World we are appreciative and thank you. Thank you so much. Lets talk about the mediaia be has a lot of examples in the book as you described they seem to h have meltdowns with those e narratives on dond trump that he could do no wrong what is your sense of what is driving this in the mainstream media. First of all there is a bias reagan and was portrayed as dangerous just like trapeze dangerous according to the media. I think if they did they would be ostracized by their colleagues. And among themselves they laugh at him and mocked him. That is the overriding theme. Many people just inherently cannot think independently in fact thats one reason with college aptitude i dont want to be told how to think i want to get firsthand what actually happened. And to penetrate secrets so i sit down with all these details. Its a fun read me explain paul ryan and Reince Priebus and Chris Christie during the access hollywood d for the campawh repercussions later . And still supported trump. But what did he say . Lets see. Y you could get out or when by a huge landslide. But then made chief of staff. At the same time because rein priebus really presided over successes that the ceos to realize they could expand to be restricted and constructed and a lot of otherr achievements occurred under Reince Priebus but with that access Hollywood Tape to show that trump is a coercive that what he says in the tape and to take advantage of that so it is not nonconsensual with that activity that he describes. But nothing thats happened in my politics. We saw something that doesnt happen but with president ial campaign and paul ryan the speaker seem to act that way what is it they did not understand . About the trump is older and the voice and he sings about donald trump . I think Reince Priebus did understand it is very hard for people in certain circles to understand the way of the average voter and how they thin think. My now contractor said i dont care what trump says i just care about what he does. I think that sums up the way of the way they think if it is crooked with the started you could be fired and is never held accountable these people understand results and thats what y you see with donald trum. That was great. So talk about palm beach. You write behind the hedges the scams and murderers and intrigue jealousy a pretense and bigotry and the occasional generosity makes the tv show look like nursery tales. Donald trump came into maralago. This is typicical asking people their own opinions or secret Service Agents but also a wide canvas of people as well as those frids. But thats the way he works when i was at maralago he asked what i thought about the israeli settlements i know as much about the middle east as he knows about the talmud and thats how he operates because i gave him my opinion. At a Bargain Basement price he decided to turn it into a club of colin powell and florida who is jewish dont do that it could be profitmaking and sure enough and his second wife was against turning it into a club she just wanted it for herself but he went ahead with it she did contribute and say you should have a spa so he created the trump spot at maralago. Its the closest to paradise you will ever get to is simply unbelievable on both sides of the aisle which is only half a mile wide at the widest point. So this culture is unique the richest place in the w world with have traditions to spend all the time and charities to developing that eventually he died and left about 300 million. And then she stored his body at a local funeral home for three days under i. C. E. Because she said i wanted to enjoy the season. They call it the season. I was faithful to him. And i wt to enjoyyself and go to parties and party on the yacht. In fact she said she would do the same thing for her second husband if he dies as well. Thats palm beach. Host wow. [laughter] i dont think many spouses would go for that. Maybe in palm beach. Talk about the flag he had the battle with the town said this is again zoning regulations. So he went to battle and said it is a free speech issue. He sued the town. And eventually they settled and he grew to move the flagpole further away from the street to reduce the length of the flagpole but he erected it on a mound that has been created so in the end of is just as high as it was before. That is typical donald trump. And as he says, he always wins. He usually does. The way he finagled to get the club approved is typical of how he operates on the one hand his lawyer sent copies of the gentlemens agreement and then came up to the Town Council Members and prevented them from turning this into a club at the same time he sued the town and invited the Town Council Members and said if we have these and then he also played golf with them in here is the carrot and stick eventually it worked it brings in almost 40 millioner year everybody wants to go there now that just ss up the way that he operates. Everyone has seen the enormous amount of attention so i thought that you drew conclusisions in a way you may not have previously and critical how comey handles his interactions with the president briefing him on the dossier and then the conclusion was you are two weeks away from becoming president and the fbi director there is no way the ghost of j edgar r hoover is not far behind and says by the way we have e a secret dossier about you being with prostitutes in moscow three years earlier how would you feel . How should he have handled that . [laughter] not that way. Trump has lived on legitimate beef in my view and to be a prisoner of too much history that in the case of bill clinton when he came to office in 1993 his white House Counsel it was like the first of six but the first and as you imagine clinton