paso told our jim acosta that the general assessment was that, quote, there was a, quote, absence of empathy by the president, unquote. on the president's part. this official told jim acosta that jim spoke with mentioned that the clip you just saw and said it left the impression that the president was not as focused on consoling patients as might be expected, which is strange because generally that is all that's expected of a president visiting a hospital in a city where 22 people had just been murdered. nothing more. just that. just empathy, listening, consoling. just being in the moment as a normal, caring, human being would, as anybody would. or barring that, simply pretending to be that, a normal, caring human being. the president, after all, spent years playing a character on tv. he played a successful business executive. as he'd quickly point out, got good ratings for a while. he could have looked at this as a performance on the biggest stage yet and as obscene as that sounds, that act of pretending,