have a belief in their culture and their sort of natural ability to be a dominant player in their part of the world. so i think increasingly, there is a little of a make iran great again, forgive me for borrowing the trump slogan, but this sort of sense, our country really should be doing better than it is, that s come out. it s one reason it s so widespread. joe, if i might, i just want to turn to michael schmidt with a last question. michael, we have been watching bob mueller on his back foot the last couple weeks as conservative media, conservative members of congress, attacked his investigation, do you think after your revelation suggesting new possibilities of obstructing the investigation after michael wolff publishes bannon, calling the trump tower meeting treasonous, unpatriotic and bad bleep. do you think that this means mueller is now on his front foot and a lot of that criticism will go away?
everyone arnold are in various states to find a way out of it. the pile on bannon is not just limited to his tensions with donald trump. it s not just that he may be losing his financial backing with the mercers. i think he does some reporting as well on what we are seeing from the bannon-aligned candidates like michael grim. like kelly ward in arizona. can you talk a little bit about whether these candidates may be starting to distance themselves from bannon? reporter: right, it was a few months ago we saw these insurgent anti-republicans flocking and posting pictures with him on twitter, trying to line him up for a fundraiser. some of the shine had come off bannon after roy moore s defeat if alabama. but when we were talking to some of these candidates yesterday to some of their advisers, we started to hear interesting comments, michael grim has gone
stories that give the media a sugar high about personalities and certain anecdotes that are shocking, you look at the fact you have a president that everybody says doesn t read. he won t even read one-pagers. he gets up in the middle of meetings with world leaders because he s bored. his staff does the same thing. they can t figure out what policies to pursue or how to organize the place because this is a president that refuses to be disciplined. this is a president that refuses to focus. this is a white house that refuses to move in any particular direction, and you have sarah huckabee sanders like yesterday, again, just stating something that she and the entire world knows is a lie that donald trump never really had a personal relationship with steve bannon, when everybody inside the white house including the president s own family were concerned that steve bannon and donald trump were wandering around the white house alone for the first couple of months having dinner just about ever
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.
bannon s krichls of treason behavior and money laundering led his alliess to denounce him, the mercer family that helped bank rom breitbart feuds that bannon is chairman of. joe, we know the mercers may have been considering pulling this, bannon was talking so self agrandize about his own potential political future. yeah, unbelievable. ly bring in a couple reporters in one minute. first, mike barnical, i want to go to you. for those of us who have been around more than a couple of weeks, one of the things that shocked me and shocks a lot of my friends, at least in new york media, was that anybody in the white house ever trusted michael wolff. they didn t know. and when i say this, i am not talking about michael wolff as the journalist, but thinking he