I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

I'm more of an empiricist. I'm focused on right or wrong, as opposed to left or right.

If you're asking me do we want clean air and clean water? Yes. Do we want a safer climate for future generations of the world? Of course we want that. We're working super hard here in Trump Tower to make sure that happens.

We know through the process of energy independence, our whole geopolitical footprint changes in terms of our national security and how we operate the American military. In addition to that we've got all these forward liabilities on these entitlement programs that, with the right tax and the energy policy, we can pay down and offset some of those liabilities.

I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.