louisiana lieutenant governor, billy nungesser, thank you so much for joining us.y appreciate it. >> thank you for your coverage. we need more of it. >> indeed. >>> well, hillary clinton is using humor to fend off claims from donald trump and his surrogates that she is in poor health. here she is on "jimmy kimmel" last night. take a look. >> was on fox news yesterday and today, and he is saying you look -- you seem to be sick, you look tired, et cetera, et cetera. are you in good health? >> well, this has become one of their themes. you take my pulse while i'm talking to you. >> okay. [ laughter ] [ applause ] make sure i'm alive. >> oh, my god, there is nothing there. >> nothing there. back in october, the "national inquirer" said i would be dead in six months. >> oh! >> so with every breath i take, i feel like it's -- >> a new lease on life. >> a new lease on life. >> can you open this jar of pickles? this has not been tampered with. [ applause ] >> this is -- [ laughter ] >> oh, oh -- [ cheers and applause ] >> a lot of laughs there. nbc's kelly o'donnell joins

we know he will meet with lieutenant governor billy nungesser, and expected here at any moment, craig. >> gabe, there also have been calls for president obama to cut short his vacation to visit louisiana as well. what more can you tell us about those calls? >> reporter: certainly. that's been a very -- been an exploding controversy here locally. yesterday you'll recall that the local -- main baton rouge newspaper, "the advocate," published a blistering editorial, urging president obama to cut his vacation short and to visit louisiana. the governor here in louisiana has come out and said that while the president is welcome here at any time, he just as soon would have him wait 10 days, 14 days, to let this disaster play out and not take away law enforcement resources to offer security. and yesterday billy nungesser, expected to meet with donald trump today, said so far the federal response to this disaster has been very positive. now, yesterday the homeland security secretary, jeh johnson, was here. he said in his words the president couldn't be everywhere, but he was closely monitoring

m f for more on how louisiana isho doing, i'm joined now by the state's lieutenant governor,d billy nungessere joins us from louisiana l public broadcasting in baton rouge, where many of our colleagues there have also been flooded out of their homes. lt. governor, welcome. i wonder if you would just tell us, how are things today in louisiana? >> we're still recovering. we still have areas where the water is flowing south that will continue to have water for several more days, and hopefullh we can get a break in the weather and start to dry out. but i heard you mention about the flood insurance. that's going to be an ongoing problem because many areas, this is an historical flood, outside of the flood areas, they didn't have flood insurance, and that'h going to be a problem moving forward. >> brangham: well, what is going to happen to those people if you go back to your house and it's severely damaged orb droid and you don't have insurance to cover that, what are those people supposed to do? >> fema will give up to $33,000 if you weren't in a flood zone and had no insurance but that's the maxi

i am referring of course to billy nungesser, the lieutenant governor of the state of louisiana, the highest rate republican official in the state and his response was, when asked about this, just a couple of days ago he said quote, it's always nice to have the president visit as long as the teen on the ground is working closely with the local elected officials and the governor in getting the job done, that's what we would not. that's what the president is what about comedy. that's what he said craig fugate down last week to see the damage first and the that's what the president said to secure the homeland security jeh johnson and to louisiana to see the damage firsthand the that's what the president was on the phone with the governor of louisiana eight days ago to talk to him talk about how his day was being affected by the flooding. that's why in that focal the president informed the governor that he was prepared issued a disaster declaration to ensure that all of able federal resources were being mobilized to support the local recovery efforts. so i think the effectiveness of the response