him. all while establishment republicans giggle and democrats are bringing in bowls of popcorn. cnn s jeff zeleny is at the white house this evening. and jeff, president trump released a statement unlike anything i d ever seen before from a president talking about one of his senior strategists. reporter: jake, it was quite a day here. and certainly, we have seen the president dismiss some of his closest advisers before, put them at a distance. but steve bannon was no ordinary adviser. this was the president acting like steve bannon was the coffee boy, if you will. but that statement released this afternoon saying that the president had a personal hand in actually writing, it said this, let s take a look, jake. it said, steve bannon had nothing to do with me or my presidency. when he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people, with no access and no clue whom he he
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used to walk around in an old fashioned way with folders like this. and i won time asked him i go what s in there he said just news stories from around the country and different policy ideas. so i thought to myself wow i thought on his device he would carry it he loves paging through different stories and different ideas and different columns. they characterize him as somebody who doesn t read anything. steve: part of the book says he the president didn t know no john boehner was, which is ridiculous because john boehner was the speaker of the house. the president tweeted about him, talked about him all the time. played golf with him so some are wondering whether or not parts of it are simply wrong. and ainsley, to your earlier point about the mainstream media how they were whipped up, if you were watching yesterday, the press briefing about 3:30 with sarah sanders, i mean, people were talking about is the president of the united states mentally unhealthy and things like that. it was s
who is now saying i m done with steve bannon or do they continue to believe in the cause that steve bannon is pushing. > yeah, and in his statement, formal statement released by the president, steve, steve had everything to do with the loss of a senate seat in alabama held for more than 30 years by republicans. steve doesn t represent my base. and there s another thing i was just reminded of which is that this, these quotes that steve bannon has out there in this new book, this is not in a vacuum. this isn t the first time steve bannon or people close to him have been quoted saying things or doing things that the president and those who are still around him believe undermine his presidency. and don t reflect well on his presidency. but a number of articles and the other question that people sort of in trump world are asking is whether or not these quotes were given to the author while he was in the white house or whether it was after he left.
lost his job. he lost his mind. he worked for me after i had already won the nomination by defeating 17 candidates. now that he s on his own, steve is learning that winning isn t as easy as i make it look. steve had very little to do with our historic victory. had everything to do with the laws of the senate seat in alabama, held for more than 30 years by republicans. okay, that s all in response to this book that came out, is coming out. excerpts came out today. michael wolf s book fire and