wrong and called his attack shameful. he also said in a statement, quote, the president s message attacking california and threatening to with hold aid to the victims is ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as to the men and women on the front lines. the president followed up with other tweets, today tweeting out a thank you to firefighters, fema and first responders. of course his latest tweet tonight making a disaster declaration has echoed that tone. first of all, i guess when you first heard about the comments from the president about withholding funding, what went through your mind 1234. anderson, when i first heard about it i think it was really saturday. yietd been in up in paradise and then down in southern california, and i didn t think lot about it. and then i started getting a lot of calls from the folks that i represent, and are you going to do anything, are you going to respond to this? and then i read it and really
place. just utter devastation. still an evacuation zone but your heartbreaks for folks worried about their homes, pets and everything they have and what kind of destruction they will be coming home too. it s incredible how far the embers can be picked up and moved by the wind and deposited elsewhere. the president s tweet varied. his initiate tweet not focusing on the victims. he said there s no reason for these massive and deadly forest fires except that forest management is so poor. million offens of dollars given year. remedy now or no more federal payments. the president s attack was called shameful. he said the president s message attacking california and threat pi in en to with hold aid is ill timed
carney had to say? let me translate what jay carney is saying. he s saying i m going to ignore the law. the law says that when a military coup happens foreign aid should end. we are not suppose to be in favor of supporting military overthrow of democrat you canally elected government. i m no fan of the muslim brotherhood because i don t think they should have been given money because they appeared after a military coup as well. the president is flouting the law and saying i m above the law. that s the problem with this president. martha: there is a law on the books that says after a military coup we have to with hold aid until we can determine that we are giving money to a process of democracy. and the administration i would point out recently used that law in mali in a somewhat similar situation in the other way.