think depends how the president comes out. the first today in his retort, a way to hold the base in place. carol, you ve done amgt lot reporting. back to the trump tower meeting to unpack things. do you get the sense steve bannon e knows something here? he knows a lot. he was ob usiously was there. io obviously there in the aftermath as this has come up. he s score settling. everyone knows how much he hates jared kushner. this is focused on that? right? in ways obsessed with him and continues to go after him and ivanka and parts of the book he talk, jared s like, what happened to steve? in the white house. and how he just had this kind of change. so, you know and the book,
our historic victory which was delivered by the forgotten men, women of this country. yet, steve had everything to do with the loss of a senate seat in alabama held for more than 30 years by republicans. the president then says steve doesn t represent my base. he s only in it for himself. strong words here from the president, wolf. he continues saying steve pretends to be at war with the media which he calls the opposition party. yet he spent his time at the white house leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. the president goes on to say this. it is the only thing he does well. steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue whom he helped write phony books. he con cloods by saying this. we have many great republican members of congress and candidates very support of the make america great again agenda. like me they love the united states of america a
and his nuclear arsenal. you have serious foreign policy issues and this budget deadline coming up in two weeks here. so i do think that s some context that is important to remember here. i think there are a lot of people who are intrigued by the relationship between donald trump and steve bannon and, yes, from a policy perspective it could be important when you look ahead to midterms, to who steve bannon might back in some of the critical races. will president trump back the same people? there was a reference to the senate seat in alabama where donald trump in the statement blames steve bannon for essentially the loss of the seat, it going to a democrat, doug jones, who was sworn in up in washington. he says steve had everything to do with the loss of a senate seat held for more than 30 years by republicans. steve doesn t represent my base. he s only in it for himself. that is a piece that will be relevant as we move into the midterm year, as we move closer to november. but keep in mi
bannon s characterization that was reported in the michael wolf book, the quotes about how steve bannon saw that trump tower meeting in june of 2016, that it was treasonous, donald trump doesn t deal with the specifics of what steve bannon described in the quotes to michael wolf. he wholeheartedly dismisses him and cuts him off at the knees. two instances also jump out. steve doesn t represent my base. he s only in it for himself. steve pretends to be at war with the media which he calls the opposition party. yet he spent his time at the white house leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was, and then he adds this. i want your reaction. it is the only thing he does well. 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 helped write phony books. maybe he s referring toing this current book about to be released. i m sure that s what he s
and 2016, and wrote reports on things putin didn t like. and people from the fsb, the organization steve was just talking about, broke into my argument. and he told us, sorry, you have bugs. this video, i said what about my bedroom, they said yeah, there is video in the bedroom, too. so the fsb would want to visit donald trump when he visited in 2013 is a no-brainer, of course they would. that s what they do. it s what the kgb did. so it s really not a question about the message, it s about how trump would or wouldn t behave when he was russia. so having said that, do you believe they have information on trump? vladimir putin is a former kgb spy. they will have a file so big you can t fit it in your studio. and when he visited moscow, probably even before that when he married a woman from communist czechoslovakia, so there will be an enormous file. and what they seek to do is