marquez has come across, they're doing fine, they want their loved ones around the country to know. robin redsloth. don vickers and her family, they're okay. including their three dogs. robert brock is okay. his family is in florida. david seaburg, his mom is in mobile, alabama. she evacuated, he stayed there. he's regretting it but he's doing okay. a 92-year-old woman and her daughter, they made it through, the windows are gone. they're probably going to be getting on an ambulance soon. >> a lot of stories that raise concern and a lot still yet to be told. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. the storm is gone, and nothing is left in some parts of the panhandle. cities, towns, total ruin after the hurricane for the history books, blasted ashore there. how do survivors piece their lives back together.

should they do it in the same place? we're going to talk to a survivor in a moment, she lost her home, the school she worked in, the biggest concerns are for her students. she's not losing home, and she'll tell you why. the white house walking a tightrope as the world demands answers on the disappearance of a saudi journalist. there's growing suspicion that the saudi royal court ordered a hit on the reporter. we have new information about the interceptions that are raising more questions tonight. if you missed the mochrie in the oval office today. we have it covered, you're not going to hear what you've been hearing other places. kanye and donald put on their show today. what it really means and what was neglected. and the timing of this all demand attention. what do you say? let's get after it.

the panhandle in florida feeling the pain. after one of the most powerful storms to hit the united states. it just obliterated entire towns. it's so comprehensive and so complete in communities, literally, everything is gone. the rebuilding has to be completely totaling. do you want to be the houses that are still standing or do you want to be the ones that are completely gone? o on the up side, can you get your personal effects back if the home is okay. how long do you have to live with no one around you in this moon scape of destruction? at least six people lost their lives, including a child. listen, those numbers are early, there's so many areas that have yet to be searched. those operations are underway. officials are urging people to stay off the roads. crews are working to clear fallen trees, debris. we have emergency workers

scrambling, 24/7 to try to get it done here. the numbers are huge. a million people, not just people, households don't have power. hospitals had a hard time staying open, many had to shut down. they had to move patients because of heavy damage from the storm. the school decimated in the same area. a teacher from the school joins us now. jadea green-jones is her name. thank god you're doing okay. >> thank you for having me? >> all right, now. your loved ones, the people you care about, those who live around you. is everybody okay? >> everybody is okay. >> thank god for that. you can replace everything else. it will take time and

difficulty. your house, there's nothing left, tell us. >> just basically everything -- all of my diplomas, pictures, family pictures, furniture, it's just -- it's gone. my roof was blown off during the storm. i live in a second floor apartment, and it has vaulted ceilings, and i guess the wind caught the ceilings. a couple of people have told me that a tornado did go through the neighborhood. i have not confirmed that. but something major happens. >> miss jones, insurance? >> i do have renter's insurance. i'm not sure about the scale of the policy, but i'll be checking into that in the days to come. >> now, you're going to have to find a place to live, you're going to have to find a place to work. the school uninhabitable, right? you can't have people living in

there. this is the gym, people have been showing this video again and again. that's the least of the concerns, where the kids are going to play basketball. can the kids go back to the main school? >> i'm not sure about that just yet, i went into town briefly today to go and find my parents home. my home and some close extended family. the streets are so blocked and it's like, you have to navigate so much, i was not able to get to the school today, i'm going to try to go tomorrow. >> have you heard any announcements from those in charge of the school about what they're thinking at this point or not yet? >> i've been in constant contact with my principal, we're just really worried about our students, our staff members and their families. >> now, you told the producer something that is really a little shocking, that some of

your students are survivors of another storm, and they came here to start over again? >> yes. >> tell us about that. >> we have several families who came from the storm in puerto rico, and it was really traumatic for them, not only did they lose everything. they came here to florida to panama city, and things were totally different as far as school goes, family structure. some are here with extended family members. and so they've had some pretty traumatic experiences prior to this storm. >> and now they're living through it again. >> yes. and one of the housing neighborhoods where a lot of them live, i saw videos on facebook, where the buildings were just ripped apart. >> what do you tell yourself in a situation like this. how are you helping motivate your spirit in the aftermath?

