they came down to the chapel and prayed with the students. we had them in two different buildings but they were surrounded by love and care and they needed that as much as being sheltered from a storm. >> and you have to be there and you have to be aware when you are caring for these people. was that done there? it certainly was done at your university. thank you for showing what you are studying to do. you have to use your heart as much as your head. >> thank you. there's a lot of news to get after this morning. let's get after it. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to your "new day." it's september 14th. trump will survey the aftermath of irma shortly. we begin with breaking news.

trump is denying he hatched a deal last night with democratic leaders to protect the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers. the president is explaining his feelings about the d.r.e.a.m.ers and insists his border wall will continue to be built, and conservatives are blasting the president for making the deal with democrats that they say excludes his border wall. >> you have politics and the reality, and the president is coming down to see it firsthand, what irma did to florida. we will look at it firsthand. and 3 million customers are still without power in the state. in the heat and humidity, it's going to change moods and it's going to be addressed. the death toll, we knew it was going to rise. it has. 77 lives now have been lost in the u.s. and in the caribbean as a result of irma. the police are investigating

eight other deaths. they are not being put in the storm count just yet because there's a criminal question about these sweltering conditions at a nursing home in hollywood, florida, that may have attributed to the deaths of eight seniors. we have it all covered. let's begin with joe johns at the white house with the breaking news. joe. >> good morning, chris. at first it appears there was an agreement to agree between congressional democrats and the president to help those 800,000 so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers in the united states through daca, the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. they were working out a package of border security excluding the president's controversial border wall that is acceptable to both sides, and that did not go over well among conservatives.

a breitbart labeling. and a flury of tweets from the president of the united states indicating no deal was made on daca, and also concerns the president was giving up his border wall, and the wall will continue to be built. and the president turning his attention to the d.r.e.a.m.ers. he writes does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplishmented young people, some serving in the military. they have been in our country for many years and brought in by parents at a young age, and still potential backlash here, conservative congressman steve king wrote if the report is correct the trump base is blown up, destroyed, dissolutioned, beyond repair, and no promise is

creditable. there's more to learn on this story. back to you. >> joe, there's something we already know. sometimes doing the right thing ain't going to be popular in politics. joining us on the phone is senator marco rubio. he's on his way to the west coast of florida to meet with president trump and he has been doggedly attentive to the needs of his state during and after hurricane irma. senator, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for your coverage on this, guys. i think it's really important what you have done, even leading up to the storm. a lot of people watching on the news decided to leave because of the coverage, so i think this was an example of where the media was very important in getting the word out. we appreciate that. >> that's the job, senator. so let me also pass along from the keys that the people hear what you are saying and they

need you and appreciate your efforts and they know what you are doing to help them with irma. and let's deal with the issue because it matters to you and your state, and do you think there's a deal or no deal with the democrats on daca? >> i don't know. i was not in the meeting, and i am about to see the president and when the moment is appropriate i will ask him directly. i said i always believed i wanted to deal with this issue and help young people and deal with it in a responsible way. the details of it are important. a couple weeks ago when the decision was made, it would be important what the president laid out what he would sign and wouldn't, and it was a guidance. it's an issue i hope we will deal with and i believe we can deal with, and the president is ready to announce the parameters of what he's willing to work with, that's going to help in

achieve that. >> what about people that say if he does anything for daca he's a fraud, and what about should the wall be a nonstarter in addressing daca? >> border security is the fundamental responsibility of the government, and it's a part of it. so you have to deal with that. and i think a broken legal immigration system contributes to it as well. as far as daca is concerned, i don't think the president ever said he wanted to round up and deport young people brought here, and he has expressed his desire to do something with them differently than perhaps what some people perceived. now, he's going to have to do it in a way he assures this never happens again, but i have never gotten the feeling from the president that he was gung hoe

on kicking d.r.e.a.m.ers out of the state. >> except when he had the ag come forward and say he was hurting the economy, and made it into a policing matter, that seemed to send a signal that the d.r.e.a.m.ers were vulnerable? >> again, the president has consistently said -- i have heard him say it a number of times and he said it was an issue he would like to fix and fix in the right way. again, i have always operated under the assumption that's what they wanted to do, and i think the reasons why we got the six-month period is to give congress the opportunity to work to fix it. he could have ended it and slammed the door shut and that's not what they wanted to do. the details are important, as you know from covering this, it can get complicated fast the more things you add to it.

