Barbara Boxer: “To me what's really important is go after those high-risk areas first.”

We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.

It is absolutely false to say that FEMA is getting in the way.

I think what our governor is doing, he's saying to the president without so many words, this -- this is a moment we have to come together for the people who are hurting. And by the way, you don't attach strings about, you know, voting to…

Frankly, anyone who runs on that as an issue should be defeated, overwhelmingly by everybody.