kathleen blanco, kathleen blanco actually in days leading up to katrina in the first days, she was reallythe only one who took this seriously. she called -- declared emergency before haley barbour governor of mississippi two day before ray nagin two days before the president of the united states and did a job. if you look at her poll numbers that week after katrina just creamed her she was seen at somebody who -- you know was not up to the task. so again, i actually think she became one of the goats to my line she acted as heroically if anybody could have been in terrible circumstances. with that said, i do put the -- failed recovery with the slow recovery at her feet. you know, road home she created road home. beautiful program on paper. largest house recovery program in u.s. history over ten billion dollars. but she -- it was created to make the middle-class working class whole after katrina. forget it took a year beyond what people thought it would take for checks to show up, she based it on the -- appraised value of someone with's home rather than cost of rebuilding, so i think we all

it is like you have kathleen blanco living in a bunker in the emergency operation center in b baton rouge. you know what nagin did? spent the afternoon five hours because we had a big part as believe it or not a corrupt mayor. he is not sitting in a federal prison serving a ten year sentence for misconduct in office. he spent five hours on a movie studio where blanco and others know there is a horrific category four at the point, about to be category five, and the head of the national hurricane center calls, dr. max mayfield, the head of the hurricane center doesn't call politicians but he wanted to scare the governor of new orleans like you have to do something here. he is in wake field, and you know, he is up in the chopper a few days after katrina and goes to the 17th street canal, the canal where the wall fell and flood lake view and other parts of the city. he understood lake view. he barely showed up there, though. if i remember he made one appearance. it was strange he wasn't there. the extraordinary things about new orleans after katrina whether it be lake view, the lower ninth wa

>> kathleen blanco painted a different picture. >> my experience with this president was that he personally wanted to see everything done properly and he 00 was disappointed in the fact that fema did not perform adequately in the face of such great needs. >> the former governor said president bush pushed $120 billion into rebuilding the gulf despite members of his own party. >> there were forces in his own administration and in the congress who fought against us. but my experience my directly experience was that president bush tried very hard to do what was needed for louisiana. >> reporter: and although more than 1800 people died federal and state officials were able to rescue more than 30,000 people from the flooded areas. after the storm of finger-pointing that followed the hurricane louisiana leaders sesay now what's important is to understand what happened and never let it happen again. >> no president no governor -- >> so president's have it in new orleans was pretty brief, he stayed not a long time, to that one school, when the band played today he danced along, took some photographs

astonishing things that occurred in the weeks after the storm was the decision of then governor kathleen blanco close the entire public school system and reopen a recovery authority school system. can you talk about what happened to the schools, the privatization, the creation of all of these charter schools in new orleans and what has been the result 10 years later? "the makes me think of shock doctrine" by gnomic line, the opportunity that a disaster presents. the governor had wanted to take over many of the local schools in new orleans prior to katrina and she had taken over a few of the worst performing schools. katrina happened and within two months, the state had taken over virtually every public school in new orleans. the real problem is that for years, for 6, 7 years, it was chaos. here are people who were displaced. they are struggling to come home. they just want a sense of place, sense of home. there are no neighborhood schools anymore. people would sign up for a charter school and it would be closed a year or two later and they would have to find another. caret after parent told me

bush, i fault kathleen babineaux blanco governor state of louisiana i fault ray c. nagin the mayor new orleans all of whom have accepted, full responsibility for what has happened to us, and we are still living with the aftermath we are still suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome we are reliving this nightmare sometimes two a night, night after night after night we still crying. drae day after day. >> and -- >> let me get my time is up so i just miss thompson give us a list of people you mentioned in testimony he we will try to get on that yes, sir i truly thank you going to make this very brief when i got new orleans thursday morning i was locked out of my house, went to a friend's house, in this place i worked with the plays kings -- career development specialist,s were a lot of people that i helped to get resources to pay bills helped to get jobs and stuff, and when i got to new orleans couldn't get any went to a friend's house that live around these people when i got there, she had an air mattress on floor that is where i slept when i woke up next morning was

the failures of the president of the united states, the governor of louisiana, kathleen blanco and theayor of new orleans, nagin need not be pointed out as they have already accepted responsibility for their roles in abandoning their very own citizens, their constituencies, the people who elected them and pay taxes to pay their salaries to protect us, they abandoned us. the people of new orleans were stranded in a flood and were allowed to die. what happened to us was foreseeable and it was preventable. the military personnel was stationed just 40 miles outside the city. they could have moved in and gotten people out sooner. people were allowed to die. people did not need to die. our military has the capability. i have seen the military prepare and ride out for desert storm, for ours and hours, a good four hours every massive vehicle imaginable passed over. particularly in the 9th ward area where so many, an a a majority of the people died, there is what was once called the port of embark indication, they have massive ships. they have military hospital, america has military hospitals a

