we are going to keep defending ourselves. that is not something that you do. have an impossible sunday. thank you so much. coming up at the top of the hour, we have governor andy cuomo discussing the hurricane efforts in puerto rico. donald trump says he s really smart. i ll ask someone who should know. big thinking in the finger lakes is pushing the new new york forward. we re the number one dairy and apple producers in the eastern united states supported by innovative packaging that extends the shelf life of foods
james lee wit. james lee wit has given me an a. plus for our hurricane efforts, and he says james lee wit, director of fema and under clinton, a man i really know and respect. you know that that s nonsense, that he never heard of that guy before this moment. and he gave it to me for all the hurricanes, including puerto rico and it turns out that wasn t true. it was given for just the first two. irma and harvey. so you think to yourself, there s something almost pathological about it. you know, he can t stop himself from just in that moment he feels like this will sound better. why don t i say i know this guy really well. people embellish all the time, but when you re the leader of the free world, that s a whole other level. really interesting question that s why i think it s pathological. why do it? it doesn t really give you much advantage. it ends up producing this firestorm of fact-checking and criticism.
his headquarters exist 365 days a year just for this mission. it took us eight days to mobilize him to tell him to come do it. in the last hour did we learn that the pentago appointed the lieutenant general to lead all military hurricane efforts in puerto rico and expected to arrive in puerto rico later today. we know that his first priority will need to be a distribution and saving lives. walk us through what general buchanan is about to do. he should have been on the scene a week ago. he is the right man. that s his job as a fifth army commander. he had multiple experiences in fifg ar fifth army and the priority of work and figure out what rules he had to break. we would never have evacuated if i listened to the tsa and the
the white house at this microphone on the latest hurricane efforts. we re expecting that shortly. in addition, the president has just left or in fact is leaving now from the white house heading to new york city where he will hold a fund raiser, what they re calling a trump victory diner in new york city. victory dinner. it s a fund raiser at the fancy lecirque restaurant. the president will be there for a fund raiser in new york city. he s departing on air force one shortly. drivers and pedestrians in new york city take heed! should be an interesting afternoon. senate republicans say they are not giving up changing obamacare after their latest effort died for a lack of support in their own party. so no vote this week. but they re still looking for a path forward. turn to a.b. stoddard, associate
to be making sure that people have what they need, the basic necessities. you know, we live on an island surrounded by water but it is not water we can drink. st. thomas and st. john, they are completely browned from the salt blast that burnt off the island. shelter, food, water, as you talked about earlier on other islands, gasoline, petroleum. those are the concerns we have on the short-term. medium term is the building that needs to be done. how do we prepare as an island. we re still in the rainy season. there s other hurricanes comingment and bringing things back up. but in the long term, ensuring we are not forgotten as houston and florida begin working on tax relief for hurricane efforts. transportation and infrastructure committee.