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This is first time in nearly four decades a sitting president has chosen to not attend the white house correspondent's dinner. let as discuss. cnn media correspondent and host of "reliable source" brian stelter joining us. brian, this maybe the first time in a long time the president does not go to the white house correspondent's tiner but it is not the first time for president trump to hold counter programming. >> exactly. this is straight out of his reality tv play book. perhaps clever, perhaps too clever by half. you know, you mentioned the pes awe dent pes -- precedent of the dinner, not s...

He says, you can't have romney, he choked. you can't have jeb bush. this is where people start to get fired up. it's as if there is this pent up frustration from a lot of the losing that the party had done in presidential elections and elsewhere. so in this sense, conditions were ripe for a figure like trump to come along and, in a sense, tear down and remake the party. sort of like he did -- >> remake campaigning and polling and political modeling as we know it. before i let you go, tom, was there a moment in writing this book, in tracking this campaign in real time that took your breath away...

If you ask trump to look up a bit, he says no or he just doesn't do it. he literally has one angle. if i ask him to smile, he puts on a big grin and goes back to his zoolander blue steel look. really he's far from a natural, because it seems that his every move is really orchestrated. >> it's orchestrated and clearly he's a tv guy. this dueling banjos thing he had in new hampshire, isn't that brilliant counter programming. like he knew bush was going to be there, so that's why he showed up. donald trump knows how to be good on television, donald trump knows how to engage a crowd, he knows how ...

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And get in the movie. >> is it a date movie or girls night out movie. >> both. because if you are a couple you will have fun going and getting ideas of what you could or couldn't do later. >> guys don't want to see the movie. they want to see what will happen after the movie. >> we will sit through two with hours and then -- for the payoff. >> yes. >> what are the other options. another valentine's day option? >> thankfully, everybody can exhale. because if it is really not your thing -- another movie out, the definition of counter programming. it is called kingsman secret service. this movie ...