Look at you, you have a good luck. I said ok, that was prequel, right pretty cool. [laughter] said, joni, billy, bobby, i said, i know those guys, he said, they any good . Said yes. He said you think you are better than them . I said yes. He said, you want to run my campaign for president . I said, he is not running for president. He said to me, what do you think the odds of me running the odds of me running and winning . I said 5 . He said 10 . I met him in the middle, he said done. That is how we started. He shook my hand and stood up and said, youre hired. I had a job, i had to have a conversation with my wife. He said get out. I said i have a job. He said you work for me now. I left his office and called my wife and said, i think it just took a new job in new york. How much management was this or was it more containment . He seems like the type of person where you do not put a plan together and say this is what you are going to say. What you go out and release things out at his rallies, and you would have to react to them, what was it like . Corey it was a small core group of us that started together. Five people . Corey yes. , one of george chicos the best. Deputy glasser was our come against can be no was social media. That was the whole team, the whole president ial team, no exaggeration. We had someone in ohio and New Hampshire and south carolina, that was the entire campaign, could have puts them in a minivan. But the bond that those five had one singlehe or focus which was to make donald trump the next president of the United States was unbelievable. During that. Company,like a small there were no leaks. There is nobody really can stories to the media because there was nobody to link to, there were five of us. The group is very cohesive. What we knew in that. Time is weperiod of would be successful. To ohiop ohio where he was not supposed to win and he won. He went to New Hampshire, one by 20 points. What was that night like . Let me to you something. When you work for donald trump, winning solves problems. [laughter] there was a lot of pressure after iowa. There was a small office we had a small office on grand street. Granite it is important to remind people, we left i went that night and finished in second place, a win for every other candidate. Ruby is strategy was finished third finished third, second, go on. Donald trumps strategy, all 50. I said no one has ever done that. We finished in iowa, can to New Hampshire, and he was not came to New Hampshire, he was in a bad mood. Events, andple of it was a wednesday after. I said i need to speak with you. I said, here is where your numbers are, you are starting to fall. We had a good lead in New Hampshire, if you do not start to outline what your vision is for america and just want to complain about the results in iowa, you will be a candidate who once ran for president. Around, ande turned up to manchester police, did a , solomon of the officers who would just come out of the hospital, went to a town ,all in manchester with cnn than thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, started knocking doors in the blizzard. The strategy was lets trump ,e trump, go to these rallies therallies and tweets are two things that differentiate him from other campaigns. You would let him go to a rally but there are no preconceived notions, i think we will hit this issue, or he was just, go do it . ,orey sometimes we had a plan sometimes we talked about what we wanted to talk about. I can say specifically, december 7 of 2015, we talked about rolling out a muslim band. I was very controversial, there was a lot of discussion. , we knew what the basic premise of the speech would be. We would say hey, if you talk about the snake tonight, these different narratives he would roll into his speeches. I used to say, lets trump be trump be trump. I acquit him to a great resource, you have to let him run. He is the foul of american politics. It is not my job to say sir, for 40 years you have had unparalleled success in the business and television and book world, i will tell you what to do now. That is not my job. My job is to put blinders on him and got him into corners and say, we have to be careful on this one. That is what i tried to do. He has had a finger on the pulse of the American People. Heyou look at the interviews did with Oprah Winfrey in 1989, exact same messaging he said when he ran for president in 2015 and 16. He fundamentally understood and understands what is wrong with the country and wants to change it. Is not hard to do that when you are turning on television, all the analysts are saying, you have guts to put a bridle on this guy, he needs to apologize, do this, you are saying no, let them do it. There mustve been a lot of syndication at the end. Corey the American People saw that they wanted a change. Story, went to New Hampshire one day in the summer. F 2015 we took it small plane and , and they get 15 phone messages from the same number. I said, this cannot be good. There was this Police Officer who said, we have got a problem. It was a friday night. Nobody was there, so he tried to give us the heads up. He called and said, with the santa cruz or to get you guys, secret service protection. There were so many people we had to close the road. Into this facility, i have never seen anything like it in my life. It was 120 degrees inside, there were people on the roof of this building. With holden into black suvs, people came to the cars and started shaking the car. It was like a rock concert celebrity. They shook the car and donald trump went in and give the speech. We got in the suvs as we left, and there were people outside who could not fit in the cars as we left the parking. Is Something Different going on that nobody else sees. People would wait in line in , forchusetts, my hometown eight hours and a blizzard in january of 2016 to see donald trump speak. I saw time and time again that what the media failed to understand was if