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Become process blind, and sometimes it takes a journalist covering it as a local story to say, wait a minute, there is no briefing at this briefing. >> a thousand percent. its always interesting when you see local reporters sort of witnessing the president in the flesh for the first time and reacting to this. these are people who have spent a few days on the ground talking to people whose homes have been destroyed, will be spending the next weeks and months putting the pieces back together. as h...

>> the job youve done has been incredible. incredible. theyre talking about it all over the world. some of the flooding is actually epic. hard to believe. and weve seen all the pictures where houses are literally covered beyond the roof. you dont even know there is a house there and one of those things. weve done a real job and we have to continue to do that real job because another phase is coming in right now and were going to meet that phase just like we met phase 1. >> here to talk about all...

Weve done a real job and we have to continue to do that real job because another phase is coming in right now and were going to meet that phase just like we met phase 1. >> here to talk about all of it, a woman who covers all of it for a living. jill coven, reporter for the associated press. jill, a lot to get to here. number one, he had a job today. he is -- its been said by others he is empathy challenged in this role. his job was to console. he does love his black disaster raincoat. it was ho...

Disaster raincoat while walking or sitting on location. did he hit the targets today he set out to hit? >> as you mentioned, this is a president who often has had trouble in these moments where it is his job to rally the nation, show compassion to bring people together. the president has been criticized for failing to rise to that occasion. this is a president who tends to make things all about himself. he spends a lot of time congratulating the federal response, congratulating first responders,...

To people whose homes have been destroyed, will be spending the next weeks and months putting the pieces back together. as he walked through these communities today, its important to note that these are both states that voted for the president. these are very red communities. he was greeted with signs welcoming him there, applause. these are people he has some kind of connection to other than just what theyre dealing with. >> after the day he spent in his black disaster raincoat, jill coven, tha...

And people new to the beat sort of witnessing the president in the flesh for the first time and reacting to this. these are people who have spent now the last couple of days on the ground talking to people who have been so devastated, whose homes have been destroyed, will be spending the next weeks and months putting the pieces back together. and as he was walking through these communities today, its also important to note that these are both states that voted for the president. he was in very r...

You dont even know there is a house there and one of those things. weve done a real job and we have got to continue to do that real job because another phase is coming in right now and were going to meet that phase just like we met phase 1. >> here to talk about all of it, a woman who covers all of it for a living. jill coven, white house reporter for the associated press. jill, a lot to get to here. number one, he had a job today. he is -- its been said by others he is empathy challenged in thi...