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Some of his closest confidantes that he wish he could continue to have the rapport with many more aides than he does now, that he could have different kinds of people wandering into the oval office. he likes to bounce ideas off people. he can't do that anymore. >> you a lot of sources on capitol hill, and you've been covering politics there for a while. what do you think of corker's contention that with the exception of a few members of the caucus, everyone agrees with him? >> it's a little bit of a stretch because a lot of senators i've spoken with, they believe that the president's behavior ...

A by one basis on this. certainly this echos back to the 1990s case of the florida woman terry schiavo where there was a tug of war in her own family over cutting life support or not. but there is the underlying issue of medical insurance, which seems heartless to talk about ask delicate, but that is an issue here because if the parents had the independent resources to pay in a private facility, we wouldn't be talking about this. they would just be going to whatever ends they wanted to to save their baby or to prolong the life of their baby. and mow the parents have option webs the vatican hos...

On. the advocates talking to customs and border protection officials at the airports weren't getting answers, referred to the white house. it took a while for the white house to respond. late sunday night the white house did a briefing for reporters on a background basis they couldn't be named in the story directly. this is not the normal way to do it. the administration is saying the reason we did this we want the element of surprise, potential terrorists or folks will not try to come in by a date certain to announce this down the road. we have to do it overnight. this caused great confusion ...

Flowers, messages. young folks coming up wearing black with a flower. putting it down and walking on. so i think if you were to take the pulse right now of what this community's going through, they don't know yet. and it's certainly not getting better for them. as we've seen many of them becoming emotional here, peter. >> richard lui's in paris now. thanks so much. i want to bring in steve clemens, msnbc contributor. you've had some conversations over the last 24 hours or less, since this happened with some french officials here in the united states. expressing frustration about perhaps a lack...

That live report. new this morning. the white house says that president obama will visit the gulf in the next 48 hours. let's go straight to nbc's mike viqueira who is at the white house standing by for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. the white house announce thing morning the president will be traveling to the gulf coast area within the next 48 hours. this comes a day after the white house was telling us on a background basis he probably would not be going because their concern was any presidential movement visits to an area where there's so much emergency personn...