pickup truck addressing the local union workers. president trump wrapping up an appearance with a major world leader. the commander and chief flew down to hoous toon speak along side india s prime minister modi. the event at the nrg stadium had many trappings of a maga rally. the president mentioned undocumented citizens and touched on the space force. what s the big headline from today s event? reporter: it has to do with the president saying before he left, and that is an acknowledgment that he discussed with ukraine s president joe biden and his family s business inside ukraine. the president wasn t that explicit about it, but it s clear that he acknowledged that the biden s came up in the
people working hour after hour and many a sleepless night. the president expressing his gratitude today in person on the ground. we ll continue to monitor these pictures. let me bring in athena jones and she s been with the president throughout the day. it seems like people are happy he s there. reporter: i would say so. i remember the first pictures of the president arriving at the nrg stadium which is sheltering nearly 2,000 people. he came as a surprise, the fact that he was coming was a surprise to the folks there. he was greeting the children. they were hugging him. he was picking them up. he posed for selfies with children and adults alike. sat down and spoke with him. he and melania trump then put some on gloves and started to hand out food. then they made a stop another a church that was a distribution center and he gave encouraging remarks and helped load supplies on some trucks. we saw him stop in pear land,
of everything you know and you re not really sure where to turn next. even just talking to, you know, a legal assistant earlier who talked about how they ve got attorneys, they ve got legal guidance right there for people because they don t know what to do, it s also very easy to get lost. i spoke with a relative who lives in beaumont and she talked about the feeling of isolation and the feeling like they are on an island not having the resources that you usually have. so what do you say, what can you d we re seeing a very precious image of the president there picking up a little girl there at the nrg stadium there. you know, what kind of comforts do you offer to people who do feel like they re on an island, they feel like they re at a loss right now? well, we want to first make sure that people know that we are doing as best as we can to understand notwithstanding fact that we are not in their shoes.
it s been real good. and we re signing a lot of documents now to get money for houston. $7.9 billion. we signed it and now it s going through a quick, hopefully very quick process. how are those kids doing that you were talking with? i think they re doing great. doing really fantastic. all right. that was the president earlier just by about 15, 20 minutes ago. reporters there asking him the question as he showed up at that hurricane relief center at the nrg stadium. you saw lots of folks, kids, people of all ages taking selfies. the president even picking up one little girl. you hear the president there very optimistic and saying that he is very happy with the way things are going and that he s getting the message from others that things are going well and he says the relationship with the governor and the mayor very important. he talked about signing a
with the first lady there. lots of smiles in the place. lots of squeals. lots of excitement. with me still here we of got salina zito, julia kayyem as well as lieutenant general russel honore with me now as we look at these live pictures. we knew the president would be going to a hurricane relief center. this is the nrg stadium where 1,700 or so continue to remain there, sleeping there, getting food, and also getting legal assistance. we tried to rerack this tape. let s listen one more time to some of the questions being asked of the president and his answers. here we go. look who we have. come here. everything good? huh? i think it s grat. just the message that things are working out well. really i think people appreciate what s been done. it s been done very efficiently,