she evacuated. he stayed. he's regretting it but doing okay. cofield and her 92 year-old mom they made it through. her house and windows are gone. her mother is in a wheelchair. they're okay. they'll get on an ambulance soon. want news continues. with cuomo "prime time." >> a lot still yet to be told. thank you for the coverage. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." the storm is gone. nothing is left in some parts of the panhandle. some cities, towns, total ruin after the hurricane for the history books blasted ashore. how do survivors piece their lives back together? should they do in the same place. we'll talk to a survivor. she lost her home. the school she worked in. her big concern is for her students. she's not losing hope. white house walking a tight rope as lt worlds demands answers on

the disappearance of a saudi journalist. there's suspicion the saudi royalist ordered a hit. did u.s. intelligence know about the plot? did they have a duty to inform. did they do so. we have new answers. if you missed the oval office today. we have it covered. kanye and donald put on their show. today. but 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. all right. tonight the panhandle down 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 docomprehensive. everything is gone.

the rebuilding has to be almost completely total. i often ask myself on the ground with people in the situations, do you want to be the house that is are still standing? or want to be the ones that are gone? on the upside you get your personal belongings back. but then how long do you have to live with no one around you in the moon scape of destruction. six people lost their lives including a child. those numbers are early. there are so many areas that have yet to be searched. those operations are under way. officials urge people to stay off the roads. the roads that are passable. crews are working to clear fallen trees and debris. you have emergency workers scrambling 24/7 to try to get it done. the job is huge. over a million people don't have power. not just people. households. multiple people. six different states. hospitals. had a hard time staying open. many had to shut down. they had to move patients

because of heavy damage. now what? take a look at the video. the school, decimated in the same area. a teacher from the school joins us now. jade green is her name. thank you for joining us. thank god you are okay. >> thank you for having me. >> all right. you're 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 gone. my roof was blown off. during the storm.

i live in a second floor apartment and it has vaulted ceilings. 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 happened. >> miss jones, insurance policy? >> i do have renters insurance. i'm not sure about want scale of the policy. but i'll be checking into that in a days to come. >> now, you'll have to find a place to live. and find a place to work. the school uninhabitable. you can't have people living this there. you have to work there. this is the gym. people have been showing this video. that's the least of the concern. about where the kids will 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 tomorrow. >> have you heard announcements from those in charge of the school? >> i have been in constant contact with my principal. we're really worried about our students. our staff members. and their families. >> you told the producer something that is really a little shocking. that some of your students are survivors of another storm. and came here to start over again. 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. family structure. some are here with extended family members and so they have had traumatic experiences prior to this storm. >> now they're living through it again. >> yes one of the housing neighborhoods where a lot of them lived i saw video on facebook where the billion buildings were ripped apart. >> so, what do you tell yourself in a situation like this? how you're helping motivate your spirit in the after math? >> things can be replaced. lives can't. but this is when there's a separation factor. for educators. you do what you do because you love kids and helping them. so as long as you remember why you started teaching, you'll go back to where you left off.

you'll do everything you can to help the family and students. your community. and you will just make this a lesson. we won't worry about florida standard assessments this year. we'll learn about being resilient. >> that will go further in life than a state assessment. that will stay with you for a lifetime. where are you staying in the interim? >> yes. i'm staying in my grandmother's home. in a small place called redhead, florida. it's about 50 miles inland. and we just learned while i was sitting here that we received power in that community. after that, it's my plan to live with my parents. until i can just find out where i'll go next. >> thang god you have family. as we move forward as we learn in wilmington and all the time in the situations.

you'll get back to teaching. the kids will need everything. i'll make sure the producer has your information so you can get to me and let me know. one of the things we have to do is connect is remember the need as you fwo forward. come us to and tell us what you need and we'll find ways to get the people who want to help a way to help. god bless. good luck. and enjoy your family. >> yes. thank you. >> all right. can you imagine? everything 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. it's hard to out trump trump and steel the spotlight. it happened today. when ye showed up. i can't imagine that the president was happy with that reality show. i'm kidding. i know it's ye and he was really happy. with what happened today. the president was.