>> things can be replaced, lives can't. this is -- when there's a separation factor for educators, you do what you do because you love kids, you love hipping them. as long as you remember why you started teaching, you'll go right back to where you left off, you'll do everything you can to help your families, your students, your community. and you will just make this a lesson. we won't worry about florida standards this year, we'll learn about being resilient and coming back from the ruins. >> that's going to go a lot further in life than a state assessment, that's for sure. that's a lesson that will stay with you for a lifetime. where are you staying in the interim, do you have a place? >> yes, i am staying in my grandmother's home in redhead florida. it's right outside, about 50 miles inland. we just learned, that we

received power back in that community. after that it's my plans to live with my parents until i can just find out where i'm going to go next. >> thank god you have family, j.dia, as we learned, you're going to get back to teaching, the kids are going to need everything. so many people around you are going to need everything. i'm going to make sure the producer has your information. one of the things we have to do as we stay connected. you'll tell us what kids need. you'll find ways who want to help a way to help. god bless, enjoy your family. >> thank you. yes. thank you. >> can you imagine? everything's gone. your home is gone, the place you work, the people you care about, the kids, you don't know how to track them, it's amazing the stories of resilience. other matters tonight, it's hard to outdonald trump and steal the

spotlight away from him in the oval office for sure. but it happened today, when a man named ye showed up. i can't imagine that the president was happy with that reality show. i'm kidding, i know he was really happy with what happened today. he got exactly what he wanted. it's certainly the premise for a great debate. the kanye west-wing train wreck next. who won? who lost?

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you knew it was going to be bizarre, kanye west going to the oval office to meet the president. i didn't think it would get this kind of attention. we shouldn't be focusing on something like this, especially now. it happened. and you have to ask, why did the president take this time and create this kind of spectacle. i'm skeptical, this was a spectacle. what is the net positive and negative to come out of this. it is certainly the premise of a good debate. i can't believe this is what we're going to be debating.

we have nina turner. i was very surprised this happened and was handled this way, including by the media, and i'll deal with that later on, that's not on your plate. but miss turner, the idea that kanye represents the black community and came there to speak truth to power and trump was meeting with a black leader to deal with black issues and this shows his connection to the community, do you accept any of that? >> listen, kanye west has a right to his opinion, he has a right to support whoever he wants to support. but chris, this is really a lack of judgment, empathy, leadership, on president donald trump in the wake of what has happened with hurricane michael, with hundreds and thousands of people suffering across many states, georgia, the carolinas, and then also, we're still dealing with the devastation that happened in puerto rico, and the virgin islands that barely gets an honorable

mention. while kanye west does not represent all of the african-american community. we're not a monolith. this was really a very sad day for this country, because this president needs his ego stroked every single day, and instead of him taking the time to visit these places to talk to the same people that you're talking to tonight, and having empathy for our sisters and brothers in need, he is there having a lovefest with kanye west. you know, there's a right time and a place for everything. and that certainly -- what happened today certainly was not the right time, and that was not the right place. >> now, you and i go way back, you know what it's like to be raised by a legitimate leader of the black community. your father. it's not what kanye west is, and nobody should pretend otherwise, why was this good for african-americans or for trump today? >> i'm going to answer that, but first, chris, let me applaud you for what you did in the last

segment, and even off air, which is extending your hand to help the hurricane victims. that was really decent and that was quite classy on your part. i don't too often to say that about you. >> if i told you once, i told you 100 times. never break the facade of me being emotionally insensitive and callous and calculating. >> to kanye, i think it was an outstanding moment. nina would be right if i had not heard from governor scott, senator marco rubio. she mentioned the virgin islands. the governor and all those politicians have said that the federal government is fully cooperative, and is giving a great deal of help to help these areas and these territories recover. but the kanye west situation is critically important, because there's a rising demographic, we hear in november 2018 and 2020.

how critical the white suburban female vote is. what is often not discussed is the growing and increased popularity among black men for president donald trump and his america first economic policies. that's what kanye's meeting represents. >> basis for that? >> the black male -- >> basis. >> the basis is, if the democrat monopoly, getting 92 to 95 during the obama years, maybe 97% of the black vote is broken and there are polls that suggest that the black approval rating for president trump is anywhere between 20 to 36%, then what you're talking about -- >> who says that? is that in your house, niger? >> no, it's more like 75% in my house. seriously, chris, there are

polls that reflect even -- >> he came up with a poll denouncing trump saying that black women only support him, given an approval rating of 15%. >> nothing about kanye west stands for the black community. nothing kanye west did today was about the black community much more importantly, nothing that president trump did today was about the black community. it was about him and his fragile ego, period. let's talk about the over incarceration of african-american men. the whole -- >> kanye -- >> let's talk about the quality of jobs in this -- >> nina, kanye -- >> the president -- no, it was a distraction. >> hold on, one point at a time. >> it was a distraction and you know it. it was a total distraction to elevate this president and distract in the fact that he's not dealing with what happened in florida, what's happening in georgia, what happened in puerto rico, what happened in the verge ing islands that disproportionately hurt poor

