Have seen it coming. In theory i would like to start with what was my personal favorite moment in the book which is the first meeting between donald trump and steve bannon who would become a very influential political strategist in his world where he explains to trump that if hes thinking about running for president , he cannot do as a traditional republican. Can you describe the scene. Sure, thanks for having me, i was fascinated buy the book, it made no sense by this, one of the reasons you have to remember donald trump did not, as a bolt out of the blue, he had been speaking for years for running for president but he was not quite sure how he would really have an identity, sometimes he was a democrat, sometimes he was a republican, he flirted with the idea of running in ross perots at one point but in 2012 he was getting serious about it and david bossi, a conservative activist a hardline conservative activist was a friend of Donald Trumps and he decided to talk to him about running
With you giving a brief background and very briefly with your job and experience and career. Yes. Thank you for doing this today. I grew up in Dutchess County new york and i received a nomination to the Us Naval Academy which i started one week after graduating high school 1989. I completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served first as armscontrol action officer in the pentagon and then i moved on Surface Warfare ships and navy ships in the atlantic and in the middle east. I have been a lifelong student although i a joke around when i was at annapolis i dropped out and studied at night and then go to night classes. So for example working in the pentagon i do my masters in National Security at georgetown and while i was a research fellow. And they likely heard you are not to intelligent hapless sky. And to learn more about you i really thought that was a clearer represent misrepresentation of what you had done. We also want to start how you came to work in ru
Coronavirus crisis i spoke exclusively with President Trump this week about his second term agenda heading into that convention that interview straight ahead and well also talk to the man who helped lead the Trump Campaign to victory in 2016 steve bannon is here with his election predictions ahead of Convention Season in the middle of it all breaking news in john durhams criminal probe with exfbi attorney Kevin Klinesmith expected to plead guilty to falsifying a document in the russia investigation and dni John Ratcliffe flagged his criminality back in december last year. What you have is fbi lawyers literally changing evidence to make false representations to the court to continue this counterintelligence investigation against the president , so it details everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence, the democrats never want to give one to donald trump, but the inspector generals findings really outline what his criminal activity. Maria coming up wisconsin senator ron johnson i
Former u. S. Attorney and ran President Trumps transition team. And author of let me finish. And his time along side President Trump. Governor christie, thanks for joining us. Gov. Christie happy to be with you. You are one of the few people that the president listens to on the outside on political matters and i love this article that you were at a come to jesus meeting at the president s golf club with President Trump. How did that go and did the president decide to make any changes with his campaign . Gov. Christie i have taken the position that the consultations that i have with the president are between me and the president. I will say this, the president is really focused on the next 95 days, focused on trying to make sure he lays out the vision of where he wants the next four years to be and i had time to spend with him and discuss things from where i sit and for me to help him and articulate the issues he wants to articulate and that is what the campaign will need to do. What is
Our guest is former new jersey governor chris christie, twotermis governor a republica, a former president ial candidate, formerer u. S. Attorney. He ran President Trumps Transition Team for mostan of 26 pigs also the author of let me finish, his memoir of his time as governor alongside President Trump your governor christie thanks for joining us on your own jersey shore. Thank you. Happy with your. Youre one of the few people the president listens to on the outside on political matters and id love you were at a come to jesus meeting at the golf club in new jersey with President Trump. How did that go and did the president decide to make any changes with his campaign . As you know ive always taken the position that consultation fight with the president are between me and the president. I think the president is really focused on the next 95 days, really focused on trying to make sure that he gets attestation for the next four years, and its always good for me to have some time to visit