todd whitman, now national chair for forward party. good morning. >> madam chair, i would like to start with you. i am actually fascinated by the new posture of not just the candidate kamala harris, but the democratic party actually leaning into a very strong narrative around the border. some people will think, they will shy away from the back and forth and administration, the biting biden administration, but you see this forward leaning into the narrative, i would like to play for you the harris porter act and get thoughts from you on the other side. let's take a watch. >> kamala harris has spent decades fighting violent crime. as a border state prosecutor, she took on violent crimes and drug smugglers across the border . as vice president, she backed the toughest border patrol bill indicates. as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and cracked down on fentanyl and human trafficking. fixing the border is tough, so is chemic harris. >> i am chemic harris and i approve this message. >> racquel, what are your thoughts th

you know, coming in line with my good friend christine todd whitman as the first woman governor. you'd be the first democratic woman governor of the state. anything you want to share with us today on that front? >> well, yes. as you know, as you probably heard i focus on 2024. making sure that we have president -- oh, excuse me. vice president harris as our next president. and making sure she gets across the finish line. i want to make sure we get good democrats up and down the ticket. we have got to flip the house of representatives to make sure that we can continue the agenda that we have of driving out across america for families. and yes, in '25 i'm strongly considering running for governor here in new jersey. but, we all have to get through '24 first. >> all right, there it is. one eye on the prize, and the other on another price. very good. >> well, that's the military veteran enemy. always concentrating on the current job. the future, and where you need to get to in your next job. we are constantly focused on how we can serve people here in new jersey better. so, thank you

todd whitman, governor great to see you. >> good to be with you. >> so how concerning is this for the second year in a row to have this major disaster relief agency run out of necessary funding well it should be a lesson to everybody. these stores are getting more frequent and doing more damage. it's almost $1 billion a storm, now, every storm to recover, and we don't have the money for it, but we're not preparing in any way to try to limit the damage by changing the way we we use our land, moving people back from the shore. those in tornado alley trying to do better by them and then doing everything that we can to slow climate change. but we need to take this seriously, is costing taxpayers lots of money and that's not to mention the lives and the jobs and the homes. so it's real and we need to understand that in fact, noa is reporting that the u.s was hit with 19 separate weather and climate disasters exceeding $1 billion in damage. >> and that's just since the start of this year and this is expected to be a very active hurricane season. and we haven't even reached it's the peak yet

one of those republicans are former republicans, the former governor of new jersey, christine todd whitman, who is with us now governor. thank you so much for being with us. i just want to play a smidge more of donald trump's attack on the popular republican governor of georgia brian kemp. listen but camp doesn't want to end it because he's a bad guy. he's a disloyal guy, and he's a very average governor. later, brian, little. brian kemp bad guy. >> alright, so kemps response to this was that statement that kristen holmes read before, which says he's still trying to beat campus vice president harris in this election, but hopes donald trump stops the personal attacks you're in a different place than that you don't think it's enough what brian kemp is saying, why because donald trump isn't going to change, he hasn't changed over the years. >> this is the man we've seen since the very beginning, 2016 i knew him obviously before that. i could see it coming, but this his his consistent the people who are suddenly finding him. okay? i don't understand it if they didn't like him before because he