black and brown folks who don't have -- that's what he should have been dealing with, and our poor white sisters and brothers who are struggling in those states hit by hurricane michael. we have a hurricane trump in this country, knocking folks out everywhere he goes. you want to talk about kanye's presence in the white house today helped black people? that's a lie. and it's wrong. >> first of all, kanye addressed the prison crisis. he did it a couple ways. he talked about ending -- he asked the president to end stop and frisk in chicago, to do something about the horrific again side that has been taking place among black men and brown men in chicago during the last decade, before president trump came into office. he talked about doing something like that, and he also talked about the fact that factory jobs, manufacturing jobs. jobs where you don't need five ph.d.s, you can work with your

hands and get go pay and a good salary, and how that's going to affect black men. he also talked about fatherhood, that is an issue that is critical. nina, i think you and i don't agree on a lot. but we would agree that there's a crisis of fatherlessness in the black community and all those things -- you may not like the vehicle, but the issues are very real and very serious. >> the timing, niger. it's one thing that he was at a rally last night during the storm, even though we know what he said about president obama campaigning after hurricane sandy, super storm sandy happened. he was talking about obama even though it was days after the storm, saying it was wrong, he was there during the storm, and then the day after it, he meets with this cartoonish situation. yeah, he was bringing up some issues, but he was rambling a lot in between. and certainly there wasn't the

cogency there you would expect. it was the setup, and the day after the storm. no one has said the federal government hasn't put resources in place. but command climate is a term i was taught today by a veteran. what is trump saying by spending his time doing this while people like j. dia are trying to figure out where they're going to be tomorrow. >> and while you're offering help, chris. the president of the united states could be doing the same thing. and what does it mean that dv you know -- and i'm just not -- in talking about black men like that, to talk about -- there are black men out there who are there in the fight, taking care of their families, we're not about to sit up here and stereotype all black men of america, but just putting on a make america great hat on your head, and talking about how it makes you feel like a superhero, meanwhile, back at the ranch people are suffering in this and the president had the cache as the most bauerful man in the

free world to do something about that, and he got to sit there and get his ego stroked. there's something wrong with that. let's talk about the central park five, since you want to talk about how much this president is doing for black men and brown men in the country. when he sat up there in the newspaper and convicted those teenaged boys who had to go to prison for something they didn't do. no, we're over this foolishness with this president. this is not about kanye. i agree with van jones. if he has issues, we have to deal with that. let's be real about how he could really use his cache to help people. him and this president. >> you're not saying it, but a lot of folks are saying it, because they are terrified about breaking that blackmon openly that exists within the democratic party. if anywhere close to 15 or 20% of the black vote comes out to

support this president, 2020 will be red waves. >> supporting him for what? >> jobs, economy. manufacturing jobs, an america first economic policy that puts america first. >> we have a president that -- >> kanye said, i'm sick of factory jobs going to china. i want them to come to america many. >> we will meet again on this niger. >> i'll tell you this, you make good points, but every time the context of a point you want to make is kanye said, automatically you're losing some points about the context of the conviction that you're bringing. seriously, i appreciate you here every time. miss turner, thank you for being here. >> the trump administration has a growing diplomatic crisis on its hands. the world closely watching how the president is responding or not responding to the disappearance of a saudi journalist that is feared murdered by the hand of the

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we got. >> it's not our country, it's in turkey, and it's not a citizen, as i understand it. but a thing like that shouldn't happen. something like that should not be allowed to happen. something like that should not happen. and we intend to get to the bottom of it. >> he's saying the right things, but the energy there, the tone, it's a little circumspect. curious, let's look at the plus/minus of dealing hard with saudi arabia, which would put a bunch of senators from both parties, who are asking for. trump usually goes further, faster than anyone, in terms of tough talk, he's now saying, go slow. so on the plus side, we have proof of the problem, what, the washington post tonight reporting the turkish government has told the u.s. it has audio and video recordings proving that khashoggi wasn't just messed with in the building. he was murdered there. there's said to be groups with

one source telling the post, can you hear the alleged interrogation, torture and murder. do we know? no, they're going to have to show it. but on the minus side, if the u.s. intelligence had the communications they say they had, which was setting out a plot afoot. the united states also had a duty to warn, there could be push back. if you knew, why didn't you tell him. there's a duty to warn. now, that application aside. what does it lead us to in terms of, what's the good side? well, one of the good sides is this. the saudis need our defense systems, all right? the material and technology that we provide, a unique fashion. that's something you can leverage. that's not how trump sees it, listen. >> i don't like the concept of stopping an investment of $110 billion into the united states, because you know what they're

