let me let you listen to cory lewandowski with chuck on "meet the press."ite he's saying he didn't know what don jr. and jared kushner were up to in the campaign. >> is it possible that donald trump jr. and jared kushner would do things without telling you about it? >> of course, chuck. that happens on every campaign. you know what i learned when i went on the campaign trail and went to a campaign. donald trump said you need to do this. i know that didn't come from the candidate. dave bossy said it has to be run this way. i called dave, did you say this? of course not. people take liberties all the time and do things that aren't either told to the campaign manager or think that it's in the best interests of either themselves or the campaign. >> there's liberties in planning events without telling the boss and there's negotiating foreign policy with russia. does that make any sense to you, what you just heard? >> well, i think a year and a half ago cory lewandowski would want to tell us he was in the loop on everything and a decisive figure. as this story ad

, and here's all the folks in it, the political director and chief of staff, john kelly, and cory lewandowski, and a host of others and it got really, really heated according to maggie's reporting, and tempers flared and concerns about the midterms in the 2018 political map. what is interesting to me is this comes on the same day they had this huge legislative victory, right, with tax reform, but looking at this, i mean, cory lewandowski, it was reported, there are not enough people in the trump camp pushing into the 2018 midterms. what is your takeaway? >> in some ways the bigger headlines would be if there weren't tempers flaring -- that's the way this white house rolls. but it's the flip side of what we have been talking about this morning, at the same time they are going into 2018 with the victories, the tax bill, there's also an environment that is going to be toxic politically for the president and republicans. the president himself is in the low to mid-30s in approve annual ratings and the swirling russia investigation is, for all that we know, will continue and intensify, and when you

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he was there when cory lewandowski was there. all those guys came and went, mike flynn was there. so, this is somebody who has, i think, a lot of interactions to share with bob mueller, with jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, a lot of interactions with donald trump, jr. i think at this point the reason why there is a lot of nervous us nervousness in the white house, there's not many more places to go than mike flynn. the dots left are kushner, trump junior, trump. >> as we know, president trump has been protecting from the get-go mike flynn. what are we to read into that? >> you know, that's the part of this to me that makes this the 5-a going off. i think it's the 5-alarm in that sense because the reason why bob mueller has a job is because the president was trying to get james comey to drop an investigation onto mike flynn. clearly the president is nervous about what mike flynn knows. to me, the most -- and there's more evidence here -- there may be really -- there really might have been a conspiracy that was being kept from others because you read this plea deal, and yo

developing singer joy dea filed a police report accusing president trump's former campaign manager, cori lewandowski> she's a trump support and said the incident happened after the two took a photo at an invite only event in washington, dc. the report claims that lewandowski inappropriately touched her. when she half jokingly threatened to report responded quote, go ahead, i work in the private sector before touching her again. he insists the incident is inaccurate >>> new anti-sexual harassment rules are ahead following the firing of matt lauer >> the detailed guidelines rerestrict sharing taxis, taking vegans to steak houses and hugging another coworker too long. staffers are required to report any inappropriate relationships in the workplace or they could be fired as well. >>> in the wake of the mass shooting in las vegas, disney world made a mistaking a change at its hotel, do not disturb signs will not long be available. they will be replaced with room occupy signs but that won't keep the staff out. employees will be rider to enter each hotel room to insure the safety and security of all guests

make america great again dress to the grammys is now filing a sexual assault complaint against cory lewandowski. this photo of the two was taken last month. she said this was taken months before he slapped her twice on her back side. she says she plans to meet with detectives in washington next week about the complaint. >>> more people are throwing their hat into the ring for san francisco mayor. 14 people want to fill the seat of mayor ed lee who died two weeks ago from a heart attack. all of the candidates have filed for nomination. their qualification status is still pending. some of the well-known names seeking the seat are former san francisco supervisor angela alioto, former state senator mark leno, and current san francisccisco supervisor jane k. a special election will be held on june 5th. >>> biologists are trying to determine what killed a whale that washed up in point reyes on christmas eve. the whale had bruising on the right side of its head and neck area. it does not appear it died with a collision with a ship, show. the report should be complete within two weeks. >>> containment

