did steve bannon betray you, mr. president? >> thank you. >> any words about steve bannon? >> i don't know. he called me a great man last night. so, you know, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. all right, thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. i don't talk to him. i don't talk to him. i don't talk to him. that's just a misnomer. thank you. >> the president speaking today about his one-time chief strategist steve bannon. the key source for a controversial new book which paints a damning portrait of the 45th president and his white house. a book donald trump is trying to stop. michael wolf's fire and fury, inside the trump white house is just hours away from publication and the president is threatening legal action against steve bannon as well as wolf f and his publisher. bannon is kwoequoted as making scathing comments about the president and his family. tonight's breaking news calls attention to another part of the book. the president's growing dissatisfaction with his attorney general jeff sessions.