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Operate a mission assignment telling them to take an airplane and fly it from new york to california with a million masks on it. youre handicapping one of the most capable organizations you have and they also have the united states transportation command, which is another four star. so you got about eight four star generals working through the rear admiral and the fema administrator. youre not using the power and the capacity of the department of defense to defend the nation because the nation m...

For two reasons. one, he didnt get out there to them. and two, there was a communication problem of grave import that persists to this day. that communications problem is tied to the electric power restoration problem. if i could before i take the next question, let me explain why and how the power restoration process is unfolding. we put the u.s. army corps engineers in charge of power restoration. theyre in charge of a lot but not everything. the people of puerto rico are strong and competent....

What do you know about where we are in the process? >> the pumps are waiting to be moved to a site thats currently not accessible because the waters too high at this point. its incredible what the local city and engineers here have done to figure out a solution where our pumps are used as backup basis, so its -- i mean, again, with local communities and local industry contributing to making this a rapid solution from a local level, i think this is a great example of a community coming together t...

Mission assignment and say, need x, well, that went up through a new chain of command that took extra hours and sometimes extra days. >> head to have been frustrating to you to see that kind of bureaucracy as a time when the country needed you to be able to act. >> it was incredibly frustrating, and the saving grace, trish, is that in the post katrina act, congress even after vilifying me, congress came back and said, you know what, mr. brown is right. we need to codify the chain of command. >> ...

Call you michael not brown knee. you did over promise you did under deliver. i know there is plenty of blame but you do cop to that, dont you? >> absoluabsolutely, geraldo. one of the most frustrating things watching that is behind the scenes i am literally screaming at taf staff and othe. i told him new orleans is 80 percent under water which is that was a lowest mat. oy need to have the military take over all logistics. >> you told the president you wanted the military to take over for fema? y...

Director michael brown i will call you michael not brown knee. you did over promise you did under deliver. i know there is plenty of blame but you do cop to that, dont you? >> absoluabsolutely, geraldo. one of the most frustrating things watching that is behind the scenes i am literally screaming at taf staff and othe. i told him new orleans is 80 percent under water which is that was a lowest mat. oy need to have the military take over all logistics. >> you told the president you wanted the mil...

Director michael brown i will call you michael not brown knee. you did over promise you did under deliver. i know there is plenty of blame but you do cop to that, dont you? >> absoluabsolutely, geraldo. one of the most frustrating things watching that is behind the scenes i am literally screaming at taf staff and othe. i told him new orleans is 80 percent under water which is that was a lowest mat. oy need to have the military take over all logistics. >> you told the president you wanted the mil...