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Like dod, dhs, irma was our first hit. for the last year we had federal agencies shoulder to shoulder with puerto rico making sure we can recover. we cannot forget the days after the storm the president and vice president mike pence were on the same week with many agency heads making sure puerto rico could recover. i can attest the largest natural disaster in the nations history certainly. there is a lot of work moving forward to recover and we just filed with the federal government our action p...

Puerto rico, luis rivera marine. thank you for joining us in studio. good to have you. >> great to be here. our prayers with all of those brothers and sisters that are getting ready for the landfall of this monster storm. especially the first responders, many of whom were in puerto rico just a few months ago. >> shannon: you told me they came to your eta so you are watching closely. let me play something with the president had to say about what happened with maria and get your reaction. >> i thi...

>> and the coast guard is unique in the way they rescue, and we saw them in texas and every storm. they operate under a military command, but you also are of course working in the civilian function in a lot of cases. >> the coast guard is a unique service. we are a military multi mission and maritime as we like to say. we are able to talk to the d.o.d. counterparts and work effectively with fema and the other agencies. i like to say that we are bureaucratically multi lingual, because we have to ...

>> well, my job as governor of puerto rico, chuck, is to make sure that i can get as much resources for our people and for our recovery. that is why i have chosen a path of dialogue, of openness, and of collaboration. of course, that dialogue includes pointing out what has been good and there have been some good things in these relationships. there have been some good efforts done, like with housing, our relationship with hud, the response by the d.o.d. was very good in the emergency. and there ...

From d.o.d., how many high clearance trucks are on stand-by. each one of these states have between 7,000 and 11,000 national guard. they will need more help than that. washington, d.c. has 1,500 national guard. what i heard fema say was they had 800,000 liters of water. if you evacuate a million people, the math dont work. they have less than half a million meals. they need to stay out of logistics and make sure weve got the response ready dealing with assistance from large units like the milita...

Congress and figure out and make sure we dont end up with another maria. that was a category 4 storm, and we did not maneuver enough assets using the expeditionary capability of the united states military to basically follow that storm in. and speaking of that, lets move to florence for a minute. i hope -- what i didnt hear today from fema is how many ships are going to be coming in after the hurricane, how many hundreds of helicopters on stand-by from dod, how many high clearance trucks are on ...

Time because we really need to go back and do an analysis, and we need to have hearings in to congress and figure out and make sure we dont end up with another maria. that was a category 4 storm, and we did not maneuver enough assets using the expeditionary capability of the united states military to basically follow that storm in. and speaking of that, lets move to florence for a minute. i hope -- what i didnt hear today from fema is how many ships are going to be coming in after the hurricane,...

Opened in this case is the window to the dod, especially to mattis. >> and tillerson, and the assistant to the president, keep going through the list. >> lets talk more because, max, i want to bring you in. this is what chief of staff john kelly said, again according to the book, hes an idiot. hes gone off the rails. were in crazy town. i dont even know why any of us are here. this is the worst job that i had. and kelly released a statement the idea i called the president an idiot is not true. i...

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