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you knew it was going to be bizarre. kanye west going to the office to meet the president in the white house. i didn't think it would get this kind of attention. you can make the argument we shouldn't be focusing on this especially now. but it happened. and you have to ask why did the president take this time and create this kind of spectacle? this was -- what is the net positive and negative to come out of this? it's certainly the premise of a good debate. what do you say? i can't believe this is what we're debating. it needs to be. we have nina turner and niger innis. i was very surprised this happened and was handled this way. including by the media. 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 the connection to the community. do you accept that? >> no. it was not on display. kanye west has a right to opinion and support whoever he wants to support. chris, this is really a lack of judgment, empathy, leadership. on president donald trump. in the wake of what happened with hurricane michael. with hundreds and thousands of people suffering across many states. georgia the carolinas. and also we're dealing with the devastation that happened in puerto rico and the virgin islands. kanye west doesn't represent all of the african american community. we're treated like that by many politicians. that was a really very sad day for the country. this president needs his ego-stroked every single day. and instead of him taking time

to visit the places to talk to same people that you're talking to tonight and having empathy for our sisters and brothers in need, he is there having a love fest with kanye west. there's a right time and place for everything. that certainly what happened today certainly was not the right time and not the right place. >> now we go way back. people know you know what it's like to be raised by a legitimate leader of the black kbhunt community. your father. that's not what kanye west is. nobody should pretend otherwise. why was this good for african americans or trump? >> i'll answer that. first, let me applaud you for what you did in the last segment and off air. extending your hand to help the hurricane victims. that was decent. and that was quite class si on your part. now the opportunity to say that about you. you hit it out of the park. >> if toild you once i told you

one hundred times. never break the facade of me being emotionally -- >> it was an out standing moment. nina would be right if i hadn't heard from governor scott, senator rubio. she mentioning the virgin islands. i have roots. my father is from st. croix. the federal government is fully cooperating and giving a great deal of help. to help the areas and the territories recover. the kanye west situation is critically important. because there's a rising demographic. we hear in november 2018 and 20 how critical the white female vote is. what is not discussed is the growing and increase popularity among black men for a president trump. and his america first economic

policy. >> basis? >> that's what the meeting represents. >> basis? niger. basis for that. the black male swing vote. >> 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 trump is 20 to 36%. >> who says that? >> is that in your house? >> no. it's more like 75% in my house. but seriously. there are polls that reflect even -- >> denouncing trumpb saying that black women only support him of 15%. >> nothing kanye west did today was about the black community. nothing kanye west did today was

about the black community. more importantly nothing that president trump did today was about the black community. it was about him kp his fragile ego. period. let's talk about the over incarceration of african american men. the homeless rate. the quality of jobs in this country. if the president -- >> hold on. one point at a time. >> it was a distraction. you know it. it was a total distraction to elevate this president. and to distracts from the fact he's not dealing with what happened in florida. what's happened in georgia. what happened in puerto rico. what happened in the virgin islands. that disproportionately hurt poor black and brown folks. who don't have. that's what he should have been dealing with. poor white sisters and brothers who are struggling in the states hit by hurricane michael. we have a hurricane trump in this country. knocking folks out everywhere we go.

you want to talk about the kanye west presence in the oval office helped black people? that's a damn lie. flat out. and it's wrong. >> first of all, kanye addressed the prison crisis. he did it a couple ways. he talked about ending stop and frisk in chicago. do something about the horrific genocide that has been taking place among black men. and brown men. in chicago. during the last decade. before president trump even came into office. he talked about doing something about that. and talked about the fact that factory jobs. manufacturing jobs. jobs where you don't need five degrees. you can work with your hand and get a good pay and how that is going to affect black men. he talked about fatherhood. that is an issue that is critical. i think you and i don't agree on a lot. we agree there's a crisis of fatherlessness in the black

community. and all those were addressed. you may not like the vehicle. but the issues are serious. >> and timing. today. it's one thing to be at a rally during the storl. we know what he said about president obama campaigning after 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 the day after it, he meets with this cartoonish situation with kanye west? he was bringing up some issues. but he was rambling in between. and there wasn't the coagency you expect to be handled with that issues. it's not an insult. it's a reflection of the set up it was. and the day after the storm. nobody is saying the federal government hasn't put resources in place. but command climate is a term i was taught today by a veteran. the command climate.

what is he saying doing this while people like the teacher we had on are trying to figure out where they're beginning to be tomorrow? >> while you're offering help, the president of the united states could be doing the same thing. talking about black men like that to talk about there are black men out there who are there in the fight. taking care of families. we won't stereo type all black men of america. just putting on a make america great hat again on your head and talking about how it makes you feel like a super-hero. meanwhile back at the ranch, people are suffering in this country in the president has the cash shea as the most powerful man in the free world to do something about it. he got to sit there and get his ego stroked. there's something wrong with that. let's talk about the central park five. when he sit up there and convicted in the newspaper the teenage boys.

