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It annoys him to see rivals like Haley and high-profile players like Ramasamy beat him in early state elections. One of Pence's advisers confided in me

Promises starting with china. take a listen. >> i'm going to instruct my treasury secretary to label china a currency manipulator. >> ten days later he switched gears, the president telling the "wall street journal" "they're not currency manipulateors" then came his reversal on nato. >> i'll tell you about nato. it's obsolete and we're paying too much money. >> but that was then. this is now. >> i said it was obsolete. 'no longer obsolete. >> "it's no longer obsolete." trump said he likes and respects fed chair janet yellen after blasting her in september for being too political, then secretar...

Get deported. >> we are following the law. he won with this marginal base and carried states republicans have not carried in years. i don't see how you get away with him having a marginal base. >> i would assume chip would support both senate and house committees investigating the potential breaking of specific laws related to contacts with foreign countries. i assume you would support that. >> we heard the president say now we're not sure that's happened. >> you would support those committees? >> you can't pick and choose the laws. >> you support the committees? >> i appreciate this conversat...

Has president obama's approval rating at or about 50%, despite controversies that some have said are the toughest of his presidency. joining me is ed rendell and chip saltzman. governor, do these approval numbers make sense to you? >> sure. it's basically democrats rallying around the president and again it's a symptom of the republicans overplaying their hand, trying to turn it into a partisan issue, trying to place blame directly on the president when there's no evidence to support that. it's a little bit of both. it's the same percentage that voted for him in november. >> okay. chip, you lo...

How does this -- i mean, are we -- is this really the result of the president just misspeaking? >> my sense is if you watch the way the president is speaking on this topic and you showed both clips. >> yeah. >> he's trying to be very careful and thinking of the word as he goes along and this particular president has been pretty adept at avoiding these types of miscues so to speak. but clearly he said a phrase red line that they probably didn't intend for him to say and that's caused all sorts of ramifications as you mentioned. >> chip, tom cotton who, of course, is an iraq and afghanistan vete...