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Cooperative efforts, trying to help one another. our unity, what unites us rather than what divides us. i think it has been a time of healing through tremendous tragedy, people have said we have so much more in common than what the mainstream media would tell us that divides us, i think that's really important. >> jesse: the press seems a focus on the empathy factor. i don't know how they get this information that they believe the president doesn't care and he lacks empathy toward the actual victims. back up to the election. i think hillary clinton was the robot that couldn't connect and could...

Over the weekend he was in camp david, and was participating in daily teleconferences, phone calls as well, according to his aides. but also yesterday, you know, he sent mike pence to fema to get a briefing on the status of the storm. he was receiving updates through his chief of staff john kelly. so in some ways, that's pretty typical of this president. he tends to get his information through his aides. he likes to be briefed in that way. and it seems that very much so that he's been keeping track of it in that way. it remains to be seen what the empathy factor is going to be here. that's -- ...

The first request, the president sends a request to congress. as pointed out earlier, first crisis of his presidency not of his own making. the empathy factor, response, making people feel he's engaged and will be a leader throughout. the more important one, can he deliver? made a bold promise yesterday. you're get help and get it quickly. we'll see if that happens. has to get something through congress. estimates ranging from what i've seen, $30 billion to as much as $100 billion to rebuild houston. year's long process and will be judged whether he can deliver that means getting things throug...

Putting out this fire. they're going to have to be smarter about how they address it. they can't be running around saying things like they need to give these speeches to pay the bills when they obviously are already very wealthy. carol? >> all right. sara murray thanks so much. we'll talk more about this because the wealth question sort of feels like deja vu all over again except wealthy fat cat isn't a republican it's a democrat this time around. with me now, s.c. cupp and jamal simmons. so s.c. hillary clinton is wealthy. so was mitt romney. is there a difference in their empathy factor? >> ...

States. the big empathy factor. the person you ended up being enthusiastic about was ann romney and she's not running for president. it is her husband. you got a feeling from every single speaker that they understand what has happened to people who are unemployed. >> but empathy isn't everything. >> likability coupled with empathy. >> empathy isn't everything. and this race still is much more about the economy than it is likability. stick around. trivia time. we asked who was the first president to use the oval office that president obama uses today? the answer is fdr. now, in 1909, william ...