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  • POLITICO RECENTLY INTERVIEWED ABOUT TWO DOZEN INDIVIDUALS WHO

  • WORK IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THERE ARE AT LEAST THAT MANY PEOPLE ON

  • A DAILY BASIS LEAKING INFORMATION ABOUT THE WHITE

  • HOUSE, WE GET THIS EVERY DAY, NOW WE GET SOME IDEAS ABOUT THE

  • CURRENT STATE OF MORALE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, ESPECIALLY HOW DOES

  • THE NEW PRESIDENT FEEL ABOUT HIS JOB?

  • IS HE HAPPY, DOES HE HAVE

  • REGRETS?

  • SOME OF THE INFORMATION IS PRETTY INTERESTING.

  • THEY SAY

  • --

  • AND IT HAS BEEN THREE WEEKS.

  • NOT A VERY LONG TIME.

  • HOWARD STERN THIS WEEK SAID THAT WAS AMAZING IS THAT DONALD

  • TRUMP KEEPS WANTING TO GO TO MAR A LAGO, GET OUT OF THERE, AND

  • BARACK OBAMA IS LIVING DONALD TRUMP'S LIFE, AND TRUMP IS

  • LIVING OBAMA'S LIFE.

  • YOU SHOWED ME A PICTURE OF OBAMA PLAYING GOLF, WHO WAS HE

  • WITH?

  • RICHARD BRANSON.

  • HE WAS ON A GOLF CART AND HE HAD SUNGLASSES ON AND HIS HAT ON

  • BACKWARDS AND A GOLF SHIRT AND SUNGLASSES, SITTING IN THE BACK

  • LIKE, THIS IS AWESOME.

  • AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF THIS I THINK HIS HAIR WILL DARKEN

  • AGAIN.

  • [LAUGHTER] THAT WAS GOOD, JOHN.

  • THANK YOU.

  • WE HAVE SOME MORE INFORMATION --

  • -- WE WOULD ATTACK HIM FOR

  • DOING THAT SO SOON, THAT'S WHY

  • YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT YOUR TRANSITION AND KNOW WHAT

  • YOU ARE DOING --

  • DOES MELANIA GO DOWN TO MAR A LAGO?

  • WATCH OUT.

  • SHOW SOME RESPECT.

  • WE'VE ALSO HEARD THAT SHE HAS NO INTENTION OF MOVING TO THE

  • WHITE HOUSE.

  • ORIGINALLY IT WOULD BE FOR A WHILE FOR BARRON -- I

  • ALMOST SAID BANNON -- BUT NOW IT MIGHT APPARENTLY CONTINUE.

  • I WAS LISTENING TO RYAN SEACREST THIS MORNING AND HE

  • SAID THAT MAR A LAGO.

  • IS FANTASTIC

  • DID HE REALLY?

  • IF HE'S GOING TO QUOTE HOWARD STERN --

  • I DON'T HAVE SATELLITE, I HAVE TO HAVE TERRESTRIAL RADIO.

  • THIS IS POLITICO INTERVIEWING PEOPLE, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN

  • ALL THIS INFORMATION IS ACCURATE, OBVIOUSLY, BUT IT IS

  • WORTH DISCUSSING.

  • I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR -- OF COURSE WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE.

  • OF COURSE WE KNOW FOR SURE.

  • WE KNOW WHO THIS GUY IS.

  • MICHAEL

  • SHURE IS ON THE PANEL, I SAID I WATCHED THE APPRENTICE YESTERDAY

  • AND MICHAEL SAID DON'T WATCH THAT, HE'S THE WORST PERSON IN

  • AMERICA.

  • NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN MORE RIGHT ABOUT A PERSON EVER.

  • THIS WAS LIKE IN 2001,

  • AND BY THEN HE HAD ALREADY BELIEVED IT FOR 12 YEARS.

  • THIS IS THE TRUTH, I COULDN'T BELIEVE THEY GAVE HIM A SHOW.

  • NOW WE ARE AT A TOTALLY DIFFERENT LEVEL.

  • MICHAEL WAS OUTRAGED ABOUT THE APPRENTICE.

  • DONALD TRUMP HAS --

  • I'M NOT HIS THERAPIST, BUT HE HAS A NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY

  • DISORDER, THAT'S BEEN SUGGESTED, YOU COULD TELL ME HE HAS

  • BORDERLINE PERSONALITY OR SOME FORM OF BIPOLAR, I WOULD BELIEVE

  • THAT TOO, OBVIOUSLY UNTREATED, PEOPLE WHO ARE BIPOLAR CAN

  • GET TREATED AND FUNCTION.

