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>> let me go to the politics. >> did it violate the law? >> we dont know. >> i think thats what we need to find out. >> i went to donald trump ral ralli rallies, i would see you on the trail, you are an in demand person, i think they thought that donald trump was a great businessman, the apprentice was real, not a tv show. that he would do for america what he did for the tv show. as we see the trump organization in the eye of the stormy daniels legal storm, and the mueller legal storm, the first...

Paying attention to looks. but what were thinking, we have elected a guy who ran "the apprentice." and so what it is the politics of celebrity. we have this fancy term in the academy called similacre, the representation of the thing is more important than the thing. were just dealing with image. were dealing with representation. were not dealing with the substance of things. so trump actually represents i think that fact of the culture. we are awash in the surface of things, kind of bound by the...

Changes. his hand was forced with tom price and some of the others hes gotten rid of so far. john kelly came in and cleaned house. but rex tillerson, that was somebody that he had wanted to get rid of for a long time but i dont think hed felt confident enough to simply fire. now, when you heard donald trump come forward yesterday, he said, look, i simply didnt have chemistry with the guy. he brought in mike pompeo, somebody he really does have chemistry with. i think thats important, but i think...

Said in his previous life on "the apprentice." youre fired. >> we will never use those words on you, thats for sure. >> reporter: the president is at odds over campaign promises of recruiting the best team. >> were going to have the best people in the world. >> reporter: so it does seem like the president is re-evaluating his initial choices to be in the cabinet and could be making some substitutions, if you will, in the second year of his administration. of course, this is all up to him in term...

Years. he says stormy is a wonderful person, that shes very smart and very funny. he says he was also there when donald trump would call her. stormy was staying at his house for a bit. the two of them would listen into phone calls because stormy would put donald trump on speakerphone back between 2006 and 2007 when the affair was allegedly still going on. and he says, look, they often talked very business-like. it was all about stormy, her career, and what was happening with it. that donald trum...

I run the department of housing and urban development. [ laughing ] >> thats hilarious. >> reporter: the president once praised shulkin to his commitment to reforming the va. >> i have no doubt it will be properly implemented. right, david? it better be, david. well never have to use those words. >> reporter: those words, of course, are ones he often said in his previous life on "the apprentice." youre fired. >> youre fired. >> we will never use those words on you, thats for sure. >> reporter: t...

Long time. >> reporter: though the president is sounding a bit more hawkish on russia after the british government finding that moscow was behind the poisoning of an ex-russian spy on uk soil. >> it sounds to me like they believe it was russia and i would certainly take that finding as fact. >> reporter: but he says its too soon to condemn moscow. >> as soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn russia or whoever it may be. >> reporter: the president spent part of ...

Arrogant, they didnt get along, they disagreed on policy and the president is really flexing his muscle now. according to a source i spoke with today, the presidents feeling is like ive got it now, okay? i get this job, i know how to run the show and im going to do it and hes not being restrained by people, maybe general kelly was brought in there to do that but that just isnt going to happen and now hes kind of shuffling the deck here, firing the people, its like the old trump of trump organiza...

President trumps dramatic decision to fire secretary of state rex tillerson and to name cia director mike pompeo to be his replacement. gloria, there have been rumors about tillerson going for months and months and months, but the timing this morning, why? >> its odd. i have a source who said there must have been a precipitating event, because these people, trump and tillerson, have aggravated each other for months and months and months. now tillerson knows what its like to be gary busey on the ...

Official by name on the record, alex, saying that the president did not speak to the secretary of state and is simply unaware of why he was fired. alex having a hard time hearing me apparently. rachel, i think you heard the question. go ahead. >> not surprising. trump, he likes to fire people on "the apprentice." when it comes to doing people in the white house, he gives the job to someone else. think about priebus sitting alone on the tarmac when he was fired by the president over the summer. t...