joining me now is president trump's former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney.can congressman for south carolina. i want to start with this which is you know this president pretty well. we know he cares about perception of, are you getting eyeballs? are people paying attention? how concerned do you think he is that the ratings for this convention are lower than last week? >> i'm sorry. i just completely lost the audio and the video. >> that is not a good thing. we do have your video. can you hear me now? >> i can. i'm sorry. yes. loud and clear. >> oh, great. so let me go back. i'm curious, since you know the president well, we know he cares about perceptions like are there more people watching my convention than his convention. so how do you think he is handling the fact that so far more people tuned in last week than this week? >> i thought that when you included the folks online it was 10 million more people watched the first couple nights of the republican than the democrat but it goes to your point of how do you want to count in this day and age between soc

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so, you know, what we're seeing is, if you look at the president's task force that had mick mulvaneynd secretary mnuchin on it, we're seeing that wish list put into effect quickly, at the wrong time. you know, we're in the middle of a pandemic. we're in the middle of an economic crisis. now is not the time to do any of these things. some of these things may be justified from a business standpoint, but now is not the time to do any of this stuff. it's being used to scare people. >> let me ask you about this, the reports that sorting machines are being removed. look, we're all -- a lot of us are lay people in this. you're not. it sounds to me like a way to slow down sorting of the mail. is that what we're seeing? >> we broke down the numbers today. steve hutkens who runs the post office site looked through them. it looks like 14% of sorting machines and 27% of flat sorting machines. you don't even if some of these are pieces of equipment that are obsolete or have outlived their usefulness or need to be refurbished. now, again, you're in a pandemic, you need all your mechanics to be wor

so because it was such an unpleasant thing, as i report out, then chief of staff mick mulvaney and then national security adviser john bolton went to considerable lengths to keep this completely off the agenda. and when it would get on the agenda, for example, when there was a single nsc meeting relating to russia and election security, kirstjen nielsen, then the secretary of homeland security, didn't get five minutes into it before trump started interrupting her and asking her questions about the wall along the mexican border. so this has been a distasteful subject to him. people around him have known that and they have adjusted themselves unfortunately accordingly. >> and as they have adjusted themselves, it's not only maybe at least for a short term sort of lubricated their own relationship with the president to keep themselves in office among other things for however many more days they can sustain it, but it has compromised what the intelligence community has concluded or said about these things. i guess i found myself wondering, because you talked to so many people for this piece,

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mick mulvaney is a great american and a former budget director and chief of staff and friend of mine.et a package. i don't want to -- look, they are making some progress as reported correctly, in most of the media accounts. the talks are becoming more productive. i'm not here to negotiate or anything like that. i don't know what the timing is going to be. we will see. stuart: but you have no doubt that something gets passed? no doubt at all? >> whone has to always have dous these days. politics, legislation, it's pretty tricky business. you never quite know what's going to happen. i just want to say one thing. it would be awfully good to get this done and provide some confidence and reassurances. it would be awfully good to make it growthier with some of these tax ideas and perhaps some more deregulation. that would help. i do want to say, though, good news front, look, you are getting now nationwide some flattening in the cases and the fatalities and it's starting to hook down. it's still a level that's too high. there's still a lot of hardship out there, not suggesting otherwise, bu

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