i'm a rock a former nominee for vice president under the green party ticket joins me now welcome mr brock at can you start by explaining the difference in your view between the overt symbols of white supremacy in this country and the system which perpetuates it. thank you for having me what i'm referring to is the fact that for the last few decades. u.s. politics have moved progressively considerably to the right in fact the emergence of the real liberal the is that expression but unfortunately that characterized the neo liberalism as a right wing expression it's not something to talk. instead it's very easy to focus in all the more crude expressions of right wing populism right wing fringe groups as we saw it and saw this bill not. in the client in those kinds of very easy to talk it was warm sort of thing more. impactful or the masses of people in the us is there have been a bit more is this because the key to understanding the clash of interests represented by the neo liberal trans national elite in the united states explain for viewers what you mean by neo liberalism in the new libera

the president has spoken with both mr. brock long and me and the governors of the affected states.d to support, he is there once -- has fully empowered us to carry out the operations we need to do and has said he has an open line for any assistance we need throughout the government. >> thank you so much, madam secretary, to spending some time with us. we hope everyone in the storm's path stays safe. please come back if there's important information to get to the residents of texas. >>> when we come back, gabe gutierrez who is on the ground gives us a live update. thank you so much. thank you! so we're a go? yes! we got a yes! what does that mean for purchasing? purchase. let's do this. got it. book the flights! hai! si! si! ya! ya! ya! what does that mean for us? we can get stuff. what's it mean for shipping? ship the goods. you're a go! you got the green light. that means go! oh, yeah. start saying yes to your company's best ideas. we're gonna hit our launch date! (scream) thank you! goodbye! let us help with money and know-how, so you can get business done. american express open.

something i find interesting which i'm sure you've noticed mr brock that is the fact meters of the white supremacist movement from david duke to richard spencer adopt antiwar and die neo liberal rhetoric how does the lab space alien to have a critique of structure in the example you give is the airplane union nato needs a population susceptible to right wing reactionary politics. the result the same thing happening in rest of europe the basically the left abandoned that terrain to the right about not talking to the the super mash national institutions like the e.u. and those contradictions they left it to the new right to find food and what the enemy was by now talking about the issues a meal liberalism again you find that the new right is talking about those issues in class terms so we see the same thing happening in the us donald trump can emerge because he talks about the plight of the working class as he talked about the stouffer's transnational elites and it resonates with that base of people in the us so this is this inability of the left to to articulate a ask a. progressive speec

. >> allht director of fee ma, mr. brock long. welcome to meet the press. >> good morning. how are you, sir? >> i'm pretty good. let me start with this cleanup effort and what lester was just saying. and understandably that some of it is delayed or stalled because more is to come. what kind of extra efforts are you having to -- resources are you having to marshall to deal with issues of flooding? are you having more air support, coast guard coming in? what are the resources you're having to start now? >> so, first of all, i'd like to say that president trump is extremely concerned about this. he's given me all the authorities to amass the resources from the federal government down through our state and local partners. and right now we have nearly 5,000 staff that we have coordinated across the federal government within the states of texas and louisiana helping governor abbott as well as the locals respond. right now we're not doing recovery. there's no such thi right now we are deep into the life safety mission of helping people be rescued through swift water rescues, searc

mr. administrator, brock long, thank you for what you're doing. thank you for stopping by to let us know and get the word out for you. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> now to houston gowhere gabe route riz i guttierez is there. a lot of people trying to get through streets. >> reporter: that's right, good afternoon. yes, here in houston, this is something that we're seeing playing out all over and over again. take a look from our ground camera, we also have live drone images. so you can see this is chimney rock right on on the wegs pars of houston. many of the roads are still impassable. thousands of calls for water rescues. it's been tough to get around. we drove up here from corpus christi and around the houston suburbs, many of the roads are blocked off, yet you can still see there are parts that are dry and we're getting a brief break from the rain right now, but if you turn the corner, many of the feeder roads for the freeways are flooded and the concern is that people are driving through this area. it's really tough to pass through this road

mr. brocking the next objective is to stabilize storm survivors, the 50 counties in texas that have been affected. safetylooking at a life mission at this point. talking about the fact that they need to restore power and they need citizens to be involved. it feels like this is not over. we cannot lose sight of that. the hurricane is over, but the trickle-down effects are very dire. jonathan: it will not press until later this week. it is slow playing out this crisis in texas. alix: in the market, we are looking at individual stocks. m&a action, gilead buying kite pharmaceutical for $11 billion in cash. taking a look at kite, that stock is still halted in the free market. -- premarket. you have gilead up 2.5% in the premarket. lowes up. the tractor supply rose 3.5%. about 9% of home depot's 2000 stores are in texas. about 25% of the texas population was in the way of that storm. we will be discussing the trickle-down in terms of retail and other products later on. jonathan: coming up later on, a

