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Administration? >> yep. >> the bush administration had a political agenda if allowing the 9/11 attacks to occur? >> well, its not so -- you know, look back in history. my goal is this. i believe 100 years from now, i want people to be able to read that not all of us bought the stories. >> by the way, savannah, my favorite part of this is that governor ventura now says hes living off the grid. off the grid in his definition means south of the border. apparently hes living in mexico now. >> nice w...

Carrier, president bush, as how stagecraft can go terribly wrong. >> thats an example that dan pfeiffer gave you, john, as one of the things they dont want a mission accomplished moment. and theyre not going to get one. its no danger that this president is going to claim victory in iraq or afghanistan before he actually achieves it. so im not really so concerned about that. i think that yesterday was a great event. the big giant rally in the round. and theyve proven that they can do that. i just...

Crisis. should the u.s. step in to help? can we even afford it? coming up next, well take it to steve liesman and john harwood. plus, who can forget the image of george w. bush landing on an aircraft carrier during the iraq war in 2003. well, some say these images are evidence of all thats right and wrong about presidential stagecraft. >> well get into that issue. first, a look ahead at the presidents schedule. and as you can see, it is a busy one. youre watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. ...

>> to this point the republicans have used 247 minutes, the democrats 52 minutes. lets try to have as much balance as we can. >> reporter: as political stagecraft that served two purposes. it implied democrats were being unfair and put the president on the defensive. >> i dont think its quite right. im just going back and forth here, mitch. >> reporter: act two: the casting. the president time and again referred to everyone in the room by first name. >> thank you, george. >> reporter: it looked ...

>> reporter: but on both sides of the stage the players had other ideas. so act one started with a turf war over speaking time. republicans calling foul. >> to this point the republicans have 24 minutes, democrats 52 minutes. lets try to have as much balance as we can. >> reporter: as political stagecraft that served two purposes. it implied democrats were being unfair and put the president on the defensive. >> i dont think -- im just going back and forth here, mitch. >> reporter: act two: the c...

The fact is it builds on what we already have. if you compare the reform measures that are being proposed and with what was done in western europe post-world war ii, i mean, these are fairly incremental measures were talking about. >> were going to drill down the specific details. to dr. healys point, were going to talk about what this means to you folks. let us know what you think. the live chat is up and running. ac360.com. send your questions and comments to me on twitter at sanjay gupta cnn....

The live chat is up and running. ac360.com. send your questions and comments to me on twitter at sanjay gupta cnn. up next, david gergen just mentioned it. the way president obama might try to push a reform bill through congress. called reconciliation. do you know what it really means and why everyone is really yelling about it? stick around. later, whats with that big stack of paper? the body language. all the catchphrases that were used today. were going to translate this into plain englis...

Keep hearing that the system -- the plan is so revolutionary. the fact is it builds on what we already have. if you compare the reform measures that are being proposed and with what was done in western europe post-world war ii, i mean, these are fairly incremental measures were talking about. >> were going to drill down the specific details. were going to talk about what this means to you folks. the live chat is up and running. ac360.com. send your questions and comments to me on twitter at sanj...

Just playing to the cameras and criticizing each other. >> reporter: but on both sides of the stage the players had other ideas. so act one started with a turf war over speaking time. republicans calling foul. >> to this point the republicans have used 247 minutes, the democrats 52 minutes. lets try to have as much balance as we can. >> reporter: as political stagecraft that served two purposes. it implied democrats were being unfair and put the president on the defensive. >> i dont think its qu...

Is that this actually happens, george bush used to go to democratic retreats, but the brilliance of this white house staff in this moment was understanding how badly we needed this, as a country, how badly the dialogue was kind of starving for this, and how good their guy would be at it. there was no risk for them in rolling the cameras. and that was very smart staff work. there have been other democratic and republican presidents who, im sure, who have had shining moments in front of large grou...