we watched him watch tv calling former federal officials dogs. they choked like dogs. they choked like dogs, he said. i think there s really attention. he flits back and forth between the two views. all of it comes back to a very deep sense of grievance he has about the way he s been treated. it animated our entire we were with him for 2 1/2 hours monday night through different settings throughout the white house. but that sense of grievance followed him throughout the whole time he was there. there was one detail. he talked about he fired up his tivo while you were there which he said called one of the greatest inventions of all time. i happen to agree with him on that. it s that or the george foreman grill for me. but i agree with him on the tivo. i m fascinated by how much he watches news, watches himself. so many people i know at a high level choose not to look at themselves or read about themselves because it doesn t
hearing. he had it child in for us to come in and he was going to hit play. he had to go h go scrolling through the archives. we were able to see bits of tivo clips from several weeks back of cable news shows that he had been watching and saving for other such opportunities. and it was almost like watching your favorite football team on sunday.
of mirrors the public approval ratings in general for president trump. and then is really interesting by party, too, you have 84% of democrats saying the firing was not appropriate, 79% of republicans saying it was appropriate, but independents are breaking with the democrats where you have 60% of independents saying it was not appropriate. that is a difficult number for the president right there, and the president gave and interview that gave a sense of his obsession, i think you could almost say, with television, television about him with tivo. it was all about his late night tv habits, and he was showing time magazine writers how he watches through all of the shows and said tivo was one of the greatest inventions of all time. what was really striking involving sally yates and the
and in almost a kaczynski, chauncey, gardner way, writ large and updated, it truly is how he takes in the world. and his tivo remote, he rap sodized about the invention, is his passport to the world. yeah. that s certainly true as he was pulling up that that hearing on monday, the clapper/sally yates hearing. also we were able to see, he was complaining that he hadn t dialed in for us to come in and he was going to hit play. he had to go scrolling through the archives. we were able to see bits of tivo clips from several weeks back of cable news shows that he had been watching and saving for other such opportunities. and it was almost like watching your favorite football team on sunday and watching a good play-by-play, and here is the president of the united states
welcome back to the 11th hour. the night before firing fbi director comey, president trump invited time magazine for dinner at the white house. it was a charm offensive to be sure as the president touted his achievements, showed off his tivo, replayed his testimony of sally yates and james clapper saying at one point, quote, watch them start to choke like dogs. th they are desperate for breath. it s all part of a fascinating cover story, came out just today in time magazine, titled donald trump after hours. i m joined by the co-author, zeke miller, white house correspondent for time. zeke, let s talk about the television aspect. it comes roaring through your journalism, a piece i could not stop reading today.