can make calls from the landline. i'm not sure whether he made calls from the cell phone. >> those calls -- you have a log attempt versus a cell phone. this is a personal phone, correct? >> the president -- again, i don't sit in on every single call he makes. i'm telling you what i'm aware of. made throughout the day and through the evening. has the president drawn off the demand? >> he prepares to push. we're going to work with congress to make sure we get the best deal possible. >> based on conversations, it seems like they're hovering at 20%. >> again, the president is wanting to get the best deal possible. we're working to get that done. hunter? >> can i ask you one on north korea? he said north korea is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching north korea. >> again, the president is committed to taking every step in keeping all options on the table in order to have a denuclearized korean peninsula. hunter. >> does the president believe he needs securing for a border wall before daca? >> again i think it would be as mark short said premature to make those determinations at this point but certainly something that we want to make sure happens is that there is a wall. that's something that the president is committed to, but we also want comprehensive immigration reform. blake? >> will the president be reading hillary clinton's book and what does he think of the answers that have gotten out so far? >> whether or not he's going to read hillary clinton's book, i'm not sure. i would think he's pretty well versed on what happened, and i think it's pretty clear to all of america. i think it's sad that after hillary clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost and the last chapter of her public life is now going to be defined by propping up book sales with false and negligenct attacks. janet yellen is being considered for reappointment as fed chair. is that something the president is considering? is she o on the short list? >> when we make that personnel announceme announcement, we'll make sure everyone knows. >> the president said u.n. security council resolution was nothing compared to what will ultimately have to happen. is the president considering actions including cutting off chinese banks from the u.s. financial system? >> as we said many times before, all options are on the table. that has. changed. the president said he wants every country involved to step up and do more. this was a small step in that process and we're hoping they all take a greater role and more active role in putting pressure on north korea. >> you've used the language immigration reform. >> i think responsible immigration reform, making sure we have the principles that we've laid out and i've laid out accomplished this na package. >> not nearly as come prehence in -- >> responsible immigration reform. blake. >> you talk a lot about cutting deals with the president. mark short said one of the lessons is you can't necessarily rely on 50 to 52 republicans. then you withinet on to say we don't feel like we can get tax reform done strictly on a partisan basis. is it strictly the belief of the white house you're going to need the white house and senate to get it across the finish line? >> i believe they want to get it. as i said, i believe the goal is to have everybody come together and provide tax relief for americans across the board. we hope democrats want to be part of that process. they certainly should. >> i think you need them. what mark short said is what we learned from health care reform is even though people have been talking since 2010 about doing one thing, that's not necessarily what they -- >> i think it's less of what we need and what the country deserves. the american people work hard every day. shay should get to keep more of their money. that's what the president is focused on and what we're focused on doing. we'll work with democrats and republicans to get that accomplished. >> do you know of any democrats that are close to it? >> i think we're in the beginning of those conversations and hopefully the people will come on board. >> let's drill on the idea of democrats coming across the aisle to support the president's tax reform. there's a question of what it ought to look like. can you give us one or two examples of elements of this deal that the president could put into the deal that could attract it and would not alienate any of the republicans? >> these conversations are just starting with democrats coming to the table. and as those take place, we'll certainly provide more information on that front, but this is just the very beginning of the first step in that process. thanks so much, guys. we'll be around the rest of the day. thanks so much. >> a couple of headlines as we have a microphone on jim acosta. as we've been covering the aftermath of hurricane irma, sanders did confirm that the president will travel down to florida on thursday to assess the damage in the wake of this hurricane. and sources are telling cnn it will be specifically the ft. myers, florida, area. number two, steve bannon keeps coming up, the "60 minutes" interview with charlie rose on sunday night where one of the headlines was the president's firing of jim comey, calling it the worst mistake in modern history. the quote i jotted down from sarah sanders, the president was 100% right in firing jim comey. jim acosta, let me ask you. the headline where you were asking about "the wall street journal" reporting and now cnn has it now as well, any sort of conversation on the trump legal team involving maybe having his son-in-law/senior adviser jared kushner step down, she told you no such conversation existed. >> right. i think she said, not that i'm aware of. she certainly did seem to knock down the notion that there was this conversation about jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser stepping down earlier this year. obviously "the wall street journal" reported that. cnn has some reporting lending some credence to that as well and sarah sanders is saying, no that didn't happen. now there were other comments she made on the russian probe and i