>> let's use that as a segue. you are always welcome on the show to discuss what the president says, and keeping the matter clean, to address the needs of irma now, three months from now and three years from now, and what do you think about that? >> we have short-term needs and long-term needs. the short-term needs is reimbursing local governments for what they are doing, and getting individualized assistance and small business loans and a lot of small family-owned businesses, it wiped them out, and that assistance is not overly controversial. where we are going to get into a problem is if we use this long term for a project, but it is something that should be part of the regular budget and not the

emergency funding. that's my goal, the long-term improvements, things like mid investigation against sea level rise as part of the long-term normal budgeting process. >> sometimes, you had certain members of your party attack it and say it was pork with the sandy, and it wound up stalling something for months that could have done quickly. >> sandy funded hurricane -- it was a long-term project. it was related to the storm and it should have been funded as part of the regular process and not the emergency funding. that's what i am saying, monroe county needs an emergency operation center. we should help fund that but not as part of the emergency funding but part of the regular funding. and i think people would be

supportive of that, i do. the long-term projects deserve more scrutiny. and that's why in the aftermath of katrina where money was misspent, we don't want to trigger that. >> sometimes something may not seem like an emergency in the moment but winds up being fundamental down the road. look at the infrastructure with the cement poles. those poles largely are still up. that's going to make a huge difference in reconnecting power. it was not central to the funding mechanism at that time but wound up being fundamental to the rescue effort. >> i am not saying we shouldn't fund them. again, i am not saying that, but to the extent we are going to do those things it should be part of the broader long term. what i don't want to see is fema funding being used with a

christmas tree when other people hang their projects that may not be directly related, because it slows it down. fema will run out of money here soon given the increase in spending so we want to act quickly on the emergencies. >> hear you. hollywood, florida, and what we are seeing in the nursing home. there are really troubling questions here. the most relevant one early on is going to be why didn't they transfer these people to the hospital, and that question is begged by the series of 911 calls. they were not standard but standard of caregivers. how do you deal with that in one of your larger questions? >> my larger question, i think the storm exposed the vulnerability in the senior system, and we get reports of four or five days without power, and people just didn't show up, and staff just abandoned the patients, and there's a form of

looting and university students had to bring them in and shelter them. all over the state, the food is spoiled and elevators don't work, and this storm exposed a dangerous vulnerability. senator caollins, i spoke to he and i would like to look into that issue and study this from a broader perspective because there were examples of this as well, and we have to look at how resilient is our senior care system after power is out for an extended period of time. >> thank you for joining us. we look forward to discussing these issues with you going forward. we hope all your loved ones and friends made it through the storm okay. >> they did. thank you for that. we are in the keys the day after, and we look forward to getting back down there tomorrow with the massive rebuilding effort, and the keys will come

back and come back strong. >> that's the hope down there, but boy is the need great. senator marco rubio, be well. >> yes, sir. let's get reaction to your interview with senator rubio, and we want to bring in chief cnn correspondent, dana bash. leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, and they say a deal was reached and he seems to suggest no deal was reached. he fired up the twitter machine this morning into over drive. here's what he is saying this morning. no deal was made last night on daca, and massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange to consent would be subject to vote. the wall which is already under construction will continue to be built. and then he gives, you know,

really, i think what is in his mind and maybe heart about the d.r.e.a.m.ers, and he gives us a window into that when he says does anybody really want to throw out good and educated people with jobs, and some serving in the military. really? and plus, big border security. where are we this morning? >> the most telling thing that i heard senator rubio say to chris was that he was glad that the president is taking the lead. so there are a couple reasons for that, but alisyn, the big reason and politically and strategically is because -- let's get honest. the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, and the house speaker, paul ryan, they

