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Its hard to get away from partisanship. trying to fit it in, you have a difficult situation no matter where you did. the grim reality of our country is that presidents have had to become consoler in chiefs more and more. president obama, i travelled with him to so many places where he had to go in the wake of tragedy. not just natural tragedy, but more the man made. the shootings. he went to a lot of rural places and places he didnt win or a lot of places that he was not are inially politically ...

Correspondent garrett teddy looked at the politics of consoling the morning. good evening. >> bret, good evening to you. the president took on the role of consoler in chief and visited the pittsburgh area three days after the worst anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. joined by the first lady along with daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner who are practicing and they joined the president on -- for the 11 victims. then he went to the hospital to visit the four police officers injured resp...

Colleagues on the administrations struggle to respond to the attacks days before the midterm elections. quote, behind the scenes at the white house, aides have been debating how to strike the right tone between trumps closing campaign pitch and playing the role of national consoler, according to people familiar with the conversations. trumps campaign appearances have not been dialled back. the white house says he plans to show up for rallies in eight states between now and election day. this pas...

Hes going to pittsburgh without any carpet at all. its an embarrassment for him but effort by the president to show some respect, go through the motions of being a consoler in chief which we know and his aides acknowledge privately is not a natural thing for him. he does not sort of naturally show empathy but hes trying to. >> and it looks like his daughter and son-in-law had to override his circuitry to get him to deliver a statement at all on saturday. and moments later, hours later he was bac...

And what he calls quote , unquoe fake news. and sarah sanders holding a press briefing yesterday defend ing the presidents response and saying, look, he was forceful in coming out, and playing the initial role of consoler in chief. but he is also someone who is not going to hold the punches when it comes to coming under attack, and punching back. i have been speaking to a number of white house official, andrea who have told me behind the scenes, yes, he is taking all of this seriously, and that ...

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Heinous acts were the individuals who carried them out. >> tonight phil rucker of "the washington post", who is standing by to join us in a moment, reports along with his colleagues on the administrations struggle to respond to the attacks days before the midterm elections. quote, behind the scenes at the white house, aides have been debating how to strike the right tone between trumps closing campaign pitch and playing the role of national consoler, according to people familiar with the convers...

>> we should say, sam stein, that the president has landed in pittsburgh. were going to monitor those events. were not going to turn around anything that looks like stage propaganda among people that didnt want him there. if he makes any news, we will bring it to you. sam stein, this idea that his daughter and son-in-law and other aides had to explain an anti-semitic attack and its significance to him and his reflexes were to, in the same news cycle, embrace nationalism and his position as a nat...

Washington post" who is standing by to join us in a moment, reports along with his colleagues on the administrations struggle to respond to the attacks days before the midterm elections. quote, "behind the scenes at the white house, aides have been debating how to strike the right tone between trumps closing campaign pitch and playing the role of national consoler, according to people familiar with the conversations." trumps campaign appearances have not been dialed back. the white house says he...

President to step up. patty davis, the daughter of president reagan, she write this is morning in "the washington post," this president will never offer comfort, cor compassion t a grieving nation. lets stop asking him. he wanted to be a different kind of president and does things his own way. is the role of consoler in chief gone and who do we look to as a country? >> i agree with what she said. we will never see donald trump be presidential. the least you would hope is that hes not going to wi...