don't want to overlook that. this was plaerly stunning because typically you don't hear this from a white house. a white house would stay out of an investigation, a criminal investigation like the russian probe b tu white house press secretary there during the briefing said, yes, perhaps the justice department should look at whether the former fb i i director who was fired by jim comey should be put under investigation. that was a fairly stunning statement to hear from the white house press secretary. typically you don't hear from that the podium and interview room. possibly it's because of hearing it on "60 minutes." the last two briefings today and yesterday, sarah sanders at this podium has been defirsthanding the president's decision time and again. no, this was the right decision to make, laid out why she actually repeated that talking point during the briefing today. so a pretty muscular statement there, and i would think even the president with some critics would say over the top and slightly out of bounds comment to make for the white house to say, oh, yes, we think the justice didn't should look at whether jim comey should be looked at and put under investigation. >> yep. two other quick notes, jim. number one, she was asked about, we know the president was never asked to express his condolences to mexico. apparently there will be a call between the president of mexico and the united states. this is after mexico offered aid in the wake of harvey and texas and now has rescinded. that jumped out to me. let me ask the question about sarah san dollars and the hillary clinton book, asking if the president would be reading it. what was her response? >> yeah. that was fascinating. i also wanted -- i asked about donald trump jr. testifying and sarah sanders surprisingly sound read seppive to idea or the president, not to get in the way of that. as for hillary clinton's book, i thought that was fascinating what she said. she appeared to look down at notes from a lectern, essentially reading a prewritten response to hillary clinton's book. she referred to the book as being a sad chapter of her political year, that it would be filled with fall and reckless attacks. this is obviously, you know, pretty strong response coming from the white house in light of what hillary clinton is saying this this book and this interview she's going to have with cnn tomorrow night and will certainly generate other headline. her inner monologue was telling her to tell donald trump in the debate to back off creep. she didn't do that. obviously that is not the kind of conversation that the white house wants to have again about what happened during that campaign. it wasn't the best moment from an optic standpoint for president trump, far from it. but it sumds as though when there are iteming coming out of the book, they're going to respond to those questions. not exactly a ringing endorsement. i guess we don't see the president's name on the back of the paper back edition when it goes to paperback. that was a pretty sharp and pointed comment from the podium directed at hillary clinton. they seem to like their favorite targets and even though the election is well over, the president's been in office for seven or eight months. for whatever reason, the white house, the political allies, they like to go after the clintons and hillary clinton. that was pretty evident, brook. >> that will be on tomorrow night. jim acosta, thank you very much. the president will be heading to florida on thursday. let's talk about the crisis in florida. two days after irma made landfall, we're seeing how much is decimated the florida key. fema telling cnn 25% of the homes in the keys are in total ruin. another 65% are severely damaged and 10 thousand or so people who chose to ride it out, stay on the islands, may now have to evacuate because they have no power, no fuel, no clean water. that's just the story in the florida key. right now more than six million are without power across the southeast. so far at least eight deaths are being blamed on irma in the u.s. when you tack about the caribbean, that's a whole other story. irma hit as a five and at least 36 people were killed there. despite the deb station in the florida keys, those who do live and do business in isla ma reda and others, it remains clear. bill weir is along the florida key. bill, what are you seeing? >> reporter: greetings from lower mata come bay. look at how calm it is. if only it would stay that way all the time, eh? the cost of living in paradise is like the destruction as we work our way south as traffic sort of trickles open now. tight took big shipping containers and floated into the harbor and crashed it into the boat as you can see there. the devastation not as bad as we've seen in some other less sturdily constructed areas, but thankfully lots of proof of life here. as we motored in, we saw people on boats, on balconies drying out their things, generators cranking. a lot of activity on the highway. earth movers clearing the sand. but little hints here of how powerful the storm was. lobster traps from the atlantic side thrown into neighborhoods on this side. we're working our way slowly but surely down to the lower keys where the eyewall of that storm came ashore, and that's where the most concern is for human life. there's no way to confirm who may have perished or like the rest of us just doesn't have cell service. even our satellite phones are really spotty, so it is primitive down here. no power, no running water. everybody on the hunt for precious gasoline. ice is a luxury down here that will bring people to the edge of tears with joy as they find some. but i'm hearing a lot of resolve, very little self-pity from these hardy folks town here in the konk republic. someone from the set said, hey, america, it's just stuff. we're coming back. that's what it's going take to clean up, the most devastating weather in a generation. we're going to keep moving down the keys and report live all along the way. until then, i'm bill weir. >> bill weir. thank you so much to you and your crew. we have more from the keys coming up