were thrilled not to be invited to the dinner. >> why? >> if they are not involved they don't get the blame from their base. they want to deal with this issue of the d.r.e.a.m.ers. at the end of the day, if you look at the big picture of the illegal immigration problem, almost certainly would probably want a path to citizenship or some deal where everybody who is here illegally would find a way to not live in the shadows, but they are not going to say that publicly because of the complete nuclear bomb -- political nuclear bomb that exploded within the conservative -- >> here are the tweets sent out by some of the conservatives. congressman steve king, if it's

correct, no promise is credible. laura ingram, conservative talk show host, the art of the steal, she says, and let's hope that schumer and pelosi misrepresent the deal. pelosi and schumer can never be trusted. is this civil war in the gop? >> yes. it is the issue that splits apart the republican party more than any other and has for a decade. marco rubio is a perfect example of that because he co-authored a bipartisan bill that allowed a path to citizenship before he ran for the republican primary for the white house and he heard about it at almost every stop. he gets it, which is why he and other republicans want the president, who has a lot of capital with conservatives on this issue, to take the lead. >> thank you very much for being

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what happened at this dinner last night. the president tweeting this morning there's no deal that he truck with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and said the border wall will be built, but the democrats have a different take on it. the information and the breaking news is coming in fast and furious this morning. matt, if the president, if nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and what they say is correct, and the president agreed to some protection for d.r.e.a.m.ers without a border wall do you feel betrayed? >> no. i like the fact that the president, unlike some people who are whining that president trump is spending too much time about the d.r.e.a.m.ers, and

everybody should attempt to work with the opposition. if they can come up with deals on issues that the country cares about, i am all for it. i could see a deal here yet but could be one in the future. >> when you say whining, before i get to simone, let me read what i think you are referring to. with the tweets, they were coming up with rapid fire succession after alleged word of the deal hit, and steve king said the trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable and dissolutioned beyond repair and no promise is credible, and then laura ingram, and sean has not tea said weak republicans betrayed voters and the president needs to stay the course over it's over. the president himself, i have to

tell you, matt, he's not denying this is what they talked about. he's saying no deal was reached but he's not saying that they didn't hammer out or move closer to having an official deal. again, if there's no border wall and he did this with democrats, what will you say tomorrow? >> let me say, the whining i am referring to are republicans on the hill that seem to think that the president should only deal with them. i think the president should deal with democrats. number two, the president ended daca. he ended the ability for people to come here through a special loophole in the immigration process. that's ended. the next question, which the president has not talked about, is what do you do with the 700, 800,000 people here, and they could be put in different categories including the people serving in the military, and how do you handle the 800,000 people

here. the democrats have a role in determining that legislative process as well and that's now going to happen before our eyes. >> simone, how do you explain what you are seeing unfold where twice now in the space of a week or two the president has worked with, it appears, the democrats, and he had the dinner last night with shuchuck schumer and nancy pelosi and did not invite paul ryan or mitch mcconnell? >> i see high-level maneuvering on the part of pelosi and schumer, and donald trump has no major legislative victories under his belt. the one thing he can tout and say is a success is the fact that he got a supreme court justice confirmed. that's not enough. the president doesn't want to kick the d.r.e.a.m.ers out and he wants to do something to protect them, or at least he says he does, and if he wants to

you have to codify that in some type of law or ma phaoneuvering attempt to. what we saw in his tweets his this morning he's prepared to do something on behalf of the d.r.e.a.m.ers. daca was rescinded -- >> sorry to interrupt you. we have new tape of the president as he departs on air force one to florida, and we believe he is speaking about this very thing. he was certainly asked questions about it because everybody wants him to clarify what happened at this dinner last night, and thus far all we have is nancy pelosi and chuck schumer's reaccounting of the deal they struck with the president and the president saying no deal. he was asked about it as he was getting on the plane and we believe we have sound of it that we will get to it -- give us a few more seconds -- now we have

