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It looks like you have a pair of underwear on your face. pete gainer joked the mask looked like a jock strap. another official said it looked like a training bra. significance? >> i mean, can you imagine if an inflection point like that they had decided, you know what? let's just send two masks to everybody. the president is going to model it and it's going to normalize the whole thing, imagine what would have happened in march. our book is full of all these inflection points. if a decision had been made in a split second, the bleach comment, for example, if they decided to reign in the presid...

Outburst or crazy proposal that came from the president or one of his aides. >> to me you do a good job of this. it's not just what is said. it's what is allowed to be said and what is enabled with silence. and you did a good job about -- we're seeing it now on a different level with barr and mcconnell, that we'll get to later in the show, about election fraud. but it happened with the pandemic too. people shut their mouths so they could stay where they were. officials scrapped a plan in march to send masks to every american household mocking how it looked. we can't send these out, he told aza...

Bahamas. bahamas, a big section of the bahamas was hit like few people have seen before. we're helping in a humanitarian way. we've been asked to help by the government of the bahamas. we've had numerous helicopters and we're sending some people to give them a hand. they need a big hand in what's going on over there is incredible. few people have seen anything like that. although i must tell you, over the years there have been some hurricanes that were bigger and stronger and more powerful that hit us very hard also. but i just maybe would like to start, kevin, if you could say a few words abo...

Confirmed fema administrator resigned in february after he clashed with then homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. the president picked someone else but his nomination was sent to capitol hill to be confirmed and has essentially come to a standstill up there and right now fema, the agency, is being run by this acting director, pete gainer, who we should note while he does have essentially a decade of experience overseeing natural disasters, this is going to be his first hurricane since he's been running fema in this acting position. now, of course he's not the only person in an acting ...

Advising the president will be the head of fema who serves only in an acting capacity and it is his first hurricane in the job. as cnn's kaitlan collins reports this is as one of the president's closest confidants is forced out. >> as hurricane dorian heads for florida, president trump is headed for camp david. >> this storm looks like it could be a very, very big one indeed. >> reporter: that is where he'll monitor the labor day storm but he'll do so without a permanent fema administrator or a confirmed homeland security secretary by his side. >> new cnn reporting revealing that three months ...