himself but he listens to advice. for goodness s sake. they wrote him a list and he put out the list. trump didn t know those people on the list. he knew like three of them. he released a list in the campaign. he listens to advice. he knows how important that list was to his victory. he is proud of gorsuch. he wants kavanaugh to be confirmed. and it has been rammed into his head by the people around him, forgoodness s take, if you say anything incendiary today, there s collins and mccowsky and flake gone. he doesn t know anyone from adam. the federalist society clicks, she s a these are not his circles. he didn t run into them in his trump is not steeped in constitutional law. i don t think that s a controversial, like, assertion to make. trump had no idea really about the supreme court beyond a very pop culture conception of it. had you picked up any sense that this period between ford s
he has he conveys the sense that he s certain of his position. what s his worst qualities? his self-centerness. he didn t run as republican. he was not a republican candidate. he basically was coopd-oped int the fox news machine. he needed it because he needed a sense of coherence and policy and approach to politics. they provided that for him. what s the president s best quality and worse? the fact that he believes wholly himself and what he can do but i would also argue that
maybe they re going to listen more? that s my point. let me bring you back into the shout fest. i think the passions around whether or not you cover the trump voters, because it turned out to be true that donald trump could walk out on 5th avenue and shoot someone. that turned out to be the truest, most honest thing he said in his entire candidacy. i just want your judgment as a reporter who covered the trump family and people very, very close to the president, you don t back off because it may or may not matter. but i want to ask you what you think about the president s central traits. he didn t run as a guy with an agenda. it s clear from all the reporting he has no clue on any policy. but he did run as a guy with a brand. part of that brand was authenticity. stories like this seem to chip away at his brand of
doing some type of interview with mother s team. the president wants to do that interview more than his legal team does. chris: jason, what s your stance? what s the strategy going forward after these changes in personnel and do you think the president wants to sit down or not with mueller? we ve obviously seen the comments from the president thank he wantsto shut sit down i think he should. in a conventional washington with a conventional client, this would be the advice you give the president to say don t sit down with him. but president trump is an unconventional president. he didn t run as a conventional candidate. chris: this isn t politics, this is a long. it all comes together because every critical moment in president trump s short political career, he has risen to the occasion. whether it s debates, make speeches point he is set down in depositions before and to sit down to say there is no
doing some type of interview with mother s team. the president wants to do that interview more than his legal team does. chris: jason, what s your stance? what s the strategy going forward after these changes in personnel and do you think the president wants to sit down or not with mueller? we ve obviously seen the comments from the president thank he wantsto shut sit down i think he should. in a conventional washington with a conventional client, this would be the advice you give the president to say don t sit down with him. but president trump is an unconventional president. he didn t run as a conventional candidate. chris: this isn t politics, this is a long. it all comes together because every critical moment in president trump s short political career, he has risen to the occasion. whether it s debates, make speeches point he is set down in depositions before and to sit down to say there is no