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>> well, despite, you know, what the president is saying, the former fema administrator craig fugate told my producer today fema is still working in louisiana for katrina recovery. thats 12 years later. and said fema is going to be working for recovery years to come if puerto rico, the u.s. virgin islands, in florida, in texas, and a tweet doesnt change that. so, i want you to give us an update on what is happening. do you feel, do you feel that you have the help that you need? >> no, but it has...

Who dont believe donald trump has been or will be a good president, i think we get a little bit hopeful. think about what would have to happen. it is an extraordinary thing to do. they would have to feel they had bold, bold evidence that this was a disaster. they would have to worry about what was going to happen with the gop afterwards because the divisiveness, the fights about what had just been done and also when we talk about the 25th amendment, we are putting our faith in a cabinet that is ...

Almost like a troubled employee, treating him with kid gloves. theyre saying hes not isolated, he just manages by chaos. what are people telling you? >> i think thats a way a lot of people took his original comments which is why he had to come out and set the record straight and say that he wasnt saying the president is being controlled. but thats what -- thats how we talk about this president. thats how we talk about john kelly. john kelly got a lot of praise when he first came into the west wi...

And the people that are here working on the ground and, frankly, the big mouth of the president of the united states. it continues to add insult to injury. his tweets -- >> let me ask you about his tweets, mayor. >> out of a book of how to win people. >> out of his tweets, the trump administration asked for $4.9 billion to fund a loan program that puerto rico can use to address basic functions like infrastructure needs. that matters a lot more than the angry tweets, right? you want to see things...

>> yeah. he said hes not quitting, you know. he was, i guess, they told him to go out and do that. but he says hes not quitting. he talked about the angry faces or at least the sort of, what should we call them, stone face or frightened faces of john kelly. >> oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> looking like he wasnt so happy during the charlottesville speech, the u.n. speech, the general assembly speech where he threatened about north korea. >> the cameras always catch me when im thinking hard and it look...

He first started. i mean, mike flynn is a prime example of somebody who didnt last terribly long. i think john kelly is definitely a trade up from reince priebus just in terms of the ability to manage the staff. i mean obviously its not the chief of staffs job to really control the president, but certainly i think that he has marginally helped by curating the information that he gets. but think of it this way, don. john kelly said this is the hardest job hes ever had. this is a guy who literally...

About signing his executive order on health care that he almost forgot to actually sign it. [ applause ] >> thank you, everybody. [ laughter ] >> the most important thing. im only signing it because it costs nothing. >> i love that so much. its not the first time, remember, we talked about it that he forgot to sign an executive order. here he is back in march. >> very quick. thank you very much. >> mr. president, today with your tweet were you trying to tell the justice department to grant immun...

Were back now with my panel. so, scott, before the break you said its because president obama passed a bad law. whatever, whatever you think of that. but this is -- you know there is a tweet and a sound byte for everything, right? this is the same donald trump who repeatedly said this about the former president. >> we have a president that signs executive orders because he cant get anything done. >> right now obama goes around signing executive orders. he cant get along with the democrats and he...

So, this is not somebody who necessarily has changed the way that hes doing things regardless of who is around him. and, you know, i dont understand tom barracks relationship with him because he seems like a pretty reasonable person. >> he is actually. >> when he talks about the president, i dont quite know what hes talking about. you know, he was saying that he -- hes just doing such a terrific job and such a great job. im curious to know what he thinks that the president is doing so well. beca...

And rather than offering comforting words and being, you know, hey, if you cant be a president, be an executive. make sure that all dots are straight in a row and we are getting things done. and i have to say in the past week femas response at least in san juan has been a lot better. is it everything that we need? no. >> do you think the president is treating puerto rico differently than texas and florida after the hurricanes? because he didnt tweet that about texas and florida and im sure fema ...