had some baggage there are all kinds of things the fbi got with the extra curricular activities and then they sent it to the white House Counsel and he looked at it and said put it in the burn bag. Lets see what happens im not sure the burn bag i wish hehe called me. [laughter] but he didnt but the idea of the fbi director of somebody like trump w has a big ego that clinton told his lawyer after this briefing that they can never find out about this. Of course it was two days later and she did as did the world. And you draw a conclusion the administration is in a very dangerous spot. Is at the for this you have ever gone and why did you go so far . Evelyn duffy. My assistant, raise your hand. Stand up. [applause] George Washington university graduate. [applause] and the year 2007 and has worked for me since that time weve done five books, four president s and she knows all the secrets. [laughter] she knows how to keep secrets and how to kick me in the ass. [laughter] and for that i salute her and gw. [applause] but evelyn and my wife were very much involved. It is a family affair. They said you can step away from the obvious conclusions of what you found in the book a group of people which i illustrate very vividly to stand up to trum trump, steel documents of his desk. As as a kind of dry run and he makes things up and loses emotional control and finally says you cannot testify. If you do it will be as he eloquently puts it, an orange jumpsuit. And you dont have to know a lot about Law Enforcement to not recognize what that is. So, you connect these and my conclusion in the book is that it is an administration and white house going through a nervous breakdown. How could it go wrong, what would that look like . Is that something on the trade or economic side . Gives us an example of what could happen. Guest the trade war with china 99. 9 of the economists say they make no sense. They hurt consumers. We buy things abroad in this country because they are cheaper and better quality and trump somehow has in his head but they are stealing it and he will not get that off of his head. One of the conclusions they made is that there is a war on truth and part of it isnt just what trump says but where he gets these ideas into the experts go in. E chief economic adviser locks him gently in an affectionate way and says if you s shut up yu would learn something. [laughter] also state and local groups who feel they are exempt from public accountality and yet they have the resources of the states so f they want to regulate a farmer or a company they have the means to bankrupt that person and if they say they are going to bring you in front of the liberal washingtonon, d. C. Jury and tie you up for years unless you admit to this and this they tend to be progressive in the sense that the ideology of making them bigger and giving more power is democratic and leftist and that is one of the reasons they hated i an universe. Hes for the united stes wasnt intercepting the communications and said id buy that there were no consequences. John brennan went before the Congressional Committee and said i can tell you we havent had any Collateral Damage and attacks in afghanistan. That was a lie. We do not tap into the senate staff that was a lie. There were no ramifications of. I dont know if we said that to an investigator we would be in jail. They are exempt and powerful. When Andrew Mccabe said he thought donald trump wasn active and he went to rod rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general and they discussed thatd whether they should tap the president of the United States wire. Throughout history in constantinople it always was a problem and has pretensions of supremacy. Host does that on the left Everybody Knows this. The major politicians they know that if you mess with the deep state and they told trump i think that it was schumer made a comment with respect. This is not a good idea so i have a lot of evidence of what they thought of themselves. Brandon and clapper and mccabe thought they were but they havent been exposed to the criminal prosecution for any one of us had de it we would have been leveraged and gone after all of these characters. The way threatened them with years of imprisonment and financial well and unless they get a particular testimony that we have all of this other asymmetrical criminology we dont touch. Gave undue proceeds to those that have alphabet titles after the name or they are at the council formulations were the Hoover Institutions and rather than just examining people that is part of the revolution of the 40s and 50s of the society. We feel that there is a professional class because they are credentialed and work at the right place and that equates with wisdom a sobriety and that is yet another reason people hated donald trump because if you walked into a room and said you can do that because the council on Foreign Relations thinks it is a bad idea he would say tell me what idea they had lately. That is one of the reasons they dont like it. Host that requires a big state and our philosophy believes exact opposite. We want to reduce double of the government, madisonian, theres a separation for the federal, state and local and the indepent federal there is a separation of powers. The two reduced the size and scope is being wielded and its continually grown. They be regulated. Thats all good but at the same ti the cost of government and deficit has been rising so you want to know if he is some person engaged in this post its very hard to see that he has the expertise and experience and to help to systematically go through that Administrative State say is this person really needed or wanted, cant we cut money, is this person to powerful im really