mcmaster: thank you. director. >> thank you. emily farr, director of the department of labor, licensing and regulations. throughout this event the agency through its division state fire has been prepared should any search andres cuse -- and rescue efforts be needed. earlier this week we localized task force 1 with water rescue capability here in columbia. so that we were prepared to back up the regional search andres cue team -- and rescue teams that are located in charleston, hilton head and myrtle beach. last night north charleston did request two boat teams so we deployed task force 1 and they arriveed there at 10:00 p.m. last night. we requested two boat teams through firefighter mobilization and anderson county and coney county answered that call and their boat teams are now here in columbia ready to deploy if needed. as well the state fire marshall, chief jonathan jones, continues to make contact with the fire chiefs along the coast to make sure that they do not have any unmet needs. we appreciate all of the first responde

mcmaster.the four years. he was directly involved with two impeachments. h.r. mcmaster said he was so concerned about rudy giuliani acting as an influence. he made it a policy to be in the office whenever the former new york mayor visited. influence agent, what did he mean exactly? what are the implications? >> well, john, i'm glad you guys noticed that. it is another line to from the very beginning was concerns inside trump's own white house with his own advisers about the world tabout the role rudy giuliani played. some in the white house referred him as the man who got donald trump impeached twice. even at the very beginning, this is back in 2017 and 2018 when h.r. mcmaster was the national security adviser, he was concerned about giuliani's lack of transparency. giuliani never served officially in the government because even trump wouldn't appoint him to be secretary of state. that's the job that giuliani wanted at the beginning of the thing. so he never had to disclose his clients. there w

last night i received a request for emergency declaration from governor mcmaster which i approved right away as i did for florida. this allows for immediate federal funding for the state to shelter people and provide other essential support. by approving it early and head of the storms landfall in south carolina we can get supplies in and provide shelter if necessary. my message people of south carolina is simple. please listen to all the warnings and directions from local officials and follow theirinstructions . and as you all know the situation in florida is far more devastating. we're just beginning to see the scale of that destruction . it's ranking among the worst in the nation's history. you've all seen the seed on television. homes and property wiped out. it's going to take months, years to rebuild and our hearts go out to all those folks whose lives have been devastated by the storm . america's heart is literally breaking as we're watching people. i just want the people of florida to know we see what you're going through and we're with you and we want to do everything we can for

mcmaster's book, "dereliction of duty." >> the subtitle of major mcmaster's book is "lyndon johnson, robert mcnamara, the joint chiefs of staff, and the lies that led to vietnam." that's very tough language. and the most obvious question to lead off with is, why did every important person in washington, seemingly, from 1964 to the end, engage in lying? >> typically what you hear about vietnam and certainly what is contained in the historiography of that war is the interpretation that the war in vietnam was inevitable and that it was brought on by a tidal wave of cold war ideology. what this new evidence reveals, in dramatic fashion, is not only was the war not inevitable, but, indeed, that it was only made possible through these lies and deceptions. >> so you make a different argument about our failures in afghanistan. not that military brass or politicians were lying to americans. all the information was out there. americans just weren't paying attention. so what have you learned about sustaining public commitment to a long-term foreign conflict and engagement? >> when a healthy dem

i've spoke within governor mcmasters as well. last night i requested for emergency declaration from governor mcmasters, which i approved right away just as i did with florida. this allows funding for the state to shelter people and provide other support. by approving it early ahead of the storm's landfall we can get supplies in and provide shelter if necessary. my message to the people of south carolina is simple. please listen to all the warnings and directions from local officials and physical low their instructions. and as you all know, the situation in florida is far more devastating. we're just beginning to see the scale of that destruction. it's likely to rank among the worst in the nation's history. you have all seen on television homes and property wiped out. it's going to take months, years, to rebuild. and our hearts go out to all those folks whose lives have been devastated by this storm. america's heart is literally breaking. just watching people watching on television. i just want the people of florida to know, we se

we are waiting to hear from south carolina mcmaster and south and florida to santos. amy i know you have an update for us on the tracker. >> the position of the lower where it makes landfall impacts were the surge was. and we were able to track this on the fox weather app so we can see where the storm is going. right now the threat is a less for charleston as far as the surge goes. but what that means is that the surge is greater for places like georgetown, you get up to polly's place, grand, so the other reason why georgetown is vulnerable, you know the river is running they are. so we'll be right over the bay they are. before high tide has just passed. so, the good news is that even though we are looking at just being passed high tide, we are not at the peak where the water is as it comes in. button 84-mile wind gust at charleston harbor means that wind and rain are the greatest threat. however, for places like georgetown, we are still on the threat for surge and looking at it like a georgetown river situation without water being thrown back up, that is where we see

