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Literally, i've never once seen this guy falter. i've never -- he's never once in my presence said joe, what do you think the politics of this are? he makes a judgment, he listens. he cuts through all the mularkey. and now that he's mastered the bureaucracy, now he's talking with homeland security and the rest and one of the principals says, do you want us working with con ed? we usually don't do this? he says to leon, the secretary of defense, can you get generators in to con ed? let's get this up and running.

Says, do you want us working with con ed? we usually don't do this? he says to leon, the secretary of defense, can you get generators in to con ed? let's get this up and running. he just cuts through. he makes a decision and he stands by what he does. in contrast to governor romney, you never know where he is. this guy makes a decision, chris. as i said it before, he has a backbone like a ramrod. he stands by what he says, and he lives by it. >> the way he chose to go after bin laden, the decision to rescue the auto industry. when he makes those decisions, everybody else sees cool on the outsi...

Was being funny and clever by tweeting fake things. he would tweet something that what blatantly wrong and then gurn ad sh sh -- journalists would retweet him. to me that's trolling. >> and i wasn't listening to these guys, buts did we explain he was tweeting serious sounding tweets? i thought it was a gilbert god freed thing. people were making joke expiz said, forget it. these were serious tweets about the shutdown all power in manhattan. there was nothing funny about it. if he was doing it to screw people over he is a jerk. >> can i point something out. edward has been in jail do i have to ...

Working aggressively. in fact con ed informs me that they are making very good progress better than anticipated. >> most of the city will be back in line and back having power by saturday. but con ed says some people won't have juice until at least next weekend. 10 days from now. david lee miller is down in lower manhattan for us tonight. david lee, lots of delays. indeed, shepard. folks who get their power from overheadlines are simply going to have to wait. there are some 100,000 downed wires. and they say those crews are going to have to fight not just downed trees and blocked roads but the...

But low pressure prevented them from being able to put the flames out. we'll get a story from that scene in breezy point. we'll bring you that. meantime a new york city electrical substation explosion was caught on camera. look at that. that was the scene on the east side of manhattan in the middle of this storm. con-ed says it does not know if flooding or flying debris caused the blast. it clearly started everybody in the area. >> what is that? [bleep]. i don't know what is going on. it is hurricane. what the hell is this? something just exploded. martha: listen to the wind in the background....