So what happened in Cuba the entire island is completely out of power and you feel
terrible for people in Puerto Rico who were just hit in Cuba who were just hit.
Thank God we have better infrastructure in our country.
We've put a lot of investment into making sure that we're ready for these things but
it's an act of nature and you never know exactly what to expect.
>> Okay. So I don't know if you caught that little
thing there from Martha MacCallum and her analysis,
Hurricane Ian but Puerto Rico is part of our country.
And I don't know how many times that needs to be reiterated.
Its true today, it's gonna be true tomorrow in a year.
It's probably gonna be true.
You can just go forward assuming that it is not a foreign country,
it's part of the United States.
Now maybe Caroline being too harsh.
It is possible that there maybe she meant just the Cuba part even though
she listed both before she said in our country, maybe she means continentally.
She means part of our contiguous country.
Am I being unreasonable?
>> There is no way that woman knows that Puerto Rico is
a part of the United States.
And it's like this happens every time there is a hurricane or
a natural disaster in Puerto Rico.
It's like so much of our time is spent reminding people,
especially people on the right that no this is on us as well like yeah
the reason they don't have good infrastructure is our fault.
We spend so much time having that conversation and
having to reiterate that that so little time can actually be spent acknowledging.
Like what the particular challenges are of having Puerto Rico as a US territory.
How it differs from the mainland United States?
I mean that I think the theme of the day is just conversations that need to
happen about making people's lives better.
Just cannot because the level of discourse from left and
right side of just cable news is completely
missing key facts that they need to understand.
>> Yeah I certainly agree and everybody's gonna react to a little bit differently.
I try despite I'm sure right now on YouTube there's some Trump fan
saying that I have derangement syndrome and I'm totally unfair to the right.
I'm trying to extend understanding.
Bearing in mind that Martha MacCallum was in that thing where she seemed
to not get that Puerto Rico is part of the US.
She was expressing concern for the people there,
she didn't seem to want them to be suffering.
So that's good.
It's not a high bar.
If that bar was in Florida would be underwater right now it's not super high
but she was being I guess a little bit compassionate.
But this does potentially matter not if Martha MacCallum gets it but
if people understand the relationship between the US and
places like Puerto Rico and other territories and things like that.
It does matter because it becomes a lot easier to simply ignore what happens,
especially in times of strife like with natural disasters.
To assert that whatever problems are over their problems, it's their debt problem.
Who cares to resist?
Just the idea that maybe at some point they might
choose to become a voting portion basically a full on state.
They're visceral opposition to that,
it's partly caused by the fact that they have been trained to think of it as a sort
of weird foreign country that kind of hangs around off the coast or something.
That's not what it is.
And so hopefully she will learn something from this and
going forward, I sort of doubt it.
By the way, I wanna give you the most recent updates and
bear in mind with a hurricane things are developing minute by minute.
But it was downgraded to a tropical storm earlier today still
declared a major disaster by President Biden.
They will be using this federal aid to help and
I believe that Rhonda Santis has requested for some period.
I don't know if it was 60 days or one month that the federal government cover
all of the disaster-related costs, that's part of what the federal government is for
is to take care of these sorts of things.
And this will be a great opportunity for people like Ron DeSantis and
conservatives in Florida to understand that concept.
That this is why we need a governmental well-funded,
governmental capable competent government.
So that when Florida is devastated, they get every bit of help that they need
instantly and that they're not left just relying on Donald Trump to
hopefully walk by and huck paper towels at them or something.
In any event as of right now or as of this morning,
at least 2.5 million customers in Florida were without power.
And so the maximum sustained winds by the way had died, it says 65 mph,
which is still dangerous.
But what it initially made landfall, I was seeing something like 150.
So there has been significant progress but Caroline, what do you think?
>> Yeah, I think this is a really interesting question.
The discussion of how political leaders in states like Texas and Florida are,
360 days of the years just constantly railing against if
we have a democratic president that they are wasting so much money.
And the same thing happened with hurricane Sandy when Obama was president.
And ultimately what kind of happened then a lot of people speculate that
the governor of New Jersey Chris Christie lost so much respect amongst Republicans.
When he basically admitted that Obama did a really good job of coming in quickly and
bringing aid to the situation which sort of set of having bipartisan.
Again, support for relief in natural disasters,
like doesn't win political points.
And on the left we obviously do a good job of stepping past that and
acknowledging that, that's okay if you lose political points,
but the right just continues to make it so impossible.
They're the ones railing against cancel culture and
nobody is proud to be an American anymore.
And yet their leaders are the ones who in a situation when we
could be really brought together sort of are very hesitant to
really put aside their politics and and create that unity.
I do think DeSantis has taken a mature approach to this,
which should not be surprising.
But really is like, I'm actually very surprised that he has given or
I don't know, given by the credit is the right way of saying it.
But he has spent the last few days really working with the administration and
it just sucks because we all know in a couple of days or
weeks that camaraderie is gonna be totally ripped apart.
Because again, it doesn't score him political points.
>> Yeah.
I also, again, we're always going to be fair and
we're never gonna get a shred of credit for being fair.
But yes, look, I wouldn't say that DeSantis necessarily has given him credit.
Maybe he has since that, I haven't seen it.
I would say he hasn't relentlessly attack writing over this,
which is something and by the way, he was on, I think Tucker Carlson last night.
And tucker Carlson was trying to inspire a bit of drama in the same way that
White House Press Corps.
One reporter was trying to bring up the drama to Karine, Jean Pierre,
I think it was yesterday and neither of them were biting it.
And so that is good.
That is how this should actually work.
I agree the second the ground dries, the knives are coming back out,
but this is how it's supposed to work.
And so I guess in this instance to DeSantis is marginally more adult than
Donald Trump.
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