it. here we go. listen to this. wow, we're going to replay that for you because that was so subtle. >> it was the slo-mo version. >> just glad we are not showing melania's footwear. that's good. if we take a wide shot we may be able to see the footwear. in the meantime, i want to show you what ann coulter feels about all of this this morning when the president tweeted about the d.r.e.a.m.ers. he said they have been brought in our country for many years through no fault of their own and brought in by parents at a young age, plus big border security, and ann coulter tweeted, at this point who doesn't want trump impeached. what do you say to her, matt? >> not much. she's a witty tweeter and provocative. there are 700 or 800,000 people

here, and they can be put in lots of categories. a lot of times they are able to bring over guardians. there are people that serve in the military. the question is this, daca, he kept his promise on daca, which he got criticism for, and now you have the population here in the country, and congress has to wrestle this to the -- >> hold on a second. you are ignoring a big piece, and that's the border wall. whatever he did for d.r.e.a.m.ers, whatever deal he struck with d.r.e.a.m.ers doesn't include the big and beautiful border wall he promised? >> he will have to build that wall and he will build that wall. i don't know what point in the legislative process that more funding will come forward. remember, hillary clinton and barack obama voted for this wall -- >> no, he didn't. >> he wanted a fence. >> he did not vote for anything

that reseplables what president donald trump is talking about. >> i just want to clarify this -- >> those are -- >> hold on. >> donald trump is talking about building a berlin-style block them up and "game of thrones" style of wall, okay? >> this morning the tweet basically says, by the way, the wall already is being built. >> it's true. >> hold on, matt. >> that's not true. >> it's in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences and walls and will continue to be built. is that what you had in mind for the new and big beautiful wall? >> if you are asking me, i think the wall that he describes during the campaign will be built. i think the hypocrisy here is they voted over and over and over again to have funding to

secure the southern border and it makes no sense to try to catch and release and to deport people if they can simply come right through. >> i want to be really clear. nobody is saying we should have unfettered borders or immigration into the country. multiple times, many members of congress and including folks like barack obama and hillary clinton have voted for border security, and no sane democrat has voted for this "game of thrones" style of wall. >> hillary clinton said on daca specifically -- >> guys, hold on. now we have the tape. guys, hold on. we have the tape of the president. here he is. >> we are working on a plan for daca. people want to see that happen. you have 800,000 young people

brought here, so we are working on a plan and we will see how it works out. we are going to get massive border security as part of that. i think something can happen. we will see what happens. something will happen. >> what about florida? there's 5 million people still without power, and [ inaudible ]? >> yeah, they are doing a great job on power and they are doing a great job historically there's never been anything like this, but the united states government and fema and working along with governor scott, and the power companies, we have the largest assemblage of human beings ever in one area for power, and rapidly it's being turned on. we are very happy with that. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> the wall will come later. we are renovating large sections of wall, massive sections, and

making it brand-new and doing a lot of renovations. we are building four different samples of the wall to see which one we are going to choose and the wall is going to be built and it will be funded later. >> back to florida real quick? >> we want to get massive border security, and i think nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, i think they will agree, and we met last night, schumer, pelosi and a whole group. i think we are fairly close but we have to get massive border security. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> yeah, mitch is onboard and paul ryan is onboard. many agree on daca, but we want powerful border security. we are going down to florida and we will see you in florida.

ryan and mcconnell agree with us on daca. we are very much onboard. i spoke to them, yes. >> okay. that was really helpful. let me bring back matt and simone sanders. i believe he clarified some things. he wants massive border security but -- he's departing to florida to see the aftermath there, and these are the live pictures. so he's waving good-bye, and over the live pictures, matt, he is threading the needle. he is saying massive border security and that is different and you know it to conservatives than a promise of a new big wall. >> let me just say, alisyn. i think his tweet is accurate that there's no question he is talking about a deal with congressional leaders, including the democratic leaders, but they don't have a deal yet. if the deal is as you describe,

