a security issue as well. aland saager, terrific stuff from both of you. thank you so much. thank you so much for watching. lou dobbs is next right here on the fox business network. have a good night. . lou: good evening, everybody. our top stories jeff sessions' disastrous tenure as attorney general has ended. sessions today resigned at the request of president trump. we'll have the latest tonight on who replaces sessions at the helm of the troubled, corrupt justice department? and the future of the mueller witch-hunt. sessions allowed to run wild under his watch. also tonight, president trump's tireless campaigning and support of republican candidates turning back the much ballyhooed blue wave, it turned out to be not much of

anything at all. the dems taking control of the house by a slim margin while the republican party gained seats in the senate. we'll tell you how often that's occurred in history. and the president today offering to work with democrats to deliver for the american people. >> now is the time for members of both parties to join together, put partisanship aside and keep the american economic miracle going strong. lou: and, of course, many of the radical dimms already rejecting the president's olive branch. instead, they're talking about obstruction, endless investigations, even impeachment. and the national left-wing media continues its shameless efforts to smear, to undermine, to undercut this president while disgracing themselves, at today's white house press

conference. >> that's enough, that's enough. that's enough. reporter: one of the other folks -- pardon me, ma'am. >> excuse me, that's enough. lou: we'll take it up, you won't believe it. we're going to show you all of that in full -- we take up the midterm election aftermath tonight, republican strategist ed rollins with the social media stars diamond and silk conservative commentator ann coulter among our guest. also our top story, the blue wave ran into the trump wall, though the radical dimms gain control of the house, the president's tireless efforts campaigning for republicans minimize the dimms overall gains. democrats picking up 7 governorships throughout the country but trailing republican overall, 26-23. the georgia race still undecided and republican brian kemp is leading radical dimm stacy abrams, if neither candidate receives 50% of the

final count, a runoff election would be held on december 4th, and in the house, the dimms gained 27 seats sitting at 222, to the republicans' 196. but there are 17 races yet to be decided. in those races, 11 are right now being led by republican candidates, six in favor of the dems. if the numbers were to hold, the dems have a 228 to 207 majority. for the republican party to lose only 34 seats is a testament to the president. consider that in 2010, president obama's democrats in his first midterm election lost 63 seats on their way to losing control of the house. in the senate, republicans had a big night last night picking up three seats in the senate flipping the states of florida, indiana, north dakota,

missouri, two senate races remain undecided tonight. in arizona where republican candidate martha mcsally is leading democrat kyrsten sinema, 49.3 to 48.4%. also in mississippi, where incumbent republican senator, senator cindy hyde smith and democrat challenger mike espy both received under 50% of the vote. they face each other in a runoff set for november 27th. in florida, that race has been called for republican governor rick scott over incumbent senator democrat bill nelson. if the final margin of victory surround half a percent, a recount would be triggered. 99% of the resinks counted. scott's lead is .4% as of right now. gaining seats in the senate during a midterm election while losing house seats is extremely rare in american history, but president trump seems to have

done exactly that. it's been done only, by the way, two previous times over the past 100 years, and for recent context, president obama lost nine senate seats in his first midterms in 2010. other top news tonight -- president trump's attorney general out at the president's any. request. jeff sessions resigned after a call from the president's chief of staff. fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joining us tonight. she has the story. catherine? reporter: thanks, lou, and good evening, jeff sessions left the justice department a short time ago. you will see the blog from justice department employees, and if you look closely, you will see sessions shaking the hands of matt whitaker, former chief of staff who is now the acting attorney general. source close to the white house tells fox news, whitaker, a republican and former u.s. attorney is well liked by the

president not seen as fbi or d.o.j. insider who came up through the ranks of special counsel robert mueller. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. that's whitaker right there. very tall gentleman. former fbi director james comey and current fbi director christopher wray. justice department providing a letter that thanks the president for the opportunity to serve and highlights what sessions described as his accomplishments to fulfill the trump agenda, citing more aggressive immigration enforcement as well as cracking down on violent offenders. whitaker is coming under scrutiny for tweets, an op-ed about the russia special counsel where he indicated that looking at the president's finances would be crossing a red line. a recent part, it does not take a former lawyer or prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating donald trump's finances or family's finances falls completely outside of the realm of the 2016 campaign and

