they should not be allowed to use circular reporting, rumors in order to get that kind of information. i think that s what we have seen and uncovered during the recent investigations. now, i think doj and the inspector general, we should allow them to do their report. the inspector general across the federal government are good professionals, great professionals. that can get down to the nuance to help illuminate some of these initial things that we find. at that time we decide what is the next best case and whether there s some kind of criminalality that needs to be further explored. trish: the whole idea of using rumors to get a fisa warrant. can i say amen to you sister as well? that is bizarre. it s alarming. the reports were out there in the press. nobody reported on it. anyone with a brain, frankly, could have seen through that and it read like a piece of tabloid fiction.
later he authorized zero access. i never spoke to him for book. full of lies, misrepresentation and sears that don t exist. look at this guy s past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve. marie harf and former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski. i don t know what s true or not true from this book. half of it is gossip, hatch it is innuendo. michael wolff gets basic details wrong. sloppy. he may not be super reliable. then wolff himself admitted some of it s not accurate. how do you see it? i see this as a piece of tabloid fiction.
tabloid fiction. when you have got publications like the failing new york times and cnn saying it s sloppy and not accurate and business insider is saying he admits that. i don t know why there is any credibility to this book whatsoever. i know candidate trump, president-elect trump and president trump. the stories in this book are so factually wrong it shouldn t have been published. one of the things in the book is he didn t know who john boehner is. but there is a photo on the internet much trump playing golf with boehner. a lot of the stories are far-fetched. but it has a pattern with other reporters who covered the white house.
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.
the white house dismissing it as a trashy tabloid fiction in an explosive new book portraying a white house in chaos. fire and fury are raising troubling questions about the president s competence including bombshell quotes from those around him in an nbc interview. the author was asked about the book s descriptions of the president s mental fitness. one of the more disturbing observations you make in the book is that the president s close advisers, people around him noticed him repeating stories, expression for expression for a short period of time. in a shortened period. they tracked this. it used to be people would point out in the beginning it was like every 25 or 30 minutes he would get the same three stories repeated. now it s the same three stories in every 10 minutes. and what s the suggestion