Cooperate with any investigation that goes on and own up to any mistakes and push forward, and keep going, keep moving on. I want to bring in politico reporter Daniel Lichtman with his new reporting on fema director brock long, Washington Post sr. Political reporter andrew blake. That series of tweets just this morning, tamara, aaron and daniel, not Hurricane Florence, the one currently on the way to the east coast but the one that hit puerto rico, leading to the deaths ultimately and eventually of close to 3,000 people. The president now, lets pull up those tweets, is saying, in fact, those 3,000 people did not die as a result of the storm. He is accusing democrats now of actually adding to the death toll. Tamara, you have spent 24 hours, prefact checking this, not knowing that the president would tweet this. Looking into that death toll number from puerto rico. Right. And so what the president is saying is, hey, when i was there visiting and he was throwing paper towels and saying th
A nonstarter as well, right . No doubt. Listen, this is a stalemate that the president is content to ride out unless he gets funding for the border wall and Border Security, he simply just will let this thing play out and see how much pressure he can apply on the democrats. Lets go to twitter. The president is up and tweeting already in 2019. He said this. The democrats much as i suspected, have allocated no money for a new wall. So imaginetive. Without a wall there can be no Border Security. Our country must finally have a strong and secure southern border. Yesterday the president was in the oval Office Working to find a way for the white house and lawmakers to ind the impasse. White house officials was working the phones as well. The shutdown affects real americans, many of whom are beginning to feel the pinch of not being paid for the time being. Even though they will eventually get paid once the shutdown is over. That said the president is Standing Firm and he wants the American Pe
at a hotel room. i would wonder why some of those folks are deciding to stay. i don t know if they re using metal detectors or what, or what s happening, but there they are. reporter: they re trying to not quite sure what they re doing over there. we did speak to them before we came on the air. they preferred not to be interviewed but did tell us they had made a decision to stay here. they re one of the people who don t think that this storm will be as bad as the local authorities suggest. dangerous bet. reporter: the mayor and many authorities here say not to take that chance. for some people it is very difficult for them to evacuate financially. gas money. it s very difficult to find hotels and emergency shelters have been filling up. we were at one yesterday in conway, south carolina, not far from here that was expecting hundreds more evacuees over the last few hours. the red cross says it has the capacity. and for anyone that is still debating whether or not they should lea
here by that point, you re on your own. hallie? mariana atensio, thank you for that. garret hake is in wilmington, north carolina. reporter: we just felt the wind. if you watch the last hour or so, 9:00 we were here and the area in front of me was almost completely dry. now the noose river has started to get out of its banks and start to fill up the street level in front of me. i don t know if you can see how wide our who the is now but when we get into serious storm surge i m told the level will go up to about this sign on the lamp post next to me. officials expect this entire area to be under water, not just in an inconvenient, up to your ankles kind of way. anyone who owns property along this stretch of river will
facilities and so forth. right. the president lashing out, blaming democrats for this criticism. study looked at five months after the impact of that storm and has raised the numbers considerably. initially it was a few dozen deaths and now the kind of accepted view at the point we are at right now is that nearly 3,000 lives were affected by the initial wave and then related effects after that. the president pushing back, saying that just didn t happen. surprising tweets from the president, critical at a time when florence is the administration s focus, as they say. hallie? kelly o donnell at the white house north lawn. let me bring in daniel lichtman with his new reporting on fema administrator brock long. tamara and aaron are back here. i want to start with you daniel, then tamara and aaron to you. use of cars, basically official car use on the government s dime. yeah. why does this matter? it matters because if he didn t have the right government