our governor, henry mcmaster, just did a press conference. i think he said the number was a little over 5,000 across the state that are without power. i don't know what number that is in our area, but i'm seeing power wherever i can look. >> john: that's good, that's encouraging. >> gillian: definitely good news. what are you worried about being the biggest danger for folks this hour? >> well, water is always a concern, especially for people that are along the ocean front and people who are in the areas that are more prone to flooding. i don't think -- i mean, i know we won't see the type of devastation that florida has and you know, our hearts just go out to them. we want to do all we can to help them and you know, thank god we are not going to see that type of devastation, but it doesn't mean we won't have damage and people need to be mindful of that. >> john: one of the big differences between the east coast of south carolina and the west coast of florida there is a substantial natural dune system built up along the atlantic coast. do you

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in fact, the president also approved governor henry mcmaster's emergency orders a few days ago. charleston county allows us to close roads and bridges and set in curfews and access federal funding as needed depending on how bad the storm gets. even a tropical storm, when we had irma several years ago, we had four our five tornados and there was significant flooding across the region. and so that allows us access to other resources and i want thank the president for his support of florida and south carolina and thank governor henry mcmaster. >> no place for politics here today. everyone is in this together. >> absolutely. >> congresswoman, thank you for coming on. good luck. >> thank you. >>> let's head slightly further south from where congresswoman mace is. she's in charleston. let's go further south in south carolina. joining us right now is john mckhan, the mayor of hilton head island. and it is moving east. and that is good news for you guys. what are you seeing right now? >> yes, it is good news. it is good news but in the meantime, our hearts and prayers go out to all of t

i spoke to governor henry mcmaster a little bit ago, declared a state of emergency. our charleston county here in moments will also declare a state of emergency. everyone is taking this storm seriously as we have to. with hurricane irma, just a few years ago, it landeds an a tropical storm but it had devastating flooding consequences for portions of south carolina's coast, and we have to take it seriously. >> you know, my first hurricane, congresswoman, was hurricane hugo in charleston in 1989, and the devastation brought by that. that's the last hurricane to really take a direct hit there on charleston and it seems to be in the bulls eye right now, and since 1989, so much development in the area, mount pleasant and the whole kiowa island community, billions of dollars of real estate, and what's the potential for damage along the coastline that has been built up so much because it is believed after hurricane hugo the gulf stream was taking all the hurricanes away from places like hilton head island and kiowa and charleston, but now you are kind of in the bulls eye. >

i spoke with governor mcmaster of south carolina this morning as well.ast night i received a request for an emergency declaration from governor murphy master, which i approved right away, just as i did for florida. this allows for immediate federal funding for the state to shelter people and provide other essential support. by approving it ahead of the storm's landfall in south carolina, we can get supplies and provide shelter if necessary. i messaged -- message to the people of south carolina is simple. please listen to all of the warnings from local officials and follow their instructions. as you all know, the situation in florida is far more devastating. we are just beginning to see the scale of that destruction. this could rank among the worst in the nation's history. you have all seen on television, homes and property wiped out. it is going to take months -- years -- to rebuild. our hearts go out to all of those folks whose lives have been devastated by this storm. america's heart is literally breaking. watching people watch it on television. i want

and i spoke with governor mcmaster of south carolina this morning as well.which i approved right away. this allows for immediate federal funding for the state to shelter people and provide other essential support. by approing it early, ahead of the storm's landfall in south carolina, we can get supplies in and provide shelter, if it necessary. my message to the people of south carolina is simple. please listen to all the warnings and directions from local officials and follow their instructions. and as you all know, the situation in florida is far more devastating. we're just beginning to see the scale of that destruction. it's likely to rank among the worst of the nation's history. you'll all have seen on television homes and property wiped out. it's going to take months, years to rebuild. our hearts go out to all those folks whose lives have been devastated by the storm. america's heart is literally breaking. just watching people watch it on television. i just want the people florida to know we see what you're going through. we're with you. we're going to

mcmaster: more questions? all right. thank you very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] >> now federal officials on the administration's response to hurricane ian. this is about half an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm the associate administrator for the office of response and recovery at fema. thank you for joining us here today. and for your continued attention to florida as well as south carolina and all the people impacted by hurricane ian. i also want to thank the dedicated leaders standing up with me here today. the partnerships across the federal family enable our effective response to this disaster and ensures floridians and south carolinians get the help they need during these unimaginably difficult times. our hearts are with floridians as they endeavor on this long and difficult recovery. and our resolve has never been stronger. together we will rebuild from this t

