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That knew him for over a decade, it was subtle but i knew immediately he was inside that bubble and he had changed. and i will say there are a lot of things in donald trump that i have seen and other people that have known him for a decade that dont recognize him now. >> definitely caught up in the trappings. after the ribbon cutting ceremony where he got the health care bill through the house and said im the president. hes fond of showing the diet coke button on his desk in the oval office and ...

Some people seem concerned about one gadget he installed. heres what he told the president told cbs news. >> every thinks this is very ominous right here. these are phones. these are very secure phones. but this is a a very ominous looking because of the red button. >> what does that get you? >> it gets you a coke or a pepsi. one of the other. any other cola companies i should mention. it gethouse something. but every time i press that, people -- i like to have fun with people. >> it gets you so...

Job. >> thank you so much for your perspective. i appreciate it. coming up, the buzz around that little red button. >> an article in "the associated press" says that president trump has a single red button on his oval office desk that he can push at any time and have a butler bring him a coke. i think i speak for everyone when i say oh, thats what red button is for, phew. >> so a second red button on the presidents desk, what could go wrong? >> what if he wanted a coke but accidentally ordered a...

Kind of walked in on a meeting that he was having with friends as well at the start of the time we were supposed to have our interview. so it was relaxed, shall we say? and for that, also very interesting. >> the exchange on the red button was amazing. a lot of people get worried when i hit the red button on my desk, joking to you all. here is what also the president told you, jeff, and your colleagues about the fight to defeat the islamic state. lets take a listen. >> look whats going on. we ha...

Beginning. mitch mcconnell just said hes confident. are you confident? do you have the votes for thursdays vote? >> i am confidence were moving more senators to question. president asking our conference, this is the bill he wants on his desk. time for great ideas has come and gone. now its time to vote on a bill. this is the bill. and so there are members that still arent there. but at the end of the day, there will be one vote people have. it will be to send the bill to president trumps desk to...

Vice president is overseas in europe. and the homeland security secretary is in europe. and then those in europe along with are hearing what the president said about sweden, while in florida it really could be a very serious matter in terms of, you know, trusting what comes out of the mouth of the president of the united states if no one can back up his words, brian. >> i think that we are not at risk of sweden misinterpreting something and then hitting their red button. i think that a country t...

Thats the way putin sees it, it will be hard to maintain this chummy relationship that trump and putin have had. because sometimes the united states and russia have co-interests, oftentimes they do not. >> we may see another reset button. >> correct. >> but the same red button. i want to move on to israel. we saw a cryptic tweet, donald trump writing in part, president-elect, rather, that things will be different come january 20th. what will things look like come january 20th and how will he cha...

When youre dealing with vladim vladimir putin and russia, every president can set the reset button. trump will have that opportunity. what does he do to get it right? >> the thing that trump has going for him, as a student who majored in history, i told donald trump this in september, we were talking privately. when you look at the presidents that did best with foreign policy, they were presidents perceived as being a little bit crazy. teddy roosevelt, ronald reagan. remember when reagan was por...

The race issues are in this jail? >> there are a lot of people who use that, we call it politics. you know? if i want to cause a problem, the most simplest way to bring up race. like the red button for the president. push it in. got world war iii jumping off. >> world war iii is exactly what the sheriffs department wants to prevent. in this era of reform, they have to find new ways to discipline that dont involve force. to prevent fighting, the jail isolates most high security inmates. they rare...

Then theres the one based on a dirty trick that was actually played if real life when the white house transitioned from bill clinton to george w. bush. an investigation confirmed, missing ws in the white house. >> hillary was saying they took the ws off the keyboards when bush won. i took the ts. they can only time "rump." >> reporter: he got an inquiry from an agent. they wanted to know if youre interested in a book deal. >> i told them im interested in anything at this point. >> reporter: if t...