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Stokols is back, and phil rucker. phil, start us off tonight with this day, another surreal day of the president trash talking an island decimated from a natural disaster. >> yeah, the day started pretty early in the morning with those tweets from president trump. that was a remarkable statement from a u.s. president, to threaten to effectively abandon the recovery efforts. and within a few short hours there was strong backlash from puerto rico including from the governor of the territory who ha...

Forever. and the whole point is to start to work yourself out of a job and transition to the rebuilding process. >> kelly went on to deny a series of reports suggesting his efforts to contain the president, as senator bob corker put it, are cut putting kellys own job in jeopardy. according to the "l.a. times" he and the president have engaged in shouting matches. "vanity fair" reported kelly is miserable in his job, remaining out of a sense of duty to keep trump from making some sort of disastro...

Effectively abandon the recovery efforts and within a few short hours there was some strong backlash from puerto rico, including from the governor of the territory who had been working very closely with put president trump on this recovery or over the last few weeks. he spoke out. and we saw trump administration officials try to back pelgd. the u.s. government is committed to the full recovery effort in puerto rico as long as they need it. we just think eventually you want to pull back and let t...

And we saw trump administration officials try to back pedal. the u.s. government is committed to the full recovery effort in puerto rico as long as they need it. we just think eventually you want to pull back and let the territory and the locals take over the rebuilding process from there. but we have to remember after katrina in 2005, the federal recovery effort took many months, even years in some cases, down there. this is a long period of time, and the presidents growing impatient after only...

We hope, sooner rather than later, to which the u.s. military and fema generally speaking can withdraw and then the government and the people of puerto rico are starting the process of rebuilding. i just got off of the phone with the governor of puerto rico. a great relationship. the president deals with him periodically. we saw him when we were down there last week. so you know, this country, our country, will stand with those american citizens in puerto rico until the job is done. but the twee...

Leaving his chief of staff to explain what he meant. >> our country will stand with those american citizens in puerto rico until the job is done, but the tweet about fema and d.o.d. is exactly accurate. they are not going to be there forever and the whole point is to start the work yourself out of a job and transition to the rebuilding process. >> reporter: now, the white house is making clear that federal responders will not be in puerto rico for good but they are not saying what the timeline i...

Which the u.s. military and fema generally speaking can withdraw because then the government and the people of puerto rico are recovering sufficiently to start the process of rebuilding. i just got off the phone ive talked to the governor of puerto rico many times, great relationship, the president deals with him periodically. we saw him when we were down there last week. this country, our country will stand with those citizens in puerto rico until the job is done. but the tweet about fema and d...

>> our country will stand with those american citizens in puerto rico until the job is done. the tweet about fema and dod is accurate. they wont be there forever. the whole point is to start to work yourself out of a job and transition to the rebuilding process. >> the fbi confirms that its investigating in puerto rico the mishandling of some fema supplies there and the focus is on some officials that are mishandling those critical aids. neil? >> neil: thanks, blake. mark walker joins us now, th...

The u.s. military and fema generally speaking, with the government and people of puerto rico are recovering sufficiently and starting the process of rebuilding. ive talked many times to the governor of puerto rico, great relationship. we saw him when we were down there last week. our country, we will stand with puerto rico until we get the job done. at the about fa waexactly accurate, they are not going to be there forever. the whole point is to start the work yourself out of a job and transitio...

Doing everything within our power and capabilities to first focus on the life-sustaining and life-saving measures as well as on the rebuilding process. we got over 12,000 federal staff on the ground, 64 hospitals out of 67 are partially or fully operational. 14 are now back on the electrical grid. 45% of customers in puerto rico have access to drinking water. 8 commercial airports are operational, 65% of gas stations are open, all of these things are things that we are continuing to push, contin...