  • I DID.

  • THAT'S RIGHT.

  • BUT HE'S PSYCHOTIC, IN SOME WAYS.

  • THEREFORE THE PEOPLE WILLING AND DRAWN TO WORK WITH HIM ARE THE

  • KIND OF PEOPLE DRAWN TO THAT PSYCHOSIS AND DRAWN TO THAT SORT

  • OF PERSONALITY, AND THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THOSE

  • PEOPLE WHO ARE MAKING A CHOICE -- AGAIN, IF YOU ARE IN LOVE

  • WITH SOMEONE WHO'S THAT WAY YOU MAKE SACRIFICES BECAUSE THAT'S

  • THE PERSON YOU LOVE.

  • PEOPLE DRAWN TO IT ARE STRANGE, FRENCH

  • FIGURES.

  • THAT'S WHY BANNON IS THERE, THAT'S WHY THESE CABINET

  • MEMBERS FITS IN, WHAT YOU THINK BETSY DEVOS MAKES SENSE, WHY

  • DEVOS THINGS IT MAKES SENSE, WHY PRUITT MAKES SENSE.

  • AND MIKE

  • FLYNN, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THAT GUY.

  • YOU THINK THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH JEFF SESSIONS?

  • RULE 19, DON'T EVEN IMPLY THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH

  • JEFF SESSIONS.

  • JIMMY PERSISTED.

  • SOME OF THEM ARE JUST BASIC, OLD-SCHOOL RACISTS, IT COULD BE

  • SIMPLE AS THAT.

  • SO THE WHITE HOUSE WILL BE FILLED WITH

  • KELLYANNE CONWAYS, SEAN SPICER, PEOPLE WILLING TO SAY --

  • MIKE POMPEO WAS NUTS IN CONGRESS.

  • AND HE WAS DRAWN TO THIS.

  • AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF REPUBLICANS

  • WHO WILL BE LIKE, THAT'S A SCENE.

  • THERE IS A CRAZY PERSON HIRING

  • PEOPLE ATTRACTED TO CRAZY.

  • WHICH MAKE ME WONDER ABOUT STEVE MNUCHIN.

  • WHATEVER YOU

  • THINK ABOUT HIS BANKING HISTORY AND WHATEVER HE DOES, HE MUST

  • SIT IN THAT ROOM -- BECAUSE BY ALL OTHER ACCOUNTS HE SEEMS

  • NORMAL, I JUST OPENED A STUDIO AND I WORKED IN A BANK, NOW I'M

  • HERE WITH THESE NUTS -- HE'S LIKE MARILYN ON THE

  • MUNSTERS, HE'S JUST THIS GUY AND ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE ARE CRAZY.

  • LET'S GET INTO IT MORE BECAUSE SOME OF THIS GETS TO SCARIER

  • TERRITORY.

  • FIRST OFF --

  • I CAN CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT SEEMS FAIR.

  • ALSO --

  • THAT IS NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL --

  • THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO

  • WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND

  • AREN'T LIKE THAT, AND THEY ARE EXPOSED TO THESE PEOPLE AND THEY

  • ARE LIKE, WHOA.

  • AND THE CRAZY PEOPLE THINK THAT THE NORMAL

  • PEOPLE ARE OUT TO GET THEM.

  • AND AGAIN, BIG RANGE OF NORMAL.

  • COULD BE PEOPLE WE DISAGREE WITH ON BASIC EVERYTHING BUT HAVE A

  • BASIC HUMAN INTERACTION FUNCTION THAT NOT JUST TRUMP BUT THE

  • PEOPLE WILLINGLY WORKING FOR HIM, CLOSE TO HIM, MUST ALSO

  • HAVE.

  • COREY LEWANDOWSKI -- THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT GUY.

  • EVER BUT HE KNOWS THAT.

  • THE NIXON PEOPLE THOUGHT EVERYONE WAS OUT TO GET THEM

  • TOO.

  • THAT'S A FAIR POINT.

  • THE OTHER THING, THE WORLD LEADERS THING, IT'S NOT A LEAK

  • IF YOU HANG UP ON THE PRESIDENT OF AUSTRALIA AND THE AUSTRALIAN

  • PRESS REPORTS IT.

  • THAT'S NOT A LEAK.

