The president he president spe weekend in camp david talking with a number of his cabinetumbh officials about what was happening inis houston. He held to cabinet meetings where he was filed in by telephone conference with their pictures sent out by the widest at the widest whiskey to making sure the American People knew the president was engaged and what it is even though hee was t camp david. Todays back at the white house picky got back yesterday evening and is going to spend the day ae the white house, he has a number of meetings with the viceemeet president of the secretary of state picky a as a meeting with the president of finland but we hear the president will be goina to texas on tuesday. We we are not are sure if you goo directly to houston or so many other areas that were directlyy impacted by the storm. We hearing the president wants to get down to texas quickly as possible and he tweeted over tht weekend that he would like toic get to texas as quickly as possible without causing any distraction. We can expect i if it does go to texas tomorrow hes going to try to consumer waste not good to be a burden on the First Responders and those were trying to help rescue people. So maybe doesnt go directly to houston or he consumerctly t wat a drag on the First Responders n at all the Emergency Personnel that are looking to open of people are still in the trap in oodsr homes or in the middle of floods and need help from either helicopters or a number of different assets that been deployed down for now. host youre expecting moreit information on that today. Theselfxpected to from president himself today . He tweeted out as you noted about a dozen tweets over the er weekend about the response effort, but only going to see it came front of the camera today . We do expect to see thee do present after his meeting withr the present within the turkey will do a press conference, a joint press conference at the white house we can expect heques will get questions aboutt houston, about his role, about his response. A number of questions can come up as well but this is the biggest news issue of the dayneo end. The biggest news issue off the we can. Thats a lot of questionsns abot the president has been dealing and will deal with his first h first major na major natural disaster. Tu we will hear from the president in both scripted remarks like at the beginning of the News Conference at the unscriptedats remarks as he take questions anu the number of americans will be watching to see how he respondsd in the middle of this crisis. Host will to be a moodl today to get more resources dowo the . Move. At this point there are more specific and needed from federal agencies that are not yetgad . Engaged . Guest what weve heard from a number of federal officials over the weekend is that their continuing to dothe r assets. Onti there in constant communication with state and local officials in texas, and this obviously became a much larger crisis thay expected. We can expect the federal government to continue to do fod more aid, and the next step would likely be congress having to potentially provide additional funds. When they come back into town in september, maybe even pas passat upgrade to the National FloodInsurance Program which expires at the end of september. Not only the president and thedt administration will be involveda congress where to play a role, National FloodInsurance Program already in debt roughly 25 billion from earlier weather disaster as you said expires at the end of the month. 20f st plenty of stories about that program, the future of that program. Heres a story from wall streeh journal this morning. Were talking with Toluse Olorunnipa of Bloomberg NewsWhite House Reporter. Talkiit if you questions, comments about the federal response, the white federal res house response,po phone numbers we mention the president tweetse over the weekend, a dozen different tweets on it. I wantge want to get your perspective on some of the tweets that happened over twe the weekend that were t specifically focus on hurricane poli harvey, about other more political issues and reaction were seeing for those tweetse guest the president tweeted a number of different topics turkey twittered about a new book thats been put out and sheriff joe clarriff joe clark and wisconsin turkey twittered about hiss Upcoming Trip to missouri, talked about his big electoral win and even hisg tweets aboutelecto their again e received some criticism because it is sort of seemed like he was involved in some punditry, a lot of exclamation points, talking about this is a big storm ever,d patting himself and hispatting e government on the back even as people were struggling to deal with the impact of the storm. There is going to be a lot on both sides, criticism and praise, for what the president issides, doing. Wh deathly an unorthodox approach to a National Crisis using twitter as a main means of communication. With the public usually receive president s doing a video address or appearing on tv or appearingp on a sunday show to talk to the American People and to reassure them. He this president chose to usechosu twitter and he sort of host between a commentary about the storm and about how his administration is dealing with it and commentary on a number of other political events. F other he did open himself