instance. and i don't think it's significant in this case. i think the administration currently is being tone deaf by recognizing that you shouldn't stop and do a segment playing ping-pong when people are diagnose. but when you have a disaster the size of katrina that covered 90,000 square miles, the thing that i was furiously on the telephone to air force one was, i don't want you to land the new orleans. land in baton rouge where the operations are. because all i needed was for the president to step foot on the ground, say "i'm concerned" and basically send a message to the cabinet, i'm taking this seriously. you give the undersecretary everything that he feeds. >> now, i watched this and i saw in mississippi, you know, they seemed to handle it pretty well. then you watch what goes on in new orleans. now, in your book, and you have explosive things in there. you say that a couple days before katrina hit, the president, mayor nagin, and the governor, kathleen blanco of louisiana, were told, if this