Including everyone, including himself and his family apparently. Hes actually doing better than most politicians could ever hope for. Thats kind of interesting. Its an experiment we are living through at once. Kimberly and your expectations, he exceeded all expectations. Greg on fox news, i was in the top four critics of donald trump. I didnt know what to expect. Its irrelevant now. Greg a lot of them are gone now. My point is given what we know about back then and what we are seeing now, who cares about that . Kimberly dana, what is your take . Dana a different perspective, in washington, especially when you work for a sitting president. When George Stephanopoulos book came out during the clinton administration, he was basically cut off from them. It was a big deal. They basically said you are dead to us. Scott mcclellan wrote the book during the bush administration. I was press secretary at the time and i was super upset. Washington loves a story. Americans dig into it. One of the things president bush called me into the oval office and set i hear you are upset but i dont want you to worry about it. I said, can i throw you under the bus . He said i want you to believe me. No one is going to think about this in two weeks. One of the things thats positive for republicans and one thing that could be trouble ahead. The severing of ties between President Trump and steve bannon is probably good for continued cooperation for the type of accomplishments greg was a little into. If you dont have the constant pushing from bannon, you allow them to work together. You probably dont have to worry about steve bannon trying to primary those incumbent senators. The thing i think that was eyeopening about the excerpt greg is referring to is that in one of the quotes steve bannon talks about, the issue isnt anything that has to do with 2016, it was before 2016 and it is about Money Laundering. Talked about jared kushner. I was like, i would Pay Attention to that. In the president s statement, he doesnt address any of the claims. He calls him a staffer. Matt lauer asked president bush when his book came out, why didnt you write about Scott Mcclelland . President bush that i didnt think it was relevant. Thats the way you try to sort of push these things out of the spotlight. This will be a story for a couple days and move on. The Money Laundering piece was eyeopening. Kimberly its interesting because the president went out of his way to make these statements. Knowledge, information where he had problems with bannon et cetera and believes some of these things to be occurring in the past when he was there but i know they were still in communication once steve bannon left the white house. Jesse i am surprised he didnt say i didnt know steve bannon. The story is either fake news or real but either way, it helps the president. The media shot itself in the foot and if its real, bannon is weekend and theres going to be no more roy moores. I read the first paragraph. Three lies, trump didnt want to win, melania cried and Kellyanne Conway didnt think they were going to win. I know those are lies. You have bannon saying this meeting at trump tower was treasonous. On 60 minutes two months ago he said the collusion thing was a farce. This guy wolf has a terrible reputation and his own industry. People say he is a gun for hire. Last book, 12 people came forward and said all of the quotes attributed to me were completely manufactured. Kimberly he talked to a lot of people. Jesse hes got a representation reputation for inventing things out of thin air. If steve bannon said the president of the United States sun as a traitor and weak and could crack and his soninlaw sleazy, then not only is that incredible disloyal, it is stupid. Trump values loyalty almost above everything. Being a team player. This is something the mooch previewed off the record. If this is true, he has no credibility going into the primaries which i think is going to be good because no one is going to want to give him money. That could help the president. Geraldo i take it on a personal level. In terms of the legislative prospects, dana astutely laid out the impact. The fact that bannon is in exile. Et tu, brute . You talk about treason . Steve bannon, how dare he. What he did to donald trump jr. Is one thing. The best defense for donald trump jr. In the infamous meeting in the white house, not being nefarious, it was so naive there was no lawyer there. So overeager, overenthusiastic. To me, thats his best defense. Donald jr. Didnt intend to collude with russians in any way that was illegal anyway. He wanted to get whatever information he could get. Kimberly do you believe he said these things . Geraldo to me, the worst thing steve bannon did in this whole episode is to suggest strongly that donald trump jr. Is sitting in trump tower a couple blocks from here surrounded by these commies. And then after the meeting he says there was zero possibility he didnt take the russians up to see his father. Washington post, New York Times, every Investigative Reporter in the nation has been striving to connect donald trump with that meeting with the russians and has failed to do so. Now heres steve bannon suggesting you can take it to the bank. Zero probably probability didn. This guy was his best friend . Kimberly its disconcerting if somebody was supposed to be on the same team with the president , very loyal advising him, trying to transform american politics and the forgotten men and women across the country, you dont do it by making these kind of very strong statements and taking a swipe and trying to take out the president son and the family and the essentially the president himself. Jesse he is given the left and the media a weapon to her the president with. A lot of the same people have said steve bannon is this horrible person, hes racist, propaganda. Now they are taking him for what he said and using, and now hes a truth teller. They