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Department of defense accelerating response efforts of puerto rico. hoping to get aid and supplies to isolated communities cut off by the devastation from hurricanes maria and hurricane irma. it has not been easy. listen to the fema administrator. >> you had to be able to pump them down the roadway systems. we been working desperately to get them open. we have 11 major highways open but this morning there are over 3200 different problems reported with the roadway systems from bridges missing, roads being blocked by floodwaters and roaches disappeared because of landslides. having to work throu...

At, but it'll be extremely inappropriate to the moment there, i'm sure. >> i recall being in the studio and broadcasting live when he went to houston, post the harvey disaster and i remember saying this is a remarkably different president we've been seeing he was picking up kids, giving hugs and kisses and playing with them, giving out foods. and his ratings when up. what's the likelihood of something like that snahappenin? he loves good ratings. >> certainly. it was a departure from what we have seen. i think the visit tuesday does present the opportunity to turn the page a little bit here, b...

>> also jared kushner did not disclose the use of his personal e-mail account during a private interview with the senate intelligence staff. they used the account for official government business. they sent a letter telling him to double-check that he has turned over every relevant document. >> meantime politico says they have announced an internal investigation into the e-mail use. cnn has not confirmed that reporting. >> to repopuerto rico now. flash flood warning. acting homeland security secretary elaine duke travels to puerto rico today. she will meet with the governor and fema officials ...

Well, as we heard tonight and all week the level of destruction in puerto rico, it's really unimaginable. a humanitarian disaster with more people, more americans living in puerto rico than in 21 states. earlier today i spoke with brock long about the response efforts. >> unified command is what's working and so people are seeing that on the ground in puerto rico as well as behind me. so all of the government forces are working together. what we've done is we've escalated several days ago we escalated the amount of forces coming in from dod, which is why we've seen bringing dear general kim on...

How president rob is taking steps to get more help to puerto rico faster by waving restrictions and an obscure law about foreign cargo ships. >> it was a charge the accusation of being slow to react to hurricane. with those charges being leveled at the trump administration, the white house came out swinging. the white house pushback against criticism that its response to hurricane maria has been, as one democratic member of congress put it, ineffective and inexcusably slow. tom bossert saying some news reports are lagging behind. >> a lot of the reporting is understandably not wrong but dated....