quote, steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. when he was fired he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. white house staffer steve miller was quick to bash bannon on state of the union. it reads like an angry, vindictive person spouting off to a highly discredible author. president trump bashed wolfe, too, repeatedly. quote, i never spoke to him for book. full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don t exist, he tweeted. michael wolfe is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really bore and untruthful book. the book, not surprisingly went to the top of the best seller list and his publisher cannot print copies fast enough. it would seem fairly common sense in terms of public relations that if there s a book that you don t respect, don t think is accurate, the more you talk about it, the more attention you re going to give it. the problem with all of that,
when you have to send a surrogate out like that to stand up for the commander in chief s capacity and and we intellect have an argument with a well respected journalist and news show host, it s not a good day for the white house. i think this is their modus operandi, they do it all the time, they do it to bob mueller, the witnesses, jim comey, as soon as you come out in a direction they don t like, whether it s wolff, bannon, whatever i m not here to defend the book but these are things we ve all heard about before. the difference that i ve seen in the excerpts i ve read is that now those comments have been adrib butted to various people. we heard for a long time something is amiss in this white house. right. go ahead. i m sorry. the bottom line is a lot of people are getting asked more questions about their take on
silly steve, nah, hobo steve, might anger the hobo community. sloppy steve. bannon is capable of coming up with biting nicknames as well. according to politico, he privately refers to president trump s son-in-law jared kushner as fredo. the craven s son in the godfather. though we should point out that politico originally misreported this saying that bannon called kushner frodo, the character from lord of the rings. so will bannon now return fire and come up with a nickname for his former boss? one wonders where this epic battle might end up, perhaps like an old west stand off. with smart phones instead of guns. adding insult to injury, a pipe break sends water streaming into a baggage holding area shutting down parts of an
house for comment on steve bannon s statement but yet to hear back. let me read that. he says my support is also unwaivering for the president and his agenda. i am the only person to date to preach a global effort of trump and trumpism. the president continues to bash bannon on twitter. will this statement mend things or is it too little too late? reporter: we have yet to see. we have some experts who speculate because they share so much history or common ground there may be a way to mend fences. we should point out that a few days ago, cnn reported that sources within the white house called the president s friends and allies to say they were either with steve bannon or with him. you heard the president using the mon kerr sloppy steve this weekend. and finally, rebekah mercer made
steve bannon, which got the most attention on the first day, are particularly interesting, his views about the june 2016 trump tower meeting and his belief that it was treasonous. now whether or not mueller s team has spoken to bannon is unclear. but if they haven ted, they would want to given he made his views public. so at the least, bannon s comments in the book, make him a very interesting potential witness for the mueller team because they would want to know what he knew at the time, even though he wasn t in the campaign, but also what he knew in the white house discussing the meeting, especially when it was revealed last summer by the time. and talking about money laundering, too in the book. i thank you all. straight ahead, a stunning statement from the cia director