which is all the daca folks here who were given special status, temporarily status by barack obama, if they all get to stay and get permanent legal status, i do think there's going to be great concern over that and that could hit some rocks with certainly conservatives in congress, but i want to look at this a little differently. >> quickly. >> on daca, barack obama only gave them a two-year period of time and hillary clinton said they would not get permanent status. you have to delve down into the community of people and they go into different categories and i think it's a mistake to give blanket amnesty to people here. >> simone, i am so sorry to short change you and we have more breaking news because joining us on the phone is congressman steve king and we want to get to him. good morning, congressman. >> good morning, alisyn. >> what did you just hear the

president say? >> well, you have to interpret what you hear him say, and wanting a larger border skwaour t security, and if we don't build a wall all the way through then the rest of it is subject to -- i think something is going to have to be reversed here with the president's policy or it will blow up his base. this was a straight up promise through his campaign. i might add i told the president, i might market his immigration policy for 14 years and we spent a lot of time in iowa having those debates and discussions. i don't think it's unclear to anybody what those campaign promises were, but it looks to me like he's preparing to keep hillary clinton's promise rather than his own. >> here's what the president says about that wall in a tweet, congressman. the wall which is already under

construction in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences and walls will continue to be built. is that your understanding of what a wall means? >> not at all. it sounds like i had an old jalopy and i was going to buy you a new car and now i will overhaul the jalopy. no, it was a wall and it was a wall all the way, and people are trying to redefine that wall and say it's a virtual wall or a fence, but a wall is a wall and the american people know that. by the way, it is cheap to build a wall in comparison to the good we get out of it, and we need it for a lot of reasons. on top of that, i drilled into this with the administration, and i was trying to identify who the walls are under the trump administration. i can't find that person. i sat down with kelly and i got referrals and answers and i think he's a tremendous great american, but i did not get

insight into the wall. >> just so i understand, meaning you tried to identify who in the administration is for the wall or against the wall or both? >> i am trying to identify who president trump's individual or individuals are who actually have a plan and a strategy that they can explain to me. >> you have not found one? >> pardon me? >> you have not found one of those people. >> i have not found one and i drilled deeply, and i can't get answers. i want to see the plans. i want to see what plans have been approved. they had competition between multiple contractors and approved a small number of contractors to build proet otot, but it's stalled because somebody complained. i want to see here's what we are doing and our plan and the proposals that have come forward and if one person does not have that in their head, there is no

commander of the wall, and i don't know how it's going to get done if you are going to get a trust a committee that is not cohesive and don't know what each other is doing. >> what do you think about the president hatching deals with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi? >> i think it's appropriate for the president to speak to leaders of both parties. i think pelosi and schumer hijacked the message a little bit and the president has to walk it back. >> hold on, you just heard him speak there. he once again reiterated he wants a solution for the 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers, that he just said again, through no fault of their own was brought here. it doesn't sound like -- these are his words. he tweeted as much this morning. it doesn't sound like he's following nancy pelosi's lead. this is how he feels. >> well, and they did walk it back some, but i see your point on that, alisyn, and he said he

and paul ryan and mitch mcconnell agree on d.r.e.a.m.ers, and 92% agree, and i think that's his number, and i remember him using that number when we were discussing the health care. i would say 92% of his base agree with me. we cannot reward law breakers. here's the irony. in '86, ronald reagan led with amnesty, and in 2006, bush 43 led with amnesty. every one of those initiatives failed because the american people know we need enforcement. if you give maamnesty first, an then you get what bush said, you will not have new taxes, read my lips. you have need to have the honor to follow-through and make the

deal if amnesty comes. that doesn't come from me. we were on the cusp until the trump announcement on daca, and now looks like things are going to be going downhill real fast or the republicans will be done for 2018 and 2020. >> if he has a deal to protect the d.r.e.a.m.ers and the old wall that is really refurbishing old fences? >> the base will leave him. they can't support him anymore. i am talking about my constituents in iowa that will say you need to be behind trump. i am. i support his entire agenda.

even though i was cruz' national quo chairman, which cruz dropped out i have been a solid trump all along. i support the agenda trump had when he went into office and i support almost every piece of the agenda except the amnesty piece being dangled, and that's so destructive to a first world country. if you do not have the rule of law or respect for that law, the people writing the immigration laws are the people breaking them. we had a protest here d.r.e.a.m.ers coming up demanding we give them amnesty. what right do law breakers have to make demands from the citizens of the united states of america. if anything, they should be pleading for it and not demanding. >> what does it mean for the republican party?

