BEFORE,.PRESIDENT’ NEW BUDGET IS SET TO COME OUT AND IT’S SETTING
UP A FIGHT OVER, YOU GUESSED IT,
THE BORDER.
THE BORDER. >>> BUT FIRST BREAKING NEWS FROM
AXIOS, LEAKED REMARKS FROM
PRESIDENT TRUMP TO RNC DONORS AT
MAR-A-LAGO ON FRIDAY.
ACCORDING TO THREE SOURCES THE
PRESIDENT ADDRESSED THE
CONTROVERSY OVER CONGRESSWOMAN
ILHAN OMAR’S HUNT COMMENTS MANY
FOUND ANTI-SEMITIC BY SAYING,
QUOTE, THE DEMOCRATS HATE JEWISH
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. BASED ON AXIOS’ REPORTING,
TRUBISKY SAID HE DIDN’T
UNDERSTAND HOW A JEWISH PERSON
COULD VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT.
HE TOUTED ALL HE HAD DONE WITH
ISRAEL, NOTING HIS HISTORIC
DECISION TO MOVE THE EMBASSY
FROM TEL AVIV TO JERUSALEM.
THE PRESIDENT MUSED, IF HE COULD
RUN FOR PRIME MINISTER OF
ISRAEL, HE WOULD BE AT 97% IN
THE POLLS.
THE POLLS. THE COMMENTS THE PRESIDENT MADE
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS GO A STEP
FURTHER THAN WHAT HE TOLD WHITE
HOUSE REPORTERS ON SATURDAY.
>> THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME AN
ANTI-ISRAEL PARTY.
ANTI-ISRAEL PARTY. THEY’VE BECOME AN ANTI-JEWISH
PARTY.
PARTY. AND I THOUGHT THAT VOTE WAS A
DISGRACE AND 0 DOES EVERYBODY
ELSE
ELSE ELSE IF YOU GET AN HONEST
ANSWER.
ANSWER. >> IN THAT I WOULD LIKE TO
WELCOME IN MY PANEL JOHNATHAN
SWAN IN HIS NEWSLETTER AND
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR OF THE
TRUMP 20 RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN
MARK LOTTER.
MARK LOTTER. JONATHAN SWAN, I WILL START WITH
YOU.
YOU. TAKE US BEHIND THE SCENES OF
THESE REMARKS.
THESE REMARKS. YOU SAY YOU HAVE THREE SOURCES
TELLING YOU THIS IS WHAT
HAPPENED IN THE ROOM BUT IT
SOUNDS LIKE THEY WENT TO SOME
LENGTHS TO TRY TO GET THIS FROM
GETTING OUT THERE.
>> IT WAS ACTUALLY IN THE TENT
IS THE RIGHT WAY TO DESCRIBE IT.
THEY REEKTEDERECTED A POOL OVER
MAR-A-LAGO, BEAUTIFUL TENT WITH
CHANDELIERS.
CHANDELIERS. THIS TIME BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T
WANT ANY LEAKING, THEY MADE ALL
OF THE GUESTS PUT THEIR CELL
PHONES INTO POUCHES WITH MAGNETS
SO YOU HAD THEM IN THESE
MAGNETIZED POUCHES AND YOU CAN
ONLY UNMAGNETIZE IT WHEN YOU
LEFT.
LEFT. BUT PEOPLE REMEMBER THINGS AND
STORE THINGS IN THEIR MIND.
SO, YES, WHAT YOU SET UP IS
EXACTLY RIGHT.
EXACTLY RIGHT. I SHOULD ADD LIKE THIS WAS
RECEIVED INCREDIBLY WELL IN THE
ROOM, ROARING LAUGHTER, CHEERS,
ET CETERA.
ET CETERA. AND IT WAS TRUMP TAKING IT TO
ANOTHER LEVEL.
ANOTHER LEVEL. I DON’T THINK I HAVE HEARD HIM
SAY FLAT OUT DEMOCRATS HATE
JEWISH PEOPLE BUT THAT WAS A
DIRECT QUOTE.
