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I sat down with the speaker of the house paul ryan on thursday. we talked about las vegas and big tech and of course the tax bill in&generally how is president trump doing in his job as comforter in chief? >> we saw the president make a comment about puerto rico bonds this week and the bonds crate erred. >> i saw that. look, we passed legislation -- i actually negotiated this bill last year. we have an oversight bill for puerto rico to deal with their financing crisis. that is the proper place. so this is not about having government change property rights on bonds. this is about we have an ove...

Comforter in chief, and i think it helps. >> it does. it's hard to talk about it, but it helps. it was an experience this morning. i know people -- we got calls and texts about how exciting it must have been to meet the president, but, you know, maybe if it was under different terms. >> i met your boyfriend aaron, and he did talk about what he did. he's very modest. he's a vet an. >> he is. >> the president called him out. what did the president talk about? >> he thanked the fist responders. he thanked -- there were officers that were brand-new into it. it was their i think second day with the...

Weapon from semi automatic to nearly fully automatic have inspired some to ask for a ban on its use. the white house isn't calling for that but kellyanne conway said it doesn't mean the administration isn't open to hearing from all sides of the issue. >> we welcome a thoughtful conversation on policies and issues. the second amendment is a bedrock within our constitution along with first amendment. these rights must be protected. >> these rights must be protected. to be clear, any conversation about an assault weapons ban or bump stocks ban or anything else that happens like that clearly would...

He is not comfortable reading off a transcript but you could tell as he read that these were his words, his thoughts, his emotions that came across as authentic and i thought they were powerful. there was a second role. you just showed it. the informal role at the end of the first event he had which was with the doctors and the health professionals at the hospital. he got to joking about how he had gone through the ward and had sort of said if you're ever in washington stop by. everybody said we want to come to the white house. there is an informal side to this, too. we saw it yesterday with t...

Correspondent cecilia vega, also here in las vegas. >> reporter: in las vegas today, president trump, in a new role -- comforter in chief. with the first lady by his side, their first stop, the hospital treating dozens of patients, still fighting for their lives. >> some were very, very badly wounded and they were badly wounded because they refused to leave, they wanted to help others, because they saw people going down all over. and it's an incredible thing to see. there's tremendous bravery. >> reporter: the focus on those survivors. but this was also a thank you tour. it makes you very prou...