house, and you re at the nrcc, the campaign committee, you re looking at the map, you think that s fine for donald trump to go to senate help senate republicans in states he won by landslide margins. he can t go to swing districts in the house if they risk losing, and they need to defend their majority. he is welcome in safe districts, but they aren t the ones that they need to hold. and those are a moving target too. so that s really right. the definition of safe. if you look at the political report data that republicans that s making them so nervous, it s that if you they did a comparison recently from august of 2006 to november. august of 2010 to november. there are more competitive seats this august, and those numbers always grow. and they have no it s 53 right now. they have no idea where it s going go november 6th. think of the day the president is having today. his campaign chairman on trial. deputy campaign director is
but they aren t the ones that they need to hold. and those are a moving target too. so that s really right. the definition of safe. if you look at the political report data that republicans that s making them so nervous, it s that if you they did a comparison recently from august of 2006 to november. august of 2010 to november. there are more competitive seats this august, and those numbers always grow. and they have no idea. it s 53 right now. they have no idea where it s going go november 6th. think of the day the president is having today, while he is keeping his campaign chairman continue on trial. deputy campaign director is the star witness. the star witness. his first supporter in congress is arrested and indicted and arrested today. and there are the election results from last night which he puts a brave face on. i m sure people have explained to him this really isn t that good, mr. president. so i think you can anticipate in the next few days he might be on
very fine people on both sides. when you add to that the birther issue, bryan, how do you square this as not racial? i square it by my own experience with the president. if he had a racial issue, he would have had an issue with me. he would have had an issue with me being the deputy campaign director and he would have add an issue. we would have an issue of me going into the administration and visiting as his guest to several events throughout the year. what the media tries to portray and the partisan i m just playing his own words here. i m telling you my experience. that s fair. there s many of other ethnic republicans or ethnic people who work for the president who tell you different experiences from lin patton to omarosa. she s obviously not the most complimentary of the president at this point.
thanks, catherine herridge. you re the best. we re getting reaction from the white house after president trump s former deputy campaign director rick gates pleaded guilty. john roberts is left out in the yard again. what have we heard, john? good afternoon, shep. we just completed press conference with the: president of australia, malcolm turnbull. the president made a lot of phone calls all day and he said this is the worst back when he first got into office. the two disagreed and confronted each other over an obama administration plan to take in some refugees that australia wanted to transfer to the united states. they started talking about the terrible shooting and marjory stoneman douglas high school last week. the president reiterating his strong belief that schools need to be not soft targets but hardened facilities at which
he got into a twitter fight with the country s most important alley uk prime minister theresa may. he referred to senator elizabeth warren again as pocahontas at an event honoring native americans. he called north korea s leader little rocket man and a sick puppy in a speech in missouri. and he suggested that a government shutdown might be good for him politically. you might say it was just the president being himself. and that s more or less the point of a new book let trump be trump. it s the first campaign book from the president s perspective. it s written by mr. trump s one time campaign manager corey lewandowski and deputy campaign director, david bossie. both of them join me now. gentlemen, welcome. thanks for having us. i want to start with an omission that we thought was interesting in the book. you might not be surprised. we were looked for some mike flynn references in your book. there are exactly two. it seems to me, did you scrub them out? this was a man who made 2