worried about the will of the federal prosecutors and to the lesser state to state prosecutors. The idea that they can decide completely which case to try and leverage the witnesses for the cover of the state to eract. Its really scary because it is predicated on the idea that im going to go to you and i want to convict him i will break you unless you testify against him. I dont think our jurisprudence never was intended to work that way. When we say people are probusiness, they are pro cronyism at the same time. Guest is the biggest enterprise in the world. Bringing these principles to how we operate that makes sense to me. We have a bottom line. We make sure if you only have so much revenue, you dont spend way over the revenue amount. Trump has brought some of those principles to washington which is long overdue. He knew nothing about business so how c could he know what the economic policies or that will work . Guest the biggest difference it felt like a very antibusiness sentiment. I think the companies are relieved. Guest we have charts that show in the book this is the obama recovery. What are people talking about . Id was sliding down into a recession and look at what happened wh Business Confidence that early two days after the election it went through the roof. I think when i talk to businessmen and women people ask what is the most important thing he has done to unleash this incredible economy we have now and in my opinion it wasnt any one thing. Its that if they were successful the government wasnt going to come after them with a baseball bat and hit him over the head with it and i think just adding the government out of the way we want clean air and safe water and financi protections foror the. He asked us to be economic advisers and the first thing if he knew in general kind of the direction he wanted to go and he wanted to lower the rates and help businesses succeed and make america a more competitive place so they could come back and we were fully on board with that. You know this and youve done research on this. We were up here and the rest of the wor was down here and there was a gap. As we said this is like a 20 tariff we are putting out with every American Business out of the gate at a 20 disadvantage. Guest and owned almost twicas high as the average. Theres two things together that were really detrimental to the companies and the left is always talking about how they are keeping their money abroad but its not a solution. Every investment position especially of that size that is dictated by the bag tax system isnt conducive to Good Business decision or great economic outcomes. One of my favorite stories in the book we said wed recommend you run out a 20 business tax rate and i will never forget he said im not going to do that dont you understand what im saying. And it was so interesting that from that day until almost exactly a year ago that it was passed into law we got the 50 votes in the senate and i remember Mitch Mcconnell says im so sorry mr. President i i couldnt get you 15 , would you take 20. And im convinced, he is a master negotiator and he understood something that we didnt understand at the beginning. He started and then negotiated up because if he started at 20 there would have been 25, 26 . Thats where a lot of the juice from the economy is coming andnd then we did the repatriation so we allowed the business is to have money overseas and bring it back at a lower rate with about a half a trillion dollars thats coming back to build factories and reinvested this year. Host there is a minimum tax one of the changes made if you have a minimal global t tax. Guest i believe tre is. We got rid of the corporate alternative minimum tax but for the businesses its been very positive. Theres a lot of money coming back to the United States and we are seeing a lot of busess investment and the most important point, and this is something that larry used to say all the time and he now says that all the time because it is true. When you cut taxes for businesses it is a middleclass tax cuts. How can that possibly be . Because when you get more interesting they will hire more workers and pay thehem more of e producvity related to the Business Investment and they like to see if you have a Truck Company t then all of a sudden they have 20 and guess what, they have to hire two more. So it was getting the business is healthy so they could hire more workers and then you notice, today in america we have 7 million more jobs than we had people to fill them. That gives workers a lot of opportunities to bring their wages up. Host it is a point worth repeating it isnt just a giveaway to the businesses. The Economics Research shows very clearly that it leads to more Capital Investment which leads to more productivity and higher wages and more jobs but also the jobs that exist its something that is counter intuitive writing for people and a guest we did a study that showed the average has gained 2,000. The average middleclass worker has seen a 2,000dollar aftertax increase the. If youre making 50 to 80,000 a year and get extra, that is a big deal. I was in dallas a couple of months ago and a latino woman walked by me and said ar i saidu the one that talks about economics and i just smiled and sasaid yes that was me. I wasnt sure if she was going to slug me or something. She said i dont even like donald trump, but i got a bonus from my employer and she said for the first time in fivee yeas i will be able to take a vacation. That is the kind of thing that means a lot to a middleclass family. Its the deputies and assistant secretaries under them. A lot of them today are heritage founundation or American Enterprise institute and i dont use functionary in a negative way. They