now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and for more on whether or not that is indeed the case i am joined by having reka head of the program of u.s. and transatlantic relations at the german council on foreign relations here in berlin thanks so much for being with us you know strong language as we've heard from both these two no surprise i mean they're really known for that aren't they but at the end of the day this book is said to describe the president as an and disciplined man child who doesn't understand the weight of the presidency does it leave him in trouble i think if this is seen as an inside look into the presidency and many will do this especially on the more liberal side of the spectrum of course this will damage him underline the views that people have of him i think. one has to wait i mean if you could present himself as a nonpolitician as somebody who's doing things differe

house to an end after a mere seven months is now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and a short while ago trump spoke about bannon and that new book i did i did it again and i did the band and betrayed you mr president anyway we should have steve and it will be a great battle so these are the changes to a pretty quick thank you all very much. thank you i don't. i don't that's just a disturbing thank you are let's try to make some sense out of this our correspondent and phenomenon is almost word for us tonight in washington good evening to you karsten so beyond this being an obvious broken little boy remains why does this public falling out between truong in-band and why does it matter. it met us because even though a lot of conservatives on now trying to distance themselves from steve benen siding with the president steve benen still reprints the ideology of at least parts of donald trump's

house to an end after a mere seven months is now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. all excerpts of this book have everyone talking here to discuss the fall out with me on the set is to how he is a senior fellow and director of the europe program at the german marshall fund we're great we're very happy that you're here where to begin i mean is this rift a permanent rift yeah i mean this is pretty prominent i mean you never know with trump trump has an unbelievable healing power and his rifts that he's creating and that his you know former friends create with him so you know he's ever flexible but at the same time the nature of this fallout is so substantial is this somebody from the inner circle somebody who was a key strategist also in this kind of revolutionary agenda that trump was running on that going back from this will be very very difficult especially given the legal escalation that

is now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and washington correspondent carson phenomena is covering this a very public falling out carsten know a lot of lost here is this a permanent west. well you never know with donald trump he is known to have fallen out with people and overcoming that rift but my assessment is that it will take a lot to overcome this clearly donald trump values loyalty a lot he's not necessarily loyal to the people who work for him but he demands absolute loyalty when it comes to his own person and clearly steve benen has violated that in the view of the president ultimately this break up is bad for both people steve benen still has some influence over at least part of donald trump's base through his right wing news platform right by it's the same time though also the stature of steve benen is diminished because all the other right wing news media have been dista

trump versus bannan the warrior for u.s. president trump is threatening legal action tonight against former white house strategist steve bannon over what he calls disparaging statements and outright defamatory statements made in a new book a cease and desist letter has also been said to the author and the publisher trying to halt the book's release the president launched a scathing attack on big. and as a result saying steve has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind now it's emerged that bannon attacked donald trump jr for a twenty six team meeting with a group of russians in the book by journalist michael wolff bannon is quoted as saying even if you thought this was not treasonous or unpatriotic or bad and i happen to think it's all of that you should have called the f.b.i. immediately or trump's lawyer has also sent a cease and desist letter to ban him accusing him of violating a non-disclosure agreement by speaking to wall so a spectacular falling out between two

house to an end after a mere seven months is now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and a short while ago trump spoke about ben and that new book i did i didn't get a good t.v. and it betrayed you mr president anyway we should have steve and i don't really know me a great man. obviously changes to pretty quick thank you all very much. thank you i don't. i don't that's just a distant i think you. are let's try to make some sense out of this our correspondent in phenomenon is on the story for us tonight in washington good evening to you karsten so beyond this being an obvious broken bulletin mayence why is this public falling out between truong in-band and why does it matter. it met us because even though a lot of conservatives on now trying to distance themselves from steve benen siding with the president steve benen still reprints the ideology of at least parts of donald trump's base so as

made about trump and his son and the recently published book fire and fury well in it bannan cola twenty sixteen meeting between trump jr and a group of russians treasonous well soon off the donald trump and to the white house steve benen was appointed the white house chief strategist which gave him a direct line to the president but four months into the high profile job he began losing his influence of his boss in april bannon was removed from a key role in the national security council things went downhill for bannon from there and then august he was fired the investment bank a ten media executive then returned to breitbart news but controversial comments like calling the sacking of james comey as f.b.i. director as the biggest mistake in modern political history only added to balance tensions with trump but bill schneider has some george mason university he says trump's falling out with bannon may only be temporary donald trump is very critical he calls him what do you call him sloppy steve and he denounced him he said that he thought he had lost his mind but trump has thi