going to do, they're going to take that money and spend it in russia or china or some place else. >> is that what's on his mind? >> we do use saudi arabia to counter iranian interests. saudi arabia, they're the head of the snake when it comes to terrorism. politics can be complicated when it comes to fighting terror in that part of the world. the u.s. does have a long policy of someone looking the other way, when it comes to a lot that goes on in the saudi kingdom. that may seem more true than ever with this administration. the man in command, they call him mbs. he is on uniquely good terms with the trump administration, specifically, jared kushner, the president's son in law, who has visited mbs several times, including last october. just this past march, kushner played a major role in hosting the crown prince in washington. mbs has done bad things to

opponents, including family. if he's willing to kidnap, torture and cut up one of his own. maybe he and jared kushner are too close. maybe mbs sees the leverage in his favor. i don't know what the relationship is about, i don't know why they're so close, is any of it financial? does mbs know something about business ties that he may feel motivated by and have leverage? why would i speculate that way? trump has done plenty of business with the saudis, and in fact, he's called that business a factor for his forgiveness. >> saudi arabia, and i get along great with all of them. buy apartments from me, they spend 40 million, 50 million. am i supposed to dislike them? i like them very much. >> what if trump laid the groundwork for saying khashoggi

is not a u.s. citizen. maybe he should hear teddy rooseve roosevelt's words. in any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. the worst thing can you do is nothing. it applies here, because doing nothing could send a signal, one that trump is once again playing nice with a potential bad guy, that message could be received by a strong man like mbs as weakness, and that is all but an invitation to do more. so what consequences should be in play, if this was murder by the kingdom? how should the white house respond? we have a ttwo people with a tof experience in the region.

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i wish i had some good news for you. but the more we learn about this khashoggi situation it gets worse. the u.s. state department could only say that it has no information about where he is. here's a listen. >> we are all concerned about his whereabouts. we don't have any information on his whereabouts right now. or what happened to him. >> why not, when you're so tight with the saudis and the ruling families and mbs himself. as the u.s. dives into an investigation with turkey and saudi arabia, where does that leave us. what happens if it all winds up

being true? we have two people that understand the politics and the potential here. thad troy. extensive experience working in turkey. he's with robert jordan, a former u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia. gentlemen, thank you very much. i wish it were under different circumstances. let's start with, do you trust turkey's information on this? >> first, chris, thanks for having me on. and i want to say, i've read the washington post reports and absolutely, it's very, very possible, plausible that the turks do have video and audio on what happened in the saudi consulate. one thing i always said, let's not underestimate the capabilities of the turkish services. the turks, they spy on friends, they spy on enemies, right now, the saudis are very much at the

bottom of that pile, almost surely the turks would attempt to collect intelligence on the saudis, they could very well have a bug in the consulate. they could have activated a phone, i don't know what they've done, it's extremely believable to me that the turks do have this. >> what's the chance they're setting us up to pit the u.s. against the saudis? >> i think there's -- the turks are very smart, don't forget the turks have that capability, they could be doing that, they could also be playing us in terms of the -- maybe they don't have it. from what i know of the turks, they do have this capability, i'm almost sure they probably do, they will play us against each other, there's no question. >> on the other side, to do this, this is a really dirty deed here. what do we know about mbs, this type of blood lust in him, and the chances that they would want someone like khashoggi, when looking at his pieces, critical, yes, not really that different

from a lot of people that write about saudi arabia, what's your take? >> i think we have to look at the pattern that this crown prince, aged 33 has said over the last two years. this is the same crown prince that a year ago imprisoned many of his cousins, uncles and others in the ritz-carlton. shook them down for $100 billion in money. this is the same crown prince who's waging what may well be an illegal war in yemen. he's the same crown prince who imprisoned the prime minister of lebanon briefly. and he's the same crown prince who was so anxious to have an ipo for part of aramko he didn't think it through enough. and that has crashed and burned. he owns every major policy decision in saudi arabia in the last two years, every one of them has turned out to be a failure. i think this person is capable

