this is my propert >> reporter: before she moved four years ago, 72-year-ol evelyn york spent nearly her entire life in woodbridgesh to, a working-class community of about 100,000 people in northern new jersey. a single mother to two children, she owned her home in woodbridge for nearly 40 years. what did that mean to you, to own that home? >> as a single parent since i was 33, you have money to pay your bills, but you really don's haveings account. so, the only thing i had to k leave , so i thought, would be my house.ut >> reporter:ver the years, what started as a minor nuisance in her neighborhood a regular hazard: flooding. >> would always have a bag packed-- always-- because i never knew if i had to leave at a moment's notice to move my car to higher ground. and i did that for years and yearand years. >> reporter: several rivers run through woodbridge. two large ones border thend townshipmpty into the atlantic ocean. climate change has contributed to more frequent and severe storms and subsequent flooding here. about 19% of woodbridge lies within a fema special fld hazard are joh

our discussion now, helen cooper, correspondent for "the new york times" and one of the reporters that wrote today's piece on nato and evelyn, a senior fellow at the german marshall fund and secretary of defense and msnbc national security analyst and david is a senior editor at "the atlantic". >> helen, what i felt i was reading in your article is fear. every source from within ad administration, current senior officials sound afraid of what the president might do in terms of simply trying to remove the united states from nato. >> hi, well, i think there is certainly a lot of concern in >> the national security among president trump's national security advisors when he first raised this and each time, they brushed it aside and moved on not sure whether he was serious or not but returned to it again and again i think you would see both in congress and in the senate and in the house and you'd see a wide spread move to push back against this if d something, if president trump actually did propose this and let's be clear he hasn't. he's discussed this and brought it up again and again but has not made an actual move to do so y