a portion of appalachia do we know of? west virginia, west virginia, southern west virginia, eastern. and some of these counties in south west virginia as well that is what we call appalachia, coal. right. so exactly. persistent poverty is heavily centered in those areas in within appalachia. what else do we notice? there's some other things that this map tells us as well that we can just touch on. yes, right here, a big proportion along mississippi river, big portion along the mississippi river, right. certainly, this is something that we've talked about when we the antebellum south. right. the black belt that you can see here, also the mississippi river valley. so this map is also demonstrating structural inequalities or structural poverty in areas historically align with plantation agriculture and the and the slave system in the united states. another map that i know shown you before, this is a map of excess mortality rates in really what we see is. you can kind of lay this map directly over the one that we were just lo

so the game really concludes in fictionalized southern appalachia. if you play the game, it's butcher and iceberg. all these regions that kind of like northeastern part of the map, the southern mountains, right? the eastern mountains and and the question of appalachia. rockstar games had a bit of a dr. jekyll and mr. hyde moment because on one hand, they recycle all nearly every awful time tired, stale stereotype of appalachia that's ever been put out there. and you walk into this region and it's long, bearded mountain strumming banjos, isolated and disconnected from history and progress. they've got these archaic names like. obadiah it's every part of what i call the appalachian myth that this is a place out of time. it's preserved in amber, that it has been stepped aside from the currents of history. and it's, you know, trapped in time and backward and poor and uneducated and violent and, you know, barbaric. i'm going on and on. right. and was pretty in my book. i don't pull punches right. do a very bad job at face value of appalachia. right. so th

so the game really concludes in fictionalized southern appalachia. if you play the game, it's butcher and iceberg. all these regions that kind of like northeastern part of the map, the southern mountains, right? the eastern mountains and and the question of appalachia. rockstar games had a bit of a dr. jekyll and mr. hyde moment because on one hand, they recycle all nearly every awful time tired, stale stereotype of appalachia that's ever been put out there. and you walk into this region and it's long, bearded mountain strumming banjos, isolated and disconnected from history and progress. they've got these archaic names like. obadiah it's every part of what i call the appalachian myth that this is a place out of time. it's preserved in amber, that it has been stepped aside from the currents of history. and it's, you know, trapped in time and backward and poor and uneducated and violent and, you know, barbaric. i'm going on and on. right. and was pretty in my book. i don't pull punches right. do a very bad job at face value of appalachia. right. so th

do aery bad job at face value of appalachia. right. so that's sort the mr. hyde element. he's the guy, right? i can never remember. but then there's an alternate side to it because remember it's set in 1899 and the game depicts very explicitly the way that extern businesses that big corporations were funded, transforming appalachia at that very so you see like cut forests, wd stumps, like just fields of stumps whe companies had come in ancut out much of the old growth forests. u also see that massive mining operations run by the robber barons who are squeezing the west, leviticus, cornwall. the me is the name of this, you know, john rockefeller o andrew carnegie type of figure. so the game show ion one side that yeah, external power is big businesses anger on wall street perhaps are fundentally rearranging appalaia and impoverish it in so many ways. but wh they don't show is how project which fundamental transformed this region right st tennessee wtern north carolina you name it and produced povty that the also being lampooned and made fun out of that kind of palachian hi

the devastating impact not just the storm but hick history making storm the entire southeast and appalachia damage from the hurricane stretches across at least 10 states. winds over 120 miles an hour in some place the storm since up it 15 feet, record flooding, communities devastated. loved ones not sure if loved ones are ok. they . they can't contact them because of no cell phone connections. more folks dose placed with no idea when they can return to their home if ever. we are keeping tell in our prayers and lives lost and those particularlien accounted for. there's nothing like wondering if my husband, wifeers sun, alive.. many remain without electricity, water, food, communication. there are homes and businesses washed away in an instan want them to know we're not leaving until the job is done. i also want you to know i'm convicted to getting into areas as soon as possible but i'm told they are disrupted right now. they will not do that at the risk of delaying any assets to deal with this crisis. my first response is to get all the help needed to those impact the areas. i . i expect to

