is their electric grid and their electric generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit. it was in very bad shape. it was in bankruptcy, had no money. it was largely you know, was largely closed. and when the storm hit, they had no electricity essentially before the storm, and when the storm hit, that took it out entirely. the job that fema and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico, i think, was tremendous. okay. so, mike, the president there essentially blaming puerto rico because it s an island, blaming their electric grid, saying that they were bankrupt. does that irk you in any way? i mean is that, at minimum, insensitive? no. i mean, look, kaitlan is a great white house reporter. maybe she can back me up on this. there was not a single request from puerto rico that came to the white house that the president did not grant. so to lay at his feet the fact that an island nation of puerto rico, which by every puerto
rican would tell you not enough has been done there for the last 30 years and to compare that to texas, where the infrastructure, the national guard, the state has money, the state has roads, it has infrastructure, hospitals to compare those two states is just frankly absurd, and i think it is a partisan attack to try to hang this around the neck of the president. the ship they had to take the navy ship comfort, which the president immediately sent down to puerto rico, and it couldn t even dock. so the military is being sent down there. aid is being sent down there, but the island itself is incapable of accepting a lot of help. a lot of the people that died were actually trapped on the side of mountains that couldn t be reached. now, i don t know if we expect a corps of engineers who by the way are down in puerto rico still to this day. so when we say puerto rico s bad, what you re really saying is that the fema career people and the corps of engineers who are missing their famil