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Everybody, the job that you're doing, the coordination, we just left north carolina. they got hit really, really hard and they are working and all of that water is coming your way. a lot of people don't know that. they assume you look outside and you see this beautiful weather but over the next couple of days it's going to get rough in south carolina. the federal government is behind you. we have lindsey graham here. we have tim -- where are tim and lindsey? tim scott. they're with us all the way. they're with us all the way and whatever we need from washington we are there. our team, i don't ...

But when we get through this, the rebuilding process you would argue needs to take into account that social infrastructure in the rebuild. >> very mup so because there is no wall that can protect us from the wall you're seeing here. you won't be able to block out the threats and at the end of the day what's go eing to help us connect on all types off things, whether it's improving health or our capacity to make it through climate change, we're going to have to invest in ways we cecome together. and so this is a great reminder that we have resources coming together and when we sit down and talk...

Look at the statement from sarah huckabee sanders yesterday alluding to the fact triple take place, saying he will not do it until he knows it won't distract from or hurt the relief efforts underway. is it a good idea for him to go down? >> politically speaking, it is. it is a state he won. to be quite honest with you, david, i do not think the president is going to carry himself in the manner in which he did in puerto rico. he recognizes that folks in that state, in north carolina that is, voted for him. a lot of those people are going to want to see the president there. they're going to want...

Transparency and have the open lines of communication with the american public we can start a rebuilding process to the benefit of puerto rico but also recognizing if people are irate. are angry at the unequal treatment, at the second-class citizenship treatment that the people of puerto rico received relative to other states then you need to look no further than the reality that puerto rico is a colonial territory. that we don't have the rights to voting members in congress or the rights to vote for the president and we need to ask ourselves as a nation if we are to be the standard bearers of...

>> yes. i do. >> how? your a political junky. how do they change? >> people will go out and be motivated to vote and that is work we have to do on the ground. let me a-- add, there are group talking about a community-based rebuilding process that we have an unelected fiscal control board in puerto rico making decisions on unelected board chosen by congress that is making decisions on how money will be spent on the island and whose prime interest is the bondholder. we want a community-driven process where there is accountability to the people of puerto rico in terms of how the money is invested...