Transcripts For FBC Countdown To The Closing Bell With Liz C

FBC Countdown To The Closing Bell With Liz Claman September 11, 2017

Home. You can move back into your home and we can remove the temporary unit. That is essentially the option we have right now. A third option of course is distance so there are available rental stocks to draw a larger circumference as people move away from their homes and into rental Stock Available farther away. We had announcements on the available manufacturing Housing Stock and we can give you that after the podium briefing in florida we will have a slightly different issue that we havent assessed entirely with the damages. He will be the same model but its a peninsula and thats a wider scale problem and a larger swap storms so what we will do theirs assess whether those are the right models or whether we will apply different creative solutions. If we do we have the authority we have the budget to do so. We will make sure people are taken care of. There is a big concern about about and then i wound up having issues with formaldehyde. Is that a problem that concerns you . And speak about mobile Home Communities being in place after katrina. Is that out of the mindset now . The mindset is making sure people have a safe place to live and its still very much alive. What we do as a government as purchase available manufactured housing. Repurchase it off of the open market. The open market has improved their building packages and i think we have improved knowing where who do buy from and not to buy from. I understand the problems and air quality persist in our everyday lives. I dont know how much formaldehyde is in this room right now but i know formaldehyde is a carcinogen at any level. The point here is we take it very seriously and we will match the importance of basically ventilation. To my knowledge the buyout of a better market and provided in a responsible manner. , couple of questions about the condition of florida. First of all more than half of floridians are now without power power. Its usually a very local issue but this is a catastrophe of a much grander scale. Is it your assessment that people of florida can expect to get their power back and what is the federal governments role in making that happen . My numbers are similar to north of 5 million. I dont know that constitutes half the people in florida but i will take your word for it. Households and businesses so its a lot more. Its a significant number. To the extent that a customer might have or people in house will be will see the number increase the number of people in the home the number of customers we have so thats the difference. The idea as i said earlier we all have a joint role in this. Florida power m. I. T. Collector can others will bring forces together. U. S. Government brings to bear number forces that are imperative to the restoration effort by pushing debris out of the road in clearing roadways. Yesterday what we saw was not just the reports that the actual evidence of this will be the largest ever mobilization of line restoration workers in this country period and the story. They were mobilized yesterday. They were at the daytona speedway. Well have live restoration workers from every company in this country from states all over the country but also from canada coming to florida to help restore the lights. Florida unlike houston where they have buried power lines we have to restore the polls restring the lines and the way that process works as they restore the plant and then the sub plans and then line by line at each road and in house by house. Cant hook up each house until the homeowner make sure its safe. We dont want to burn the house down the flood damage and corroded lines and so forth that its literally a joint effort from the federal clearing to public and private partnerships to line restoration efforts that are partnered in the forprofit and regulated world all the way to the individual homeowner so thats how that process works. How long will it take . I would caution people to be very patient. We can have powered down and homes for coming weeks, weeks. I dont want to cause any panic in florida but their hospitals and Nursing Homes and other facilities that have generator power to provide services that are necessary and they are the concern is providing fuel to those generators should they run out and from that perspective the federal government provides a great deal of fuel a great deal of transport and assistance brother contracts and we give that to stay the locals and they distributed to those wholesale and wreaths retail, they distributed those facilities and thats a rule as well. We expect that to happen seamlessly. It is their any pricegouging pricegouging is pricegouging in florida and federal issue . I think youll hear from the attorney general later so i will let him explain what we are doing to prevent fraud. Theres an effort on this week and youve heard pam bondi conducting active gouging and antifraud practices when their state and local laws in place. Both is the answer but neither officials the attorney attorney general the nicely for attorneys general of the states are going to tolerate gouging. Thats something people ought to think twice about. Is her possibility of a third and fourth supplemental for Disaster Relief and can you tell us how much money did administration included in the supplementals and are you going to put language from their port in terms of that legislation in as well . The first we are trying to make sure we have responsible as opposed to making wild guesses now. As we transition to a recovery role and analyze the damage and figure out how much money we need for another responsible request. We get that wrong to go for another assessment. Its not necessarily wrong but if we estimate and find the actuals dont meet the its we will rectify. The Flood Insurance program at 8. 