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Trump follows through with his unity message and for how easily the media falls for the nice guy routine. joining us now, our favorite guest, "toronto star" washington bureau chief, daniel dale. daniel dale, i want you to start with your thoughts about what we in the media, what i, you and i entered the tough love part of our relationship now, what we get wrong when we fall for the pre-spin trump. >> well, i think we get everything wrong because he is only that version of himself for an hour and then he immediately reverts within 24, maximum 48 hours, to the trump we see the other 363, 364 day...

The crown prince whisperer, the guy that has his ear. you think that he would be the face of the administration's pressure campaign on the saudis. >> well, he's falling back. he's fading into the background, at least as far as we can tell publically, and that's intentional. he wants to step back because there is an understanding on his part and also within the white house that it would be damaging for it to be seen that jared kushner was back channelling with mbs on this situation. in the early days of this story, you know, one of the first things we learned was that the crown prince had actua...

Voters that are most enthusiastic, they are moved by what they can vote affirmatively for in terms of an agenda that will change their lives. >> what does it tell you there is this weird pre-spin, that he is of the working assumption they're going to lose seat if not the whole house? >> this is what he's best at is the pre-spin to make everybody else respond to him and respond to the message. so it's actually what he's -- he is a showman, right? he's actually gamed it out a little bit, like how can i win either way. >> i'm sure he's getting data about how bad it looks in so many states and the...

>> he did not. i think there's two possibilities here. one is that because mattis is rare figure in his orbit who does push back on his ideas, on his proposals that he therefore thinks that mats s is essentially part of the opposition. we know there are figures within the administration, you know, who clashed with mattis themselves and it's possible they've persuaded trump mattis is not really on his team. i think another possibility, though, is that trump is sort of preparing the spin, doing some pre-spin for mattis' apparent departure. when they leave he makes them sort of an unperson. micha...

Who clashed with mattis themselves and it's possible they've persuaded trump mattis is not really on his team. i think another possibility, though, is that trump is sort of preparing the spin, doing some pre-spin for mattis' apparent departure. when they leave he makes them sort of an unperson. michael cohen, different circumstances. oh, i had a lot of lawyers. steve bannon, oh, he came onto the campaign very late. when they're leaving or about to leave trump tries to minimize their importance. and i think by calling mattis a democrat, trump's trying to tell his base, oh, he needs him anyway. ...