we heard it described as possible civil war. if you feel as adamantly as you are describing, what does that mean for the future of the republican party? >> i hope we can walk through this without another change in leadership in the way it took place with john boehner. i would remind people, john boehner understood in 2013 that if he brought amnesty to the floor of the house of representatives that would be the end of his speakership, and he didn't bring it to the floor. i believe primarily for that reason. he still lost his speakership over that kind of leadership. so at this point there's a personal loyalty towards paul ryan. i sat and talked with him yesterday and i like him and his word has been good to me, but this is a precarious place to force-feed amnesty when all of history says that's a classical mistake. i would talk to our former

attorney general under ronald reagan. he was there when he encouraged reagan to sign amnesty, and reagan regretted his signature because the american people do have a love and respect for the law. there are d.r.e.a.m.ers that i like a lot, and there's one i would adopt to keep that individual in the united states if that was a good move, and i like him a lot but i love the rule of law, and we can't have a love for law breakers and the rule of law. it's oil and water. a civ a i don't know how it got into the heads of the american people as deeply has it did. yes, there are young people that have been brought in here by their parents due to no fault of their own, and yes, they are

good people. i live in the middle of a very high concentrations of the immigrant populations, and many came in at 14, 15, 16 and 17. i have been there to watch as they came across the borders smuggling drugs into america, and there's not a distinction between the kids i described in the second component and second component with regard to daca law. >> it's always tough when you make these statements, because you are saying there's no distinction between the drug smugglers -- >> no, i am saying no distinction within the daca language out there. they don't differentiate.

>> they say no criminals -- >> well, whoever crossed the border illegally has -- >> if the president did make this deal and then you no longer asport his agenda, and this morning we are seeing headlines on breitbart that are quite critical of a possible deal like this, and we are seeing ann coulter tweet and sean has nnni and what does that mean if he loses his base? >> alisyn, for me, it has never been personal. i supported the president's agenda, and i will say he's a significant part to put those planks in, and if this thing collapses and they rollover the top of me with amnesty and the

rule of law is destroyed and my life's work is tossed over to the side, all the rest of the agenda i believe in i will work to get passed any way the best way we can. >> you would work against the president? how would that look like? >> i want the full 100% repeal of obamacare, and tax reform, and i want to have repatriation of the trillions of dollars stranded overseas because of tax limitations and address the death tax. these are components along the way i am for. it's my legislation sitting on mitch mcconnell's desk, the tort reform for medical malpractice. i just have to come to grips with this is frustrating, and maybe we can save it. whether we can or can't, all of us should be working for the

best agenda that we believe in, and we can't be deciding we are against somebody because of the move they make, and we have to be for the agenda we believe in and against what we oppose. >> congressman steve king we appreciate you coming in and responding to all of the breaking news this morning. we appreciate you calling in. thank you for much for your perspective on this. >> thank you, alisyn. let's bring in dana bash. congressman steve king is always candid about his position and where he stands versus other politicians, and he said how disappointed he is in what appears to be unfolding this morning? >> very disappointed. he made that abundantly clear. i thought about your question about what are the consequences,

and -- i'm summing it up, not much. very telling. yes, he's going to get a lot of guff, which he already is, if he does this deal, but at the end of the deal they are in agreement with a lot of the members of their base on a lot of other issues. for somebody like steve king who is probably the most ardent opponent of any legal status of anybody that came here in an undocumented way as you just heard him express, i will be disappointed but i will work with him on other things is very interesting. he's accepting losing this battle but still standing behind the general, the president, because there are other battles. >> yeah. is that what you heard him say? does steve king and the ann coulter's of the world know what can they do if the president

