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Before, washington new york, seen through a different prism. does the scorecard a little differently perhaps in middle america in arizona? what did you see tonight? does this work for him? >> it does and it doesn't. he played all his greatest hits. obviously the crowd waited outside, he filled the place, 19,000 people. the base is still there. they want to see the show he puts on. but to katie's point, he started off with these unifying scenes. but then he goes off track, re-litigating charlottesville. if he's gonna cover any ground, i'm not sure he made any of that ground up tonight. he was t...

Leave or get tear gassed, if you will. they have been taking some people throwing things at police officers. we're getting from the local affiliate. we just saw a local affiliate reporter with his own gas mask on preparing to cover this. let's keep talking about this event. one thing the president did hear is in the only the media bashing and we heard that before and deployed his own political success but went after and mentioned some groups like antifa. at one point he screamed antifa and said they were coming after his supporters. >> no question. i think first on the question of the media it...

Converting anybody. >> bret: does the media bashing work? >> yeah, it always has for him. it went so far as to almost think it's becoming dangerous. he should go as far as he did. he went pretty far today. one of the other things that was interesting tonight i thought he was about to call an audible -- i could see john kelly in the back going no, no. he started winding up on joe arpaio. he basically said the arpaio, you're going to have a nice christmas because a part is coming down. a pardon is coming down. >> was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job? he should have had a jury but you know...

Anywhere. you know, that's why president trump is going to focus more on hot button issues like immigration and building the wall, and kind of media bashing like you saw yesterday. i would expect that he would continue to do more of that going forward to shore up his base. he is clearly worried that he may lose part of his base. you saw kellyanne conway a few days ago saying, you know, the president's approval rating needs to, you know, go up. >> it's interesting, though, that when the poll numbers are such that they benefit the president, he touts them, and when they're not -- >> they're fake...

Politics being on message, message discipline, sticking to the script whatever you want to call it, he equates that with boring and equates boring with sort of death, political death. >> he has come up and he thinks it is all ratings and what covers you get. he came up and mastered the press of new york. but the tabloid press, new york daily news and new york post. always craved the "new york times" as attention and for them to take him seriously. and he is going out and every off base tweet that he goes out and pushes, gets that attention and he loves the attention. and then he gets upset whe...