that leslie stahl was well prepared. shows the confidence that i detect in talking to white house aides. i spent a lot of time talking to a bunch of them over the last few days. they may be overinterpreting the kavanaugh victory. >> yeah. >> i think donald trump views that as an empowering moment. like a pacman eating a smaller pac person there. it's given him the sense that having won that, having won that cultural moment, which he in effect did, however fairly or unfairly, that he's on a roll, his -- >> we'll talk about that. let me just -- >> he may be over interpreting that. >> before i talk, do you think trump won the kavanaugh thing? if that's giving him his hubris, maybe it's two edges to that sword. your thoughts. >> we won't know whether or not he won i think until the midterm elections. it seems to me the process was rigged. that the -- mitch mcconnell had in some ways set the stage. grassley and the judiciary committee set the stage. the process was broken from the beginning. so i think howard is right, that t

and it's not -- it wouldn't be beyond him having listened to what he told leslie stahl about, if i hadone that, we would not have won. i'm sure he said that to brett kavanaugh's face in the white house holding room before the east room ceremony. all a zero-sum game. the ends always justify the means, and everything along the way is collateral damage. he does not care, like bill said. he's so excited about the bump in the polls and the fact he buildings he can take credit for a final confirmation vote because he mocked dr. ford at a rally. >> he also broke new ground on mueller. that's something you care a lot about. i want to hear your thoughts. >> will you pledge -- pledge that you will not shut down the mueller investigation? >> well, i don't pledge anything, but i have no intention of doing that. i think it's a very unfair investigation because there was no coclusion of any kind. there is no -- >> you won't pledge? >> why should i pledge to you? if i pledge, i'll pledge. do you really think i'd call russia to help me with an election? give me a break. they wouldn't be able to help m

eye, leslie stahl got dpreef, she was easy on him? se, she was prepared, she was gieshty. the president handles her masterfully. he was humorous, pushed back. i call this the correction. stahl asked about trump's unwillingness to criticize to you pin. listen. >> president trump: you don't know what i talked about with putin. >> publicly, you never say anything harsh. >> i didn't? i'm the one that gave ukraine offensive weapons, and tank killers. obama didn't. you know what he sent? pillows and blankets. i'm the one, and he's the one, that gave away a part of ukraine where russia now has -- >> i meant him personally. vladimir putin. >> president trump: i think i'm very tough with him. >> that is the correction. you never let people put words in your mouth, lay on the your narrative and keep going. this is another object lesson in what i call not taking the bait. stahl asked if trump has any regrets. here's his answer. >> president trump: i thought very strongly, you know, the one great thing will happen, the press will start treating me

on 60 minutes, leslie stahl asked the president if he would return to his family separation policy. frankly, when you allow the parents to stay together, okay, when you allow that then what happens is people are going to pour into our country. >> are you going back to that. >> we're looking at a lot of things. >> reporter: these things happen from trial to time. the migrants travel in groups for safety. in april, several hundred made it to the u.s. border near san diego but a limited number were allowed to apply for asigh limb here in the u.s. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >>> for the first time federal prosecutors are investigating abuse by roman catholic priests. subpoenas were served in at least seven of the eight roman catholic dioceses. the feds are demanding secret files and testimony from high-ranking church officials. nikki has more. >> reporter: catholic dioceses say they have received subpoenas. from the u.s. justice department as it investigates sexual hay buce within the church. two people familiar with the investigation tell "the associated press" the subpoenas wer

some of the stories, your colleague leslie stahl, 1984, the story about cbs evening news, to the long report about the 84 campaign. and how ronald reagan was a master of style but not substance. and they showed a five or six minute report which in those days was like the ice age. and rolled it on and it showed all of these pictures of reagan and for the flags, and with children, and mary lou retton, and every thing you could think of. all of leslie's track on it was, how empty this was. these were empty calories. sacrament. this was not what the country wanted. and the phone rang. at 6:42 pm. and it was mike dever. and he said thank you so much. and leslie was expecting a call like we heard about. and he said my, did you not watch the piece? he said yes, i watched it. no one listens to what you said. you just gave me six minutes of an ad. i think history tells us that leadership in a popular government requires people who can speak in a popular vernacular. the people in an era may not appreciate it, with harry truman in the post world order, with george hw bush being the last person w