up to somenp criticism for doing that. Host weve seen some debate about whether an Evacuation Order should haveer e been givenn in houston, state ad local officials disagreeing on that point and that sort of looking back to the response already taking place. Is the white house being drawn into this . Was the president involved in any of those decisions . Guest that will be interesting to see. The white house has not weighed in at once it or the other. In, they want to present a united front and show the state local and federal officials are on the same page. They havent allowed himself to get drawn into this a little bit of an internal debate. If you listen to the city officials in houston tanhey say try to get everyone on the road th would have been a disaster. Some of those roads that are being used, that are usually use bakley people are now completela underwater and people were stuck in traffic, that carter caused a ha number of tragedies. The white house has a weighedint in, either way whether or ableey to that was the right decision, whether people should been evacuated earlier. Terlier. You expect th the president migt get asked about that today but s so far even when other facial been asked aboutso the tried tok not get involved in some of the squabbles over whether o or not the right decisions have been made so far and say theyre looking for. They are trying to do with the situation that they have now and st us on the future. Host if you get a chance to ask the present question what would you ask . . Wi guest specific about this houston issue i would like to get a sense of how this has impacted the president and understanding of the role of the presidency. Weve seen over the last week, several different versions of President Donald Trump andnaru wheezing the somber version as troops about to the situation in afghanistan. Weve seen the more raucous and combative version as he attended a political rally in phoenix, and now we are seeing the president deal with a hurricane. We saw on friday the president id decided to issue a pardon of the Sheriff Joe Arpaio down in w arizona. It would be interesting to see if the presidency is being viewed differently by thehevi president now that he sees himself as a hell of a majorer. Natural disaster. Does he view the importance of bringing people together in a different light now that their people rely on him and hiseren government to help them in the midst of this tragedy. It would, it will be very interestedte to see when a hesident fears to his scripted remarks as source as a questions what kind of approach is going to take, whether we will see the more somber unifying president , or whether he will revert to a more combative approach and a more defensive approach. Proach that will be very interesting to see and we will be watching very closely. Host Toluse Olorunnipa is with Bloomberg News. Questi taking your questions this morning. Hes a White House Reporter with Bloomberg News. We will be at the press Conference Today that the the president is expected to hold to we will take your questions and comments. And it is from washington, d. C. , life for democrats. Go ahead. Caller good morning cspan2 how you doing . Cspan, i may concern African American scientist and i studied in europe and in germany. Im concerned about what this president has done. His visit to florida is nothing more than a photo op. Th this president has chosen to withdraw the United States under executive orders from the scientific fact regarding Climate Change and Global Warming. This is aimate change dangerouse ha president what he is done you. Its going to set us back. Back. The chinese are going to move ahead, other nations will move ahead. But also additionally, a numbere of states have chosen to go their own path. And chosen to go against the president. T of so a lot of states will continue to participate in the Global Warming stas respect. There are a number of newspapers, very famous newspapers have chosen not to bid, president ial elections, but they chose Hillary Rodham clinton over donald trump. These are newspapers like the foreignpolicy newspapers, the dallas newspapers and other newspapers, very important. St host Toluse Olorunnipa, not the first call to bring up the issue of Climate Change. Since we started talking about this this morning. How much does this come back od the president s agenda and questions is going to get about withdrawing from the parisquestv climate agreement . Guest he will get a number questions over the course of several weeks and months as thii houston situation plays out. We are all working from a number of scientists and people in theo Scientific Community about how these types of storms are a sign that Climate Change is here. As always having an effect that like thisee more storms like this Going Forward in the future. The president did fall out of the you can watch all of todays washington journal on our website cspan. Org. We leave this segment now for a form on north korea. Director of the institute for korean studies. Im the moderator of todays panel and at the great pleasure of introducing our three distinguished speakers, dr. Robert colluding and dr. Greg brzezinski. The topic is how to handle north korea. More specifically we mean how to do with north korean issues and the recent rhetorical crisis