i have been to asheville before and it is a magnificent part of appalachia. communities like chimney rock are reduced to piles of debris. this will pay for the urgent work needed to clear the area and supply food and shelter and medicine and i am also directing the department of defense to move 1000 soldiers to reinforce north carolina's national guard because they need additional assistance. the soldiers are out of fort livery -- fort liberty and are responsible for operations starting today. they will speed up the delivery of food, water, medicine, isolate the communities for the last tactical mile. simply put we have the capabilities to get the job done and we will get it done as fast as possible. i have directed the deployment of starling satellites. some are in place now and more will be put in place so people can call for help and reach their loved ones. they currently have no cell service. fema is offering free temporary housing and hotel rooms for eligible residents. they are continuing to send helicopters and trucks to deliver hundreds of thousands o

americans brace for another monster storm just a week after hurricane helene ravaged southeast and appalachia and many in hardest hit areas are being forced to fend for themselves with fema and biden-harris administration missing in action, while kamala harris kicks off a week of softball interviews senator tommy tuberville will weigh in on that, but first peter doocy is live at the white house with the latest kno -- an interesting. reporter: they are all. this is the most we have seen vice president harris over next couple days with the media appearances off script, she will do 60 minutes it airs tonight, the clip we have shows her answering a direct question with a not so direct answer. >> do we have a real close ally in prime minister netanyahu? >> i think with all due respect the better question is do we have an important alliance between the american people and the israeli people. the answer to that question is yes. reporter: the rest of the week looks like it, the view and howard stern show. with the "the late show with stephen colbert" then thursday a univision down hall, david axelrod

the greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the american southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. >> how do you define it for the purpose of your book? steven: i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. i think at the end of the day, we know a rural place when we are in one, when we experience it. that is part of the sense i wanted to trade on, we see rural in the country as quiet, largely empty, slower paced. so wherever you find yourself feeling that way, you would probably label that, i am in the countryside, i am in a rural area. peter: no word has been used more consistently to describe rural america than crisis. is that a fair word to use? steven: that is why i started the project. that is what i was reading in the newspapers s

we are talking about parts of appalachia which were once upon a time coal country.e are talking about vast swaths of the american southwest. all of these things get labeled rural, but of course they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. >> for the purposes of your book how do you define it? >> i very studiously avoid it [ laughter ] trying to define it, because one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into this project was that lots of people have been, lots of people smarter than me, have been trying to define this term for a long time, and nobody has come up with a real answer to it. i feel at the end of the day we know where rural place when we are in one. when we experience it. and that is part of the almost obsessed emotional or affective sense i wanted to trade on, was that we see rural in this country as quiet, as largely empty, as slower paced, and so wherever you find yourself feeling that way, you would probably label that, i am in the countryside now, i am in a rural area. >> "no word has been more used consistently to describe rural

are talking about the grain belt in the great plains and temporaries in northern maine, parts of appalachia were once upon a time coal country, a lot of the american southwest, they're all labeled rural but dramatically different in all kinds of ways. >> for the purposes of your book, how do you find them? >> i studiously avoided trying to define it. when i jumped into this project, i found that a lot of people have been trying, people smarter than me have been trying to define this term for a long time and nobody has come up with a real answer. at the end of the day, we know a rural place when we are in one. when we experience it. that is part of the almost emotional or affective sense i wanted to trade on, we see rural in this country as quiet, largely empty, slower-paced, so, wherever you feel that way, you would probably label that, i am in the countryside come in a rural area. >> no word has been used more consistently to describe rural america than crisis. is that a fair word to use? >> that is where i started this project because that is what i was reading in the newspaper starting f

is enough left to support appa appalachia, and to help florida? >> fema manages their budget.n they start seeing that those funding levels -- this is a disaster relief fund. this is a separate appropriation that congress passes for disaster response, can't be used for anything else. and as those funds come down, fema will start slowing down spending on permanent work from older disasters to make sure they have funding available for this initial response. as that continues, there will be a request, and it won't be just f fema, it will be army corps of engineers, hud, a variety of federal programs needed for these disasters and past disasters. right now, fema has the money to do the initial response, but when it comes to long-term rebuilding, congress is going to have to appropriate more funds, more tax dollars for this rebuilding. >> knowing that's what is leading to a lot of concern, now to get those funds out quickly, especially in a time like this, when there's so many other demands on the budget. we'll check back in soon. appreciate you joining us today. >>> it's not just f

younger guy, but was astonishing to me is that it almost looked like the hurricane made landfall in appalachia i mean it's that kind of destruction it was it was just an incredible amount of rain and three of rainfall. >> these valleys, as you know, that analysts exactly. yeah. when it's heading downhill, it becomes just a force of nature that really can't do anything about but well thank you, administrator for coming on. we appreciate it. we'll see you in just a moment okay. >> great. >> thanks so much. >> in north carolina, a hundreds of thousand people still have no power in more than 25 water plants are estimated to be down at this hour. it's now been five days since hurricane helene hit the area. many are still struggling to find cell phones service seen in murder along with fema in one of the hardest hit areas. take a look can't go to sydney we're seeing everything that the bedroom has been talking about. officials have been talking about how big of a challenge communication is not just for civilians, but you bet is trying to do these rescue operations service, email all of it challenge

