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Flying off to florida for the weekend where hes apparently been photographed waiting at an omelet bar, you know, the kind of thing you do when america is in crisis. >> lets be clear, the president of off prompter there, by the way. >> that probably explains a large part of what we saw unfold there at the white house. so speaking of that speech, one of the interesting things is the president made several eye popping claims during the national emergency declaration. but here is one that caught a l...

Hes never good on prompter, whatever skills he has aas a performer are not maximized as in that setting and hes even better in the well of the house when he speaks in a formal setting off prompter, alone to the tv, direct camera, not his best place. and, again, he was trashing his staff basically hours before. theres an unprecedented thing. you have never seen that before. a lot of presidents trash their staffs in private after a speech goes wrong but he was preempting the badness of the perform...

There could be a lot worse insults. >> greg: that wasnt the insults. >> jesse: the insulting part was he goes oh, yeah, i guess he got it and war. that was an off prompter throwaway line. i did that was okay. i dont think the joke landed the way he thought it was going to land but do i think he needs to be fired? no. >> martha: juan, what do you think of the apology thing? requiring people to apologize, requiring people to be fired. >> juan: i was curious listening to my colleagues on "the five"...

Some of these trump policies. >> i was in jacksonville, florida, last week, and vice president biden was there campaigning for the gubernatorial candidate andrew gillum. one of the things that struck me was, first of all, the length of the vice presidents speech. he went on for a while. he was off prompter. he also seemed like a guy who wasnt just traipsing about the country, you know, on behalf of candidates. he seemed like a guy who might be interested in making another run for it. i asked the...

Unseated. in his mind, in the campaigns mind, this was classic trump right to the base giving them red meat, insulting anyone and everyone in his swath. unfortunately, including president bush, and this was exactly how he has gotten where he is, and in this irmind, it has worked so far, and they will continue to do so. >> swiping at two ailing republican giants. in bush 41 and john mccain. does he have someone whispering in her his ear? i think im with you, alice, that i think a lot of this was ...

Question, its made for you. >> okay, lets go. >> former speech writer for clinton told "the new york times" teleprompter trump sounds like a president. off prompter trump sounds like a fill-in talk radio host. >> well, thats way too much of a compliment. i am a talk show radio host. >> youre not a fill-in. >> my fill-ins dont necessarily need a script. the idea he is going to be, quote, presidential because he can link a couple sentences that someone else wrote for him, probably always sounds li...

Winfreys speech right into the best director category, which natalie portman went off prompter went to note was all men. that was an amazing moment that turned out to be another highlight of the awards show. i thought seth meyers did a good show. i thought he really disappeared after the monologue which set the tone. he went right for it. he was very direct. he name check and called out harvey weinstein, kevin spacey, woody allen. these were guys who were revered at the golden globes in the past...

Movie with frances mcdormands performance grieving the death of her daughter. >> this is more about a cultural correction than an awards night. was that the sense you got? and could this signal some significant shift in hollywood and ultimately society? and seth meyers, did he get that balance right? >> you know, it was a really, really tricky challenge to be able to address, properly address this climate of something so serious, something that really goes beyond hollywood with all of the tradit...

Number of other u.s. senators, in a way that -- its not that hes politically competing with him, its that he simply doesnt understand that his an actual co-call branch of government. they dont work for him. theyre not his employees. he cant yell "youre fired" and throw them out of the boardroom. and i think he also mistakes the sort of courtesy of the senate and the sort of traditions and folk ways of the senate for weakness. and a lot of these guys will smile and look in his eye and say, mr. pr...

Him, its that he simply doesnt understand that his an actual co-call branch of government. they dont work for him. theyre not his employees. he cant yell "youre fired" and throw them out of the boardroom. and i think he also mistakes the sort of courtesy of the senate and the sort of traditions and folk ways of the senate for weakness. and a lot of these guys will smile and look in his eye and say, mr. president -- and then theyre going to shank him. lindsey graham and others, you know, these gu...