brock. >> thank you, mr. president. this is an historic proportion storm and flood. the challenge that we have obviously is to get resources to the individuals that are stranded right now, make certain that the evacuees have a place to go from an hhs standpoint, our responsibilities are medical and veterinary and mortuary. we'll be all all of the above. the challenges that most visuals who suffer. try to make certain that we've got pharmacies staff, try to make sure the dialysis units are up, making sure people get electricity to their homes, oxygen concentrators will be able to be utilized. and then just chronic disease, making sure folks can get to their doctor when they're in their hometown and get treatment that they need. we are staffed up and ready to go. we've got four federal medical stations, two that are up and running and to go on the way. we've got four or five that are stationed after that. >> thank you very much. >> we are here for you. >> sba has the willies office and fort worth area, have 600 available in the search. they are already coming in. actua

then we get on to nim and brock and everybody. >> thank you, mr. president. this is historic flood. we have to get resources to individuals that are stranded right now. mick certain evacuees have a place to go. from hhs, your responsibilities are veterinarian and medical and mortuary. all challenges for the above. most individuals who suffer from these, suffer from not getting medical care they need after the, when the sun comes out. so trying to make certain we have pharmacies staffed. make certain dialysis units are up. get electricity to the homes, oxygen concentrators and the like are able to be utilized. chronic disease, make sure folks get to their doctor when they aren't in their hometown and get their treatment they need. we're staffed up. we have four federal medical stations that, two are up and running. and two on the way. we've got another four or five that are stationed beyond after that, depending where folks need >> [inaudible]. >> we're here for you. >> thank you, tom. linda? >> fba, disaster relief office in dallas-ft. worth area. we have 900

words, and then i'll ask linda and ben and then i think we get on to nim and to brock and everybody. tom? >> thank you, mrsaid, this is a historic proportion storm. and flood. the challenge that we have, obviously, is to get the resources to the individuals that are stranded right now. make certain that the evacuees have a place to go. our responsibilities are medical and veterinary and mortuary. and there will be all of the above. the challenge that we have in the long-term is that most individuals who suffer from these -- suffer from not being able to get the medical care they need after the -- when the sun comes out. so trying to make certain that we have got pharmacies staffed, make certain folks are getting electricity to their homes so the oxygen concentrators and the like are able to be utilized. and then just chronic disease. making certain folks can get to their doctor when they aren't in their hometown and get the treatment they need. we're staffed up, ready to go. we've got four federal medical stations that are -- two are up and running. and two on the way. and we've got another four or five t

mr. president you need to make certain whatever brock long the fema administrator asks for, members and subcabineton't ask questions. he is on the ground, give it to him. we have a problem we have a lot of vacancies in this administration. i think the president can make it work if he gets on bully pulpit. cheryl: it is interesting, mike, first time i interviewed you during the katrina crisis. that was such a surprise, if you will for all of us, that the path of the hurricane changed so quickly. >> yes. cheryl: this seems different. we heard from the white house at the briefing. a lot of focus and texas and attention on texas and from bab bab -- abbott. seems they're prepared for this and vice president pence is monitoring the hurricane. >> governor abbott knows what his responsiblities are. as i have told people in other discussions, right now, what you and i don't see, but what's going on is that representatives of fema are sitting down with representatives of texas and this is the conversation they're having. okay, governor, what do you need? what is working, what's not working? they're divvying

but we do want to talk with fema administrator brock long on the phone from washington. thank you, mrng, for joining us. help us understand where in texas the real concerns are this hour? >> so, right now, this is a very dynamic forecast. there's a lot of uncertainty in the rain forecast. we've got to be careful, and focusing on one specific area. you know, we obviously had damage reports coming in from the coastal storm surge event and high wind event as the storm was making landfall last night. but, again, we've got to continuously watch this rainfall forecast over the next 72 to 120 hours. unfortunately, for texas citizens, this is going to be a devastating, long and frustrating event. >> devastating, long and frustrating. i just want to read your tweet here, citizens of texas this is now turning into a deadly inland event. first, do you know if it has indeed been fatal? and second, what led you to that really stark warning to the people of texas? >> you know, the best storm, you know, the most similar storm, and all storms are different. if you look at what happened in 2001 with t

but brock adams at fema is a real superstar in emergency management and he's -- he'll have things under control. >> i had a really -- i was able to have a good conversation with mr. long and appreciated his insight and he seems to have a good grip on things. >> i'm sorry, brock long. i sa i said brock adams. >> that is okay. the same person, sir. but the real story is the flooding. and there are predictions of over 40 inches of rain in certain areas of texas. so what does fema need to do to keep people safe? what can fema do? >> well, right now, the federal force, which is made of up people from across many agencies, they are actually -- it is still in response mode. so it is not in a recovery mode yet. and they are not moving in just yet because they don't want to put these people in harm's way either. but they have been very, very forward leaning. they've brought generators, dozens, and practice sheeting, cots, blankets. they've really, really moved out ahead of the storm in terms of the -- being able to respond and help jump start the recovery. people are going to want to get back and see what kind of damage they have to their homes. there is two types of ass