allegations that the campaign coordinated with the russian government or anyone else. that goes beyond the scope of the special counsel. he was seen as a quiet advocate for the declassification of the russia records which include the surveillance warrant renewal for trump campaign aide in 2017. that was approved significantly by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. whitaker is now rosenstein's boss. the president backed away from the declassification but today seemed to indicate it was back on track. >> amazing how people on the other side just don't want those documents declassified, but we're looking at that very carefully. i wanted to wait until after the midterms. reporter: within the last few minutes, we received this statement from the acting attorney general, it reads in part --

attorney general sessions has been a dedicated public servant for over 40 years, it has been a privilege to work under his leadership. he is a man of integrity who served this nation well, lou? lou: catherine, thank you very much. developments fast and furious. reporter: appreciate it. lou: thank you very much, catherine herridge. joining me top strategist for great america pac, former white house political director, fox news political analyst and leading republican strategist of all-time. good to have you with us. >> thank you, nice to be here. lou: i want to start by congratulating you. you called basically these results, and i have to say, as we watched them unfold, all i could think of is what in the world were these candidates thinking because in so many instances they separated themselves from rather than embracing the trump agenda?

>> those embrace the trump agenda, the senate candidates got elected. those who didn't obviously didn't. i think the end of the day, donald trump saved the senate. this could have been a real bloodbath, this environment, we could have lost 60 seats week lost 30, which is the average for the last 21 midterms, and we picked up senate seats which is very, very important. we now have two or three-vote margin, we get senate confirmation hearings done. don't have to worry about one or two senators going south and the president can finish that important agenda of getting his people in there, the judicial agenda of getting good people. he made the case, he drove the immigration battle which is what many people wanted. lou: i got a kick out of the center for american progress. they were touting beto o'rourke or robert o'rourke, whatever his name is, and andrew gillum as the template for 2020 for

presidential timber for the democratic party. i couldn't quite figure that one out. >> obviously, beto, whatever his name is, had $85 million, more than any presidential campaign spent in recent times, against $35 million for ted cruz, ted cruz won a very effective campaign and won it easily in the end. gillum was the delight of the liberal media and some of the rich guys that put tons of money in the races and i think that's -- we survived an onslaught of liberals, actors, actresses, former presidents and basically everybody, and my favorite joe biden who proved he can't vote for anybody anywhere. lou: by the way, not many people are running ahead of him in that category, whether it's oprah winfrey, they spend a lot of time and little attention,

not for the candidate it seems. give us a sense where we go from here. the president has been facing -- well, i want to ask you before that. i've got to bring it up. that is paul ryan. where was he in this campaign? and where the heck was all of that money he supposedly was raising as speaker of the house? >> well, it certainly wasn't being spent on the right races, and i think to a certain extent as i said the other night, he has led the revolution over the cliff and we have to build the majority in two years and the president will do that, whoever the new leader is, and the new leadership fight will come on quickly. my agitation, is he going to stay in the lame-duck session as speaker, he should be out now. say thank you very much and go home. lou: that is the mystery, and i've got to be very honest with everyone. i can't figure out nor i have spoken with anyone who will divulge to me why in the world a republican conference put up

with his shameless lack of leadership and his indifference to the results of these midterms, and we knew going into this that he was absent without permission when it came to funding the tight races and really leading the campaign effort. the republicans did nothing about it. they just kept going ahead. >> hopefully the new leader takes charge. lou: jim jordan comes to mind. >> we'll have a fight real soon. the most important thing is get him out right now. lame-duck session. the president needs a couple things to get done before they all go home. lou: the president, this is nothing new facing opposition from the democrats. nothing new for him facing opposition in the house of representatives. the dems have to work hard to do as much damage as paul ryan did. >> equally as important, if pelosi is the leader, which i assume she is, has got a very, very diverse element behind her and try to get all the cats in

