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you've got a katrina response that is considered inadequate. and the voters responded. >> why all the glum faces? yesterday the people went to the polls. and they cast their vote for a new direction in the house of representatives. and while the ballots are still being counted in the senate it's clear the democrat party had a good night last night. >> and so we have a divided government. democrats running congress, a republican in the white house. that portends battles ahead. >> after that election many republicans are concluding that iraq is their vietnam and that this war is going to have a big political cost and bush needs to %-p follow him deeper into the quagmire in iraq. >> but then he takes one of the most unexpected steps you could imagine. he says there's going to be a surge of troops in iraq. >> on capitol hill president bush faced more skeptical, even hostile reaction to his plan to send more than 21,000 additional troops to iraq. >> 20,000 to 30,000 troops. we did that before. >> one senior official today in the building summing it

bush at mow m -- momentous times like september 11 and hurricane katrina. brett kavanaugh's history extends for the past 12 years on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. that's the most prominent appeals court in the country. he was a clerk for the justice he could replace, anthony kennedy. he was the lead author of the 1998 ken starr report that detailed bill clinton's involvement with monica lewinsky and laid out the grounds for impeachment but it's interesting and democrats will seize on this, after working for the george w. bush administration, kavanaugh wrote a law review article saying he had new appreciation for the demands of the presidency and recommended the presidents should be shielded from litigation until after they leave the white house so that was an interesting take. kavanaugh tried to quiet the outcry from democrats saying he will first and foremost uphold the rule of law. take a listen. >> i will tell each senator that i revere the constitution. i believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic. i wil

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and that was shortly after katrina and florida was hammered by a bunch of hurricanes. and then we headed -- like a hurricane drought for ten years. everyone kind of goes to sleep. in my new book one of the chapters is back then actually around 2006 all these climate scientists were arguing about hurricanes in a warming world. some were saying, we don't really know the things about hurricanes is they could get weaker in a warming world, blah, blah, blah. but the one thing they all agreed on, they wrote this one letter that's in this book, where they said you know the thing we're really worried about, all of us, is we're building way too fast in hurricane danger zones. and that's the thing that -- that's the message that gets lost too often. >> right. it's a complex issue and every time these things pop up we try to visit it and check it. but we appreciate so much you taking the time. andrew revkin, environmentalist and science writer with national geographic society. >> great to be with you. >>> just around the corner, the u.s. midterm elections three months away, and p

katrina exploezs this city's worst nightmare. the waterways on which they have worked and thrives for centuries now threatened to drown it. the city center surrounded by protective levies could fill up like a bathtub with storm surge. >> ladies and gentlemen, i wish i huh better news for you. but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. a mandatory et evacuation order is called for all of the perish of new orleans. >> the storm is the size of the state of florida. it will be in the top five in terms of strength. >> they declared an evacuation. it was too late. >> thousands of people have been in line for hours here at the superdome where 30,000 people may end up spending the night inside this giant shelter that officials are confident will hold up. >> hurricane katrina, the category 4 storm is baring down on louisiana. >> this is what everyone feared. the storm surge. >> it is a very frightening scene outside. >> new orleans lost power and the roof is leaking at the louisiana superdome. >>> new orleans is to longer safe

katrina, you think we're all overacting to the helsinki summit. explain. >> i think we need sober realism on russia, fareed. we need more reason, less talk of treason. the open letter, yes, the mueller investigation must proceed, must be protelkted. but we must do everything we can to accident occsecure and prote election. that means protection against dark money, voter suppression, partisan gerrymandering and reduce conflict with russia. these are the two countries that control 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. so i think it's vital. our weapon was signed by people like ambassador matlock. by gloria stein hyheimsteinheim. these are people that understand that cold war is lousy for citizens, for women, for children, for progressives, deplete resources, empower war parties. we need a debate, fareed and i thank you for inviting me on. there's a lock down in the media. it's a one handed clapping when it comes to the u.s. having a relationship with russia. understanding putin is an authoritarian figure. also understanding the nation's open letter wa

reeling frumg katrina. fiscal problems so on. you, you -- did a lot of great work to, to deal with those, use. the one issue that you struggle with right to the end was violence. talk about that. because the you wrote, right, very movingly in this book. about the experience of having to go, console fathers and mothers -- >> well, first of all. serving was the greatest honor of my life. a tough, tough, tough eight years. we, rebuilt a great american city. but one of the issues that i still -- don't have a handle on. don't understand and won't accept. is the number of deaths of young african-american men on the streets of america, that nobody seems other than the parents and their namely members, to want to spend a lot of time of on. and i think it is a fixable problem. something i wanted to understand. know. >> how is it fixable. i come from chicago. tremendous issues. >> walking by faith, not sight. this isn't rocket science. this is human beings hurting others with guns. i want explore, violence as public health threat, transmit

