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Virgin islands, one on st. croix and one on st. thomas destroyed and all patients evacuated. also a major education issue now since the schools that are still standing are being used as shelters. joining us now, by phone, from st. croix, governor kenneth mapp of the u.s. virgin islands for his first interview since hurricane maria hit st. croix tuesday night. governor, thank you very much for joining us tonight. what is the situation there in st. croix tonight? >> well, it's -- we have -- we're working on rescue. we have our urban search and rescue teams out. i must say that like st. thomas we...

On the entire virgin islands. >> in the aftermath of hurricane maria, today the president issued a disaster declaration for puerto rico and st. croix and u.s. virgin islands. that means federal funding is now available to support recovery efforts there. electricity in puerto rico and st. croix out for months. both hospitals in the u.s. virgin islands, one on st. croix and one on st. thomas destroyed and all patients evacuated. also a major education issue now since the schools that are still standing are being used as shelters. joining us now, by phone, from st. croix, governor kenneth mapp of...

To think this is politically beneficial to them. it is certainly not an education issue. it is not a safety issue. it is terrifying children and parents all over texas, and, frankly, all over the country. there's not -- you know, the tourism people, there were 250 people who testified on friday for 11 hours. the tourism officials from houston, dallas, san antonio, austin, galveston, all talked about how this doesn't make sense to them and they are already losing money. they've already lost almost $600 million just from talking about the legislation. >> there have been companies that you know h...

Are held, the parties and messaging may be very different. >> when you get to d.c. and you have control of the house, senate and the white house, crafting policy should be more simplistic, being able to have legislative accomplishments. coalescing around the gop brand. >> i don't think i have heard anyone describe the legislative process in washington as being rather simplistic. when george bush came in 2001 we had the same thing. i was a chairman of a subcommittee on the education committee. i was thrilled because we were going to reform education. that's how we started 2001 out. i was a stro...

Questions. david chalian, i'm looking at the democrats on this committee, bernie sanders, you know he's going to have tough questions, elizabeth warren, she's going to have tough questions. this is not going to be a picnic for her at all. >> no, not at all. i would imagine the two senators you just named there may be getting their questions, ideas from the teachers unions who are going to be infusing the democrats i think with a lot of questions and concerns about vouchers and about some of the more controversial reforms -- controversial, i should say, to the teachers' unions. this has put the...