trying to find some sort of drama the press was, right, with these tweets that happened a while ago that he wrote that were negative about the president. i love how he responded there. clayton: i do, too. abby: president brings up to me every chance we get which we know is true he acknowledges what it is. clayton: acknowledges it was 2015. abby: how do you respond to that. clayton: he called him a political hack and other things. he was working on other campaigns at the time. he had some different opinions about president trump than candidate trump. even before he was candidate. and that's the way to handle it which is, look, i apologized to him and these things are going to be out there and that's how i'm handling it. pete: this is a guy in the media. defended the president on other networks. he took on cnn for fake news against him, tying him to a russian conspiracy. did he it quietly behind the scenes. he got three reporters fired and the story retracted. i think the president sees in him, a person -- sort of a