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And hes going back saturday. well see if he has a compassionist empathetic moment. pence today clearing brush showed more what we expect politicians to do in these situations. he criticized his hat. he hasnt messed up a critical recovery so far, and i think that for the most part, aside from criticism of the margins, this isnt going to be a -- another crisis of august like we were talking about in the previous segment. >> thanks so much. we appreciate your analysis tonight. coming up a time of c...

With folks. tonight we saw advice president pence go to rock port and did things more like what were used to seeing the president do. he had his gloves on. he had his jacket off. he was hugging survivors. what do you make of all the criticism. is it a temperature pivot in a tea pot. >> i think no win is overstating it. he avoided a george w. bush katrina so far. this is not going to go down in history as a giant crisis of his presidency or a giant flub. he messed up the optics by not meeting any...

>> controversy in politics, who knew it existed. heres one thing that is unique, it seems that on almost every issue or stand the president takes, you can find a tweet where he argues the opposite than what he is doing right now. the dollar figures, interesting and important for taxpayers to know how much it costs. do you think this is something that voters care about? >> i think its always something that voters care about when the president is down. >> okay. >> when you look at -- alex mentione...

Partner? >> if you like chopping wood. >> if you like clearing brush, cedar. >> which sucks up all the water. i learned way too much about clearing brush over the course of eight years. >> the good old days. >> actually everybody is watching this, and embassies and foreign capitals trying to understand what this president -- to your point, yes. >> the pentagon always has a large infrastructure. thats fine. cia also. state department and other places, they still dont have deputy officials, and th...

Vacation. the equipment of the white house, the communications, advisers, everything that comes with the president wherever he s. it looks to the world as if hes vacationing and he can claim, well, no, im not. just as george w. bush would say clearing brush in texas. he was working, too. president obama surely working in hawaii. trump made such a big deal that he would never take a vacation and the optics look strange. >> i dont meet many people that dont think there is a little bit of pressure ...

>> i want to talk directly to the people of the wildlife refuge. you said you were here to help the citizens of harney county. that help ended. >> they marched in solidarity with dwight and steven hammond, a father and son team convicted of arson in 2012 and sent to jail for burning 120 acres of land. >> im going to jail. it seems like a bit of an overkill. >> reporter: prosecutors say the hammonds were hunting deer on federal land and set a fire to clear their tracks. they said they were cleari...

Between 30% and 40% of californias forest firefighters are state prison inmates. yes, you heard that right. thats because 4,000 low-level felons in the states prison system are part of a program that allows them to earn wages doing manual labor outside. from clearing brush to starting fires. they live in concentration camps scattered throughout the state. california is the largest program of its kind. the inmates are supervised and crowsen based on good behavior as well as what they were convi...

I thought it was for political reasons, but maybe it was hurting his back at the time. thats really common. they like to stay out of the limelight once someone else is in office. >> not to say clearing brush is bizar bizarre, but he did enjoy toiling, if you will. we are going to talk about chelsea clinton, because thats why we had you here. she said to cnn in an exclusive interview that she did while she was in africa, she was sort of asked about, hey, would you ever run, and she didnt shut the...

Firefighters again tried to contain the fire as best they could with bulldozers, aerial firefights and handcrews. you have had double the manpower doing the structure protection, putting people on the homes, clearing brush and so forth. here is an assessment of operations last night from the incident commander. >> what a difference a day makes, as we were here yesterday granted we are still faced with the winds, however, as we mentioned yesterday the increased humidities helped the incident over...

Ricin-laced letters. >> happens again and again and some people thought newtown was actually a tipping point. it turns out those people were wrong. but it doesnt mean that there might not be another one. >> it could be an inflection point. i dont mean to get very graphic. graphic as in graphs. anyway, coming up, george w. bush continues his re-entry to our mountain biking with wounded warriors at his 1500-acre crawford ranch. theres perhaps no better way to catch the former president in his elem...