the same direction is not easy, and she's not going to get much room. her idea she wants to run impeachments and the rest of it, my sense is have at it. you'll get nowhere and lead yourself to minority status in two years. lou: i don't know if it was my inference or her projection, as she was asserting herself as leader of the dems she was trying to calm down a few of the more antagonistic even more radical dems cheering particularly the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee. >> she should, i'm not sure she can, at the end of the day, donald trump is more than happy to take them all on. lou: you got it. thank you, ed, ed rollins. all those who shorted the markets and expectation of a big blue wave probably are wishing they had a little more faith today. on wall street, the dow jones industrials soaring 545 points,

the s&p up 58 points, the nasdaq rose almost 200 points, up 195 on the day. up next, the radical left revealing their plan to inundate the trump administration with investigations and inundations is the plan. >> we have a constitutional duty of oversight in the u.s. house. >> we'll have a responsibility to honor our oversight responsibilities and that's the path we'll go down. >> if he thinks that the media is annoying, wait until he meets a democratic house that has subpoena power. >> we also intend to make sure that the oversight role that the republicans so completely abdicated, we once again, the congress undertakes and does so responsibly. lou: more on all of that and the president's response. we're joined next by ann coulter.

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receiving medical care in addition some, legal advice. at the soccer stadium which they're housed, many of the migrants were warned by u.s. government representatives not to travel to the united states border because it is all but impossible to receive asylum now under new stricters. many of those migrants are undeterred and planning to leave mexico city when more caravans arrive in mexico city, three more caravans spread throughout southern mexico on their way north, expected to form a large caravan from the three, they're expecting 10,000 migrants where they would then approach the u.s. border as one. activists are warning the migrants not to enter as a single large group saying they fear it would be seen by u.s. authorities as an invasion, but when asked, one migrant said this --

>> but he is president of the united states. ann coulter joining me now to talk about, well, caravans and crisis and, of course, surprise midterm victories and the long overdue exit of jeff sessions. political commentator, best-selling author ann coulter, author of resistance is futile. how the trump hitting left lost its collective mind and we saw more of that on display today. ann, great to have you with us. first, the election results. are you elated? are you disappointed? what is going on? >> i am ecstatic with the election results. i was very nervous. i do like to prepare for the worst, but i didn't want to say it publicly. you can discourage your own side apparently, but certainly everyone in this studio knows i was not expecting to win florida. we won both those seats.

the governor's seat, the senator's seat. trump didn't lose. considering the republicans haven't done anything, and they don't deserve to win, but on the other hand, america doesn't deserve the democrats. yeah, of course, i was terrified. caravan you were showing pictures of. what do you think? if we took a referendum. everybody in america can vote. do you think all the poor people in the world have the right to move here and you have to pay for them? how do you think that would go over? how about a referendum on anchor babies, sneak past border patrol and drop a baby, that's it. and sanctuary cities. why don't republicans force democrats to vote on these things? who cares if we lose, and by the way, i don't think we'll lose. make them vote. you're supposed to force the other side to take embarrassing votes. republicans did none of that. we don't have the wall.

so we didn't really deserve to win, but i give all credit to justice brett kavanaugh. this is one of many services he has performed for his country. i think that's what was in people's minds because it is spectacular that we only lost one senate seat, and footnote, who was that, one of the signatories to marco rubio's amnesty bill, dean heller, not particularly sad to see him go. lou: am i going to get a second question tonight? or not? >> i was just concluding, when you interrupted with that. [ laughter ] >> forgive me for doing so but we are constrained by time, and i do want to get you on record about this president now facing a scornful, resentful and obviously evil-intended democratic leadership that's about to take control of the

house. do you think he'll find much of a difference between them and, say, paul ryan? [laughter] >> well, the most, what i'm truly hoping is with the president unable to blame a republican congress for not building the wall. he'll remember that my gosh, i'm the commander in chief, i have full authority to build the wall. i'll just do it, which he should do. that would certainly guarantee his re-election. i think this is a great thing for trump's re-election. the democrats, as i think you were saying earlier, even nancy pelosi has got to know we have to control the crazy ones. they can't control the crazy ones, the resistance is going to get more out of control. base is demanding impeachment hearings, more on russia, we want to see his taxes, and the american people are sitting back saying can you please do something to make our lives better? please stop talking about trump's taxes. i think this is very helpful to