. >> reporter: south >> for those born and raised in southern appalachia, the devastation is hard to swallow. >> hear my granny growing up talking about the 1940 flood. this is probably worse than the '40 flood. i guess this is my generation's '40 flood because this till way years to clean up, if it's ever. >> reporter: at the white house president biden promised to help those who lost everything. >> i'm here to tell every single survivor in these impacted areas we will be there with you as long as it takes. >> reporter: an arcade is one of the few spots with power in north carolina. they kept their doors open offering a much needed distraction from the outside. >> that storm so incredibly devastating. president biden says he'll visit the affected areas once it won't disrupt rescue and recovery efforts. >>> still ahead, as israel escalates its attacks in lebanon, we're talking with a bay area resident who was visiting family and now cannot get home. >>> we're hearing more from a family rescued from their boat off the coast of ocean beach over the weekend, how they were pulled to safe

and of course he wasn't, and now we are in this terrible crisis in appalachia, these terrible floodsf people affected. we've got this regional war breaking out in the middle east. and we don't have effective american leadership. i think what our response is, is fundamentally this is israel security and they have to make the decision about how they are best going to protect their own security. and they need the support of their american allies, not joe biden as confused as he is standing behind them effectively promising that he is going to punish them if they dare defend their own sovereignty in their own security. israel is exley very good at the stuff, it's one of the things what is real as an alley unlike frankly a lot of so-called american allies. is they have a viable military, they have a viable intelligent service. they're going to make their own decision about how to predict their sovereignty. i think our role here, support our friends and also gets back to some common sense foreign and economic policies. so that we can be strong enough to respond to the next national securit

. >> two days before that, and everyone in this small part of appalachia is now wondering, how could something like this happen between two men who have worked together for over a decade? >> i'm sure there's more behind the doors that we don't know about. >> i rise as details remain elusive. >> sean mickey stephens is going from sheriff to defendant facing justice for killing judge kevin mullins. >> lowry district court is now in session with the honorable robert wilhoit. >> prosecutors showing the brazen shooting in court at a preliminary hearing. the sheriff reaches over the desk. the judge trapped with nowhere to go as the kentucky lawman shoots the man he once worked for as a bailiff. >> can you describe for us what happened immediately prior to the clip that we saw, defense lawyers questioned the lead detective about why this could have happened. >> i was told that daughter, and he had tried to call his daughter from the judge's phone. >> also, was that call to sheriff stephens teenage daughter using the judge's phone, the motive, or is it part of the mystery? >> this video, pos

. - i was raised a conservative evangelical in southern appalachia, where everyone pretty much lookedand thought like me. and on the internet, i learned about books that i wanted to read. - [presenter] you just click on impressionism, go to claude monet. here's a whole description of the impressionist movement. - i learned about places i wanted to go when that was completely foreign to the way that i grew up. i don't know that i would be the person i am, for better or worse, without the internet. - chat rooms forever were these like salacious places where perverts gathered. i met my husband on an app now, but for the longest time, we remember it was a place that creeps went, and weirdos went. - there is wide disagreement on how to protect children from the dark side of cyberspace. - i mean, people say they'll give you what you want, they just want one thing and that's just, they want you. - at the time, it seemed a lot more innocent and safe than it probably was. i was probably always on the verge of being sex trafficked or kidnapped or something. - now everybody online is the creep a

and it doesn't matter if you're black, the deep south or white in appalachia or latino in east los angeles. if you're poor, you don't vote. and we a poverty problem in california and we don't talk about it nearly enough because the dominant party definitely does not want to talk about it. but there's there's a massive problem which is becoming, because of housing affordability and, intergenerational problem. and if you're pro-democrat casey but you're not pro economy, at some point, those are going to run into one another. if you're not creating a healthy economy for working class people. and a lot of economic opportunity your democracy is going to come. it will fall apart because what you're creating is a pyramid of fewer and fewer people at. the top of the pyramid of one race and ethnicity and more and more people of poverty, of a different race and ethnicity. and that story has never ended well in the course of human history, ever. and that's what that