president donald trump's former advisor steve benen has resigned from his role as executive chairman of the right wing news website breitbart comes just days after a public rout of the remarks bannan made about trump and his son in the recently published book fire and fury police in manama filed charges against two reuters journalists accuse of breaching the official secrets act the charge carries a prison term of up to fourteen years the pair were covering the crisis in rakhine state where hundreds of thousands of range of muslims have fled a military crackdown. the iranian company whose oil tanker collided with a freighter of the east coast of china says there's still no hope of finding survivors bad weather and a fire on the iranian ship complicating the search for the thirty one sailors still missing since the collision on saturday. police in today's u.s. capital have fired tear gas at demonstrators who stormed a supermarket join anti-government protest demonstrations against planned taksim price hikes began on monday with rallies in more than ten towns but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post stage of that so much by phone. wi

administration ok now a new element here and somebody really outside the narrative completely is trump and bannan in a political my fight right now are we going to see a civil war and a split inside the make america great again movement i don't think it's going be a full on civil war i think steve bannon automatically loses the president is the person in power he's in charge of the republican party we've seen the republican establishment line up behind president trump with the recent tax reform bill steve bannon is the guy that's on the outs i don't know that's going to be a full on civil war i think bannon is just going to be the big loser in all of this ok now what about the democrats is this a late christmas gift for the democrats and their chances in the midterm elections . yeah i think that the twenty eight thousand in the mid-term elections the democrats if they get their act together have a strong chance of both taking back the senate and the house of representatives putting a real big crimp into donald trump's plans for his presidency this is something that they're going to add in to thei

president donald trump has launched a blistering attack on his former chief strategist he was reacting to comments that steve bannan reported they made about a meeting in trump tower attended by a russian lawyer trump said that bennett had quote lost his mind and iranian state television has broadcast pictures of the government rallies in the country that is after authorities held a deadly crackdown on protests against the country's leaders. and don't forget you can always get his on the go just download our apps from google player from the apple store that give you access to all of the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the app to send us photos and videos. you're up to date i'm sorry kelly in berlin we'll see you again. on. whether it's trying. to be colorful. michaud name. i realize that many people need. they need to have courage where colors that once they wear it they feel better the story of a unique i'm not sure a brand and its secrets to success the robot is next d.w. . was is from poland and down and out in burma. he's one of thousands of

watchers many you have not been able to avoid the round the clock news coverage of the donald trump steve bannan fugit which is like watching two characters in the book house king novel battle over who could give flo the gold tooth waitress a better time everybody slows down for a car wreck especially an oily alcohol fuelled one but while the mainstream media dazzled us with close ups of donald and steve all day long they ignored or curiously censored some of the bigger news stories of the week like say journalist james rhizomes blistering recounting of his days working the national security intelligence community beat at the new york times titled the biggest secret my life as a new york times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror the fifteen thousand word piece published by the intercept isn't eyeopening indictment of just how low freedom of the press has fallen in the editorial board rooms of one of the world's most influential newspapers and how far both the bush and obama administrations.

said that he thought he had lost his mind but trump has this history of attacking people and then eventually reconciling with them if trouble needs bannan particularly as we get closer to twenty twenty banning could be resurrected everything depends on how donald trump regards the ban and how we use him how he treats him most republican members of congress critically in the senate especially the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell they're doing a little happy dance tonight because they're very pleased with the downfall of the band and he was threatening to oppose them with insurgent candidates the insurgent candidates are still there look before there was the man and there was a tea party movement which ran insurgents against republican incumbents so the threat is still there but battle really a pit in my eyes than personalized that threat so for the moment the republican establishment is relieved casaus foreign ministry is considering more legal moves against the blockade inflicted by four arab nations on humanitarian grounds saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt cut ties with doha seven months ago cutting off their ass space and bann