  • THERE SUCH A NAÏVETÉ ABOUT THE

  • WAY THINGS WORK, IN A REAL

  • SENSE OF THE WORD IT'S A DYSFUNCTIONAL WHITE HOUSE.

  • THE LEAKS COULD OBVIOUSLY COME FROM AUSTRALIA.

  • IT WAS REPORTED ON BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT -- OR THE PRIME

  • MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA IS LIKE, THE PRESIDENT HUNG UP ON ME.

  • BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE IN THE ROOM?

  • THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE RECORDED, MOST OF

  • THEM END UP BEING RECORDED.

  • SOME SUSPICIOUSLY DO NOT.

  • THEY HAPPEN PRETTY QUICKLY, THERE ARE ONLY I WOULD IMAGINE

  • THREE OR FOUR TRUMP PEOPLE IN THAT ROOM.

  • THEY ARE INVESTIGATING TO TRY TO FIND OUT WHO IT IS, I HAVE NO

  • DOUBT THEY WILL FIND SOMEONE WHO THEY AT LEAST THINK IS THE ONE.

  • A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR YOU, THIS IS MY FAVORITE PERHAPS --

  • [JIMMY]: THAT'S WHAT I DO!

  • HERE'S THE MOST SERIOUS PART, PERHAPS --

  • HE'S GOING TO COME OUT OF THIS AND BE LIKE, OBAMA WAS

  • GREAT.

  • HOW DID HE DO IT?

  • HE GOT ALL THESE POSITIONS FILLED IN THE WHITE HOUSE?

  • I HAD NO IDEA.

  • I SAW A POLL TODAY, 25% OF THE COUNTRY AGREED THAT LAWMAKERS

  • AND JUDGES SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO OVERRULE THE PRESIDENT.

  • I DON'T

  • KNOW IF IT'S ONLY IN THE CASE OF TRUMP, FOR 25% SAY THAT

  • CONSTITUTION, SHOVE IT UP YOUR SHIT GIBBON.

  • THAT'S WEIRDLY LOWER THAN I WOULD'VE GUESSED.

  • AUTHORITARIAN LEADER, LET HIM DO HIS JOB.

  • THEY SENSE IT IS BEING ANTI-TRUMP.

  • I THINK THAT IS AN ENCOURAGING NUMBER.

  • ALL THESE POLLS ARE

  • DISCOURAGING, AGAIN, 28% OF AMERICANS IN 2008 THOUGHT GEORGE

  • W. BUSH DID A GOOD JOB --

  • KATRINA, MWAH!

  • [KISSING NOISE]

  • IRAQ WAR, GREAT JOB.

  • THERE IS AN EXAMPLE, WITH TRUMP, WHAT

  • PEOPLE DO, I DO IT, LET ME MENTION ONE THING THAT I KNOW,

  • THEN TURN THE CONVERSATION TO SOMETHING ELSE.

  • TRUMP CALLED

  • MIKE FLYNN, ACCORDING TO THE HUFFINGTON POST, AT 3 O'CLOCK IN

  • THE MORNING TO ASK HIM WHETHER IT WAS GOOD TO HAVE A STRONG

  • DOLLAR OR WEEK DOLLAR.

  • AND MIKE FLYNN, IN THE BEST MOMENT HE'S

  • HAD, SAYS THAT'S NOT REALLY MY AREA OF EXPERTISE.

  • I WOULD HAVE

  • GUESSED STRONG --

  • I WOULD HAVE GUESSED STRONG.

  • IT DEPENDS WHO IS ASKING.

  • THE PRESIDENT IS ASKING.

  • MIKE FLYNN SAID MAYBE YOU SHOULD CALL AN ECONOMIST.

  • AND

  • TRUMP GOT MAD AT THAT RESPONSE.

  • CALLED HIM FAKE NEWS AND HUNG UP.

  • BUT WAS FURIOUS THAT HE

  • DIDN'T HAVE AN ANSWER AND DIDN'T KNOW, I'M THINKING TRUMP WAS

  • PROBABLY TOO EMBARRASSED TO ASK AN ECONOMIST.

  • STEVE MNUCHIN.

  • ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO HAS NO POLITICAL

  • OR MILITARY EXPERIENCE, BUT FILLS HIS CV WITH GLOWING

  • REVIEWS OF HIS INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE,

POLITICO RECENTLY INTERVIEWED ABOUT TWO DOZEN INDIVIDUALS WHO

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