"What I do believe is that neither he nor anyone else cares enough about them," he told the NBC newsman. "And if you're a black person in New Orleans, what else are you supposed to think? The facts are the facts."

Initially, Russert challenged the I-Man, who had spent the entire first week of the Hurricane Katrina disaster on vacation.

"You can't say things like that because there's absolutely no evidence of that," the NBC Washington bureau chief said.

After spending most of the interview laying the blame for the Katrina disaster at the foot of the federal government, Russert explained:

"The mayor of New Orleans is African American. OK? The notion that he somehow turned his back on his own people" doesn't make sense, he argued.

After a few more sentences of tepid rebuttal, however, the "Meet the Press" host promptly returned to blaming the Bush administration.

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