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Sessions, because the ten na k s -- tentacles are so far spreading that they have gone to the u.s. district attorney in washington and even if he fires jeff sessions, and if rod rosenstein becomes the acting attorney general, mueller is fine, and nothing will happen. but a new confirmed attorney general, then the senate will require that person to say that they will either recuse themselves or that they will in some way or another commit to not interfering with the investigation. i think that re...

Chief point is important. when the nation is dealing with a massive disaster, natural or man-made, thats the role the president plays as a way of uniting the nation. but that leadership requires empathy in those situations. and as abby points out, theres an empathy gap here. you saw it in that tweet yesterday, declaring a-plus about storm relief and attacking the mayor of san juan, where his administration still has not fully come to grips with the nearly 3,000 who died. and theres a real danger...

Success is an insult to those families, to the dead, and a disastrous response. the carolinas will be a different response situation because its on the coast of the united states. that statement isnt just a denial of reality, its an insult to the puerto rico families. >> the other thing is there is a real empathy gap that president trump has demonstrated time and time again at moments like this, that he had an opportunity to express sympathy and concern about the loss of life, whether he feels r...

Families are with him and standing with him because they do feel an empathy gap and that people dont give their pain a lot of credit because it is uncomfortable to talk about and because i think it is not statistically representative and great for crafting policy but the pain is real and does point out sometimes real gaps in our immigration system which is a disaster and why we might need a comprehensive smart legislative solution but whatever. for instance, some people have been deported severa...

Not understand gun culture. >> they are right to notice when people get terminology wrong. >> but this is a fairly mainstream thing to do. these are tools that many americans have in their houses and not being able to understand that, and see the sensational angle is very dangerous in trying to cover this issue. >> for me, this weekend was so newsworthy because of the intensity gap. it suggested that the nra and guns rights activists have so much more intensity they are willing to go out and vot...

But im kind of speechless right now, but look, that changed me, too. it changed me, too. im still friends with them. >> are you? >> still friends. they text me encouragement, i text them back if im in that part of the country, they see me speak. they still support trump. but theyre good people, hard working people. >> exactly right. >> they felt like nobody was listening to them, and i asked them, what about the terrible stuff trump says? they said, we just crumple that up and throw it away. wer...

Clear is that donald trump does not speak the language of empathy. and, you know, we werent in that car. we didnt hear the conversation, but obviously -- and by the way, i think the initial account should have been treated perhaps with some skepticism s. here you have the enter ak of the credibility gap and the empathy gap for this president particularly now that the mother is speaking out. it is incomprehensible that the president would have gone 12 days without commenting on this at a time whe...

Beginning. but its taken a real toll on the perception of his leadership that he didnt do it right away. >> shannon, there has been a palpable empathy gap, an absence of empathy. you hear stuff, you read stuff, anyone in the white house who didnt previously know that puerto ricans are americans certainly knows by tonight. and they also know this is the stuff of accountability. mayors are graded on clearing the snow after a big snowstorm. presidents are often graded on how they respond when natur...

Certainly at the very least as you point out at the top on the optics. certainly suffering is also, you know, real and very hard to get their hands around. there is a logistic cal issue here, but it is also about leadership. and we saw with katrina and president bush was not just the actual efforts on the on the ground which were hobltd by a number of obstacles but the sense of leadership, the sense that the president cares and is investing urgency in the problem. certainly he has begun doing th...

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 a logistical issue here, but it is also about leadership. we saw with katrina and president bush, not just the actual efforts on the ground which were hobbled by a number of obstacles, but the sense of leadership, the sense that the president cares and is investing urgency in the problem. in t...