are using this against the president. It is sad, the whole thing is sad and he didnt need to happen. Geraldo one quick point. Greg suggested President Trump did this on a lark. Ive known him a long time. He started telling me he was going to be president in 1998, 1999, 2000. He wanted to be president more than he wanted to make money. Greg i believe he had doubts, the way everybody had doubts. Id buy into the idea that everybody was surprised. As for bannon, i believe he hated the family because the family provided insulation from bannon. Those were the only people in this way. I think bannon saw trump as a vessel for his own disruptive principles and agenda. He wanted to disrupt. Kimberly he didnt like the globalist tendencies. Greg bannon is a radical. He wants to disrupt. He doesnt have mild opinions. Every opinion is the extreme opinion. Ivanka would despise someone like roy moore. Who embraced roy moore . Bannon. Thats the difference. Geraldo she could run circles around him intellectually. Kimberly we will see where this goes. Check your twitter. Ahead, the tweet from President Trump, his fake news awards teas and much more when the five returns. Dana kim jong un threatens to nuke america and our president respond with a thread of his own and critics explode. You may have seen the tweets. He is not merely being cavalier with a threat about nuclear war. Hes being cavalier in a threat that makes him say demented and arranged. This is language that wouldve been rejected from the script of dr. Strangelove. We cant begin to normalize this. Its dangerous, childish, unpresident ial. Perhaps never have we seen a man whose profound sexual and masculine insecurities are threatening to annihilate the planet. None of it is stable behavior. Dana it continued at the White House Press briefing this afternoon. Reporter after the tweet about nuclear threats, the Nuclear Button. Should americans be concerned about the president s Mental Fitness that he appears to be speaking so lightly about Nuclear Buttons . To go they present and the people of the country should be concerned about the Mental Fitness of the leader of north korea. He has made repeated threats. He has tested missiles for years. This is a president whos not going to cower down and not going to be weak. He makes sure hes going to do what he promises to do and that is stand up and protect the American People. Dana i was there by myself myself. I dont know how to use the four remotes it takes to watch television. I was watching on twitter and holy entertained. Take a look at what happened. I have asked twitters spokesman, does it violate the terms of service, making this threat toward north korea . No media comments from the company. Still waiting to hear. I think they are trying to decide if this kind of tweet referring to a Nuclear Button to go he knows how to use, whether its a violation of the terms of service. Greg he is officially americas hall monitor. He is a walking Nuclear Button. He is around and shiny like a button. You push in many goes off. Oh, my god. He has violated terms of servic service. They say if trump were a foreign leader, wed be worried. For once, it is not the reverse. The rationality from other countries worked for them. We put up with that because we didnt know what would happen next. This is a good thing. The best part is its working. North korea and south korea are opening channels to talk. Because north korea is feeling the pressure. We are at war with north korea, embargoes, stopping ships. They are feeling it. They want to talk to south korea which means they want to talk to us. One more point. Kimberly grab your notes, beautiful one. Greg did you see kim jong un is getting a makeover . He is getting a makeover. Why do men get makeovers . Why do they clean up their act . They are seeking a new relationship. He realizes. People are too apocalyptic about this. Things are working out. This is great news. Dana many different audiences. He talks your allies, your enemies, the American People, the military. This tweet mightve been meant specifically for kim jong un to see. Have people who arent in his base getting worried about it. I dont know if they got a lot of reassuring today. Kimberly i like this. It has thrown kim jong un over the edge. Now hes getting a mommy makeover, a lift and a talk. He is feeling insecure about himself because President Trump is unnerving him. He doesnt like it. Psychologically hes not responding well to it. I dont have a problem with President Trumps tweet. I think its fantastic and im glad some buddies standing up to this guy. Hes been an international punk and bully forever and he wants to threaten everybody with his nukes and its about time somebody stood up to him and said enough is enough. He has been catered to, allowed to exist and proliferate with this Nuclear Power ability. Quite frankly, it makes the world less safe. If President Trump wants to be the person is going to stand up and doodling about it along with nikki haley and motivating the u. N. To do the right thing. Talk about buttons, working all day long. Geraldo there is no doubt trumps button is big. Kimberly because you you we on the apprentice. Geraldo hes not stupid, not reckless. He knows theres a rigid process to go through before you declare war. What i urge people and i continually go back to this particularly with my friends being hostile to the president. Its not what he says. Its what he does that really matters. He can talk and inflammatory game, the president can, in terms of his policies and in terms of his actions, hes a pretty prudent, traditional, effective president. Moderate republican president. I think he is doing a fine job. The fact that he shakes up this guy, rocket man and so forth. I was in korea when they first opened up the dialogue between the south and north and they had telephones where you had relatives in the north talking to their cousins and south kore