in puerto rico, over 2,000 fema personnel in puerto rico, emax, almost 3,000 in puerto rico as well. some of the assets coming here from the federal government and the private sector. we have resources to work. we need to execute and we need to do more. certainly saying help is not arriving is inconsistent with everything that we re observing. neil: do you and the mayor work with each other on this? the reason why i ask, she s been a frequent critic of the aid and president trump in particular. seems like a nasty relationship. is it? well, my job here, neil, is to work with everybody. i need to make sure my only focus is results for the people of puerto rico. i called the mayor as i called other mayors. i worked with the federal government. i want to make sure that outcomes are our focus.
more devastating than that. but irma doesn t outdo the spirit and will of the folks. we are really working to get folks getting folks relief supplies. water, food, medical supplies. we ve evacuated our hospital, which was destroyed on st. thomas and we evacuated all patients, got them safely on facility in st. croix and puerto rico. and the dialysis community is taken care of, but the devastation is hard, and the people are the virgin islands and the virgin islands need help. what is that help, governor? talk about it. let s what do you need in the next month and then what do you need over the next six months? i assume you ve got the quick asks and the long-term asks. that s correct. our federal partners, president trump in particular, have been really good, really awesome. the federal cabinet has been here one by one, and we are provisioning and loading up lots
and everybody else would like to see some of the leaks tamped down s when you have leaks about national security discussions and things like that. that s very understandable. however, i think it s how are they going about it? they want people to be quiet. and they want people to show more loyalty to the president and the office of the presidency but the way they re going about this, in a very public tongue lashing does no engender that type of loyalty. for president trump in particular, somebody who came to town without the natural group of allies to rely on has to fill his white house with people that go beyond his base of loyal support, and the only way he s going to earn their loyalty, these are traditional republicans that have worked in government and policy for a long time, is to treat them in a way different than he has gotten away with treating people that worked for him in business and on his campaign who were particularly close to him and willing to put up with it. it was i
personal to president trump in particular. but it s the fact that he is so active on twitter. and that lends a totally different dynamic to covering the presidency than it has in the past. of course i wasn t covering the white house under previous administrations, so it s hard to compare. but certainly from what my colleagues tell me this is a lot faster pace. you re dealing with a lot more information. i get in real early in the morning and i m usually covering tweets, trying to decipher them. sometimes we re not exactly sure exactly what he s talking about. so we kind of spend our morning really trying to understand and interpret. so that the american people who are receiving his message can better understand what he s saying. all of those things are definitely new challenges, exciting but also you know sometimes very difficult. vivian salama, who had at least one war time overseas posting. i m not sure which was more dangerous or difficult looking back. vivian, thank you. ashley,
well, one thing that is really important for all of us we ve learned to do this in realtime is fact check. and it s nothing necessarily personal to president trump in particular. but it s the fact that he is so active on twitter. and that lends a totally different dynamic to covering the presidency than it has in the past. of course i wasn t covering the white house under previous administrations so it s hard to compare. but certainly from what my colleagues tell me this is a lot faster pace. you re getting in a lot more information. i get in early and covering tweets trying to decipher them sometimes we re not sure what he is talking about. we spend the morning really trying to understand and interpret to the american people receiving the message can better understand what he is saying. all of those things are definitely new challenges, exciting but also you know sometimes very difficult. vivian salama who at least one war time overseas post-ing i m not sure which was more