Stephanopoulos. So is this the week . The week we finally see the new and different donald trump so many republicans are hoping for . Back in the spring, trump mused about it. By the way, i can be more president ial than anybody. I can be more president ial, if i want to be. I would say more president ial, and ive said this a couple of times, more president ial than anybody other than the great abe lincoln. He was very president ial, right . His campa manafort promised the gop change was coming. Youll start to see more depth of the person. The real person, youl see him in a different way. After a summer of bad news and tanking poll number, trump fired manafort this week. Vowed to run his own way. I am who i am. Its me. I dont want to change. Everyone talks about, oh, well, youre going to pivot. I dont want to pivot. I mean, you have to be you. Then came thursdays surprising admission. Or you say the wrong thing. I have done that. And i do regret it. Particularly where it may have cause
detail saying what it was in reference to, that it was actually in reference to this former apprentice contestant kwame jackson. i mean, it seemed like a bit of a story change at first where she didn t hadn t heard the tape in the book and then in an interview she said she had heard it. well, she heard it after the book was published. there s a little bit of confusion there. she definitely seems to have a story she s sticking to now. and it seems each time she s interviewed a little bit more of this story comes out. that s what we try to do. that s how you get the big bucks. exactly. jamal, what do you make about? because this is whenever anybody talks in race in america you say okay, this country has a history of slavery, jim crow, and since then not exactly a great place for an african-american. and what exactly do you mean by trump is, and if he used the words ferociously and numerously at one point why did he withhold all the other times people dealt with him? that
was just politics, he was playing numbers? i wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. like i said, i had a blind spot for donald trump. but he continued it in a very, very derogatory way. and as i ve seen today, just having him call me out of my name, call me a lowlife, say i m not intelligent. this is what he this is what he does when it comes to african-americans. maxine waters, he did the same thing to her. low iq. he gets very specific about it. absolutely. particularly with african-americans, he thinks we re all stupid. i m joined now by the hardball round table. shannon pettypiece, white house reporter for bloomberg. jamal simm smonz a democratic strategist and host of the hill tv. charlie sikes is host of the daily standard podcast. gentlemen and lady, this is interesting stuff. what do you make of this reference you made to the whole thing, the idea she actually heard the tapes, she heard trump multiple times use the derogatory word for african-americans, that