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I sat down with the speaker of the house paul ryan on thursday. we talked about las vegas and big tech and of course the tax bill in&generally how is president trump doing in his job as comforter in chief? >> we saw the president make a comment about puerto rico bonds this week and the bonds crate erred. >> i saw that. look, we passed legislation -- i actually negotiated this bill last year. we have an oversight bill for puerto rico to deal with their financing crisis. that is the proper place. ...

Comforter in chief, and i think it helps. >> it does. its hard to talk about it, but it helps. it was an experience this morning. i know people -- we got calls and texts about how exciting it must have been to meet the president, but, you know, maybe if it was under different terms. >> i met your boyfriend aaron, and he did talk about what he did. hes very modest. hes a vet an. >> he is. >> the president called him out. what did the president talk about? >> he thanked the fist responders. he tha...

Weapon from semi automatic to nearly fully automatic have inspired some to ask for a ban on its use. the white house isnt calling for that but kellyanne conway said it doesnt mean the administration isnt open to hearing from all sides of the issue. >> we welcome a thoughtful conversation on policies and issues. the second amendment is a bedrock within our constitution along with first amendment. these rights must be protected. >> these rights must be protected. to be clear, any conversation abou...

He is not comfortable reading off a transcript but you could tell as he read that these were his words, his thoughts, his emotions that came across as authentic and i thought they were powerful. there was a second role. you just showed it. the informal role at the end of the first event he had which was with the doctors and the health professionals at the hospital. he got to joking about how he had gone through the ward and had sort of said if youre ever in washington stop by. everybody said we ...

Correspondent cecilia vega, also here in las vegas. >> reporter: in las vegas today, president trump, in a new role -- comforter in chief. with the first lady by his side, their first stop, the hospital treating dozens of patients, still fighting for their lives. >> some were very, very badly wounded and they were badly wounded because they refused to leave, they wanted to help others, because they saw people going down all over. and its an incredible thing to see. theres tremendous bravery. >> ...

There you had the president yesterday actually showing strength. actually playing the role of comforter in chief. the contrast was marked from how he was after charlottesville, how he was certainly in puerto rico but yesterday he didnt embarrass himself. he wasnt self-consumed and he didnt rub salt in the wounds of people who were hurting already as he has unfortunately over the past several weeks which i suppose you could say makes the tragedy of this presidency even greater that this man actua...

>> we see muzzle shots from the mandalay bay! >> you can hear the gunfire there. those doctored weapons sounding like automatic rifles and you can hear people responding to it, what it sounded like, the first responders. the president will meet with some of the first responders today, and some of the survivors. >> hes in the air, and lets go to mark in vegas with more on what we can expect from the president today, alex. >> reporter: this is the second time in as many days the president has had ...

He likes to keep a low profile, sitting in the back. boy, is he watching. you have no idea. hundreds of millions dollars of worth of new airplanes for the air force. especially the f-356789 do you like the f-35? you cant see it. literally, you cant see it. its hard to fight a plane you cant see, right? thats an expensive plane that you cant see. as you probably heard, we cut the price very substantially. something that other administrations would never have done. that, i can tell you. >> george ...

Where the federal government, its presence will be called upon and tested, rather, in terms of his comforter in chief abilities which seem to be sorely lacking. >> like kasie just said, republicans are dismayed, disheartened by whats going on. theres nothing that the president has done that has disappointed him. he agrees with him on every policy. two things you know are not only untrue but disturbing to hear from paul ryan. >> theyre tethered to him. >> why are they tethered to him? you were no...

The people against the 2nd amendment is simply wrong. this morning a prominent actress saying it took six months to get an x-ray in this country. my son broke his tailbone. took him an hour to get an x-ray, not sick month. >> dana: your son is okay. trampoline accident. >> trampoline accident. so much of what they say is not true. how can we have this debate? >> dana: when the president and mrs. trump are traveling. they are going to houston, to florida, puerto rico, virgin islands, now las vega...