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Updates we need this morning. we understand you have 10,000 federal responders on the ground, and sounds like a big number, and of course that's a fraction of the 3.5 million people in puerto rico. do you need more federal responders there? >> first, that's correct. we do have 10,000 federal responders on the ground right now supporting the response operation. we have thousands more, whether they be those sitting behind me or throws throughout all of the federal agencies including the department of defense back here in washington supporting those on the ground. right now our priorities are get...

Nucle nucleus, the brain of the entire federal response. it's been coordinated in this room. the people here are working 12-hour shifts. they're working seven days on, seven days off. and tonight their primary focus is hurricane irma. again, it's safe to say that this is the brain of the federal response operation. now we have some roughly 200 people in this room. people from various agencies, whether it's epa, it's the department of energy, they're all here coordinating this response effort. they're trying to determine where should the resources be sent, what sort of resources do they need to...

The people in the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico and the other caribbean islands affected are in the middle of acute life-sustaining response operations and what we are seeing in florida, south carolina, and georgia are the final stages of preparation for the beginning of her response operation. we are seeing all three play out for us at the same time. it requires us to juggle some of our thinking but it doesn't require us to juggle our resources. we had an opportunity to rest and refit our forces and harvey and move them out and reposition them. right now we are employing them to save li...

Governor edwards are involved in the early stages of what will be a long recovery effort. the people in the u.s. virgin islands, puerto rico and the other caribbean islands affected by harvey already are in the middle of acute life-sta sta ds operations and stages of preparation for the beginning of a response operation. so, we're seeing all three play out for us at the same time. it requires us to juggle some of our thinking, but it doesn't require us to juggle our resources, so to be clear, the response operations have ceased, life-saving and life-sustaining in harvey and we had an opportuni...

That was sean spicer's only example of fake news, not whether jared kushner is somehow an interest to federal investigators and that he set up a back channel or tried to set up a back channel with the russians. he would not comment on whether there's a shakeups in the works. they are putting together this war room, this rapid response operation, both inside the white house and among associates and supporters of the president outside the white house to respond to this daily deluge of stories with the russia investigation and spicer did not comment on that and did not say whether or not he deeme...