his supporters if anything they are turning on those who attack him like bannan his new site breitbart once a favorite among trump supporters being bombarded with angry comments one person writing i voted for trump i didn't vote for bannon i will stick with trump thanks another one writing bannon is really thinking that his car does not stink and that he is the king of it all what is wrong with this guy but many ban him backers voicing doubts that the book is a little more than half baked journalism right wing social media favorite mike chair novich tweeted why would ban and go after don jr who is beloved by the base it is a kooky fight to pick doesn't make sense the author has a history of fabricating quotes we need bannan to stream live and get his story out let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world. the u.s. senate has sworn into new democratic senators produce in the republicans majority to two we are doug jones from alabama won a special election to fill a vacancy and minnesota's tina smith was appointed to replace al franken who resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduc

it's a spectacular fall out between the two former allies bannan was the one who helped carve out trump's nationalist agenda that helped him win the oval office despite the furor over his quotes bannon called the president a great man on his right to go ashore. in the present state is a great man you know i supporting day in and day out. the patrol has enraged. anywhere he had steve van gurley call me a great man last night so you know you obviously changes to pretty quick thank you all very much i. thank you i don't talk i don't go. to. the white house is trying to cast doubt on the books accuracy again this book is mistake after mistake after mistake as for the bombshell book the publishers have brought forward its release to friday despite cease and desist threats from donald trump's lawyers. and staying in the us where the east coast is in the grip of a deep freeze on us after a massive winter storm brought fresh snow hurricane force winds and flooding to several regions elsewhere it was a rare opportunity to see snow and ice in locations normally known for their sunshine. sunny getaw

. >>> president trump's former chief strategist steve bannan is trying to clarify his comments in the book fire and fury. he said his former colleagues were unpatriotic when they met with a russian lawyer in 2016 but now he says he was not talking about donald trump, jr., one of the participants, he meant to single out trump campaign chairman paul manafort. he said she should have known better. >>> a man killed after an explosion outside a subway station this morning in sweden. he picked up a device from the ground when it detonated in his hand. he was rushed to the hospital and later died. officials say it is not believed to be terror related. >>> dozens are missing after a tanker carrying iranian oil collided with another vessel off the coast of china. it caused the tanker to burst into flames. crews looking for the 32 members on board the ship. no word on what caused the crash. >>> france marks three years since the deadly attack. the french president and the mayor of paris layed a wreath. 12 people were killed after extremist stormed the building and opened fire. the gunmen were k

presidential election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannan when he. he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially ban and fired off a tweet saying i won't speak about who lost their minds or ever had one but he later tweeted that the president was a great man that prompted president trump to downplay the vitriol at a white house meeting thursday don't really tell me a great man last night so you know you obviously changes tune pretty quick the book is a distraction for a president who is trying to advance his policies in the face of a deepening special investigation into russia's meddling into the twenty sixteen presidential election author michael wolff says he spent eighteen months and conducted roughly two hundred interviews with president from senior staff during the transition and the first year of his administration in a column thursday wolf seems to question the president's mental fitness for office it used to be inside of thirty minutes he'd repeat word for word and expression for expression the same three stories n

but trump has this history of attacking people and then eventually reconciling with them if trump needs bannan particularly as we get closer to twenty twenty than in could be resurrected everything depends on how donald trump regards the band and how we use him how he treats him and what happens to bannon's america first movement you know aimed at tearing down the establishment in the mean time especially now that he no longer has that media sort of megaphone to promote his plan of promoting incumbent senators against republicans this year. well i can tell you that most republican members of congress perfectly in the senate especially the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell they're doing a little happy dance tonight because they're very pleased with the downfall of steve benen he was threatening to oppose them with insurgent candidates the insurgent candidates are still there look before there was the ban and there was a tea party movement which ran insurgency against republican incumbents so the threat is still there but bannon really a pit in my eyes than personalized that threat so for

corps and the mainstream media news troops it throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannan he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump for arrives on this he loves this. before issue make you factor in central southern russians reportedly killed up to ten people who broke nine o'clock local time in the morning near the city of novosibirsk flame swiftly engulf the premises you see huge father filling the two thousand square meter building with toxic smoke emergency services said the victims were workers at the factory eight were partly chinese nationals one of the other two were thought to come from. it's still unclear how the blaze broke out. with this first anniversary in office approaching the u.s. president's been taking up his economic record to typical from style. economic miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is at a seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy our economy has already surged to three percent gr

