Eugene Daniels

At some point, you're faking it and faking it and faking it, and it just becomes a part of who you are.

That's when I talk to young journalists.

I'm like, go take a psychology course.

Because understanding how the human psyche work is so key to understanding how these politicians operate.

Donald Trump...

He truly believes he is the best negotiator on earth.

That's why he truly believes that he is the best communicator in the White House and the administration in the country.

And when he goes there to China, he is going to believe that he's going to sit across from Xi Jinping and be able to convince him of anything.

And while other presidents would leave there and the readout would be, you know, we had a great conversation.

They're coming closer to us.

Trump, on the other hand, will actually believe what he's saying, whereas other presidents will know that it's a spin.

And he will never say he was defeated, right?

No.

What I have heard from folks inside the White House is that for many of them, the best case scenario is that they end up with something that kind of looks like the JCPOA.

So the Obama Iran deal, the Strait of Hormuz is open and Donald Trump gets to stamp his name on both of those things and kind of walk away.

But after you have shaken the hornet's nest, after you have forced Iran and the regime there to even understand their own power, right?

Diplomats will say that Iran also is kind of surprised by how steadfast they've been.

Yes, and the leadership of the country, the new leadership, who we still have yet to see, the new Ayatollah, which people should know.

But he is the son of the one that was killed by the United States and Israel.

And at the end of the day, it sounds like the son is more hardline.