trump and as unpleasant as it is as i suggested in the column, he has to think how unpleasant it was for brett kavanaugh to be accused of gang rape, that guaranteed we flipped four senate seats. lou: you have a lot to say in that direction, we're at the end of our time. >> i was again right to conclusion. you have a sense of when i'm coming to the end. lou: thank you so much, ann coulter, and this is the end. good to have you with us. be sure to vote in our poll tonight -- cast your vote on twitter. and follow me on twitter, "like" me on facebook, follow me on instagram at "lou dobbs tonight." up next, rudely badgering president trump. a favorite pastime for a cnn correspondent who still has a

job. >> if you don't mind, after i'm finished, if weijia or halle or one of my colleagues could go, that would be great. great if a female reporter could ask you a question. are reluctant to come forward, you raised doubts about the accusers. >> i don't think people are reluctant to come forward. >> not you. not you. your organization is terrible. your organization. reporter: can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir? >> quiet, quiet. lou: you know, the president is a man of incredible patience. we'll take up the incredible outbursts from -- they tell me he's a member of the white house press corps, i'm sure the press corps must be very proud. we'll find out more when we continue. stay with us. ♪

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an amazing press conference, then he was badgered by some members of the national left-wing media, nothing new in that, and the president swatted them aside. but one amazingly disgusting display by cnn's jim acosta. it was so bad, the president had to stop him straight away. >> you know why? honestly, i think you should let me run the country, you run cnn, if you did it well, ratings might go up. reporter: let me ask a question. >> that's enough. that's enough. that's enough. reporter: the other folks -- pardon me ma'am. >> excuse me, that's enough. reporter: may i ask on the russia investigation, are you concerned -- >> i'm not concerned about anything about the investigation because it's a hoax. that's enough. put down the mic. reporter: mr. president, are you worried about indictments coming down in this

investigation? mr. president. >> i tell you, what cnn should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. you are a rude, terrible person, you shouldn't be working for cnn. go ahead. you are a error rude person, the way you treat sarah huckabee and other people are horrible. you shouldn't treat people that way. >> in jim's defense, he's a diligent reporter. >> i'm not a fan of yours either. >> you aren't the best. reporter: mr. president, over the course -- >> sit down, please. when you report fake news. no. when you report fake news which cnn does a lot, you are the enemy of the people. lou: cnn then released a statement afterward, let me if i may share it with you because it's quite a study and sanctimonious nonsense itself.

did you hear the hallelujah chorus behind that? i have to say if that is a free press, you know, it's really news to me because what he looked like was a complete and utter, well, you finish the sentence. it's amazing what's going on in the white house press corps and what's going on in the white house. i have to say, whoever is running plays -- the press room, get it under control because it's disgraceful. it is embarrassing to the nation, and it really needs to stop. joining me to take all of this up and the national left-wing media's ridiculous and

senseless attacks against the president. social media superstars, president trump's most loyal supporters, diamond and silk. great to have you with us. i have to tell you both, you guys know i love you. i am so ticked off, i can't -- it is just amazing to me that the white house permits that kind of conduct on the part of that sort of person. what do you think? >> well, yeah, it's time for acosta, for his press credentials to be removed. it's very sad that he don't understand as a journalist, he is supposed to report news, not make the news, and not be the news. and yeah, he is the enemy of the people, not only that but the enemy of the truth. he's very disrespectful. very disparaging, and you know what? why is he in there? he don't need to go to the white house anymore and report anything because we don't want to hear it anymore. >> yeah, i -- the president swats them like flies, and they

still behave like spoiled and ignorant children. i don't know what they are. a brat. i don't know. what do you think? >> look at the integrity of the question they're asking. look at what it's representing. they're not even asking questions that have substance to it. look, this president has done so much for this country, and so so many questions to ask. but to ask ignorant questions, it reflects on their character, they are ignorant to the fact that people are tired of their mess. lou: well said. let's turn to the election. i have to say the president doing something that's only been done three times in 100 years and adding senate seats in the midst of this even is losing the basically the historical average about 30 seats, less than that right