concept of let trump trump is one thing but it appears that for too much this year it's been let trump be bannan and that is course has become a great problem talking about the shutdown when talking to my correspondent arnie we're talking about what we know what's at the heart of what's happening right now you know what we should we be paying attention to year in this story well the challenge of course is this is the first time there's ever been a government shutdown when one party has controlled all three levers of government the presidency the white house the presidency the the house of representatives and the senate usually there's been one party controlling one and one party the other so really it's. the difficult for the republican party to try to cast off responsibility for this they're trying very hard calling it the schumer shutdown but of course that's becomes problematic yes you need to get sixty votes to basically clear a budget in the senate but quite frankly the republicans haven't even to get all of their own party to vote for this so when you have donor trump as a private citizen

bannon was pro trump until he got a taste of the power that they came with president trump and then he became pro steve bannan he was doing interviews he seemed to go rogue i think it was all about steve bannon and his agenda and i think you lost the thought that he was damaging trump who helped get elected. hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the korean crisis and now in science after the north agreed to hold formal talks with the south ahead of the winter olympics but it didn't take long for the u.s. president to take the credit for a possible day escalation of the crisis but of people said a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric and without my tough stance and such a stance i mean this is this is what has to be done if it has to be done that they wouldn't be talking about olympics that they wouldn't be talking right now. well this week it was confirmed that north and south korea will meet for their first official talks in two years the meeting on january the ninth will discuss the upcoming winter olympics in south korea but it's also hoped it will address the tensions in the region it will b

corps and the mainstream media news troops and throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannan he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump thrives on this he loves this. hearing up to be an interesting euro ahead there is news for this hour i'm back in just over half an hour's time with more global updates from r.t. h.q. in moscow. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the statutes. the only show i go out of my way to. really packed a punch. is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than. see people you've never heard of. jack to the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. oh friend. this is a guy's report. and you pocket. sometimes you just obviously this is the ninth birthday week of bitcoin so i'm going to stick on this but i know also a lot of people have not only. from the new year still but have indigestion from the you know baptism by market crashes and volatility you know most people got into

corps and the mainstream media news troops and throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannan he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump thrives on this he loves this. the french president is vowing to come back fake news by proposing a law to regulate media influenced by foreign states and money will mccrone annoying to the move to journalists in paris on wednesday it was finished between fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed in presidential campaigns and almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response. well in the speech he wasn't specific about which countries or media outlets he thinks could be influencing the french public but the sputnik news agency however drawn micron's ire in the past our correspondents were denied access to his presidential campaign last year labeling both agents of influence on propaganda. you know we keep y

corps and the mainstream media news troops and throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannan he's going to say something about france or italy or or some his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump for arrives on this he loves this well with his first year in office drawing to a close the u.s. president has been talking up his economic record in tobago of trump style he can now make miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is under seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy our economy has already surged to three percent growth unemployment is at a seventeen year low liberated the american economy and our economy is doing well. and one man who doesn't share president trumps optimism is former u.s. congressman ron paul he told us that the growth in the u.s. economy has principally benefited those already out the top. if you're in the stock market no wealthy person here doing quite well but what we're forgetting here when we listen to this rhetoric of all this optimism is that there's

sloppy steve trend on twitter at one point and many people appear to be taking sides here in the trump versus bannan feud and while the former white house chief strategist says that he still thinks that the president of the united states is a great man most of or quite a few people on his site bright bartz appear to be splits brenne here has a popular post talking about a huge divide in trump's base that these comments this book have created and if you mine the comments on breitbart a bit you'll see quite a few people using words like betrayal to talk about the site's creator so divisions are clearly apparent there and more broadly speaking the most prominent or effective voice that i've seen in the past day or so pushing back on the book is arguably the former white house communications director anthony scaramucci you'll remember he was in the job for about ten days before being sacked for some very colorful comments he made to a journalist about steve bannon well he might be making a play to get back in the white house he's been making the rounds on cable networks including the president's favorit

corps and the mainstream media news troops and throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannan he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump for arrives on this he loves this meanwhile with. an office approaching the u.s. president has been talking up his economic record in typical trump style beacon amik miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is under seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy our economy has already surged to three percent growth unemployment is at a seventeen year alone delivering to the american economy and our economy is doing well but one man who doesn't share president trumps optimism there is this former u.s. congressman ron paul he told us that the growth in the u.s. is principally benefited already at the top. if you're in the stock market no wealthy person here doing quite well but what we're forgetting here when we listen to this rhetoric of all this optimism is that there's a large segment of