they are angry, sad, heart broken and this appalachia area has been ignored. way you solve that problem, have leaders who show up and focus on the people and kamala harris failed to do that. >> ainsley: donald trump office at the rally in butler on saturday. i would be scared to death. that crowd was huge, 20 to 10 t 100,000. pennsylvania is an important state for this election. >> it was incredible energy, it was bittersweet because corey comperatore lost his life at the last butler rally. we spoke with his family. we are so sad he is no longer with us, what donald trump and i take from that, you have incredible people willing to show up and in corey's case willing to throw himself over his wife and daughters to protect them. we will campaign as hard as we can to earn the people's trust. i take inspiration from it. president trump talked about he said most men have asked in a moment of crisis, will i be man enough to do what corey comperatore did, i take inspiration from his sacrifice and i think folks in butler were thrilled to celebrate his life and what is

is not the same as what they cook in the delta region or the food that we cook here in southern appalachias far different from the food i low country. when we're talking about cooking locally, it's about what grows in this region. and that's what's important. and typically meat is -- >> the supporting character. >> it's the supporting character, exactly. >> reporter: in her new cookbook, shanti shares the recipe for one of her best-sellers. >> our good hot fish sweet potato cabbage pancak. >> so what is all this? >> we have rice flour. we want a nice fluffy pancake. corn meal, a nod to the south, of course. >> all right. let's put it together. ♪ get all the lumps out. >> you know. you know something about cooking. >> reporter: i try. >> time for the flip. >> reporter: but she was about to turn up the heat. >> i have a job for you. >> reporter: talk to me. >> toast some nori sheets for us. it's going to be easy. >> reporter: easy for her, maybe. >> all right. blow it out. it's your first time. let's do another one. >> reporter: but once we got it right -- -- that's really good! >> thanks. i

but then in all the states in appalachia, that flash flooding.have had personnel across all the states impacted. i have leadership teams embedded with all of the governors' teams to ensure we're continuing to meet their needs and we're still preparing and pre-positioning resources to support florida for hurricane milton. >> president trump has, former president trump, has been critical as well talking about how families in emergency can only get $750 for some of the things that have come through. there's been criticism from lots of political angles, but what does that do to your job on the ground, and is it true? >> well, let me just set the record straight on the $750 first. right? we know some people have immediate needs. they need to replace medicine, maybe buy clothes. official food and water. that's an initial financial assistance to help them meet those immediate needs in the beginning, but as people register and get that funding we're also giving reimbursement for repairs, for damages incurred in their home, or lost belongings, if they inc

these are communities that i love, some of them i know personally in appalachia, all across the southeast, they need their government to do their job.rn and i commit when donald trump is president again, the government will put the citizens of this country first when they suffer from a disaster. >> he diverted money from fema to build a wall. >> does j.d. vance not remember hurricane matthew in 2017? that was during the trump d administration when the governor, roy cooper, democrat, and this gets to the point, contacted the government and asked fema could you please help us, this is what we need. and trump's administration said, no, and gave them 1% of what they1% asked for for recovery after that devastating hurricane in north carolina. and the reason they only offered up 1% is because there was a democrat governor sitting in the seatat at the time. he tells us this. he tells us every time what he's going to do, and everyone acts like it's the first time they're or it's never happened before, and j.d. vance knows better. and that's such a disingenuous b.s. moment trying to level donald t

-- or something and in other things she's talking about about tampons, you know, the people in appalachiaht now don't give a function about tampons. they need water we need to get out. i'm sorry to say it again you cannot make this stuff up. but everything i just said is factual. it's howard stern, was that if you vote for turmeric your stupid, the ladies of the view that paid trump and michael barrett hates trump like mark glen motz you is alarming and you know what also alarming to me? i guess is the environment were in but that's the first thing that some people think about are the political ramifications. that triggers my gag reflex. and i heard mr. axelrod maybe it's taken out of context but i don't think i think were the art we all care about the americans in trouble. >> sean: me too and we've got to get them help. and even missing in action and helping lebanon over people north carolina is unconscionable. thank you none -- when we come back governor understand this in here with the latest on hurricane milton, another cart five headed towards florida. he will respond to kamala harri

