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RATHER: "No, I have not seen it and neither has anybody else. This is unique so much with the Trump presidency. We have never had a first-term president get off to such a chaotic, unsteady start as this. The General Patton is the president who is most popular when he first comes into office and then in the nature of things, his popularity declines. But what you're seeing with President Trump and I think it's very clear, Chris, it's not a Democrat or Republican assessment. It's not a biased assessment. It's looking at what's happening here. Donald Trump is afraid. He's trying to exude power and strength. He's afraid of something that Mueller and the prosecutors are going to find out. What you're seeing time after time is a president who is within himself seized with fear. That's going to be a political hurricane out there at sea for him. We'll call it hurricane Vladimir, the whole Russian thing. It's still pretty far out at sea, but each day -- and tonight we saw it again with the two things you were reporting from politico and the financial times. This hurricane, this political hurricane, it's still far out at sea and it's building in intensity. You say it's a category one. It's gone to category two. It's approaching category four. That's what's on Donald Trump's mind. He can be talking tax reform in a broad general way, but I do think it's beginning to soak in on the public at large, including many people who supported Donald Trump that what he's basically talking about, what President Trump is talking about, is a tax cut for people who make more than $250,000 a year, a substantial tax cut for them. For everybody else, not so much. That's going to be a very tough sell. It may even be dead on arrival."