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Down on trump. >> because i think there are two worlds going on here. there is rupert murdochs world, which is all powerful, but he doesnt -- its actually not quite all powerful because you have the fox -- the fox network has moved its business model or the fox news network to an all trump model. thats where the money comes from. does rupert -- would rupert murdoch have an alternative to that that would supply that much money? rupert hates donald trump, hates him, but rupert loves money. those a...

>> yeah, but i dont want you to think that what i said at that point was in any way inauthentic. i think the media has done a terrible job on this. i think you yourself, while youre a nice guy, youre full of sanctimony. you become one of the problems of the media. you come on here and have a monopoly on truth. you know exactly how things are supposed to be done. you know, you are why one of the reasons people cant stand the media. im sorry. >> youre cracking me up. >> its your fault. >> so what ...

That are coming out this week and last week, michael wolffs book, michael bender, carol leonnig and philip rucker, they were interviewing these sources almost in realtime. it takes a while to write a book of several hundred pages. i think this is very fast, first of all. second of all, when it comes to mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who is still by the way the current chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, do you think that it would be appropriate for him to -- hes not ho...

Looking glass dysfunction in the white house. and i think to date, no one really has been able to make sense of this, to understand what this means for the future, for democracy, for the media itself because how do you -- how do you -- how do you in the media who are, you know, earnest to a fault, attentive to the workings of cause and effect, how do you write about someone who is -- who has no idea what cause and effect is, who doesnt care, who exists only in the moment. >> so youre suggesting ...

More american jobs than otherwise would have been repai needed to repair? >> i guess no country has ever led the world by clinging to technologies or pieces of infrastructure that were 100 years old. if were clinging to technologies that worked wonders for our economy in 1950 and think that that will carry us into the future, we will continue to fall behind as a country. and at the end of the day, i think america is not america unless we are striving for number one. >> the next hurdle for climat...

Both these bills in the next three weeks. >> senator, thank you for your time. thank you for your commitment to helping children come out of poverty. there should be nothing partisan about that. sherrod brown, chairman of the committee on urban affairs and a senator from ohio. right now there are at least 70 wildfires burning across the united states and that is just the start of what is expected to be a hot and dry summer fueled in part by the climate crisis. ill bring you my conversation wit...

If you have a lot of books written about you, you are either a really good person or a really bad one. donald trump has been the subject of dozens of books and tell alls in his lifetime. what could that mean? ill let you judge, but the trump presidency was memorable to say the least. we dealt have angry outbursts on twitter, staff turnovers, a devastating pandemic that wiped out more than 612,000 american lives, top it off with an insurrection at the u.s. capitol that led to his second impeachme...

Investigation by michael wolff. they are both near the top of amazons best-seller list right now. the wolff book, "landslide" is one of a bevy of trump-related books and has some of the most shocking details. so lets bring in michael wolff for a conversation about what he learned and about his trilogy of books involving the former president. michael, i think you had to move up your publishing date because other trump books were coming out this month also. was this a gamesmanship thing where the ...

Bubble. >> thats true, i agree. >> you know, youve got to stop -- i mean that last segment that i just had to listen to, of all of the people saying the same old stuff. also youre incredibly re repe repetitive. its week after week. youre the flip side of donald trump. you know, fake news and you say virtuous news. you know, theres -- >> no, we just figure out what is real. >> well, figuring out -- yeah, figuring out what is real is not so -- is not so easy. and most people dont want to turn to b...

Providing details about things behind closed doors. and lets just say things were much worse than we thought. the book is called "frankly we did win this election, the inside story of how trump lost." the author michael bender is joining me now. thanks for joining us. congratulations on the book. one of the things that you do in the book is you got a number of anecdotes, stories of trump supporters, which kind of when taken together help my viewer understand why he was able to succeed. these peo...