Only authorized biographer of President Trump what does that mean to be an authorized biographer quick. I dont think that is accurate i hear that over and overt it is an authorized history because the biography would tell about his birth and his whole life its just the whitebi house and his election and campaign and the history of his first year in the white house. What does it mean to be authorized quick. The president says who he wants to talk to so initially sitting there with Sarah Huckabee sanders when the book sstarted said i want everybody in the cabinet and he said good you can have them all. So once i started to interview the family members i could not get out of the family it was to rich and interesting. Why did the president pick you quick. It was a long time it was the year i had a meeting with teeten they will still write books about the trump family when you and your kids are gone whether you are viewed with hatred or self rated like the kennedys and rockefellers depends on one thing it is a primary source im not primary source im thirdparty its what you say and your father says that history will be written that i would like to write the book. So they debated for a year. I taperecorded george bush so general kelly says no. Dont let him in. Why did they trust you . Its the president you will see it over and over again that if somebody really enjoys doing iov something even if they may not be perfectly suited whether building a skyscraper or to be in charge of the campaign she wanted to do it he said michael went to merrill law go right after he kissed me for a week and now he is on tv attacking me and i feel chemistry with you. As authorized as the president get to read what you published . E it is he probably didnt have time but for the protocols they cannot dictate anything i write or say but they can say this was off the record are on the recor record. They can also say this is national security. So they do have that option and i wanted it to be accurate thats the whole point of the somethingt to write that really is what they said so they encouraged dawn junior and tiffany and jared and teeten if there was a mistake but they did not dictate i wrote what i wrot wrote. Would be with the white house and with the family quick. It was over a period of a whole two years it was in and out i had three meetings with the president beginning 2016 and lots of questions through the kids and staff that was ivanka in her office and jared in his office right in between the chief of staff of the oval office i went to teeten ivanka and jared home to meet with them around the fireplace and went to trump tower to interview eric and laura i got the tour of trump tower talked on the phone with the family multiple times and got the onlyes interview with the Tiffany Dilley one she has given since her father was elected. I was surprised with all of them one of the things that surprised me in most families normally there is the smart and the dumb and the rich and the lazy and the smart one there are different characters that emerge but every one is dynamic and they all have a positive streak in them when i would quiz ivanka she said i would refuse to be better i choose to be happy she said in fact i cannot function if im not happy so i choose to be happy. Leach were like that to bring out the Silver Lining including the president. Inside the Trump White House the real story is the topic of ourc discussion on washington journal. You brought up Jared Kushner already he comes up very early in the book you and the book with Jared Kushner theres a lot of references to him it seems like he particularly interested you. Yes because nobody could interview him and nobody would get to so i thought i want to know everything what you watch on netflix how do you eat or how do you sleep on the internationalt voyages. I spent a long time getting stuff on jared. He is a very mysterious guy. You said he would not let me record our interviews relying me to rely on scribbled notes but in his georgetown home with a fireplaced nearby squeeze between the oval office and the chief of staff suite in the south hallway of the west wingng every story was patiently waiting that now you are actually interviewing spiderman what was most worthsp waiting for quick. There are so many. He said i told my fatherinlaw russia collusion is the perfect scandal because it is so farfetched and you are so provably innocent so to create a scandal like out of new york city the public would have been confused and it would have worked but they chose russian collusion. He also said it was a great diversion because he felt they could not have turned around the economy but the media was focused on deregulationth and the stories out of the deregulation so thats typical thinking of Jared Kushner. With those on the unexpected advantages of the witchhunt but now with ukraine . Explain. By saying he is a russian agent they have run him for president and elected him against all odds think about that for a minute thats like the assassination of christopher columbias or Julius Caesar that is great if they could achieve that so when it turns out to be not true they cannot prove it it is pretty farfetched i can tell you a story about that but now they say it isnt it but this one is really it so at least apologize theyre not listening to what you haven to say you cant keep it up so in that sense it worked to his advantag advantage. So who ends up first. Good morning im a democrat i worked at the state department at one time. And with the george h. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan but not with the fake news that more than half of our country is not familiar with the facts Climate Change is for real also and look at what is happening all over therere world and california and our nation of our children and grandchildren this is the United States of america. This is not russia or china it is the United States of america. I feel very strange when this man gets on air force one i dont think he should be allowed to do that they should not allow this man to get on. I agree with everything you had a to say i also worked for Ronald Reagan on his campaign biography and george h. W. Bush when 63 Million People elect the president of United States you should not elect them free speech are that they cannot represent us thats what elections are all about we could vote for who we could vote for. I have interviewed six president s. What defines legacy quick. Almost 120 Different Things but primarily the economy and the economy dominates for example with the four president s intelligent carter at almost the most intelligent hes higher than trump and kennedy but is ranked poorly as a president but lately ranked as a poor president because ofse the economy and had a 28 percent Approval Rating so the economy dominates and that is in Donald Trumps favor. What will the Impeachment Vote mean for this president s legacy quick. Normally impeachment should s bad but the russian collusion thing is haunting the democrats after the election they said went after reasons to get rid of him and ousted b will impeach him so that undercuts their case for impeachment. I will tell you an interesting story jared kuchma dash kushner told me the trump kids travel all over the world and in 2017 they would be pulled aside by a head of state and they would say to them we know your father and how sorry we are he is going through this russian collusion nonsense. When i heard that story is like at light switch going off because i wrote the book all the president s children so the perspective totally changes now i see the russian collusion through the kids and i think of course for the president of france or the Prime Minister youre not going to wait for two years if its Benjamin Netanyahu youre going to call the New York Times i want an answer there are 120 intelligence agencies that has 4 million budget those countries hadtr to know. And they all do their own investigation. The security of their country isno at stake i have to know the answer to that if he is a russian spy they know the answe answer. In your phone calls this is peer in washington dc good morning. Caller good to talk to you. George one dash so with the nepotism of the presidency the problem for thele trump family but how they justify their own nepotism and to profit off the presidency . Thank you. You can call it nepotism but republican president s have often pick their children to serve in government actually the first was john adams whose johnwa quincy administered no less than George Washington said please dont withhold appointments on john quincy so when i sat down with t3 the newspaper said this is unprecedented but she was the 1h son or daughter of an american president to be appointed to work in the white house with the father and roosevelt ran the whitete house in fact she ran the yalta conference and Eleanor Roosevelt comes to her daughters aid to be put into the manifest and her daughter says sorry i cant do this its been going on for a long time we call itasg nepotism but when youre president of the United States you want people you can trust that are loyal to you and you have a tendency to pick those that are closest to you and often that is your own kids. Through history they change laws and say you cant but the president will put them on the dnc payroll like carter did in gerald ford did to his daughter. So theres two things a child will do to be loyal and offer continuity so if you are working in your boss is rights previous than all of your projects collapse theres no continuity now general kelly isll gone. But the children remain. They will always be at the table at thanksgiving so what you say to one of the children or the relatives will in duer or in that continuity is important. Good morning connecticut. Caller i want to ask how the trump family deals at the nasty falsehood ive never seen the tellers to suffer consequences. But first isr the notion donald trump is a racist he says things like the Unemployment Rate among black people is at an alltime low and takes credit for it. He is clearly celebrating the increase of prosperity among africanamericans and then Maxine Waters saying he is aer racist. But there is never anybody in se media to say how do you say that and then the of course the other is the russia hoax you would say we have moved past that but adam schiff h and senator blumenthal keeps saying publicly and repeatedly they have evidence of this crime occurring although they never point out the evidence from when they appear in public so how does the trump family deal with these two nasty allegations . Thats very interesting. Because i write a whole chapter of the trump women on the bus they campaigned all over the south as trumps closest personal assistant for almost all of his life and when im finished with the book i want to get a picture of the trump women on the bus there are six and five are africanamerican the only white person is laura trump you never heard about it and its never in the news the only one who got was oma rosa who switched on the president but he feels he can accomplish what the country wanted to do and lbj wanted to do 6 Million People have gone off food stamps lbj gave them food stamps and subsidized housing the police would go to look and see if there is a man in the apartment than they could lose their welfare because they were claiming to be a single mom. The father had to be chased out you have a whole generation of young people wiraised and an increase of crime hes very proud of what has happened it doesnt matter if he gets credit at least he says that. One