now. your reaction? >> you have to understand why the democrats is playing checkers the president was playing chess, okay? even though we have the representatives that retired, we have the congressional races, democrats pumping millions and donors pumping millions and millions of dollars into the races. that was just like a thing so the republican party will okay. this is what happens. what happens is the democrats took the house, but we added to the senate which was perfect. because this is going to force democrats to come to the table and work with this president. not only work with this president but push his agenda. if they don't. >> that's right. >> we, the american people will be able to see them, flip the seats and red this will set the president up for his 2020 run where, he'll be president of the united states. >> yes. >> again. >> and also a lot of these people resigning and retiring, you know, it was republicans

that did that. what it showed to us a lot of the swamp dwellers that showed their hand. now that they are out, hopefully when the democrats are in, when 2020 comes we know who you are. we know which rats are clogging the pipe. whenever 2020 comes materials, be a whole new ball game, baby. we're ready for it. lou: diamond and silk, we're always ready for you. thank you for joining us. good to see you. >> thank you for having us. lou: the president's midterm picks come out on top. more on that when we continue. stay with us. the day after chemo shouldn't mean going back to

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republicans. donald trump going ohio where mike dewine won the race, extending control of the critical battleground state, and obama then went to miami. that didn't work out too well for andrew gillum in florida. republican ron desantis now governor elect, and then, the former president parachuted into georgia. backing stacy abrams for governor. with the race hasn't been called yet, brian kemp has a strong lead and appears to be headed for victory, all part of obama's troubling track record when it comes to midterms and campaigning for dems. back in 2010, then president obama lost 63 democratic house seats. 63! more than double the losses of the republican party 27 seats last night. the democrats lost a staggering 1,000 state legislative seats,

gubernatorial seats and congressional seats during obama's presidency. joining me to take up president trump and the republican party's election day victory, charlie hurt, fox business contributor, washington times editor. an amazing performance in a senate and average historical result in the house. >> yeah, indeed, lou, you laid it out exactly perfectly there, comparing it to obama's first term. there's no way of looking at this without concluding that the trump did a whole lot better. and i think there's a reason for that, and it's not because donald trump is some super charismatic unifying figure or barack obama isn't. what it came down to in both of these first midterms are the issues, and the issues that obama was running on was campaigning on was trying to govern on were total dud, a

complete failure with voters in particular. independent voters. issues that donald trump is pushing in his first campaign and his first two years he's in office are very, very popular issues. and it's the issues that won in all of those races last night. >> you know, it's interesting because ed rollins, the savant of political strategists, is saying from the outset those republicans in the house who attached themselves to president trump's america first agenda will prevail. it's that simple. and then you had the whispering paul ryan telling his rhino members, you know, just talk about the tax cuts, don't mention immigration, border security, foreign policy, and they listened to him, and the next thing they heard was the whisper of the axe. >> isn't it amazing, lou, how hard it is for people to

actually learn very basic, simple lessons from elections. those people did not learn a single thing from the 2016 election. i think that there are probably even more democrats who learned something from trump's victory in 2016 than the establishment republicans in the house, and i guess some in the senate as well who just refuse to learn the important lessons out of that election, and those lessons are it's about the issues. and you look in texas, you look in florida, you look in georgia, all the media told us the democrats in all the races where they were the second coming of barack obama. they were these heartthrobs. they raised a massive amount of money, but at the end of the day, all this free press coverage, they still lost. why? because they were wrong on the issues and the republican opponents who were supported by donald trump were running on the -- as you said, the america first trump agenda, and that's

what brought them each that victory. lou: and those candidates, not all of them, but many of themselves, republican candidates who did lose in the house, they did because they were still following the dicta of the chamber of commerce, the koch brothers and wall street. and those days are over except for people, of course, the going speaker who will be, i'm sure, well, getting something of a payoff for his extraordinary support of k street. >> wouldn't be the first person around here to make money off of it. lou: i heard some speakers to go out and start pushing, that can't be true. >> that's right, that's right. think about when you look at all of those republicans who retired, therefore, turning the field very, very unfavorable for republicans, but think about the number of those republicans you retired, you

retired because they thought this would be impossible to win re-election with trump at the top of the ticket. last night we learned they were totally long, and maybe if they adjusted their own agenda and fought hard and run hard, maybe a handful of them or half of them would be -- would have won re-election last night. lou: i think it's a great point, and the largest number of retirements, resignations, whatever you want to call them ni think the history of the congress. charlie hurt, great to have you with us. thank you so much. >> thanks, lou up. >> next, the president outshines hollywood's big stars, left-wing celebrities and holds off something they wanted to call a blue wave. that wave was like an adios wave. we'll take that up with presidential historian doug

