want a border barrier. so i don t understand, you know, if he s angry because they won t compromise, i think that s a legitimate position. i would not take coulter s position on the matter. just in terms of how the president listens to those around him, how he seeks advice, you obviously talk to the president. you re down at mar-a-lago. how does it actually work? i mean does you know, some presidents want to hear contrary views. some presidents feel like they get enough contrary views and maybe on a weekend they want to be around people who are going to be giving them echoing maybe their own views. how does it work with this president based on your own experience? well, i ve known him over many years. i d describe him as a feedback junkie. he loves information. he loves hearing people s thoughts. and even if it s critical, he s actually open to a lot of that. the press tries to play that he doesn t want to hear anything. he likes fresh ideas. he likes new ideas. and he asks a l
how does it actually work? i mean does you know, some presidents want to hear contrary views. some presidents feel like they get enough contrary views and maybe on a weekend they want to be around people who are going to be giving them echoing maybe their own views. how does it work with this president based on your own experience? well, i ve known him over many years. i d describe him as a feedback junkie. he loves information. he loves hearing people s thoughts. and even if it s critical, he s actually open to a lot of that. the press tries to play that he doesn t want to hear anything. he likes fresh ideas. he likes new ideas. and he asks a lot of people i saw him several times over the weekend. he was asking me a few questions. very typical of him. and i think it s a very positive attribute. so he adjusts course. the press again tries to spin it like he ll stick on one position and never change. at one point he was calling for deportation of 10 million people on a policy pu
there were some good points made in a lengthy comment made by scott livingston, the key sinclair executive. but he also failed to address some of the qualms of his own perspective employees and some of his current employees, including anchors who are wondering why was i forced to make this commentary? why now? why in the midst of this wrangling with the justice department and they re certainly not helped in the slightest by the coincidence of the president s intrusion in this and his sort of intermingling his visceral, politically effective perhaps bashing of the fake news media with his support of sinclair. i suspect if you asked him tonight name five sinclair stations, he couldn t, because mr. as you put it, or his friend mr. ruddy put it, the feedback junkie is undoubtedly affixed to the main cable news stations. and i would just like to ask him, name one sinclair station that you love. name it.
and bring this stuff out, people like sean hannity, whom he had dinner with, folks who he s been spend more time with and talking to more on the phone. jeremy, chris ruddy, who runs news max and is a friend of donald trump s and a palm peach person for a lot of years and he coined a pretty nifty phrase on cnn tonight, he called donald trump a feedback junkie. do you think that phrase has legs? absolutely. we know, brian, from the way that he spends his time at night watching the television and looking at images to himself and reaction to those images by various panelists on shows. i remember being on plane and pictures of his rally flashed on the screen and he said look at that, look at that, look how many people are there. he loves the affirmation that television provides. i think one of the reasons you re seeing the more
wrangling with the justice department and they re certainly not helped in the slightest by the coincidence of the president s intrusion in this and his sort of intermingling his visceral, politically effective perhaps bashing of the fake news media with his support of sinclair. i suspect if you asked him tonight name five sinclair stations, he couldn t, because the feedback junkie is affixed to the sinclair news stations. i d like to ask him, name one sinclair news station. name them. coming up next, just what was said today between the bunny and the first lady. we ll have a look when the 11th hours continues.