations. Tomorrow mr. Trump visits to text texas and louisiana and the president declared sunday as a national day of prayer for Harvey Victims. Mr. Trump is praising the response of the areas hardest hit by the storm. The people of texas and louisiana were hit very hard by a historic flood and their response they have taught us all a lesson, a very, very powerful lesson. There was no outbreak in crime. There was an outbreak of com passion only, real, beautiful strong compassion. And they really inspired us as a nation. To be honest, they inspired a world because the world is watch ing. For the latest on harvey and the aftermath lets go to steve in orange, texas. Steve. Jesse, this is a pretty typical scene in orange, texas. The house closest to the highway might have three or four feet of water damage. Further down you go to the neighbor, five or six feet. By the time you get to the end of the street, some of the house s are completely under water. All day long we have been watch ing people pull things out from these soaked houses trying to save what they can out on the sidewalk you will see soaking wet couches, carpets, even dry wall. Brown stinking water seems to destroy almost everything it touches. This is tough work here to try to clean it up and emotional work as well. More than 37,000 houses have major structural damage from this hurricane. So the cleanup efforts is going to be huge and a lot of people still dont know how bad it is. Weve seen people come to the edge of the water, point down the road and see that third telephone pole down there . Thats my house. What you see there is nothing. Nothing but water. A lot of people have it very bad but they still dont know how bad yet. They cant get to their houses. There is 10 feet of water in the way. Jesse, back to you. Thanks a lot, steve. Now to rick in viner, texas. Rick. Jesse, this town got a years worth of rain in four days and main street remains under water tonight the naches river crested today at 21 feet, eight feet above the receive record. This town could not have seen that coming and much like southeast texas, it is dealing with horrific conditions. There is a curfew, the power is out. Residents were lined up at a nearby store trying to get basics, water, food, that kind of thing. There are people in neighborhood s behind me that are basically islands at this point. There are some dry stretches of main street leading that way, but in between there are these massive areas that have been flooded so earlier today we went out with some relief workers, some volunteers and some members of the Harrison Fire Department from northeast texas and they had a high water vehicle, driving through the floods, tow ing a boat on a trailer, they go through the dry area through another flooded area to another dry area to another flooded area thats the only way the boats could get in there to send the boats in there, pick up people, get their pets, drive them back out again. They evacuated, the police chief told me 1200 to 1500 people. There are people who didnt want to leave their homes are now wishing they d. Some of those people are now being rescued and the police chief tells me theyre moving from recover operation to a Law Enforcement operation. They have had some looting issues here. And theyre or dealing with those as they continue to hope that these waters recede a little bit quicker than they are so far. Unbelievable. Thank you very much. President trump hasnt left washington yet, but he is already getting criticism from the left for his trip to see Harvey Victims in texas and louisiana. It was not to mention the victims in his first trip. Tomorrow should not be to remake or redo what he didnt do the first trip. Tomorrow he ought to say we are making immediate funding available. We are going put fema people on the street to handle debris. He needs to come in with a proactive agenda rather than a make up for the debacle he did the other day. Thats the new narrative, that he blew it on the first trip and now this is a makeup trip. Is anybody believing that . You shouldnt believe anything from sharpton. There are five words for him. Shut up and go away. This is a guy who has lived a life about himself. The most self serving hustlers of our time. He is the exact opposite of what you see in the streets of houston and everywhere. Its funny traditional leftist like him are in malfunction mode this is why you are seeing them now blame trump for this or that theyre trying to find a narrative that matches their grim world view because harvey has destroyed their world view. There is no more division. There is no more bigotry, there is no more racism, conflict. All you are seeing 24 already 7 is unity americans working together all the time. They say what can we do now lets go after trump. Another note what have harvey has done, one of the positive things offers a contrast to things like tweeter. Twitter encourages an tag nymph because its not facetoface interaction so i can attack you and you because we dont know each other. You cant find one example in a harvey coverage of negative human interaction. You cant find one because its face to face. Its human. There is nothing. There is no an tag nymph. And it shows you the contrast between why people have to talk to each other rather than tweet at each other. And it also, you know, very quickly, to tack to gregs point because i think you are absolutely right and its the difference between how you few human nature. So if you view human beings as senseless and needy and incapable of thinking for themselves and ultimately as bad people who, when they lose everything, then they will attack each other, you are a statist. However, if you are someone who believes that human nature is ult natalie