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the president spoke with governor desantis and governor mcmasters. fema administrator is on the ground in florida today, since before the storm made landful, it is a priority for the entire administration to get those impacted by the storm help that they need. one week ago, the president should an emergency declaration for florida which meant we could preposition like food and water and generators. >> we will support the people that have been impacted and full resources of the federal government as communities endeavor to recover and rebuild. i want to say a special word of thanks to our first responders for everything they are doing and for the life saving and dangerous missions they have undertaken. if you indulge me just a word on what was a very important foreign policy development yesterday, president biden hosted u.s.-pacific island country summit. and help these countries combat the climate crisis and enhance maritime security and more. and finally president biden and all 12 pacific island presidents who joined him issued a joint declaration t

>> well, in south carolina unfortunately, governor mcmaster issued a emergency order like governor desantis and president biden to his credit also accepted that order. our counties also issued a emergency order that will give us an ability to set curfew ifs we have looting issues like in florida. we're very concerned about the areas north of charleston, polly's island, hitch field beach where we saw a pier float away and retail and st store and homes under water and that gives us the ability to do that and the ability to access resources at the federal level and we otherwise would not have after the storm. elizabeth: what's really concerning is reports that florida power and light, they're warning that parts of the system, their grid, will need to be rebuilt from the ground up. from the ground up. not just restored. go ahead, take that on. >> i was going to say, some of the images you saw yesterday, they were hit with flooding from the storm and today houses were burning to the ground. they have the electrical grid issue and you look at infrastructure bill that we did last year, i would muc

i'm very appreciative of governor henry mcmaster. all of our local mayors here.nd the weather service. some people volume teerg their time i went through the emergency operation centers yesterday watching folks coming in. working 24/7. and i just appreciate all of the fanders who are on the ground ready to serve our community today. >> carley: congresswoman just thinking about charleston and how many his stock of homes there are there and since hurricane hiewtion go charleston there has been build up along the coast. what kind of damage could would he be looking at here? >> well, this -- my congressional district itself is the 10th fastest growing district in the nation. we have had a enormous amount of folks here to live here. the development only exacerbating infrastructure issues. south carolina as a whole during covid was in the top five states of people moving. to say so, when you are talking about that kind of growth and development, the flooding issues are going to be much more expensive today than they would have been two or three years ago. >> carley: co

i will say that governor mcmaster has been so great about reaching out to all of the communities, thell be affected by this and as always, he offers his support has done such a great job of keeping in touch with us. as far as mostly everyone has continued to stay. thankfully we will not get hit any where near as hard as florida did. so our hearts and prayers go out to them. >> dana: brenda, i assume this is not your first rodeo when it comes to hurricanes. what are you prepared to do immediately after the storm clears out? >> well, our crews are on standby to get out and start with the cleanup as well as help other communities that may not have the resources that we do. one of the main things they did before the storm was to lower the levels in our retention ponds so hopefully we won't have issues with flooding like some of the neighboring areas may. we are ready. everyone is on standby with equipment and ready to not only clean up our own community but help others. >> bill: different parts of florida a water event. other areas a wind event. what is your best guess there, water or win

effect, for good or for ill, i suspect for good, governor desantis in florida, governor kemp, and mcmastera governor of a state that gets hit by hurricanes, you think about this and plan about this, and train for this a lot. i suspect we'll see all three of those governors rise to the challenge. >> jesse: what's the global warming game they're playing? >> you know, i thought that was interesting. there's the acting director of noaa, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration agency, who says to tom lemon, i'm not going to get into that. if don is right, they're intensifying, he has to explain why we've been talking about the fact there's been as many as 60, 70, ate, 90 years ago, even more powerful hurricanes that hit florida. look, he was right to get into this. you said you can't take global warming and relate it to a specific event. don lemon was so desperate to say, this is global warming, and therefore we need to pass the build back better plan with green energy provisions, and aoc ought to be in carriage of this, and if we do that we'll never have a bad one again. that's not

and local officials and spoke with florida governor ron desantis and south carolina governor henry mcmaster. fema administrator criswell is on the ground in florida today. since before the storm made landfall president biden had made clear it is a priority for the entire administration to get those impacted by the storm the help they need. one week ago the president issued an emergency declaration for florida which meant we could pre-position teams and resources like food, water and generators on the ground. yesterday the president did the same thing for south carolina in anticipation of the storm hitting their currently efforts are focused on saving lives with search and rescue as part of its unprecedented level of coordination with the florida national guard and local responders, teams started search and rescue missions before daylight and are continuing that efforttoday . by the end yesterday they had already saved hundreds of lives and completed thousands of structural assessments allowing people to safely return to their homes. those teams are continued continuing to assess damage and

