Explains to trump he cannot if hes thinking of running for president cannot do it as a traditional republican. Can you describe this . He had been thinking of running for president but he wasnt quite sure. By 2012 he was getting serious about it. David who is a conservative activist was a friend of donald trump and decided to talk about running for president and he did not know donald trump at that point so he took him up to learn about this possibility. If he planned to run as an outsider, how would he do it. They basically said theres a new populist mood in the country and donald trump looked at him and said youre right thats what i am im a popular rest but he concluded he is right if hes going to run and be a popular rest and then of course he doesnt decide to run but four years later that is exactly what he does and in the meantime between 2012 and 2016 he starts the message and theres a lot of starting points for the revolution but thats one of the more intriguing ones. It is from
Should have seen it coming. 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 he cannot if hes thinking of running for president he cant do it as a traditional republican. Can you describe the scene . First of all, thank you for having me. One of the things you have to remember is donald trump didnt come into this he had been thinking about running for president for years but he wasnt sure, he did to have an identity. Sometimes he was democrat, sometimes republican, someone independent. By 2012, he was getting serious about it and a conservative activist, was a friend of Donald Trumps and he decided to talk about running for president and they took their friend who didnt know donald trump at that point up to new york at a meeting to talk about the possibility. If he ran as an outsider, how would
Host director brennan, thank you for sitting down with me today. Your book provides really interesting background and detail not just about your career and on intelligence debates in the past, but very much relevant to the news of the current day. Four years later were still fighting about russian interference in 2016. Republicans and democrats are debating about whether the investigations were handled probably four years ago and whether you and Intelligence Leaders of 2016 drew the right conclusions about russia and russian actions. Your book opens with the scene after before the inauguration with first congressional leaders and then going to new york to brief trump and his team. Theres a sharp partisan divide where you brief congress. Will describe that and talk about whether that was inevitable given the politics of the moment or if something had been done differently. I was asked to brief the gang of eight when we learned about what the russians were doing. The group of congress fi
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