liz: cbs leslie stahl has been criticized for say the obama administration did not separate families and children at the bored. that's not true. in 2015 more than 20,000 children were separated at the border. but the media is not reporting those numbers. >> actually, proactively using images from obama detention facilities and putting the trump administration as the party responsible for those images. it is terrible, it's media bias at its absolute worse. that's why donald trump is sitting in the white house despite an onslaught of media criticism. liz: john, you know obama housed families and children in tent cities as well, right? >> that's how it came up for this program today in. liz: we found the hhs numbers from a report nobody was reading from hhs. nobody is covering the fact that obama on his watch separated 21,000 children, put them in foster care when their parents were incarcerated by being separated at the bored. they could have been drug smugglers or sex trafficker. but you know >> this story has been told -- elizabeth: it's been distorted, jon. jon, stay with me, jon, f

president trump telling leslie stahl at 60 minutes that there will be severe punishment if it's provenhat the saudis are responsible for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. how much time does president trump have to get to the bottom of what actually happened? >> we have to have a re0 response quickly. but we have to make sure we have strong evidence and be sure saudi arabia is responsible before we do anything. the type of punishment, president trump has not made that clear. he doesn't have to say what he plans to do. but if there are sanctions it needs to be targeted to those responsible. 22 senators have written a letter pushing for a response to this action. those senators have the ability to trigger sanctions and an investigation. there is the lehy law that the u.s. cannot provide military support for a nation responsible for human rights violations like this. arthel: the world is watching. how soon does the * have to come out and say this is what happened and this is what we are going to do about it? >> this issue is top of mind for people around the world. in particular le

. >> there's no way that leslie stahl would've treated president obama that way. anybody who is serious about understanding what's going on in the cyber world understands china's a bigger threat. no doubt that russia is a threat and they did try to metal. but the chinese, donald trump is right. if anybody serious about understanding cybersecurity understand china has a big role. the president was right and i thought leslie overstepped her bounds by interrupting the president. >> i agree about that. one of the greatest moves from this administration is they have reversed decades of the failed china policy and have gotten incredibly tough. it's a really big accomplishment. one last question, with your political hannah i'm looking forward to the crucial midterms, where do you think it all stands right now? >> i think enthusiasm is the biggest factor in the last three or four weeks of an election. i think the mob rule you see happening from the democrats turns off the independents and centrist who will determine the election. i think republicans are ginned up after th

liz: leslie stahl is facing backlash for questioning donald trump that the obama administration was notng children at the border. >> the forced separation of children from their parents. >> it was on the books but he didn't enforce it. you enforced it. liz: it turns out that's not true. in 2016, according to the department of health and human services 20,000 children were placed by the obama administration in foster care because their parents were incarcerated. in 2015 it was 21,000. this policy has been around since the clinton era. the obama white house faced a surge of illegal border crossers. the separation when that happened, it's not a new trump policy. it has been put in place because the parent may not be their parents. they could be drug traffickers and sex traffickers. >> that's right. and we have to act in the best interest of the child. are they the chilled? are they being used as mules? are they being abused? it does no good for the child to be taken on this sojourn, if you will, at great harm to the child. liz: the president is getting hammers on this policy. is it a trump

i don't think that leslie stahl would have treated barack obama the same way. think they would have let him speak. but the president held his hand and did it the right way and got his points across particularly on the security side of the equation. liz: not much about the economy asked about. this not much about the economic perspective. >> the economy is doing exceptionally well. every economic indicator is moving in the right direction. certainly in the long term of nearly two years he has been in office. but the mainstream media doesn't pay attention to that. if it was a different standard, fit was barack obama, that would have been the lead, with this president i don't their they could stand the fact that he's being so successful. liz: president trump is doing three things with manufacturing jobs. he's created 9 times the number of manufacturing jops jobs in his first 21 months than obama did in his last 21 months. he's rebuilding the industrial base, and sticking it to democrats in blue collar worker states. >> the only way donald trump became president tr

