keystone. but her name is not one we have been hearing russian investigation. i do think that s interesting. yeah. look, i grew he with phil, a lot of ac crow mthis, thumbs up or robert mueller about collusion. i tend to believe if there were smoking guns, we would have seen or heard about them by now. because it s such a leaky investigation, and it s been going on for a long time. we are also turning the page, steve bannon former white house chief strategies, we are learning he s got a lawyer, william burke, former special counsel bush 43. so lawyering him up. prep for questions.
smiling. but trump really isn t pointing the finger at bob mueller at this point. maybe that s something he ll do. he has in the past, yes. but at this point he s saying he thinks he can get a fair hearing from bob mueller. you do have other republicans in the house particularly who are calling into question mueller s authority and whatever he s going to come up with. but we ll see if that lasts. if trump at some point starts to turn on mueller if he gets frustrated with we have seen from his lawyers this is an investigation that s going to wrap up soon. right that was posed to be around thanksgiving. then it was christmas. now we are into the new year and the investigation is still ongoing. well, who has lost his mind, according to the president, is his former chief strategies steve bannon. we ll get into some of the nuggets from these quotes from both that guardian piece and the new york magazine piece. but what do you make of the president? i mean, no love lost. and just eve
to meet putin but putin couldn t give a bleep about him so he kept trying. let s go to white house correspondent jim acosta. ahead of the briefing. many questions to be sent to sarah sanders. what s the response to the president to all of this? reporter: well, brooke, i think this book, fire and fury has lit trump world on fire. that is what we are seeing today this war of words between the president and chief strategies steve bannon is nothing short of stunning and perhaps capable of what was over shadowing a tweet twrt president less than 24 hours talking about the size of the nuclear button. but just in the last couple of hours president has put out a statement with respect to what steve bannon had to say in that book, fire and fury, and so has the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders saying that former chief strategies
former chief strategies steve bannon has in the president s words lost his mind. that caustic comment stt response to new book, fire and fury inside the white house, that releases next week. but it s already living up to its name causing quite the firestorm here in the last hour. excerpts out today reveal bannon s stunning smack down of his fellow trump campaign workers, according to a piece in the guardian, steve bannon calls that trump tower meeting back in june of 2016 with a russian lawyer, treasonous and unpa unpatriotic. he calls jared kushner greasy. quote, what has he gotten himself into with the russians? mostly says bannon he went to russia and thought he was going
authoritarian behavior? not at all. he s responding to news of the day. i think if the president can t respond aggressively to an individual like the leader of the north korea that continues to threaten americans, then that s a dangerous place that we don t want to go down. one last question. to be fired from their jobs, that s not the president of north korea? i m sorry i couldn t hear the first part of the question. we have seen you and the president calling for critics to be fired from their jobs? i don t think it s necessarily critics. we are certainly happy with people have different opinions. but there is a difference between different opinions and different facts of the and people are entitled to an opinion but not entitled to their own facts. and we have a big problem with people putting out misleading information. those are very different things. thanks so much, guys. all right. let s go through what we just heard with our panel. on this unprecedented attack from t