. >> hurricane katrina is now bearing down on louisiana. >> where is the federal government? where are the troops? >> signs the economy

good faith efforts under way, but you know, sometimes people talk about it as if it's like hurricane katrina, but that was an act of god. that was something that was, you know, that was a terrible response, but george bush didn't start the rain in new orleans. this is a completely trump administration created crisis and the fact that they are stumbling to a partial solution, they get less than partial credit. >> david, what did you make of what the secretary said, that so many of the so-called parents, he is not sure they are parents, they are criminals and murders and child molesters and they have to do dna testing and they have only started in recent days? >> that is part of the problem with the posture over the last few weeks about not needing judges and sort of sending people back, almost toss people back across the bored ever. look, there's legitimate asylum claims and there's claims that are not legitimate. that is why we as the world's wealthiest country have to put the resources out to ajudicate things according to the rule of law. do it in an orderly fashion and not have a situation

households for disaster assistance between august 25th and november 30th alone, that's more than hurricanes katrina, reet a wilma, and sandy combined. >>> up to 100 cases of salmonella are linked to honey smacks cereal. 27 more people have been sickened in a multi-state outbreak that started in march. florida and colorado are the latest states to report illnesses, raising the total number of states to 33 and more than 100 people have been sickened by a para site possibly linked to mcdonald's salads in illinois and iowa. illinois reporting 90 cases with a quarter of the victims eating salad from mcdonald's in the days before they got sick. the fast-food chain cooperating with federal and local investigators. >>> hbo's "game of thrones" leading the pack with 22 emmy nominations for 2018. finishing a close second, another hbo drama, "west world," tallying 21 nominations. behind the sci-fi western, hulu's the han"the handmaid's t" "saturday night live" also with 21 emmy nominations. and get this, the roseanne show picked up two nominations despite being canceled in may because of the star's racist twee

george bush didn't cause katrina. this was an intentional hurricane but what we have learned from this is that the administration's chaos can be overcome by our constitution. i'm glad that my state is in court suing to protect these children. we need to have guardians of the constitution, i'm glad we're fighting tooth and nail. if we speak up, we can win. donald trump folded like a cheap suit when the american people -- both republicans and democrats -- were offended by this policy so we know we can win these battles if we speak up and are resilient. >> i want to ask about i.c.e. there is a groundswell of democrats calling for i.c.e. to be abolished because of this. do you think i.c.e. should be abolished? >> i voted against i.c.e. in the first place. i've been a critic of it and we consider reorganization but we need to understand this. we can't let donald trump get off by putting a new name on a new agency because he is the source of the problem. >> but if you get rid of i.c.e., what do you have? what's the point of

. >> hurricane katrina is now bearing down on louisiana. >> where is the federal government? where are the troops? >> shame on bush! shame on bush! >> signs the economy is in trouble just keep on coming. >> i see a great day coming for our country, and i'm eager for the work ahead

was staff secretary for the president at some momentous times including september 11th and hurricane katrina. there's really no doubt democrats will be seizing on all of that paper, all of that paper trail, and scrutinizing every word they can find. now of course, president trump, he's talked about it this morning. he is confident in his pick. but some questions were raised this morning just outside the white house with spokesman raj shah. the question included how brett kavanaugh was picked and what his role might be if he were to be confirmed at the supreme court if any russia investigation, related case, landed there. take a listen. >> did anybody in the white house assure justice kennedy that he -- his replacement would be brett kavanaugh if he retired? >> no. >> would he recuse himself if any questions related to the mueller probe make it to the supreme court? >> those are complex legal issues. >> reporter: so the white house dodging that direct question there. the question it came up because judge kavanaugh, he has written about the possibility of indicting sitting presidents. and he s

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trying to manage insurgency in iraq, hurricane katrina and his own plummeting pole numbers. here's a sneak peek. >> where are the weapons of mass destruction? >> where are the weapons of mass destruction? >> you had inspectors scrambling and they couldn't find what had been one of the primary just fa i ka justifications for the wa >> it turns out we were all wrong probably in my judgment and that is most disturbing. >> i concluded that there were no weapons of mass destruction. we'd gone to war on that basis. but others in the administration continued to insist that they existed. so charles dotter was offered the job after i resigned and he confirmed. >> he issued a comprehensive report that confirms the earlier conclusion of david kay that iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there. >> it was an embarrassment to the bush administration. and so democrats are feeling that there is an opportunity for a different direction. >> i'm john kerry and i'm reporting for duty. >> john kerry seemed to solve a problem for the democratic party. the democratic

it katrina is right that most americans want good relations between the united states and russia. the issue is, does the president have any idea about how to achieve that goal? what are the requirements of it? one requirement as katrina suggests is actually a debate, although he makes it a lot harder to have a debate because everybody just has to gang up against him and has to because he requires it. the requirements are better russian-american relations are to start with a certain kind of unity in the united states and in the u.s. government. we're in the unique situation of having a president who has his entire administration and the congress against him on a major foreign policy issue. he can't do this by himself. second requirement is unity within the alliance. he's threatened that. a third requirement is some kind of leverage, the president seems to be interested in reducing our leverage. the incentives that we give russia to act responsibly. he wants to have a big deal in syria, for example, and yet he wants to -- his clear goal is to get out of syria. that isn't going to gi

