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People who speak for the president are not serious people. it should be taken seriously and gravely. we should not spend a lot of time listening to the things that they say because they shouldnt be taken seriously. the same people who are threatening jim acosta with not being invited to a pool event. this is the peoples house and these people, all administrations, are just passing through. this is not a kingdom. so i think this is what it is. the president is crude and crass. he will be judged f...

Think the people around him as the politico story reported that you need to feed him a certain amount of good news because especially the lastew weeks hes been in a pretty foul mood. the map that weve all seen, the county by county map of the counties he won compared by hillary clinton which basically shows a red united states ive seen on the oval office desk, something hes keeping copies around to sort of cheer him up as he goes through the day and recently hung a copy of it on the wall. the pr...

About were there a -- kwr there analogous figures in his mind, were there case studies in his mind about different presidents as he prepared for the presidency and we ended up talking about babe ruth and lydia ko, the great asian american golfer. babe ruth had been asked according to trump, hey, babe, how do you hit the long ball? and ruth said i dont know. i just swing at it. and trump said i just swing at it. and lydia ko was asked how do you hit your shots and she said i dont know. i just hit...

Him which required director comey to testify and say he didnt. he has laid down -- he has started down a path that is way beyond p.r. embarrassment. oh, hes not used to being president. oh, hes an unusual type of guy, i think really. he is now -- he has put his presidency at risk. >> im agreeing with you that its hurt him. i think what he is thinking, the reason he is doing this is he is falling back on his own tech north koreans. thats a different point. he thinks of himself as a gut player. wh...

I dont know. i just hit the ball. thaerls no lucy and the football here. he is a gut player. its instiktdive, and he is totally convinced that he can bully his way through almost any situation, and why wouldnt you believe that if you had his life experience and you were the president of the united states. >> only man who can quote lydia ko and charles schultz in the same paragraph. >> by the way, you leave out the fact -- despite johns long resume -- that he was editor of news week. >> i dont wa...

Mind about different presidents as he prepared for the presidency? and we ended up talking about babe ruth and lydia ko, the great asian-american golfer because babe ruth had been asked according to trump by sports writers in the 30s, hey, babe, how do you hit the long ball? and ruth said, i dont know, i just swing at it. and trump said, i just swing it. and lydia ko had been asked what are her swing shots and she said, i dont know. i just hit the ball. at least he was clear with us. theres no l...

Perhaps will go on to others if he continues leisure reading about this? >> well, you know, we are living right now in the political equivalent of climate change. its either really cold or really holiday. there is not really a temp rat middle anymore. to continue that metaphor for a moment, president trump is essentially living in a snowstorm of information. he picks thing up here and there. sometimes they are integrated fully. sometimes he picks them up very briefly and it melts quickly. weve s...

Sometimes they are integrated fully. sometimes he picks them up very briefly and it melts quickly. weve seen that with significant policy things. weve seen it with small passing thing. its very clear that he believes in being an intuitive gut player. hes not a big reader of biography. and thats okay. i mean, its -- you know, the country or at least an electoral college majority of the country decided that this was worth the roll of the dice at the moment. what is i think unsettling, if you will,...

Fully. sometimes he picks them up very briefly and it melts quickly. weve seen that with significant policy things. weve seen it with small passing thing. its very clear that he believes in being an intuitive gut player. hes not a big reader of biography. and thats okay. i mean, its -- you know, the country or at least an electoral college majority of the country decided that this was worth the roll of the dice at the moment. what is i think unsettling, if you will, is that -- and with all respe...

That n that regard mario cuomo was not a show horse. he worked tirelessly in albany and goes down as one of the three or four best governors that new yorks had in the 20th century. i mean this is a state that had people like theodore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt as governor. he was also an amazing father and his children have done so well and its continuing his legacy and thats nothing that slight. and finally when he said "no, no i dont want to run for president, no i dont want to be on the...