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Before, washington new york, seen through a different prism. does the scorecard a little differently perhaps in middle america in arizona? what did you see tonight? does this work for him? >> it does and it doesnt. he played all his greatest hits. obviously the crowd waited outside, he filled the place, 19,000 people. the base is still there. they want to see the show he puts on. but to katies point, he started off with these unifying scenes. but then he goes off track, re-litigating charlottesv...

Leave or get tear gassed, if you will. they have been taking some people throwing things at police officers. were getting from the local affiliate. we just saw a local affiliate reporter with his own gas mask on preparing to cover this. lets keep talking about this event. one thing the president did hear is in the only the media bashing and we heard that before and deployed his own political success but went after and mentioned some groups like antifa. at one point he screamed antifa and said th...

Converting anybody. >> bret: does the media bashing work? >> yeah, it always has for him. it went so far as to almost think its becoming dangerous. he should go as far as he did. he went pretty far today. one of the other things that was interesting tonight i thought he was about to call an audible -- i could see john kelly in the back going no, no. he started winding up on joe arpaio. he basically said the arpaio, youre going to have a nice christmas because a part is coming down. a pardon is c...

Anywhere. you know, thats why president trump is going to focus more on hot button issues like immigration and building the wall, and kind of media bashing like you saw yesterday. i would expect that he would continue to do more of that going forward to shore up his base. he is clearly worried that he may lose part of his base. you saw kellyanne conway a few days ago saying, you know, the presidents approval rating needs to, you know, go up. >> its interesting, though, that when the poll numbers...

Politics being on message, message discipline, sticking to the script whatever you want to call it, he equates that with boring and equates boring with sort of death, political death. >> he has come up and he thinks it is all ratings and what covers you get. he came up and mastered the press of new york. but the tabloid press, new york daily news and new york post. always craved the "new york times" as attention and for them to take him seriously. and he is going out and every off base tweet tha...

There was no oh, the media bashing saying the media is making this a big deal, that i really appreciate him, that i stand by him. hesse press shop and communications staff said that president trump stands by jeff sessions, in reality, the president who has always been his best messenger, always the person with the final word on many things, he is saying that he doesnt know whats going to come of jeff sessions. that i think tells jeff sessions that look, your time is limited. i would not be surpr...

It sounds like the president was more right than wrong. i will say something positive about someone at cnn. jake tapper is right in that last point and feeds into what some are saying. media bashing can get dangerous. there are people at cnn saying lets be careful with all this. but do youths any of this help? thats what the president got elected on? >> the president also adding to the distraction. some people thought the cnn wrestling video was funny. jeff zucker telling the "new york times," h...

Four. it sounds like the president was more right than wrong. i will say something positive about someone at cnn. jake tapper is right in that last point and feeds into what some are saying. media bashing can get dangerous. there are people at cnn saying lets be careful with all this. but do youths any of this help? thats what the president got elected on? >> the president also adding to the distraction. some people thought the cnn wrestling video was funny. jeff zucker telling the "new york tim...

Is the big picture, were going to see hot, hot temperatures, salt lake city, 102 for the fourth. but the rain looks like it is going to be the middle part of the country. >> jennifer, thank you very much for all of that. youll be monitoring it for us for the next 24 hours. president trump takes his media bashing to a new level. the new attacks are drawing scorn from members of his own party, so are media experts going to discuss whats next here? go, go! [ rock music playing ] have fun with your ...

>> and brian the president tweeted this morning and yet hes tweeting again just now. he cant help himself, he has more to say about the dishonest media, and there it is. >> heres the president. he made that detour into media bashing, quoting the president saying, the dishonest media will never keep us from accomplishing our objectives on behalf of the great american people. one of those cases, i think we said it on television before. i thought he was going to back down. i guess thats the point o...