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Viewers, a sharp drop from the week before when "celebrity family feud" pulled in 6.1 million viewers. so he didnt get the ratings. >> well, its the feud, man. >> i think the question, gene, going into 2020 is going to be whether the excitements still there for trump, how much can you gin it up. at some point even shows that have great runs like "the apprentice," at somee point th just grow old and people turn away and go to another story. i wonder if you look at everything weve been talking abo...

Anybody that reports on him. when trump says hes ahead in 17 states, does donald think hes ahead in 17 states or does he understand that actually hes really facing an uphill battle right now? >> to answer that question, you haveo to think back to that period you just described, 2015-2016 when reporters would go up to the trump tower. he would have all these picture frames from "the apprentice" on the wall. he would say my ratings are doing really well. thise is back in 2015. wed say what do you ...

>> going into excitement for mr. trump. at some point, even great runs like the apprentice, at some point, they grow old and turn away to another story. i will say this, trump people who still when i ask them, are you still supporting him? they still almost to a person, go, love him. going to vote for him. will vote him again and then go, oh, gosh, those tweets make me tired. he has exhausted them. >> he really has. if anything, we underestimate how hes exhausted the base that

Next month or two, i plan that he says will cost less and cover more. but of course, craig, so far no specifics and that is also potentially risky strategy for the president. you remember the republicans when they controlled both chambers of congress still repeatedly tried to get rid of obamacare, didnt happen. its obviously something the democrats would have an opportunity to sort of pick up on to pick apart if he rolls out any real plan. well wait to see what the president does tonight. >> pet...

President to talk about his financials. but you say you know about the president and his coughing thing. >> yeah. this is apparently a tic. i had a campaign staffer who when he was being onboarded in 2016 texted me last night flagging the tweet underscoring this peculiar moment in the abc news transcript that the president shooed mulvaney out of the room and the staffer tweeted me he was warned not to cough in the presence of the president no matter the cost. go into another room. you would real...

May be true. then he got a little irritated about the whole coughing from his chief of staff. just as if he were on his show "the apprentice," he does these retakes. theres so much there. how do you get into the psyche of the president with all that? >> well, thou shalt not cough, i guess. i dont pay much attention to that. this whole thing about his financial statement and all that. democrats arent going to win or lose on the basis of trumps financial statement. thats not whats is going to turn...

Round ones. you look like john lennon in some of the late beatles era. i love that. sorry. >> thanks. jackie, lets move beyond the glasses. >> i concur. youve done your own reporting on this going back to what a former trump campaign staffer. >> yeah, its funny. i think the president has sort of this set of unwritten rules ranging from never cough to john boltons mustache. these things, little pet peeves that really irk the president. but a former staffer told me last night that during his on bo...

Into that one moment and delivering it in oral history form would help us kind of hit a pause button on those ten or so seconds and grapple with what has become clear, the significance of that entrance of donald trumps re-entrance of public life in this different context. at that time, people didnt know. people thought perhaps this was another publicity stunt, a way to juice up his celebrity, his way to get more years for "the apprentice." he had had head fakes in previous years, im going to run...

. welcome back. we know "saturday night politics" is being seen all around the world but we had a special viewer last night, donald trump seemed to be watching "saturday night politics." seemed to not like what he was hearing in the mid dle of the show. "donny deutsch whose show, like his previous shoebiz tries, is a disaster, has been saying that i had been a friend of his. this is false. he and separately erin burnett used to beg me to be on episodes of the apprentice, but that was it. hardl...

Campaign was going and he had to give a decision to nbc if he was going to do "apprentice." thats how this started. fast forward a week later, eight days after his announcement he will no longer be doing "the apprentice," and while it wasnt good for his business during the comments he made in his announcement, he became sort of a political martyr. its something that i think helped propel him to number one. i always said to him, said to me, where do you think were going to be after i announce? i ...