couple of words then i'll ask glenda and ben and i think we get on to them and brock and everybody >> tom >> sure, thank you, mr this is an historic proportion storm and flood. the challenge that we have obviously is to get the resources to the individuals that are stranded right now. make certain that tevacuees hav a place to go. our responsibilities are medical and veterinary and mortuary. there will be all of the above challenge that we have in the long-term is that most individuals who suffer from these, suffer from not being able to get the medical care they need. >> that's the president meeting in austin with disaster recovery officials. they continue to oversee the recovery in houston. eamon? >> you saw tom price there, the secretary of health and human services what they're talking about is really the next steps already looking ahead to the health impact of what we're seeing. we have that much water in the streets, as you saw with contessa contessa's report, you're going to have situations where they don't get the health care they need and it spreads disease and dangerous situations in terms of food con

. >>> we want to move to brock long, the fema administrator, in charge of making sure that the emergency response in this country is robust. mr. long, thank you very much for joining us on this saturday morning. >> good morning. glad to be with you. >> as we all know and you certainly know, after hurricane katrina which was 12 years ago this tuesday, your -- fema, your agency took a beating politically and in the public eye for many viewed was an inadequate response. as we head into this, the biggest and strongest storm to hit in 12 years are you prepared? >> yeah, absolutely. fema is vastly different from the days of katrina and we learned a lot from that event. you know, congress passed meaningful legislation through it to allow us the ability to move forward. last night the president expedited the governor's major disaster declaration request and approve tla approve that. what that does is we can move forward and bring the entire firepower of the federal government down to help the state and local governments to meet their response goals. >> you and i spoke yesterday when harvey was a category 2 storm. it made landfall as

brock long as the menu just saw there, the administrator , he joins us on the phone from san antonio. mradministrator, thank you for joining us. >> how are you doing today, bret? >> what your biggest concern of this hour? >> the biggest concern is there's a lot of safety ongoing in the rainfall. it unfortunately, it's not done. to put it into context, this is such an historic event, on average houston receives 50 inches of rainfall annually. in many cases, they basically see their yearly work of rainfall in about 2-3 days. that's how bad this is. >> bret: talk about the interaction between the state and your efforts. i heard governor abbott talking earlier today how things are going as far as the logistics. >> so i was with governor abbott in corpus christi today. we went to -- it was also good to sit down with the mayor. we reconfirmed any gaps that there may be, we have all eyes on commodities moving forward. i visited upon a distribution center where we are already providing people with much needed food water. and last night. this morning, actually, i spoke to governor john bel edward

. >>> we want to move to brock long, the fema administrator, in charge of making sure that the emergency response in this country is robust. mr. long, thank you very much for joining us on this saturday morning. >> good morning. glad to be with you. >> as we all know and you certainly know, after hurricane katrina which was 12 years ago this tuesday, your -- fema, your agency took a beating politically and in the public eye for many viewed was an inadequate response. as we head into this, the biggest and strongest storm to hit in 12 years are you prepared? >> yeah, absolutely. fema is vastly different from the days of katrina and we learned a lot from that event. you know, congress passed meaningful legislation through it to allow us the ability to move forward. last night the president expedited the governor's major disaster declaration request and approve tla approve that. what that does is we can move forward and bring the entire firepower of the federal government down to help the state and local governments to meet their response goals. >> you and i spoke yesterday when harvey was a category 2 storm. it made landfall as

mrs. first lady also. the compassion permeates everything that's been done. it's been great working with everybody. and, governor, one of the people i admire the most with what you've been doing. brockverybody that we've been working with is fantastic. what we've been trying to do is make sure we go from the phase of rescue and reaction to the phase of recovery and a smooth transition. we're also going to be assisting the state and local governments in reallocation of federal accidents to disaster relief, looking at granting immediate foreclosure relief. insurance, mortgage insurance, as well as insurance for rehabilitation through the section 203k program. section 108 loan guarantees for infrastructure for economic development and for a host of things. and also disseminating information which is so critical. the masses frequently become confused. we're working very hard to get rid of some of the regulatory burdens so we can get things done very quickly. linda and i will be working on that to make sure we get what we need to the people. and i want everybody to know that we're in this for the long run. we know that once the water recedes, that's where our work really begins and we're

and then we get on to brock and everybody. >> mr. president, this is a historic proportion storm and flood. we are getting resources to the individuals that are stranded right now. our a hhs standpoint, responsibilities are medical and rescue. the challenge we have in the long-term is most individuals who suffer from ts suffer from not being able to get the medical care they need after the -- when the sun comes out. we are trying to make rtain we have pharmacies staffed, make certain folks are getting electricity to their homes. disease, just chronic making sure folks can get to their doctor in their home towns and making sure they get the treatment they need. we have four federal medical stations, two are up and running with two on the way. we have another four or five after that, depending on where folks need them. pres. trump: thank you very much, tom. linda? >> sba has its office in the dallas-fort worth area. we have 900 there permanently. fromually did get a note the plane. we made the first home loan approval from this disaste