let's bring back into the conversation "new york times" op ed columnist brett stevens because i feelade a lot of the same points over the last 24 months. the fist thing that came to find, i believe he was president george w. bush's head of opl, were the attacks on the judiciary. the attacks on the first amendment. the cutting off of daily press briefings. the sort of things that make, maybe call us elites if you want. make someone that's served in government or appreciate the various institutions that make us different under the by this president. your thoughts? >> my thoughts are if you are a conservative, you think that culture at the end of the day has more weight than institutions. and culture can either elevate or it can corrode. and what you have in the trump presidency is a corrosive culture of populism. attacking the small "r" republican foundations of government, separation of powers, checks and balances. and a certain kind of decorum. a president of the united states combines functions that say in britain are separated, head of state and head of government. he also symboliz

. >> i would like point to out, brett stevens just nodded his head. >>> we have a lot more to talk about. a new version of the health care bill unveiled. and jared kushner reported using a private e-mail server in the white house. we'll talk -- excuse me private e-mail account. that server is in my mind. we'll talk more about the nfl protests with a former player. next much more on growing disaster in puerto rico. 3.5 million people without power. they are running out of fresh water. running out of gasoline. how do you think that will turn out for an island occupied by u.s. citizens. treasury secretary steven mnuchkin will talk about players talk about issues on their own time. steven munchin, how about this? how do we say that this fall, our guests can earn a free night when they book at choicehotels.com and stay with us just two times? fall time. badda book. badda boom. pumpkin spice cookie? i'm good. book now at choicehotels.com ...from godaddy! in fact, 68% of people who have built their... ...website using gocentral, did it in under an hour, and you can too. build a better website -

. >> he said to brett stevens, oh, russia always does this. they don't always do this. this was a ramped up and concerted run at hillary clinton. >> it was ramped up. i think what the cia director and others in the intel community are trying to do is not only assess what's been done but what they're planning on doing. i think you've seen elements of pushback against the russians, what they've done in syria to push back and even to put russian aircraft and troops at risk. you've seen a pushback on the energy front in the polish speech. so there have been places where you've seen glimmers of where that intelligence community view the classic national security view has sort of seeped into the president's rhetoric and policy. agreed, the president hasn't come out with a full throated confrontational policy with respect to russia but a lot of his advisers actually are there. >> julie, this brings me back to where you started me. donald trump has not come out with a full throated posture against a known adversary, vladimir putin. why? >> that's the million dollar question her

as columnist brett stevens wrote last week, he said economic growth isn't just a matter of parking lots paving over paradise. companies often do real tangible good, he said. what matters for us today is that they underwrite safety standards and fund scientific research, they develop new technologies to warn us of impending storms and engineer new materials that make buildings more secure. that's probably one of the biggest reasons why the damage from the hurricane, hurricane harvey didn't compare with the damage to the galveston hurricane in 1900, because of building standards, building codes and new materials that have been devised to help make buildings more secure. so that's why harvey wasn't like galveston in 1900. and in the days and weeks ahead we need to remember how far we've come. that's not to say we still don't have a long way to go. while the strong texas economy is crucial to recovery efforts, education will be too. thousands and thousands of texas schoolchildren have been displaced by hurricane harvey, and many public school children are still wondering when their classroo

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brett owen freiman peter l. freund arlene eva fried >> and my husband alan wayne friedlander dad to steven and laura and now grand father, jonathan r. home man, your devotion to god and your family was a testament to your faith in life and in death. >> i love you and i miss you. andrew keith friedman paul j. friedman gregg j. froehner lisa anne frost peter christian fry clement a. fumando steven elliot furman paul james furmato karleton d.b. fyfe fredric gabler richard peter gabriel richard samuel frederick gabrielle james andrew gadiel pamela lee gaff ervin vincent gailliard deanna lynn galante grace catherine galante anthony edward gallagher daniel james gallagher john patrick gallagher lourdes galletti cono e. gallo vincenzo gallucci thomas e. galvin giovanna galletta gambale thomas gambino jr. giann franco gamboa ronald gamboa fdny chief of the department peter ganci claude michael gann charles william garbarini cesar r. garcia david garcia juan garcia marlyn del carmen garcia christopher s. gardner harvey j. gardner iii >> and my brother joseph patrick henry, it's hard to believe you were only a 25-year-old