 threatening temperatures this week. The damage left by Hurricane Beryl in Texas and requests for federal help has opened a wound between the president and the state's GOP leaders. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is shooting back at reports that the White House could not get a hold of him before the storm made landfall, delaying the distribution of emergency relief supplies. The president is either totally incompetent and has no idea what he is doing and does not remember what he said, or he's just lied to me and to Texas.