next. also a powerful story of rescue and survival. college students stepping in and saving senior citizens abandoned at a nursing home. don't forget about us. we have crews in the caribbean on various islands getting a firsthand look at the damage. we're going the take you there coming up as cnn's special damage in the wake of hurricane irma continues. hi i'm joan lunden. today's senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. and there's never been an easier way to get great advice. a place for mom is a free service that pairs you with a local advisor to help you sort through your options and find a perfect place. a place for mom. you know your family we know senior living. together we'll make the right choice. fothere's a seriousy boomers virus out there that's been almost forgotten. it's hepatitis c. one in 30 boomers has hep c, yet most don't even know it. because it can hide in your body for years without symptoms, and it's not tested for in routine blood work. the cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. if you have hep c, it can be cured. for us it's time to get tested. ask your healthcare provider for the simple blood test. it's the only way to know for sure. welcome back. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. hundreds have decided to stay. mike tice is covering storms. it's not often i talk to someone from the keys, raised in the keys. this must be so personal for you. how are you doing. >> i'm doing all right. it's been a long week leading up to this because not only have i been studying the track of the hurricane. i've had to prepare my home in the keys. so it's been like a double whammy. it's been very difficult because of the personal effect of my home being, you know, damaged severely. we're all in the tourism business, so we're worried that the tourism business will have a temporary hiccup. i know we'll be back. this is hard and a difficult thing to chase. such an intense hurricane that affected the entire florida keys. >> how long do you think based upon all the hurricanes and storms you chased, just your assessment of the damage. we love the keys. you mentioned tour uchl. how long do you think it will take to be truly back to normal? >> we're going to bounce back really quick. a lot of this stuff we have to offer people is offshore, which is the fishing and snorkeling and diving. so we've got to get the hotels back to working and then we'll be opening to people with open arms. it's a slow season. we're very slow this time of year. we don't get busy until christmas week, so we'll be back to work by christmas week, i'm sure. >> before christmas, in terms of now, a lot of the people in keys don't have basic services. let me read you this quick tweet from senator marco rubio. this is what he just said, asking officials to consider evacuating the lower florida keys, no water. do you think it would be a smart call? >> they got hit much harder than the upper keys. there's no running water, the electric. it's going to take much longer for the lower keys to bounce back, so i do agree with that assessment more or less because we don't want people going down there and getting sick until they get everything fixed. >> mike tice, appreciate the optimism. we'll see you down there christmastime. thank you. >> thank you. >> new this hour here on cnn, port tampa bay has reopened, allowing ships to bring in much needed fuel to florida. the state is racing to refill gas stations after millions of people left town ahead of irma. diane gallagher is outside of brandon, florida. so, i know your own crew needed gas and you got a tip at the hotel there was gas in brandon. i see people are filling up behind you. that's, what did you call it, liquid gold. >> this is the best site you could see in the tampa bay area. the port is opening at 2:00. you can come on through. it's all right. they're awaiting the three petroleum vessels to bring the gas, the liquid gold if you will to this area. seeing something like this is so positive because a lot of these people are actually evacuees driving back down south to their homes, brook. the interstates i'm told are gridlocked. if you're trying to get back home, expect the gridlock. a lot of the people are local residents. if you don't have to go anywhere, schools are closed almost another week in some areas, all the way up to september 18th, maybe beyond. if you don't have to go somewhere, let's not. they'd like to keep the short supply they have now where that i can do it. you can see filling up tanks like this. people who have to go places, get in and out. we're seeing a lot of the small red gas tanks being sold out before time, coming in, getting them filled up as fast as they can and getting out of there. again, it's spreading by word of mouth right now. we're here in brandon. they have gas, but it may not last for long. they're getting fill-ups overnight. one other thing, brooke, we have a lot of power outages here. some gas stations even if they're receiving gas can't pump the gas until they get the power turned back on. we're talking almost 40% of the homes and businesses here in hillsborough county are still without power and it could be up to ten days without getting it back. >> diane, i can't imagine the complexities. thornton's in brandon. you heard it here on cnn. dianne gallagher, thanks very much. coming up, people in this nursing home, you know, elderly residents, had been abandoned in the storm, were sheltered to safety by college students who welcomed them into their own homes. we'll take to one of those students coming up. 