No right. Whats your sense of whats driving this in the Mainstream Media that you are part of . First of all theres a bias against republicans in general. With reagan he is portrayed as stupid or dangerous, the same thing with trump, hes stupid and dangerous according to the media. They feel if they did there would be ostracized by the colleagues. For example, from for people wn the white house correspondents, cobol, among themselves they laugh at him, they mock him. That is the overriding theme. Many people just inherently cant think independently. Thats one reason i left college after two years like a few of the people, michael dell and gates. I did want to be told how to think. I did want to be told what to write. I wanted to get firsthand what actually happened and thats the way ive operated. I dont have blinders on. I like to penetrate secrets and thats what ive done in this book with all these details about the real donald. Its really a fun read. Explain what happened with Reince Priebus and paul wright D Chris Christie during the access hollywood important weekend for the campaign. What did they do and was any repercussions from what they did later . Keep in mind Reince Priebus still went to the debate. He still supported trump to the rnc. He actually didnt, would not withdraw any support. What did he say . What did he say . Lets see. He said you can get out of race and lose any huge landslide. You mention this in your book. Im just reading. But he was made chief of staff. But at the same time trump never forgave him for saying that, which is unfortunate because prince reavis really presided over many of these successes including the deregulation that led ceos to realize they can expand and hire more workers. They would not be restricted and constricted. A lot of other achievements occurred under Reince Priebus. But one point on the access Hollywood Tape is that hillary had said it shows trump is a coercive marauder. But actually what he is saying in the tape is women are after him all the time and he takes advantage of that. When youre a star they want you to do that. Its not nonconsensual activity. It is consensual activity that he describes. Wow. It wasnt anything there really has happened in politics in my lifetime, in your lifetime. So we saw something that doesnt usually happen. Usually it would be the the def a president ial campaign, and paul ryan the speaker seem to act that way. Looking back what is it that they didnt understand what it was Reince Priebus paul ryan about the trump voter and the trump base, about these things about donald trump . I think reince did understand, but its very hard for people in certain circles in the east and the west to understand the way the average voter thinks. My home contractor, workingclass person, said to me i dont care what trump says, i just care about what he does. That sums up the way people in the socalled workingclass think. They have to be judged by results. If our carpenter nails and mail into a stud and his crooked, he may be fired. A hired professor can spout off about all kinds of things come hes never accountable. These people understand results and thats what you see with donald trump. I see your point and that was great in your book. Lets talk about palm beach. It was alien to me but youre right that behind the heads of the games that palm beach is play, there are affairs, murder, jealousy, pretenses, occasional generosity make cmos tv show look like nursery tales. Talk about donald trump came in to maralago and distal personality, how we took the place and how it is resulted today. Trump first heard about maralago from his limousine driver, and this is typical. He will go about asking people their opinions, with their Chamber Maids or secret service agents. He has his advisers but he also has a white canvas of people will give him opinions. As well as about 12 friends that he consults. I named them into book. Most of them are billionaires but that is the way he works. When i was at maralago recently with the psp what i thought about israeli settlements. I know as much about the middle east as he knows about the taliban but i gave you my opinion and thats the way operates. But he was enthralled by maralago and he bought it at Bargain Basement price. It was a white elephant. First used it as his home but then he decided turn it into a club, and that was the idea of his lawyer in florida who is jewish and said, jews and blacks come these other clubs dont do that. They can be profitmaking. And sure enough now it is worth 700 million. Donalds second wife was against turning it into a club. She just wanted it for herself, but he went ahead with it. The one thing she did contribute was he should have a spa and so we could trump spa at maralag maralago. But it is paradise. As he says, its the closest thing to paradise he will ever get to. Simply unbelievable it overlooks both sides of the island which is only about half a mile wide at the widest point, and this culture is unique. Its the richest place in the world. It has these traditions, red cross ball, spend all the time at charities, developing these balls. In the end they dont actually produce that much money. One club member was married to a very wealthy real estate guy from italy, and eventually he died and left her about 300 million. She stored his body at a local funeral home for 40 days under ice because she said i wanted to enjoy the season, as the caller, the season. I was faithful to him, and now i want to enjoy myself and go to the parties, go to the party on the yacht with ivanka. In fact, she said shes going to do the same thing to her second husband if he dies as well. This is palm beach. Wow. I dont think many spouses would go for that come but maybe in palm beach. Its incredible. Talk about the flag that he had a battle with palm beach people about down there. Donald erected this huge, huge flag, just