formally part of the campaign. he didn t come on into later. some could argue and trumps a defenders might try to argue bannon s views of the trump tower meeting are all secondhand. i think they re still relevant, but thaw may not be firsthand. as opposed to the white house decisions for which almost nobody had a better vantage point than steve bannon. and he was one of the constant people in conflict with jared kushner, so that is spilling out into the open. all right, you guys aren t going anywhere. we could keep you for six hours tonight. coming up, paul manafort indicted and now unleashed, filing a lawsuit today against bob mueller and the justice department. details on that when the 11th hour continues. i realize that ah, that $100k is not exactly a fortune.
been at fox, was the true force behind his candidate. today the president responded with this statement. 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. steve was a staffer who worked for me after i had already won the nomination by defeating 17 candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the republican party. steve pretends to be at war with the media which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the white house leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. it is the only thing he does well. steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue who he helped write a phony book. jeremy peters, political
one was charged with perjury, president clinton was i mean people lie, people commit other crimes during a process of any investigation. in fact, rob rosenstein when he testified before the house judiciary committee a couple of weeks ago said he had talked with bob mueller several times about what his mandate encompasses and to the extent of there was any uncertainty, rob rosenstein has given him authorization to do what he is doing. i think jeremy is right, it s completely baseless. nbc news and the washington post both reporting that president trump s lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter to steve bannon. it appears this is based on a disparaging agreement that steve bannon may have had or allegedly
suggests that the president is a dunce, that the president s son committed treason and that the president s daughter is dumb as a brick have. you? no, i haven t. and i don t know that we ll ever read anything like that again, except about this administration. i mean, first of all, it s not every administration or really any administration in which the president who has no experience in government immediately appoints both his daughter who has no experience in government and his son-in-law who has no experience in government to high positions inside the west wing. and lo and behold they have no idea what they re doing. lo and behold they don t know anything about anything. and the thing that s really striking to me about the excerpts of the wolff book that we heard so far is just how, you know, dysfunctional and dysfunctional is being generous, i think this white house is. and how little it knows what it
saying it, members of his staff saying it. and with respect to this decision, look, this decision to fire comey, donald trump we don t know if he entered the white house with any criminality. whether he was involved in it or not, that s still being investigated, but we do know he brought criminal liability on himself through his actions, nut just to fire jim comey but to intervene in that investigation, to ask jim comey to back off, ask members of the intelligence community, to get the fbi to back off. there s this pattern that led to him becoming under investigation for obstruction of justice that he brought completely on himself apparently against the advice of steve bannon as he very clearly wants to let us know. where bannon is going to be most credible as you referenced earlier is on the decisions the president made as president in his removal of jim comey from the leadership of the fbi when