corps and the mainstream media news troops and throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannan he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump thrives on this he loves this. the french president is vowing to come by news after proposing a law to regulate media influenced by foreign states. between fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed presidential campaigns and almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response. well in his speech money will mccrone wasn't specific about which countries or media outlets he thinks could be influencing the french public but r.t. the sputnik news agency have drawn mcclellan's ire in the past our correspondents were denied access to his presidential campaign last year after which he labeled both outlets agents of influence and propaganda. if you go on the internet. you. know. russia today and sputnik have been infl

it is bannan who got session to endorse donald trump. the wake of this book there's reports that donald trump is going to the people close to him and steve bannon saying that you have to choose sides. that's how we saw steve miller to tv bashing steve bannon. that's right rebecca mercer came out said she had no ties to ban them. have to wonder if that ultimatum has gone to sessions who is close to both men. and whether he'll come out publicly rebuked steve bannon as well. >> steve bannon us and he regrets making those comments, not apologizing but regrets making them. >> only to don junior. he did not say he regrets about ivanka trump and jared kushner. is a very carefully worded statement that he put out. how much of the waters under the bridge quite yet. >> what happens to the mueller investigation is sessions resigns? >> it still goes on. trump is still have a hard time getting another attorney general in place. the senate is evenly divided and people do not want to see him fire sessions try to get a loyalist in their supposedly donal

the president disavowed bannan after it emerged that he had attacked donald trump jr for a twenty sixth meeting with a group of russians in the book bannon is quoted as saying the following even if you thought that this was not treasonous or unpatriotic or bad will paraphrase and just say stuff i happen to think that it is all of that you should have called the f.b.i. immediately u.s. media say trump's lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter to ben and accusing him of violating a nondisclosure agreement by speaking to wolf now an epic falling out between these two former allies what could it mean for the trump presidency of the russian investigation more in just a moment first a look at how the bad and trump relationship collapsed with friends like these who needs enemies it may feel like ages ago but it hasn't been that long since president donald trump and his former chief strategist steve benen were thick as thieves. toward the end of the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign benon left his post as executive chairman of the right wing web site breitbart news to join the

president donald trump has launched a scathing attack on his former chief strategist steve bannon that ahead of the release of a new bombshell book the president saying steve bannan has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind. ben's quoted in the forthcoming book as saying that donald trump jr's twenty sixteen meeting with a group of russians was quote treasonous now that as the f.b.i. investigates alleged links between moscow and the trump campaign. while white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders had this to say immediately following the release of trump's statement i think there are a number of factors that played in i would certainly think that going after the president's son and absolutely outrageous and unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody furious disgusted would probably certainly fit when you make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president his administration and his family. are washington correspondent carolyn is following the shock waves rolling across washington today carolina thanks for being with us let's start off by

it's a spectacular fall out between the two former allies bannan is the driving force behind trump'snationalist agenda which helped him win the oval office. their corporate despite the outrage of his quotes that i'm called the president a great man on his radio show in the present state is a great man you know i supporting day in a day out but the betrayal has enraged trump the man and betrayed him mr president you know anywhere he had steve carroll right from a great man last night you know you obviously changes to pretty quick thank you all very much. thank you i don't i don't i don't talk to the white house is trying to cost down on the books accuracy again this book is mistake after mistake after mistake the publishers reacted by bringing forward the book's release date despite cease and desist threats from trump's lawyers. the people of the border are a lot a lot of people is safe to say will be lining up today to get their hands on this explosive book and here to discuss the possible fallout is boris foreman the professor of political science at bard college right here in berli

said that he thought he had lost his mind but trump has this history of attacking people and then eventually reconciling with them if trouble needs bannan particularly as we get closer to two thousand and twenty than in could be resurrected everything depends on how donald trump regards the banon how we use him how he treats him the most republican members of congress critically in the senate especially the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell they're doing a little happy dance tonight because they're very pleased with the downfall of steve benen he was threatening to oppose them with insurgent candidates the insurgent candidates are still there look before there was the man and there was a tea party movement which ran insurgents against republican incumbents so the threat is still there but battle really epitomized in personalized that threat so for the moment the republican establishment is relieved. police in myanmar have filed charges against two reuters journalists accuse of breaching the official secrets that the charge carries a prison term of up to fourteen years the pay was covering the crisis in rakhine state where hundred

shouldn't have not been in trump tower, taking meetings with senior campaign staff without lawyers in the room, i would say that is a fair thing to say. that was the view from the bannana mosbacher, a campaigner for president trump who works on the trump 2020 advisory committee, said that just wasn't true. i disagree. anointing steve bannon the king maker is a gross overexaggeration, if anything, trump won because trump outperformed and outworked i7 won because trump outperformed and outworked 17 candidates, he did over 250 rallies and i have been part of bipolitical campaigns and most candidates are scripted and kept in a bubble. president trump has some of the best political instincts i have seen, he was off script. what he said in terms of populism was all trumpism, and like all campaigns, there were advisers that came and went and they had certain roles, at certain times but trump would have won 2016 without steve bannon. would have won 2016 without steve bannon. now for a look at some of the business stories around this morning. i'm joined by our business correspondent jamie robertson. let us start with debenham, a profit warning there, lots of warnings about var

and it's highly doubtful that they can shield bannan from answering questions by invoking executive privilege especially during the time before donald trump even became president so i think bannon understands that he's kind of tell the truth to save his own skin and all the indications are that he intends to do that with the with the special counsel eleanor always enjoy talking to you thanks so much thank you turning now to the ongoing russia investigation former white house chief strategist steve benen has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury and a federal judge has signaled that the trial of former interim campaign manager paul a man of sorts and his deputy very regain its may start in september or october right before the twenty eighteen mid-terms. let's talk about the latest with tunstall to shouldn't scholar and harvard law school professor emeritus alan dershowitz he joins us via skype alan is also a bestselling author his newest is trumped up how criminalization of political differences in dangers democracy and in minneapolis richard painter professor of law at the university of minnesota and he was the chief white house

aimed at don jr those comments are contained in this book in it bannan is quoted as calling a two thousand and sixteen meeting between donald trump jr campaign aides and a russian lawyer treasonous and unpatriotic since then trump administration officials have rallied around the president he's been called a genius and the book a work of fiction yes really hard questions. he delivers policy outcomes based on the information they were provide him my observation the president is that you know we deal in serious matters and that this book is in no way that twenty for them but author michael wolff is standing by his words in an interview on sunday he claimed there are rumblings in the west wing of an impeachment officially known as the twenty fifth amendment it's alarming in every way and then this this this went on ok this is a little twenty fifth amendment so the twenty fifth amendment is a concept that is alive every day in the white house the president in turn has doubled down on his defense in a tweet he said he wasn't just a victim of fake news but now a fake book as well but trump's scathing criticism doesn't appear to be putti

trump could handle this or not. doesn't depend on the existence of steven bannan any idea what you think steve bannon will be doing next given that apparently his radio show has been cut it's not clear but you know he certainly has a tell all book inside of him and the band in spin could come out in such a book and i could imagine publishers would be offering him huge sums for his story and we certainly haven't heard the last of steve bannon all right irwin call here with us in syria from the j.f.k. institute here in berlin thank you or when liberia. now least thirteen people are dead after a powerful rainstorm triggered flash floods and mudslides in southern california thousands fled from their homes as heavy rain sent modern boulders flying downhill homes and roads in the upscale neighborhood of santa barbara were demolished at the search for survivors is ongoing the mudslides followed a massive wildfire in the region last month which just roy vegetation on hillsides leaving them susceptible to erosion the fire was the worst in the california's history. let's talk to journalists valentino martelli's been following th

politics now and the split ween the president and his former strategist steve bannan is getting more hostile. overnight a trumpon for allegedly breaching a fawn disclosure agreement brannon is quoted saying a 2016 meeting between donald trump jr. and russian operatioperatives was unpatriotic and treasonist. the president fired back waens wednesday, said when bannan was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. that's a quote. however, on his radio show last night bannan says he still supports the president and went as far as to call him a great man. michael wolff that wrote this book "the fire and fury" inside the white house will be here tomorrow for an exclusive live interview. with that we turn to hoda for the morning news. >> here we go, girl. we have been talking about the powerball the mega-millions jackpot. this is about a new jersey mom. she won $5 million. she won it by accident. she went into a manhattan convenience store. she told the store she wanted a $1 scratchoff ticket t. clerk ripped off a $10 for life ticket. off the rom. she handed it to her. she felt bad, she said, okay, i'll buy i