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zeke miller joins we live tonight from washington, d.c. good evening to you.whole piece, i think it's insightful, i think it's very telling. give audience a sense of how much time you had first. >> thanks for having me. there with the president for about three hours monday night, going and was private dining room, ending up in the blue room for about a hundred minute dinner. >> bill: is a fair amount of time, the reason i ask you is you get a pretty good sense of where he is. what did you take away? >> there were a lot of takeaway takeaways, the president is a gracious host, he loves to show off the white house, the oval office, where he works, how he works. he brings in ceos and business leaders and politicians, no journalists. that was an illuminating thing for us how much he likes to show off the space. the other thing coming for our interview is the disconnect he is having just how combative he can be in office, also struggling with why he can't connect with the media times but he wants to be loved, he wants people to like him and a sometimes he's struggli

zeke miller, thank you so much. and what a great account you have written in the issue of "time" magazine that just came out today. thank you so much for being with us. coming up after our final break, new reporting during this broadcast on that comey-trump dinner. we're back with that right after this. i feel it every day. but at night, it's the last thing on my mind. for 10 years my tempur-pedic has adapted to my weight and shape, relieving pressure points from head to toe. so i sleep deeply but feel light. and wake up ready to perform. even with the weight of history on my shoulders. find your exclusive retailr at tempur-pedic.com >>> from the website of nbc news, i've just been handed some great reporting by ken delaney and pete williams. it's a narrative of the trump-comey din they're the president kind of indicated might have been requested by comey who wanted to stay on in the job beside being four years into a ten-year term. here is the first quote. the january dinner meeting between the two men the sources

zeke miller was at the table. he was there as well. question our feelings. are feelings in peril across the united states. is our youth fragile. you tell us. the s charming young man visitig the white house was near the vice president and depending an apology for that. apparently he was bumped. you make the call. >> thank you all very much. god bless you and god bless these wonderful kids. thank you all very much. god bless you and god bless theseon wonderful kids. >> well, it did not end with a high five. the young man then followed the vice president and demanded an apology. tammy bruce is a radio host based in new york. how are you? >> i'm good. thank you. >> seems like a nice young man. are kids these days, they're telling their parents what to do. they'reds telling their teachers what to do. >> yep. >> and i guess they're telling the vice president. >> i guess we are giving birth to snowflakes now it looks like the kid need aid safe place in the room. is this a different time or not? >> it is a bit. i mean look an eight-year-old pretty much stalked the

we have so lucky that joining us now to discuss this interview is zeke miller, white house correspondentmagazine. zeke, thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> this was extraordinary and my favorite parts are the lighter humanizing moments. i want to start on a more serious note. it's the same question i put to lester holt. this president seems very proud of the relationships he's built on the foreign stage. on the world stage. and he says at one point the world used to laugh at us but they're not laughing now. does that seem ironic in the wake of the kind of weak he's had? >> certainly there's an element of irony there in terms of the way the world views american domestic politics. when president trump was talking to us on monday night, he was pointing to things like the fight against isis, again the steady parade of isis leaders and various countries whether it be iraq, syria or afghanistan taken off the battlefield in recent weeks as part of his stepped up efforts there. president trump said we'd hear some more about that in the coming weeks. also talked about

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zeke miller, thank you so much. what a great account you've written in the issue of "time" magazine that just came out today. thanks so much for being with us. >>> coming up after our final break, new reporting during this broadcast on that comey/trump dinner. we're back with that right after this. >>> from the website of nbc news, i've just been handed some great reporting by our colleagues ken dilanian and pete williams. it's a narrative of the trump/comey dinner that the president kind of indicated might have been requested by comey, who wanted to stay on in the job besides being four years into a ten-year term. here's the first quote. the january dinner meeting between the two men, the sources said, was requested by the white house. and the former senior fbi official said comey would never have told the president he was not under investigation. that contradicts what the president said. quote, he tried to stay away from it, the russian ties investigation, says this former official of comey, who worked closely wit

by one of the "time" magazine reporters who interviewed the president, white house correspondent zeke miller from the campaign trail. zeke, good to see you. quite an interview you had with donald trump. he was talking about how there's a great meanness out there. take us into the mind of donald trump right now in the white house. >> well, first of all, good to be with you, katy. i mean i think we saw the inner tension within the president of the united states on monday night. there's the desire to be loved, the desire to get people to respect him, view him as a legitimate president, and then there's the desire to, you know, fight when he's been attacked. and often he's struggling to -- you know, those are two essentially contradictory, you know, problems for him. >> but what does he define as attack? does any sort of criticism or news that might be negative about him an attack on him? >> in his mind, yes, and also any mention of russia. we've seen that over the last six months, you know. that's part of the reason why it took the president so long to acknowledge that russia was behind the e-m

and when you take a situation, and zeke miller with time magazine who betweens out that that -- tweetsemoved martin luther king's bust from the oval office, corrects it, but that's downplayed. james mandel accused donald trump of not listening to the final speech of the g7 summit that had been retweeted 12,000 times. the correction that he posted that trump only had his translater in the right ear a had only been retreated 40 times. it was actually 39 when i came on. that is the level of hypocrisy and sloppiness that creates these challenges for the media, and as long as they're going to throw around charges of watergate when they refuse to give that same level of reporting to fast and furious to gsa gone wild, to the have spending $6 million at disney world, what they are doing is they are allowing donald trump to do exactly what john said, call -- gregg: all right, don, one wonders what underlies all of this. is there such unabashed scorn and disdain and, indeed, in some quarters of the media visceral hatred of president trump donald trump that it is really, deeply coloring not only

i want to go to our special panel, zeke miller interviewed president trump monday night. got an exclusive tour of the president's residence. laura coats, david goldbergin, chris saliza and jen sake. jeffrey lourd also here, former reagan white house political director. look. the bottom line here is that jeffrey, the president did completely contradict his own team today when he came out and said very clearly, you heard under pressing by lester, again and again he would have fired director comey no matter what. that's totally different than what they've said over the past few days. they said it was rod rosenstein that made that decision and it was all him. is this a problem? >> no, i don't -- the recommendation was a serious one. clearly the president asked for recommendation and he got it. this has been on the table -- frankly, one mistake i think they made is not firing him the day after the president was sworn in. you should have done it immediately. you had all kinds of people in both parties and in the media, the wall street journal, etc., saying that he shouldn't hav