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Side, but even in san juan the plane we flew in, i thought it was going to be 20, 30 planes sending if gods from all over. it was just our plane. it was just our plane on the island of puerto rico and the people are hurting. the people on the other side, the people in the mountains, like, they re really, really hurting. you know, and we re trying to do our best and collect things for them and send stuff over there and, but at the end of the day, it s heart breaking. i saw a line, maybe about two blocks long and it was the one place that had water, but they only allow you to buy two bottles of water. i pet with my family over 100 cousins, aunts, one of my cousins is the national guard and it was so scary to me, because we re so proud of him, but he looked at me with the same face i saw on katrina, the same exact face, he is face said, i know what has to be ....
So i m doing some of this. so the next day they said, oh, it was so disrespectful to the people. made up thing. also, when i walked in the cheering was incredible. so is it possible, howard, he s feeding off the energy of the crowd as he s indicating there? perhaps the video clip doesn t tell the whole story. you can t explain why somebody who is delusional has the delusions they have. here are the facts, 44% of the puerto rico people american citizens have no water 15 days after the disaster. 44% of them, i mean 66% of them have no electricity. tell me what the held the trump administration does? this makes bush look great on katrina. this is plain an outrage. alex, you and i have discussed this before, one things that going to be more problematic for this president ....
Leadership. if i could, on credibility, just like on katrina, the problem president bush had, diminishing the significant of what was happening. you had the president yesterday talking about glitches and kinks. one difference is katrina was a storm. the health care was of obama s creation. true. so i m not defending my white house s handling of katrina. but it was a natural disaster. this was a disaster of obama s creation. and imagination. maybe they were at war is a better analogy. the parallels and analogies flying everywhere. president obama s health care law will provide 30 million americans health care. there is no doubt it will save lives. government negligence and the handling of katrina cost american lives. the botched war in iraq resulted in over 4,000 american soldiers being killed. comparing these two horrible chapters in american history so a law that will save lives is simply unconscionable. ....
Joining me now is our rapid response panel, ruth con i have, eugene robinson of washington post and dr. o donnell. gene, is it fair to compare iraq and katrina to obama care? no. of course not. and you said it best. iraq, people died. katrina, people died. obama care, people are going to live. otherwise, might have died. it s it is unconscionable. i do my live internet chat on tuesdays and i did it today and somebody came at me with this c conspiracy theory this is to set up a single payer and i suggested the caller and his family try a bit less caffeine and fox news. if the republicans keep, if you will, chipping away at obama care, do they really have a hope they ll be able to repeal the law? that doesn t seem to be a good strategy. but do you think they re trying to erode public confidence and therefore discourage people from enrolling in the program? ....
Standards. at the same time you do see business interests are very strongly opposed to this kind of thing. it is true they are moving to sunbelt states. it is an enlightened class we need a chamber that understands business, understands workers should have money in their pocket. if you are going to have true social contact workers need to be at the table with enlightened business and other government partners. there has not been last minimum wage hike i don t want to call it a hike last time raised in 2007, went to 2009. will we see it before 2016? we ll see. thank you to katrina, josh and matt. that s all for now. i ll see you back monday noon eastern when i m joined by joy reed, josh smith, boston university professor. andrea mitchell reports is coming up next. [ male announcer ] ah. retirement. sit back, relax, ....