it s very personal and really, really interesting. one of the things i found fascinating was this pulitzer prize in connection between you and the president in construction and that s the world i grew up in. my father was a construction worker. i d go on construction site, my first job was a project manager of a construction site. there s something about that that teaches you the basics. you gotta get up early on time and pull together a team and they did a lot of research on the. trump family and they pushed donald trump to do those things. i was talking to the president about how they used to knock on doors to collect rent and if there was a blue-collar worker who couldn t pay the rent that month if they were laid off or something like that from the president and his dad were always cool about it. they d be like no problem you re an honorable person let s make it next month i will wait. you don t hit hear those
will wait. you don t hit hear those stories. i just brought him in touch with that common experience. if you are on the campaign trail with the president knighted 26 stops with him, he still genuinely loved these people. my democrat friends are upset about that spread he stole their traditional base. they didn t even go to wisconsin. got the speaker of the house from wisconsin, scott walker in wisconsin consultants that you own that state come there all blue-collar, you don t have to go there. my book is about how he saw that when there were 17 or 18 others that didn t. i also point out that bernie
year. it was awful, but not the first time the president has seemingly endorsed violence. watch this. democrats produce mobs. republicans produce jobs. any guy that could do a body-slam, he s my kind of don t hit their head and they ve just killed somebody. i said, you can take the hand away, okay? i love the old days. you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? they would be carried out on a stretcher, folks. i would like to punch him in the face, i ll tell you. knock the crap out of him, would you? seriously. get him out. try not to hurt him. if you do, i ll defend you in court. don t worry about it. and just a little while ago, the president defended his statement, saying he has no regrets for what he said about congressman gianforte s body-slamming of your colleague. last year, my colleague, ben jacobs, covering the montana
roosevelt said is the reason you read so much is as a leader you need to know about human nature, how do people react and you get that best from boat tree and drama. lincoln read all the time. they also had a self-deprecating sense of humor, i could wish we could see that in the president. roosevelt, abraham lincoln, roosevelt i would bring back teddy roosevelt because he could speak in that language of the twitter world, don t hit until you have to and then hit hard. he was a fighter, he also could occupy center stage. the arena literally. in the arena, but he also they said he wanted to be the baby at the baptism and the bride at the wedding and the corpse at the funeral. and he captured the center stage, but he would say, as i said, he would say a deal has to be good for both sides and he also was very clear about his language having to be believable by the people. he wouldn t say things that he
running for reelection. rick scott has not invited donald trump to campaign with him. that is not the case in montan a west virginia and indian a. there he campaigned with the republican nominee. not so for rick scott. we will see if he invites him in. the president addressed the same group, this international association of law enforcement chiefs. 30,000 members. he caused a controversy by saying this. listen. when you see these towns and thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, thrown in rough. i said please don t be too nice. plik when y like when you protect their head the way they put their head. don t hit their head and they just killed somebody. you can take the hand away, okay. they had to issue a statement