are operatives that were in the conservative spirit and they now have incredible power. A guy that looks for this, how could that not be in the news but who knows with both of whom he was the assistant administrator in charge of clean air d nancy was a major officicial in charge of toxins. These people are not known and they are the ones making the consequential decision. The fact that trump instilled a number relative to people that were authorized they felt a lot of the aointed are aing. They worked in this very contingent field there is no white house function. He isnt drilling down on coal policy so a lot of these folks are fairly young, fairly ideological a they are out there and they are going to punch as hard as they can in sight of the government. They are not necessarily trumps policies its just the position where. Im curious how you knew the book was done. How did you figure out when you were going to put in a School Nation on the story and published the book . Guest his paperback says both new material and i thought i should give you material becae so much happens every day. One of my editors said you are done. We waited. That was the last thing the ededitor said because otherwiset becomes where im writing the book as everyday something new happens. It just would never end. I want to hear more about the trump interview. Theyve published transcripts that theyve done to kind of show the answers or how they phrase their questions and transparency about the times they sat down with the president. What was your interview like and how long did it last, what kind of things that you cove did yous what we see in the book . Guest about 27 minutes. I dont know that theres any difference between trump in real life and on television. He was charming in the way that i consider myself a new yorker and ive lived there for many years. Ive watched with crowds from the south and elsewhere even if they are not from new york they said if recognized as something. He knew we were going to talk about the cabinet also just as clearly didnt do anything of his own cabinet. She didnt know who was working for him and what they were doi doing. The it sounds like a big thing but whoever they were at the time i think that he looks at the white house the same way. Emersonn once said that it is te shadow of a man and all presidencies would influence people that work for them. But with trump he is in his own mind such a singular figure that people do try to imitate and always fail because not all of us have a reality tshow for 15 years and deeply ingrained part of the popular culture. But i dont i think that you are right i think that he sees it more as hell do iook on tv and what is on my twitter feed. Inevitably the interview went into russia and no o collusion r obstruction of. He didnt want to talk about anyone but himself. He didnt want to think about the complex observations of t te federal government the way tha you can imagi another president doing that. The landscape to look at the problems he is a man driven by his needs and emotions. To say that he has a policy towards anything is not acaccurate. Had instincts and they are strong and sometimes serve him g really well and sometimes really poorly. He will acknowledge something. I think Michael Wolff has said the reason he relied on him so much is because he felt he was the best excavator and he will say that more kindly sort of a selfpreservation selfpromoti selfpromotion. I dont know how well it serves the event. Chippers winning journalist jane stewart talks about the research into the allegations of russian interference in 2016. The he decidides hes going to fire comey. He calls people into the white house and says dont try to talk me out of it. Can you write me a memo and he hands it back to the white house. All of a sudden trump had already decided on his own to fire comeyor the reasons unrelated, grabs the memo and says this is the reason we must be fired and they said the Justice Department insisted. He said i want you to go and do a press conference and say you were the one that insisted. At this point he is in total shock because he knew this is completely false. It isnt because of the clintons, and it wasnt his idea fire. To his credit, he refused to do that. Sessions said though that is a false narrative and we are not going to put it out. Days later, rosenstein calls Andrew Mccabe whos become the acting fbi director. They were talking about something relatively innocuous and i report as follows he shifted to word the closed door off in the distance his eyes were glassy, his voice was wavering, his eyes teared up and he couldnt believe what was happening. They were trying to make it look as if it were his idea to fire comey that that wasnt true. Rosenstein was burning to keep his emotions in check. He was shocked that he was complaining in him. They barely knew each other but they wanted to be compassionana. Are you okay, no. Eetting any sleep, no. Is your family okay . Rosenstein said that there were news trucks parked outside his house an with his wife and famiy were upset. There was a pause and then he said ther that there is one hei can talk to about this. Theres no one here i can trust. He began to hold his emotions in check and asked if mccabe thought he should appoint a special counsel and he said yes it would be a good idea. Rosenstein said he considered jim comey a friend and mentor, someone he looked up to. The one person i wish i could talk to is james comey. Good luck with that, he thought. He offers to wear a wire into the enand bythe end of the invee is a new person. There were two locations as soon as the report is delivered, he and the new attorney general theres no crying or obstruction of justice to be