candidness with which people apparently spoke to michael wolf, the candidness with which they spoke over dinner and the reality is those conversations either contradict or confirm statements made to bob mueller by some of the same people in interviews during his investigation, upping the likelihood at least the percentage of perjury of white house officials. only one of the parties involved has to consent to the recording. the other person doesn t even need to know about it. also pretty notable if you look at the acknowledgments of michael wolf s book, he thanks his liable lawyer eric raymond pretty high up. so, i think he knew what he was getting into with this. steve bannon is facing a lot of blow back from this. the president has a nickname for him, sloppy steve. not as good as lying ted. or little katie, i guess. sloppy steve. is sloppy steve going to be able to make a comeback with this president? how does he feel tonight?
sanctions pose ann existential threat. then, of course, tuesday evening you have that juvenile tweet where it undos undoes all of the good work. because essentially we re not talking about the sanctions. we re not talking about the campaign to really put north korea in its place. what we re talking about, of course, is button size. so, that s really been stepping on his own message. reminded me a lot of the detroit debate in the campaign when donald trump was talking about the size or bragging about the size of his hands. in looking at the tweets this week, vivian, the big button and the sanctions tweets, how is that being how are they being received diplomatically in south korea? well, this has been an issue all along. and obviously a number of tweets that the president sends out like this, a lot of times the
did steve bannon betray you, mr. president? thank you. any words about steve bannon? i don t know. he called me a great man last night. so, you know, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. all right, thank you all very much. thank you. thank you. i don t talk to him. i don t talk to him. i don t talk to him. that s just a misnomer. thank you. the president speaking today about his one-time chief strategist steve bannon. the key source for a controversial new book which paints a damning portrait of the 45th president and his white house. a book donald trump is trying to stop. michael wolf s fire and fury, inside the trump white house is just hours away from publication and the president is threatening legal action against steve bannon as well as wolf f and his publisher. bannon is kwoequoted as making scathing comments about the president and his family. tonight s breaking news calls attention to another part of the book. the president s growing dissatisfaction with his
that both donald trump and steve bannon get behind. and they ll break bread over it and they ll makeup because that s what all republicans are currently doing. they are all looking the other way because they want to cling to the power that is donald trump. and certainly, i mean, bannon has been telling people in the last day or so that despite his angry as trump is right now, he fully predicts down the road he and trump will start speaking again. he knows that in trump world you re rarely out forever. he still talks to former advisors. all you have to do is compliment him. that s the facts. that s the key. these guys are sticking with me. coming up the delicate topic fitness for hour. the 11th hour back right after this.
and his team is going through every aspect of this to really create a time line and put together all of the pieces that could possibly lead up to obstruction. we don t know that it s there yet, but we see a lot. i mean, between the corroboration of comey s testimony, this idea that not just that an aide of jeff sessions was looking to get dirt on james comey, but that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein then talked to white house counsel about james comey. and then after that, wrote this memo purporting to say that the reason that he s unacceptable is because of the way he handled the clinton probe. go ahead. i was going to say all those things put together really create start to create a picture of what was going on in this white house before james comey was fired that doesn t look good. also don mcgahn s bafrt. it is important to point out don mcgahn isn t donald trump s lawyer. donald trump s lawyer is not don mcgahn. don mcgahn is the lawyer for the government, the lawye