Exacerbate the shortage. i drove around austin the night before last and eight gasoline stations i went out were gone. wow. there is a shortage but takes to get it to other places, some of the roads are blocked, some pipelines aren t running, that s days or weeks before things are running and people no longer feel the pinch. you start to wonder whether the military will help move logistics that only the military can. michael, we appreciate your time, sir, thanks so much for your insights as folks down there try to get gas. we will show you right now live pictures now in houston, this is the tv pool that has been brought in ahead of the president s visit to nrg stadium which is one to have shelters for hurricane harvey victims and you can see some movement and that looks like the president walking in. this is something that we were anticipating the president
Should have uttered these words on saturday. it would have saved him some criticism. reporter: saved a lot of trouble, wolf. clearly, a cleanup job we saw here at the white house within the last hour. i was in the room as part of the white house tv pool, wolf, when the president made thee remarks. they were scripted. he was reading off a teleprompter and i can tell you as he left the room, reporters were shouting questions at the president, as to why he did not make this kind of statement on saturday. why he did not clearly condemn these groups that he condemned today. he obviously heard those questions as he left the room there, wolf, but did not answer those questions. but it is worth noting, yes, during these remarks he did condemn those groups by name. called out the kkk, white supremacists and neo-nazis and said justice will be delivered when it comes to the investigation into the death of
People? i think he went further than he did over the weekend. there was more there than what people thought had been deeply omitted over the weekend. i kmenld you for playing it in full because it gives people the chance to see all of the context. i m struck by what just happened. jim acosta of cnn is the tv poorly today. we talk about what does it mean to be part of the tv pool. it s about a dozen journalists. there s only one representative from television. it rotates each day. today it happens to be cnn. when you are a member of the pool, you are working on had behalf of not your network but all of the networks. it s a collective agreement that has gone on for a long time. so when he is standing there he is standing there on behalf of all jurmts, all broadcast media not as himself, not as his own individual company. he asked a question. the president has repeatedly said we re going to have a press
Cia more than me. becoming a standard donald trump message when we goes perhaps into places where the words haven t been so kind. he s doing, mark, a lot of these photo opportunities on this first full working day at the white house. lets the tv pool, the tv reporters, the camera crews, come in, shoot a little bit. reporters will shout a question, he may answer, may not answer the question. we don t formnormally show all . to see the president meet not just with the republican house and senate leadership, but the democratic house and senate leadership, that s newsy. no doubt, it s certainly strategic on his part to send a message out across the nation he is trying to work with democrats and congressional republicans. you know, but at the same time, let s give this an hour when nancy pelosi and chuck schumer walk out of that meeting, you re not going to see testiness, of course, when you have the pool camera go in and take a quick picture. i guarantee you, nancy pelosi, chuck schume
Contributor and chuck todd, msnbc white house correspondent, political director and host of the daily rundown. we re waiting for video of the president at fema, national emergency response center. before wets to that, we ll bring it to you as soon as we have it from the traveling tv pool. what is the posture of the white house? what about that nonmust official quoted say we don t care how long it goes we re winning politically. can they defend the fact there are no negotiations going on? they believe they can defend this because they believe they already negotiated. todd, let me interrupt you. i would only interrupt you for the commander in chief. there he is. the incredible workers here at fema, they are having to under less than optimal situations still respond to