administration, he gets on the phone and has conversations with friends and associates and advisers, that could be a time when he's tempted to reach back out to steve bannon and have a reconciliation with him. but i couldn't venture when or whether that will ever happen. >> jeff, how do you expect the white house to respond to all of this? >> i think the white house has spent a lot of time this past week pushing back against the book, trying to discredit the author, certainly being very critical of steve bannon. and they were out on the airwaves again today doing that. i sent an e-mail to some white house folks earlier when i got a copy of the statement to see if they had a response and haven't heard back. but undoubtedly, they will be asked again throughout today and tomorrow, and i think that the president will see it as a sign that bannon is sort of moving back towards being more praiseworthy of him. he was quick to note when bannon said something nice about him on his radio show, so i'm sure he will have seen this statement, and i suspect the white house will acknowledge that in some way. but that said, i think that the damage that steve did to that relationship is pretty deep, and