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President noted that puerto rico has a debt and they defaulted on a lot of loans to begin with. they said they have to get rid of the debt and they pointed out don't take the president's words and comments word for word. is there a missed message from the administration about what to do with that huge debt that the puerto ricans have? >> the debt issue is something we will have to keep in mind. my primary focus is ensuring what we can do in the meantime. life saving and key services restoration. i'm not worried about the budget and the debt. >> 16 dead and now it's gone up and doubled to 35 or...

Disappointment here because the president did not really put a blueprint forward as to how to move on from this crisis. what is needed here are the supplies that the mayor's office is actually organizing today. the food, the water, the baby diapers to be picked up by local churches and sent to the areas most in need here in puerto rico. and i asked the mayor, what solutions do you propose? she said, first of all, fema reimbursements needs to come through quicker. secondly, you really need the relief package that congress is voting on this week. and then finally, hallie, she said we need the mo...

Cosmetic. talked about it, it's striking to me when he does it, yes, this cosmetically doesn't look good about tom price and optics but very mindful of it with irma and harvey. aggressively so. something's missing here and he looks less empathetic. brings up puerto rico, sits there, brings up the debt issue, for instance. >> what he's missing. the pictures did not arrive for a week. i knew immediately and recommended overwhelmingly go to catholic charities, google, get their money there. i knew what it would be like when a storm hits an island. only with the pictures did i get a sense absolute...

>> jennifer and kathryn are back with me now. you heard from the governor of puerto rico. they need help. they need congress to do something. is the white house doing enough? >> so far we haven't seen all that much that's been made public at least. we know that tom bossert is on the ground with brock long of fema. as far as what we've heard from the president, it's been very limited and been limited to just a handful of three tweets in the past 24 hours. >> let me pull those up. you're right. he's tweeted a ton about the nfl, about the protests, about loouther strange, but here's wh he said ab...

More money. mitchell, made this pitch for support today. >> three issues we need to address immediately, provide resources for hurricane harvey, hurricane irma, ensure the government remains funded and ensure that a default is prevented. that's what the legislation achieves, it achieves it all together in one package. >> the deal was struck in the oval office yesterday, president trump decided with the democrats on a three-month extension of the debt ceiling. republican leaders were hoping to address the debt issue through next year's midterm elections. nancy pelosi says the agreement came aft...