author of the shadow president, and the author of the art of the deal for then citizen donald trump. tony, the economy is doing well and the president deserves credit for that. but as we are seeing now, his impulsiveness comes with a price. >> yeah, it's a leadership issue, which is that he is so narrowly focused on his own self-interests that first in the face of something like the china situation at g20, he's going to overhype it, and then the moment it seems like he might get blamed if it doesn't happen, he's now going to turn on it. and what he's incapable of recognizing is that the consequences to totally blow up the financial markets, and so the cost of that kind of narrowness is really extraordinary. >> it is interesting. he said recently that he follows his gut and his gut can tell him more than anybody's brain can tell them. >> well, isn't that quite a statement? i think what tony was saying about it being a leadership