that had to go to prison for something they didn't do. so we're over this foolishness with this president. it's not about kanye. i agree with van jones. if he has issues we have to deal with that. he has free speech. let's be real about how he can really use his cachet to help people. >> you're not saying it. but a lot of folk are saying it. because they are terrified at breaking that black monopoly that exists within the democratic party. they know if anywhere close to 20% of the black vote comes out and in support of the president, 2018 and 2020 will be red waves. >> support him for what is this. >> jobs. economy. entrepreneur ship. manufacturing. america first economic policy. that puts america first. >> the president did tax cuts. >> i'm sick of factory jobs

going to china. i want them to come to america. >> we will meet again on this. >> i look forward to it. >> you make good points. every time the context of a point you want to make is kanye said dot dot dot. you're losing some points about the context of the conviction that you're bringing. i appreciate you here every time. always a pleasure. the trump administration has a growing diplomatic crisis on its hands. the world 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 saudi royal kingdom. the question is did a prince embraced by the president and his son-in-law order a hit? this is complex. i'll lay it out to you in terms of the plus minus of going after saudi arabia for this. next.

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the man who vanished over a week ago after he walked through the doors of the saudi arabia consulate in turkey. why should it matter? this is about human rights. tast no brainer. the leader of free world the president of the united states should condemn this. instead here's what we got. >> it's not our country. it's in turkey. it's not a citizen. as i understand it. but a thing like that shouldn't happen. it a reporter with the "washington post." and it's something that like shouldn't be allowed to happen. something like that shouldn't happen. and we enten to get to the bottom of it. >> all right. he's saying the right things. the energy the tone. curious. so let's look at the plus minus of dealing hard with saudi arabia. which is what a bunch of senators from both parties are asking for while trump who as we know usual will goes further faster than anyone in terms of tough talk. is saying go slow. so, on the plus side, we have

proof of the problem. what? the "washington post" tonight reporting the turkish government 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 gruesome with one source telling the post you can hear the alleged interrogation. torture. and murder. do we know? they have to show it. on the minus side, if the u.s. intelligence had the communique they say they had. there was a plot afoot. not the murder we're hearing about now. the united states also had a duty to warn. and could be push back. if you knew how come you didn't tell him? all right. that obligation aside, what does it lead us to in terms of what's the good side? all right, one of the good sides is this. the saudis need our defense systems. le material and technology we

provide. that's something that you can leverage. but that's not how trump sees it. >> i don't like the concept of stopping and investment of $110 billion in to the united states. because they'll take the money and spend it in russia or china. or somewhere else. >> is that what's on his mind? money. we use saudi arabia to counter iranian influence. i know critics say saudi arabia? they're the head of the snake when it comes to terrorism. politics get complicated. the u.s. does have a long policy of somewhat looking the other way when it comes to a lot that goes on in the saudi kingdom. the plus, the man in command mohammed bin salman. he is on uniquely good terms with the trump administration. specifically jared kushner. who is personally visited him

several times including unannounced trip last october. just this past march kushner played a major role in hosting the crowned prince in washington. what's the minus? he's done bad things to opponents including family. if he's willing to capture, kill and account off one of his own. he may not be looking to fold because hee friend with you. 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 it financial? does mbs know something about business ties that he may feel motivated by and have leverage? why would i speculate. trump has done plen it of business with the saudis and called that business a factor for his forgiveness and like of them. listen. >> saudi arabia and i get along great with them. they buy apartments from me.

they spend 40 million. i like them very much. >> what if trump decides to do nothing. and laid ground work that pointing out that khashoggi is not a u.s. citizen. trump supporters compare him to teddy roosevelts. heed his words. the best thing you can do is the right thing. the next bes thing is the wrong thing. the worst thing you can do is nothing. it aplies here because doing nothing could send a signal. trump is playing nice with a potential bad guy. that could be received by a strong man by mbs as weakness. that's an invitation to do more. what consequences should be in play if this was murder by the kingdom? how should the white house respond. we have two people with a ton of experience in the region sharing insight, next. t from national... it's kind of like playing your own version of best ball.

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was murdered inside the consulate. the u.s. state department could only say 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 family and mbs himself. the u.s. dives into an investigation with turkey and saudi arabia. where does that leave us? what is this really about. what happens if it's true. we have two people who understand the politics and the potential. a former senior cia officer with expeerps working in tur dee. along with robert jordan. former u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia. author of desert diplomat. inside saudi arabia following ni 9/11.