south korea. It went nowhere and it got polluted. I dont think theres anything wrong with encouraging korea to cool things down. Dana jesse, take it away. Jesse i dont think little rocket man needs a makeover. Why mess with perfection . The high fade, the tan jacket. I think trump aims to entertain but he is also aiming to ridicule, just like he did during the election. He humiliated little rocket man. For the media to question trumps mental stability, they worshiped obama like a cult leader for eight years. They are the ones who are mentally unstable. They need to accept trumps style parties on this for almost two years. Stop trying to diagnose him. This is the reaction when you had president obama, you get the opposite. He was thoughtful and professorial and he lead from behind. He never confronted evil. Trump comes out there, street fighter, brawler, bellicose. He shoots from the hip and i think thats with the American People want to. Pointed obamas soft action do . Trump is trying to clean his mess up. I say whats more dangerous . Greg you know what trump should tweet next . I love big buttons. I cannot lie. Dana a monologue you wont hear anywhere else on the president s upcoming fake news awards ceremony. Up next. Liberty mutual saved us almost 800 when we switched our auto and Home Insurance. With liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. Hey. Oh, thats my robe. Is it . When you switch to liberty mutual, you could save 782 on auto and Home Insurance and still get great coverage for you and your family. Call for a free quote today. You could save 782 when liberty stands with you. Liberty mutual insurance. Greg donald trump just announce hes giving out the most dishonest and corrupt media awards to his biggest offenders. This is a first. Are you surprised . Have you noticed the media is an object of criticism for the president. The media seems as robust as ever. Everyone is either a woodward or bernstein when they arent high. Similarly, homicides in chicago have fallen 60 in 2017, a welcome reduction from the bloodshed that made its mayor or a target of trumps ire. Why didnt this reduction occur under obama . The aggressive journalism and aggressive policing are actually due in part to the prove trump wrong effect. Fox news railed against media bias. The next few years we have covered chicagos problems. Did rahm emanuel listen at all . No. Now we are seeing the media adjust its behavior over accusations of fake news and a city mayor under a president who isnt his best friend puts more cops on the streets. My theory bureaucrats and media hate trump so much that they cant let him win the arguments of the up their game just to shut the guy up. Trumps tweets about chicago, iran, the media. It may be the best motivational tool weve got. Geraldo, dont you think the media is extra motivated . Every time they screw up, theyve got to listen to trump make fun of them. Geraldo i think i am old enough to have lived through and been in business during president nixon. He could not buy a break. President trump, i think he gets worse press than president nixo president nixon. I think absolutely everything he does is construed in the most evil, negative way possible. And these awards coming out next week, next monday, its a gimmick. Its kind of a shtick. On the other hand, i was in puerto rico with the president when the nobel Winning Economist for the New York Times wrote the story of how President Trumps neglect of puerto rico led to a cholera academic epidemic. There was no cholera epidemic. I nominate him the Nobel Laureate economist for whatever hes going to call these. Greg they let him say whatever he wants. Kimberly, do you have any nominations . Kimberly its going to be funny. Everybody on cnn. Don don lemon, jake tapper. They will be losing it, freaking out. We are actually fair, honest. What is President Trump saying . Im sure they are actually quite nervous about it and he liked that he is taking control of the situation. He is behind the wheel, saying im going to tell you what i think about you. Im going to say it straight to your face. Thats it. Im going to tell the whole world that i like the approach. Hes using it effectively, diplomatically. On the international stage, as it relates to national security. Immigration, taxes, its his approach. Geraldo you dont think it threatens the First Amendment . Kimberly i think the First Amendment is solid. Greg do you know what it is, dana . Like, what are your predictions for 2018 . This is a guy born and bred watching fox news. Dana i thought the five is going to have the best ratings. Monday at 5 00. It is good if it is done with a laugh, if it holds you up for ridicule in the media, i dont think its necessarily good. I think if the tone and tenor is right, it can be kind of a joke and maybe even fun. I do think there is something to be said about how other countries see it and how other countries use it against their own people. I think thats not good. Geraldo do you really . I heard that arguments my understand and i read the editorials that say that. I travel a lot and no one comes up to me and says see, you are fake news in america. Jesse what do they come up to you and say . I thought you were going to say self selfie. Jesse we are watching the trump show and its on at 5 00. Kimberly i think its on that purpose. Jesse like you said, the media being more fair and balanced. Either that, or hes just branding them phony losers. Greg like rahm emanuel. Now hes doing this. He didnt do it under obama. Thats so weird to me. Jesse i dont think the media has enough selfawareness to course correct. If i were the cnn people, i would make fun of his hair. Focus on north korea and laugh about it. Kimberly they are humorless. Jesse its like a press genocide and we are all victims in the First Amendment is under attack. Greg team clinton still losing it over the vanity fair knitting video. When a cold calls. Achoo .