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>> right, at least for a few day, willie, both sides will try to set politics to the side and focus on the response here to this storm. you'll recall president biden has met with governor desantis before in terms of -- after that last hurricane that hit the fort myers area and killed nearly 150 people and there was an apartment building collapse on the other coast of florida and the president traveled there as well. he and governor desantis have spoken several times. white house officials tell me in recent days their staff is in constant communication and we'll hear from the governor soon with a storm briefing and hear from the president later today. talking about how the federal government is helping surge help to that area. the president's already signed a disaster declaration getting federal funds and assets to the ground and we should note, willie, that soon enough there will be debates in congress about disaster funds relief aid to rebuild the areas there and, of course, in maui with those
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>> let's take one more question, guys. >> governor, your next question comes from the new york law journal. ryan, your mic is open. >> can you hear me? >> yes, sir. >> yes, thank you. so yesterday your attorney suggested that she had information that would call into question charlotte bennett's credibility. she did not specify what that information was or provide any evidence. ms. bennett's attorney says that might raise to the level of post-employment retaliation. what do you make of that and why do you think it's appropriate for your attorney to make those remarks without providing significant evidence to back up the claim? >> you know, i don't want to get into albany politics, which is what has been going on for the past few months. this is about a storm briefing to save lives of new yorkers. but you're at the law journal.
>> yes, thank you. yesterday your personnel attorney rita suggested information that would call into question credibility and she did not provide any evidence, ms. bennett's attorney that might raise the level of post employment retaliation, what do you make of that and why do you think it's appropriate for your attorney to make those remarks without providing significant evidence to back up the claim? >> yeah, you know, i don't want to get into albany politics which is what has been going on for the past few months. this is about a storm briefing to save lives of new yorkers. but you're the journal, if you think justice is to accept a complaint from a person without investigation and without credibility determinations and without looking at past actions
it will be our outages that's what we will do well, and flooding rains, but not on the scale of the super storm. >> preparedness is everything. thanks nor the clarification on that. i appreciate it. so the approaching storm leading to a bizarre scene a short time ago during the press conference i was talking about with the new york governor who is set to leave office on tuesday. when the briefing was opened he was peppered with questions why he was leaving since his resignation is set to take effect in a matter of days. he was pressed about an appearance in which his lawyer made yesterday in which he questioned some of the reports cited in the report by the attorney general. here is what was said. >> i don't want to get into albany politics, which is what has been going on for the past few months. this is about a storm briefing to save lives of new yorkers. but you are the law journal.
question charlotte bennett's credibility, she did not specify what that was or provide evidence. ms. bennett's attorney said that might raise the level of post employment retaliation, what do you make of that and why is it appropriate for your attorney to make those remarks without evidence to back up the claim? >> i don't want to get into albany politics, which is what has been going on for the past few months. this is about a storm briefing to save lives of new yorkers. but you're the law journal. if you think justice is to accept a complaint from a person without investigation and without credibility determinations and without looking at past actions of that person, then you don't know what the justice system is.
nearly a week old and it had an addition there, a crudely drawn line apparently sharpied in to show alabama in a falsified trajectory. a source familiar with the president's storm briefing yesterday confirmed that the line had been added during the briefing, would not confirm that the president drew it. but the white house won't say that the president did not draw it. we do know how he loves his sharpie pens. he ditched the traditional pens presidents use for black sharpies and he uses those to sign official documents and to take notes. one of those personalized sharpies was right there on his desk when he pulled out this altered map. bottom line, the white house is falsifying weather reports so that it doesn't have to admit the president who spent the weekend golfing was not up to date on the storm's forecast. i want to bring in former fema administrator craig fugate with us. you served during the obama