6 billion roundabouts available to it if claims exceed that or not we will ask for to be increased. You describe the military mobilization and the state Department Task force working aroundtheclock on their operation. Can you assess those efforts in kenya get the message to americans who are right now in dire straits and the caribbean who might be listening to this . Which of the expectation before evacuation and how soon can they met how soon can you get the americans out . This is an ongoing effort in there are going to be long painful days ahead and doubling down on my assertion that this is the most integrated fullscale response effort in her nations history that includes the u. S. Virgin islands and puerto rico and nine u. S. Islands. We help american citizens during a window operation of safety between host and irma. This has been a large event and youll see a lot of positive stories from it. Control expectations joran island where we have transport commodities food and water where we have and water for we have a lot more ahead of us to bring power back on line but we have assembled two of the most powerful naval relief flotillas in recent memory a total of nine large ships. Im going to cut right to the oak hill mcclain the Abraham Lincoln iwo jima the fair get and new york. That is an Aircraft Carrier and large platforms for helicopters. Eight or more helicopters flying sorties right now. Thats an operation that has never been mobilized for this type of Emergency Response effort in our history. To the extent i can assess that im pretty proud of that print to the extent that it meets the needs im going to hope it does is we are saving hundreds of not thousands of people off the islands collectively. If the burn rate is not fast enough id be surprised because we are mobilizing ourselves in ways we have never mobilize before and the governor of the president of the knights and the governor puerto rico were all very pleased in their phonecall so im in no better position at this podium that they are to assess it. So many people who evacuated from the keys and given the level of destruction there any time estimate that when they might be able to return to the keys . De khizr going to take a while. We have not assessed as the Structural Integrity of the bridges there or there is an early reason to believe that some of the drawbridges that were up may or may not have been bound so restoring those is going to take some time to that route 1 is a large expanse of bridge essentially put all the undergirding has to be managed for Structural Integrity. I would imagine the keys wont be suitable for reentry for weeks. I would set that expectation at. Broad right now and i would say for the people that chose to stay they had every warning to leave and we hope they took that warning. We will get back down there soon as we humanly can than right now we dont know. We have three or 400 flights. Talk flights. How do flights. Talk to the fema administrator before coming out here and he is not certain yet that we have had good overflight assessment of where the people might he did neither of us would be surprised if lives were lost but neither of us would be surprised if the responders will get down there aggressively recruit your we are doing everything we can to help them. Im going to actually and on that if i could and were started. Today in remembrance for 9 11 is why i got into this business and why i believe our government is now organized for the level of response that we have seen. It just goes to show what we have got if we want to bring herself together and helping our fellow humans. Under the leadership of President Trump we have put together good effort. Please the people of florida continued to follow the instructions of your purchase funders and local authorities. This isnt over yet and its going to be a painful slightly frustrating if not very frustrating week or two ahead. Thank you everybody. Thank you, tom. As he wrapped up he reiterated the need to listen to local authorities. I know that the governor of florida is getting ready to hold a press conference and we will try to take as many questions as we can but i also want to make sure everyone is able to tune in for that and cover that extensively. Finally before i take your questions several asked about u. S. Response and ongoing violence in burma and id like to read part of the statement will be coming out shortly on that topic. The United States is deeply troubled by the ongoing crisis in burma were at least three and a thousand people have fled their homes in the wake of attacks on Burmese Security posts on august 25. We reiterate our condemnation of those attacks and ensuing violence. With that i will take your questions. Two questions. Once you have a reaction to the comment saying the firing of james comey was the biggest political mistake in modern history and secondly if you could look forward to tomorrow little bit in the presence meeting with the Prime Minister what do you expect during that meeting and will the president address or avoid the issue collects. Thats a pretty wideranging topics all make sure i cover it at first on the comey fire and i think we been clear what our position is and certainly i think it has been shown in the days that followed that the president was right in firing director comey since direct or spire we have learned new information about his conduct that only provided further justification including giving testimony and leaking privileged information journalist. He went outside the chain of command of politicized investigation into a president ial candidate. The president has been very clear about his position on that front. He is very pleased with the new director and has full confidence in him to fully restore and lead the fbi. In terms of malaysia and on that question its hard to transition but ill try to make sure recover that the United States and malaysia have had a 60 year relationship and Partnership Bill von common economic and security interests and that continues and the president looks forward to discussing a wide variety and wide range of regional and Security Issues with the Prime