southern accent partial point where she's talking about about, about tampons you know, the people in appalachia right now don't give a function about tampons you cannot make this stuff up, but he did make it did up don't give a function. >> i'll give a function that's nice bonus question. >> can anyone tell me who fact checked trump on kamala visiting north carolina this week? >> i thought we agreed not to do that yeah. >> it was fox news. >> wow here's trump talking to laura ingraham. it but she shouldn't be there anyway, she should be i would say that north carolina is a show bear and she was there today for three hours, i believe kalman kamala harris did we go back to that? >> was it that it looked like trump was playing deal or no deal anyone to help hurricane victims with misinformation about the storm's all over the place. what has state rep. and hunted a ride decoration. marjorie taylor greene been same, is responsible for the storm it's it's always jews with marjorie taylor greene. will the answer is not to jews. the answer is there's noaa, not. do it you okay. >> sorry. but jew period,

aligning distribution centers from northern part of the country all the way to florida throughout appalachia a good event help get cleaned up about their lives. >> we are grateful for you and walmart all efforts, wonderful to hear that john even before hurricanes hit we were worried talking about inflation, inflation obviously, cuting into people's wages, making it very tough to make ends meet. do you expect prices to go higher after something like this? you know, clearly, you've got worries about the products on shelves pushes prices higher sometimes, what would be effect in terms of inflation after something like this? >> well, we certainly want to do everything that we can, as a business to try to keep prices low. and what we've been proud of the last couple quarters prices leveled to year before just before storms hit really weren't seeing any real inflation across the business with the exception of dairy coy commwe started working on programs with meals, around holidays particular ensure pricing meals the same price the year before this year even for holiday like thanksgiving able to br

these are communities that i love, some of them that i know very personally in appalachia all across their job and i commit when donald trump is president again, the government will put the citizens of the country first. >> he deferred money from fema. >> does jd vance not remember hurricane matthew in 2017? that was during the trump administration when the governor , roy cooper, democrat, and this gets to the point, contacted the government and asked fema could you please help us, this is what we need, and donald trump's administration said no. and gave the 1% of what they asked for for recovery after that devastating hurricane in north carolina and the reason they only offered up 1% is because it was a democratic governor sitting in the seat at the time. that is what donald trump will do, america, and he tells you this. this is the part that kills me. he tells us every time what is going to do and everyone acts like it's the first time they're hearing it or it's never happened before and jd vance knows better, and that is such a disingenuous bs moment, trying to level up that donal

and she's been writing about some of that stuff happening and how brutal it is been for people in appalachia how that will affect mail and voting that is low in people's concerns right now. it speaks to the fact that you don't know what will happen. to the extent you can bank votes, the future is unwritten regarding weather, disaster. that seems a place democratic campaigns have been putting effort. >> that is true. one thing we say about early voting as it helps a campaigns. fundamentally, they only have any ways to contact voters. if you vote early, you get taken off of those lists. one good reason to vote early is if you want them to stop calling you. >> [ laughter ] that's a great point. on the question of -- it's almo comical. boom, boom. does it work anymore? do we have good science on this , i'm serious, is a good science and saturation points. do we know whether it's effective if you watch eight ads in a row if one mean something? what do we know about that? >> we see it. we see it and polling. before anybody is gone on the air and anything happens then a couple weeks later, things h

. >> returning to her roots in appalachia and sharing in the volunteer spirit. >> what's a message foridents who lost everything was to mark >> with god's help and the help of these people we will make it. we will be better than ever one of these days. >> you've got to hand it to dolly to bring some light. we should also note dolly is donating $1 million of her own money. her company matching that amount as well. the impact of hellion is being felt across six states including hard-hit florida. as you mentioned we are watching a system currently brewing which could mean some stormy weather as early as tomorrow. >> thank you. >>> how police say a 10-year- old boy went on a joyride that could've been deadly. that is coming up. we need your support now more than ever. go online, call, or scan this code, with your $19 monthly gift. and we'll send you this "care. no matter what" t-shirt. it is your right to have safe health care. that's it. go online, call, or scan right now. it's our son, he is always up in our business. that's it. it's the verizon 5g home internet i got us. oh... he used t

the last book i did was called all this marvelous potential about robert kennedy's 1968 tour of appalachia. and that book was released in march 2020, and then a global pandemic occurred. so fingers crossed, two weeks we will not have another bubble. i don't i don't think. it was my fault. exactly i, i learned about the straight been very fortunate. my my my wife has a real job. and so i'm very fortunate to be able to write these books a lot of the time. my wife is a foreign service officer and, so we were overseas a lot. and so it's difficult sometimes. but the people at the library here have always very helpful in emailing files, making things available. me and i really appreciate that. so most of this was written while we were in sarajevo. so the capital of bosnia and we just found out our next assignment we will be going to botswana. does anybody know the capital of botswana. gaborone. yes. give him a free book, not mine. somebody else's. you know. all right what i. i am very happy about that. so i'm not going to ask any more geography questions tonight. think we've got that covered. th

