Them. but it is a risky thing, alex. if this storm turns out to be really bad, if it s a killer storm, you don t want to be out there doing distracting things focusing on other issues, when you could have been focusing on visiting fema, making sure texas was prepared for the storm and that leads to accusations that you potentially dropped the ball if the government response isn t top notch now. quickly, shawn, you re welcome to address that as well, whether this seems out of the norm overall or not, and then i want to ask you about sebastian gorka. i agree, i think this is a strategy in general that politicians, white houses in both parties, democratic and republican presidents have used, but this is a lot to process at a time when there really is a serious storm happening. and it s a real test for the president because he needs to show and demonstrate to the american people, i think, what kind of president is he going to be in non-political settings? what kind of president is he
Column there that you can see that americans already think this one is worse than the last one. there s plenty of animosity to go around over it. if you add the very angry and somewhat angry rows together, those are the top two, 63% say 63% say they re angry or very angry at republicans. 57% say they are angry or very angry at democrats. 53% say they re angry or very angry at the president. take a look further down in this chart. 31% say they re not angry at all at the president. 22% say they re not angry at all at the republican party. sensing that he s got public opinion behind him for now at least, president obama made another unannounced field trip today, visiting fema which accounts for a fraction of the 800,000 government employees on furlough during this partial shutdown. house speaker john boehner hit back almost right away after the president called him out for refusing to bring a clean temporary spending bill to the floor with no strings attached dealing with funding for ob
Jersey shore, which governor christie calls the soul of new jersey, back on its feet. they spoke with some of the people there at the shelter. they have now come to this area, where we can expect the president to make a statement. you re right, to go back. the president visiting fema. he had around him at the table there, many of the cabinet secretaries whose departments are going to be directly affected or involved in this recovery effort, including transportation, including hhs, hud, the secretary of defense was there as well. john brennan, the homeland security and counterterrorism adviser here at the white house. so a full array of administration power, being brought to bear to coordinate with the states. and that is partly what fema s role is, martin, as new jersey struggles to recover and other areas struggle to recover. one more thing, craig fugate telling reporters today aboard air force one, they are transitioning from a search and rescue operation to try to take care of the i