. >> you went from cory lewandowski era, through paul manafort, and kellyanne conway.ew to see this in trump world. it is something that the president and candidate thrived on. people fall in and out of favor with him all the time. you see that in this white house. it is a more public dismissal process if and when someone leaves. from the outside, you see a lot of confusion and chaos. this summer when you saw basically every friday in july and august, someone new resigning or being fired, it did feel chaotic. now if you look at the communications department which did see a lot of back and forth when it was anthony scare mooch ee. you can see that people settled into roles, found more of the smooth course to take. that said, with the end of year, you see people leaving. seen several white house aides say they're leaving in january, omarosa, rick dearborn. that's somewhat normal. because you saw so much during the summer, it is notable that six months later, you see recycling again. >> source says 2018 brings full trump. what did this person mean? >> as my colleague mike

we welcome former presidential campaign manager cory lewandowski deputy campaign manager dave bossi.grats on the book. lovely blurbs on the back by the way. they are awesome. >> tremendous. >> laura: i'm going to love this in hannity's face that my blurb is before his. i love it. little victories for me. i want to get into the book because it's fascinating. you get into the trump personality, his management style, or lack thereof. but i want to talk about this brewing fight between the establishment now and steve bannon and the populist. i'm a populist, you guys are pretty populist conservatives. this dovetails into so much of what you wrote about in your book. who survives despite? is it steve bannon or mcconnell, or will it be a draw? >> i think it's going to be very interesting. they will coalesce about some of the same exact candidates. it will be very funny that steve bannon is going to be staying these are the conservative populists, and they are, and mitch mcconnell is going to be trying to take him for his own as establishment candidates and we will see, we have a tremendous

cory lewandowski and david bossie, good morning to both of you. let's start at the beginning. nd said, hey, i want to put together something called the freedom summits. and we had gone through a litany of people, and i said let's invite mr. trump. and i said, look, i don't think he's going to run. this is april of '14. candidate trump spoke for 45 minutes and took over the show. >> and it was all downhill, uphill from there. >> it was amazing. no one remembers this but at the end of this very speech, he said we need to do something very important. we need to make america great again. it was the first time i heard the line, and that was the beginning of the rise of trump on the political level. it was amazing. brian: when did you believe he was running, david? >> it was a process for me to believe it. i think it was a process for him. you know, i was working with him over the years. steve: how did you meet? >> it's a great thing for me, and it's in the book. i hope everyone will get a chance to see it. it's really the soft side, the warm side of donald trump. he helped me when h

cory lewandowski and former trump 2016 digital director brad park scale.ent reportedly met with reince priebus on that same topic earlier this week. some reports are that i got kind of contentious and that and that there may not be units in agreement on how you go forward. >> guy: imagine that, disunity and the republican party. it's a very unified moment because of tax reform but i think a lot of republicans are looking at the polling, which has double-digit generic ballot lists for democrats in almost every poll and that is a worrisome sign. you look from our republican perspective, the gender gap going so heavily against republicans, the enthusiasm turn out in like virginia, something has to change. i think the house is definitely in jeopardy for republicans. the senate is very kind to the g.o.p. but they are going to have to knock off some senate democrats who represent trump's face and if the white house is going to be smart about this they will look at the polling state by state and pin point, he is still popular in north dakota, west virginia, misso

grammys is now filing a sexual assault complaint against president trump's former campaign manager cory lewandowski. joy villa shared this photo of the two at a party at the trump international hotel in washington last month. she said it was taken moments before lewandowski slapped her twice on the back side. villa says she plans to meet with detectives in washington next week about the complaint. lewandowski has not yet responded. >>> did you feel it? two earthquakes shook the north bay. the 3. 9 magnitude quake hit five miles from the alum rock neighbor. a 3.1 magnitude quake struck near morgan hill. residents tweeted us saying, yes, they felt it. no injuries or damage reported. >>> containment on the thomas fire continues to grow this morning and fire officials say that there is very little active fire left. the state's largest ever wildfire is now 88% contained. air quality has gotten healthier. officials say people can start making plans to enjoy santa barbara and ventura areas soon. the cause is still under investigation. >>> this morning coast to coast snowfall continues. we're tracking it a

quote, president trump's former chief strategist steve bannon and his former campaign manager cory lewandowski have been asked to testify to house lawmakers investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. boat men were sent letters this week by the house intelligence committee, asking them to testify in early january, according to an official familiar with the panel's schedule. bloomberg adds, they're not yet responded, but the invitation to testify was not a subpoena, it was a voluntary interview. there's also news about jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, also a white house senior adviser. "the new york times" says, federal prosecutors in brooklyn have sought bank records about entities associated with the family company of jared kushner. president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, according to four people briefed on the matter. there's no indication the subpoena is related to the mueller investigation, but we're going to talk about that timing in just a moment. also, the locale. so with that, let us turn to our leadoff panel on a friday night before christmas. robert co