made. He wrote a letter to that effect as you probably know. This was a classic example i believe that the wellintentioned bureaucrats who get int the orbit and are drawn into this web of falsehoods and irresponsible if not illegal behavior and then are asked to protect the president and again the leverage being the same here because he lied about the amendment and he had leverage to fire him whenever he wanted. I want to address the issue is that the state. Trump has again accused the whistleblower as b being part of the state and people who have helped him being part of the state, people in the white house who told him what was happening as being part of the deep state. They are part of the deep state and they are traitors and he hasnt said it specifically that he has implied that the punishment should be as it has done the death penalty. I want to say this about the deep state. Its origins are from the middle east. Turkey, egypt where the militaryindustrial bureaucratic complexes from time to time step in and overthrow and are able to preserve their own powers and privileges. In the United States, but the state concept has been more recently used in another variation on the militaryindustrial complex. Its considered to be primarily people on wall street, the big banks, goldman sachs, the lobbyists in washington, the large corporations they have westernized the concept and specifically the fbi and intelligence communities. The intelligence communities. I never thought i would see the day where they turned on the Law Enforcement and branded them enemies of the state. What he means is the men and women of the fbi that have devoted their lives to serving the American People whoveaken an oath of allegiance to upld the United States constitution and who do not work for particularly thi president , then thank god we have a deep state. These are important checks on the power of the executive branch. Everyone has a political view that their duty is to uphold the law and serve the people in the United States and when you have a whistleblower coming forward, whenen you have a james comey standing up saying he cant do Something Like that, then you have the essence of what it calls upon them to do. So the deep state in this context is something we can sleep easier knowing is in place and i say good for them. The kid is a fasnating story about how they can really make a difference and people that favor the surge who show up later in the story and steve hadley to some degree. He said youve got to put David Petraeus in charge. Its not the first time that hes had all of this influence. He was ae to say when they announced a unilateral pulling out of syria he is a visual learner. If you are giving the same arguments so that is persuasive. Then we will pull out and i think that this might be helpful to. The return of going down in europe. Has been using the american power. To talk abouout the book. In a sense when theres been an agreement. They understanand it or whatever but it is a great consistent theme of his. This is of course they dont share this view at all. And the rusan military offices who was involved in the sabotaging of the election. And then immediately he says it is wrong. I opened the book which is where i ca think it opened an 83 so is a where all of the highly classified discussions are out. What are the Nuclear Weapons posturings. Both republicans and democrats have agreed that it makes sense. They didnt have this border to work against us and they started shouting and saying the chine deficitseally means something to. Why do we continue never winning the w war and the chairman of te joint chiefs. It was regarded as a v. Ooscar and came back to the white house. He was laying down a marker for the presidency was going to be about. What is he like indias meetings and cant somebody else pay off democrats and republicans on the National Security side. Theres a big difference between the endless war. We wrote about different sources and how people reacted in the room. We talked to people that were briefed about these things and familiar with how the principles taught. They took a great risk to telll us what happened behind the scenes and tell us what the president said to show us how much it was worth in realtime and they did so because they knew we would protect them. It is better than forthright. [laughter] you frame it as objective journalists wanting to show the truth of the public. They are talking about the speech that the Deputy Attorney was giving to the reverence for the rule of law talk about how the calculation of that statement. Its letting each side have their say and not make the call. Keepn mind that moment. Im glad you brought that up. The scene that hes the Deputy Attorney general in the Justice Department is personally his retation it hangs in the balance. Hes written a memo that is being cited as the reason to fire james comeynd he doesnt believe that he argued for firing james comey or believe in the memo that is being served up re questioning whetheror this. The old friend and prosecutor is a kiss up essentially. So this is a vulnerable time for him and hes really emotional. The reason we chose those words is because donald trump by this point has called the Justice Department but trump Justice Department. He had frontend Jeff Sessions attorney general multiple times and berated him for refusing himself with the investigation arguing he should recuse himself which is impossible. All of these ways in which he was breaking the norm and these two things come together. Rod rosenstein being like i care about the rule of law and i look like a schlock debate coach ma d the president very much not caring about that. Undermining ththe intelligence apparatus but i