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From comedians to rock stars he was disinvited. and steve bannon, i think, had a good retort to all of this. he said, after being contacted several months ago and with seven weeks of continual requests for this event i accepted the new yorker s invitation with no thought of an honorarium. the reason for my acceptance is simple, i would be facing one of the most fearless journalists of his generation in what i would call a defining moment, david remnick, the editor-in-chief, showed he was gutless when confronted by the howling online mob. it s interesting. what was the new yorker thinking if not controversy around steve bannon that follows him around. and this wasn t an interview david remnick is a fantastic journalist to be clear and that needs to be said and i think some treatment of him online was crazy, frankly but i do think that this is an ideas festival, not a typical interview, this is not a one-on-one, not a video for their program or the magazine. ....
who is they? other people. without saying who i spoke to, the other senior people in the white house. so who did you speak to at the white house? because how many people did you talk to at the white house? you said 200 people. yes. 200 interviews? 200 interviews. so inside, outside. you know, people from trump s past. you know, as many people as i thought would have relevant information, i was certainly trying to see. in terms of in the white house, deep. a deep bench of the people closest to the president. including top advisers and top people in the white house? absolutely. and the president. you said you interviewed the president for three hours. he said that is untrue. the white house says the last tomb you spoke to the president was in february. and the conversation wasn t an interview at all. and you were talking about the book. i don t know what he thinks of is an interview or not. ....
So other people have no reason to be defensive. but he s put himself in this box and i think people are alarmed and they are going to this fitness idea when really it s more, is he leading us in a way we can respect. david? ronald reagan never, ever called himself a genius. he was too smart for that. i did think in that highly contentious interview yesterday between jake tapper with steve miller, miller made a smart argument. he said he s a political genius. i think more people are willing to say he has a sixth sense. he capped into something that other people didn t. i want to play you an interview that stephen miller did. the president and the white house the president and the ....
The united states supreme court decided that in the united states versus nixon. and so, if you will, they can negotiate away their rights to a grand jury subpoena right up to that point. what limits i mean, assuming they would want to negotiate rather than have the president be subpoenaed, what legal limits could be imposed on how the interview is conducted, the terms of it and the scope of it? they really have no sort of leverage over mueller. they re at mueller s beck and call. when we did our interview in my independent counsel investigation of herbert walker bush, we were very deferential with respect to time and place so we minimally interfered with his schedule but that s all that we were willing to do and that s all that i think mueller would be willing to do. ....
The conversation i had with him in february was perfectly on the record. or that is to say he didn t put it off the record. in successive things, we spoke in a friendly way. important point here. and that is the point. they re trying, of course, they first tried to put this is this is about steve bannon. and it s not. it s a book about the president of the united states. and then they started to try to put this oh, well, i didn t see the president. i only saw the president for this three hours. they re saying it was february the conversation, wasn t an interview. you were telling the president about the book. so how many times did you speak to the president as president? well, okay. you don t tell the president anything because he motor mouths. he just keeps talking at you. it s not a question of me ....