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Today, the unapologetic, unmasked donald trump. yesterday was a fake donald trump. that's apparent now. and we see a man who lashes out, who can't control himself. he's only a short way away from the nuclear button. he's the man who tells them whether to go to war or not. so yes, there's some dangers to the country. >> david axelrod, we've seen this president stepping on the white house's own message. today there was a lot of positive things the president could have been talking about. north korea seemed to have blinked on guam. the president wanted to talk about infrastructure, the stock mark...

Yeah, i would love to have been a fly on the wall in general kelly's after action meeting on the infrastructure event. i don't think it went very well. but look, you know, michelle obama said in her convention speech last summer that the presidency doesn't change people. it reveals who they are. and as you said at the outset, this is who donald trump is. this is who he was throughout the 2016 campaign. there was this hope that somehow the presidency with all its responsibility and all the majesty and gravity of it would change him. he's not going to change. what we saw yesterday was a hostage ...

Voters you talk to, he's fundamentally mislead reading what they like about him. >> he was elected to be a doer and also in the succession of presidencies that have been politics of conflict. and what people have been looking for is politics of result. the right? there haven't been enough results for a lot of these voters. he is fundamentally misreading these voters. they want him to do something. the this isn't the thing they want him to do. the they don't benefit from his grudge with the press. i suspect part of what happened was, yesterday, from what i understand, it was an infrastructure e...

Of an unease that has been around those who are close to the president. he, of course, did something they did not expect with his remarks, with the tone of his remarks, with the combative nature of it. that was not something that was planned. it put some of those around him really off of what they had expected was going to be a positive infrastructure event that might have turned the corner from what had happened saturday. one of the people that i've talked to today through our communications has been saying that not only stl the surprise about what the president did but this discomfort about ...

Staff? we had your reporting and others of your colleagues saying that they were surprised and shocked by the president's comments, he was supposed to speak, doing an infrastructure event, that got drowned out. if they're shocked, what are they doing about it? >> well, andrea, when the president doesn't follow the plan as he did not yesterday, that does put the staff in a position of having to figure out how to react and respond to it. today we had very little from the white house except behind the scenes people talk ing about the discomfort they feel, and the -- the difficulty in dealing with...