want to get to the first part. Hes incredibly abusive even people that are longtime alliess and close with him it seems. From the people that work for him what we found in this reporting the abusive management style was so much worse than realtime. He would calall at 5 00 in the morning bark orders at her and after watching blue dogs on fox news and then call her at 5 a. M. To wonder why it hasnt been done. Theres a lot of these episodes in the book paints a portrait of what hes like as a manager and its not us being critical or taking a side. We are telling you what happened behind the scenes and ty certainly draw conclusions about that. I do think a lot of people who might disagree with the policies and the administration will feel sympathy or empathy for the most hard line. At the same time. Theres two good questions in the thing you just said. I find it interesting about this presidency. Its something that we learned in an eyeopening way. Even from dayay one we were sort of taken aback by this but the grownups were in the room so to speak you may not agree with them politically or philosophically. You may think that their personality style isnt that great. He was reviled and the state department for wanting to cut thbureaucracy and reorganize and not bebeing very approachable. En as the chief of staff defense secretary these were people who kept telling the prident you dont want to do this, but me tell you why adhereandheres the national sey implications if you do this. In this management style you highlight, he drove the people out of the room and the result wawas now is increasingly surrounded by people who view their mission here we are in an impeachment phase not many people get here as quickly as he did. Many people will ask me how in the world do these people su donald trump. They have a conservative ideology but many of them were driven out or left. Where are we now, its like what is the status report and so one of the this that was pretetty clearhey were not part of any deal so my advice was lets get to where we need to get to. If we cheat on every reporter will say we were cheating. But if they chiefs nobody calls them o. It was the right thing to do. But i did learn what reagan youve got to have chips to play in the game. If you dont even have to classify them, reagan was able to go to the soviet union and sasay lets cancel this and that and we have a lot of leverage, economic, technological and a Defense Missile system. Trump has gone to the right place for this but it wasnt enough you never have disagreements but you have them and negotiate the position. Momoving on in the nuclear here to north korea, weve had this cycle and you explained this in the book the committal and noncommittal promise at least since the 1990s are we going to have this idea that they will have Nuclear Weapons . Again i would say the priority is chinaou have sanctions and economic problems so then they come to the negotiating table. For the government treasury, state, intelligence, military but are we going to do about north korea and it basically has the same policy i want to hear all of your ideas. Think way outside the box. In good tv style i said think of may be accepting the north koreans s as a Nuclear Weapon state and member of changendhan what we might do militarily. But think about economic pressure and things we can do but lets come back into shape this a again because we havent been a reaessmendone a reassesse position in the last couple of years. So we all come back about a year later. We spent the time relearning a lot of thought. Id done a paper on north and south kororea that it wa about a decade before you were born. So they come back and have these ideas and it was no easy task but there was a little bit of economic and military. If you put them all together you could have instead of thinking about the bible that is eher a switch you could have the vinyl and then start turning up the dial of pressure in all these ways so you could effect. The other part that was understanding, 75 of north koreas food, fuel, transportation comes to get the chinese to help you. We have oer things going on so i think they may have said we are going to help you but they never did. They tried. Maybe they could do it. But the other thing is hes done us all on his own. Althose experts he was getting advice from,m, they didnt understand as aegotiator understands that with trump it was always going to be personal. He doesnt care about his gener. He cares about being a greater leader thahan his father and grandfathers were. So i think that he found a third way kerry to stick eg caret se played it to kims ego. I will meet you in singapore. And with the modnization and who could be a world leader. So how do you solve a problem like north korea . Anyway i think that was the right thing to do and then have a relationsnship with china going forward. That it is interconnected. Domestic politics domestically and internationally. A also decide to ask you to start with what he does. I was trying to figure out most president s have a lot of analysis of what t makes them tick, some more than others. [laughter] been to be in the library of jfk trump will have a whole library for he wants to win he is from the new York Real Estate world you make money or you lose. He created a whole genre of Reality Television have good ratings are bad ratings so for him itts all abobout winning w you get there get the good ratings are make money it doesnt matter its just going to where you can win he is in that negotiating position of trash talking the things you have to do to win. It is a tactic. Every time he goes in turn negotiation with somebody the media goes nuts the political establishment goes nuts say thats