he s had perfect performance in prison and that is a tough place to be but he has perfect performance there. i have no doubt he will have a perform performance on parole. he ll do everything his parole officer tells him to do. florida said he would like to move to there. simpson will start his parole here in las vegas. paul verkammen, thank you. president trump is visiting puerto rico on tuesday. he said the federal response is going great but the latest we have from the ground, remember, 11 days after the storm, that 95% of the people there still don t have power. think about that after 11 days. only 50% have access to clean water and communications is still a prime problem there. only 11% of cell phone towers
quickly to what has been in the news as well in the last couple of days. the president having used private planes here. multiple investigations we know are going on right now into this. walter, you ve been vocal on this as well with twitter saying who takes a long taxpayer funded luxury trip in his first half year and leading 33,000 v.a. to try to improve its service to vets? yes, there is an optics issue here and the president acknowledged that himself on friday. but when you look further, is there anything ethically that can be done? is there an ethics issue here and how do they fix it? well, the first thing that has to be done is to recognize that this is both a problem and a symptom of a bigger problem. tom just mentioned the hurricane harvey response and the president, during his press conference on that, was wearing
are operating at this point. we want to bring in cnn correspondent brynn gingras. how are people holding up and what are they expecting from the president when he comes on tuesday? have you talked to anybody. reporter: i think people want to hear they are getting help at this point. you read those numbers. it s pretty dismal. we traveled to some of these areas that are seeing some response. you know? there are more than 9,000 federal workers, boots on the ground here in puerto rico. but there is so much work that really needs to be done and, remember, we are ten days now after this storm hit. we went about an hour and a half outside of san juan yesterday to a mountainous area city. we saw people as we were driving in bathing and trying to drink from the spring water that was coming down the mountain. there s a river that runs
or democrat hand? we shouldn t. i agree 100% with you. we should take politics out of this completely but the mayor of san juan tell your president to do that! the mayor of san juan never mentioned trump. never mentioned president trump ever. listen! you talk to the. the resident commissioner and 77 other mayors on the island they are happy with the response the way it s going. number one, they will always they will also say they will also say that more needs to be done. do you really believe if i ta talk to the other mayors they would say things are great? no, they are not great. whoever told you things are great are wrong. you just said things are great! they are okay with the way the recovery is going. we have now reached 100% of the island. things are flowing everywhere. it s taken time but it s island, it s not easy and not anybody s fault. it s the president s fault. people are working as hard as
bill: thank you, griff. griff jenkins, key largo. julie: meanwhile, florida and governor rick scott now calling for outside help. they say the state is in desperate need of volunteers to assist with storm relief. speak with had more than 1600 volunteers signed up within the last 14 hours. i want to thank everybody for signing up. this includes more than 1,000 state workers. this is great, but we still need more. we ultimately need 17,000 volunteer statewide. julie: joined me now, cara could be. thank you so much for talking with us. there been more than 500 members that have been deployed for hurricane harvey response. now as irma has its eyes set on florida, what is the plan they are? right now we have 10,000 core volunteers that are residents of florida and both the americorps director that are already floridian residents that were tapped to run those programs.