Minister and talking about ways that they can strengthen counterterrorism, cooperation and certainly the hall to of isis, addressing north korea and their continued actions and making sure that we promote Maritime Security in the south china sea. Those are certainly i think some of the priorities of tomorrows meeting but im not going to get ahead much further than that on any conversation that may take place. Look we are arent going to comment on an Ongoing Investigation about the department of justice and that investigation is a political and certain independent of anything taking place tomorrow. Thanks sarah. I also have a question on mr. Bannon. I think Mitch Mcconnell into the gray paul ryan to be implemented. Very obvious that night follows day. First of all does the president agree with the obvious territories they should have mcconnell and ryan . A president is committed to working with congress to get good things done. We have got a very big agenda and the prisoner was to work with all members of congress. Obviously that includes Republican Leadership as well as democrats are they think you saw some of the present leadership last week when he help strike a deal to make sure that they got the funding that was necessary. We are focused on moving things forward and certainly thats the golden the priority the administration. What would he like to see given his past criticism of mr. Mcconnell mr. Ryan would be like to see different leadership . Right now the presence committed to working with the leadership we have a nothing beyond that at this point. Just to follow up on davids comment he said that about mcconnell and ryan but also said they wanted to notify the 2016 Election Results are just a simple yes or no question, does the president agree with that assessment . Not that im aware of. I then had that conversation with him. Have you talked with bannon . Ive had one conversation but nothing beyond that. On steve bannon. A popular topic. I think we are answering more questions on bannon being gone than when he was here. Sea mate did you happen to watch the interview on 60 minutes . 60 minutes . Im not sure if 60 minutes . Im not sure if he saw it in its entirety. Im not sure to watch the entire thing. I did watch parts of it. What was your reaction to it . Is a former colleague of yours at the white house were you disappointed with any of comments or were you surprised by any of his comments and a former staffer speaking so openly about the general workings of what happened at the white house on a regular basis . Im sure it made for great tv and im sure cbs will be happy to put those ratings out. As me im here to speak on behalf of the administration. Why ruin a good thing sarah. The topic of steve bannon in the topic he made about dreamers considering selfsupporting win their work when their work permits for now. Is that something that the white house things is realistic that the dreamers would voluntarily leave the country and in fact something the president thinks that they should do . The administrations been clear what our is to implement responsible Immigration Reform and addressing that problem would be part of it. [inaudible] with the president signed a d . At the present present administration are looking at responsible Immigration Reform and part of that would be part of that process that we want to do something that addresses the multitude of issues and began congress has six months to do their job. We are very hopeful and confident that they will. Steve bannon said this discussion could lead to civil war and the republicans party. I think steve always likes to speak in kind of the most extreme measures. Im not sure that i agree with that. In recent weeks. Maybe you will get two questions. And weeks to storms categorized as once in 500 years or even longer major event in the United States. In light of that is a present given any thought to reviewing his decision to leave the paris climate accords . The measure specifically on the paris climate deal but i think at the time the goal is to always do our very best when it comes to taking care of the environment and taking proper steps to the United States is one of the best in the world of doing this and we want to continue to do that. Right now the administration is focused on the recovery and relief efforts and as tom said a few minutes ago we will look at that analysis once we get through the coming days and focus on recovery. To follow up can you clarify whether the president believes human activity has contributed to this . I dont believe its changed. Over the last several weeks again he is addressed his opinion on that several times. The president is declaring he wanted to have a National Emergency to the crisis. More than a month since he has said that. Its a delay for president who likes to think quickly. Is the president taking this seriously enough . Absolutely taking it very seriously seriously. The Commission Members and administration have continued to meet and work on the details of that National Declaration and is certainly a big priority for the administration and we will continue to focus on pushing that through. Its a much more involved process than something they are working through on the legal side, the administrative side and making sure its done correctly. On Steve Mnuchin. Tricky, tricky. What they want the budget. I think Steve Mnuchin plans to address that in further detail tomorrow. Quickly the republicans handling of the debt that was the president think of it so far . The president has confidence in mr. Mnuchin and is glad hes part of the effort to working with gary cohn to get tax reform than this year. Regarding james comey is said he was responsible for giving false testimony. You believe that comey either perjured himself before congress or at the very least misled congress . And think thats something for doj to look at, not me. Im not an attorney. On tax reform if the tax reform bill doesnt pass by this summer w

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