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Going to be like a new plant. we're looking at both now. there's never been a case where power plants were gone. this isn't just like you know, as i said, i don't want to just fix the poles. there's never been a case where power plants were gone. it's going to be a period of time before electric is restored. as i said, the president has answered all of our petitions and what this is still ongoing, so we expect this that will continue. we're being you know, very diligent getting all of the data and what we want to do and i want to circle this. this is a storm centric approach to what happens. t...

Puerto rican, even some of the rural areas, you do this over and over again of people you talk to. they say look, we had it bad but it could have been worse. that's what they'll say. even though some we spoke with have said they lost their home. but they're very proud. they want, you know, there's a slogan here in puerto rico. [ speaking foreign language ] there's this very -- they are eager to rise above this and to have this recovery effort move forward. craig, the situation with the power is really crippling that effort. it's just no matter how -- any way you look at this, until the power i...

So much has to be rebuilt. even from before. the difference between texas and florida and various places is we're looking at designs of a new power plant, a big electrical plant and many different designs an concepts, which is very unusual. because it was in pretty rough shape prior and now, it's in even rougher shape. with that said, i think we've done a really great job and we've had tremendous cooperation from the governor and we are getting there and people are really seeing the effort that's been put into puerto rico. it's been a very, very difficult situation for many people. especially ...

Msnbc's garrett haith is with me. what do we know? >> craig, two big developments here within the last hour. the first in the senate. senate alexander revealed his list of republican co-sponsors for this bill and he's got 12 of them. the most notable, lindsey graham and bill cassidy, whose names you'll remember were the authors of the last bill, the repeal and replace obamacare. so now they have signed their names on to this effort to fix it. that's going to go a long way in encouraging support here in the senate. you just heard it. those comments from president trump. once again, signaling th...

With those obstacles, we've gone about 15,000 d.o.d. personnel in puerto rico, about 2,000 fema personnel, hhs and others. the response is there. do we need to do a lot more? of course we do. i think everybody over here recognizes there's a lot of work to be done in puerto rico. with your leadership, sir, with everybody over here, we're committed to achieving that in the long run. >> brock, in the last 50 days, though, to put this into context for america, from the virgin islands to california, we've been working in 20 different states, disasters in 20 different states. in the last 50 days und...