and cory lewandowski and former white house strategist steve bannon. president trump savoring wis i his win after sending the tax cut into law. we want to go to kelly o'donnell, she's in florida, where the president is settling in for the morning break. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, just a few minutes ago, president trump and the motorcade with our colleagues who are in today's compliment of the white house travel pool left mar-a-lago. we don't know the destination yet, but if history is any guide, perhaps the president is going to one of his golf clubs here. what we certainly saw is for president trump, the tradition of bringing the family down to mrg smrg a part of the christmas holiday f. he had anything on the wish list for santa, it certainly appears he got it with a tax bill that has now become law. air force one returned to palm beach for the holiday, where president trump found a present of sorts waiting for him. a crowd of cheering sign waving supporters. the president used the friendly response tohension his tax cut win. earlier at

lewandowski, cory lewandowski tried to say it was just paul manafort, it was just mike flynn. it was just rip gates. eventually this is a long list of people involved in the campaign that were, you know, actively now coming up in this russia investigation. and that's what james comey is trying to point out, you know, the truth will come out over time. and that's what we learned this weekend too is that, you know, mike flynn was in this position where he actively talked about russian sanctions over christmas of last year. an he said he briefed them about his conversations before and after with him. does it then surprise you that over the course of these investigations over the course of the investigation, we've seen the story shift so many times, at one point, vice president mike pence said there was no contact at all between russian officials and the transition team. >> yeah, exactly. and now mike pence is in a weird position as well. because if donald trump did in fact know that mike flynn lied to the fbi and that's why he's in trouble now, then what was that conversation abo

reporting, not confirmed by nbc news, that two former campaign associates, steve bannon and cory lewandowski might be appearing in front of that house panel in the near future. on the senate side, it's a different story, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader was asked about this at his end of the year press conference a few days ago, he said, look, richard burr is going to tell me when they think they're done, that probe is going to go on as long as it has to. and really from the beginning, much more of a bipartisan effort, with richard burr, the chair of the senate committee, and that doesn't seem to be wrapping up any time soon. they want to make sure they leaf no stone unturned. i think feeling some of the pressure of those perceived as the more partisan, more credible investigative effort at capitol hill at this point. >> i want to wrap up by asking what this means for 2018. i want to read a quotation that gabe sherman wrote for "vanity fair," talking about jared kushner's role in all of this, he's taking meetings with russians to get additional stuff. this tells you everything abo

. >> cory lewandowski and steve bannon have been invited to testify. at those two gentleman in particular, what's this committee interested in hearing from them? >> lewandowski, he was on the e-mail chains, george papadopoulos told him i want to set up this meeting between the trump campaign and putin. that was last year. he was privy to a lot of these e-mail messages. steve bannon was there pretty much the entire time. he was another gatekeeper. they want to know what each of them saw and experienced during the campaign whether that had to do with potential obstruction or collusi collusion. >>> after the break we're going to take a look at the administration's push to expand america's missile defense system and whether it will pay off. stay right here. afi sure had a lot on my mind. my 30-year marriage... ...my 3-month old business... plus...what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me? so i made a point to talk to my doctor. he told me about eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe bloo

continuing to solicit political advise from former senior staffers he fired, and it's true of cory lewandowski first campaign manager, and paul manafort, his second campaign manager for a while, until he was indicted, and bannon had been instrumental in convincing trump to endorse roy moore down in alabama even after these allegations that moore molested children, and bannon was a big part, i think, of the pressure campaign to get trump to come around, to come actually down to the alabama border to pensacola and hold a big rally for moore on the eve of his election and making this might make the difference and push moore to victory, and it didn't and no word on how much he continues to listen to bannon these days. >> bannon talked about his own political aspirations, and how they are tied to president trump's, so here's a portion of the article. it says that bannon -- in october bannon called an adviser and said he would consider running for president if trump did not run in 2020, and in private conversations since leaving the white house he said trump only has a 30% chance of serving out his

