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Operate a mission assignment telling them to take an airplane and fly it from new york to california with a million masks on it. you're handicapping one of the most capable organizations you have and they also have the united states transportation command, which is another four star. so you got about eight four star generals working through the rear admiral and the fema administrator. you're not using the power and the capacity of the department of defense to defend the nation because the nation must be defended. that's why we have a department of defense is to defend the united states of amer...

For two reasons. one, he didn't get out there to them. and two, there was a communication problem of grave import that persists to this day. that communications problem is tied to the electric power restoration problem. if i could before i take the next question, let me explain why and how the power restoration process is unfolding. we put the u.s. army corps engineers in charge of power restoration. they're in charge of a lot but not everything. the people of puerto rico are strong and competent. they're in charge and that's the best way to handle things. where they have diminished capacity, ...

What do you know about where we are in the process? >> the pumps are waiting to be moved to a site that's currently not accessible because the water's too high at this point. it's incredible what the local city and engineers here have done to figure out a solution where our pumps are used as backup basis, so it's -- i mean, again, with local communities and local industry contributing to making this a rapid solution from a local level, i think this is a great example of a community coming together to solve a problem. >> as you say, so many entities coming together, everyone's working around th...

Mission assignment and say, need x, well, that went up through a new chain of command that took extra hours and sometimes extra days. >> head to have been frustrating to you to see that kind of bureaucracy as a time when the country needed you to be able to act. >> it was incredibly frustrating, and the saving grace, trish, is that in the post katrina act, congress even after vilifying me, congress came back and said, you know what, mr. brown is right. we need to codify the chain of command. >> i got to tell you i spent a lot of time there in the aftermath of katrina, reporting there, people w...

Call you michael not brown knee. you did over promise you did under deliver. i know there is plenty of blame but you do cop to that, don't you? >> absoluabsolutely, geraldo. one of the most frustrating things watching that is behind the scenes i am literally screaming at taf staff and othe. i told him new orleans is 80 percent under water which is that was a lowest mat. oy need to have the military take over all logistics. >> you told the president you wanted the military to take over for fema? you sure you said that? >> oh, yes. you can see the mission assignment we executed giving that autho...