I wondered whether to mention this yesterday but then forgot...
Mishal Husain was talking to Jonathan McNamara from the American Red Cross about Hurricane Florence about the evacuation efforts in the US when she suddenly introduced a political question:
Given that you're on this emergency footing and you're working as hard as you can to focus minds and then to focus energies towards this cause, is it difficult that at the same time as you're doing that President Trump is tweeting about Puerto Rico and questioning what is now the official death toll from that hurricane?
As you'd expect, given the nature of his job, Mr. McNamara, chose not to answer that question:
I have to be honest. For us our focus is 100% on doing the job that we do.
As, I think, should Mishal's focus have been here. There's a time and a place for trying to prod relief agencies into criticising Donald Trump but this surely wasn't it.