it's not like cory lewandowski is gone and never heard from again or stoeve bannon's influence has waned and steve bannon still talks to the president. this is due to the frustration, the anger of the mcconnell camp in the republican party, the bannon wing of the republican part. what's interesting about the majority leader's comments is he goes after bannon from alabama. yet president trump himself also supported roy moore in alabama and campaigned in that effort, went down to pensacola, florida, at least, and endorsed roy moore in different ways. yet mcconnell directs his ire at bannon. that's because bannon is a threat to the republican majority in the senate because bannon wants to have primary challengers in the incumbents, and that's why they're going after bannon. >> when the president fired mike flynn, he called him late at night. chief of staff john kelly has tried to limit the number of people who could get in his ear, but does anybody ever really disappear from trump's orbit? >> exactly. it's hotel california, right? you can check out but you never really leave. the president

morning, singer joy via filed a police report accusing president trump's former campaign manager cori lewandowskiupporter said it happened after the two took a photo during an invite only event at the trump hotel in dc. she said when she half jokingly threatened to report him. he responded quote, go ahead, i work in the priva before touching her again. lewandowski insists the incident is inaccurate. >>> anti-sexual harassment are ahead following the firing of matt lauer according to the new york post page six. it restricts sharing taxis, taking vegans to stake houses. staffers are required to report any inappropriate relationships in the workplace or they could be fired too. >>> in the wake on the mass shooting, disney will be replaced by resume occupied signs but that won't keep the staff out. employees will be rider to enter each hotel room daily to insure the safety and security of all guests. >>> time is 5:50. let's take a look at the stories you're engaging with the most this morning, on social media. the real-time news tracker >>> for her twitter, they were on a flight did he say ended for

headlines for wearing a make america great again dress is filing a sexual assault complaint against cory lewandowskiy shared a photo of the two at the trump international hotel in washington last sunday. she says this was taken moments before lewandowski slapped her twice on the back side. villa says she plans to meet with detectives in washington next week about the complaint. lewandowski has not yet responded. >>> moving on now to containment on the thomas fire in southern california. it continues to grow this morning. the containment, rather. fire officials say there is very little active fire left at this point. the state's largest ever wildfire is 88% contained. air quality has gotten healthier. officials say people should make plans to enjoy the areas again soon. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >>> there is snowfall all across the country. we are tracking that at the live desk. the snow creating very dangerous driving conditions. there are record breaking numbers in parts of pennsylvania and upstate new york. in fact, more than 50 inches were dumped in some spots. serena ma

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i will be joined by david bossie and cory lewandowski with an explosive look at their book on inside the trim campaign. it's going to be interesting. see you back here tomorrow night, tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for months, trumped defenders have alleged that robert mueller's investigation is tainted with partisan politics. they've noted for example the strikingly high percentage of prosecutors on mueller's team who are also major democratic donors. the president himself has frequently echoed these charges, implying that the investigation is a partisan witch hunt concocted by his enemies to overturn last fall's election results. basically a coup. we haven't joined the chorus. prosecutors like military officers and surgeons are trained to rise above their own politics and the service of duty. and most of them do that. in the absence of hard evidence to the contrary, it seemed wise to give his investigation the benefit of every doubt and wait for the outcome. we are americans, we believe in the fair application of justice. we th

if you add this to what -- cory lewandowski, his campaign manager has a new book out of some of veryere's what he writes in that. there were four major food groups. mcdonald's, kentucky fried chicken, pizza and diet coke. >> sean: those are all my favorite foods. what's the problem with that? of course, another egregious example of the network being completely abusively biased. their over-the-top coverage of the trump administration. let's take a look at some of the low lights from just the past year, take a look. >> i have a whole lot to say about this president's increasing erratic behavior over the past week or so. >> you think you've had an ear full of donald trump. check out what is in the ear of a beagle named chief in britain. brace yourself. >> is this president trying to impersonate hugo chavez? vladimir putin? >> the president gets two scoops. everyone else around the table gets one and no word if there were sprinkles. >> he gains weight, he doesn't trust people around him. he's withdrawing. at a good picture. >> if he wants to say that, barack obama wants to say whatever.

