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Himself? somebody who doesn't even face a primary in 2012. shannon: and there's been criticism from house democrats and others on the hill who say, we need your help now. simon s the president too focused on saving the president versus democrats in general? >> no. i think in regard to this specific matter, i don't think the president's response has been incompetent. i think you saw him negotiate a $20 billion deal with bp to pay out to affected communities, we've seen recently in the last week to ten days it looks like the well itself may be capped, and there has been criticism in these affect...

Administration for how much they've been, frankly, responsible to the people on fox and bobby jindal and others have been critical of them, i think they've done the right thing. shannon: brad, are they more political players? >> these are absolutely political people. these aren't people -- fema people. this isn't administration people who are serving this government. these are people that are serving the president. >> brad, they're actually all administration officials. they're actually all in the government of the united states. >> simon, this is the most selfish white house that has ever exi...

If you worked on a campaign to be able to work in government. john roberts was a legal advisor to the bush/cheney campaign, and -- >> simon, these are not government people. >> brad, brad, read the article, brad! they all serve in the government. in commerce in different positions, and they've been dispatched to go down there and do their jobs! brad, you've got your facts wrong, brad. >> that's why they're -- no, that's why they're being dispatched. they're political people, not government people, paid for by politics, not government, to save this president. that's why they're -- >> they all w...

Is the water that that wind is pushing and when it pushes it against the shore, and it pushes it up the rivers and it pushes it into st. john's and into savannah and tybee, st. simon's, into charleston, those areas can flood easily even without significant wind, just because of rain. and there's a lot of rain coming. this is a very wet storm. later today, we are just about to the parallel of tybee and savannah, then charleston and finally out to sea. but as this storm runs up the coast, it will make a lot of rainfall. significant rainfall, up to ten inches. that concerns me a little bit even w...