Leon Panetta: Trump team doing a ‘great job’ on hurricane response

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Leon Panetta, a top official in the last two Democratic administrations, praised the Trump administration’s efforts on Tuesday to cope with the aftermath of two large hurricanes that hit the U.S. over the last two weeks.

“My sense is that lessons have been learned here,” Panetta said on CNN. “Lessons have been learned from Katrina, they’ve been learned from Sandy, and I have to say that [the Federal Emergency Management Agency], Homeland Security have actually done well in getting ahead of these terrible hurricanes as they approached both Houston and Florida.”

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