sides with democrats, and the moderate republicans, they have the numbers. >> yeah, they have the numbers and they know that and that's the whole reason the president -- i am not saying that i believe this is a broad grand strategy. i think it's probably more likely this is the president's impulse. he got kudos for doing the deal and he felt good -- >> he did not make a deal. >> this is something that he knows he has to do and probably has been told without the republican leaders because they need to save face on this and it will be easier to get through. but at the end of the day, it is -- i don't know where steve king got the 92% poll number -- >> well, he was saying -- >> the latest poll i saw was a pew poll this year which was 72%, and it's a popular notion to allow people that came here as children through no fault of their own to stay, and he's

right about that. >> but not with the president's base. >> and he gets it. >> also, it was interesting to hear steve king say, the president just now, when we just heard him leaving on air force one say it's going to be massive border security, and that is different than what his promise was of a big and beautiful wall and steve king is calling that out? >> no question. i want to say according to a poll report, and we were just talking about that on our e-mails, the president as he was making his way to marine one, or air force one, and he was talking to reporters screaming questions about him at the wall, and he said the wall will come later, and the wall will be built and it will be funded later, and that's him saying we are going to do a deal and the wall is not part of it. that's what he is saying. >> thank you.

another big story happening in florida. that's where the president is headed today in the aftermath of irma and that's where chris has been all week. all of these issues will follow him to florida, because they are relevant and certainly this is the most relevant place in the country when it comes to hurricane irma. we have got the mayor of naples and we have a florida congressman, what they want to tell the president what they need here. next. eck it out! self-appendect! oh, that's really attached. that's why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro.

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the president has himself in the center of another political storm. he's on his way to florida to deal with the real storm, the impact of hurricane irma. what is he going to see? what is he going to hear? the mayor of naples joining us. sorry to have you in the time of

need, but it's good to have you. when the president comes to ft. meyers and naples, what does he need to see and hear? >> he needs to feel the pain and disruption we are suffering, so it's a personal experience like he did in texas. i thought he did a great job there and i hope he will convey that same empathy when he comes here today. >> how do you feel what you have seen so far and what it signals about what you think about flori florida? he got heat for it. >> i think he's got a good fema director, and i have talked to him on the phone and he seems to know what he's doing and i will be encouraged we will get the help we need to rebuild our community. >> you need to see his heart to understand where his head will be down the line.

what do people need to understand about what the needs will be here, three, six, nine, 15 months out? >> i think the mayor will address this, too, but people need to be patient and with all the goodwill and effort it takes time to rebuild a community like this, and we need power, life safety, water, suer, et cetera, and work towards the other things. >> how do you keep clear of politics like we saw in sandy? >> i hope we don't go through political mack nations to help take care of florida and texas. >> my team got crushed by 140-mile-per-hour gusts of wind, and it's the meaningless kind of history you won't want to make, and the place looks different a couple days after. how are you doing? >> we had a great plan and it's working. as the congressman said, we just don't want to hear the words,

chris, we want to see the action. i was with director brock yesterday from fema and they said a lot of good things, but show me. show me. >> while i have you on a scope of national issues that will follow the president down here, it's a wall and it's fixing a fence, no, a big wall, and it just sounds like bs. what is your opinion on it, whether it's going to be a big wall line "game of thrones" or what is already there? >> we are not doing that good of job of protecting the borders and the visa system is not enforceable. and most people that came in here came on a visa and stayed past. >> people don't want to hear that. >> i had a business on the rio grande and most of the illegal

crossings, a wall might help. there are areas in arizona and new mexico where the wall could be higher but we need a surveillance strategy to stop the illegal immigration. >> thank you and we will talk about the acute need and bigger problem. >> thank you for being here. >> the prezer leasure is ours. will the presidency the need and respond. cnn "newsroom" with poppy harlow and john berman will pick up on this. stay here with cnn. ♪

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fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites. good morning, everybody. top of the hour. i am poppy harlow in new york, and john berman is in the florida keys. good morning, john. >> down here in big pine key. president trump on his way to florida right now. he will visit the west coast, ft. meyers and enables. we will get to that but first let's get back to poppy for breaking news. the president is working on making his deal-making stripes in spades, if you will. how far is he willing to go to get something big through congress. before he left the white house,