towering over a longer, towering over the street, and the towns that this is against zoning regulations. But he went to battle it said it was a free speech issue. He sued the town and they started fining him a huge amount of money every day. Eventually they settled and he agreed to move the flagpole further away from the street and to reduce the length of the flagpole. But guess what . He erected it on a mound that is workman created so that in the info is just as as hot as it was before. This is typical donald trump and as he says, he always wins. Not quite but usually does. The way he finagled to get the club approved by the tenth is sort of typical of how he operates. On the one hand, paul rampal his lawyer sent copies of gentlemen to agreement and another similar movie to the Town Council Members who were trying to prevent him from turning this into a club, implying they were all bigots and thats why they were against approving the club. At the same time he sued the town, and he invited his Town Council Members to parties at maralago. He said work when it is a glamorous girls and he also played golf with them into this. He uses the care and the stick and eventually it worked. Maralago brings in about, almost 40 million a year. And what he wants to go there now. That sort of sums up the way trump operates. Another recent book about President Trump is bob woodward fear. The author and pulitzer prizewinning journalist discusses some of his conclusions about the Trump Administration. He spoke at George Washington university in september 2018. Im sure everyone here has seen the book on enormous amount of attention and the thing that struck me the most about the book was that i thought you drew conclusions in the way you may not have in previous books. You were very critical of how comey handles his interactions with the president when he briefed him on the dossier. Your largest conclusion was can you imagine your two weeks away from becoming president and the fbi director comes in and theres no way the ghost of j. Edgar hoover is not far behind and says, by the way, we had the secret dossier about you being with prostitutes in moscow three years earlier. How would you feel . How should comey have handled this . [laughing] not that way. Trump has legitimate beef in my view, and i say in the book, and being the presenter of too much history and writing too much about president s in the case of bill clinton when he came in to office in 1993 and has white House Counsel was Bernie Nussbaum burst of like six. Thats right, but the first. As you imagine, clinton had some baggage, too, and theyre all kinds of things that the fbi got about clintons Extracurricular Activities which were abundant, and so they sent all this instead of briefing clinton on it, they sent it to burning his bomb, the white House Counsel. And he looked at it and said put in the burn bag and said, okay, lets see what happens. Lets see how these things and im not sure the burn bag is, i wish he called me, and he didnt, but the idea of the fbi director getting in the face of somebody like trump who has a big ego. I quote in the book, clinton told his lawyer when, after this briefing, he said, melania can never find out about this. Of course it was about two minutes or two days later she did, as did the world. And you draw a conclusion that the administration is in a very dangerous spot pick nfl that is is at the first of you have ever gone and why did you go so far . Evelyn duffy was my assistant are you here, evelyn . Raise your hand. Evelyn, standup, because [applause] George Washington university graduate, class of [applause] and the year 2007, shes worked for me since actually at that time, and we have done five books, four president s, and she knows all the secrets. [laughing] and she knows how to keep secrets, and she knows how to kick me in the ass. [laughing] and for that i salute her and gw. [applause] but evelyn and my wife, elsa walsh, very much involved, this was a family affair, and they both said you cannot step away from the obvious conclusions of what you found in the book, that there are a group of people which i illustrate very vividly who stand up to trump, steel documents office desk, on south korean trade because its connected to lots of very sensitive intelligence operations, documents on nafta, documents on Climate Change and so forth. Its a regular procedure. Get it off the resolute desk and he will not remember or not think about it. And as i say, and youve got all of the other things, john dowd, his lawyer for the wretched investigation for eight months russia investigation. Can you imagine being trumps lawyer for eight months . [laughing] he goes through and he finally does a practice session with trump. And in the white house and they are overlooking the monuments, and the lawyer plays mueller questions of trump. Its kind a dry run, and trump makes things up, lies, loses emotional control and finally john dowd says you cannot testify. If you testify it will be as he elegantly puts it, and orange jumpsuit, and you dont have to know a lot about Law Enforcement to not recognize what that is. And so you connect all of these things, and my conclusion in the book is that it is an administration and white house thats going to a nervous breakdown. So lets go through a nervous breakdown. How could it go wrong . What would a manifestation of that look like, if it something on the traitor economic side . Did us an example of okay, its a dangerous spot. What could happen . Just on trade, and it sounds satiric but the trade war with china. 99. 