varied a group as he can muster, but hannity is at the center. what does this say about the state of the trump white house, what do you think? the president has raised dysfunction to an art form. there are many kinds of bosses and leaders of institutions who are always finding messianic figures outside the chain of command. what s interesting about this is the president s sense of reality begins and basically ends with the coverage of him. and we ve basically gotten ourselves into a reality show presidency with a strong dose of combative cable news. and so it doesn t surprise me at all actually that hannity would be a familiar and, suspect, reassuring voice to him in times that are not that are hardly reassuring to almost anybody else. it s kind of like it becomes a giant feedback loop, right? like you watch hannity and the president says it, then you
varied a group as he can muster, but hannity is at the center. so what does this say about the white house? there are many kinds of bosses and leaders of institutions who are always finding messy antic figures outside the chain of command. what s so interesting about this is the president s sense of reality ends and begins basically with the coverage of him. and we ve basically gotten ourselves into a reality show presidency with a strong dose of combative cable news. and so it doesn t surprise me at all, actually, that hannity would be a familiar and i suspect reassuring voice to him at times when they re hardly reassuring to anybody else. it almost becomes like a
bill: a lot of the thinking is the way he was when he ran his business and i think he s bringing that to the white house as well. you know what, in his business he tend to have long-term relationships with people but in the apprentice this is what he did, which is sort of reality tv. my wall street journal colleague wrote an article very insightful this is the apprentice reality show presidency. bill: i grant you they re not working by the week but by the hour sometimes. here s what he said about the chemistry factor. i have gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year. i m at the point where we re getting close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. bill: i think that probably makes sense to a lot of people. your 13, 14 months into it and exposed to different people along the way. this is not a u.s. senator who ran for the white house from
should have come up with a better phony porn name than david dennison, he should have been orange olson. this is a big distraction when you run a reality show presidency. but frankly he has bigger problems right now than whatever horrible things he was you want to there and maybe he is going to be liable potentially for fec fines. but it s like a speeding ticket on the way to the bank robbery with some of the problems he has with bob mueller and now potentially a trade war. what s the biggest problem? mike, what do you think the biggest problem is? you said he s got bigger problems. i think his bigger problem is the mueller investigation and another big brick falls every day into what could be a wall of legal trouble. we don t know all the facts yet, but we know there is a very aggressive investigation by a highly competent p
of gin and tonic. and we ll quit the dill linger talk. so the fbi will crush this guy and put him in jail if they have to. i don t think he ll be there on friday. i think he s under great pressure and this was the performance art of this reality show presidency. and i think he ll be back down to gravity and his own self-interest. i agree with what ron said. if he doesn t, if he makes this stand that will turn out badly for him, but if donald trump tweets rewarding this behavior where we ignore the investigations and the legitimacy of the investigations, that takes today s news comedy into a serious attack on and lawrence, just to jump in on that, even if one stipulates they don t believe this individual s statements or predictions about his own