CNN's Jake Tapper smiles as Stephen A. Smith says he will win if he decides to run for president, says his pastor convinced him to keep the door open

CNN's Jake Tapper smiles as Stephen A. Smith says he will win if he decides to run for president, says his pastor convinced him to keep the door open.

The comments come after President Trump said he would "love to see" Smith run for president.

"I believe that if I did take this very, very seriously and I moved forward and I decided that I wanted to be a politician, do I believe I could win? You're d*mn right."

"It's not because I'm the most qualified candidate in the world. It's because of the state of our politics in the nation's capital, the politicians that we're looking at, and the fact that we don't believe for one second that they are serving the interest of the American people, nor are they interested in it."

NEW: CNN's Jake Tapper smiles as Stephen A. Smith says he will win if he decides to run for president, says his pastor convinced him to keep the door open.

The comments come after President Trump said he would "love to see" Smith run for president.

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