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Bashing senators of his own party. lindsey graham colorfully in this "the new york times" article saying they will invoke article 5, obviously referencing the nato doctrine, one attack on a senator is an attack on all republican senators. look at how they rallied around jeff sessions when he went against him. he apologized to jeff sessions. we may see the president forced to do the same when it comes to the attacks we're seeing now. >> clearly, phil mudd, the president's reaction, some of the comments he made last tuesday involving the charlottesville violence that erupted thanks to the white ...

Congressman mark sanford and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. first, let's go to our senior national correspondent alexander mar quart. he's in phoenix at the site of the president's big rally later tonight. alex, so, what can we expect? >> reporter: well, wolf, the big question is which trump will show up. is it the free wheeling unscripted trump these people here, his base loves, or is it the more scripted on message, on teleprompter trump we saw last night in the speech on afghanistan? the white house is saying very little about what the president will actually say...

>> well, i think he has backed up and made the vice-president stated, a number of different points of condemnation. the problem is it was late. the problem, again, there was that equivalency component i think troubled a lot of folks. if he wants to, again, come out with further condemnation, i think it would be a good thing. i don't know that this is where it's going to fit in given i suspect much of the conversation, in fact, will be about border wall and what happens next on immigration. >> a lot of people are wondering why the president decided to hold this campaign rally tonight, this huge...

Question will answer your question. will the president be trump or will he be president? when we saw the reaction to charlottesville, we saw a president who stepped back and said, i'm going to ad-lib and i'm going to talk about what i'm interested in, what my base is interested in. and he stepped out in a way outside of what his advisors would have suggested, horrible mistake. when he spoke last night about afghanistan, i was rereading it right before the show. whether you agree or disagree with what he said, a more presidential statement. the question is for a man who is so proud of his own i...

President's overall approval at 37%. and just 28% approved of his response to the deadly violence in charlottesville. >> very fine people on both sides. >> reporter: monday night house speaker paul ryan told a cnn town hall that trump, quote, messed up. >> i think he made comments that were much more morally ambiguous, much more confusing. and i do think he could have done better. i think he needed to do better. >> reporter: today vice-president mike pence coming to trump's defense. >> the president specifically denounced white supremacists, neo-nazis and the kkk repeatedly, and he did it when...