of having ordered what appears to have occurred. i think it is an international scandal that requires the strongest response, not just from the u.s., but from the international community. >> we're not getting the strongest trump, and i'm all for measure. approaches from a president, especially with these types of -- >> we're not used to seeing them, it raises the question of what the recommendtive pressure points are here. trump having done a lot of business with the saudis. does that work in our favor? or does it make trump vulnerable to this man? >> there's nothing wrong with personal diplomacy, but personal diplomacy is not to be used when times are rosie, it's also to be used when there's a crisis, which is what this is now. i think the idea had been that with mbs and kushner, they would figure out a way to ram down the

palestinians throat a peace program for the middle east with israelis. that has not played out quite in the same way they had envisioned. but i think this was part of their game on trump's, one of his major foreign policy objectives, so that is not happening. i think probably mbs felt emboldened, both from kushner's visit last october after which, of course, he then made this big play at the ritz-carlton against royal family members. i think he feels emboldened right now, and probably is calculating that this administration will turn the other way. >> it's interesting to hear the president say, the guy's not an american, he lived here, that was an interesting equivocation there. he's right, but -- >> he's a legal resident of the u.s. >> and he was applying for permanent residency here.

he works for the washington post. even if he was none of those things. if you have words that someone's planning to kidnap, seriously injure or kill anybody, there's an intel directive you're supposed to warn them. now, what -- how do we find out what happened here, in terms of when the u.s. intelligence lorened this about khashoggi and what if anything they did to warn him. >> i haven't seen the intelligence to base the duty to warn on. the duty to warn is a serious issue especially with the intelligence community. it's usually debated, discussed, it depends on what the intelligence said. if there was some intelligence that indicates he was under threat in one way or another, i think there would have been a duty to warn. whether he was warned again or not, i don't know. >> what's your best sense of why trump's playing it this way? >> i think first of all, he wants to be sure that the facts are correct.

we have to bear in mind as you said earlier, that turkey and saudi have a great deal of animosity toward each other. the turks would love to stick it to the saudis, and so you got to be sure that this intelligence is accurate, that it can be confirmed and i think our investigates on the ground ought to be able to do that within the next two days. perhaps he's trying to play it carefully on that. secondly, i do think there's probably something going on with the saudis in terms of personal relationships and maybe other kinds of relationships that may temper the response but whatever it is, it's a very subdued response at a time when he needs to be standing up, i think for decency in the international community. for holding the saudis accountable if this hasn't indeed occurred. and hopefully over the next couple days, this will clarify. >> well, ambassador jorden, you're not the only one saying that, a bunch of senators signed a letter saying the same thing.

theyen watt to invoke the magnitsky act. it has a back end of harsh sanctions. we'll have you back as we learn more. >> that is exactly right. >> thank you very much. when they go low, we go high. do you remember that catchy mantra from michelle obama. it is as true today as when she said it in 2016. two key members of her husband's administration have been openly challenging that call for civility ahead of next month's elections. the former first lady now, the former attorney general. are they going high? next.

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democrats to be as tough as they are. to be as dedicated as they are. to be as committed as they are. michelle says, when they go low, we go high. no, no. when they go low, we kick them. >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. that's what i believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and/or the senate, that's when civility can start again. >> what does michelle obama think about all of this? >> what would you say now about your motto, do you think it still stands? >> absolutely. fear is not a proper motivator. hope wins out. >> earlier today, eric holder clarified his comments, tweeting, he only meant that democrats need to be tough. proud. stand unfor the values they believe in. what does don lemon have to say

about this? >> it was nice to see the former first lady, i just happen to know her from chicago. every time i see her, she says, are you staying out of trouble? i say, no, mrs. obama. when i saw eric holder i never thought he meant physically kick someone. all of this stuff they're using is to capitalize on it politically. of course he didn't mean kick people. he's a former attorney general. so i think, you know. yeah, you have to fight fire with fire. and i think that in this climate, especially with, if you were going to fight -- it doesn't matter, if you're a democrat and you're going to go up against trump, you have to be a fighter or he's just going to roll right over you. >> i hear you. >> and if you look at the folks from washington right now. they're doing whatever he wants, so you got to fight, but -- and civility, by the former secretary of state saying,

civility, i don't think she means physically, i think she means in your rhetoric, and talking -- >> yeah, look, i get it, i just don't buy it, you know how i feel about this, when it comes to politics. fight fire with fire. >> i think you fight fire with that's what puts fire out. and when they're coming at you, it happens on my show all the time, when somebody is coming at me hot, i see it as weakness, insults means people have nothing to offer. people get tired of ugly and nasty. they do. but you have to have something fire. you want to fight fire with fire -- >> chris, that is so five years ago. i'm sorry. don't you see how they do it when they have wildfires? they use fire to fight fire. that whole thing about they go low, we go high, i love the former first lady, i love all the first ladies, but i think democrats have learned that in

