what did you say to him? i kept saying i love you, get up. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day , tuesday, august 6th. alisyn is off. chris cuomo joins me live from el paso, texas. we learned overnight that president trump is preparing to visit el paso and dayton, ohio, later this week. two cities burying their dead after mass shootings. in the case of el paso, cities trying to move past divisions that the president has stoked for years. the white house is not releasing the president s travel plans. the mayor of el paso says he will meet with president trump tomorrow, and some in the city are asking the president to cancel the visit. they say the racist, divisive language that the president uses is having very real consequences, chris. reporter: i tell you, we had
set, but we understand they may be leaning towards the city like san antonio. a city less hard hit. they want to avoid the hard-hit areas as i mentioned so they don t get in the way of any sort of rescue and recovery efforts, but the idea of making this visit very early on would be to show that texas has the support of the federal government. so we re still awaiting an official announcement from the white house on the president s travel plans but i can tell you just a while ago he held another conference call, a videoconference call, from camp david with vice president mike pence and several others from his cabinet, and other officials, who were at the, in the white house situation room. they covered many of the same topics and raised the same points covered yesterday we learned in the white house readout. we know the president stressed expectations that all departments and agencies will focus on priority number one, which is saving lives. preventing the loss of life. they talked how s
land. and now they have slowly but surely been chipping away at it. this could be interesting if they take this up. i think we could be careful in this case. if you read the case i m not a lawyer. it s about a word, a sing word and the intention of congress. the people who wrote the law said it was intended to cover the state exchanges. i think as was said today in the u than mouse decision, come on, of course this is what they meant. i think the republicans are wasting a lot of time and energy on this one. there may be other fruitful challenges in the future. i got to move on to this because the crisis on the international stage seem to have little impact on the president s travel plans as he now heads out west for another three-day fund-raising event. there was a tweak to his schedule and it has nothing to do with jimmy kimable. we like to have the president do that interview over the
we re all just learning it at this point in time, that the president has in fact landed. this is something we ve seen in the past. remember when president bush visited, traveled overseas to a war zone back in 2003, it was also a secret. it wasn t announced until until he in fact cleared the air space. so this is something we are accustomed to not being made aware of the president s travel plans when he is traveling in a war zone. a final question with you for the moment. you know better than any of us that this anniversary has already become something of a contested event with mitt romney accusing the president of politicizing the president. the president saying he is not celebrating but the occasion, given the atrocities committed by that wick individual. what is your sense about how the white house says today, given that the president has travelled on this historic moment. this first anniversary.