trace: keep our fingers crossed and i want to put up this tweet from south carolina governor henry mcmaster get your take on this. he says that this is a dangerous storm that will bring high winds and a lot of water. but the most dangerous thing about it will be human error. be smart, make good decisions, check on your loved ones, stay safe. the governor is right and you look back down to florida and there is a lot of people in fort myers in some areas around there that had wished they took off and heeded the warnings and got out. >> i think you're exactly right. we've seen hurricane in florida, hurricane matthew people driving around barricades, they go sightseeing, that's where a large of the fatalities occur when people get restless inside the house. heed the advice of officials, make sure you're prepared and finished getting the preparations ready so that we can write out the storm. i think the governor's right, that's exactly right. we see it in every state and every time there's a storm, they get restless and want to do something, they don't. making sure your writing out the storm and

>> yeah, i have a lot of confidence in governor mcmaster. we have mayor hadley in north myrtle beach, bethune. these are great ladies. they know what they're doing. our governor is on this. we're doing the best we can. i'm in clemson, south carolina. they're just putting up the stands for a home -- "game day" will be here. most of south carolina will be good to go. what i worry the most about is the flooding that comes from the rain. joaquin and harvey stayed over, right? never went away. these rivers coming down from north carolina flood. this could be a couple days before we realize how much damage can be done here. the flooding is terrible. a lot of property damage. get off the roads. power lines down. you can get electrocuted. let's ride this thing out. i do worry about what is to come if it stalls out and dumps a bunch of rain. joaquin and harvey were devastating because of the flooding. >> martha: harvey dropped 50 inches of rain. >> unbelievable. never went away. >> that's right. we were down there covering it. we thought the same thi

the republican governor south carolina who was the first to endorse donald trump or president, mcmasterand i work very closely together. i worked very close with other members of republican members of the legislation on behalf of the state. so no, we are not calling out of republicans. but the maga republicans, they should not be allowed to serve in public office. they should not be allowed appointments to commissions. we should relegate them to a solo place and our society that we do for people who are some resources and sunshine patriots. >> this is the clarify, soapbox wasn't tried to grab that and use that, you mean the republicans who are election deniers, the republicans who do not want to count all of the votes in our elections. you're not talking about all republicans when you say that. >> absolutely not! absolutely not! as i said, i work very closely with republicans. my father was a republican. so i don't have anything against republicans. but if you do not admit that there is a place in our electoral system for someone to win and then the other person loses, if you feel that

i have spoken to governor mcmaster and a emergency declaration as i have approved just like florida, immediate funding to provide shelter for people and immediate support. and by approving it early before the storm hits landfall, we can get the supplies in and provide shelter if necessary, and my message to the people of south carolina is simple. please listen to all of the warnings and the directions from all of the local officials and follow their instructions. as you all know, the situation in florida is far more devastating. we are just beginning to see the scale of that destruction. it is likely to rank among the worst of the nation's history. you have all seen on television homes and property wiped out. it is going to take months, years to rebuild. our hearts go out to those whose lives have been devastated by the storms. americans hearts are breaking we're going to do everything we can for you. i say for the rest of the americans, imagine yourself in that situation, water rising, walls collapsing, streets turned literally into rivers. charter boats on top of automobiles. watch

i'm grateful to governor mcmaster that did an order whence and president biden a proved it wednesday so if we need federal funding to help with the fixing and redeveloping and rebuilding after this disaster north of here, we'll have that ability to do that. i'm grateful to both of them at the federal and the state level. everybody working together. >> neil: it's possible to tell kids to do some work and they do it. i'll convey that to my sons. congresswoman, that's very much. good seeing you again. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: meantime, we've mentioned what's going on at pawly's island. parts of it were floating down side. kind enough to joan us now, the pawley's island mayor, brian henry. good to see you, mayor. how are things there? >> hi, neil. things are improving but it's not been pa good day for us. i hate to be on your show under these circumstances. >> no, i understand. was that pier, mayor, the only way to access the island or maybe you can tell me. >> well, the pier was more for recreation. it's been here for decade. it took quit a hit and was destroyed. the two ways to ent

