but as a matter of fact, it was stafford, it was tom stafford who came to me, said he had a friend in los angeles who was experimenting with correcting this meniere's problem surgically. i said, great, i'll go see him. he set it up, and so i went on out there. the fellow said, yeah, we do, what we do is make a little opening there and put a tube in so that it enlarges the chamber that takes that fluid pressure and in some cases it's worked. and i said, well, what if it doesn't work? he said, well, you won't be any worse off than you are, except you might lose your hearing, but other than that. so i went out there under an assumed name. >> what was the name? >> oh, it was polis, i think, victor polis. and the doctor knew and the nurse knew but nobody else knew. so victor polis checks in, they run the operation, run the surgery. it's not that traumatic, obviously, because after about a day i was out of there. of course it was obvious when you look at the big ball of stuff over my ear when i got back home. but nasa started looking at me, several months, several months, several months wen

the taxpayers should be spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a museum fulfill collins fake stafford i'm sorry thrill stuff is just not one thanks it is. i kind of discount of the fact live in a political culture right now it is not fact-based. it is tradition traditional pride what you feel a phil : step as it depends on what perspective you're looking at it from prater really did not start a conversation. someday, someone's going to ask whether not they should spend money to put baby crockett fake bag in a four story, but right now most people are really interested in examining our foundational myths in this country. wrinkly little encouraged by that. >> there is a debate for every generation. i think it's one of the through lines of the book. every generation has debated what really happened? what did it mean? what is real and what is not. the fact we are still having that conversation over artifacts that could end up in a museum, could be paid for by taxpayer money is just tells us how much we little we really know. i'm hoping people will come for whatever reason and have a multi

but as a matter of fact it was tom stafford who came to me and said he had a friend in los angeles that was experimenting correcting the problem surgically so i said that's great i will go out and see him so we set it up and went out there and he said we do. what we do is make a little opening and put in a tube so that it enlarges the chamber that takes that pressure and in some cases it's worked and i said what if it doesn't work and he said you won't be any worse off than you were but you might lose your hearing. so i went out there under an assumed name. the doctor new and the nurse knew but nobody else. so they check in and run the operation around the surgery and it's not that traumatic obviously because after about a day i was out of there. of course it was obvious when you look at the big ball in my ear when i get home but nasa started looking at me in several months and finally yes all the tests show you are no longer infected by this disease. so there i was having made the right decision. >> i think we have to backtrack a little bit because this is going to bring you into direc

that cost share requirement as set forth in the stafford act, that is not something we can change. i think there is work we can do to figure out how we can help communities partner and try to find other ending sources that perhaps could be available to help them with that. i'm going to be meeting with state directors to have this same conversation. and helping communities take advantage of this critical resource so they can invest in their future risk. >> any recommendations, if there have to be statutory changes to make it work better, recommendations you can offer is based on the data you are gathering from across the country that may show uneven opportunity to take advantage of the hazard mitigation program would be very helpful. i want to thank the president for committing a historic amount to this hazard mitigation fund, i think $3.5 billion to reduce the effects of climate change, which we know is the most pressing factor in all of this. annapolis took the last 50 years has experienced incredible increase in nuisance flooding, which closes roads, over alms storm water drains

that cost share requirement is set forth in the stafford act. so that's not something that we can change. however, i think that there is work that we can do to figure out how we can help communities partner and try to find other funding sources that perhaps could be available to help them with that. and i'm going to be meeting with state directors to have this same conversation of how do we help communities take advantage of this critical resource so they can start to invest in their future risk. >> i appreciate that. any recommendations, if there have to be statutory changes to make it work better, but any recommendations that you can offer us based on the data that you're gathering up from across the country that may show uneven opportunity to take advantage of the hazard mitigation program i think would be very, very helpful. and, again, i just want to thank the president for committing a historic amount to this hazard mitigation fund, i think about $3.5 billion to reduce the effects of climate change. annapolis over the last 50 years has exp