you wait in line to see someone for eight they will blizzard, support them. They do not want to see that narrative. Will call it the mccain day, when he said what he said about john mccain. That must have been a big blow. The that take you off your game and question whether you should let him be trump . Corey that was a tough day. We were in iowa, it was still early in the campaign. He went out to give a speech, this conference. We had two other events than we would fly back. We got to the facility, he did a. Eeting greet, does the speech im waiting for him at the door and they said he says, pretty good . I suggested speak to you over here . Greenberg rs the i closed the door. This is real you have to understand donald trump, took me a long time. We had Just Launched in june, this was in july. I said sir, you just said john mccain was not a work euro. He was not a war hero, i think you need to apologize. He said no. This is the difference. John mccain has done enough for our veterans, we have people dying in phoenix, arizona, veterans who are dying, he said john mccain hasnt been enough. I said you do not understand, this campaign is going to be over. He said lets have a press conference. Has a 28 minutes prom probably most contentious press conference i have ever seen. ,e leave get back on the plane i called my wife and said, the campaign is over. Coming home. All my friends are right. Show. As a sunday one author said, donald trump is right, john mccain has not done enough. There were people who you know that became part of this would, and float he flew me to new jersey. Friends, Close Friends of the president , kennedy trump said, you cannot survive this, you need to apologize. The best minds in the political space, you must apologize. He said i am going to double down, i will make sure veterans have what they want. I said wow he apologized after. He doubles down on things. Corey he is a genuine fighter. For his entire life, he was told he could not do things. You cannot build in new york, that is for a Different Group of people. New york, manhattan is different for us, do not do that. He has such a tenacity, an ability to move people when he puts his mind to it. I think it is hard to apologize because he is so strong in what his beliefs are. He wants everyone to believe the way he does. You mentioned earlier that he was in a bad mood at one point. Describe what he is like. There are different characteristics when somebody is in a bad mood. Bill clinton had a terrible temper apparently. Other candidates and president s have. He spent all this time with someone in a Small Campaign jet or bus, and tempers flare. Tommy what it is like when he gets upset. When you spend as much time with him as i did, 1500 hrs on the plane, about 60 days straight just being an airplane. Price plan, though. [laughter] best plan and the worst food, when you spend as much mcdonalds, burger king. When you get to know somebody, you have to understand, when donald is angry, it is because traditionally the staff has failed to deliver on what his expectations were. I took it very personally. Hersnt angry after losing coming in second place in iowa, he was disappointed. That falls on me as the Campaign Manager to say, i did not do my job well enough. Id do not know what else i could of done, looking back of course you do things differently. When he yelled at me or was disappointed in me and the campaign, i took it very personally, because id given up so much to be a part of it. You have to understand, you are with someone come candidate running for office at the highest of the highest. The biggest things they have ever done, running for president. Becoming the president , Everything Else is poultry, secondary. There were days like wisconsin, it was tough. Days where we lost elections, real tough. You are known for driving a tight ship. You have a bit of an action in campaigns sometimes. Is that a persona you take on during those campaigns . You se to be enjoying the postcampaign. N, but you have a little bit of a general patton persona. Corey you know what it is . When i would always tell our staff is, every single day donald trump would give us his very best. If we are not going to do that we should not be here. Who worked 1820 hours a day without blinking. Never once did he say to me, why am i going to mobile, alabama, to give a speech to 35 35,000 people . He said i will go because this is what you told me to do. It was an amazing amount of responsibility to dictate his calendar like that without any questions. What i did not have a tolerance for is for some staffer to say to me, i am tired. I do not buy that. I expect different. Deadline, you will be there on time, deadlines are there for a reason. We have donald trump on the ballot. 50 has told us we could never do it. Of course we can we always did more with less because we pushed people the hardest. Are you happy with his staff now . ,here seem to be a lot of leaks certainly mistakes in the beginning part of the presidency. Now, you are watching some of this on tv, obviously you are in connection with the president. Are you disappointed, but your feelings . Corey think there are a couple different components. A big piece for the staff at the end of the president ial campaign, where most cap campaigns of thousands of people , we had 200 people in the whole campaign. 