Arrive soon. That mayor joins us in a moment. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im ali velshi in for brian williams. The president is dealing with a growing humanitarian crisis in puerto rico. Hes down a secretary of health and Human Services. Tom price right hand today as criticism mounted about how he chose to travel for work. Politico reports he racked up a million tab that taxpayers are on the hook for by using private jets and military planes for trips everywhere from philadelphia to europe with his wife. Well talk about price being out and the other members of the administration who have taken private jets, in just a bit. First, the government tragic for puerto rico that people on the ground say simply isnt working. Today, nine days after the storm made landfall, the acting Homeland Security secretary visited puerto rico for the first time. She said the situation is not satisfactory. But shes proud
He didnt demand an end to the investigations, swirling around his administration, but insisted 16 times there has been no collusion discovered by the inquiry. Quote, it makes the country very bad and puts the country in a very bad position. Trump said of the investigation. So, the answer, its worked out, the sooner its worked out, the better it is for the country. A little bit more. Asked whether he would order the Justice Department to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails, trump appeared to remain focused on the russia investigation and he said the following. I have the absolute right, he said, to do what i want to do with the Justice Department, he said, echoing claims by his supporters as president he has the power to open or end an investigation. But for purposes of hopefully thinking im going to be treated fairly, ive stayed uninvolved with this particular matter and i believe Michael Schmidt is on the phone with us. Hes one of the reporters who broke that story j
because my people s lives are at stake. and we are but one nation. we may be small. but we are huge in dignity and in our zealousness for life. so i am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world. we are dying here. joining us now from san juan is mayor carmen julian cruz. mayor, you and i have been talking together since the moments the storm first hit nine days ago. your message, your request for a mayday has gone out. at the very moment you were uttering those words today, the president of the united states was repeating, he must have said it five or six times to reporters, talking about how well the recovery effort in
judgment about trump. and he s never, it seems, capable or his playbook, whatever you want to call it, never involves saying anything other than, everything s going great because everything can only go great with donald trump. so you get that response. but yes, when you have that mindset from donald trump s standpoint where everything has to be a win, everything has to be going right, it s true. this week, if you look legislatively, as you just said, health care, how many passes have the republicans taken at this, how many times as the white house put it out here that it s going to happen now, it has to happen by the deadline, september 30th, and he hasn t come up with it. if you look in washington for victories for donald trump, you re not finding them. if you look in alabama this week, you didn t find a victory there. he declares a victory when he s put on the spot about puerto rico even though you ve got the mayor saying what she s saying. anita, let s talk about what the presiden
them. today mayor carmen julian cruz made an emotional, desperate plea for help, saying she just wants to give her people a chance to survive. so i am asking the president of the united states to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives. i will do what i never thought i was going to do. i am begging. begging anyone that can hear us to save us from dying. if anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying. and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy. so i am done being polite. i am done being politically correct. i am mad as hell.