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Of the worst wild fire seasons we've ever had. the president in his visit today stressed the correlation between these increasingly devastating wildfires all over the west and climate change. he says the u.s. should be investing in solutions to protect the country from more extreme weather in the future especially since we're already starting to live with its consequences. but in the midst of that big picture stuff, he also brought up a very small picture problem. a more immediately, more granular right-now problem facing the smoke jumpers he met with today and facing other firefighters. it is...

Jumpers. today president biden visited the national interagency fire center in boise, idaho, which is basically the command center for fighting wild fires all over the country. the president met there with a team of smoke jumpers based in boise. he got a tour of the facility and leading the response to one of the worst wild fire seasons we've ever had. the president in his visit today stressed the correlation between these increasingly devastating wild fires all over the west and climate change. he says the u.s. should be investing in solutions to protect the country from more extreme weather ...

Picture stuff, he also brought up a very small picture problem. a more immediate, more granular, right now problem. facing the smoke xia foreseen that we have today, and facing other firefighters that have been fighting these wildfires this year. it is a very specific problem that has a very direct fix. >> believe it or not, a massive shortage of fire hoses, i think you will get it. the idea, going into these fire seasons, with a shortage of fire hoses. that's all i heard from my guys back east, in the midwest. no fire hoses. >> no fire hoses? . the president is saying today that the firefight...

There. we won and left, take a victory, united states. take a victory. >> give me your reaction to that. we do know there are soldiers there and there were soldiers there despite the fact it may have been a small number. have we won? was there a win to be had. how a potential future allies are going to hear? >> yasmin, we had our foot on the throw of isis and donald trump took it off. the united states is less safe today as a result of this horrible decision. there is a bigger picture problem as well. and it was a depressing period and i actually never thought i could feel as low about america...

Can repeat that endlessly. there's iran, north korea, climate change, gun violence, a slowing economy. we have real serious problems, and the president instead is fixated on his fragile ego and creating this brouhaha over nothing, literally nothing. nobody cares that he made a small flub over whether the hurricane was going to hit alabama or not, but he is fixated on it. he can't think about anything else. you know, i think mayor pete on "new day" today said this is sad. i agree. this is disturbing that the president of the united states is so fixated on something so trivial. >> brian stelter,...