DIRECT QUOTE. >> THAT WAS JEFF MASON WHO
COVERS THE WHITE HOUSE EVERY
DAY.
DAY. >> HAVEN’T HEARD HIM SAY THAT,
NO.
NO. >> BUT I THINK WHAT’S IMPORTANT
HERE IS TO LOOK AT JONATHAN’S
REPORTING AND ANALYZE WHAT THE
PRESIDENT IS DOING.
THIS IS BUILDING ON WHAT HE SAID
ON FRIDAY TO WHITE HOUSE
REPORTERS.
REPORTERS. HE’S TRYING TO PAINT HIMSELF AS
THE ONLY CANDIDATE WHO SHOULD BE
GETTING JEWISH VOTES IN 2020.
AND TRYING TO PAINT THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY WITH THE BROAD
BRUSH BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT
ONE CONGRESS PERSON SAID.
CLEARLY IT’S CREATED CHALLENGES
FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BUT
$NOT TRUE TO SAY ALL DEMOCRATS
HATE VIEWS.
HATE VIEWS. >> MARK, DO YOU AGREE -- YOU’RE
THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE PRESIDENT’
CAMPAIGN, DO YOU THINK DEMOCRATS
HATE JEWISH PEOPLE?
>> I’M NOT GOING TO USE THAT
LANGUAGE SPECIFICALLY BUT I
THINK IT’S IMPORTANT FOR THIS
MESSAGE TO GET OUT THAT THERE
ARE MANY THINGS THAT THE
DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE IN RECENT
YEARS, NOT JUST IN RECENT MONTHS
WITH ONE CONGRESSWOMAN’S QUOTES.
LET’S REMEMBER PRESIDENT OBAMA
WAS WIDELY AND CORRECT LIP
CALLED THE
CALLED THE CORRECTLY CALLED THE MOST
ANTI-U.S. PRESIDENT IN U.S.
HISTORY AND THAT’S SOMETHING
PEOPLE REMEMBER.
PEOPLE REMEMBER. THIS IS BUILDING UPON WHAT THE
PRESIDENT DID DURING THE 2016
CAMPAIGN WHEN HE WOULD GO TO
DIFFERENT VOTING BLOCS AND MAYBE
SOME WHO DID NOT TRADITIONALLY
VOTE REPUBLICAN, VOTED DEMOCRAT,
AND SAID GIVE US A CHANCE.
HE’S MAKING THE CASE AS HE’S
SHOWING IN MANY CASES THE
ACTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
HAVE NOT BEEN IN THE FAVOR OF
ISRAEL AND THIS IS THE LATEST
EXAMPLE OF IT.
>> IF THIS IS THE CASE, THOUGH,
WHY ARE THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
WHO ARE JEWISH, THE ELECTED
PEOPLE, OVERWHELMINGLY
PEOPLE, OVERWHELMINGLY DEMOCRATS?
DEMOCRATS? THERE ARE ONLY A HANDFUL OF
JEWISH REPUBLICANS.
JEWISH REPUBLICANS. >> I UNDERSTAND, IT’S A LONG,
HISTORIC TREND.
HISTORIC TREND. BUT WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING
IS IT’S TIME FOR PEOPLE TO BREAK
THROUGH THOSE TRADITIONAL
POLITICAL ALLEGIANCES, TAKE A
LOOK AT THE RESULTS IN TERMS OF
THINGS THAT HAPPENED NOT ONLY
JUST UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT
ALSO GO BACK AND LOOK AT SOME OF
THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN
RECENT YEARS, AS I SAID, WITH
PRESIDENT OBAMA.
PRESIDENT OBAMA. YOU HAD THE U.S. ABSTAINING ON
U.N. ACTION THAT CONDEMNED
ISRAEL, FIRST TIME IN A LONG
TIME, IF EVER, WE HAD DONE THAT.
UNDER THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION, THERE ARE A LOT
OF THINGS THAT THE REPUBLICANS
AND PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DOING
THAT’S PRO-ISRAEL.
