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About his confidence level at that hotel? >> it really does. and it also lends itself to the idea that that may have been why the house cleaners who knew him, if he had stayed at that hotel before, had not questioned the fact that he had multiple suitcases there. i mean, he was a familiar entity there at that hotel, and it certainly also suggests that the comps that he got and his treatment from that hotel, because he was a gambler, that was extremely important to him. he got status from that. a...

Playing at a high level, a high enough level to be a high roller in the casino and in the vip program. and he feasted off the kofrps, the things that he got. i would guess that he was a net loser overtime. he was playing good games and he was studied, so probably not too much compared to the kofrps he was getting. >> mary ellen, also according to "the new york times," the room at the mandalay bay was kofrpd and paddock called security to complain about the noise, country music coming from the ro...

Word katrina is going to pop, because the comparisons may become inevitable. and certainly impossible to stop. what is the confidence level on the inside, beyond all the pr, that theyre ahead of this, that they are where they want to be eight days after this storm? >> well, certainly theres a feeling of catch-up at this point. certainly at the very least as you pointed out at the top on the optics, certainly the suffering is also, you know, real and very hard to get their hands around. there is ...

Administration. i dont think secretary price should be sleeping easy tonight that hes going to have this job much longer. the president is telling people around him that hes disgusted with this. he thinks it looks bad. it flies in the face of the drain the swamp credo. he hasnt made up his mind but secretary price is certainly in trouble. >> lets pivot to the suffering going on in puerto rico. the president on twitter has tried a couple of times to point out how great the effort is, and its rece...

I dont think secretary price should be easy tonight that hes going to have this job much longer. the president is telling people around him that hes disgusted with this. he thinks it looks bad. he hasnt made up his mind, but secretary proo i say is certainly in trouble. >> peter baker, lets pift to the suffering going on in puerto ricoment the president tonight on twitter has tried a did you mean of times to opponent out how great the effort is and its received high marks from the governor. the ...

Republican leadership will start getting behind him. right now, the confidence level is not there and we saw that with corker this morning and trump coming out and tweeting against him. in order to get him back in his corner, he needs to stay on message and start pivoting again toward tax reform. >> neil: do you know if its intimidating, that i have to straighten up and fly right to do what he wants, or is it working in the opposite way? >> i honestly dont know the answer to that, neil, because ...

President had to say, my confidence level is going down. and thats the problem. thats why you see the -- >> do you think that cooler heads will prevail on capitol hill? >> well, i certainly hope so. you need a partner in the white house to deal with this. and, essentially, youve got a president of the united states who instead is insulting republican leaders in the house and in the senate. which, obviously, makes it difficult for people to come together. but i can assure you that democrats are g...

Propaganda verbiage they typically use. i do think its important to bear in mind that the circumstance here with the on set of the annual joint exercise held between the united states and republic of korean forces which they find quite threatening. so, it wouldnt surprise me if they did a demonstration launch just to convey the optic. >> a demonstration launch towards guam? they said the other day by mid august they might launch four march immediate range missiles toward guam and they would land...

Significant deployment under the obama administration of regional capabilities and then our strategic defenses in which president obama made a commitment to enhance what we have in the united states to counter a long range threat from the north koreans. >> from what you know of the thaad missile defense system, if they were to fire multiple missiles, i mean, does that -- i really dont mean to boil it down to the laymans way of thinking about it. would that confuse the system? how flexible is tha...

This really added to the tensions, and this new assessment is sort of the thing that evoked this strong rhetoric from president trump. one thing we dont know is what is the confidence level? that is crucially important in understanding how sure the intelligence community is that north korea has achieved this result. >> cynthia, you have reporting on what is needed. >> yes, they have been pursuing a specific strike plan for a unilateral collapse on north korean missiles. the white house asked for...