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Touring the areas affected by the flooding, hes received a lot of praise for doing so. but i want to show you this really strange comment he made while speaking with coast guard members, he had a media critique he just couldnt resist. >> i hear the coast guard saved almost 11,000 people by going into winds that the media will no go into. in the there its a really good story in which case they will. >> we saw many members of the media, out with the coast guard, with many others, cnns anderson coo...

Open. and theres been a lot of talk as to whether journalists are the enemy of the american people or whether theyre frinds of the goc si. >> lets show that video you saw yesterday with the coast guard. >> i hear the coast guard saved 11,000 people, think of it almost 11,000 people by going into winds that the media would not go into. they will not go into those winds, unless its a really good story, in which case they will. >> what do you think motivates the president to go off script like that...

To 34% and hes desperately trying to hold his base together. i talk to a lot of conservatives and so do you, i think one thing that holds donald trumps base together is hate tread of the media, contempt, he realizes that hes dividing the country, but hes unifying his base at the same time. its a political strategy to be sure. >> another interesting donald trump family example of reacting to harvey coverage this week, one of the presidents sons eric trump wrote this on twitter, he was touting the...

Lets brings in garrett haake at the white house. good morning. is this any sense that we might get word from the white house in a response to this? >> reporter: well, we certainly will get response at some point today. the presidents schedule is clear, no other pub lulic event. the white house set to respond at a time and place of nair choosing. it was only a week ago that the president responded in fairly short order to the north koreans launching a missile that flew over one of the islands of ...

You on this program, kelly had just been hired amidst the insane scaramucci scandal and you said the day one test is the scaramucci gets sent packing day one. well called. what do you think of the kelly tenure so far. >> the job is exactly what kelly is trying to define it to be. thats what hes supposed to be the person who controls access to the president. you know, richard nixon militarized this title into chief of staff. before that the job was called the appointments secretary. because appoi...

Number of episodes of possible obstruction are not limited to just firing mr. comey. he first fired the person who told him that flynn had been compromised and could be a problem. sally yates. then he told comey, dont investigate flynn. couldnt you drop it? when he didnt drop it, he got fired. and the list goes on and on. we can keep going into the many possible things. the false statements that he drafted for his son about the june meeting is another possible obstruction. the promise of pardons...

Pardon, dont worry, you dont have to cooperate. ill pardon you if you are held in contempt. he is asking sessions to intervene and drop the arpaio. theres a number of things that to go obstruction well beyond this. the letter itself, until we see it, were only speculating. but it is one more obvious important trail of them trying to find a saleable excuse for having fired him. if the reason had anything to do with what they first claimed, the hillary e-mails, they would have double it when he fi...

Because appointments, time with the president is the single most valuable thing that exists in the white house. and for the president time alone is a most valuable thing that the president can have, especially if the president has any kind of contempt la tif life at all, any ability to think. and youll often see, chris as you know of presidential memoirs, thats the thing they wished they had more time of. just a way to stop the sensation of the world coming at them at 200 miles an hour all day. ...

Business associates, his family, there is some sense that the -- the investigation is leaning on him heavily. and there are others who think that the pardoning of former sheriff joe arpaio might have been a sending a message to paul manaforts or michael flynns saying hold tight ill pardon you if it goes wrong. what do you make of the fact that possibly robert mueller is working with new york attorney general eric schneiderman. >> i think it is a message. i was appalled by the pardon in and of it...

What do you make of the fact that possibly robert mueller is working with new york attorney general eric schneiderman. >> i think it is a message. i was appalled by the pardon in and of itself. you are forgiving a contempt of court which cannot enforce judicial proceedings if it cant hold a witness in contempt or a defendant in contempt. and it was for violating civil rights. its bad in and of itself. but i heard it definitely as a message, hang tight, dont worry. you may lose the fifth amendmen...