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Right acrs the country. jared kushner, the crown prince, the son-in-law under fbi scrutiny. this is huge, and the presidents overseas coming back to that news. then we also have this story floating out there, theyre putting together a war room. only this isnt a war room like in the days of clinton in 92. this is a war room to play defense on the law, to keep these people from losing power. and my question is corey lewandowski coming back, steve bannon coming back, these are the bad boys. these a...

Job? this week will test it. hes trying to do a lot before saturday to get things done. where does he stand with press relations, foreign policy and probably most important with getting congress to do things with him to make the economy better. >> harold, what does the president need to learn from his first 100 days? whats the most important thing that he learns? >> he has said it over and over again, these things are really hard to do. i think thats a positive that hes saying that. two, i hope ...

Media consumer no matter what he says and he is someone who thinks that he is the best spokesman and so you know that it is a difficult job. you know that you are going to have to walk a fine line being honest and as transparent and you can with a press corps that is a constituency of yours as well in terms of trying to make sure that their jobs are not easy, but that their jobs, that you are doing what you can tole help them to do the job day n day out, and with a president who is fundamentally...

>> bill: so he knew what that was? >> of course. he would use -- we didnt really have social media at the time. it was fairly new in 2007, 2008. >> bill: i dont think he is a big tweeter even to this day though. you dont get tweets from him, do you? >> i think 41 tweets more than 43 actually. [laughter] >> bill: for the personality of the two presidents, and president obama too, so opposite. trump is so aggressive. >> i think that you had some constructive criticism of how we ran press relations...

Google party head [laughs] >> bill: he knew what that was? >> of course. we didnt really have social media at the time. it was fairly new in 2007, 2008. >> bill: i dont think he is a big tweeter even to this day. you dont get tweets from him, do you? >> i think 41 tweets more than 43. [laughter] >> bill: for the personality of the two presidents, and president obama, too, so opposite. trump is so aggressive. >> i think that you had some constructive criticism of how we ran press relations at the...

Will be a scar that will be over this administration for as long as its in office. there cannot be a repeat of saturday. >> all right. >> let me say that one more time. no more saturdays. >> jonathan -- the weekly standard. this is really well done. trumpism corrupts spicer edition. rule number one for press relations is that you can misrepresent and you can shade the truth to a ridiculous degree or play dumb and pretend not to know things you absolutely do know. >> play dumb. >> but you cant pe...

And she knows that. she cant just walk in. >> i do, im not supposed to but do i sympathize with the situation she is in intellectually. as one of our smart producers said yesterday. its not that theyre looking for a smoking gun. as long as they have this smoke cloud around her. every time they get her in a press conference them just yell benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. and e-mail, e-mail, e-mail. they dont even know what the gun is. what are they for? how do you deal with that in terms of press re...

Situation she is in intellectually. as one of our smart producers said yesterday. its not that theyre looking for a smoking gun. as long as they have this smoke cloud around her. every time they get her in a press conference them just yell bae benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. and e-mail, e-mail, e-mail. they dont even know what the gun is. what are they for? how do you deal with that in terms of press relations? like she had this trouble the other day. >> well, i think first of all, she has to figh...

Fair in the coverage. but they have to deal with the press relations. she has a the love time. shes an amazing situation none of us investor been in or will ever be in. >> self inflicted. >> so far ahead in a nomination fight that you cannot lose and therefore she has -- the problem with that is kplasance and not having a topnotch approach to the press. >> and arrogance. >> that is an interpretive thing. but she is not worried about losing the nomination. she has plenty of time to fix this thing...

Media is for us to get to know you as a person to understand where youre coming from to give us access so that theres context behind what youre saying. thats for any politician. for her, youre right. shes very likable. shes very friendly. shes very smart. shes a very hard person to not like once you get to know her. so the best thing she could be doing for her press relations is to let the media who are around her get to know her and, two, dont spin, dont dissemble, dont put this moat around her...