ultimately good and people will come together in the face of a crisis, then you are a decent person probably a libertarian and you see people relying on each other, relying on their neighbors, expecting and accepting the help and reach ing out and helping as many people as they possibly can for the sheer shake of helping people. I think joel ol steen isnt on twitter. I dont think he is and i think he has done a really bad job. I cant think of one instance the whole country is talking about that as an instance. You talk about self absorbed person. I thought were you talking about trump but you were talking about sharpton. I think donald trump gave a Million Dollars. I think ol steen might have been mischaracterized tyler perry gave a quarter of a Million Dollars to owe steen. He was directing people to the city. I agree with you that overwhelmingly its been a positive story, and i think its so important for the country to hear those kinds of healing messages but i dont think that it was fair to go after sharpton when sharpton says something very. He is self agran diedzing. This is not a makeup trip. This is about helping people. He helped brawly didnt he. Youre back to sharpton. all talking at once the dough naigs from trump and they went to the huge oil. We are talking about sharpton he donated a Million Dollars of his own money. We dont know. The white house doesnt know. all talking at once did utd come from his personal bank account. The only purpose of that was to make him look cheap, sharpton still owes back taxes to the i. R. S. Raise your hand if you are surprised that al sharpton is again exploiting tragedy to raise his personal profile which is diminishing. This is what this is about. He is trying to latch on to a tragedy to regain relevancy and my question to you for you and democrats, what can the president possibly be doing more that he has not been doing to help the victims of harvey. I think its clear and thats what sharpton is saying. Make it about helping people and in answer to your question, i think its selfevident. I dont want to be overly critical. If he stayed in washington d. C. , if he hadnt gone to the flood area, if he hadnt gone to texas, hadnt met with the governor of texas and relief workers. If he had stayed in d. C. Which is what some liberals were beg ging him to do to criticize him for that. He does plenty of things where he hurts himself. This is not one of them and for the people looking for drama and trying to exploit Political Division for their own gain, shame on them. Lets be honest anything that President Trump does he is going to be criticized. Thats the way this president is covered by the media. Sometimes he deserves it. But publications were criticizing him before the storm hit. You have both Governor Abbott and governor edwards of texas and louisiana one a republican and one a democrat who have praised President Trump and this administrations handling of the storm and both quickly approving the disaster declaration giving them the most needed government money they need to help rebuild the states and extend the search and rescue process. As we mentioned President Trump is allegedly giving a Million Dollars of his own money. What is al sharpton doing to help them . Thats what i want to know. What has he done. What is the National Action network doing. Trying to get his face on tv. I think you know, its interesting to watch you guys. You are so back on your heels on this empathy issue because. all talking at once any president s measure by. Thats a manufactured. Im on my high heels. If you recall. Did you want him to go into peoples houses and cry. Climb trees and rescue kittens. all talking at once heres the thing, kennedy. If you tweet epic devastation, i was out there. I went to the front lines. And people know he did not go to the front lines. As he is standing there holding up a texas flag in the state. Trying to exploit something simply saying that was a failure in terms of leadership at a critical moment. It doesnt measure up to what other president s did 9 11. Can i just. Go ahead, greg. This is yesterday but President Trumps role in this is not that important because what you are seeing is a monumental shift in the narrative of this country. We have been immersed in identity plibilitiesz for so long and what we are seeing is a waking up. We are coming out of this horrible depression and i think its monumental. I dont think trump plays a huge factor in this. He didnt have to because what you are seeing the it is so important in text ais texas. You are seeing victims not acting as victims after years of people embracing victimology who are not victims. You are seeing real victims getting it done without acting like victims. We are seeing a monumental turn around. Thats a really good point and people reclaiming their good ness and not being told that because they might have political differences they have to hate each other and they have to shout at each other and use fascist tactic to shut each other down. There is none of that here and thats why the left is looking for something to manufacture to drive a wedge where there isnt one. The president hasnt failed here and thats why we are see ing the desperation of the left because theyre grasping at straws to come up with reasons why President Trump is not cover ing this well, case in point, the first ladys heels. He is doing a good job and we should be appreciative of that. The guys on the ropes in terms of his inability. You wish this were charlottesville. Let me finish. He is on the ropes in terms of the lack of empathy. The fact that he didnt about not victims and instead he goes to a shelter headquarters with other people. You are creating a narrative. Nobody believes. all talking