chief white house correspondent john roberts is live. john, president trump discussion with president putin is getting a lot of attention? it certainly is, good morning where the president begins they in four hour s time with welcoming ceremony. we will get into that in just a minute. but the real headline was that he had spoken with vladimir putin, the president of russia a couple of times and the president confronted whether or not russia meddled in the election and the president again got a firm denial from president putin as being reported that the president, quote, believes what putin says. the nuance is a little different when you listen to the audio transcription it reads differently than the written transcription does. here is what the president said in response to a question as to whether or not he believes what putin is saying, president said, quote, he just every time that he sees me, he says, i didn t do that and i believe, i really believe that when he tells me
steve: well, it was a busy night. ainsley: yes, it was. steve: u.s. bank arena cincinnati. stacked up as high as the fire marshall would allow. ainsley: he said must be democrats that are in office because there are a lot of people throughout in 100-degree heat that want to come in and they re not letting them. steve: rules are rules. brian: two nights of democrats dominating the rules. time for the president to go into a battleground state saying okay, i have been watching the debates. the president could take notes from night two of debate 2 and know how to hit exactly barack obama s policies. because it was the democrats hammering barack obama and it was the president just did the follow-up hitting last night. ainsley: he said i can t believe that they really bashed president obama last night and the night before. and then he also was talking about those four congresswomen. the freshman congresswomen and slamming them as well. brian: but not as much. the democrats spen
steve: let s not go outside. let s start this hour with a fox news alert. today president trump will visit grief-stricken communities of el paso, texas and dayton, ohio. brian: back-to-back massacres left 31 people dead in both those cities. ainsley: jeff paul joins us in el paso where funeral preparations are underway. hey, jeff. good morning. the president expected to land in ohio later this morning. he will spending a few hours there then he is going to head here to el paso, according to his schedule is he going to meet with some first responders as well as victims of domestic terrorism attack that unraveled just behind me here at this walmart. you can see the memorial just outside the scene here continues to grow. and this community is still very much in mourning. because of that, some say a visit from the president might not be helpful. some saying within el paso it s too soon they are still in pain and cannot handle that visit. others like texas congresswoman veronica