we know they spoke as recently as last month. the white house calling this complete fantasy and tabloid fiction. he s what the president tweeted overnight basically taking on michael wolff. he writes i authorized zero access to white house. turned him down many time for author of phony book. full of lies. misrepresentations and sources that don t exist. look at this guy s past and watch what happens to him and wait for it, here s the newest nickname he s invented, sloppy steve, his new reference to steve bannon. peter, thank you. greatly appreciate it. with us now let s go to alabama before that, i have to say, i have to go to joyce vance in a second and talk about alabama football, but what the white house said last night, what the president said is, again, just a lie on its face. a lie that s easily disproven.
just can t do it. it really is extraordinary. it s shortsighted and suggests that donald trump doesn t know what s in his own best interest. this morning axios is reporting the president is so furious about michael wolf of s new book, that they re trying to avoid him. they said key aides tried to keep him from making the legal threats against the author and steve bannon, but trump was, quote, insistent on following a tactic that he frequently used in business, rattling cages with lawyers. letters that resulted in no legal action. and michael wolff will be joining us next week on monday. right now let s go to the white house and talk to peter alexander. the white house still in damage control. what more can you tell us this morning? reporter: their effort to try to shut the book down even
he is completely losing his mind. but, yeah, that seems this morning to be the fact that michael wolff may not have gotten every quote exactly right. but it s the same thing we all have been hearing and politicians on the hill have been hearing for over a year now. gentleman, that i think goes to the heart of this. while on the one hand everybody is anxious and devouring the salacious details in this book. no one is fundamentally surprised. right. i think even the quotes that were attributed to steve bannon i think were things he was saying off the record privately. now wall street journal reports that breitbart s board members are weighing whether to fire bannon after all of those comments and president trump s tweet late last night, he told people to quote watch what happens to michael wafflef, the author of a critical new book and floppy steve. he is referring to his former chief strategist.
faces, well, that looks a lot more neutralized today than it did a few weeks ago. jonathan le mere, talking about the president. talking about this book, you met some of the president s allies yesterday, wondering why he was doing everything that he could to draw more attention to this book. i think in new york in the washington person said there is nothing donald trump could have done more to help michael wafflef s book and his political enemies than to become the guy, the president, who was trying to stop the publication of a critical book. you know, read the book, that the president of the occupation doesn t want you to read. it s a publisher s dream. i just, again, you wonder, you wonder what grasp donald trump has, not only in his office but on politics. you wonder what the game is. this entire book is, again, it s restated a lot of things we knew about donald trump all along,