"the people in appalachia shoul not comply with fema. this is a matter of survival. w did not comply with fema."ma this is what they're doing for h political benefit. right? sure, six different states coping with devastation from a hurricane less than two weeks ago. and another storm on the way that is so large and terrifying, it is bringing meteorologists to tears. trump campaign sees that and thinks, what better time than to mess with people? what better time is there than this? because maybe we'll benefit from it. maybe if people are pushed into the most extreme circumstances possible, maybe we'll benefit from things being as bad as they can possibly be. the harris campaign just tonight has released a new ad pushing back at the lies trump and his campaign have been trafficking v in about the hurricane responsee also reminding the country that this was not exactly his strong suit while he was in the white e house in charge of efforts like this. here it is again, this ad has ga just come out tonight. >> i worked in the trump administration. >> never in a million yea

super charged by climate change, hurricane helene traveled 500 miles from florida to the southern appalachia mountains, destroying hundreds ofs, leaving millions of households still without power and killing 183 people across six states. today biden and harris announced a series of immediate measures to help people impacted by the storm. biden ordered the pentagon to deploy up to 1,000 active duty troops to help distribute aid, and he announced one-time payments of $750 from fema to assist impacted residents in florida, georgia, north carolina, south carolina, and virginia. the message of these visits was clear, the federal government is here to help, and it is here to stay. >> my final point to the residents of this community and the region is that we are here for the long haul. there is the work we have done together that was the immediate response -- well, preparation for and the immediate response after. but there's a lot of work that needs to happen over the coming days, weeks, and months. >> days, weeks, and months. now, in addition to all the other challenges this recovery effort pres

fueled by warm oceans and pulled north by other pressure systems lingering over appalachia, helene maderength. the storm surge caused catastrophic flooding in the big bend region of florida, grinning record-breaking storm surge and leaving feet of sand and debris covering street. not only do warmer ocean temperatures encourage large storms to intensive in their speed and size but moisture from the ocean. these rapidly intensified storms get bigger and stronger faster than they drop more rain than they would without human caused climate change. there is solid evidence that some major hurricanes that caused catastrophic flooding like hurricane harvey in 2017 and hurricane florence in 2018 did so because of the increased moisture absorption because of warmer ocean temperatures. this summer was also most humid on record, which also helped fuel the storm's destructive power and contributed to flood conditions. western north carolina, where asheville is, had already seen more rain than average toward the end of august and early september the watershed in the region was already we are at capac

we of course in the state of north carolina but all across the southeast in appalachia, a lot of folkshit very hard by hurricane helene and i know a lot of us are praying people, we ought to say a prayer for those folks every single day they are fighting to rebuild their lives. they are fighting to grieve loved ones and rebuild out of a terrible situation. and look, that storm was a terrible act of nature. but the bureaucratic incompetence that delayed resources getting to people, that was an act of kamala harris and failed leadership and we can't let people forget about it. now, think about this. probably shocked to hear me praise -- i am going to do something that is going to really surprise you, i am going to see something really nice about barack obama. in 2010 -- lady back here said yeah, i am shocked by this. surprised everyone here. 2010 there was a caramel -- a terrible earthquake in haiti. two days later the air force was in haiti. god bless the 82nd airborne. we had a terrible natural disaster one hour away from the 82nd airborne and it took six days for them to get to north

southern appalachia has always been a place of need and a place of poverty.ll go a long way to the recovery process, which will take a long time. >> bill: you did work in iraq as well. tell us based on what you saw, how bad is it? >> you know, it's interesting because people will say this town was wiped out or this town is gone and if people look at pictures of chimney rock you may say that. what i can tell you is that the people are still there and they form the community. and while roads are washed out, while there are trees on houses, what i saw were friends banding together in their atvs with chain saws and tractors and setting up a whole system in which they could respond to people that were in need the most and clear roads that the power companies could come in. while i was there, over the 72 hours trying to fix up our house and fix up our road, you could see helicopters flying overhead and you saw people coming in from all over the country lending support. it is bad, the pictures and devastation is real but i want to emphasize the communities that are

