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News editor at townhall.com. >> a 55 minute pool spray. pretty rare. it's easier to do the reporting when you get to sit in the room and hear the negotiations. i would take more of these. fascinating discussion because you see that on immigration which is this really sensitive, very emotional topic, there actually are the broad outlines of an agreement. there have been for years. when you get beyond these top blind talking points, border security. to democrats and republicans, border security can mean very different things. you talk about comprehensive immigration reform. whether that would me...

Benefit of getting democrats and republicans in the same room together talking about issues, like immigration, like tax reform, like everything else that the administration has sought to accomplish going forward. you really see there's a good opportunity to engage in important dialogue like this when everybody is around the table. i do want to touch briefly on the access that was granted. it is important for white house reporters like myself to be able to witness something like that to see the president, to see this policymaking process unfold. but also to prevent likes from happening. one thi...

Part 2. let me tick through the highlights on that and what you didn't see in the roughly 53 minutes that was a pool spray. on immigration, the president did reiterate daca will be attached to the border wall. he did acknowledge at one point that it did not have to be a 2,000-mile coast to coast structure, because almost nobody, including republicans on capitol hill speaking with us just this morning, believes that is realistic logisticalllogisti political until any way that you'll have a fence from sea to shining sea. i think that's interesting. the other part that's interesting on immigratio...

I don't know if there is anything medical there or not. i talked to one of his closest friends yesterday who said this is not mental instability. it's controlled and organized chaos. and that's how he chooses to manage. >> it is certainly the way the campaign went. i don't know if controlled chaos is the right way to call it. i'm not sure how much it was controlled. joining me now is former rnc chairman michael steele. good to see you. do you think that having the president do this meeting today was a good way to push back on these questions of his mental acuity? >> absolutely. i thought it ...

I wonder what you made of the display, if the you are encouraged as congressman swalwell that it is a sign of things to come. >> usually a pool spray is a minute or two at the top of the meeting. to be in there for 55 minutes, that's encouraging for transparency. i don't know it is a coincidence, that the president running a meeting like this that comes on the heels of stories that question his mental capacity, that stories of executive time, the amount of leisure, television and twitter time that he demands. i think the white house wanted to present ab image of him in charge running a meeting...