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. lou: joining me now to discuss the president's firing of attorney general sessions, republican victories last night, presidential historian doug wead. good to see you. >> good to see you, lou. lou: looks like the president is going to lose somewhere

aren't 27, 28 seats in the house. gain three in the senate, which both won the house in terms of average in terms of losses, and unheard of to gain seats while losing them in the house -- in the senate. >> historic, took 9/11 and the great depression to make it happen before, but history is never encountered anybody quite like donald trump. he's out of the box. he's willing to work hard to risk his equity that most politicians wouldn't let him out of white house in a midterm election like this, he's different and he wants to make a difference. wanting to make america great again and he's doing it. lou: and doing it, doing it, his accomplishments, i say it here all the time, unprecedented by any president in what is now 22 months in office. it's completely extraordinary. yet we have another phenomenon,

that is an embittered and nasty even vicious national left-wing media that will not credit the man for any accomplishment, no matter how large, how pivotal and important, yet criticize him for the least offenses against their left-wing sensibilities and preferences. >> yeah, by the way, i love the coverage last night, the fox business news, i thought they had the best election coverage. lou: you know di, too. i thought the same thing. >> and the panel of and you neil and trish regan, that was fascinating to me. lou: i thought so. you and i are agreeing on all of it. >> well, it's true, they don't give him credit for hardly anything. stop and think of the stories they missed when donald trump became president, 17 americans were being held as hostages around the world by hostile governments. they've all come home. you hardly hear about that, and it was interesting to me when

they did the exit polls, they asked people what motivated them. health care was the big one and economy and immigration and some gun policy and there were 24 other issues that got about 1% of the voters voted about that. you know what was missing? russian collusion. no one! no democrat, no republican, no one in america voted because of russian collusion. so two years of incessant propaganda, billions of dollars of television smoke about russian collusion, nobody believes it. not one person voted on that as an issue, because they don't believe it. trump is right. lou: and then, doug, we have to hear from certain quarters that we have to watch this go forward to the end, it's over two years of investigation, not a thing has been turned up, except, of course, about the investigators, their collusion

with the democratic national committee. collusion with the clinton campaign, and the russian themselves, a corrupt justice department, a corrupt fbi leadership. my god! who could have imagined that this would be the result of over two years of investigation of president trump and it turns out the investigators set a new standard in corruption. >> i took some courage from the president saying that while we have the senate, we can do investigations. it tipped me off. something you've been raising for almost a year now, that encouraged me. i think we're seeing in donald trump, i've known five presidents, six i've met, five i've interviewed extensively, they've been in my home, i have been in their home, co-oped a book for one, wrote a book with another one. i think president trump has done remarkably well with the little bit he's had to make it work.

truly making america great again. lou: making america great again while he's being assaulted 24 hours, 7 days a week. it's constant from every quarter. yet he still does the impossible. doug wead, thanks for being with us, good to see you. >> thank you. lou: up next, after refusing to perform the way the president wanted, attorney general jeff sessions is out of the justice department. we have much more on that when we continue. stay with us, we'll be right back. ..

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lou: the white house has us speppedded the hard pass for jim acosta. meaning he's not allowed in the white house. sarah sanders said the fact that cnn is proud of the way their employee behaved is not only disgusting, it's an example of their outrageous disregard for everyone, including young women who work in this administration. the white house is suspending the hard pass much the reporter involved. this comes after the despicable acosta brush away and touching the white house intern who has been instructed by the president of the united states and acosta to surrender that microphone. he has been suspended and it's

just really extraordinary what transpired there. it is appalling. it's appropriately resulting in a suspension for that reporter in question. that's it for us tonight. we are joined tomorrow night by congressman jim jordan. trish: jeff sessions out as attorney general. the new fallout for what there is means for the mueller probe. the white house demanding an apology from cnn white house correspondent. kellyanne conway says acosta the reporter from cnn had no right to touch the female white house staffer as he did. president trump: honestly i think you should let me run the country. you run cnn. if you did it well -- >> if i may ask one more