9 of the economists say terrorists make no sense. They hurt consumers terra. We buy things in this country because it cheaper, better quality. Trump somehow has in his head theyre taking that money from us, stealing it. And he will not get that out of his head. One of the conclusions i make is that theres a war on truth, and part of it is not just what trump says, but where trump gets these ideas. The experts go in. Gary cohn is chief economic advisor, kind of slaps him gently in an affectionate, perhaps way, and says if you would shut the f up you would learn something. [laughing] [applause] are look at recent books on the trumpet administration continues with historian and author victor davis hanson. His book the case for trump deals with how the president has followed through on his campaign promises. He appeared on her Author Interview program afterwards in 2018 and spoke with former republican congressman dave brat of virginia. I think the deep state is a permanent class of federal also state and local workers who feels that they are exempt from public accountability either through Civil Service or union. And yet they have the resources of the state so if they want to regulate a farmer or the want to sue a coal company may have the means to bankrupt that person or if they are a federal prosecutor and they say were going to bring in front of a liberal washington d. C. Jury and were going to type for years unless you admit to this this this as a so with the mueller, thats what the deep state, and they tend to be progressive only in the sense that the ideology of making them bigger and giving them more power is democratic and left us. Thats one of the reasons that the hated trump. You mentioned some of the names but but i feel like im in alternate universe. James clapper went before a Congressional Committee and under oath he swore that the United States was not accepting communications of private citizens. Vinny said id like but i gave the least there were no uncut aggressive. John brennan went before a Congressional Committee and said i can tell you weve not had any Collateral Damage and told attacks in afghanistan. Thats a lie and he admitted. He went before another committee and he said we do not at the cia tap into sin staffers. That was a lie. There are been no ramifications. James comey said i think to to your Congressional Committees onto a 45 occasions, i can remember, i dont know. If you or i set the to an irs investigator will be in jail. There are people having an assumption that they have a right to overturn an election or the will of the people because they are exempt and powerful. When Andrew Mccabe said he thought paul trump wasnt acting right anyway to Rod Rosensteins, the Deputy Attorney general, and to discuss whether they should tap the president of the United States with a wire, and then those two would decide whether they should pull cabinet officers to remove and elected a president under the 25th amendment, which was never designed for the, that was the affair to meet up with a deep state thought of itself and his power and his morality. Throughout history at first i or in the spanish empire or the byzantine empire, in constantinople, its always a problem. It always grows and is as pretensions of supremacy. I dont how we stop it but we had to speak out against it. Constituents and conservatives, even liberals i get the chance, i met Bernie Sanders and hes an agreement with a lot of what you just said about the deep state and the concentration of wealth and power et cetera on the less. Its interesting. Everybody knows this and people would ask them what can we do . You are really laughed in a toughminded, that major politicians know that if you mess with the deep state, cia, they told trump, i think it was schumer made the comment with respect, if you mess many of this quote in the book when schumer said they have six ways and send it to get you. I think when john brennan tweeted an attack on trump, said not a good idea to get john, like off. I had a lot of evidence of what they thought of themselves come brennan, clapper, call me the cave out there are exempt, and they are right. They have not been exposed to criminal prosecution. Anyone of us have done it we would been leveraged and yet ago after all of these minor characters, we found carter page, go after papadopoulos and threatened them with years of imprisonment and financial ruin unless they give particular test when we find useful that weve all of this other asymmetrical criminality that we dont touch. Its because part of it is our own fault. We give unto prestige and abeyance the people that have alphabet titles after the name, j. D. , phd, ma, md, the council of Foreign Relations or the hoover institution. Rather than just examining people, that was part of a revolution of the 30s, 40s and 50s with the managerial society, we feel theres a professional class because they work at the right place and, therefore, that equates with wisdom and sobriety. Thats yet another reason people hated donald trump because, if you walked into a room with donald trump, and i havent done it but if you said mr. Trump, you cant do because the council on Foreign Relations thinks its a bad idea. He was a tell you what good they had lately. Was it the north korea sixparty agreement . Was it it hasnt worked. Was it afghanistan . We have not one. Thats one of the reasons they dont like him. Its interesting when youre called the names linked to nazis, et , et cetera, that reqs a big state. Our philosophy is exact opposite. We want a to reduce role of the federal government, madisonian logic want to be the separation between federal, state and local. The federal their separation of powers. Do you see any President Trump is fighting this war daily in trying to fight goliath on. Do you see leviathan. Do you see any light at the end of the tunnel we are able to reduce the power that is being wielded, or is it continually growing from the problem is with your donald trump has not filled federal offices, fatty the regulates thats all good but at the same time the cost of government and the deficit has been rising. You want to know if he is some person engaged in helpless, a don quixote type charac