. >>> judd gregg is the man who turned down a job as obama's secretary of commerce. a man who says thanks, but no thanks, to the president of the united states is clearly not a man who's afraid to speak his mind. and judd gregg nouns me now. let me ask you about your reaction first to what's happening in libya? >> the people of libya deserve a free government and hopefully that he can proceed on to an orderly path of democracy. it's just a positive thing to have occur for the world. >> obviously there are several schools of thought here about a post-gadhafi libya. one is that these kinds of dictators keep a lid on what's trouble in their countries as well as causing it, of course, and there is a danger without them controlling the worst elements of society in this country, things could suddenly explode. are you concerned about that? >> i think we have to be in any arab country. obviously the most cohesive groups in some of these nations, are the most radical groups. you see that with the muslim brotherhood in egypt. and you have to be concerned that they take control

gregg, the one to address that? >> as the secretary says, we had been putting money back in as of early this week. we are over $900 million in the relief fund. we are looking at making sure we have the resources to respond. we still have open disasters, including pr, as well as storms all the way back to early spring. we are continuing the immediate needs a response to those areas in preparing for this response as well. as dale told you about going to red cross, you can also go to ready.gov. m.fema.gov will link to mobile information from us as well as the hurricane center's. you can get information when you are moving and keep track of the storm and how to prepare. >> thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> secretary napolitano and other officials are expected to meet with reporters again in the morning with the latest on hurricane irene. live coverage of the briefing at 11:00 a.m. eastern time here on c-span. >> next,

. >> thank you very much, gregg. t me acknowledge the wonderful partnership that we had with fema and with secretary napolitano and administrator seagate. if you are going to do to do with mother nature, you could not ask for a better set up -- toe-to-toe with mother nature, you could not ask for a better set opartners. i am not going to repeat what you have already heard about the storm. it is a very big one. it is going to cover a large amount of area. while he cannot exactly predict what curveball mother nature is going to throw at you, i do feel that the americared cross is better prepared, more prepared than ever. we have forced a number of partnerships with the state based organizations like the national baptist convention, like the southern baptist convention, a lot of the ngo's like the naacp and a whole host of other faith based organizations and non-profit organizations. we are anticipating that it will be a huge geographical area with lots of people enacted. from a time perspective, this could take weeks,