at once you heard it on some other show and repeated it the second day. Big government liberals all talking at once this is rudeness and the point i wanted to make to you is it is not me. Go to the fox poll. Its only like a quarter of americans who think this president has empathy. He goes to a fema headquarters. He is self absorbed talking about himself versus president bushs performance. Can we just step. Absolutely something that he shouldnt talk about. I would be delighted. Okay, now lets get to the point where it matters. If you are having emergency surgery, do you want a surgeon who is a jerk who is the best surgeon or do you want an average surgeon who has a great bed side matter. You want an excellent surgeon who is a jerk, not a terrible surgeon who is all fuzzy. So the fact is expecting empathy from trump thats not why he was elected. He is supposed to be effective. Thats all we care about. All im say it was self absorption. Im going to do better than bush i think you are grasping at straws. Juan feels about feelings, we care about results. Well be right back. You wont see these folks at the post office. They have businesses to run. They have passions to pursue. How do they avoid trips to the post office . Stamps. 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I think what they say to his or her voters is im about representing the people in my district. Im about taking care of people like the people in texas today who are suffering as a result of this hurricane and the people in kentucky, the people who have been sold a bill of goods, here is an opportunity to show that sometimes government is a good thing. It can help people. So you get a situation here, kennedy, where you get the National Guard, youve got the coast guard, the u. S. Military rescuing tens of thousands of people doing so much fema is in there, 2. 3 million meals served already we have requests for sba loans and now you see texas which of course prides itself on rugged individualism, self rel iance and the like. The frontier spirit, kennedy. Is this a conflict and do you see it as a contradictions . I think the Big Government aspect is a real stretch for this law maker. This is a a contrast in what government can do. The path to hell is littered with government failures. When people look back and they think about the devastation, they think about the storm. They think about the images and the things that really moved them, you know, tragedy and the uplifting stories, theyre not going to say wow, how about that fema. Theyre going say how about those neighbors who paddled a canoe through dangerous waters to their neighbors house to rescue pets and children. Theyre going to talk about the people who risked their own life , the individuals who risked their own lives to save others. Thats what theyre going to be talking about. The fact that there was decent and appropriate interaction between Government Agencies and individuals i think is a testament to the people of texas and thats where we take the inspiration. Not just that either. Its also the local community at large. You look at local businesses like mattress mack who owns two big Furniture Stores in and around the houston area having them be 24hour shelters, bring ing people in, feeding them , giving them water. The roles of churches opening their doors serving food and water, taking people in. Even big Corporate Giants like walmart donating 20 million. The chamber of commerce estimat ed that big corporations are donating 143 million. You look at the role the private sectors playing, the local communities are playing. Church so its not just about government. This actually underscores your point the individuals as well stepping up and local communities as well. I think the contrary position would be look at the amount of money the president is request ing, look at the request for money coming from Governor Abbott and ironically coming from senators ted cruz and john cornin. Cornin, cruz and 15 republicans voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy saying this is Big Government spending, loaded with pork we learned it was not loaded with pork. They didnt think it was an appropriate role but they do for their state. You are saying politicians are playing politics . Shocked. Giving what we saw from crowley who say democrats can argue for the importance and good work done by Big Government is that a contradictions what is i was saying. For liberals their government is the answer for everything. Look what happened with katrina. Do you remember . Government failed yet everybody still asked for bigger government. They had staterun Nursing Homes they left the elderly people in. Buses idling by they couldnt evacuate. Super dome was a mess. The governor didnt mobilize the National Guard and then after that failure the left said we need bigger government. What happened here . The response was excellent and the left still says yeah, this is why we need bigger government but its not about bigger government. Its about who is running the government. Object on the, the governor ive ive abbott the governor is doing a fantastic job because he is controlling things an texas is lean and mean. Its not just about government. 90 of the people doing a lot of the rescues are local guys. Texans have a lot of trucks. They have a lot of boats and theyre out there themselves pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. Im surprised texas didnt punch harvey in the face. Oddly enough jesse, i dont think the cajun navy is union. I will say, i also think that you should take your hat off to the coast guard and the military. Doing an excellent job and theyre very well funded. I just wanted to go to greg because greg there was a cartoon running political thi