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But very pointedly did not praise the mayor of san juan who was sitting at the end of the table out of camera range. peter alexander, the political dynamic going on there was pretty transparent. reporter: andrea, that was striking to me. we watched here what most of the americans talked of at the time which was one of the first cabinet meetings the president had where they went around the room and everybody just sort of showered praise on the president. this sort of had the same feel, and even though the president complimented the governor the puerto rico, saying he didn t play politics from the very beginning, you remember just two days ago it was the president on twitter who was accusing his critics of being, in his words, politically motivated ingrates. so i think a lot of people will say that he likes to spin the ....
Look, the president showed an unnecessary sensitivity to criticism over the federal effort here. he looks like he wants to be praised, to so to sit there and say that he didn t play politics and he said from the beginning beginning, if he simply said i want to complement the governor on the close relationship we had in the might of the united states to help our fellow citizens and make it would have been sufficient. no need to demonstrate a sensitivity to criticism on the effort. martha: some breaking news because there s an official death count in puerto rico. it was 16 earlier today, it is now 34 and karl, we know that that number, it may continue to rise. as you point out there s so many still dark areas in puerto rico they haven t gotten into. in terms of the effort today, the president did seem to be very concerned with how he had done and how he was perceived and that doesn t really it s ....