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Asia. vice-president pence played the role of comforter and chief meeting with survivors of sundays horrific church massacre in sutherland springs, texas. faith and prayer in the tragedys wake have been maligned by religious bigots. the vice-president made sure to show case the power that faith and prayer has here. >> we are with you. the american people are are you. as the president said on sunday halfway across the world, we will never leave your side. the lord is close to the broken hearted. ...

Asia. vice-president pence played the role of comforter and chief meeting with survivors of sundays horrific church massacre in sutherland springs, texas. faith and prayer in the tragedys wake have been maligned by religious bigots. the vice-president made sure to show case the power that faith and prayer has here. >> we are with you. the american people are are you. as the president said on sunday halfway across the world, we will never leave your side. the lord is close to the broken hearted. ...

Welcome back to "kasie dc." 26 people were killed in a church in texas. its the worst mass shooting in a house of worship in american history. were also following the president of the united states who is overseas on a major high-stakes trip to asia where at the top of remarks in tokyo he addressed this shooting that we have been talking about all night, said that he spoke to governor abbott of texas and called it an act of evil. again, having to act as comforter in chief. our panel is still her...

Ever. with that being said, we are here today in japan with one of our closest and most cherished allies through bad times and good times, through rain and through shine. i want to thank -- >> it seems like we have lost our feed of the president of the united states. well be working to fix that technical glitch and make sure that we bring you the remainder of his remarks. in the meantime, philip rucker, clearly the president is having to play the role of comforter in chief. >> hes trying to cons...

When you travel across the world whether its in asia or europe puzzles our friends and allies about the mass shootings, but again for the president for the third in a month the comforter in chief. yasmin? >> so often we have the conversation that we shouldnt politicize a situation like this, to be talking about guns and the change to policy and what needs to be done. but so often the only time we can have these conversations is during times like this. because as we know, chris, the news cycle ch...

Manifestations of that. now, you could argue we needed an outsider to come in and shake up the system and mistakes will be made, billion well, these are some of the miss taks that dont get made with a mike pence, lets say as president. >> do you think it was wise for the president to deflect that question by going back and going after former presidents? >> yeah, i do. to turn this of all things into some sort of competition with president obama or even president bush because he talked about othe...

Manifestations -- these are some of the mistakes that dont get made if the president were mike pence. >> do you think it was wise for the president to reflect that question and go back after former presidents? >> yeah i do. to turn this into a competition with president obama or bush, its totally inappropriate. this is the solemn duty of any kplaern and chief. president bush called it being comforter and chief. you should be able to wrap your arms around this and take it seriously. for him to tu...

Detail -- she actually had a plan on toughening this body that would prove these kinds of comforter hooked on my controversial deals. she is very knowledgeable on the subject shes a hawk on this issue. for her to pretend like i dont know what was going on stretches credulity and thats one of the reasons we need to have an investigation and really to this point, we have not had a congressional hearing on this. we have not had a grand jury as far as we know. its just shocking to me that there has ...

This white house, right? if you think about what happened with the service members lost on the "uss john s. mccain." you did not hear the president talk about that. he talked about it eventually but it was pretty late and muted. >> if we blamed him for the loss of life, he would then talk about it, maybe? >> as i said earlier, its all reactive. this just has not been a high priority of his. we have seen him repeatedly enjoy the role of comforter and chief when it involved traveling to a location...

And give higher attributes to those folks in las vegas. and as elise said, we want a comforter in chief. we dont have one. we have a divider in chief. and that whole scene you just played in puerto rico, it was the court of louis xiv with his queen, marie antoinette with people that had just been devastated begging for crumbs. its pathetic. >> all right, guys, good to see you. >> thank you. preparing for the worst. what gulf coast residents can expect when hurricane nate makes landfall tonight...