some of the best and brightest in the field and all of them misread the situation and all the professional class guys like me misread the situation, too. a lot of us thought this guy is a joke, he's a clown, he's going to self-destruct. but we didn't reckon with the fact people were voting for a candidate who they thought was the character he played on reality television. >> 14 years in this building. >> 14 years in this building in a huge hit show for this network and for trump. and the misreads and the missteps, it's a gigantic leadership failure. and they've compounded it by the fact that now he's in the oval office and now he's president and his behavior and his leadership and governance is such a train wreck they're trying normalize it and say this is the new way we do things. they've had to walk away from every principle republicans have ever had or ever stated they believed in and we've got a president who governs by rage tweets from the toilet at 6:00 in the morning. so the journey getting here as a guy who was a party loyalist and a guy who fought in the trenches for 30 years in the conservative