work. why doesn t that happen? why don t they sit down and say we ll double breast. some union jobs, some nonunion jobs. but let s spend some money and build some stuff. it doesn t seem like anybody wants to compromise. just cut the cards, move forward. you can you move forward on an frisk bill. and on the bill of davis bacon, i m not a fan but it s going to be a part of the infrastructure. the votes are there. why don t they get around all these things? i tell you. what because we need to focus it. infrastructure is not hard to do. the trick is financing it. that s why we got to get this tax reform right. we have to put some revenue on the table to finance infrastructure. that s the key thing right now. the highway bill is not going to be that hard. how did lincoln build the railroad during the civil war, huh? how did mr. do nothing create the interstate highway system during the do nothing 50s. they built the empire state building in the depths of the great depression. we bu
neighborhoods, city blocks that were still under water, under a couple of feet of water. and some folks were actually wading through their neighborhoods. we know that the military is now on scene, the national guard is going in to help. the navy is just offshore with three warships prepared to help in search and rescues which they ll deploy tomorrow, and also with an arrange of supplies, everything for food and water for folks that may be trapped there. during the peak of the storm, year told about 10,000 people remained behind. they did not choose to evacuate. they were there when irma made landfall on sunday and tore through the area. one person who was there told us it sounded and looked like a nuclear bomb went off. that s how hard and how fast this impact was. many people still remain there today. others cannot return home. the police have actually shut down u.s. 1 behind me. it s the main artery, the iconic road. sure that. leads in and out of the keys. that s shut down. only
you unless they re put on notice they re going to be held accountable if they do not support the president of the united states. right now there is no accountability. they have totally they do not support the president s program. it s an open secret on capitol hill. everybody in this city knows it. and so therefore, now that you re out of the white house you re, going to war with them? absolutely. welcome back to hardball that was of course steve bannon declaring war on republican leaders in congress. bannon blasted house speaker ryan and majority leader mcconnell saying they don t want president trump s agenda implemented. interesting point. maybe right. the white house responded to questions about bannon s statement earlier today. let s listen. the president wants to work with all members of congress. obviously that includes republican leadership as well as democrats. would you like to see different leadership in the republican congress? look, right now the president
moment it appeared over the horizon from the caribbean. they have gotten people in their ear sight. they have got the people ready. people are being told by officials what to do. it does seem that if we have a more limited loss of life than expected, it s because of public action. your thoughts. that s right, chris. thank you, and good evening. the governor has been on top of this, working with us well before the storm. president trump s white house has been in touch with the governor and reached out to us before the storm. and we here locally, you know, we began evacuations on wednesday. we told people these are voluntary, but they re eventually going to be mandatory. and we re starting them early because of the traffic flow coming into south florida. we moved to mandatory on friday. unfortunately, some did leave. and now we re dealing with a once in a lifetime flood surge, storm surge. how deep is the water in jacksonville?
so what we re seeing right snow probably the lowest the waters have been all day. around 2:00 a.m., that surge is going to come right back in and fill in this neighborhood. this process we re told could take a week or more for all of the waters to recede. their power outages here are substantial. almost no one in jacksonville has power, and nothing is open. so folks are really hunkering down in those shelters and trying to find the resources they can. some people are trying to come back and survey the damage in their home. not wise at this moment, especially with the tides coming in and out and being unpredictable. but certainly a long way from back to normal for is the t city of jacksonville. thank you so much. msnbc s catie beck. for more we re joined right now by the mayor of jacksonville himself, mayor lenny curry. thank you so much for joining us by phone. i have to tell you i m not often in this mind-set, but i am impressed by the urgency with which the officials in florida led