immigration policy during a testy exchange with leslie stahl from 60 minutes. >> i want all the lawsr coming into our country illegally and part of the reason, i have to blame myself, the economy is so strong that everybody wants to come into the united states. >> this comes at a number of communities nationwide are vowing to cancel their contracts with i.c.e. under these contracts, local governments get millions of dollars for housing illegals picked up by federal authorities. cities and towns in georgia, california, pennsylvania, virginia, texas and oregon are vowing to progressive activism, saying no to the federal funds. earlier we had on george rodriguez to discuss the latest on the immigration front. >> it's political theater at a global level and it's folks that are trying to gain sympathy. a lot of leftists, a lot of democrats recognize that the blue wave is not going to happen. >> get this, guys, a report in the new york times says that despite liberal outrage over the trump administration's immigration approach, a republican midterm strategy of saying democrats would fill t

picture we saw, the trump doctrine laid out bare for us in that interview on "60 minutes" with leslie stahl last night. let's see where she pushed him on vladimir putin and russia. >> do you agree that vladimir putin is involved in assassinations, in poisonings? >> probably he is, probably. >> probably? >> probably, but i rely on them. it's not in our country. >> why not -- they shouldn't do it. this is a terrible thing. >> of course, they shouldn't do it. >> what is most significant about what the president has taught us with his own words, both in that answer and in this morning just now? >> yeah, you know, this is a major test of the president's doctrine, as you said, the trump doctrine. i think dictators and rulers all over the world are watching how america responds to this. it wouldn't be the first time that we basically -- that this president sort of coddled a dictator and allowed them to get away with all kinds of things and certainly he wouldn't be the first president to do that either, but this is going to be a major milestone in there's going to be a lot of pressure, including fr

arthel: that was a preview of leslie stahl's interview with the president, coming up tomorrow. benjamin hall is live in turkey with the very latest. >> reporter: hi, arres arthel. as we heard in the oval office a couple hours ago, both president trump and secretary pompeo saying they wanted to get all the facts before they made any decisiodecisions or before they approached any other countries about this. there is one thing that we do know, that is jamal kashoki walked into the saudi consolate in istanbul and hasn't been seen since. that was 12 days ago. the turkish authorities believe he was killed by a hit squad of 15 saudi agents who flew in that morning by private jet and left soon afterwards. among those 15 people there was a forensic expert and intelligence officers. again, the saudis deny all of this. in fact, today the saudi interior ministry released a statement saying what has been circulating are lies and baseless allegations against the government of the kingdom of saudi arabia. the turkish state media claims to have recordings from the apple watch which he was wear

and he was really having to be pushed by leslie stahl to say that's not a good thing. >> i mean, the president must know it's not a probable thing, but he wants to cover it for himself to say, well, we really don't know. do you know? so, he sows doubt in the questioner rather than speak clearly to the point of, we know this. and we know that he does know this, so why does he say probably? that is a kind of -- always he gives himself wiggle room with regard to putin. why is that so? >> that is the big question, isn't it? because then, of course, they went on to talk about the meddling in the 2016 elections. he admitted there that russia had meddled, but china meddled as well, he said. what did you read into that? why bring china into the equation? it seems he's not prepared to say it's just russia alone. >> that's right. it's change the subject. if he's awkward and uncomfortable at some point, move on to something else and it's a moral equivalent. so if russia did it, well, china did it. well, then it's not so bad that russia did it. and besides, you know, we think china's worse at th

ge sat down with leslie stahl for a wide-ranging discussion bat included topics like global warming, and at one point trump snied that he was a denier. >> i'm not denying climate change. but it could very well go back. you know, we're talkin' about over a millions-- >> but that's denying it. >> --of years. they say that we had hurricanes that were far worse than what we just had with michael. >> who says that? "they say"? >> people say. people say that. ( laughter ) >> stephen: yeah, leslie. people, they say it! gsd as we know, trump gets all of the latest scientific y formation from the "proceedings of the national academy of people who say that." ( laughter ) okay? read it some time. ( cheers and applause ) they have it. people have it. >> jon: ♪ people say >> stephen: but trump isn't just a climate denier, he's also a "kim jong-un is a bad dude" denier. >> he presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, avarvation-- reports that he had his half-brother assassinated, slave labor, public executions. this is a guy you love? >> sure. i know all these things. i mean-- i'm not a

