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Different situation. >> you are the cnn political director. will it will less trump tweets on foreign policy measures? will it be less erratic behavior to say, hey, i think kell y is having an impact. >> they are going to look for a strategic plan that gets executed. that is a consistent driven through all pieces of the white house and the administration. are we going to see the focus and discipline without the distractions that many people in the president's party say to me and others all the time they would like to see. >> betsy, the distraction last week was one word, scaramucci. i mean it ...

Modernizes, polling needs to modernize as well. we've seen too many changes. it's not keeping up. a lot of folks are out there. their polling as if it was the 1990s. things have changed. people don't have home phones. >> neil: what do you do differently or poll differently than that? >> there's four main factors that should affect your polling to keep up. first, recognize that phone interviews alone won't do the truck. you have to pay attention to social media and dig into it and look what's being said on the ground in the district and spend some time talking to folks in the district, real fol...

Visiting with donald trump. >> so he didn't push a button, he didn't pick up the phone, everything just appeared. >> right. and he's been up front on this through the years. in fact, during the reporting for the book, he told several of my colleagues that he was recording their conversations when they were doing phone interviews with him. >> so aisha, you were talking about the calls now to turn over the tapes, are we looking at a showdown potentially here? >> well, if there are tapes, it seems like they will have pressure to actually turn them over to produce them. if they are not, then it se...

That answer. i'm like, why am i sitting here? do you want my real opinion or not? all throughout the rest of the interview, i'm taunting him. are you going to keep this in, ted? are you going to add that in? are you going to edit that, ted? of course they don't want to air that part. >> sean, next time au to do one of these interviews, you have to have your own crew there videoing and then you say, ok, let's both video it just for fun. if they don't -- then you release the whole thing. that has to be your ground rule going in. >> sean: you're right. my mistake. >> isn't that sad? but it does. ...

Substantive answer and he said i'm not going to air that answer. you want my real opinion or not? why am i sitting here? i'm taunting him for the rest of the interview, are you going to edit that out, ted? of course they are not. they don't want to hear that part. >> what you have to do next time, if you ever agree, you have to have your own crew -- videoing. and saying list is both video it just for fun and then you release the whole thing. that has to be your ground rule. isn't that sad? the same thing with phone interviews. having permission to also tape this because i cannot trust you to d...