the effects of just how bad this has been for the people there. and there sort of that place of advantage of the white house here in washington, they can claim that the crisis is over. they ve already substantially ramped down the response from a peak of 15,000 federal personnel on the ground, 5,400 right now. they pulled back the us comfort, taken out the three-star general that was leading the effort, said it s time to transition the job to the puerto ricans, but the job isn t halfway over yet. you could say that it hasn t even really started. so what we re seeing is really a lowering of the bar of what kind of basic services are american citizens entitled to? it s going to be a hundred days without electricity for more than half of this u.s. territory in less than a week now. all right, mattathias schwartz, you can read his great reporting in the new yorker . thanks, chris. coming up, what the president allegedly said about haitians what his administration
are they all still there? if you look at the rhetoric and look at what is happening on the ground, you would think the job is done. the total number of personnel has declined to about 5400 right now. president trump has mentioned puerto rico for a couple of weeks. he pulled back general buchanan, three star who he sent down to lead the response. buchanan is gone. u.s. comfort, the hospital ship is gone. he is sort of acting as though the job is over and can just be put back on the shelf. there are a lot of people down there who are still suffering and particularly, this electricity issue has a long way to go. why has the bar been lowered? when it comes to puerto rico. you said that you feel the bar that they ve set a lower bar and that s really upsetting that we re just letting a million american citizens languish for over 100 days without
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