when leslie stahl tried to melt hearts with her family separation narrative last night, the president set her straight. >> are you willing to reinstitute that policy. you said we are looking at everything? >> president trump: what i can say is there are consequences from coming into a country, namely our country, illegally. >> i'm not going to ask it again. >> president trump: you don't have to. it was the same as obama. >> laura: donald trump has exposed the fraudulent nature of the left-wing arguments and their weak narratives. there is a sudden bounce. you felt in the "60 minutes" interview last night. the left is fuming that 60 minutes actually air the interview. check out the blogs. but he has the extra bounce in his step and the sense of his party is now on the rise again. following the kavanaugh battle, you would've thought so that the democrats might've gotten the message that victimhood for political gain is not a great strategy. it won't work, and it hasn't. and the good news is, the republicans may have finally found their groove. they are outselling the peace, prosperity,

in that interview with cbs when leslie stahl says kim jong-un has human rights violations, he says he'sa great guy and he's nice to me. that tells you where the president lands on things like this. >> during the cold war when it was getting near the end we were looking for not excuses to keep it going and get it hot again. reagan would see the shooting of korean airlines in far eastern russia or killing of anderson in berlin. each one of those times he could have said that's it, we're not going to deal with the soviet union at all, but he didn't come out and say they're innocent. he didn't participate in a coverup. he attacked them but continued the relationship. i don't know why trump feels he has to help exonerate them given them this space. this new term, space, to come up with an alibi. that's what he's doing. thank you both. i notice how careful you are on this. i appreciate that. it is very tricky stuff. thank you so much. >>> coming up, president trump seems to want it both ways. if republicans win in november, it's all thanks to him. if they lose, it's not my job. he's actually

he was asked specifically last night, he talked to leslie stahl, and in many ways, we heard him talking again about siding with these leaders over his own intelligence. take a listen. >> do you agree that vladimir putin is involved in assassinations, in poisonings? >> probably he is, yeah. probably. >> probably? >> probably, but i rely on them. it's not in our country. >> is it true they haven't gotten rid of a single weapon and they may actually be building more missiles. >> they want to -- and i will tell you that they're closing up sites. >> is what i said true? >> nobody really knows. people are saying that. i have actually said that. >> that they're still building missiles, more missiles? >> we really don't know, we really don't know. >> it raises the question, elise, as to whether the trump doctrine is trust but don't verify. >> well, you see, what happens is there are kind of parallel governments going on, right? the president is talking to these leaders, whether it's the saudi king or kim jong-un or vladimir putin, and then you have the big government which is his cabinet and na

they just ask him the questions of the day, instead of asking him questions more like leslie stahl asked global warming is a hoax? or why did you lie about saying you would protect people with preexisting conditions when your government is in court arguing to allow insurers to discriminate against sick people? why are you not telling the truth about the position of your government? the press is not asking those sorts of very tough, very important questions that need to be asked right now. so i think he's getting away with surfing over the news cycle. and that might contribute to his improved numbers. but also a lot of republicans are just comingle home in terms of how to respond to the fear tactics, democrats have to be very, very clear about this. that the country has a lot more to fear with an unchained donald trump, a validated donald trump if the republicans hold the house of representatives. you can kind of kiss democracy good-bye. on a number of different levels if the republicans hold the house. so democrats have to argue we're better than this. this is not us. >> that's a very bo

because when you remember when the story first broke he did tell leslie stahl in the "60 minutes" interview that he found it horrendous and particularly horrendous if it was true of the murder of a journalist. so i don't think he approves. but i think you're onto something when you say he doesn't care. because if he cared he would understand very clearly the implications of this on a human level, certainly. we're talking about somebody who lived here as a permanent resident, who was a colleague of people you and i know in washington, d.c., and of course has family here living in the united states as well. i'm not sure if they're citizens or not, but i also think that's not relevant, although the president has made a bit of a beef about it. i think the main point is that this president is the president. regardless of whether he understands it as a human, we're talking about u.s. interest and leadership inside america. so the audience is the american people first and foremost and then the world. and then he doesn't understand that values have a value for the united states when we are essentia

no, he told leslie stahl, because it turned out that kavanaugh was confirmed. this is about wins and losses, not moral leadership for this president. there is an election less than two weeks. that is the focus for him, and for republicans. you're not going to see a change. >> barrett berger, one last quick word. you know the feds, how good they are at this. do you think we'll get resolution, we'll get a suspect or suspects soon? >> absolutely. the law enforcement, this is where they shine. they do incredibly well at this. they rally their national resources. effectively, i would be shocked if we don't have somebody in custody soon. >> let's not forget the folks at atf who does this for a living of course. another serious night on our hands. we couldn't ask for three better contributors to start off our conversation. our thanks to chuck rosenberg, barrett berger and to eli stokols. coming up for us, more split reaction from the trump team calling for peace, harmony, right before blaming the media for the nation's anger. historian doris kerns goodwin is here for

