When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Days after a senior republican senator referred to the white house as adult day care, the man that many believe is in charge of supervising the president , Chief Of Staff john kelly, was sent out before the press to shoot down reports that the president s tantrums are causing big problems. The day began as it often does with a president ial outburst on twitter. This one aimed at the struggling people of puerto rico. Who three weeks after Hurricane Maria are still suffering through an acute deadly crisis, many lacking access to safe water and food, and Urgent Medical care. Well have the latest from the island coming up later this hour. Today the president appeared to blame puerto rico for its current situation, threatening to cut off federal recovery efforts. I quote him here. Electric and all infrastructure were disaster before hurricanes. Congress to decide how much to spend. We cannot keep fema, the
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benefit of the doubt that you have sources. instead of like his boss who just called it all fake. his boss, the president of the united states, the theory he says is it s entirely made up. he accuses of press of totally fabricating this when he s not threatening to shut them down or revoke the licenses of newspapers, which also don t exist. we should note here, kelly is also doing, it strikes me, a similar job to what sean spicer had today on the first had to do on the first day of the administration, to come out in the face of a set of circumstances people can see pretty clearly and essentially deny the evident right in front of their face. he did. but i would say at least he didn t go so far as to say outright untruths. and he was actually quite charming in his engagement with the press in terms of at least keeping a pleasant demeanor, not coming out there angry and scowling at us, calling us the disgusting media, and essentially threatening the
keeping a pleasant demeanor, not coming out there angry and scowling at us, calling us the disgusting media, and essentially threatening the first amendment. he basically, you know, is i think trying to make a bridge to a certain extent with the media. it s interesting today that i was in this health care executive order announcement with the president and he actually turned around and thanked us all. which i guess is not usual. so i think there is a certain part of this that they re trying to immediately address some of these stories when they come out and put these people out in front of the media. but one of the things that kelly says, he called the president very thoughtful. it struck me that there s so many things you could say about the president, many adjectives. even if you wanted to praise the president there s lots of things you could say, canny, great political instincts, incredible way of capturing people s attention. he s not a very thoughtful person by basically the det