President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited hurricane-battered Asheville, North Carolina, this morning before heading west to assess the damage in wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles.The visits come amid a debate about the future of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with the president doubling down on the idea that states are better equipt to deal with disaster response.

Joe Kasper, the new chief of staff for the Department of Defense, issued a memo to senior leadership Friday on suspending the department's social media accounts "at all levels" for 10 days, beginning Saturday, to give time to reorient content to have greater focus on national security, military lethality "and fighting and winning wars."