he would have never gotten in without you. thank you for the kind words. nothing will ever come between us and president trump and his agenda. don t worry about that. doesn t word about us and the maga agenda, president trump and i are tight on this particular agenda as we ve ever been. trump, of course, has a very different take on their relationship. did steve bannon betray you, mr. president? any words about steve bannon? i don t know. he called me a great man last night, you know, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all very much. 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. josh, you re the bannon expert at this table. you wrote a book on bannon. is this insurgency over? where does he go from here? i don t know that it s over because there were, you know, a lot of people in the republican party that were a part of this. bannon was viewed as kind of being a leader. i think it s definitely
steve bannon at this point? he has nothing to bring to the table. other than jared kushner, though, bannon was the guy who was closer to the oval office, closer than reince priebus. now listen to how the president is talking about him. did steve bannon betray you, mr. president? any words about steve bannon? i don t know. he called me a great man last night. he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all that much. i don t talk to him. i don t talk to him. that s just a misnomer. thank you. what might the fallout of this book do to the growing republican divide? that s a great question, ana, one i m not hearing enough people asking. steve bannon has been the head of the war on the republican party. honestly, i don t understand why his career wasn t over after the alabama senate race.
mr. president? any words about steve bannon? he called me a great man last night. he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all very much. thank you. thank you. i don t talk to him. i don t talk to him. that s just a misnomer. thank you. thank you. the president speaking today, one-time chief strategist, steve bannon, a controversial book, a book donald trump is trying to stop. michael wolff s fire and furry:inside the trump white house is hours away from publication, and the president is threatening legal action against steve bannon as well as wolf and his publisher. bannon is quoted as making scathing comments about president and his family. the president s growing dissatisfaction with his attorney general jeff sessions. i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself. almost immediately after he took office. and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office.
no prosecutors for our viewers of fox news at night, there are no prosecutors that work for bob mueller that gave as much money to the democratic party as donald trump. the man that they re all investigating. so, anyway, mike, we will be reading your bombshell reporting of the new york times this morning. greatly appreciate it as always, we love having you here. still ahead on the show, this. has steve bannon betrayed you, mr. president? any words about steve ban season. i don t know, he called me a great man last night. so he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all very much. i don t talk to him. i don t know. i don t talk to him. that s a misnomer. but it s the last thing he heard, he called me a great man last night. inside steve bannon s horrible no, good, wait, no, it was a bad week actually. he s bleeding republican allies.
that s why we ve had a successful 2017, why we re going to continue to do great things as we move forward in this administration. for his part, donald trump today responded in person for the first time to steve bannon, his former chief strategist, who was a key on the record-source for the book, slamming both trump and his family members. in a statement trump claimed bannon lost his mind after leaving the white house. did steve bannon betray you, mr. president? he called me a great man last night, so he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all very much. 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. michael steele, former chairman of the rnc, msnbc political analyst. jr. rubin, conservative columnist for the washington post, msnbc contributor. this is extraordinary stuff. it does appear that there was not only just one-way loyalty between trump and his aides but