it limits shipping into u.s. ports. the president lifted the jones act after both hurricanes harvey and irma when texas and florida were hit, but he hasn t done so for puerto rico. here s what the president said today. let s remind our viewers. well, we re thinking about that, but we have a lot of shippers and a lot of people who work in the shipping industry that don t want the jones act lifted, and we have a lot of ships out there right now. what do you think the president is waiting for? with regard to the jones act? yeah. so, don, i ll be the first person to tell you i m not a shipping expert, so as we talk about the jones act, but i have obviously studied the comments from the governor of puerto rico and looked at what the response has been from fema and the fact that they have 10,000 folks that are on the ground. this is an absolute cataclysmic disaster. i mean, maria is exactly right. you look at how much of the island is still without power, without water. i think the
an easy one for them to go and flip the switch and take the issue off the board. again, i m not a shipping expert, but it seems to me to be the fact that we re even talking about the jones act rather than talking about all the good work that fema is doing to help people in puerto rico is a distraction. go ahead, maria. i was going to say, jason, you should be careful in talking about at this early point about the great job that fema is doing, because people are not feeling it on the island. i have talked to people that work in governor s officials. i have talked to people who work in the mayor s office. they are both asking the president that they need to do more. they are asking for military personnel. they are asking for coast guard personnel. yes, the issue is distribution on the island. but here is my the ships are there. they re sitting there with the food and water on them and they just can t take it off. exactly. but here is my question to you, jason. we have seen re
the president lifted the jones act both texas and florida. here is what the president said today. let s remind our viewers. well, we re thinking about that, but we have a lot of shirps and a lot of people who work in the shipping industry that don t want the jones act lifted, and we have a lot of ships out there right now. what do you think the president is waiting for? with regard to the jones act? yeah. so, don, i ll be the first person to tell you i m not a shipping expert but i have obviously studied the comments from the governor of puerto rico and looked at what the response has been from fema and the fact that they have 10,000 folks that are on the ground. this is an absolute cat clis mick disaster. i mean, maria is exactly right. you look at how much of the island is still without power, without water. i think there was a different situation from harvey where they were trying to move the oil. what the governor of puerto rico was saying both yesterday and this morning