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>> neil: all right. just give them the check. the white house and congress are supposed to give $5 billion to puerto rico. the governor is here with us. how urgently do you need that money? >> very urgent. we need it as soon as possible. that's why we're asking for immediate relief. congress has abided and heed why it relief on other areas and other programs that will help us establish a base for our economy. later on, we'll go on and start working on the recovery package as well. >> not too long ago, governor, the president indicated when it came to your $74 billion in debt owed largely to th...

That spillway to make a pile of rocks. if they make the pile big enough it will shore up the foundation of the spillway and stop the erosion. >> sandra: amazing work they're doing there. >> bill: the trump team clarifying the president's remarks on puerto rico's staggering debt. press secretary sarah sanders addressed it again yesterday. >> there is a process for how to deal with puerto rico's debt. it will have to go through that process to have a lasting recovery and growth. this is a process that was put in place and set up under obama and that has a board of advisors that deals with that d...

Hurricane. >> both big problems. >> huge problems. so the hurricane is going to cost close to $100 billion to fix. i think that's america's problem just as it was in houston and other places. >> how do you separate the two? >> the the $74 billion of debt they had before this all happened. in that case the holders of that debt should in effect be wiped out. they made a bad investment, it didn't work out, they should be loosists. instead they're in court and fighting away on the construction plan everybody is trying to put in place for puerto rico. >> but the americans who are concerned who don'...

The red cross collections are staggering in light of what they're willing to give the island. >> i think the larger issue for washington and for the president in the coming days as fema addresses the critical situation on the ground is going to be, what do we do about puerto rico in the long term? they're suffering under $74 billion in debt, and the real question that's going to determine how that island gets back up on its feet is what we do about that challenge. so the political fighting that you're seeing between trump and the mayor is really kind of a prelude for the battle that washington...

Bizarre compareton to another disaster. >> i hate to tell you, puerto rico, you have thrown our budget out of whack. we saved a lot of lives. if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous, hundre s s and hundreds and hundreds of people who died, and you look here, what is your death count. 17? >> 16. >> 16 people, verified. versus in the thousands, you can be very proud. >> the san juan mayor called trump, of course, the miscommunicator in chief because of those remarks. the two have been at odds since the president tweeted about her poor leadership. the preside...