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When you have a poor leadership standard, it doesn't establish a ground level for what people think they're supposed to do in that job. tom price should no better as a member of congress but it's a virus spreading from donald trump. people think they can do whatever they want unless they get in trouble. >> i asked you the question about distractions because we started the week together on monday talking about how the president himself created a massive distraction. to sort of provoke and poke the most divisive elements of his own base. so i find it ironic when people posit the theory someone e...

National guard headed in that direction. it's much harder to get supplies there than to houston and florida. that will continue to be a problem, but when he tweets something that digs at the debt of puerto rico, they feel like they are not being paid attention to. the media cycle has been about the nfl and not puerto rico. two players are in that game. >> that's the crux of it. puerto rico is not a foreign country. these are american citizens and three million people. unlike texas or florida, they don't carry a lot of weight. they will need snag moves through the senate and the house. there is...

Pardon. particularly the transgender order which appeal to the people who love him the most. and so, i'm not sure he was trying to bury this. i think he is constantly trying to find new ways to announce key positions in the media cycle which not everyone understandings the dynamics of him. >> okay. are you saying that he is so sophisticated in terms of giving good ear to the message of that will be resonating with people that he knew we would be couch potatoes watching the development of hurricane harvey. and said, this is exactly when i will do it. i want them to see it? >> well, sophisticate...

Particularly in the republican party. again, he probably can't hep himself and will do what the crowd wants him to do. jeff flake is very unpopular in arizona. in the 30,000 people who might be at the stadium tonight, they'll love trump. trump loves people who love trump. >> take me behind the "they." who are the they who don't want him to go after jeff flake. who is urging him to try to have 12 straight hours of a controversy free media cycle. >> the remaining staff. you talked about for the last week. with bannon on the outside. steven miller aligning with jared kushner. you have a group of ...

I love his twitter. >> eric: i love his tweets as well. >> allen: it feeds the media cycle, you guys love that. >> eric: i want to know what the most powerful human on the plane that thinks when he wakes up. >> allen: tweeting out i am instituting a transgender man is not the way to go. -- instituting a transgender ban. >> kat: then he had to turn around and say you can't just tweet something and becomes a law. that's not exactly how it works. then we were talking about that. >> ann: that's basically what obama did with the executive amnesties. he doesn't have any constitutional authority to d...