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Howie: even as hurricane florence was bearing down on the carolinas, much of the media began battering the president as a lousy president with no empathy for hurricane victims. president trump the problem with puerto rico is their electric grid and generating plant was dead before the storms hit. i think puerto rico was an incredible unsolved success. howie: he tweeted 3,000 people did not die in puerto rico. when i left the island after the storm left there were 6 to 18 deaths. then a long time...

Administrations response wh hurricane maria pummeled the reason. zbl >> i think the best job we did was puerto rico, but nobody understands, it was a very hard thing to do because of the fact that they had no electric, before the storms hit, it was dead as you know. >> hurricane maria now we know killed nearly 3,000 americans, after the storm hit, thats more than the number that perished in hurricane katrina. back to the conversation now, again, kudos to the president for his warning about flore...

Actually the u.s. government did a good job handling this, because it was such a screwed up country that in spite of that, they did a good job. thats the narrative that he seems to have bought into and believes to be true, even though its not. >> you worked for george w. bush. you know this reminds a lot of people of heck of a job, brownie. you dont praise when people are dying, especially if its in the hundreds. you dont praise the response by the government. i mean, its never going to be enoug...

Before the storm, and when the storm hit, that took it out entirely. the job that fema and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico i think was tremendous. i think puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. texas we have been given a pluses for. florida weve been given a pluses for, i think in a certain way, the best job we did was puerto rico, but nobody would understand that. its harder to understand. it was a very hard thing to do. because of the fac...

Evacuations zones are. tropical models very good agreement here that this is going to make landfall and we are pretty darn sure that its going to be at least a major hurricane category 3 or higher and, again, pretty good agreement right now, the computer models so we are anticipating a landfall thursday and friday and the gsf two reliable forecast models, again, in very good agreement but does it slow down or is it going to weaken as it makes landfall north ward, just a look at your sea surface ...

Crumbling before these storms hit. >> yes, the administration has reminded us of the crumbling infrastructure in puerto rico ever since a few hours after the storm hit. we were all fully aware that puerto ricos infrastructure is antiquat antiquated. who is to blame for that, we could probably spend another 20 or 30 minutes talking about that. but i think a lot of folks, and again i know you will blim tame elate liberal bias, but a lot of people look to the president to comfort and console occurr...

When you have competent state and local government when a storm hits youre in a bad spot. i actually think the governor of texas did a magnificent job. when you talk to other political leaders who have been involved in puerto rico, you do have a problem when the fact you did have some mayors and some local response especially in san juan that was quite poor. and thats the problem when these storms hit. >> matt, we dont want to nationalize everything. but when people are begging for their lives, ...

That. very good to have you. thanks for coming. >> great to be here. thanks for having me, neil. >> neil: that would be largely expected. i know as you know, the guesstimates on what the jobs numbers would be were all over the map. nobody could get a sense of who the storms hit. what do you think? >> its a byproduct of the hurricane. you have businesses that couldnt report jobs numbers because they were dealing with the aftermath. the underlying fundamentals are good. more people are working. un...

Luggage back and forth through multiple trips, gather them up, deal with the heat they generate as he is shooting, a 64-year-old guy, can he? >> is it possible in? yes. the number of rounds were talking, were talking about a lot of back and forth trips to get that in the room. is it possible? yes. along the front, just my -- im speculating. forgive me here. as a former investigator, i just dont think there was an accomplice here. i dont see what he did that required an accomplice. did he have he...

Tanerite is typically used for a low yield explosive at a distance. it will only detonate when a high-i powered round will hit it. usually a rifle round will do it. a lot of times for movie effects and stuff like that. heres where the tanerite comes in in this case. you only use tanerite to practice long distance shooting so you can see where your round wouldnt hit and detonate. combine that with the fact that we learned he had acquired tracer rounds or attempted to acquire more, doesnt make sen...