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Feels eerily like so many state owned channels i have watched in other countries, leading lights at cnn the organization mr. trump has most vocally branded fake news were quick to agree. >> the president has railed against fake news. isnt this a sign he wants to create his own version? >> its not real and its not news. and its definitely not real news. >> but there are several other things the videos from trump tower are not. >> at 7:00 a.m. on tuesday morning, the president announced an histori...

There. >> yes. >> did you guys laugh at it? >> yeah. there was nothing so terrible about it. it was like of like puffing, it was like exaggerating. >> seems like sometimes thats not the case. >> reporter: tony schwartz, co-author of "the art of the deal" even invented a name for trumps strategy. >> i came up with this phrase, truthful hyperbole, which i called it an innocent form of exaggeration. now, i can call something i actually sold for $2 million, i can say $10 million and that becomes tru...

To cross. and then, you know, the other thing i would say is north korea has been making bizarre threats for decades, for years and years, its a sign of the weakness of that regime that they lash out with this bizarre language. and for some reason, all of a sudden trump has decided that that is something that is threatening to the united states. >> this is where his hyperbole really does get him into some trouble because he does like to talk like this. he likes to make things bigger than maybe t...

The ambassador to russia feels eerily like so many state owned channels i have watched in other countries, leading lights at cnn the organization mr. trump has most vocally branded fake news were quick to agree. >> the president has railed against fake news. isnt this a sign he wants to create his own version? >> its not real and its not news. and its definitely not real news. >> but there are several other things the videos from trump tower are not. >> at 7:00 a.m. on tuesday morning, the presi...

Jump-starting diplomacy. if that diplomacy does begin, the focus would be on capping or freezing the program, which is currently estimated to have about a 15 to 20 nuclear weapons. it couldnt be about a total rollback of the nuclear program. >> gordon, we have heard hyperbole and hot air going back and forth with north korea a lot of our adult lives. in your view, how dangerous is this period right now? >> well, i think its dangerous, because we have about a year or so before the north koreans m...

Iowa and new hampshire. nicole, this is not fairly unprecedented. this isnt kind of unprecedented. this is unprecedented. this doesnt happen this early, and the vice president can say what the vice president wants to say. hes setting up a pretty powerful campaign operation whether he tells himself hes doing that or not. >> should we just say it out loud? no one is sure that donald trump is going to make it. including people on the inside. and so he doth protestette a little too much as a communi...

Description just last week of receiving two phone calls, one from the president of mexico, and another from the head of the boy scout, that never happened, mr. trump is trafficking in hyperbole, distortion and fabrication, on practically a daily basis. the piece goes through and makes the point that other presidents have -- to be honest, you write about how my former boss, president bush, with the iraq war was obviously caught in a situation where the case he had made for the war turned out not ...

Over. hes not going to try to make a cheap buck. >> and he would like more money. >> the pathological liar was president obama when he said you can each your own doctor, your own health care, was he a pathological liar or speaking in hyperbole. >> that was the plan and purpose to get through the legislative process. >> to get through the legislative process. youre right. >> why cant you guys ever stay on the topic. stay on topic. >> donald trump is the topic. >> there were many tweets as well to...

Presidency and the people that are part of his team. is his response similar to what you are seen in the past? >> i would have to say, you know, one of the greatest losses in american history was that of george mcgovern in 1972. so there are similarities between nixon and donald trump. but the use of hyperbole is something new to the presidency with trump. here is the key thing and i -- its appalling when the president of the united states says this about the russia investigation. we have to inv...

You vote. >> chris: the soul of the problem here, the beating heart is this, we are talking about radiant differences in policies that are sold and existential apocalyptic terms. there is nothing that was in the paris climate record that was going to change the history of mankind for all time. instead of talking about things like we would other issues, like taxes and other things, we talk about it in these existential dead polar bear terms, and as a consequent, it turns away from what it really ...