Now this is a Saturday morning. It's just after 6 a.m. and Rines Prebus as you may recall during his

Short tenure as chief of staff was under quite a lot of pressure. It had been a very long week and so he's sound asleep on a Saturday morning and he's getting a call

from the president and a six-tham he's probably wondering what what on earth is the

president calling me about at six in the morning right is there is there a

nuclear warhead in the air somewhere? So Reins Prebus, answers the phone,

sleepy, and Donald Trump says, what do you think of my tweets? And Priva says, what are you talking about?

What tweets?

Hey everyone, welcome to a special edition of the nerd cast.

I'm your host, Scott Bland, and I'm talking today

with Tim Alberta, he's the chief political

correspondent for Political Magazine, and he's the author of a new book

coming out on July 16th.

That's American carnage on the front lines of the

Republican Civil War and the rise of President Trump and it is a doozy.

Trump says, oh you got to see him, check out my tweets.

So Prebus sort of leaps out of bed, gets on his iPhone, finds at real Donald Trump, and sure enough he sees the

tweets and Pribus says to the president, where did you hear this? What are you

basing this on?

And Trump says, oh, listen, listen, hold on, listen to this.

And on the other end of the receiver,

the president is using his TiVo device

and he is replaying an interview from Fox News the previous night

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