finally happens? plus, money, power, politics and the trump brand name of don jr. s trip to india because a conflict of interest watch. moments ago, the president at an event. he directed the attorney general jeff sessions to propose a regulation to ban the sale of any device that helps convert a semi-automatic gun into an automatic firearm. this comes as just minutes tag white house face ad barrage of questions, as the trump administration held its first press briefing in a week. press secretary sarah sanders claiming president trump has been tougher on russia in one year than president obama was in eight years of his presidency. sanders arguing the president has long acknowledge that had russia was behind the election interference in 2016. the president hasn t said
russian, quotes, collusion investigation i said on my 60 minutes interview. there was no collusion and the investigation is a witch hunt, using donald trump s own language. he adds that my regret in delay in the reporting of don jr. has diverted attention from the president s accomplishments. he did say in the book on the record they re going to crack don jr. like an egg on national tv. that s the way steve bannon used to talk. very quickly, curt, can you explain to us the nature of steve bannon s dependence on the mercers. does he have other sources of income? does he have other sources of financing for the things that he wants to do outside of becca mercer and her father? the mercer money was instrumental to everything he wanted to do. the recruiting of these candidates was all about having the mercers fund the campaigns and candidates that steve gave their blessing to. all of that is gone now. i think if steve had a realistic
treasonous things about donald jr., my comments about the meeting with russian nationals, which he called trees sen news, were from my life experiences stationed aboard a destroyer whose main mission was to hunt soviet submarine to my time in the pentagon when we made films against ragan s war and hillary clinton s involvement then he adds my comments were aimed at paul manafort, were amtd at paul manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the russians operate. he should have known they are duplicitous. these comments were not aimed at don jr. what do you make of the fact that he seems to be trying to exculpate donald trump jr. and implicate paul manafort? well, there s no question that really the most damaging part of this whole book if you re steve bannon was the implication tlaurp giving credibility and credence to the mueller investigation, something that donald trump and this
feed, huffington post , there s a piece about white people are a scourge on america. yeah, he can t even read the internet without pulling up some terrible thing. however, trump s media advocates had no such ambivalence about whose side to take on the breakup between trump and one time chief strategist steve bannon after bannon attacked trump and his family in the book. i posted a blog to news max and i discussed steve bannon and the president s relationship and why i think steve actually is somewhat delusional with some of these claims he s been making, hallie. first of all, bannon has a sense of self-importance. if steve said that he should take it back because there s nobody less treasonous than don
was going on behind the scenes with russia interfering and that is what we ll find out at the end of this. mueller is going to give us all of the evidence to back that up. that s where all of this is pointing. ashley parker, you ve done some great reporting on that. you and your colleagues at the washington post have done the best reporting on what went down on that flight. they were coming back from europe. they got the account from two publications. the new york times, everyone was chasing this account of don jr. s meeting with russians, the ones we read steve bannon s quote about and very colorful language. this flight is at the heart of the legal exposure for the six aides listed by bob mueller. many of them press aid whoes had jobs like mine and steve s and elise s. this trip, this flight could be the difference between going to jail and not going to jail,