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Tweet, democratic strategist mike feldman, who served as senior adviser to vice president al gore, also as vice president gore's traveling chief of staff during the 2000 election. and michael gersten, former lead speechwriter for george w. bush. thank you both. what's wrong with the president's tweet, mike gersten? >> it makes sense from a certain perspective. he wants to keep running against hillary clinton and the media and it's because he's pursuing a base strategy. lock at the recent polling. strong support amongst republicans. if that were to collapse, he would have no support and so i th...

Ukranian embassy and maybe giving some of that information to the hillary clinton campaign. so this is what they do. and as dana talked about, this is the base strategy and this is what we've seen from this white house from day one in terms of where they want to rally support, where the president feels comfortable. it's essentially the same that we saw him on the campaign trail all those many months. that's what they're going -- that's what they're going to do. they always need some sort of -- they need to be the victim and they need to point the finger at someone else, and sometimes it's obam...

We heard it from sanders today when she was asked about collusion she turned to the dnc, this whole notion about dnc, an aid from the dnc talking to the ukraine embassy and getting that information to the hillary campaign. this is what they do, this is the base strategy and what we've seen from this white house from day one. in terms of where they want to rally support, where the comfortable feels comfortable it's the same we saul him on the campaign trail all the many months. that's what they're going to do. they always need some sort of -- they need to be the victim and then they need to poi...

Even if he's playing to his base with rhetoric, make america great and fake news and witch hunt, the fact is that he promised in the first 100 days to deal with things like health care, like tax reform, like jobs. and it hasn't happened. no major piece of legislation has gone through at all. and he's saying these -- he's signing executive orders like someone doing their homework for class the next morning, but they really have no substantive value, and it's not really moving the dial for his own base supporters who sooner or later are going to have to deal with has my life changed the way he p...

May not be the guy for me. he's promised me a job. >> and by the way -- >> the base strategy of the first month. now look, look bill, tonight, it has been -- i would say all weekend and including the seniorest most administrative official in the white house. they are really trying to have a positive attitude, optimistic outlook. they have said the words unity a lot. we heard it before the inauguration, i believed it before the inaugural speech, turned out it wasn't as unifying as it could have been. i do think tonight they seem more serious about trying to sound more optimistic. >> i think tha...