were republicans who were saying to me privately at the time of family separation at the peak that is katrina for trump. we are talking about something else right now. we will have more time to talk about this. turning to one trump administration member who seems to attract a scandal a day. >> i just wanted to urge you to resign because -- you're doing harm to the country. >> that's right. a woman calling out scott pruitt as a news scandal for the epa administrator surfaces. purina one. natural ingredients, plus vitamins and minerals in powerful combinations. for radiant coats, sparkling eyes, and vibrant energy. purina one. 28 days. one visibly healthy pet. it all started when donald trump tore thousands of immigrant children away from their parents. we the people challenged him in court and in the streets. then trump was forced to admit that his policy was wrong. and he caved. the court just ruled that trump must reunite every family he broke apart. (clock ticking rapidly) time is ticking. these children must see their parents again, and they're counting on us to act quickly. these children

bush and his second term, like the insurgency in iraq, the melt down, and hurricane katrina. katrina exposes this city's worst nightmare, the very water ways on which new orleans has lived and worked and thrived for centurys now threaten to drown it. the city center could fill up like a bathtub with storm surge. >> ladies and gentlemen, i wish i had better news for you, but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. a mandatory evacuation order is hereby called for all of the parish of or leans. >> the storm is now the size of the state of florida. it will be in the top five in terms of strength to ever hit the united states. >> by the time the mayor declared an evacuation, it was too late. >> thousands of people have been in line for hours here at the super dome, where 30,000 people may end up spending the night inside this giant shelter that officials are confident will hold up. >> and see how president bush led the nation in these hards p hardships watch the 2000s tonight at 9:00 on cnn. >>> the past week has not been a smooth one for president trump, backlash over

it reminds me of the ice trucks in katrina sent up to maine instead of mississippi and so on. how big of a fiasco is this for the administration and how much bigger can it get? if it can't meet the deadline? >> it can absolutely get worse. i'll use plain language that jeffrey toobin, our good friend, uses. we can talk about the politics, the logistics but it's morality of it. it's immoral to divide up families at border. i go back do something i said when this blew up, jim. if you look into the republican party platform, they talk about the need for a mother and the father to raise a child. whether or not you agree with it -- >> family values. >> the fact of the matter is we haven't seen this outcry of republicans that should have -- we should have heard a long, long time ago. it could get worse. what we saw with the families, became political bargaining chips in this issue of immigration that we as a country have failed to solve. >> and trump as you know is seizing on this abolish i.c.e. movement going on in the democratic party. i guess it's not really a ground swell of supp

that's when katrina lake founded stitch fix. today she's 35 years old and runs the $2 billion company and is the youngest woman ever to take a company public. we go way back. look at this. as embarrassing as it might be, that's me and cat in high school growing up together in minnesota. i wanted to be a lawyer. she wanted to be a doctor. good for her. we got together a few weeks ago for my latest boss files podcast. it releases this morning. here it is. you said, i'm not somebody looked at and said she's going to be a ceo. why? >> it really wasn't my aspiration. that wasn't the path i was putting myself on. people ask, was it stanford that did it? you were surrounded by all these entrepreneurs. >> then harvard. >> stanford is meant to be -- larry and sergei were -- >> i love you are on a first name basis with them. >> people sometimes ask me, was stanford the place that gave you the inspiration to be a entrepreneur? the crazy thing is, i almost feel like it deterred me. i looked at people like larry and sergei who were sitting i

amy: katrina vanden heuvel, thank you for being with us. when we come back, a man who critiques every level of the state. and their thoughts and not just thekatrina vanden heuvel is edir and publisher of the nation.and. she's also a co-signer of the magazine's open letter: "common ground: for secure elections and true national security." the letter is also signed by daniel ellsbsberg, gloria stein, noam chomsky, governor bill richardson, reverend dr. william barber and michael moore, among others. we will link to it at democracynow.org. when we comeme back, boots rile. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "pimps" performed by the coup and produced by boots riley. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we spend the rest of the hour with boots riley, director of "sorry to bother you," the dystopian social satire that follows one oakland man's rise to the upper echelons of an evil telemarketing company, only to discover a secret that threatens all of humankind. here is the crical

we will speak with katrina vanden heuvel from the nation magazine. looks the nation has released --, ground for secure elections for international security and the belief when a 2-d escalate tensions with russia and that there is a false choice between having secure elections and that relationship. nucuclear a catastrophe, elections are going to be an a afterthought. amy: masass protest are expected to greet trump as he arrives for his first visit to britain as president. protesters will float a 20 foot long giant baby trump blimp outside parliament that will ngry the president as an orange baby clututching a cell phone ready to tweet. repsents a hosof issu. it isn't just about mocking him. it is about drawingttention that his politics are havining a real i impact on real lives, not just in the u.s.s., but all over the world. amy: we will speak witith sheila menon, one of the b blimp organizers, and with colin -- guardian columnist george monbiot. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm