gosh, it s heartbreaking to see what steve s doing. it s disappointment but is he kind of a pugnacious guy and you don t expect him to good out the door quietly. to be fair, more than one leaker in the white house probably. yes. but let s let steve bannon speak for himself because moments ago steve bannon in his first comments after president trump blasted him today over the book comments, he called the president and i m quoting now, a great man and responding to a caller on the breitbart news talk tonight radio show bannon said. i m quoting again, you know i support him day in and day out, adding you don t have to worry about that. so how about steve bannon there and i actually listened to this program before the broadcast for some time there and he was not taking shots at the president. he was saying some very complementary things to callers about the president, what he was doing in washington. well, he wasn t, but i think that also undermines his credibility. if he s mak
family that makes the trump white house feel more like a reality show than ever. it describes ivanka trump as having her own presidential ambitions and a secret pact with husband jared kushner. author michael wolff writes between themselves the two had made an earnest deal if sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she d be the run to run for president. however donald and milania trump had no intention of moving to the white house, the book describes the realization he won the white house, quoting now, don junior told a friend that he looked as if he had seen a ghost. melania was in tears and not of joy. and we learned more about the president s personal habits, including his fast food selections. wolff writes, he had a long time fear of being poisoned. one reason he liked to eat at mcdonald s, no one knew he was
these guys and i think what you were saying, was that these guys did not expect trump to win. no. and that includes people inside the campaign. right. i think that is a theme that we keep coming back to as we ve been covering this story now for the past year, which is that it drove a lot of the decisions which is coming back to bite them. they did not for instance, they talk about michael flynn accepting this $45,000 payment for going to russia. on the expectation that trump wouldn t win therefore it would be a problem if he was setting up business contacts for right. he supports that theory, exactly. and, you know, also the fact that, as you pointed out, evan, this was authorized. he made repeated visits to the west wing. what does that tell you about just the administration allowing a writer to come in in these early days and have free access in the fact that they apparently believed he would write a glowing book about the administration? in the midst of the con
i would note that this conduct, according to fusion gps dossier oped last night is conduct that christopher steele did report to the fbi. and so you have someone saying that it s contrary to their own interests and also the united states. i think that has much more of an impact even a legal connotation. beyond that trump tower meet, steve bannon mentioned money laundering as well. michael, you worked with robert mueller, you know how he runs investigations. based on what you ve seen, knowing how these investigations right from the outside, does that strike you as a track that he is pursuing? well, it s a track that we ve already seen an indictment in. manafort was indicted for money laundering. we know that they have sought and obtained information from the financial crimes enforcement network. the money laundering brain trust. congress has gotten it, mueller has gotten it. we now that mueller is looking at the real estate deals of the trump organization. trump decided to draw a re
not seen a denial of at least from some of the people involved of all of these comments. bannon has not denied his comments. the only one that s denied and correct me if i m wrong is tom bear rack and katy walsh on one of the quotes. but the president came out with a fiery statement today going after bannon. here s what he said in the statement. steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. when he was fired he not only lost his jobber lost his mind. he ways staffer who worked for me of a had already won the nomination by defeating 17 candidates often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the republican party. now that he is on his own, teef is learning that winning isn t as easy as i make it look. steve has very little to doll with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. now i read your book, the devil s bargain, and it was largely about how steve bannon really was the person who put trump in the white hou