look, there's no way to say disaster response is going to be a success. it's a disaster. you're trying to mitigate this disaster, and so what they did, the responders got there as quick as they could. they went -- >> wrong. >> chris. listen, 80% -- you want to talk facts first again, chris. >> yeah. >> one of my college roommates was on the ground there, and he's a democrat, chris. >> good for him. >> he's a -- a very senior emergency management guy. when you get there, 80% of the telephone poles knocked down. ports closed. airports closed. >> how did they prepare for that? >> chris, they had -- chris, three consecutive. you're a smart guy. three consecutive major hurricanes. >> what i really wanted to hear from you the president shouldn't have called it an unsung success. >> i said that, chris, at the beginning. >> it's beyond any type. insult i can come up with. >> what the president should have said is given the circumstances that we faced it was a huge success. >> and that would have been untrue, too. how is that untrue?