of the people in appalachia should not comply with fema. this is a matter of survival. don't comply with fema. this is what they are doing for political benefit. six different states coping with devastation from hurricane less than two weeks ago and another storm on the way that is so large and terrifying it brings meteorologists to tears. the trump campaign sees that and thinks what better time than to mess with people and what that her time is there than this because maybe we will benefit from it and maybe if people are pushed into the most extreme circumstances possible, maybe we will benefit from things being as possible or bad as possible as they can possibly be. the harris campaign released a new advertisement pushing back at the lies that trump and his campaign have been trafficking in about the hurricane response and reminding the country this wasn't his strong suit while in the white house in charge of efforts like this. here it is. it came out tonight. >> i worked in the trump administration. >> never in 1 million years that i thought i would be working in the

the last book i did was called all this marvelous potential about robert kennedy's 1968 tour of appalachia. and that book was released in march 2020, and then a global pandemic occurred. so fingers crossed, two weeks we will not have another bubble. i don't i don't think. it was my fault. exactly i, i learned about the straight been very fortunate. my my my wife has a real job. and so i'm very fortunate to be able to write these books a lot of the time. my wife is a foreign service officer and, so we were overseas a lot. and so it's difficult sometimes. but the people at the library here have always very helpful in emailing files, making things available. me and i really appreciate that. so most of this was written while we were in sarajevo. so the capital of bosnia and we just found out our next assignment we will be going to botswana. does anybody know the capital of botswana. gaborone. yes. give him a free book, not mine. somebody else's. you know. all right what i. i am very happy about that. so i'm not going to ask any more geography questions tonight. think we've got that covered. th

>> you know, maria, it's absolutely heartbreaking to see what's happened in appalachia.t is atrocious, it's not just about fema using their funds as a slush fund for the president and vice president's liberal priorities such as, you know, providing, providing relief to to illegals instead of americans. what's so disturbing, maria, is the complete lack of leadership that we are seeing out of the white house. vice president harris, president biden, it's like they really don't care about the disaster that's happening many appalachi. that is what's so disturbing. they should be boots on the ground more than just photo ops and trying to make political tug points. maria: you as an elected official, can't you ensure that the taxpayer dollars are going where taxpayers expect? and not a cleanup of the fema fund for illegal migrants who are actually disrupting life everywhere in this country for american citizens? >> maria, one of the most frustrating things as a member of congress is when we appropriate the dollars for the intended use, we then see the abuses of the administratio

he is from appalachia, that's a whole point of hillbilly elegy.hink he has a sensitivity to what it means to these small towns that are currently cut off and are frankly the biden-harris administration has failed so badly that it should be a national scandal. >> sean: what do you think of the state of the campaign right now great we have pollsters coming out, a lot of good polls for donald trump in the last two days. your thoughts? >> i think trump -- i tell everyone who asks, make sure all your friends vote. if everybody votes who favors donald trump, he's going to win. his challenge is that he has -- we've now reversed the two parties. we now have the challenge the democrats used to have. the core base of trump's support our people who are on -- less likely to vote. he has to motivate them. this is why i favor voting early because that means you've got your vote in and they can focus on getting other people out to vote. if everybody votes, trump will win and my prediction is it will be by a much bigger margin than anybody currently expects. i al

. >> he famously started as the memoirist who wrote about appalachia and poor industrial cities in theidwest. he was a never trumper at that time. he called him america's hit. he was very anti-trump. by the time he was running for senate in 2022, he had transformed himself into very much a trump supporter. it was trump's endorsement that really put him over the edge in a competitive primary. which got him to the general in that sense. he's become much more radicalized i would say since 2016 when we first got to know him. he was fairly middle-of-the-road. he was appearing in a lot of the media writing for a lot of the media. so he's become much more radical, both before he was elected as senator and in his term as senator. i would say that instead of being more of a centrist as we first got to know him, he's much more far-right and much more aligned with extreme figures on the far right now. >> what record, what would he tell from his record from serving in the senate tonight? what would you talk about? >> the biggest thing he's been known for in the senate is opposing any help for ukra