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>> tim, final point to you. is there anything that donald trump is going to do? in other words, he does seem to play the same card over and over again. stuff that is good for his base, that they will respect because he's a tough guy, that flies in the face of conventional wisdom and as we have seen increasingly in the face of honesty. >> i would think at some point his base will want more than donald acting like it's high noon all the time. i think there should be results. one of the great losses and expenses of this kind of behavior is that he hasn't gotten any significant legislation passed ...

Of control and not what john kelly says but the president does every single day to make americans feel unsure about, you know, when's going to happen tomorrow. >> tim, there's new reporting tonight from michael gurson in "the washington post." let's read a bit of what it says. it is no longer possible to safely ignore the leaked cries for help coming from within the administration. they reveal a president raging against enemies, obsessed by slights, deeply uninformed, unable to focus. a main task of the chief of staff seems to be to shield him from dinner guests and telephone calls that might ...

Everybody knows what's going on and they're just not willing to say it because of politics. >> tim, final point to you. is there anything that donald trump is going to do? in other words, he does seem to play the same card over and over again. stuff that is good for his base, that they will respect because he's a tough guy, that flies in the face of conventional wisdom and as we have seen increasingly in the face of honesty. >> i would think at some point his base will want more than donald acting like it's high noon all the time. i think there should be results. one of the great losses and ex...

Team. and i think there's a constant revisiting the press of when will he become presidential? has he finally become -- >> is this a pivotal? >> who can manage him? >> right. >> at this stage, these are unhealthy and unsophisticated ways to be managing the most powerful office in the world. >> mick mulvaney was on this weekend. but when asked about the chaos or however you want to describe what some think is going on in the white house, he said, i'm there every day. i don't see any disorganization. i don't see any chaos. at some point this is a situation of the emperor having no clothes. we ke...

I'm sorry. or no, i meant it and it was a grown-up comment and i'll say and then others that are -- as the president would say grand standing. i'm not saying senator borker is that way. i'm saying some people grandstand and kind of enjoy the attention. >> do you notice a pattern there? john kelly was supposed to reset. he talked around most of those stories. without actually denying any of them. so what happens when one of your chief defenders doesn't actually come to your defense? joining us now are tim o'brian, author of "trump nation: the art of being the donald." also a msnbc contributor. ...