. >> reporter: kathleen blanco was louisiana's governor when the katrina hit. >> we never had enoughmade all the difference in the world. >> reporter: ten years after the storm, where do the rescuers of the cajun navy fit into the response? >> the cajun navy rescuers are true heroes. louisiana people saved louisiana people. >> reporter: the journalist and filmmaker have researched the accomplishments of the cajun navy. angers wrote a book, duran made a documentary. >> they saved 10,000 people and not a one of them thinks of themselves as brave or courageous or a hero. documentary. they were civilian hurricane heroes whose boat propellers were as the new orleans times picayune put it the sounds of salvation. >> no one will ever know all who helped, i will never know, but the people who helped were part of history. >> david begnaud joins us now. that's such an unbelievable story and i imagine the history can't be easy for all of those rescuers. >> reporter: you know, vinita, i was struck by the cajun navy russ kears by how haunted they were by the people they saved. she had a picture o

bush, i fault kathleen babineaux blanco governor state of louisiana i fault ray c.agin the mayor new orleans all of whom have accepted, full responsibility for what has happened to us, and we are still living with the aftermath we are still suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome we are reliving this nightmare sometimes two a night, night after night after night we still crying. drae day after day. >> and -- >> let me get my time is up so i just miss thompson give us a list of people you mentioned in testimony he we will try to get on that yes, sir i truly thank you going to make this very brief when i got new orleans thursday morning i was locked out of my house, went to a friend's house, in this place i worked with the plays kings -- career development specialist,s were a lot of people that i helped to get resources to pay bills helped to get jobs and stuff, and when i got to new orleans couldn't get any went to a friend's house that live around these people when i got there, she had an air mattress on floor that is where i slept when i woke up next morning was e

. >> talk with kathleen blanco. person, ward ins for the prisons get out there, pick up this trash and lit ir. show them we're trying to start somewhere. but right as it stands now, new orleans, united states of america, we are citizens so we demand that our president steps up, step up and be there for us. because we have paid our tax dollars. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, man. thank you. [applause] yes, ma'am. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> my name is eloise williams, from lower -- community as community activist. mr. mayor, i know you don't see me too often but i'm there to say look at my community. right now what i see i don't like. we have been, katrina has passed and gone. but we are still living in debris. we say we're organized to move all of this out of the way, that work can be done. still, it is month now. i have been home. i came home on the 5th of november. till this day i'm still trying to get part of my utilities back cox cable, i haven't been there, but i got a bill. and, yeah

. >> also what we just heard from kathleen blanco, the former communications director, we should haveraphers in to see all the people who got evacuated. >> not to mention the fact that you have this guy out there with this revisionist history going out and it's all about, as you mentioned, him, how he has suffered as a result of what happened in katrina. forget all the victims and people devastated. >> the gentleman you called eha earlier called him a self-important phony. he's right. >>> talking about self-important. europeans are obsessed with donald trump. >> and you're not, jonathan? >> trump is making headlines in europe as well as america. this article says front fits many perceived american stereotypes of america, excess, superficiality and love of wealth. >> i take exception to this. this is crap. have they seen who the prime minister of italy was? come on. trump is berlusconi incarnate. these are crazy americans, money obsessed, fame obsessed. it's shocking. they have had theirs and more in france, england, italy. and they'll get more. >> the person leading the polls in franc

kathleen blanco people. you know, that's not right. that's not acceptable. [applause] i talked to one of these representatives in baton rouge at a labor rally, and she actually had a trunk that loads from the rear. if i'd have gotten the contract, i could have had a truck that loads from the bottom. it didn't matter. we need the contracts. >> got it. >> 30 seconds, please. >> you know, it's not right. and you're talking about new orleans is coming back? be my house is paid for. >> got it. >> you know, they can have new orleans. we're going to live like this, it's not right. >> let us see if we can get you some help. if you could, sir, could i get you with don hutchinson? >> right this way, sir. >> because we have been able to help some businesses to bust through this, okay? >> thank you for your question. ma'am? >> yes, ma'am. >> good afternoon. my name is cheryl and, fortunately, i have a home in algiers and biwater. our electricity is cut off every afternoon. i have lost food after food. fema put us in apartments, we have no refrigerator. another thing, br