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On the break that the synopsis of your story is 2,000 words long. im going to ask you to do the impossible. for people rushing to their printers, for people who didnt take the latter half of the day off to read it, what is the takeaway versus the story we were told on "the apprentice," the story weve been told for years? >> the story youve been told for years is donald trump received a million-dollar loan from his father sometime around when he was starting, and he had to pay it back with intere...

People who didnt take the latter half of the day off to read it, what is the takeaway versus the story we were told on "the apprentice," the story weve been told for years? >> the story youve been told for years is that donald trump received a million-dollar loan from his father sometime around when he was starting, and he had to pay it back with interest, and that was the sum total of parental support he received. thats wholly untrue. he began receiving money from his father when he was 3 years...

Look, tax evasion and tax avoid dance, it is a very murky line. i have no idea where that lands on this. but there is such value to laying out detail like this about anybodys life who is in a prominent position let alone a president who refuses to release his own tax returns. >> i think the question of whether it is going to matter for the presidents supporters and the really fierce supporters, that is an open-ended question. you just think back to the 2016 trump rallies and talking to the voter...

For people rushing to their printers, for people who didnt take the latter half of the day off to read it, what is the takeaway versus the story we were told on "the apprentice," the story weve been told for years? >> the story youve been told for years is donald trump received a million-dollar loan from his father sometime around when he was starting, and he had to pay it back with interest, and that was the sum total of parental support he received. thats wholly untrue. he started receiving mo...

We all kind of knew that. but i dont think weve ever seen it spelled out in quite this extraordinary detail. >> we all didnt know that. we all in new york knew that. >> we four around the table. >> but across the country people didnt. people fell in love with donald trump when they watched him on "the apprentice". >> he was the punchline for jokes in the excess of the 1980s. "the apprentice" repositioned him as this entrepreneurial guru. it was a complete hall of mirrors. this guy has been runni...

National security correspondent for the washington post and author of the new book. greg, great to have you here. it is a great book. you all it the apprentice, which has many different references and meanings, but are you trying to suggest that president trump is vladimir putins apprentice. >> it is a title worked on a lot of levels. it is the show that propelled trump to fame. he arrives in the white house with so little training, he hasnt had time to be an apprentice on the job. but there is ...

Before he is sworn in. and flynn is doing -- we know he has checked with the trump campaign in florida before he has this conversation with the russian ambassador. and hethen he has to hide it. he decides to lie about it. >> it is the story of our time. the apprentice, he is the apprentice in your book to vladimir putin. its kind of embarrassing for a grown man to be admitted you have a relationship like that. a tale of two trumps. by day he tells reporters that the fbi should interview whoeve...

Will be exposing itself to substantial liability and damages for defamation." here to help us sift through this massive story, jennifer ruben, "washington post" opinion writer, happenses to be a former tax attorney. matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department. ashley parker, white house reporter for the "washington post." sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast. ashley, let me start with you on the sheer political enormity of the entire trump brand, the self-made billio...

It was gone quickly, but i love that name. the apprentice. to keep the engine of america and prosperity running full speed ahead. we are also fixing decades of disastrous trade deals that have plundered our factories and stolen our wealth and our jobs. what has happened here over the last 20 or 25 years, and more, is horrible. we are changing it all. we have added 400,000 new manufacturing jobs since the election, and that number very shortly will be up, david, to 640,000. big things are happeni...

>> we met him in front of moskow and he came up stairs and received a very warm welcome initially, and ms. trump was asked a few questions. and one of them was on president putin. and he said he believed the russians had a strong leader in president putin unlike america whose leader was weak, and he was referring to president obama. and i think this came about at a time when nobody had anything good to say about either vladimir putin or russia. >> one guest then asked trump about the greek finan...