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>> im sorry, course correction? >> you say that were seeing a course correction. >> no, -- >> you didnt say that? >> thats the researcher had course correction. >> no, no. >> you didnt say that to the producer. >> no, no. but i did talk about i think identity politics -- i do think president obama tended to frame many things in terms of identity, and hes not the only one. hillary clinton framed her entire election in terms of identity politics, in that case sexism. i think it diminishes all of u...

The hurricane. i will always be with them. some people say that thats a contrast from yesterday when he tweeted we cannot keep fema, the military and the first responders who have been amazing under the most difficult circumstances in puerto rico forever. is this a course correction? how do you see it? >> its hard to know. i dont think his twitter or tweeting is a big strategic decisionmaking tool from the white house, so perhaps he saw the error of his ways, perhaps somebody in the white house ...

Democracies. we dont know yet the congressional inquiries or the fbi inquiry wont take some kind of course correction as a result of what they find. so far the inability of the the american government to respond very effectively to what happened will encourage them even further. >> there is a tendency in pop you lar cu -- popular culture to talk about being a victim as if it was something negative. if its a crime its usually not their fault. there shouldnt be any such stig stigma. youre here at ...

So i think he still has a chance here, and clearly people found the second day remark morse empathetic. >> and in some ways, does this show what we havent really seen from donald trump is that there was criticism. and there was sort of a change of behavior? >> i think especially since it came at the top of the speech. you can think there must have been some discussion about how the first remarks came off, especially talking about crowd sizes in texas and i think it definitely was a course correc...

>> sure. ashley, you mentioned that there was a bit of a course correction with the tweets. he put something out this morning about the hurricane and of course tweeting about north korea the other -- you know, dramatically serious issue that were facing. make sense. the one thing that stood out to me a little bit was this focus on a dying magazine piece. can you explain a little bit about what he was referring to there? >> i have to be perfectly honest that we had a debate here at "the post" and...

Still unclear. >> recovery will be tough. but i have seen the resilience of the american spirit firsthand all over this country. >> reporter: its the biggest test yet for how the president and congress will govern in the wake of the crisis, likely requiring the biggest government aid package on record. the president is also navigating the front politics of responding to a natural disaster. >> thank you, everybody. what a crowd, what a turnout? >> reporter: on tuesday he did not directly acknowle...

Continued to fall, a reservoir near houston spilled over. but yet again, trump managed to turn the focus to himself. his responses to the devastation have been more focused on the power of the storm and his response than on the millions of texans who have been affected. whats your sense of what makes how this president has responded to the disaster different from presidents past? >> well, jenna captured it right in that piece she wrote. he went down to texas but at least on that first trip he di...

Swinging for abdul acici. and some say this has to do with egypt egypts connection with north korea. >> the presidents unvarnished and unconditional support in terms of cracking down on civil societies and ngos. this is a course correction and well see how long it lasts. >> tony blinken, thank you for helping us to unpack it. and thank you for joining us us at this hour. inside politics with jake tapper is coming up next. saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico.

Afghanistan for the foreseeable future. >> quickly, julia, 30 seconds left. new attitudes towards pakistan. a difficult relationship over several administrations. >> thats right. i mean a much tougher stance against pakistan sort of calling them out to the extent that that matters. weve call them out privately. i think that was a significant shift, at least verbally, by the trump administration, but while were talking about a shift? afghanistan, it is just quickly at least worth noting that in s...

The question whether more republican elected officials ultimate reach the same conclusion. i think the internal logic where the trump administration has been, elevate, escalate the cultural and racial dialogue as a way of pulling back some of the voters they alienated on health care and with or without steve bannon there. the question is, do they make a course correction? do people like paul ryan more forceful, on cnn monday night, is he more willing to demand it? my guess is steve bannon, give ...