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The job that fema and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico, i think, was tremendous. i think that puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. >> do we know why he has such a different impression than the people in puerto rico? >> yeah, alisyn. i think this is going to be a question of how much did the government learn, the administrative apparatus around the president learn from the situation in maria? that's separate from what the president learned, because it seems apparent that president trump has not accepted that what happened with maria was u...

Is obviously very difficult. and when things go poorly, he's unable to do it, and i think that's what the lesson of this maria situation really is for this white house. it is a pattern and it's not just something that is a one-off situation. >> it's clearly just to assert something the opposite of what reality is and do so shamelessly. that is what the president has done here and he does it in other circumstances. john says he doesn't want to look weak, he doesn't like to be criticized, so he'll just assert the opposite of something that's true. the president made it clear in the aftermath of ...

Getting briefings about the storm. i think this time is different. advisers are trying to get him engaged on this pretty early, and i think the emergency management apparatus in the government is working as hard as they can. but the situation is totally different now. we're dealing with states that have pretty robust infrastructures that have pretty good communication between the federal government and between the states, and i think that is going to go a long way here. but president trump clearly -- he's looking at this in a silo. i think from his perspective, he thinks at the end of the day ...

Success is an insult to those families, to the dead, and a disastrous response. the carolinas will be a different response situation because it's on the coast of the united states. that statement isn't just a denial of reality, it's an insult to the puerto rico families. >> the other thing is there is a real empathy gap that president trump has demonstrated time and time again at moments like this, that he had an opportunity to express sympathy and concern about the loss of life, whether he feels responsible for it or not. he repeatedly refuses to do that, and in these moments, it's not just a...