trick-or-treaters at the white house. the first lady met a mini melania. a little girl came to the white house dressed just like her. that wouldn t be her. but that is her. it s a little girl that wore the costume or the outfit that she wore when she went over to. there she is. when she went over to greet hurricane harvey victims. it s a cute costume nonetheless. brian: look at the big foot picture. it s fuzzy. ainsley: looks like a group picture and we zoomed in. the spirit of all things creepy, right? the first lady did tweet about it. she said had a fun night handing out treats to kids who visited the president and i at the white house. there was a smoke machine, spooky music, a lot of candy and fun time had by all. steve: the actual facade of the white house was directed as well. look at that the president dressed up as himself with the red tie on. brian: they did say he loves kids. as a grandparent. is he a good grandpa? yeah. steve: thank you. thank you so much.
good morning to you, scott. good morning. ainsley: hold is silver. born in 1989. the big 3-0. steve: i m surprised dilbert got political. he didn t get as political as his creator did. i tried not to be political. i was trying to write about persuasion. i have a background in trained hip know tis and been studying persuasion in all its forms and that s what i do as a writer. when i saw the president using the techniques of persuasion, i thought well, people need to see this from another angle. brian: 2015 you thought he would be president. i predicted as soon as i saw some of his technique, especially the first debate where he handled the rosie o donnell situation. i mean. brian: i don t remember that question. [laughter] steve: break it down for us. talk a little bit about how he uses persuasion and what you refer to as unnatural optimism? well, a lot of people don t know that his pastor was norman vincent peal who
wants to work four for prefree. he has connections and he ends up replacing you, corey. are people upset at tom barack who turned on the president two weeks ago. i think what tom was trying to do was help the president at the time that paul manafort was to bring on a delegate hunter. the person who go and make sure that the delegates were there. don t forget, the last time paul was involved in a presidential campaign was literally 1976, gerald ford, ronald reagan contested election on the floor. and that s where paul was brought on for. and what happened after that was after the connection paul s role continued to grow until come august where he basically plummeted the campaign from a close race to down by about 16 or 18 points allege the president at the time, candidate trump said you ve got to go. brian: bannon pushed him out, evidently. steve: corey, let s talk about a tv ad, ad placed by the latino victory fund.
brian: it s a violation. shepard smith, i m sorry. you are out of luck. ainsley: toba is audio guy he has been on the show since the beginning. so good. brian: i have never met him. ainsley: song we used to play in first grade. you have to find it. steve: wait, song you played in first grade? ainsley: we would all do our and our witch s brew. we have magic allah cazam put in monkey tails, fingernails, something, too. brian: toba find it. ainsley: witch s brew. such a cute song. all the kids loved it. steve: apparently toba can t find it. ainsley: my mom does. she is a school teacher in my witch s brew. steve: that s it we got magic alakazam. ainsley: if you are a parent you have got to find it on
way down in the single digits or in the teens. most people in america look at washington with amusement but not with a awful lot of respect or interest. so i think it s doublely important that when these kind of accusations are made that they should be investigated. steve: indeed. meanwhile, there is and we didn t exactly see this coming. you know, john poo destax it was hillary clinton s campaign manager. his brother, tony runs, i should say ran until yesterday, the podesta group. the podesta group and mercury were listed, it is presumed to be company a and company b, which were in the unsealed indictments yesterday, talking about some of the work that manafort did with the ukraine so mr. podesta said, you know what? i should step down and he did. brian: he cited the pressure he is getting from places like fox news for the reason. ainsley: yeah. brian: wait a second, you are working with paul