lanes without signaling. [ laughter and applause ] according to a former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski'soming book, white house communications director hope hicks steamed president trump's suits during the campaign while he was wearing them. [ laughter ] so that's not a tan. that's a second-degree burn. [ laughter and applause ] "give me a little -- just a little hot steam here." [ laughter ] a possum broke into a florida liquor store recently and was found by an employee on a shelf next to an empty bottle of liquor. said the possum, "i do not recall those events. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] i was out with friends, having a perfectly nice night. [ laughter ] and then i woke up here." [ laughter ] a drunk driver in australia recently threatened and yelled at a mcdonald's staff after they told him the 200 mcnuggets he ordered were not available. but, ladies, he is. [ laughter ] a minnesota cat has been banned from a college library after sneaking in on multiple occasions. so i guess it'll never get to the bottom of laser pointers. [ laughter and applause ] very -- very -- very rel

we are told that meeting became quite heated when cory lewandowski stepped forward and said the president was not being well served by the political operation here at the white house. the president had met a day before with reince priebus, his former chief of staff and former head of rnc who also said the same thing. i was told that he was very critical of the republican national committee as well thinking that even though they raised record amounts of money, they need to do more. and sources here at the white house also say that there is a disconnect in the rnc between what's going on here at the white house and what the rnc is doing. it's almost like two separate entities as opposed to the rnc being the political arm of the white house, the committee -- i was told by an outside source that the rnc is in such bad shape it needs to be torn down to the the rest of the infrastructure that has been in there, it's rotting from the inside and needs to have a big overhaul. so we'll see what happens in 2018 on that front. >> dana: john roberts, have a great holiday. much reserves, we'll see you

i will be joined by david bossie and cory lewandowski with an explosive look at their book on insideo be interesting. see you back here tomorrow night, tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for months, trumped defenders have alleged that robert mueller's investigation is tainted with partisan politics. they've noted for example the strikingly high percentage of prosecutors on mueller's team who are also major democratic donors. the president himself has frequently echoed these charges, implying that the investigation is a partisan witch hunt concocted by his enemies to overturn last fall's election results. basically a coup. we haven't joined the chorus. prosecutors like military officers and surgeons are trained to rise above their own politics and the

chuck will be joined by former trump campaign manager cory lewandows lewandowski. lewandowski will speak out about that pook tomorrow on "today." >>> some other headlines, abc news has suspended brian ross reporter for four weeks without pay for what the network is calling a serious error on his reporting. on friday, when michael flynn entered his guilty plea, ross incorrectly reported that flynn was prepared to testify that toig told him to make contact with the russians while he was still a candidate. the report rattled the financial markets. abc later issued a correction. >>> a florida teenager who was missing for nearly a week has been reunited with her parents after she was found more than 1,000 miles away from home. 17-year-old caitlyn frazina's parents flew to upstate new york after she was found on friday afternoon with her 27-year-old soccer coach ryan rodriguez. caitlyn's aunt says to nbc news she's doing well and eager to get back home. >>> scary moments in the middle of a college basketball game. when a south carolina state player collapsed while he was

manafort essentially to save him in a way when he felt -- and the trump family felt like cory lou be lewandowski was taking the campaign to a different place. sometimes he feels he's hiring the best people that will represent him, and he doesn't do a lot of personal vetting of people, and he tells himself, i didn't know what he was doing in ukraine. >> when it comes to the justice department and the attorney general, you had him expressing his disappointment that his own attorney general distanced himself from the probe, and he talked about loyalty, this word that has been central to the president on key fronts. he said that he used the example of former attorney general, eric holder, and he said eric holder had pwrauobama's back. >> the attorney general is not the exclusive counsel for the president individually of the united states or as the president, the attorney general is the lawyer for the people and the country, and the president has his own white house counsel and can hire private counsel if he wants to do that, and the attorney general owes his responsibility to the constitution. i thi

steve: well, as we just heard from jonathan, cory lewandowski said, look, a democrat's in that seat right run against him and take that seat back. probably mo brooks or someone like that. that's a seat that should be headlight by republican. he was a fundamentally flawed candidate. he was not the candidate that donald trump supported or endorsed in the primary. but what you have to look at is the president has now congratulated the new victor and unlike some other people in the election, he has accepted the election results. hillary is yet to accept those election results. so the president has done the right thing. steve: so the president has done the right thing, and they say that this guy won't be in the seat much longer. it is a deep red state. a republican will run and win. that's their prediction. >> everybody's talking about this. those anti-trump texts revealed fox news has obtained messages from that agent. ainsley: the guy right there. >> there he is. involved in the mueller probe. well, here they are. and i read them at 7:00. you read them at 6:00, steve. peter struck again. ste