>> let's start with do you trust turkey's information on this. >> thanks for having me on. i want to say i have read the "washington post" report. absolutely it's very plausible the turks have video and audio on what happened inside. one thing i said is never under estimate the turkish services. they're extremely good. and turks spy on friends and enemies. right now the saudis are at the bottom of the 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. but it's extremely believable to me they have this. >> quick follow. what's the chance they're setting us up to put the u.s. against the saudis? >> the turks are very smart. don't forget they have the capability. they could be doing that.

they could be playing us. from what i know, they have the capability and 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. what do we know about mohammed bin salman. this blood lust in him and the chance they would want someone like khashoggi who critical yes, but not really that different from a lot of other people who write about saudi arabia. what's your take? >> i think we have to look at the pattern that this crowned prince age 33, has set over the last two years. this is a same crown prince that a year ago imprisoned many of his cousins and uncles and others in the ritz karl ton. shook them down for $100 billion in money. this is the same prince who is

waging what may well be an illegal war in yemen. the same crowned prince who imprisoned the prime minister of lebanon briefly. and he's the same crowned prince who was so anxious to have an ipo he didn't think it through enough and that crashed and burned. he owns every major policy decision made in saudi arabia in the last two years. and every one of them 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. i'm all for measure. approaches from a president especially with this. we're not used to seeing them. it raises the question, what the relative pressure points are

here. trump having done a lot of business with the saudis. jared kushner close with the guy like mbs. does that work in our favor? or make him vulnerable to this man. >> there's nothing wrong with personal diplomacy. but it's not to be used simply when times are rosy. it's to be used when there's a crisis. which is what this is. 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 israel. that has not played out quite in the same way they envisioned. but i think this was part of the game. on trumps one of his major foreign policy objects. that is not happening. i think probably mbs felt em boldened from kushner visit last

october. after which of course he then made this big play at the ritz. against the political and royal family members. he feels bold right now. and probably calculating that this administration will turn the other way. >> it's interesting to hear the president say the guy is not american. he lives here. that was an interesting equivocation there. he's right. >> he's a legal resident. of the u.s. >> he was applying for residency here and works for the "washington post." if you have word through the intelligence business that someone is planning to kidnap seriously injure, or kill anybody. there's an intel directive you are supposed to warn them. how do we find out what happened here? in terms of when the u.s. intelligence learned this about khashoggi and what if anything they did to warn him. >> i haven't seen the intelligence. as to base the duty to warn. the duty to warn is a serious

issue. certainly within the intelligence community. i have been through this. it's debated ask discussed. it depends on what the intelligence said. if there was intelligence that indicated he was under threat and could have been harmed. i think there would have been a duty to warn. whether or not he was, i don't know. there is the duty to warn. >> what's your best sense of why trump 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 towards each other. the turks would love to stick it to the saudis. you have to be sure the intelligence is accurate. it can be confirmed. and our investigators on the ground ought to be able to do that within two days. so perhaps he's trying to play it carefully on that. secondly i think there's probably something going on with the saudis in terms of personal

relationships and other kinds. that may temper the response. whatever it is, it's a very subdued response. at a time when he needs to be standing up. for decency and international community. for holding the saudis accountable if this has occurred. and hopefully over the next couple days this will clarify. >> ambassador jordan, you're not the only wup saying that. senators signed a letter saying the same thing. they want to invoke the magnitsky act. we'll have you back as we learn more. >> thank you. appreciate the perspective. >> when they go low we go high. remember that? from michelle obama. it is true as much today as ever. when she was saying it in 2016. however, two key members of her

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all right. i always say disagree with decency. this is what the show is trying to make more common. high profile democrats don't seem to agree. >> it is time for us as democrats to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, committed as they are. >> michelle says when they go low, we go high. 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 why i believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and or the senate, that's when civility can start again. >> what is michelle o think about this? >> what would you say now about your motto. does it still stand? >> absolutely.

fear is not a proper motivator. hope wins out. >> earlier today eric holder clarified comments. tweeting he meant that democrats need to be tough. proud. stand up for the value ts they believe in. what does don lemon say about this? >> i say it was nice to see the former first lady. i had just happened to know her from chicago. every time she says are you staying out of trouble? i say no. >> speaking of people who go low. >> it's all true. when i saw eric holder i never thought he meant physically kick someone. it's to capitalize on a politically. of course he didn't mean kick people. he's a former attorney general. so i think yeah, you have to fight fire with fire. and i think that in this climate especially with if you're going to fight against -- it doesn't matter. if he's in the white house or whoever. if you're a democrat and you're

going up against trump. you have to be a fighter or he'll roll right over you. >> i hear you. >> the folks in washington now, they're doing whatever he wants. so you have to fight. civility by the former secretary of state saying civility. i don't think she means physically. she means in your rhetoric. and talking. >> i get it. i just don't buy it. you know how i feel about this. fight fire with fire. i think you fight fire with water. that's puts fire out. >> well. >> when they're coming at you. when somebody is coming at me hot i see it as weak rns. insults as them not having anything to offer. people get tired of ugly and nasty. they do. you have to have something better. you want to fight fire with fire. >> that was so five years ago. that doesn't work now.

