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With scott pruitt? who wants a used mattress? >> someone who potentially wants a free -- or at least a very cheap mattress, courtesy of the trump hotel in washington, d.c. possibly. but -- >> there are a ton of mattresses on the street here in new york city. i can point scott pruitt to any number of them. >> only some of those are quite as clean as the ones at the trump hotel in washington, d.c. look, in terms of what is actually going on with scott pruitt, if you created this character in a writer's room two years ago to appear grift or alleged corruption, emblematic of the swamp president tr...

Beneficial enterprise. >> this paintings. >> reporter: pierre bought works from north korea and then sold them to western custom me, wood cuts to embroideries to jeweled companies made of semi precious stones, which he purchased for between 300 to $7,000. but the best-selling items, says pierre, were those perhaps most emblematic of the hermit kingdom. >> it says if the u.s. come, we'll stop them with one blow. >> reporter: with several thousand employees and studio space of more than 100,000 square meter, mansudae's global output once stretched far beyond pierre's business. it reportedly owne...

Him. begin had his bags packed ready to leave, couldn't make more concessions said, mr. president, i'll make one more effort, i'll try. the rest is history. 40 years, no breach in that. essential to our national security in the middle east and emblematic of the things president carter did described in my book. >> a brilliant example. thank you so much and for the book, "president carter: the white house years." thank you for your public service over all of these de decad decades. more ahead. we'll be right back. it's time now for "your business" of the week. philip robb and beebbu norby do...

But that's not what has lodged in the president's mind. we've seen him repeat this line over and over again that amazon is hurting the post office. if you want to take this from the 30,000 foot level, think about how president trump built his businesses, brick and mortar establishments, they had physical footprints around the country and the world. now think about amazon, emblematic of the startup, the new tech field, everything shaking up the old guard in the business community. so when looked at that way it's not surprising to me that the president might be resistant to some of the breaks am...

To do so. >> if granted, the authority. and i don't have the day-to-day authority to do that. if granted the authority. >> so you would need basically to be directed by the president through the secretary of defense. >> yes, sir, in fact i mentioned that in my statement. >> have you been directed to do so, given this strategic threat that faces the united states and the significant consequences you recognize already? >> no, i have not. >> he's in charge of cyber command. >> nobody is denying him the authority. >> of course, the reality of it is she's trying to punt the issue and muddy the issu...