it an unsung success is beyond comprehension just from the perspective of 3,000 dying. >> presidents are judged by how they respond to natural disasters, they are, and how well they can harness the federal, state and local resour resources. could the president be inoculating himself from criticism by saying this is going to be tremendously wet, the worst ever, no, no, maria was a success? >> yeah. there's probably some of that. it's a hurricane, whatever donald trump says is going to be the best, the biggest. whatever hurricane coming in, it's going to be the biggest. it may well be in this case. him sort of casting back defending that record or just not really knowing potentially what happened in, you know, in puerto rico, i think that's also a possibility. >> the storm inside the white