cory lewandowski, david bossie, we thank you very much for joining. >> thank you for letting us be here already talking about the big wins for the house and the senate yesterday. explain this to me. yesterday the democrats were talking about how the republicans were all going to lose next year because this is terrible for the republicans. i think it's terrible for the democrats who didn't vote for it. >> it clearly is. the democrats have no economic plan. they've not had an economic plan for the american people or for the american worker for years. it's one of the reasons donald trump won last year; right? he talked to the rust belt workers. talked to the blue-collar men and women across america, and he understood what they wanted, and that's what he's been delivering, whether it's through deregulation, or any other shear force of his pen, he has been getting this economy going 3.3% growth. we're going to be up towards 4 with this tax plan i think it's off to the races. pete: so where do the democrats go, cory? because there's been a lot of this whipped up establishment hype that lookin

i think that's cory lieuewando i lewandowski's portrait.d donald trump lashing out at that. one thing that he does point out consistently is donald trump complimenting people's hair and skin and saying they're good looking. cory lieuewandowski said he did to him. i do not get how that plays into a campaign operative. >> i disagree. i have to say monafoone thing ts to be acknowledged. trump had a political animal genius for what the electrorate wanted. the idea he had to turn it up when those of us around the table were saying that's outrageous, you can't say that, mr. trump. he always took it like in that movie 211. that's effective. >> can i just say, you know, i have a lot of quarrels with this president. the mcdonald's i don't. i don't have a problem with pop eye's. >> there's a lot to quarrel with him, i'm not going to quarrel him -- >> are you a germophobe. >> when i'm on with you, absolutely. >> i love fast food, there's nothing wrong with fast food. >> we have to sneak in one more break. >> my wife is going to kill me. back to taxpay

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cory lewan dowsky. the "post" reports "lewandowski told the president that the rnc was not raising nearly enough money, even though they're raising record sums and not doing enough to support his agenda." and then from politico -- "weeks before the special election in alabama, rnc chair romney mcdaniel giving john kelly a two-page memo detailing the party's collapse among women voters." the president, of course, still tweeted his support of roy moore, recorded robocall for him and campaigned in nearby pensacola." talking to us about the shifting strategy inside the republican party for 2018, rick tyler, still with us, daniel strauss, chief washington correspondent for "bloomberg," kevin cirilli joins the fray with us now. kevin, this is, i know, the $64 question here, and that is the power dynamic when we look at the white house, the rnc, steve bannon, and then you've got, as you just heard, mitch mcconnell. and where this all ferrets out, because you know, during the election we thought the republican party was in flux. and if we were to measure the level of fluxness then, if that was a five, we're ce

. >> cory lieu wae kwr hrcorey le >> kellyanne conway as well. it sounds like lewandowski was saying you messed he everything up. >> they finally put points on the board. going into 2018, look what we did, we provided you the biggest tax cut in years. then you see this is a few weeks after alabama. but the party is still reeling from that loss. they are trying to move forward. there is a push/pull happening right now because a lot of people are warning the white house of what's to come in 2018 and that it could be pretty brutal. >> ron, that's it. corey was reportedly sounding the alarm for the midterms. looking at the poll numbers you looked at so closely and trying to sound the alarm that they are on the right track somehow. >> any president is susceptible to the argument from the outside from advisers and friends that your problem, your political problem is your aides are not serving you well. this president is more susceptible to the argument than most. there is something to that in the accepts of the white house being more kay chaotically staf. in alabama, 93% of the

corey lewandowski in this book is writing, i think the bigger take away is that he and paul manafort never got along. they never liked each other. that's no secret. and it's interesting that corynow writing a book and it will be interesting to see what other tidbits are in there. but bottom line, corey and paul never got along. >> kevin, what do you think is the motivation behind this? do you think it puts the president in a good light? >> well, i mean, i think that another funny it bit is just the president's eating habits on the campaign trail. fast food to say the least. i mean, that's honestly -- being really honest on sunday morning, my mom watching at home outside of philly isn't going to like this, i'm a big fast food guy myself. so that was one of the things i actually liked about the campaign trail. >> big macs and filet of fish. >> mcdonald's for everyone. >> great to have you here this morning. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> that will do it for me. i'm dara brown. thanks for watching. "your business" is up next followed by "politics nation." tr was enlightening. ♪ you don't like my lasagna? no, it's good. -hmm. -oh. huh. [ both laugh ] here, b