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We're on the verge of anarchy.
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Can't they un derstand that if nothing else,
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they're going to be hurt politically?
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I don't know what they're doing. mean, the air conditioning must be good,
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because I haven't had any in five days.
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And maybe there's some smoke coming out of the air conditioning
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units that's clogging some folks, you know, their vision.
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Have you talked with the
President?
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I've talked directly with the
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Homeland
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I've talked to everybody
I've been out there, man.
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I've flew these helicopters,
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been in the crowds,
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don't know where their relatives are.
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I've done it all, man.
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God, I keep hearing
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that it's coming.
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This is com ing, that is coming.
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And my answer to that today is
BS.
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Where is the beef?
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Because there is no beef in this city.
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There's no beef anywhere in
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Southeast
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Louisiana, and these goddamn ships that are coming,
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I don't see them.
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What did you say to the
United
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States, and what did he say to you?
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I basically told him we had an incredible crisis here,
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and that his flying over in
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One does not do it justice,
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and that I have been all around this city,
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and I am very frustrated because we are not able to marshal resources,
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And we're outmanned in
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You know the reason why the
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looters got out of control?
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Because we had most of
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our resources saving people.
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Thousands of people that
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were stuck in attics, man.
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When you pull off the dog
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gone ventilator vent,
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they're standing in there
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in water up to their frickin' neck.
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And they don't have a clue
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what's going on down there.
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They flew down here one time,
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Two days after the doggone event was over,
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with
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TV cameras,
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AP reporters,
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all kind of goddamn, excuse my
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French, everybody in
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But I am pissed.
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Did you say that the
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States, I need the military in here?
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I said I need everything.
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President some credit on this.
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He sent one
John
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Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done,
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and his name is
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Honorary.
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And he came off the doggone chopper,
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and he start cussing, and people start moving him.
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And he's getting some stuff done.
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They ought to give that guy, if they don't want to give it to me,
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give him full authority to get the job done,
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an d we can save some people.
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It's awful down here, man.
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Do you believe that the president is seeing this,
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news conference on it, but can't
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Blanco re quests them to do it?
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I have no idea what they're doing,
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but I will tell you this.
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God is looking down on all this,
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and if they are not doing everything in their
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power to save people.
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They are going to pay the price.
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Be cause every day that we delay,
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people are dying.
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And they're dying by the hundreds,
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I'm willing to bet you.
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We're getting
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reports an d calls an d it's breaking my heart when people say,
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I've been in my attic, I
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can't take it anymore, the wa ter's up to my neck,
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I don't think I can hold out.
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And that's
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happened as we speak.
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You know what really upsets me,
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Garland?
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We told everybody the
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importance of the 17th
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Street
Canal issue.
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We said please, please take care of this.
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You said that to everybody.
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Governor,
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Homeland
Security,
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FEMA.
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You name it, we save it.
saved it.
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We saved it.
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When you mention
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Orleans anywhere around the world
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everybody's eyes light up.
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You mean to tell me that a
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place where you probably
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have thousands of
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people that have died,
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and thousands more that
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are dying every day,
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that we can't figure out a way to
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authorize the resources
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that we need?
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Come on, man.
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You know, I'm not one of
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those drug addicts.
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I am thinking very clearly, and I don't know whose problem it is,
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I don't know whether it's the governor's problem, I don't know whether it's the president's problem.
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But somebody needs to get their ass on a plane and sit down,
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the two of them, and figure this out.
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Right now.
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What can we do here?
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Keep talking about it.
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We'll do that.
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What else can we do?
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Organize people to write letters and
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Congress, to the
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President, to the
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Governor.
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Flood their doggone offices with
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requests to do something.
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This is ridiculous.
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And I don't want to see anybody
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do any more goddamn press conferences.
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Put a moratorium on
press conferences.
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We don't do another press conference
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until the re sources are in this city.
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And they come down to this city and stand with us when there are
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military trucks and troops that we can't even count.
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Don't tell me 40 ,000 people
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are coming here.
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They're not here.
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It's too doggone late.
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Now get off your asses and let's
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And let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in
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the history of this country.
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I'll say it right now, you're the only politician that's
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called an d called for harms like this.
And if whatever it takes, the governor, president,
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whatever law president it takes, whatever
it takes, I bet that the people listening
to you are on your side.
Well, I hope so,
Garland.
I am just... I'm at the point now
where it don't matter.
People are dying.
They don't have homes.
They don't have jobs.
The city of
New
Orleans will never be the same.
And it's time, it's time,
it's time...
Good, good.
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