When Trump asked for a 'number' to support his claims of record approval ratings, Hope Hicks gave him a Tennessee GOP poll: 'I mean, I had to give him something, right?'

• In June of last year, Trump asked Hope to conduct a poll to back up his claims of high approval ratings.

• Mark Leibovich wrote that she gave him a survey of Tennessee Republicans.

• She said she had to give him something. "That's fine."

In June of last year, President Donald Trump turned to Hope HIcks to back up his false claims that his approval ratings were "setting records" for a first year in office.

Mark Leibovich, who witnessed the exchange, wrote that Trump was happy when he was offered seventy percent.

Leibovich wrote about the conversation in his new book, "Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission."

Leibovich noted that the president's approval rating was in record-low territory.

The poll was not a national one.

Hopey, where did that survey come from? He asked her a question.

The person said it was from Tennessee. Leibovich wrote that the approval rating being cited was lower than the one Trump had among Republicans.

Leibovich said that Trump didn't seem to process this, only that his historic popularity had once again been affirmed by the data.

Leibovich inquired about the Tennessee poll.

She said she had to give him something. "That's fine."

Leibovich was surprised when he showed up at the White House to meet with Hicks.

He found Trump watching a recording of "Fox & Friends" on his computer hours after it aired, and he continued to watch the show.

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