political is that a gotcha question, though, daniel? what s in the constitution. it shun the be considered one. i think candidates would consider it one. you know, trump, himself skates away in interviews 0pining on things and as diverse as the constitution, health care policy, middle east policy, it s not clear that he has basic knowledge. you know, where is israel? what are its neighbors? what is medicaid? what does obamacare actually do? so from all of those things and the constitution, we just don t know what precisely this president actually knows. jennifer, what do you think readers will take away from the book once they can finally dig into it? first of all, katy, i m sorry the president didn t threaten to ban your book. i m sure that would have been a big help. he did tweet saying i had no access. there was that. there s that to fall back on. i hope that the american people take away two things. one is that the people around him are not doing the country a
just struck out for me. one detail that i noticed and that s from sam nunberg i had on the 2:00 p.m. show earlier today and trying to explain the constitution to a man who was running to be the president of the united states. take a listen to what sam said. michael says i went in there to teach him the constitution. i didn t go in there to teach his the constitution. it was a week and a half before the first debate. i was scared. i go in and have a brief. let s get you a gotcha question on this and that. i could get to the fourth amendment before four other people walking in, he tells me you know? you didn t say that in the book. you said his eyes rolled back in his head. you implied that he could not understand. that s not maybe didn t care enough. that s what it was. didn t care about learning the kons too us? no. i don t think he cared about preparing. for the debate, didn t necessarily care about learning
running for president, he was number one, and the week before the debate, he s going to his golf course in scott laland. this is what we re dealing with here. so i have to find time to try to get him and get his attention span while he s also by the way running for president and managing his business. so let me just finish. i go in. and i try to have a brief. let me give you a gotcha question on this and that, gotcha question on this. i can only get to the fourth amendment before four other people are walking in. he tells me to, you know that s not what you said in the book. you said his eyes rolled back in his head. you implied that he could not understand. that s what was in the constitution. he didn t care enough maybe that s what it is. but he so he doesn t care about learning the constitution. he knows the constitution. does he know the constitution? i don t think he cared about preparation. if you were sending your candidate into debate and prepare him for got
it was to say here s per se something that has been asked before. we didn t get we only got to the fourth amendment there and at that time he remembered. besides running for president, he was running his business. so i m not criticizing michael. i like michael. a political book, i believe it s not nonfiction, but on the other hand, they use puffery and try to create a narrative. so you did get as far as the fourth amendment. you don t know his motive for becoming disinterested. he had a ton of things to do. one other thing in general that i wanted to say that s perhaps not in this book is the president and i had a common disagreement. the president was 100% correct and i was incorrect. about whether there was going to be a gotcha question. in general what the average voter wanted. if the average voter wanted cerebral esoteric minutia answers, then they weren t going to vote for donald trump to begin with. the president understood if he was going to win the nomination,
tax law is an area where if you make a slight drafting mistake there is an industry of people very well compensated to take advantage of that. this is a university of chicago professor who says, is there a trillion-dollar hole in the senate tax plan? right. you re not reading that incorrectly. he argues, based on sloppy drafting, that there s literally a trillion-dollar hole in the thing. can you be confident they re not going to pass something that has some massive, massive error at the heart of it? no, i think that s exactly right. and after all of their criticism of read the bill, which by the way i think is always a legitimate thing to ask of your legislator. did you read the bill? and it is true that you ve got to work with staff for them to help you interpret certain aspects of the bill. sometimes they re referring to a different part of the u.s. code. so i get that it s technical and sometimes it s a gotcha question. but let s be clear. there literally is no bill text. thi