. >> in the meantime stay tuned for 60 minutes and leslie stahl's interview with president trump. have a good evening and we'll see you back here at 11:00. captioning funded by cbs and ford. we go further, so you can. >> do you really think i'd call russia to help me with an election? give me a break. >> after two years, president trump is back on "60 minutes," talking about his accomplishments... >> we were going to war with north korea. now, you don't hear that. >> ...and controversies. >> "how did you get home?" "i don't remember." "how did you get there?" "i don't remember." "where is the place?" "i don't remember." "how many years ago was it?" "i don't know, i don't know." >> and you mimicked professor blasey ford. you mimicked her. >> and had i not made that speech, we would not have won. >> in a wide-ranging interview... and what have you learned since you've been president? >> i always used to say the toughest people are manhattan real estate guys and blah, bla

twitter account noticed a new work of art greasing the walls of the white house in this image from leslie stahl'serview with the president last night. is that doug playing poker? thing 2 in 60 seconds. (burke) fender-biter. seen it, covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ so let's promote our falle a homecomingtravel dealame, on choicehotels.com like this. touchdown. earn a free night when you stay just twice this fall. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com >>> as the world got a glimpse of donald trump's latest painting, featuring trump having drinks with former presidents, some dead, some alive, all republican. there was a little confusion about the artist. some people assumed it was the sean hannity favorite and painter of conservative dreams, john mcnaught en. he, of course, the creator of this work titled, the forgotten man showing president obama stepping on the constitution. look at thomas jefferson, he can't take it. what are you doing? the painting is the work of this guy, andy thomas, and it

what did he say to leslie stahl immediately afterwards?e goes gosh, i have no idea why this is happening. the truth of the matter is he knows exactly why it's happening. recently after the pipe bombing incidents what he said was he started to blame the media. he never takes responsibility for the hate he has unleashed. >> he was blaming the media earlier in his off the cuff remarks, something we've become sadly so used to. richard, final thoughts in terms of the future of this country under this president. do you anticipate more hate crimes like there? this one today at the synagogue is being designated as a hate crime. >> you can only hope not. but you know, unfortunately, i think of we have to fear the worst. mr. trump has to use the words of representative mark sanford, a republican in congress, mr. trump has unearthed some demons in our country and our social fabric being frayed. i don't know how easy it's going to be to put it back together, quite frankly. >> sobering thoughts from you, richard cohen, president of the southern poverty

what struck me in that clip is that leslie stahl also asked him, would you say anything critical of vladimirse the russian oligarch and russian leader when givena oligarch and russian leader when given a perfect opportunity on american television to do so. heavily important matter, we said a minute ago that the royal baby, meghan‘s baby, i was saying that it could be the american president, or the monarchy here. elizabeth has treated us to say that any child born to an american parent is entitled to american citizenship and could run for president no matter where they are born. that is not true. my next—door neighbour when i was growing up was born injordan. he had american citizenship but you have to be born on our shores, or on the territory. even if you're born to american parents. the royals will have to come to america and have a child so that they can have either the opportunity to be the more like the opportunity to be the more like the american president. miller met a sequence the american president. miller met a sequence of events has do happen for the royal child to be president. w

twitter account noticed a new work of art greasing the walls of the white house in this image from leslie stahl's interview with the president last night. is that doug playing poker? thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> as the world got a glimpse of donald trump's latest painting, featuring trump having drinks with former presidents, some dead, some alive, all republican. there was a little confusion about the artist. some people assumed it was the sean hannity favorite and painter of conservative dreams, john mcnaught en. he, of course, the creator of this work titled, the forgotten man showing president obama stepping on the constitution. look at thomas jefferson, he can't take it. what are you doing? the painting is the work of this guy, andy thomas, and it's a bipartisan series that includes this one titled the democratic club, featuring barack obama having a beer and hanging out with a bunch of his predecessors. trump has the republican version. you'll of course notice abe lincoln in front there apparently captivating everyone with tales of what he's been up to the last 150 years. it's a flattering de

