it s interesting, gloria, because his communications plan for the white house which was dated june 30th was leaked today. and it s actually pretty good. i actually thought it was really well done. i liked it. some of the priorities said improve the culture. good ideas are welcome regardless of source. potus can choose to fight with the media but comms cannot, meaning communication department cannot. comms will continue to challenge stories unfair and true. there are a lot of good ideas. don t leave for the night until you return every reporter s phone call. i really like that. but there was another part of it where he said you have to lead by example. and that was kind of his problem. because he didn t lead by example. and his star was shining a little too bright for the president. who leaked it? his whole tirade to ryan, self-destructive tirade was
senator flake is not one of them. do you believe donald trump is a conservative? not in the reagan sense i don t. i think he s conservative on a lot of issues. like what? energy, for example. when did this transformation happen? he spent a whole campaign talking about energy right, but before that since he was pro choice, he gave money to democrats, he was pro single payer. and ronald reagan was a democrat until a couple of years before over a 20 year period of time ronald reagan came to understand conservatism and change over and it was also very different back then. donald trump, it was in like two years all of a sudden. oh, now i m a republican but he doesn t act like a republican. and to gloria s point, he constantly, when he makes these statements and these tweets, he s tweeting as if he s a bystander, as if he s not part of he isn t the head of the republican party as the president. he s doing that so that he can inoculate himself from any failures or any
figure out how to reassure them in a reasonable way. number two, i want to go back to what everyone else has said. i think that this is a turning point here. i could hear it and feel it around in the last 48 hours. not just in the northeast. i see it from our colleagues all across the country. but it has to be a conversation and action about both mental health as well as gun laws. let me pick up on the gun laws. michael eric dyson, just the politics of this, which matter, you heard mayor bloomberg s criticism of the president. he campaigned one way but he didn t push it. he didn t lead. as a second-term president, prepared to make what bloomberg called for, gun control, more stringent laws, his number one agenda item? well, david, you don t lead in a vacuum. i m a baptist preacher. you can preach the same sermon to one church at another church. and if the people are with you so to speak in the amen chorus, you ll have a much better
this in a positive way. and say i disagree with my republican colleagues. we found a compromise. i don t like everything in dale. i don t like the payroll tax should have again to employers not just the employees so we could grow jobs. we should have found a way to fun the unemployment. bottom line he had an opportunity to be a leader. he didn t lead. now he has set up the class warfare argument that continues in 2012 and they will lose that argument in the end. sean: why is this president so immature and angry? i don t think he s immature and i think he has shown some courage. i agree with norm that it is important for the president to use rhetoric that business people together and to say he get with his republican colleagues who wanted to exempt people i would have been in favor i think norm
and say i disagree with my republican colleagues. we found a compromise. i don t like everything in dale. i don t like the payroll tax should have again to employers not just the employees so we could grow jobs. we should have found a way to fun the unemployment. bottom line he had an opportunity to be a leader. he didn t lead. now he has set up the class warfare argument that continues in 2012 and they will lose that argument in the end. sean: why is this president so immature and angry? i don t think he s immature and i think he has shown some courage. i agree with norm that it is important for the president to use rhetoric that business people together and to say he get with his republican colleagues who wanted to exempt people i would have beenn favor i think norm is right.