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Fareed zakaria is back with me and were joined by dana bash. selena zito as well columnist for the "new york post." and presidential historian douglas brinkley who by the way is author of "rightful heritage: frankly d. roos sxrelt land of america." thank you for joining us. good to have you back, fareed. so the president, dana, spoke at the national prayer breakfast. he was introduced by mark burnett, the producer of "the apprentice," and he began by talking about his replacement on that show. >...

>> donald trump may have mentioned he has a television show a time or two during the campaign today however was different. in washington one day a year they have whats called the national prayer breakfast. the president chose that setting to talk about television ratings. >> we had tremendous success on "the apprentice" and when i ran for president, i had to leave the show. thats when i knew for sure i was doing it and they hired a big, big movie star, arnold schwarzenegger to take my place and ...

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A war of words today with of all people arnold schwarzenegger. fareed is with me and dana bash, zito and brinkley. author of "rightful heritage: franklin d. roosevelt and the land of america." president spoke at national prayer breakfast. introduced by mark burnett, producer of "the apprentice" and began talking about his replacement on that show. >> hired a big, big movie star, arnold schwarzenegger to take my place and we know how that turned out. ratings down the tubes. total disaster and mar...

On himself every day. reminded that john adams said the greatness of washington is he knew the power of silence, when to be silence. trump doesnt know silence. hes going to babble and babble and babble for the next four years. question is whether the routine goes badly and ratings go down like on "the apprentice" or keep it as popular storyline in america. >> chance of becoming chicken little, the sky is falling. >> and john adams didnt have twitter. >> if he suddenly became silent everyone woul...

Ratings, it does throw you a little bit. it just says its inappropriate. >> well, since you said that, we got back to the subject. arnold schwarzenegger took to twitter, who has his old job on "the apprentice," "celebrity apprentice." and he said this. >> hey, donald. i have a great idea. why dont we switch jobs? you take over tv because youre such an expert in ratings and i take over your job. and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. hmm? >> yeah. the funny thing about that, of cour...

Not have stood up there and said "the hell with it." mark burnett is the owner/operator of the tv show that donald trump starred in. he is therefore the custodian of all the video recorded for that show that was never seen on that show, video rumored to contain some pretty horrible things said by donald trump. and thanks to mark burnett, none of that video has ever been seen. and so of course the president of the united states is very, very grateful to mark burnett. >> we had tremendous success ...

Theyre tough. we have to be tough. its time were going to be a little tough, folks. were taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. its not going to happen anymore. >> reporter: that may sound good as campaign rhetoric, but as a diplomatic matter its a different situation. rex tillerson, speaking at the state department in a short time, will have to deal with that tough talk and how our allies receive that. at the prayer breakfast this morning the president asked for a prayer fo...

We had tremendous success on "the apprentice." when i ran for president i had to leave the show. thats when i knew for sure i was doing it. and they hired a big, big movie star, arnold schwarzenegger, to take my place. and we know how that turned out. the ratings went right down the tubes. its been a total disaster. and mark will never, ever bet against trump again. and i want to just pray for arnold if we can for those ratings, okay. >> that was how donald trump opened his remarks at the nation...

Thought that was a good venue to mock "the apprentice" for its ratings? >> mark burnett, the creators of the show, a longtime supporter of the prayer breakfast, but also has a personal relationship, was there. he meant it as a lighthearted moment. i think if you look at the talent totality of his remarks, and they were absolutely beautiful, and i think to hone in on that my it was a lighthearted moment he was trying to have with a big supporter of the national prayer breakfast and a personal fri...