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President has done in terms of encouraging people to use his properties or himself using his properties as he goes on his golf trips. first of all, what we discovered was when we took a look was that donald trump, of course, again canceled his planned state visit to poland, allegedly to deal with hurricane dorian. instead, he went golfing. and according to nbcs tracking data, trump has spent a little under 1/3 of the days of his presidency visiting his own properties. take a look at this. 956 da...

He was briefed hourly while on the golf course for several hours today. one of his golf clubs, not far from the white house in sterling, virginia but anderson, the president clearly doesnt care about the optics of being at the golf course and in fact, it was the second time he went golfing over this labor day weekend and thats drawn criticism for the president to go golfing while hurricane dorian is threatening the united states and critics also point to, anderson, the past comments from trump o...

Think, what happens behind the scenes during a crisis like this. so when the president cancels his trip to poland as he did about this hurricane, whats going on. is he feeling compassion for the victims? because its hard to tell when we see him just golfing all weekend. >> well, i mean, listen, again, these are my personal opinions, my personal observation, he doesnt feel a lot of compassion for anybody, actually. if you just look at what he was doing in el paso, where hes holding the babies rec...

Expected to grind up the coast, it is going to show some tropical storm winds here, but that serious impact that was expected last week is not going to happen. of course emergency management officials are still going in front of the cameras, holding press conferences, urging residents to take precautions and to listen. so far, though, a lot of people that weve spoken to say theyre just going to take their chances and ride this storm out. rob robyn? >> thanks for that report. as millions of peopl...

Now. im more personally concerned for the safety of everyone in the eye of the storm or the storm path that a lot of the leg work and the prep that needed to be done has been done. and were all hoping and praying that it certainly the storm moves in the other direction. if not, the leg work has been done. >> rick? >> alice, i have just -- as a fifth generation around the block here through storms in my whole life. growing up in tampa bay. being around for andrew. >> im in tallahassee. i will say...

Momentarily. the slowly part is important as we watch the path of the storm. as we watch from here in washington, president trump has been attendive to the hurricane. on twitter tweeting and retweeting updates including from the national oceanic administration with regularity but that attention doesnt extend to the exact details or the presidents offline activities. the president played golf yesterday, provoking considerable backlash and accutoday the president defendi himself saying the round o...

Especially when you listen to the dispatch call about what they may have been asking, especially since we cant hear the answers from the people on the boat who are calling in that may day. >> if that boat was in full compliance, rules need to change. you can hear them saying theres no escape hatch. obviously that may come out of this tragedy. thank you very much for updating us from there. meanwhile, the east coast is bracing for hurricane dorian, and president trump is golfing and tweeting er...

As we have been saying all along. this is a dangerously unpredictable storm. and if youre anywhere in the storm zone or anywhere near it, you have to take this hurricane very seriously. no one is is out of the woods yet. pay close attention to the forecast. your life could depend on it. well have the latest throughout the next two hours and all night long here on cnn. with our correspondents. all across the storm zone. and covering this. we have every single second for you. you wont miss anythin...

As hurricane dorian batters the bahamas and moves closer to the east coast, president trump spent his saturday golfing. why does he keep getting information wrong that hes putting out to the public. lets bring in john avlon. cnn analyst. we can deal with the hypocrisy about golf or erroneous information. lets start with the hypocrisy. donald trump was quite upset anytime president obama would golf, so for anybody whos forgotten that, heres a recap. >> obama, it was reported today, played 250 rou...

That last argument. the white supremacist who blew everybody up in texas? i dont think so. ive seen nothing -- the president has no intestinal fortitude to deal with this. he knows better. he knows, his instinct was to say we will do something on background checks. whats he doing? come on. this is disgraceful. this is disgraceful, whats happening. >> so this debate is going to be front and center once congress is back in session, but first president trump has hurricane dorian to deal with. if th...