absurd he probably thinks it is also faster he expects to settle. So a certain extent he says a lot of strange things like kim jungun so that he trash talk him on twitter my missiles are bigger than youours i could decimate you but to trump he doesnt care sometimes even humiliates himself he doesnt worry about having contradictory thoughts or overruling himself and its been pretty successful for him. I have been so blown away by the success of the Trump Presidency is important to focus how we can succeed but also im equally anxious because i dont want to see the Republican Party to go back to Big Government management appeasement of enemies with endless wars overseas silly immigration and bowing down to china everything President Trump has positively recalibrated the Republican Party for generations and is important to learn from it so we follow the suess for the better. I wrote this book partly for that reason but as i was watching cable news i kept coming across these prognosticators and pundits telling me what President Trump means. You hate him you hate all of us i am supposed to listen to you that he is doing this becaushe wants to enriches businesses no guiding philosophies shooting off tweets in the middle of the night and is actually i have spent time with him in the first family i can see what hes done for o country why if he nobody is articulating the trump doctrine . You dont just stumble into Supreme Court judges but lowest minority unemployment energy independence, aku bakr albaghdadi dad and qassem soleimanani dad were out of the Paris Climate Accord finally put the enemies on defense and producer own shale and oil is no accident. You dont stumble into that otherwise both president s of both parties would have succccess talking to people in this room a common question is what have these people been doing the last 20 years . He is just running circles around conventional wisdom so thats where i went to go write the book. Who did you interview . I did talk th the president thats in the book but also i went to valley after rally people away hundreds of hoururs just for a chance to see the president of the United States speak for 30 minutes and nt to the kickoff rally in florida where people spend 200 hours outside through tsunami light conditions and in minnesota they waited outside negative 10degree w weather. Im sure all of you appreciate this, it is not normal. There is no band its not bon jovi sometimes there is a comedian with the president but n the latenight comedians ever will be. Did you notice that . [laughter] latenight comedy shows they are applauding but the audience is not laughing . They are not funny lika political talk show at 11 00 oclock at night. What drives these people to wait so long at these rallies . To feel they are a part of something . Talking about the federalist papers by t Founding Fathers wages citizen government for the first time in many decades people believe there is a vessel that listens to them and delivers for them. He wouldnt have been able to write this in a novel with billionaire businessman who are supposed to be is disconnected as anyone and represent you in the kingdom of washington dc. The moment he came down that escalator he change politics fundamentally for good here is the consensus. I felt like i was losing my country. I felt like both parties were participating the Republican Party talked a good game and did nothing to fix it and i was so sick and tired of politics as usual i wanted someone with a sledgehammer, brooklyn brawler to blow it up. It was kind of poetic people say i dont like his tweets when i will adjust this one time only. America was drowning in the mimiddle of the ocean under the manage declinever both Political Parties the last 20 years both contributed to Big Government management and adventurism a bride to while our country is crumbling in the middle of the night gasping for air rescue helicopter brings us up to life a we can breathe again the first thing you say is i dont like your tweet history. We are breathing again it is a relevant its like the heart surgeon tha you for the triple bypass but by the way i hate your tweets but im glad we are breathing again. Not to mention i can make an argument the twitter feeds that thehe cadence the public northstar for eversingle person to understand what the president is trying to accomplish and keep people accountable. Now there is a real time standard and accountability measure. I think he is hilarious a say one thindo another consensus in washington dc i dont care if he offends a couple people here and there. I feel that the politicians ve been fighting and has been perfectly okay with this manage decline. Thats the thesis of the Trump Presidency. First and foremost you say give me the babad news first. President trump basically was brutal and said we are losing. Borders are wide open trade deals are stupid. China is laughing at us, the economy is anemic obama care is a disaster courts are compromise. And this is the first 30 seconds. [laughter] the first honest assessment our country ever received in a long time. At the first part i will tell it straight to the american pele i will not sugarcoat it i will not tell you one thing when it is the other. Second what ideas are rooted in renewal of a nation . To understand the historical significance of what he is trying to do and the opposition trying to revitalize and resuscitate a country in that manage decline good evening everyone thank you to this evenings showing the distinguished College Speaker series featuring conversation with our author and activist for criminal justice reform. Thank you molly it was her suggesestion we we to campus also to develop the program for tonights event. Thank you molly