THAT’S PRO-ISRAEL. >> YOU THINK THAT ADDS UP TO
DEMOCRATS HAZING JEWISH PEOPLE?
>> I THINK THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF
ANTI-JEWISH SENTIMENT SHOWN IN
RECENT YEARS AND THIS IS THE
PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTING IT.
>> JONATHAN SWAN, SETTING THAT
ASIDE FOR A SECOND, THERE WAS A
LOT MORE IN THE REMARKS.
THERE WAS A COMMENT SPECIFICALLY
ABOUT BLACKFACE AS WELL.
WHAT WAS SAID?
>> THE WAY IT WAS DESCRIBED TO
ME BY THREE SEPARATE PEOPLE WHO
WERE IN THE TENT WAS TRUMP WENT
ON A TANGENT ABOUT HOW HE WAS
HOME ALONE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
OVER CHRISTMAS AND HE
DESCRIBED -- HE DESCRIBED THE
SCENE OF OPENING THE CURTAIN AND
LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW AND
SEEING SECRET SERVICE AGENTS
WITH NIGHT VISION GOGGLES, AND
HE JOKED THEY WERE IN BLACKFACE
BECAUSE THEY HAD MASKS ON, AND
HE SAID NOW THEY’RE IN BLACKFACE
SO WE NEED TO GET RID OF THEM OR
SOMETHING.
SOMETHING. HE WAS CLEARLY MAKING A JOKE
ABOUT RAFFLE NORTHAMLPH NORTHAM
CONTROVERSY IN VIRGINIA.
IT DID SOUND A LITTLE -- YOU
KNOW, WHEN HE GOATS ON THOSE
TANK
TANK TANGENTS.
TANGENTS. >> MARC, YOU’RE KIND OF ON THE
SPOT WITH THESE COMMENTS BUT IS
IT EVER ACCEPTABLE TO JOKE ABOUT
BLACKFACE?
BLACKFACE? >> I THINK HE’S JOKING THE
TACTICAL GEAR AND MASKS WORN BY
THE SECRET SERVICE ARE BLACK AND
GIVEN THE RECENT CONTROVERSY
THEY WOULD HAVE TO CHANGE THAT.
IT WAS A JOKE.
AGAIN, YOUR REPORTING INDICATED
PEOPLE LAUGHED AND SAW THAT FOR
WHAT THAT WAS.
>> SO IT WAS A JOKE AND ALSO THE
REPUBLICAN DONORS IN THE ROOM
THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY?
>> YOU’RE REPORTING ON IT.
I WAS NOT IN THE ROOM, SO --
>> DO YOU DISPUTE ANY OF THIS AS
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN?
CAMPAIGN? DO YOU DISPUTE ANYTHING?
>> I WASN’T THERE.
WHEN I SAW JONATHAN’S REPORT
TONIGHT, CHICKED WITH SOME FOLKS
WHO ALSO WEREN’T THERE BUT HEARD
SIMILAR STORIES FROM FOLKS THEY
TALKED TO THAT WERE THERE.
I THINK WHAT’S IMPORTANT IS THE
CONTEXT.
CONTEXT. THIS IS THE PRESIDENT HOLDING
COURT, SO TO SPEAK, WITH CLOSE
ADVISERS, FRIENDS, LONGTIME
MAR-A-LAGO GUESTS AND REPUBLICAN
DONORS.
DONORS. HE’S TELLING STORIES.
HE’S RECOUNTING VARIOUS THINGS.
IT IS NOT PREPARED REMARKS OR
ANYTHING.
ANYTHING. IT’S THE PRESIDENT UP THERE
ENGAGING WITH FOLKS THAT WAS
WELL RECEIVED ACCORDING TO YOUR
REPORTING AND JONATHAN AND I
THINK THAT’S WHAT IT WAS
INTENDED TO BE, VERY JUST
INFORMAL, STORY TELLING.
>> YOU’RE SAYING IT WAS SORT OF
NORMAL?
