going to end up opposing him on those issues. >> later in the day in his speech of the senate, first speech as the minority leaderer he said the united states could not afford a twitter presidency. a nice lip swipe over there at donald trump. what was your bottom line? can these two guys work together? >> yes, oh, yes. look, he can't admit it in public right now, and i believe him it's not like they're best friends. he said we never had a meal together. but they've known each other for decades. he didn't say that it was wrong when i told him that trump talks about the fact that he believes that he was one of if not the first, one of the first donors to a chuck schumer campaign back in the '80s or even before that. and he has continued to do that. i mean, chuck schumer called him up when he was at the head of the democratic senatorial campaign committee running it trying to get democratic senators elected, doing a fund-raiser, can we do it at mar-a-lago, they've run into each other. thief different in most ways but