There will always be more news that fits that book because it's about bad ways to analyze things and what to avoid. And there is no better example than this question of President Trump and his answer about foreign influence and whether he would talk to the FBI and what he would do there.

Now there are two parts of this. Number one, should President Trump have done the ABC interview in the first place? Was that a mistake? And two, did he handle the actual interview in the best way?

I think you could, you know, I see why people are saying it was a mistake to do an interview with an unfriendly outlet. But he's also the president of the United States. So the president of the United States, it's one thing if he focuses more on Fox News, but I think it's a sort of a problem if he doesn't ever do the other media. So I think he has to at least give them a little bit of love.

Now, did he handle the question correctly? Objectively speaking I would say no. And here's why. People who have media training, and I was amused to watch Chris Wallace of Fox News say this directly, he was saying that the most disciplined politicians — and he used, I think he used Mitch McConnell as his example of a disciplined interview subject because he won't answer any question directly. He'll just say what he wants to say no matter what the question is. And Chris Wallace was saying, well that's frustrating for the interviewer, but you know it certainly makes sense because Mitch McConnell avoids being taken out of context. He can't be misquoted because he's not saying just anything that could be misquoted.

President Trump plays it completely the opposite way. He says plenty of things that could be misquoted and they are. But I'm just gonna give you my personal opinion here. Your opinion might not — I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm just gonna give you my personal opinion.

This is a lot of President Trump's approach to this interview and the way he answers the question. For me, just my personal impression, is why I like him. The way he handled this for me was all A-plus. I acknowledge that it was a mistake in the sense that it was mis-covered and turned into fake news so easily. He could have avoided that by saying nothing interesting. And here's the best part: he could have avoided it by being less transparent.

What I like about it is he was completely transparent and he schooled the country on how to be smart. Now the country didn't get the lesson. I was watching a clip from Bill Maher last night. Bill Maher is actually saying some version of this. He says that the president said that if a foreign power gave him some help that he would not go to the FBI. That's what Bill Maher — that's how he framed it before he made jokes about it.

That is exactly not what happened. That's just fake news. That is unambiguously as close to you as you can get to the opposite of what happened. What actually happened was that President Trump said in his very first statement, I'd probably do both. Meaning that I would listen to the information and then if it were important in any way I would tell the FBI. That's not the way the fake news is reporting it.

And even Bill Maher, who would be no friend of fake news, certainly he would never intentionally — I don't think Bill Maher, yeah I've been watching him a long time, I see no evidence that he would ever intentionally repeat a story inaccurately. I just don't think he would. You know there's just nothing that would suggest he would do that. There's no incentive. It's not what his brand is. Nothing like that. So I think he actually came away with that impression because he watched the news.

But let me put this into context for you. We're going to go to the whiteboard. Let's say this question of a Russian citizen offers you some information, because that was the original case. The Don Jr. meeting in the tower, it was about a Russian citizen offering some information. N