asking questions or saying to leslie stahl you don't know the very things that we aldo know and historye and again that these alliances with europe helped us in so many ways. it was always general ma atlantis w -- mattis who tried to explain what was happening. mattis tried to give donald trump a history lesson because donald trump doesn't read books and done know history. at the end that's when he bolted up angry, threat room and that's when the then secretary of state called him a moron. with another word. in front of moron. but if you believe that general mattis is a good check, secretary mattis is a good check on u.s. foreign policy, you'll be concerned with this next clip. >> i think i have a great cabinet. there are some people i'm not happy with. >> who are you not happy with. >> i don't want to say that. but i have some people that i'm not thrilled with and other people that i'm beyond thrilled with. >> what about general mattis. will he leave? >> i don't know. he hasn't told me. it could be that he is. i think he's sort of a democrat if you want to know the truth but, again, r

. >>> well, last night in a "60 minutes minutes" interview, leslie stahl asked about separation of familiesin june. >> when you allow the parents to stay together, okay, when you allow that, then what happens is people are going to pour into our country. >> so are you going to go back to that? >> we're looking at a lot of things. really what we want to do is change the immigration laws because they're a laughingstock all over the world. >> i think you're saying it's under consideration. >> i want all the laws changed. there have to be consequences, leslie, for coming into our country illegally. >> arrested migrant families at the border, which have been climbing all year, surged after the administration ended family separation. there were nearly 13,000 arrests in august. that's almost triple the amount in the same month last year. immigration and customs enforcement says its border region detention facilities are so overwhelmed, most migrants are being processed and released. mireya villarreal is in arizona. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. border agents are telling us they're seein

he is telling leslie stahl on 60 minutes that if saudi arabia is found to be responsible for this deaththere will be consequences. what does this relationship between saudi arabia and the u.s. seem to be devolving into? guest: it is not clear. if you listen to those remarks, they sound tough and kind of the opposite of what he was saying earlier in the week. balance aoing to tough response with the fact that he doesn't want to jeopardize the relationship with saudi arabia, i don't see what those consequences might be. i would think if there is any sort of consequences involving sanctions or anything along that line, a stronger hand is likely to come from the u.s. congress. they have considerable power to do something about that. as a result of the activities in yemen. there is pushed back on u.s. support for the saudi's in yemen. there is growing frustration with the behavior of the saudi government over the last couple of years, particularly since the emergence of crown prince mohammad bin salman as the de facto leader in saudi arabia. he is not picking, but he has largely been -- not

he said to leslie stahl, the fact that this person is a journalist, it makes me even more upset.t is telling you that he believes in the first amendment, he wants there to be a rigorous debate with the press. and obviously, at times it will be adversarial. it has been forever president of every administration, frankly. left and right. but i think we have to dial it down from the wartime situation that we are in right now. those two statements that you put up, that is more declaration. let's cease fire. >> sandra: "a very good part of the anger that we see today in our society is called by the will evolve and inaccurate reporting of the media. the mainstream media must clean up its act fast. we are now 12 days out from midterm elections. where do things stand? >> it is a lot higher than people think. if you look at the polling data, some of the polling data that we are looking at yesterday, i look at certain polls that were very predictable about the president success, despite people like nate silver same differently. 86%. said that the secretary clinton was going to win by 86%. l

is a time for the president to really follow through with what he said in that interview with leslie stahlof the people that works for him. you really have to be skeptical about what the rescue people and fema and so on are going to say down there, because they are going to say oh, well, we have a grip on this and if they don't, fema's not going to suffer but the president is. stuart: yeah. these events, presidents and governors are judged in some respects on how they deal with catastrophe. how they handle it, what do they do. more importantly, what are they seen to be doing. you're right about katrina. when president bush flew over the damage and looked concerned as he looked out of the window, that did not go down well. i'm sure the president will avoid that no matter what. >> yeah. it looks like he's already off to a pretty good start. you know, look, president bush started off with a better situation personally than president trump does, because the press wasn't crazy about george w. bush, but it wasn't -- they didn't detest him and treat him unfairly day after day the way they do trum