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Fbis tough guy. here is a front page in stockholm sweden. the fbi directors firing also made the front page in iegs lce and heres what viewers saw today in england. >> remember this, donald trump has already fired the acting attorney general sally yates. he has already dismissed the most high profile prosecutor in manhattan. hes already sacked his own national security advisor michael flynn. so, it is playing out like some scene from the apprentice, but the dismissal of james comey is by far the...

Be an explicit addition to this already announced 13 member working group. >> okay. stay on it. phil, thank you. lets discuss all of this with erin elmore, former contestant on "the apprentice" and zerlina maxwell. ladies, good to see both of you. erin, let mow bege begin with y. why is this taking so long to address the lack of diversity -- >> im sorry. im having a very hard time hearing you. but i think i understand your question. >> hang on a second. hang on. >> -- its a lot more -- >> can yo...

About really getting the trains running efficiently and back on time. >> and also, a senior level source told me she doesnt have an office in the west wing, shes over in the eisenhower building. shes not that close to begin with. her office is in eisenhower, correct, francesca? >> im not entirely sure about that. one thing i was also told about this is that you have to recall that shes known president trump for a long time, longer than some of these other people because they were on "the apprent...

Responding to everything, it allows him to be out front and to control the narrative. it also distracts, as kurt referenced, from all the things going on, all the important things that need to be reported. that is not lost on donald trump. >> quickly, when you were on the apprentice, did you ever think you were looking at a future president? >> i did not, no. it was interesting to see how his positions have shifted since those days as well. >> do you miss him, do you miss working with him on the...

Is a credible place to reach people with an argument that has been fact checked and will be read. donald trump has other ways to reach people. he talks about his social media media accounts. what did you make of that discrepan discrepancy? >> thats been the hypocrisy thats been going on with trump all along. he was created first of all by nbc with the apprentice. then he was almost bankrupt. cnn and so many cable news stations aired him in enormous amounts of hours and hours and hours. hes been ...

Become president was a strategy then what about now. >> you are going to elect a reality tv show star will you get a reality tv show star. he thinks like a he thinks about twists, surprise endings, new plot lines. thats the mind that rewarded him through "the apprentice." we see that on display now. whether its buses coming from the senate to the white house. or a second supreme court nominee that might be on the way to washington. hes thinking in that way, dolling out storying for the media. we...

And we dont know how he reacts in those situations. hes going to have a challenge of some sort, and were going to see in realtime. we have to hope hell grow in the job. >> mm-hmm. yeah. being leader of the free world is a hard job. every single president before him has said that. thank you, frank. i appreciate it. all we have to do is look at the pictures of how they age in four years or eight years. >> the question is will we age just as much? >> thank you, frank. always a pleasure. when we c...

Drama, conflict and ratings, sounds like a reality show but actually is the donald trump presidency. >> from reality tv to the white house. >> youre fired. >> from the board room to the campaign trail and into the oval office, donald trump the former star of "the apprentice" brings the skills he learned in reality tv to his new reality in washington. >> donald trump lives by being unpredictable. he likes the element of surprise and shock and he employs that shock value in his communication strat...

I guess being on "the apprentice" and running a real estate empire. he seem wistful for his past life. one predictor is having an occupant who loves the job. >> no question. teddy roosevelt said with every fiber of my being i love being president. thats why i didnt want to give it up. fdr, somebody asked him, why would anyone want this terrible job? he said, why wouldnt everybody want it? its the best job in the world. there was a wistfulness. the difference is that however busy he was before, h...

Reality tv to become president. it was a winning strategy for him then. what about now? >> yeah, you elect a reality show star, youre going to get a reality show star. i think its essential to understanding president trump that he thinks like a television producer, not just a reality show producer but a television producer. he thinks about cliff hangers. he thinks about twists, surprise endings, new plot lines. thats the mind that rewarded him through "the apprentice." i think we see that on dis...