click, call or visit a store today. surprised by all of these stories about president trump? the revelations coming from bob woodward s book, the claims in the anonymous op-ed? are you still surprised in i spoke with michael cruz, he bought all the books trump ever wrote, he has studied the trump library and he s not surprised by trump s behavior. everything he does, everything he is, every way he thinks, he has said outloud often repeatedly over and over and over. so, you know, i sort of feel like anybody who is remotely
from fire and fury to fear. many of these claims are coming in bob woodward s new book titled fear. it s already one of the year s best sellers and it s not even on sale yet. the moment these excerpts came out, the book soared to number one on amazon and it has been there ever since, this book is not budging from the top of the list. solely based on preorders, it s the biggest book of 2018. it will actually be released to the public on tuesday. here s the thing about trump s reaction to the book, by raging against woodward and claiming he might have made up stories and lying about woodward s r reputation, trump seems like he s proving the thesis of the book.
from fox news, so this is a sign of that ongoing sort of merger between the trump white house and fox news. so patrick, your newsroom reported that the president has maybe complained of shine s performance, criticizing shine s performance. then we had that interview that was a pep rally type interview, what do you know about this shine situation? the president felt great comfort over the years with hope hicks. he saw hope hicks as kind of a magician in terms of keeping relationships good with the president. you know, donald trump as a president could hop on the phone, have a back and forth with amount of report a lot o reporters, myself included. and now while shine has the bona fides from fox news, trump looks
at the chaos and thinks it should be solved like that and that hope hicks could do it. there were a lot of calls for bring back hope hicks. when the washington post published the reporting of kellyanne coming in with bob woodward. the messaging that bill shine could have somehow undertaken and closed down the story story was dead, donald trump himself by having that reporting and hearing his voice and what he s saying, made it all but impossible for a white house spin machine to play it. i think that s exactly right and what trump wants and what hope was able to do to a degree was to save him from himself and he won t allow anyone to do that anymore. and i m not sure that she could have necessarily pulled a rabbit out of a hat on this. it s just a matter of time and it s focusing on, you know, it s