NORMAL? >> I’M SAYING HE WAS
ENTERTAINING A CROWD ON MANY
ISSUES.
ISSUES. THOSE ARE THE THINGS YOU
HIGHLIGHTS.
HIGHLIGHTS. IT WAS PRETTY LONG -- FROM WHAT
I UNDERSTAND, HE SPOKE FOR A
WHILE.
WHILE. >> JEFF MASON, YOU COVERED MANY
PRESIDENTS.
PRESIDENTS. HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE THIS
SORT OF LANGUAGE TOWARDS JEWISH
PEOPLE, JOKING ABOUT BLACKFACE,
COMPARED TO OTHER PRESIDENTS
THAT YOU COVERED?
>> WELL, I THINK IT’S BEEN TWO
YEARS PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN
IN OFFICE AND HE RAN THE 2016
CAMPAIGN AND BUSTED THROUGH A
LOT OF NORMS.
SO I THINK WE’RE SEEING THAT
HAPPEN HERE AND THERE’S NO DOUBT
IT WILL BE HAPPENING IN THE NEXT
COUPLE OF YEARS.
BUT IS IT A NORM THAT IS BUSTED
THROUGH.
THROUGH. IT IS UNUSUAL.
>> UNDERSTATEMENT.
>> UNDERSTATEMENT. REPUBLICAN DONORS ALSO TOLD
JONATHAN THE PRESIDENT INSISTED
ON FRIDAY THAT THEY NEVER CALLED
APPLE CEO TIM COOK TIM APPLE.
THE SOURCES SAY THE PERFECTS
CLAIMED IT WAS, QUOTE, FAKE NEWS
AND TOLD THEM HE ACTUALLY SAID
TIM COOK APPLE BUT JUST SAID IT
REALLY FAST AND THE COOK PART
WAS TOO SOFT.
LET’S GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE ON
THAT.
THAT. >> WE HAVE SO MANY COMPANIES
COMING IN, PEOPLE LIKE TIM,
YOU’RE EXPANDING ALL OVER AND
DOING THINGS I REALLY WANTED DO
RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING.
I SAID TIM, YOU HAVE TO START
DOING IT OVER HERE AND YOU
REALLY HAVE.
REALLY HAVE. YOU REALLY PUT A BIG INVESTMENT
IN OUR COUNTRY, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH.
MUCH. TIM APPLE.
TIM APPLE. >> DID YOU HEAR COOK?
ANYONE HEAR COOK?
>> THERE’S DEFINITIVELY NOT A
WORD BETWEEN TIM AND APPLE IN
THAT VIDEO.
THAT VIDEO. >> SERIOUSLY, THIS IS NOT THE
FIRST TIME THE PRESIDENT
DISPUTED SOMETHING WE’VE SEEN ON
A VIDEO, JONATHAN SWAN.
>> YES, HE PRIVATELY IN "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" TOLD AT LEAST ONE
SENATOR THE "ACCESS HOLLYWOOD"
TAPE THAT RECORDED LIMB SPEAKING
LEWDLY ABOUT WOMEN MIGHT HAVE
BEEN A FAKE VOICE.
HE OBVIOUSLY ADMITTED IT WAS
HIM.
HIM. >> THIS POINTS TO A BIGGER
PROBLEM, JEFF.
PROBLEM, JEFF. IF ANYTHING, HE DEALT WITH
PROBLEMS IN THE 2016 ELECTION
WITH FAKE NEWS, FALSE NEWS ON
FACEBOOK AND THE FRONTIER OF
THIS IS FAKE VIDEO.
>> YES.
>> YES. >> WHICH I THINK MON OF US MAY
BE PREPARED TO GRAPPLE WITH.
>> THAT’S A CHALLENGE FOR
EVERYBODY REPORTING ON THE
PRESIDENT, REPORTING ON THE
CAMPAIGN BUT ALSO A CHALLENGE
FOR VOTERS TO DECIDE WHAT THEY
CAN ACCEPT OR TOLERATE FROM A
LEADER OR CANDIDATE WHO SAYS ONE