they have wild fires they use fire to fight fire. i'm just saying. that whole thing about -- i love the first lady. but i think democrats have learned that in this last election, by being i'm not saying that's why they lost. it didn't help them. that's it. >> but that's not why they lost. don't be what you disrespect. don't be what you disreexpect. >> i don't think anybody is saying that. >> that's what it sounds like to me. >> no, i think -- look, if you're going to 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. there's no fight about it, i don't fight. i maim, i ruin. that's what i do. i'm talking about politics and argument and convincing people you're the better choice. >> that's what happened earlier when you were crying in your

office when i cornered you and put you in a head lock. >> feeling is not weakness. the only time you fight me is if i have candy. i'll talk to you later, don lemon aefrmt hey, we have a lot coming up on the show. >> what do you have? >> we'll talk. let's talk at the top of the hour. >> all right, see you. >> i beat him every time. while hurricane michael was crushing parts of the panhandle yesterday, we know where the president was. he chose to hold a rally to entertain his fans. all right. that's the past. but he didn't adjust. the priorities didn't change. let's hope he doesn't forget those in need with his attention and his focus. but what did he choose today and what does it moon fean for us? next. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel

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closing argument, no surprise the subject is the travelish mockery at the white house. that is a travesty inside of a sham inside of a mockery. no, i didn't make it up, but i love it. that is an apt description of the donald and kanye show. but my argument isn't merely mocking, all right. this is about compassion, credibility, and timing for all three major parties in this. three, who is the third? the media. take a look at the phalanx of photographers. is this a summit, are they launching an initiative for inner city education grants? no, why give it all this hype? why fan the flames of the foolish? and it's not okay what happened here for two big reasons. first, how is it okay to put kanye on display like? he's no elected or appointed or recognized leader of any community 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 than indulging him. his wife sizes up bert as an advocate and that's all an appraisal, assuming he's of sound, mind and body and that is not a given. let's put politics aside. this comes from a place of compassion. multiple reports, his own statements, it all makes clear that he has struggled and admitted diagnoses for personal mental health issues. and while he raised legit issues of jobs and inner city concerns, when you hear the disassociative ramblings of a man once prized for his intellect and education, there is something wrong there. and making the decision to put him in this position, that falls on trump, because he knows or has reason to know what i just told you. but clearly, his sensitivity is triggered by other concerns, attention, praise, and some jaundiced notion of how to get black approval above the

pathetic 10% that tends to track for him. now, i watched this, not marveling at what came out of kanye's mouth. i told you what i think is going on with him. people are obsessing about it and frankly i don't think it's kind or it's warranted given what i believe about him. so, there is 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 [ bleep ] like kanye west run up and support. >> jim brown giving him the side eye. can't believe he had to sit through that. my curiosity wasn't out of what came out of kanye's mouth. my wonder was what was going on in trump's head. let's take a look at him. here's my educated guess, okay. other than a warm serotonin flush of happy hormone, imaginary headlines, blacks love trump. he's blacker than obama, then came this. >> it was something about when i put this hat on, it made me feel like superman.

you made a superman -- that's my favorite superhero and you made a superman cape for me. >> i certainly agree this is a cartoonish situation, but look at trump here yet again. yeah, superman, sure i am. i can do anything. i can save people. i wonder if images of hurricane michael came into his head then. the people that do need saving, 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, when he does that b.s. kiss-up session with lex luther instead of sachltiving people? me either. they do what's right in the right moment. did the thought enter his mind about how those people would feel about his use of his time? and they be the moment that probably mattered most. >> i love this guy right here. let me give this guy a hug. i love this guy right here.

>> click, 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 travishamockery. and truly messed up priorities. the president does not need fake praise when 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 he shot in puerto rico. thousands of people under his command are busting their arss to rescue and recover to feed and connect, instead of faking praise for himself, why didn't he give those men and women and the thousands there 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, me. it's all about him. >> that's it. >> you've got to be -- this office, the presidency is bigger than yourself. and this -- >> by definition. >> yaw, but this president just doesn't get this. i'm not slamming him. that is the truth. we've seen the same thing time and time and time again. why would you -- i'm going to talk about this in a little bit. but you remember, remember when common visited the white house? >> uh-huh. >> common, one of the most benign rapers. yonl that in a negative way. he's not a gangster rapper. he's a spoken word, he's a poet. >> right. >> 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. this is such hypocrisy, these same people