200 people. That is a decent sized u. S. Senate race. The Clinton Campaign at 800 . Iney they had 800 people the Brooklyn Office alone. What you had at the beginning part of the administration, i bunch of people who either a, did not work on the campaign that have a desire to come back trump,s not know donald or b, so i think when it comes to National Security policy, he has assembled some of the best teams possible. General mattis, h. R. Mcmaster. That team of generals is very trump, orstrong. It is an obligation of the staff to push back on the president if they do not think he is saying or doing the right thing. The people he has around him do not have that type of experience and longevity with him in some instances to do that. The president as a person who understands two different types of staffers, i mean this in the best possible sense. The people who are the president s contemporaries, who have achieved a massive amount of wealth or success in their own right, general matters, general kelly, steve mnuchin, carson, very wealthy in their own right. Are you have staff who literally the nuts and bolts of running a day to day operation, who are much less likely to be president ll the difficult things because they do not have a relationship or he does not see them as contemporaries. You have to be willing to have those tough conversations, i had a lot of them. I always said it to candidate trump, all you can do is go back to New Hampshire. Whats the worst that can how does steve miller fit into this . Corey he is a true ideologue, a big picture thinker. He fundamentally believes that government should be smaller, more efficient. He is someone who i think truly believes in putting americans first. That sounds pejorative if you are from some other country. He is not an isolationist, but he wants to put the American People first. You mentioned bannon, who seems to be the great interest to everyone in the media because he does not speak that much to the media with the exception of cpac. Tommy about steve bannon. He has been around since before you are around. Corey steve and the president have a long relationship. Steve is someone who is exceptionally brilliant. Most people do not given the credit he deserves, he was a navy officer, worked at Goldman Sachs made a fortune, and a small piece of the company of seinfeld. He has done very well, then he went off and worked in hollywood, and started with Breitbart Andrew breitbart, built breitbart into what to does today. Steve has been counseling mr. Trump for a long time. But think you have in steve bannon someone who the president understands, they share a similar philosophy. That is why stephen the president have such a bond, because that relationship has been long and developed and they fundamentally agree on most issues. For being criticized everything from a racist right on through, so does the president. How does that make you feel, when this is a person, trump, who you spent a long time with. What is your opinion of some of that . These are pretty divisive statements, not that he has not been a divisive candidates, at how does that make you feel when you know someone that well and this is the political reaction to what they are saying . Becauset bothers me, they have never done that their Due Diligence to go and actually understand donald trump. Not that he has not been accessible. From the time he launched his campaign to the time the president ial campaign ended, he did 700 interviews with the New York Times. 00 that is unprecedented. He has a very quick story. One day a New York Times reporter calls me, we are on the airplane about to take off, she has a question she would like to ask mr. Trump, i say will relate relay at. It. He gets on the phone with her and answer the question. The phone back, she is been covering Hillary Clinton for four years, never spoken to her. He is that accessible to the media. When people make statements about him saying, he does not respect women come onto you look at the number of women who are executives in his corporation. He doesnt respect minorities, till you look at all of the minorities he has employed throughout the years, tens of thousands. He doesnt respect jewish people, except his daughter and grandchildren are jewish. Easierr it may be, it is to say these things than actually and go and look at whats the history tells us. You mentioned the New York Times, i wish you would mentioned the new the union leader. Coverage make eclipse that if any single human being, and they are talking about donald trump. Now, we have this fight with the media. Do you think that is more something that is used as a vehicle to have an enemy out there that he can fence with . That he a real feeling is being unfairly targeted by the media and is reacting to that . Corey it could be a little of both. I think the media has been pejorative in sometimes, very unfair to the president. It is amazing when they have been unfair with most present. Corey we give you one example of a mistake. Time magazine reporter emma to the office and took a picture of the oval and said, the bust of Martin Luther king jr. Has been removed. He tweeted it right away, never contacted anyone in the white house. He is fine guy, i know him well. 3000 mediat with outlets, decried the president for being a racist for removing a bust. The fact was that the bust was never touched, it was standing behind a person. If he had taken three seconds to ask the white house, he wouldve had the problem is the first story is the one that gets reported, not the mistake, not the, i apologize. That happens time and time again. Look. Weeks, the New York Times and wall street journal have written. What they say at the very end of , this is what has disagrees with us. That is not fair journalism. I would agree with that. But, president s have always had a things that they have enemny. As abn almost all of them congress. He seems to take a special liking to the media. They seem to have a he seems to have a hard time defending himself. His is a new tactic . Corey the media continues to talk about themselves. Theycause about the media, do not understand that. They are so enraged that the president will not come to the white house Correspondents Dinner because that is all that want to talk about. They do not want to talk about his compliments and Campaign Promises that he is fulfilled. Every day the media talks about themselves, they are losing. If you look at the last fox poll that shows that 45 of people believe that the president s info is accurate, and 42 believe that the medi