and some of these authors -- i have been re-listening to general mcmaster's dereliction of duty. i'd read the book before, but he reads it himself in the audio. and his impressions of president johnson or not to be missed. and his reading out out loud, one of the things he's critical of is the -- as they begin to set the terms for power and politics, and communication. this is one of the things that butterfield gets right at the heart of. he says, we think about fear as this feature of the international system. it's there, although we can talk about whether it is natural or in future. that is a broader theological discussion. many says look, it is not always something that we can quantify. there is an emotional, affective element to it. this is such a rich aspect of the english school. this is what he says. fear is a thing which is extraordinarily vivid while we are in its grip. but once it's over, it leaves little trace of itself in our consciousness. it is one of the experiences that we can never properly remember. one also which since we may be ashamed of it, we may have no re

so the governor of south carolina, henry mcmaster, said that human reaction, those were his words, human when it comes to how folks there can deal with hurricane ian saying human error could be a real danger. i wonder what your message, direct message is to people there watching about what they should not do. >> so they do not need to go out and drive around in floodwaters. do not remove barriers and try to drive through the floodwaters. the best thing that they can do is to stay home. we really do not want our residents out and about because eventually the storm winds are going to get up so high where our first responders are going to be recalled back to the stations and we really don't need to try to have to rescue people that are out and about when these high winds come and everybody has gone back to their stations. >> there is a new u.s. geological survey about coastal change that just came out yesterday and it suggested that hurricane ian will cause significant changes to much of the south carolina and the georgia coastline. you've got 99% of the dunes in south carolina that are, yo

fortunately, the president approved governor mcmaster's request for an emergency declaration for south carolina last night this. declaration authorizes fema to provide emergency measures including federal direct assistance and we urge residents of south carolina and the everyone in the path of the storm to remain vigilant. >> that was not deann, my apologies to the audience. that is ann, the administrator for the response and recovery for fema. right there, they're talking about a lot of water that's coming in to south carolina. and again, it's not so much the wind of the hurricane, but the water that it brings with it, that flash flooding, the storm surge, and all of the rain. let's go back to myrtle beach's mayor. brenda bethune. brenda, when you're looking at all of the flooding that is being, that there is a concern about, do you feel there should be a mandatory evacuation, are you confident the people staying there will be able to be okay as this storm rolls through? >> at least in myrtle beach, i think everybody is going to be just fine. our numbers look good so far. we have no r

the mcmaster's, thanks so much for coming on . >> so when you see these people, well, it must be putinasspeaoving spanish speakers to the right. t i don't think it's a mystery ath all.t, tucker, when that's right, tucker. i when i speak to hispanic voters, in arizona, they'r thee just shocked and dismayed at what's happening. you know, i mean, they send their kids tlo school expecting them to learn reading, writing and arithmetic. tht these kids are taught to call themselves latino. and , oh, here are your gender pronouns. and they tell the little boys, hey, maybe you're not really a neno. have you thought about becoming a pnina instead? i mean, it's so absurd. and these kids, of course, go home and tell mom and dad and it doesn't go over so welldn because flash hispanic families don't want this woke garbage and don't even get me started im on illegal immigration and crime. like you said, hispaniration ans ,like all commonsensical people, want law and order. they don't. five million illegal aliens flooding here, but that's flo joe biden and senator mark kelly have delivered a wideth open

mcmaster was fired off the west point board. ironically the same day he was fired by president biden's white house, he was honored by the west point association of graduates as the distinguished graduate of the year of west point. so one president fires him and west point gives him a great honor. general jack keen, former vice chief of staff of the army, fired from the west point board. retired army colonel douglas mcgregor, afghanistan war veteran, psychologist, clinical psychologist meghan mobbs. businessman david irvine, retired army general david swann. 18 qualified people all fired. the politicization of the service academies of america was undertaken by this administration. first president, first white house ever to do it, all fired by joe biden and not allowed to fill their terms. and of course, mr. president, the biden administration loves to use our military to push other agendas that have nothing to do with lethality and winning our nation's wars. many, many examples. let me give you just a couple. from the beginning i

i have been listening to general mcmasters' "dereliction of duty," he reads it himself, and his impressions of president johnson are not to be missed. in his reading it out loud, he is critical of the quonset, the whiz kids, as they begin to set the terms for power politics, for communication. this is one of the things butterfield gets to the heart of, human nature and the dominion of fear. he says we think about fear is this feature of the international system, it is there, whether we talk about whether it is natural, but he says it is not always something we can quantify easily. there is an emotional element to it. it is such a risk -- rich aspect of the english school. he says fear is a thing that is extraordinarily vivid while we are in its grip, but once it is over, it leaves little trace of itself in our consciousness and is one of the experiences we can never properly remember, one also which, since we may be ashamed of it, we have no reason for wishing to remember. we are in the position of those unsympathetic parents who, though they can recall concrete things that happened in thei