times of national emergencies. and this is an emergency for those people who will be affected. and, look, fema officials and the acting dhs secretary, who happened to be sitting right next to the president at the time, i cannot imagine what is going through their head when they are seeing these altered revisions. this isn't like a football play where you can map out what you're going to do. these are scientific predictions over whether a storm is going to affect you or not. so we need to be able to listen to our president and believe what he is saying, and unfortunately in this case, that just didn't happen. so, again, that's why it's best to advise people that your best people to listen to right now are your local and state emergency responders. >> yeah. the white house, as we said, they released this lengthy statement defending the president, and we saw rear admiral peter brown defending him. he said the statements were based on a briefing on september 1st. we know from the national