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did we lose her? that's what happens unfortunately in the keys. we'll try to get kyung back up live to get an assessment of how bad it is. meantime let's move on. irma ripped through and left some devastating places. ava maria. elderly men and women left to care for themselves until rescue people showed up from ave vai maria university. the senator talked about this. >> the university opened its facilities for the poor people in amok lee to have a place to stay in shelter, and then they found 12 senior citizens that had been abandoned in a nursing home. and the police brought them to the university, and the students took them in and took care of them in their dormitories. >> and one of the students joins me on the phone -- on a phone. he's steven acres, a student government president at this university. steven you have been hailed by a u.s. senator. you could have done nothing and you chose to do something. kudos to you, sir. tell me how this came to be. >> yes, brooke. thank you so much for having me. you know, this came together and at the last second the sheriff's office brought these senior citizens to us. you know, this isn't a heroic act by any means. we're just doing the best we can. and, you know, we have the space. we said absolutely. we're going to do everything we can for all of the people in our surrounding areas. we're so grateful and fortunate for our university to have strong buildings that were able to withstand this hurricane. and so we wanted to maximize every square inch that we had and just take people in, encourage each other. all of our other guests, too, and each with each other. the students, they're in high spirits. they're incredible. it's just been, you know, sometimes you think what good can come out of this. i have seen, you know, first hand, so many accounts of students stepping up and giving themselves to the situation. ite been incredible. >> i love it. we're looking at pictures that look to be inside of a gym, stephen. where do these more mature men and women, where were they taken? were they in dorm rooms, apartments? how are they now? >> sure. they're doing well. we had about 400 visitors from the surrounding areas in our fieldhouse, which is kind of like our gym. and these senior citizens, however, a few of them have specific needs. and so we brought them into our university dorms where we have the space available. we had some students checking in on them. they're doing well now. i'm not sure at what point they'll return to the nursing home. i think it's a little too soon. but i'm told they're doing well. as far as we know, they love being here and we're happy to have them. >> reliving their college days in a sense. stephen akers, good for you and your friends. just a sad story. let's go back to kyung lah in the key, fingers crossed. technology works in our favor. you're live. you were talking about boats and mobile homes. >> reporter: yeah. the boat that is right behind me, that's right in the center of a mobile home park. we're not going to widen out too much or think too much. we think that may be part of the problem, so bare with me. th so bear with me. this is a powerboat. you can't see it in the shot. it's way back there. beyond that destroyed rubble, which is someone's home, this entire park -- we tried to go through some of it, we haven't traversed too far in because of the destruction. much of this mobile home park is completely destroyed. this is from storm surge. this is from wind. this is the power of hurricane irma. we're getting our first look here because residents were finally allowed back to this area. the new road block is not very far from where we're standing. so what they're doing is opening up each community bit by bit. residents came home for the very first time. we followed and talked to many of them. at least a couple of them as they saw their homes for the first time. sometimes utter relief. at times despair because they didn't know what they were going to see. and then others immediately began with the process of cleaning up. we were at a business where they are looking at almost a complete loss. people whose homes -- they left treasures because they didn't think they'd need them. even though, brooke, we're talking about widespread devastation, widespread damage, this is an area that didn't get it nearly as hard as the area that we haven't been able to see quite yet, this team at least, which is furtherer down the keys. that area is among the hardest hit areas in the state. that's the area where firefighters say is in most urgent need of help. brooke? >> okay. question. i pulled up my handy dandy google maps as i'm talking to you trying to understand where ila ma reda is. you're just about halfway down, is that right, kyung? >> reporter: i would say it's half the way down or a little more than third. again, the people here are really trying to pick up the pieces and try to look forward and part of it is that they try to keep everything into perspective because if you travel further down the keys, that's the area where people who stayed are in in credible need of help. it's a major supply problem because u.s. 1 is the only way in or out, and what they've done is just opened the upper keys, the very first part, to check to see, is my house standing, are my memories still there, are my papers still there, my papers because you can't pack your car full enough with everything in your house in the amount of time they had. so they're able to go back and check. further down the keys, they need to clear the debris. we followed a fire & rescue teal, monroe county fire & rescue team. they're going house by house. some of the houses, their entire back was smashed in. we were at a mobile home park. firefighters were using axes and saws and hammers to hammer their way in to see if there before people inside because some decided to ride out the storm. i haven't miettinen yet, brooke, in a far less devastated area. someone had an incredibly harrowing experience. some who decided to say are saying these were unbelievable conditions. >> and, again, the point being, you're just the third of the way down. the point is it's so much worse the farther south you go. and look what's behind you there. kyung lah and crew, thank you so much, in is la moure reda in the florida keys. we have a person on the boat touring the damage in the lower keys. we're talking about where much of the damage was sustained. we'll take you there live in moments. 