the difference is staggering. it reflects the most american deaths in a century from a natural disaster. in a century. that s a level of unprecedented despair for americans to suffer. and this news has been met with a shrug. why aren t our leaders asking how did they get it so wrong? instead the president met the news by saying how he got it so right. i think we did a fantastic job in puerto rico. we re still helping puerto rico. puerto rico was actually more difficult because of the fact it s an island, it s much harder to get things onto the island. i only hope they don t get hit again because they were hit by two right in a row. puerto rico had a lot of difficulties before they got hit. well, that s not how the mayor of san juan sees it. here s what she said just hours before the president spoke today. the trump administration killed the puerto rican with
the public. it s a troubling pattern that one government ethicist told me today that looks like these trump appointees are trying to create their own version of reality. anderson? so much for transparency. drew, thanks very much. well, there is new polling from voters eight days ogg on the meeting from president trump and russian president vladimir putin. it comes from quinnipiac university. 52% edit was a failure for the u.s. 27% said it was a success. a big majority believes it was a big success for russia. just 8% said it was failure for russia. 73% series success for russia. that s what the majority of voters think. what about veterans, including some who served when the soviet union was enemy number one? gary tuchman got a chance to find out firsthand. he spoke with veterans who were at the vfw event in missouri where the president spoke today. take a look. reporter: thousands of american heroes. where did you serve and when? i served in vietnam, 68- 69 era. bosnia and
where the president spoke today. take a look. reporter: thousands of american heroes. where did you serve and when? i served in vietnam, 68- 69 era. bosnia and iraq. the vietnam war era. vietnam and two tours in korea. world war ii as a veteran. engineering gunner on a b-24 bomber. reporter: all these heros in one place at the vfw convention in kansas city where their commander in chief was speaking, a commander in chief who inspires vastly different opinions here about what he did and what he said while standing next to vladimir putin in finland. iraq and bosnia army veteran michael griffin, the state commander of the arkansas vfw, voted for donald trump. when you heard president trump cast blame on the united states standing next to putin, how did it make you feel? saddened. we ve given a lot for this country, and i do not think that our leaders should should put
sad, sad, very sad, very sad. here s the thing. when the president spoke today, he didn t say oh, yeah, here s a major violation that proves these people are not to be trusted. no. couldn t do that. guess what grade you know why he couldn t do that? people like dan coats, the intelligence community. dan coats is his own guy. has that we know of nothing within iran s action that would constitute a violation of the deal. that s the same thing he was hearing from his advisors before he got bolton and pompeo at cia. this is a victory for iran because it creates distance between the united states and our european allies. secondly, it accelerates regional insecurity in the middle east. it also is going to have an impact on global oil supplies. we don t know where that s going to go. could drive up prices. it s so funny. in the speech, he said you know, in seven years, iran is going to
campaign to protect donald trump. cohen s attorneys arguing, they should decide which items should go to investigators and which one should be protected by attorney/client privilege. the president s attorney, agreeing, speaking of the exceptional nature of cohen s client, the president himself. but prosecutors say they have their own separate team to decide what is privileged. they point out cohen has been under investigation for months. they also say they ve already used warrants to search cohen s e-mails covertly and found little to no legal work and zero e-mails exchanged with president trump. in other words, prosecutors say attorney/client privilege should not be in play. reporter: david, sources telling abc news tonight that president trump and michael cohen remain in contact, and spoke today, and that cohen still represents the president. david. kyra, thank you. when we come back here tonight, the major storms