big of a deal when you re wealthy to not take all this money, but the trump campaign regularly spends money with trump properties. he s benefitting. hundreds and millions of dollars, we should say. they have made hundreds and millions of dollars. so the idea that he s losing money also doesn t the math doesn t work. being president is a profitable business for him. and for his entities. any other president would have to walk away from their stocks, from any of their businesses. put knit a blind trust. but this president goes down the street every week to his own property, invites everybody to come. you hear so many people from other countries. i stayed at the trump hotel. he s getting money for being president. the mar-a-lago fees went up exponentially. i don t know. i don t go. the event was a campaign rally. this was supposed to be an official event but he was campaigning on the public s
right now, and one of these bands of rain. it s not so much the wind that concerns city officials here but the rainfall. they re expecting 10 to 20 inches over the course of the next few days, and that is a problem because of the pumps that they have in the city. they brought in extra ones yesterday. the way those pumps work, they can only handle so much. here is the mayor talking about how they plan to deal with the rainfall. our city can handle the first 5 inches comfortably, after that, 1 inch every additional hour, when you have a forecast of 30 inches, the math doesn t work. reporter: and they really haven t had a major storm in morgan city hit them directly since 2012. a lot of people are bracing themselves. there was a voluntary evacuation order yesterday but not many people actually left town. we know that a large portion of the town is now out of power.
when you have a forecast of 30 inches, the math doesn t work. we have extra capacity here. we haven t seen the rain that we thought we would get. we re seeing a pesky wind, 40 to 50 miles an hour sustained winds and it s placing havoc on our utility system. currently 30% of the city is out of power. we have 7 poles on the ground, the wind is too strong right now for utility crews getting the bucket trucks. we re preparing for as soon as the weather blows over to get back up there. you were telling me about a mobile home that had a wire fall on them that was a situation your city crews had to get to. part of your job as mayor council, administration is light, and property. we got a mutual aid call from across the river of a family in a trailer with a live power line on top of it. they were trapped inside and their utility service was hunkered down and not in the area, so we took our guys off the scene and ran them over there to help out, so, you know, when you got a hurricane coming
possible. these are the numbers from our government published in the hill as well as other places. the average person who receives medicare pays and $160,000. they take out $486,000. so that is more than three times what they put in. if every person in the country took out three times more than they put in, how in the world with that work? as usual, the math doesn t work. either miss harris hasn t done it, or she doesn t care. brian: hears with the democrats are right health care is number one, or number two with republicans and democrats. the media concern of politics goes out the window as soon a sit affects you. you lose your insurance, you have a catastrophic illness, you are not covered for whatever reason. i get that. but their answers our folly. what i m so heartened by and i slept better last night yesterday the adults got in the room. we didn t have to wait for six mus of this rhetoric, we waited two days.
about how president trump s rhetoric in the wake of tragedy has diverged from past presidents. do you think if trump acted like that, the country can be different, can he act like that, is he capable of it personally? i don t think he s capable of it. but that doesn t have to limit who we are as a people. we re more than the president of the united states. i know that from traveling the united states and finding republicans who may have voted for trump and don t approve of this kind of behavior. nbc s garrett haake is in waco, texas, one of our road warriors blitzing the country where beto o rourke is set to start a rally in 20 minutes. what are you hearing from folks in the area? reporter: hallie, the problem that beto o rourke has, the older democratic voters are simply not going to be enough for him, the math doesn t work. he can run the most competitive campaign in texas in the last 20 years and lose by a half million votes if he only gets the folks who always vote for demo