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[ inaudible ] >> we finally heard the roof starting to be peeled off and oh my god i said the power is coming back. no, that means we got a hole in your roof, we don't have a roof back there anymore. it was flooded and destroyed by this storm. policewoman prudential asked these couples: how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how many years that money would last them. how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9? how did this happen? it turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. we have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. let's plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. prudential. bring your challenges. . hillary clinton's version of what happened during the 2016 election is on bookshelves today. those eager to read and meet her stood in lines. whether president trump will be pilki picking up a copy, sarah hucklebee, had this to say about this. >> whether or not he's going to read hillary clinton's book, i am not sure. i think he's pretty well versed on what happened and i think it is clear to all america and i think it is sad that after hillary clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost and the last chapter of her public life is going to be defined by book sales of false and reckless attacks, that's a sad way for her to continue that way. >> here are some of the attacks from her book that hillary clinton says she's convinced that the campaign is colluded with russia. the president is plagued by vladimir putin and she says his daughter, ivanka trump is complacent with the agenda. >> the way i look at is the person that is held responsible is donald trump. he's the president, he listens to who he listens to and he tweets and speaks out and makes common cause with white supremacists and neo nazis and takes away the protections that were granted 800,000 dreamers and so many ways just trying to impose a political agenda that is turning the clock back or attempting to do so or in ways that i find not only really repulsive but wrong headed in the country that we are. everyone associated with him. they're either on board with that or they're not. and if they are not, they need to be speaking out or leaving. if they remain silent and just gives lip service to contrary points of view then they are part of his agenda and should be judged and held accountable for that. >> a man who's actu actually re book. you go t tht this copy and you a look at it and there is a ton of attention today, how revealing was she? >> pretty revealing for hillary clinton. here is somebody that we have seen in the public stage for 25 years and some of the words that's associated with that 25 years public career are cautious, calculated and she seems keenly aware of that. so i think it is some of the first time that americans are going to hear hillary clinton or read hillary clinton in her own words in a way that's a little less guarded and caution in the wind. it is still hillary clinton. >> that's a caveat. >> exactly. >> she does sort of go through the emotional experience and the telling of the emotional experience of losing the election in ways that we have not heard hillary clinton speak before. >> what is the one big question of 2016, the question that you want to ask her? >> the question that i want to ask her is not about the campaign but is what is being hillary clinton right now of the eight months and feeling the pain of the lost of election and seeing the results of that and watching events unfold, what does it go through her day right now to me is most compelling. >> it is a great question. wall street journal reporting on this, this was something that's addressed to the white house briefing today just about how some members of the trump legal teams had questioned the possibility of jared kushner and son-in-law and senior adviser to step down because of his communications of russia and transitioning, sarah hucklebee, says i took her to say that no such conversations was had. >> she says no conversation that is i was aware of or no presentation were made from the legal team formally to the president about this. that does not mean that the word "people" on the legal team who thought that kushner should go. i don't think what she says today negate it. they reports those -- more contact with russians in the transition of the campaign than anybody else close to donald trump throughout that time here. >> the notion of jared kushner leaving the white house, his family. this is why it is so complicated. it is not as clean cut and if were -- perhaps, we have been a lot easier to have ties with that person and as we have seen donald trump doing with michael flynn and others. >> it is not if you are ted cruz by the way pointing out. >> how uncomfortable with his staff today. the story is ted cruz's twitter account liked a pornography video. an agency says multiple members of his staff had access of his twitter account and someone hit the liked button on that post. the aid says it will be an internal effort to figure out who's responsible. >> the danger of social media and ted cruz talked about this today when he face reporters and at the end of that, people asked him, were you the one what hit the button "like" on twitter. and he said he was not. they don't believe any malicious involved. so we'll see if we'll learn more of this. it is clear in this age the dangers of social media and you know that's, you know, bizarre. >> one way to put it. [ laughter ] >> david, thank you very much. >> thank you, brooke. >> again, do not miss anderson cooper's interview with hillary clinton. it is going to be an hour long airing the interview tomorrow night, 8:00 eastern time here in cnn. i am brooke baldwin, thank you for being with me. we'll send it to washington now with "the lead" with jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. residents return to ruins. now the search for the missing, even as some areas remaining unreachable. paradise lost, dozens of people killed by irma and the caribbean and those left struggling just to survive, cleaning and do not forget about us and president trump's meeting with politicians under a cloud of investigation

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