they they ve prepositioned folks all throughout the east coast in anticipation of this storm. they have supplies ready to go. so people are working hard. they re working long hours. but they tell me, you know, please get the word out that, you know, listen to local officials. that s the most important thing right now. because those officials really know what s happening on the ground. they know their neighborhoods, they know the people in their communities and really listen to the local officials. lars anderson former fema official. lars, we ll leave it there. thank you, sir. thank you. biden in the hot seat. former vice president spoke to stephen colbert about his recent shall we say missteps on the campaign trail. but it was his answer about when he decided to run that may have been the most revealing. i planned each charted course each careful step along the byway much more much more than this i did it my way
joe biden s campaign has done. look, he s going to keep making gaffs. he s been making gaffs for years. this is not unusual for him. it s something that is endearing to an extent to some of his supporters. they see it as something that he s been doing for a long time. they see a museum man element in some of the gaffs that he makes. but i think the most important thing is he doesn t go out there and flub or mischaracterize and opponent s record. it s one thing to sort of mischaracterize something in light of a good intention. it s a totally different thing if you re going after a candidate and trying to mischaracterize their record in any way. there was good news for the former vice president today. there s this new pole from battleground, wisconsin, i m sure you ve seen it. it shows biden leading the president by nine points in a general election matchup. and that was a pole taken among 800 registered voters in wisconsin. you can see the information about the pole at the bottom of y
first vice president s chief of staff mark shorts, he said that the president suggested that he stay there. but then the vice president s office later amended that saying that the decision was pence s. what do you make of this back and forth? well, i ve been to doonbeg throw times and it s a really nice place, craig. i can understand why d want to say there. the highway system in ireland is not as you would expect it is in the united states. so, you know, i think this controversial come and go and the vice president will stay there, i don t know what it costs. i mow it s a top-rate, extremely secure facility. when i was there last, the president was coming to visit and there was a tremendous amount of security. we left before the president got there, but but kayden, it s 181 miles away from his meetings and it s his boss s resort. what about just the appearance of impropriety? politically correct it is not. i ll agree with that.
has there been any meaningful pushback on the hill? i think what s going to be most interesting is what happens next week. congress is still out of session so you haven t had a lot of the senators and the house members who are going to have their communities impacted by this. puerto rico is obviously feeling a big weight in this in terms of of the number, $400 million. but there s other states, utah, senator romney said he was disappointed in this. and the thing that s going to be really important is is there a critical mass of republicans who rise up against this trump administration decision? there has been times when republicans have been willing to take on the administration, very few of them. but when they do, the president often waivers. kayden, meanwhile the vice president, vice president mike pence appears to be dealing with a controversy of his own making for staying at this trump hotel in that trip to ireland. vice president pence stayed about 181 miles away from his meet
adviser to the hillary clinton campaign. she s also an msnbc contributor. making light of it there, adrienne, does that help does that assuage some of the folks who might have been concerned or who may be concerned about the vice president s flubs? yeah, i think so. think it s smart that the biden campaign decided to put joe biden on stephen colbert last night. because, for one had the any time you re trying to make light of something that could potentially be damaging in the future, it s very commonplace that campaigns will put your the candidate in a setting that allows them to, you know, sort of ease the, you know, potential burden, ease the potential pain and, you know, sort of make light of this. there s no better place do that than putting the candidate on the late show. we do this a couple times with hillary clinton on the campaign whenever there s the email situation, for example, which got so far out of hand it was a way for her to sort of make fun of it, make light of