We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
thank you for your time. the ron desantis wait is almost over. sources saying the paperwork will be filed next week. his how to beat trump battle p plan is a blizzard on abortion, guns and transgender rights. plus the paper trail punctures a donald trump defense. new reporting reveals the special counsel will soon have his hands on 16 records that show, yes, the former president and his advisers knew how the declassification process was supposed to work. and president biden is in japan for a meeting of the world s leading economies. peers want assurances the political divide over the debt ceiling won t lead to a global financial mess. and we have new reporting on relationship between the president and speaker mccarthy. we re not there. we haven t greened to anything yet. and i think we have a structure now. and everybody is working hard. and we re working two or three times a a day and going back and getting more numbers. i have the greatest respect. they are exceptiona
who was on the other side of that equation really will matter. so let s start with delaware sab fits and trump again. if you look at the republican norminee, the position has erodd over the last several months. some of that is because there s a rally around trump meant for sosmt charges. that s a national poll. we re pretty close to the point where i ll start saying ignore the national polls. because you go state by state. you can have a surprise in iowa, a surprise in new hampshire. republicans are sticking to the traditional calendar. that s the test. when he goes into one of these states where trump repopulated the republican party, to say i m better than him. that s a hard sell. that s absolutely true. how that message resinates is going to be important. the one thing that s interesting about those polls is even as his numbers have gone down, it s not that his negatives have gone up.
to the point we were talking about before, there s a portion of the conservative base that this message resinates. that s why i wanted o to play some of the sound in the beginning. that s why we re hearing these themes over and over and over. it s the politics and fear have worked for them for a long time. and the fact that we have changing demographics, it makes it even clearer that they have to ban together. and the willie hortons, they use the same play book year after year playing off the fears of people and what it does is gets people to vote against their interests. low income, poor white folks ban together with the hopes that one day they will be powerful too. we have to leave it there. my panel will stay. still ahead, indianapolis this weekend, the nra stokes fears of government overreach. how about that? but coming up next, instead of fearing others, let s celebrate an inspiring choice this week. did you get my e-mail? [ man ] i did.
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