>> reporter: so, you can see there, andrea, when the weight of the presidency, the nation in peril, compels the president to hue to conventional standards and norms, the president cannot really seem to comply and so we saw him at the beginning of that event deliver a scripted remark, a presidential style remarks that he will not let have the last word here. andrea? >> with me is michael steele. michael, these points keep getting reinforced by the president's speech himself. you are a republican. you worked on the hill for john boehner. >> violence, political violence should be condemned by everyone in american political life. should be condemned by all americans, completely unequivocally and consistently and the consistently is the problem this president seems to have. we hear him say the right thing with the cameras and the tell prompter on and then the angry tweets, asides. we're 11 days from the midterm