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To be a unifier when he just refused to sanction russia. >> not only that you have to look at the stage craft of who they're bringing as guests. you know, when you're bringing sort of victims of illegal immigrants to sit with you, that's not a unifying message necessarily. >> no. look, david is right. he is capable of -- we have seen at times donald trump give the sort of salesman in chief, cheerleader in chief the sort of i'm not partisan. we've seen that moment in that immigration public forrum. hey, look, i want to make a deal that's good for america. whatever he says and does tonight do no...

Week. it got laughs, but it also reveals of how the president thinks of governing. he's also a master of stage craft by having the republican leaders stand behind him at camp david to changing a conversation with a single tweet. joining me now, cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources", brian stelter and abby phillip. brian, the president is showing himself as firmly in control, especially after questions were raised about his fitness to govern. >> you might call this the stable genius tower. this was a show of stability to let the cameras in for almost an hour and i think ...

Republicans. my whole life has been heat. there should be no reason for us not to get this done. brian: a couple of things happened. number one, i just thought overall how about democrats would be if steny hoyer was in charged. i found him to be very reasonable throughout. he was listening, the give and take. that is as close to real as i have ever seen in washington. and i was sitting next to marie harf on outnumbered and she is saying that's it. that's what it's like in these meetings when there are no cameras around. in the beginning i can't wait to do the forensics and rebuild what went in...

Of cutting taxes. it's kind of their jam. i know today, at present, on messaging and on stage craft, the ghost of mike bieber is looking down smiling. when this administration had its abortive effort to repeal and replace obamacare, when that went down they had a celebration that turned out to be embarrassing. >> dana: remember the website. didn't work. >> so this time what you've got, they're gonna show a strong republican unity. >> dana: they are. while i have you, we have a couple minutes. president is about to join the republicans for this speech. it's pretty interesting political and pr s...

Other than let's not go to war, which of course makes a lot of sense, but there's not a lot of bright ideas in the room from either party. >> john is absolutely right, the bad actor here is the leader of north korea, as his father was the bad actor before that. but the rhetoric is just so out of place and i wonder about just the stage craft of what we just saw, general mattis will speak now. i mean like he's still calling producti producti production queues. >> this is a serious crisis, as general mattis said, this missile went the highest of any before. the president then immediately pivots t...