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Arthel: all day tuesday, all night tuesday stay right here on fox news channel. who dat! >> it is,, -50 degrees in north dakota right now. what would happen if all the natural gas lines that serve as sioux falls just poofd on the coldest day in recent memory, and it wasnt within our power whether or not to turn them back on. what would you do if you lost heat as the pact act of a foreign power? greg: she can even make the weather about the russians. [laughter] [applause] greg: what a week it was...

Cuz its a funny name. named after a rock formation and a computer game. [laughter] but its amazing what a tell-all will do for name recognition. >> cliff simms joins us now, welcome. >> my main goal is to have as much fun as the mooch. >> hes got a beautiful wife, martial, bathroom -- marble bathroom. >> i just saw sean spicer toting a refrigerator out of here. got a new chandelier in there. the whole atmospheres kind of, like, can you believe it? here we are. greg: well, would you look at that....

Its as big if not bigger than the tariffs. of course theyre connected. and trump himself has actually said impromptu that maybe he might drop charges if we come to an agreement on something. i doubt that, but its going to make any agreement that much harder. >> were going to be watching the trade talks and see if anything fruitful comes out. thank you so much. coming up the author of the latest tell all book, cliff simms is here. f simms is here.

When, in fact, he was nothing more than a gopher. >> nice. >> he signed a nn disclosure agreement. he is a mess. >> there it is. i knew that that was a possibility when i wrote this book. my identity is not wrapped up in being a trump staffer. it dont matter to me what donald trump or anything else says that i am. >> you dont mind being called a gopher. >> doesnt matter to me one bit. >> how about that? were getting more reaction from the president. the president is quote/unquote, very pissed of...

Youre saying you check the boxes in theory? >> a number of people do. one of the great things this year is there will be a lot of competition. people should view it as a chance to sit back and think about the america that we want to be. for me, i come from the heartland. we need to get that back into our politics. >> how much time do you have to decide at this point? >> i think you have seen that people are moving quickly. thats because there are so many people running. i will be making a decisi...

Atmosphere that gets created. its extremely cut throat. every white house is probably tough but especially the atmosphere thats been created there that encourages a lot of the infighting. one of the things i tried to do in the book is get people inside of donald trumps head. sometimes youre just like, what are we doing? one of the points i make in the book is for him, everything is personal. everything is a personal relationship, so that manifests itself in foreign affairs, his personal relation...

You have all this juicy detail in your piece about trump -- they were wrestling within the white house of how to respond. tell me -- tell me what some of the advisers were urging him to do or not do? >> they were telling him that they would take care of it, go run the world. dont worry about this guy who you barely remember and instead, president trumps tweet only makes cliff simms richer. more people will buy that book because of the presidents tweet and so kind of backfiring with the president...

If they were able to contain him and his urges, it might have helped and i think it will be fascinating to hear from chris christie tomorrow and talk about the conversation you guys just had with his insights because he really did see a lot and did sea lot. tomorrow morning well be joined by white house aide cliff simms. in the book simms writes that president trump relishes giving friends, acquaintances and strangers tours of the white house. this we know we had one ourselves making sure to poi...

Opening scene is kellyanne conway leaking, correct? >> it is. the opening anecdote is kellyanne conway leaking which has come back into the news. >> because cliff simms who worked in the white house, left and has a book coming out called "team of vipers" and dribs and drabs are being released. he goes after kellyanne conway calling her a leaker and depicts her as a cartoon villain in the white house. he says, she was a cartoon villain brought to life. her agenda which was her survival over all o...

That have been part of the fabric of the trump white house. the former aide, his name is cliff simms wrote about it in a book that comes out next week called "team of vipers." simms writes about one particular day he was writing a statement on conways laptop while she was texing on her phone. the two devices were connected and he writes for 20 minutes he could see the text conversations conway was having with at least a half-dozen reporters from all over the place she and president call fake new...