we ll see if he takes questions clinton s presidential campaign. about the new york times much more on all of the breaking report that said that the president did talk about with news right after this. ng? his aides the prospect of firing tyler s off to college. and mom s getting older. mike at atkinson, the inspector mhm, and eventually we would like to retire. td ameritrade can help you build a plan general for national for today and tomorrow. intelligence and that is key come with a goal. leave with a plan. because he green-lighted this td ameritrade. whistle-blower complaint and found the whistle-blower complaint about the president s phone call with the leader of ukraine to be credible. in the meantime, president trump and his defenders are gearing up for war in week as the public hearings get underway in the impeachment inquiry. the trump campaign will be running a rapid response operation to react to the fast-moving developments up on capitol hill and the war room and chief is
operation, where you have a rapid response operation what about george steflopdous and even if you ve got the smartest people in the world you ve got to give them some hint on what the foundation is of their case? that s the 101, and you get those smart messengers in the room and they game it out, chris. they game it out. that s a big problem for a lot of republicans on the hill, there s no one gaming this out. and it s also sitting back waiting for the president to tweet or doing what he did today on the lawn and everybody with cameras and microphones to get in front of them to react. that s not gaming out the strategy, but when this reaches that pivotal point and it becomes really sear wrs, in other words full-blown impeachment trial under way, what do you do? who do you bring into the room at that moment? because the president s going to need legal advice, political advice, legislative advice.
this will be a complex and very dynamic response operation, requiring the use of a wide array of resources including aircraft, shallow water response teams, maritime transportation experts. this will be a joint response operation with our local, state and federal partners. how long do you expect search and rescue operations to last? hurricane michael is a historic storm. we re just commencing response operations and damage assessments, which will help determine how long rescue and response operations will take. so i can t give you a clearance on that. have you ever seen a storm like this one? i ve assisted with and directed numerous hurricane response operations. this is an historic storm. each hurricane is unique though, requiring tailored strategies to ensure effective and efficient responses. the storm certainly seemed at least, captain, to have caught a lot of people on the gulf coast by surprise. were you given enough time i m talking about the u.s. coast guard to
updates we need this morning. we understand you have 10,000 federal responders on the ground, and sounds like a big number, and of course that s a fraction of the 3.5 million people in puerto rico. do you need more federal responders there? first, that s correct. we do have 10,000 federal responders on the ground right now supporting the response operation. we have thousands more, whether they be those sitting behind me or throws throughout all of the federal agencies including the department of defense back here in washington supporting those on the ground. right now our priorities are getting additional personnel there, providing kau mocommodit and we have more on the way. we are also well aware of the fuel needs on the ground. we believe that there s sufficient fuel on the island right now. the challenge we are having, quite frankly, is distributing it. getting it out in all those in
nucle nucleus, the brain of the entire federal response. it s been coordinated in this room. the people here are working 12-hour shifts. they re working seven days on, seven days off. and tonight their primary focus is hurricane irma. again, it s safe to say that this is the brain of the federal response operation. now we have some roughly 200 people in this room. people from various agencies, whether it s epa, it s the department of energy, they re all here coordinating this response effort. they re trying to determine where should the resources be sent, what sort of resources do they need to send. and tonight we know they are buying things like tarps in extra preparation for this storm. but they tell me the most frantic moments inside of this room is the moments before the storm as well as the moments after the storm. those two nuclear power plants we talked about, do you know about precautions being