think he could stop someone criticizing the president of the united states, the most public official we have? but here is what the president said about steve bannon yesterday. has steve bannon betrayed you, mr. president? any words about steve bannon. i don t know. he called me a great man last night. he obviously changed his tune very quick. all right. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. i don t talk to him. i don t talk to him. that s just a misnomer. thank you. i don t talk to him. who believes that? show of hands. no hands. curt bardello, the president engages in truthful hiyperbole. do you believe that he is estranged from steve bannon in terms of not having spoken to him for a long time? he might be estranged right now. all evidence to the contrary about their relationship to this point. you pointed this out.
over time he shifted and started to question his competence, trump s competence to have had the job, do you buy that? i don t know if i buy it or not. i can tell you as i did the research for my book, i talked to bannon for 10 hours in july and then in august right after he left the white house. and i didn t sense any of that. look, steve bannon is media savvy. he could have been spinning me. but he was full of praise for trump at that point. and he would have to be a tremendous dissimilar lator to have been not on the level with me at all about that. so i did not sense any diminution in the esteem with which bannon held trump at that point in his conversations with me. curt, you still know people in the shop at breitbart. is it true what bannon has said in this book and this perceived division with the president may mean his outer? yeah. i think we have seen the last 24 hours the feet beneath breitbart
the president has told us chris cillizza wrote about this on cnn.com. he told 2,000 miss truths or exaggerations in a year. when he says something like that, it is tough to believe him. we have him on record on tape how he respects steve bannon, what a good man steve bannon is. there is a tweet how he welcomed him back to breitbart and said it would be good for the platform, good for the conversation. with donald trump we know you re in his good graces until you re not or until you have become a political liability. under the spotlight of robert mueller, they can t distance themselves quick enough. but until then, they re best friends. it s interesting. keith, we got the two peas in a pod analogy that we re getting from curt. fair enough in terms of what we have seen in this relationship. but it is interesting that for all the opinions that he has, the incendiary word treasonous.