night Jared Kushner came home and his daughter greeted him at the door and she stayed up late and the other kids were in their pajamas and she said speaking to her computer, how many people has Jared Kushner gotten out of prison today . Of course siri did not know. I will tell you. 20000 up until today he got out to but today 20000. Not bad daddy. Most of those prisoners that were released inad paroled for africanamerican it was nonviolent drug offenses. The trump family takes great pride in that no matter what people want to think. Doug wead is our guest. Inside the trumps white house. From the rose garden talking about what he is thankful for this year and living in the white house. This thanksgiving we bow our heads for the newfound prosperity in spirit taking place all across america the country has never been morea. Successful the military has been rebuilt the captured and killed the number one terrorist in the world aku bakr albaghdadi and i want to thank oured military because theres nothing like our military. I want to thank almighty god rafor shedding his grace on our nation our nation is special and we send our love to members of the United States armed forces playing all over the world we are thankful for those who where the nations uniform in the family that supports them they are so important it can never be the same without those great families many fellow americans are celebrating another wonderful thanksgiving in safety and in peace a very special country a very special place at the rose garden and the white house if youre looking back here its the oval office some of you have never been here but every time we walk the grounds we realize how special it is. Picking up on the last part the president living in the white house from a president who owns a lot of properties. Thats from christmas 2018 he stayed in the white house rather than go tomorrow lago. He says i will stay here and work for ther country so they have all these traditions for christmas at maralago and they said wont you join us . The grandkids were there he said no i have this business i have to work for the country. So finally eric and laura say were coming back to the white house we dont want you to be alone so then jared and t3 call and said you cannot be alone for christmas so he opens up to jared and says i own all these properties and homes this is a rental i am going to enjoy this one for a while he called the white house a rental that he is making the point this will not last forever i will enjoy it while i have it he was also setting up to go to iraq to see the troops on Christmas Day and could not let anybody know they were doing that democratic line good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. Your guest almost made me throw up every time we hear he got 63 million Hillary Clinton got 66 million and should be in the white house at 54 percent of the people voted against the clown that is disgracing the Office Every Day hery bragged he could not have time to go golfing spending 24 percent of the time on the golf course have a nice day. Thankk you. I dont know i remember Richard Nixon after he lost to kennedy and said i will never criticize him to go to hyannisport or taking time off because i know what its like is not a nine to five job it is decisionmaking and those decisions way on you no matter where you go or where you are. Teeseven wherever the president goes his handlers are not far from him what about his twitter habits . My thoughts dont matter. Because if i was in charge of the campaign he never would have been elected. What do i know . I do think his communication is transformational he is going somewhere you cannot come back from and will always be a tool for future president s it is Pretty Amazing direct communication with the people although it screwed with rough edges it is comforting in a way. I work for multiple president s and they are very careful about what they say to be president ial but he is fascinating but when you talk to him and ask him a question i will do this or that he would grunt or moan and had to figure out what to do because if you are wrong you are in trouble but he will not tell you but nothing he ever said could ever be brought before i an impeachment inquiry so impeach me for smiling so i think it has been a refreshing experience i like the fact hes not a politician and tells us what he thinks teeseven dominic new yor york. Caller i would like to know your Guest Opinion on the economy. Lee image that my father will never forget is trump crossing the dmz into north korea. And now those mias are coming hometh. He went where no one else would go. The economy is doing great. Would like to hear yourou opinion have a great day. Happy thanksgiving. Yess the numbers dont lie. It is miraculous what has happened. We have 7 million unfilled jobs. That is the population of the state of indiana. Thats Pretty Amazing on tv if they say i wish we would have a recession. We get use to peace and prosperity but when you dont have peace and prosperity, Herbert Hoover the Current Media would love him he was brilliant and courtly and very careful what he said very president ial his kids were scientist engineers he was compassionate but he led us through the Great Depression and just to give you a picture off the garbage dumps these were people who could not keep their houses so they went to the garbage dumps where they looked for scraps to build their own huts and will look for food for their children. There was no sewage or Running Water and thousands of these hoover fills all across the country thats how people suffer when the economy goes bad. I guess if its fun if youre famous and rich to say we need a recession because you want your team to win and you want to win the white house but actually thats a wonderful thing 6 Million Pe