i don t think you can disrespect our country, our flag, our national anthem. to me, the nfl situation is a very important situation. i ve heard that before about was i preoccupied. not at all. not at all. i have plenty of time on my hands. all i do is work. the president considers tweeting part of his work. that s where we get the best sense of what is most on his mind. here are the numbers. since hurricane maria hit, he tweeted 26 times about sports and the national anthem. 16 times on health care, eight times on hurricane maria and puerto rico. but as complaints mounted yesterday, the white house flipped the switch releasing photographs of the president in briefings, sending out deputies out to brief reporters on the puerto rico response. the vice president got in with a tweet about a meeting with the homeland security adviser and this evening s statement about the briefings included the president made clear that there is no such thing as overresponding. the complaints were yeste
whether you re on medicare now or turning 65 soon, it s a good time to get your ducks in a row. duck: quack! call to request your free decision guide now. because the time to think about tomorrow is today. going from bad to worse for the republican establishment. a senate runoff in alabama goes to roy moore, opening the door for other newcomers looking to shake up the party in 2018. president trump heads to puerto rico trying to silence critics who say the disaster response has been too slow. he s deploying resources and planning a trip next week. was i preoccupied? not at all. not at all. i have plenty of time on my hands. all i do is work. plenty of time on his hands. the president says he is not
it s a little past 11:00 p.m. on east coast. we ve got breaking stories, including why president trump suddenly headed to puerto rico nearly a week after hurricane maria slammed the island, and denying he is distracted by his ongoing feud with the nfl. well, i wasn t preoccupied with the nfl. i was ashamed of what was taking place, because to me that was a very important moment. i don t think you can disrespect our country, our flag, our national anthem. to me the nfl situation is a very important situation. i ve heard that before, about was i preoccupied. not at all. not at all. i have plenty of time on my hands. all i do is work. the massive effort is under way. and we have been really treated very, very nicely by the governor and by everybody else. they know how hard we re working and what a good job we re doing. we re going to get to all of that tonight. first i want to talk about the descript disrupter in chief, i m talking
cultural divide here in the early-morning tweets. the president also spoke about this today? reporter: he did speak about it. he was meeting with the spanish prime minister in the rose garden of the white house. and he said, i ve not been distracted by this at all. i ve not been distracted by the nfl controversy at all. a reporter was asking him about puerto rico, why he s tweeted 24 times about the nfl, 4 times about puerto rico. this is what he said. to me, the nfl situation is an important situation. i heard that before. have i been preoccupied? not at all. i have plenty of time on my hands. all i do is work. reporter: all he does is work. there was a sense that there was a tweet. seeing the images of puerto rico, about the humanitarian crisis and other things. he said he would visit there next week. and he convened a rushed meeting
roy moore, opening the door for other newcomers looking to shake up the party in 2018. president trump pivots to puerto rico trying to silence critics saying the disaster response has been slow. he s now deploying resources and planning a trip to wort rpuerto next week. i have plenty of time on my hands. all i do is work. and the president says he s not preoccupied with the national anthem controversy. more than two dozen tweets later he s still not letting up on the nfl. welcome back to early start, everybody. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. puerto rico needs more help. an american tragedy the news called it. puerto rico needs a plan and it needs resources immediately and not just immediate disaster relief but it s got to rebuild a power grid. it needs drinking water