the computer, never actually going there, never actually scoping them out or staking them or scouting them. this was all electronic, and we asked if there were other cities involved and we re told no. pete williams on the case. thanks so much. you bet. coming up, finding the truth. president trump has made a habit of railing against, quote, fake news in the mainstream media. veteran cbs newsman and author of a new book. helping me sort through the issues. nashville hot shrimp. plus our classics like garlic shrimp scampi. try as much as you want however you want em, but don t wait, it ends soon. (avo) but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. non-insulin victoza® lowers a1c, and now reduces cardiovascular risk.
the president-elect at trump tower, and then by agreement because it was the product of fbi work, james comey as the fbi director. he was the only one of the three that would have to work with the president after january 20th. he s the one who took him aside and said, by the way, mr. trump, you need to know this because it s out there. it s very clear from all of our reporting and from what people have said who are close to him that he felt this was an attempt to intimidate or even, quote, blackmail him, politically blackmail him by the fbi director. i thought about that conversation and how awkward it must have been for james comey to have to deliver the news about the dossier, and certainly there does seem to be a little bit of shooting the messenger here by trump where he felt intimidated, he felt comey couldn t be trusted. perhaps he was a bit paranoid about it, but perhaps he leg
one of the themes of the art of the deal is the ability to manipulate conversation about himself. are these stories, the wiretapping, tapes, and feud with now just about every media outlet saying anything negative about him, is this a strategy or him having sensitivity? this is what people debate at cookouts or dinner parties and friends and family members, is it so ingenious or impulse? i think it s mostly impulse, but there is some sense of strategy. it s what you described from art of the deal. the president has a sense for what the president, the public, interested in, what the public likes to hear, some of the fights and feuds, they are straight out of the soap opera, out of reality tv. he understands the people, and he s on twitter now, again, railing against watching this, and, you know, tries to
his cabinet is coming together. we can pull up the latest announcements, we now know steven mnuchin is treasury secretary. congressman tom price health and human services secretary per wilbur ross commerce secretary. and the others, well ee lawn ciao transportation secretary. jackie it s been pointed out that this is a cabinet of billionaires. what s the downside of that. that means they re successful people. this is an aspirational cabinet as some people have called it. le. i mean, it s just how they became billionaires that could be problematic. if someone like wilbur ross bought a company in north carolina, which started out sourcing jobs to china and mexico exactly what donald trump was railing against. during the campaign. you have steven mnuchin who is a hedge funder who donald trump said gets away with murder. he would probably get the argument that he knows how to fix that problem but there are a