Stories of democrats who worked with the russians in the 2016 campaign. President then turned his attention as i mentioned to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. This is important when you consider that this is the individual recused from an ongoing probe of potential obstruction among things and donald trump saying its too bad that sessions recused and then asked an intelligent question. The reporter asked donald trump to compare Jeff Sessions to the previous administrations Attorney General eric holder under obama and donald trump said this. I dont want to get into loyalty but i will tell you that i will say this. Holder protected president obama. Totally protected him. When you look at the things that they did, and Hold Proer Tekted the president. And i have Great Respect for that. Ill be honest. I have a little more on that in a moment. Trump also asked here in this very newsy interview whether he would order the justice
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come to understand can be seen as a triangle with three points. authoritarianism. you highlighted the quotes that are worrying on that front. the second is his desire to make as much money as he can out of the presidency. and the third and the one that may be we have not paid enough attention to is psychic neediness. that was on display in the interview. the need to present himself as somebody powerful. people need to come to me and his responsive to flattery and the comments about the president of china. how big a smile is on the president of xi tonight and thinking the show on the tarmac, what dividends paid off in manipulating the president s ego. ambassador sherman, you can build on the point david makes. and this is an interview with so much in it, one point when asked willing to make deals, he says, yes. the reporter follows up and says you would move to the center on some of these issues.
sherman. david, your view of what is important about this interview and the portrait of the president we see tonight. right. president trump s motives i ve come to understand can be seen as a triangle with three points. authoritarianism. you highlighted the quotes that are worrying on that front. the second is his desire to make as much money as he can out of the presidency. and the third and the one that may be we have not paid enough attention to is psychic neediness. that was on display in the interview. the need to present himself as somebody powerful. people need to come to me and his responsive to flattery and the comments about the president of china. how big a smile is on the president of xi tonight and thinking the show on the tarmac,