candidates across the republican party express some concern about his comments, distancing themselves from steve bannon. we saw the president assert his own political capital within the republican party. bannon will have to reevaluate in the coming weeks what is his aim this year politically? what is his project especially if he s not as closely aligned with the white house? ashley parker, some of the biggest and most dramatic headlines were around steve bannon s observations about the different players that we ve all mentioned now. jared kushner, hope hicks and others as it pertains to the russia investigation. and what in michael wolf s book is precisely accurate, what is as described and what is not. it was pointed out to me to the degree any of it is relevant to the russia probe, bob mueller likely already knows the answer, or if he is first learning of any of these observations, he soon will. let me read you some of what s
president they serve but to the office of the presidency? well, the year has been every day a debasement of the office of the president of the united states by this president, by his staff with the consistency of the lying, the misinformation, the lying spewed out to the american people. but what we see in this book, did tom barak say this or that, we ll find out in the next few days. but certainly the larger issue is it paints a portrait of dysfunction and chaos that just beggars the imagination. these people work in proximity to an office where life and death decisions are made. and the tor trt that s painted in this book, and we know. we know from a president painting conspiracies attacking the justice department with his deep state talk or whether it s
i think it s fascinating that steve bannon who obviously was privy to a large number of conversations with both candidate trump, president-elect trump and then president trump focussed a lot of his comments here in this account at leasting on the issue of moneylaundering and the kushner organization and the russian federation. noting that the key point of vulnerability for all of them are the financial ties, and i think it points up to this larger issue, which is that, yes, we know mueller is investigating russian propaganda, russian hacking and russian efforts to recruit agents of influence inside the trump organization. but there s this fourth pillar to the mueller investigation which is the long-standing financial ties between donald trump and the russia federation to try to find out where russia might have leverage over the current president of the united states. i want to read one more excerpt. according to this book, trump s decision to fire james comey changed the tone in the
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 comey was investigating the president. because, of course, in june 2016 during the time of the trump tower meeting bannon was not formally part of the campaign. he didn t come on into later. some trump defenders might argue bannon s views of the trump tower meeting are all second
both men. i i have to add the president s silence on twitter is deafening. we ll see how long that lasts. thank you so much for starting us off. still ahead tonight, what this book reveals that could be an asset for the special counsel s investigation. plus a new lawsuit filed by paul manafort against robert mueller and the department of justice. and later this feud between jared, ivanka, and steve bannon who reportedly called ivanka, quote, dumb as a brick. the 11th hour getting started on a wednesday night. to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. tylenol can t do that. aleve. all day strong. all day long. and for pain relief and a good night s rest, try aleve pm for a better am.