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Rick perlsteen talks about in his book. one of the things that comes through in this incredible book is how central to all of nixons personality, leadership style, political style was grievance, pettiness, vindictiveness, getting back, a chip on his shoulder that people didnt take him seriously and he would show them. how much nixon do you see in trump? >> on that basic core question, that bottomless pit of need that kind of absence where a soul should be that has to be filled with domination an...

Little bit? >> no, it only -- >> because you talk about this a lot. >> i do. >> right? >> because ill tell you why i do. because what always bothers me is false stuff, untruths. that bothers me. >> joining me now, cnn political commentator, errol louis, "washington post" political reporter, gloria borger, and david gurden. david, its interesting, hearing michael dantonio talking about his perception of the man he spent thours interviewing donald trump for this biography, he called donald trump a...

Bankruptcies. >> i bought something and i throw it into a bankruptcy. i made an unbelievable deal. next i read "trump filed bankruptcy." i hear all this stuff that and people dont understand business. >> it bothers you. >> i tell you what, what always bothers me is false stuff. untruths. that bothers me. >> joining me, phillip bumps, gloria borger and david gergen. >> he called donald trump a bottomless pit of need. a lot of people have talked about a neediness theyve sensed

When you talk about who wants to have a reflection about himself all the time, almost the message of himself coming from outside. >> thats whats so odd, the idea of a public figure looking to get their sense of themselves by the way other people talk about tem on television is such a strange idea. >> i identify this as an example of the narcissistic culture. we live in a world where well advertise themselves on facebook. were workingbo brochures and donald trump was the developer of that. >> you...

But, you know, i identify this as kind of the ultimate example of the narcissistic culture. we now live in a world where people advertise themselves on facebook. were practically walking brotubr brochures. and donald pioneered that. and there is an emptiness to it, i think of him being a bottomless pit of need and the presidency was the one rock he could get to try to fill that pit. and its not going to work. >> thats interesting. you see him as a bottomless pit of need. thats a really stunning ...

There isnt -- its not a bottomless pit for this so when they come, they come to europe, they dont have anyplace to stay, going to be a cold winter. theyll become easy pickingsing for recruiters and theyre already in europe right now. so its not like you have to smuggle anybody inch these are already people who are going to be in desperate straits by a cold winter and will be easy pickings for recruiters. >> the irony will be to those western powers that have held become on bringing them, in that...

4:00 in the morning. it quickly spreads into a seemingly bottomless pit of flames, and exploding cylinders of propane. >> when we got to the scene, we actually had small cylinders that were exploding and rocketing several hundred feet in the air. >> in the predawn darkness, huge you clouds of propane flare up like -- dark smoke billows from the uncontrollable blaze. canisters shoot up like rockets. >> most of them were the smaller cylinders. they are commonly called a 33-pound cylinder. this sit...

Wrapped up and almost seven months later. it started before i was even district attorney. but along the way you absorb through sights and sounds the pain that you heard about but you cannot know it. i dont want to know it. its like looking down a bottomless pit. you see it but you dont know how dark and deep and even today i dont have a true sense of it. i feel like a veteran prosecutor. ive been doing this over 20 years, every case you can imagine and i could not help getting choked up just tal...

It would be the black against the white. look, the blacks would win this war but black only knows what whitey has told them to do they never learned thousand handle the reign of power. those who survived helter skelter ie charles manson and his family. >> in drug fueled rant the only hope of survival was here in death valley. some 200 miles east of l.a., temperatures regularly soared to 115 degrees in summer it was in this surreal land dishap manson claimed they would find a bottomless pit. >> s...

>> when i added the power, it turned sharply to the right, started sliding through the air and then the nose dropped. so when i started feeling the jet sliding to the right, i knew there was a problem and i tried to fight it for a second or two, and the jet was just not responsive to whatever i was doing to it. >> while an investigation into what caused the plane to crash is still under way, the captain says hes eager to get back in the cockpit. >> i would get in a jet today >> also in canada, a...