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Ainsley: let's talk about the easter egg roll. testing sound in the back ground during our interview. what were you going to say? >> i said it's the 139th. ainsley: that's right. >> great american tradition that the trumps look forward to continuing here. ainsley: and you are back. i remember when you dressed up as a bunny. those pictures have been floating around. >> now i just have a tie. >> bunny ty? what did you do for easter. >> went to church with my family and friends. roll for the kids and it was a great day. >> great day. >> they will. ainsley: have you done this with your kids biff? ...

Corps band. you can see them up there. if we pan over here, there is the oval office in the back ground right behind that tree and it's just beautiful. you see the crowds getting ready everyone wave. we are having so much fun out here. easter egg rolls on are on this side and that side. let's keep panning if you don't mind, steve. this is what president and mrs. trump get to see every morning. they get to see the washington monument and absolutely a beautiful view. and we have got all off our friends. pete: the cat in the hat. >> cavity in the hat and elmo there. show the kids. easter egg roll...

To being successful. >> so the goal -- what are you saying about that? what would the goal be then? >> the goal would be -- the russians are always looking to do is they're saying okay, who is the next person who's going to be in the white house? who's the next person who's going to be an important political or economic figure in the united states and you're not going to recruit donald trump to be your spy. it's not like the movies. you're going to be looking at people who meet daily with him. who have access to him and that's what i think they were hoping that carter page would develop into. ...

You're not going to recruit donald trump to be your spy. not like in the movies or something like that, will you be look ageing at people who meet y with him and have access to him. it didn't work out but that's the cost of doing business in the intelligence world. >> got you so. the administration says carter page wasn't really an advisor but should they have known his back ground, seems his affinity for russia was well-known. >> absolutely not. this was a very, very obscure short-time advisor and what or who he advised has never been proven and in fact he's said on cnn he it written papers t...

To be dealing with russia. you wrote a tough op ed in august of '14 under a headline, obama is an unreliable ally. on syria. you wrote the following. you said when faced with the difficult challenge with the rest of congress, obama reversed course and said he no longer wanted the authority. instead the president jumped in the lap of russian president vladimir putin who offered a way out for assad to survive, even thrive, while turning over syria's declared stockpile of kept weapons to the united nations. president trump seems to have more confidence in putin doing the right thing in syria than...