this last election by being nice, playing by the rules -- i'm not saying that's why they lost. this didn't help them. >> but i'm saying, that's not why they lost. don't be what you disrespect. >> i don't think anybody's saying that. >> that's what it sounds like to me. >> no, i just think if you're going to be -- look, if you're going to be fight somebody, right, don't you want to be tough if you're in a fight? who wants to be in a fight and weak? >> listen, if i'm in a real fight, i destroy them. i don't fight, i maim, i ruin. i'm talking about politics and argument and convincing yourself that you're the better choice. >> that's what happened earlier in your office when i put you in a headlock. >> the only time you'll fight me is if we have candy. you have a lot coming up in your show. i beat him every time.

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closing argument. no surprise, the subject is the mockery at the white house today, a travesty inside of a sham inside a mockery. no, i didn't make it up, but i love it. it's an apt description of the donald and kanye show. my argument isn't about mocking. it's about compassion, credibility, and timing for all three major parties in this. three? who is the third? the media. take a look at the faphalanx of photographers. why give it all this hype, why fan the flames of the foolish? it's not okay for two big reasons. first, how is it okay to put kanye on display like this? he's no elected or appointed leader of anybody on this planet. is he popular? yes, for his music, not his

politics. his personal history reads more as a rationale for keeping him from something like this, not indulging him. it is not a given that he is of sound mind and body. put politics aside. this comes from a place of compassion. multiple reports, his own statements all make clear that he has struggled and admitted diagnoses for personal mental health issues. while he raised legit issues of jobs and inner city concerns, when you hear the disassociative ramblings of a man one prized for his education, there's something wrong there. making the decision to put him in this position falls on trump. because he knows or has reason to know what i just told you. clearly his sensitivity is triggered by other concerns. attention, praise, and some jaundiced notion of how to get black approval above the pathetic 10% it tends to track at for him. i watched this, not marveling at

what came out of kanye's mouth. i told you what i think is going on with him. i know people are obsessing about it and frankly i don't think it's kind or warranted given what i believe about him. so there's nothing new there. but listen to this. >> trump is on his hero's journey right now. and he might not have expected to have a crazy mother [ bleep ] like kanye west run up and support. >> jim brown is giving him the side eye. i can't believe he had to sit through that. my mind went to what is going on in trump's head. let's take a look at him. here is my educated guess, okay? other than a warm serotonin flush of happy hormone, imaginary headlines, black loves trump, he's blacker than obama. then came this. >> there was something about when i put this hat on, it made me feel like super man. you made a super man. that's my favorite superhero. you made a super man cape for

me. >> i certainly agree this is a cartoonish situation. but look at trump here. yeah, superman, i can do anything, i can save people. i wonder if images of hurricane michael came into his head, the people who do need saying. and here he is doing this. he was at a rally when the storm was going on in pennsylvania and now he's with kanye west as people plod through the ruins of their former life. do you remember the episode of "superman" where he does bs with lex luthor instead of saving people in trouble? me neither. >> i love this guy right here. let me give this guy a hug right here. i love this guy right here. >> click, click, click. unqualified and untethered adulation.

listen, i'm fine with the president getting praise when deserved. this is not that. this is manufactured. it's media motivated. it's a travisha mockery. it's truly messed up priorities. the president does not need fake praise while we have real problems. you have a million without power in six states. you have communities in ruin. and trump found a way to go lower than even his bounty bank shots that i shot in puerto rico. thousands of people under his command are busting their asses to rescue and recover and feed and connect. and instead of faking praise for himself, why didn't he give those men and women and the thousands their helping the real praise and attention they deserve? that's what a president does. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now. >> you know why? me, me, me, me, me.

it's all about him. that's it. this office, the presidency, is bigger than yourself. >> by definition. >> yeah, but this president just doesn't get that. and i'm not just slamming thhim that is the truth. we've seen the same thing time and time and time again. i'm going to talk about this in a little bit, but you remember when common visited the white house, common, the most benign, one of the most benign -- and i don't mean that in a negative way, he's not a gangsta rapper. he's a spoken word poet. he visited the white house, did a great job, didn't disparage anybody. you know what they said? oh, my gosh, i can't believe, this is not a great signal for our kids and you shouldn't be doing this. he never said "m-f" in the oval office. the