>>> to play a conversation where the president talks about the respon >> this will be the history we start the first draft of. and it will continue and -- >> so you think the virus totally supersedes the economy? >> oh, sure. but they're related, as you know. >> a little bit, yeah. >> a little bit? >> more than a little bit, but the economy is doing -- look, we're close to a new stock market record. >> yeah. but you have tens of millions of people in this country who are your citizens who don't have jobs and don't have that money coming in that came in for a number of months and, you know, i always worry as you and i've discussed that in my position of privilege that i don't realize that enough and, you know, that's going to be part of the election. it's going to be --

context for the conversation. we'll play this. >> look at that picture. he's having a good time. you know. nobody has ever seen him smile. look at him smile. he's happy. he feels happy. but he's very smart. remember this, when you take over and i really mean this, too. you take over a country and you're 25 years old and you survive. you've got millions of people that are all smart as hell and energetic. >> they show you references of camps in north korea. president bush once told me about kim's father, kim jong-un said i love kim jong-un because of what he's doing to his people and for -- >> you know what? that attitude got him nothing. in the meantime, they built a huge nuclear force during the last two administrations. they haven't done it during me. you hear reports that they will start again but for three years, i get nothing. >> has he given you -- >> they say president trump agreed to meet. what the -- it's a meeting. i agreed to meet. sitting home reading your book.

13th about the virus. >> this thing is a killer. if you're the wrong person, you don't have a chance. >> yes, yes, exactly. and -- >> like a friend of mine died very great real estate developer from manhattan died yesterday. >> listen. students of mine, i teach a journalism seminar have written me have had it and one of the women said she had it. they said she was cured, and they kept coming back with the new symptoms, strange things happen. she had intense headaches. she -- >> what happened? >> she is in agony and they are telling her, oh, you're cured now. you're over it. so this -- i mean, you've said it. this is a scorge and. >> the plague. >> it is the plague. and the -- >> and bob, it's so easily transmissible, you wouldn't believe it. >> i know. >> you can be in the room. i was in the white house couple of days ago, meeting of ten people in the oval office and a guy sneezed innocently, not a tomorr normal -- the entire room veiled

i just want to play this. >> the question is going to be we're going to look back and we're going to say the end of july, august, september, october what happened with the virus? did people -- people want, you know, we've talked about this. people want their president to succeed. now, you're right. there are some people who don't. >> no, no, no, people don't want me to succeed. >> but if you succeed, they succeed. >> even the rhinos don't want me to sec pseudo. i have opposition like nobody has and that's okay. i had that all my life. i've always had it. my whole life has been like this. in the meantime right now i'm looking at the white house, okay? i'm staring right at the walls of the white house. >> where are you? >> my opposition all my life more than most and let's see how it turns out. we got 10 five days. let's see how it turns out. i think it's going to turn out. >> okay. today at 5:00 -- >> i was unlucky with the virus because it came in if it was me or anybody else -- >>...

and it's about the president's leadership and how he sees this moment in history. you ask president trump about if, listen. >> was there a moment in all of this, the last two months where you said to yourself, you know, you're waking up or you're -- whatever you're doing, you say, this is the leadership test of a lifetime? >> no. >> no? >> i think it might be, but i don't think -- there are many people that said that to me, they said, you're a wartime president. >> who said that first to you? >> oh, many people have said that. >> well, help me, i'd like to make it concrete.

you he likes to down play it. >> it's not just old people, bob. today and yesterday startling facts have come out. >> so give me a moment of talking to somebody, going through this with fauci or somebody who kind of caused a p pivot in your mind because it's clear on the public record you went through a pivot on this to oh my god, the gravity that's unexplicable and unexplainable. >> to be honest with you -- >> sure, i want you to. >> i always wanted to play it down. i still like playing it down because i don't want to create a

no guidance from president trume it's okay. i have such respect. i spent hours with bush. all of the people. >> didn't he come out terribly. >> what he did in the third book was called state of denial because he got into denial. >> let me ask you. >> sure. >> he spent all that time with you. >> yes. >> and you made him look like a fool. >> no, no, no, my job is to find

viewers, the president uses some profanity. >> he didn't respect him. didn't like him. didn't respect him. thought he was a -- bush was too sp stupid. he had no clue. that's how we ended up in the middle east and spent $8 trillion. i said why do we have to lose? my family's expression with african americans. what do we have to lose? great statement. they said the best employment, the best this and that. okay. so the fake news says -- the first 24 hours people couldn't vote. cnn said holy s i can't believe it. he wants to meet with president trump. he wants to meet. this never happened. okay. the second -- you know, after a few days they said let's pull it back. it's making trump look too good. this is no good. so now what they actually said i've given him so much. you know what i've given him? nothing. i met. i met kim. you know, i haven't taken sanctions off. >> he realizes how important it was to him. he keeps telling -- your excellence, this is going to go down in history. this is...