picture of life inside the oval office and describes a president mentally unfit for the job don estabrook has more. president donald trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then a new book on the white house i don't think they really care about some trash and author that no one has ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election after excerpts of the. released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannon when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially bannon 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 t

could lose millions of dollars in donations usa gymnastics could lose millions in sponsorships dion estabrook al-jazeera when he saw in that report there was less his king who is a serious set of stuff writer for roll call he says that there will soon be stricter regulations in sports bodies. well i think that the first thing that we're going to see on capitol hill is that early as the beginning of next week they're going to try and pass it least some legislation that will move in the right direction incrementally in terms of making it so that you're required if you're an organization like usa gymnastics or anything else that falls under the umbrella of the u.s. olympic committee to at least report to the proper authorities when you have allegations of sexual abuse it is a long undertaking if this investigation by the the energy and commerce panel or the house of representatives or anything that the senate might do actually goes on it seems like it could be similar to the investigations into steroids use in major league baseball in the united states which went on for years african union leade

and then reemerge later we will wait and see diane thank you very much for that finale that ston estabrook joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. u.s. president trying to pass once again said that he wants a border wall along mexico as part of immigration reforms he also says a bipartisan solution is needed to protect some seven hundred thousand dream and occurrence the republican controlled congress has failed to reach a date on this status the dream is this used to refer to people who are under the age of sixteen when they enter the u.s. illegally a day in which protects them from deportation expires and monch. landslides in southern california have killed at least eight people thousands have been forced from their homes recent fires have made the area vulnerable to flooding and moving as expected on wednesday reports from. torrential rain brought devastation to parts of california already ravaged by wildfires only weeks ago. deadly mudslides raced down canyon. near santa barbara leveling homes and leaving behind a. wasteland a car lay stranded the fate of its own are unknown. r

where nasa works is also quizzed the university is now the focus of a federal investigation dial estabrook reports. one day after the u.s. olympic committee sent this letter demanding the resignation of the full usa gymnastics board all remaining members stepped down the u.s.o.c. threatened to strip the group of its power following wednesday sentence of dr larry nasser i just find you get boring the physician for the u.s. women's gymnastics team and michigan state university pleaded guilty to sexually abusing seven women athletes to be easy on the campus of michigan university friday evening outrage students demonstrated over nasser and the school's potential complicity in the case just hours earlier michigan state's athletic director announced his retirement i don't want anyone to perceive that i'm walking away i'm walking forward. and walking forward in a way that based upon my deep assessment. gives the survivors first and foremost the sephardic department this university and my family an opportunity. to healing and step forward michigan state already faces more than one hundred thirty

leader has branded the book as phony and full of lies and estabrook as the story. crowd swarmed this washington bookstore at midnight friday snatching up copies of fire and fury inside the trump white house present the crisis right now i can't take your order of the phone politics and prose opened it ten am within thirty minutes eager buyers had nabbed all thirty copies the store had i'm super excited to read this i went to a couple of different bookstores even midnight last night there was another bookstore selling this they sold out in twenty minutes why are you so interested in this book. why would i not be interested in this book it is so salacious and to see . politics die hard and scary to read it at three hundred twenty pages this is a relatively like home but it is filled with explosive material the author michael wolff said he spent eighteen months conducting about two hundred interviews with senior white house staff in one passage wolf says former british prime minister tony blair offered this nugget of information to the president's son in law jared cush

picture of life inside the oval office and it describes a president mentally unfit for the job and estabrook as more. president donald trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then a new book on the white house i don't think they really care about some trash and author that no one has ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannon when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially bannon 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

could lose millions of dollars in donations usa gymnastics could lose millions in sponsorships dion estabrook al-jazeera there's concern over the planned return of summer hinge refugees from bangladesh to me and our government leaders in manama announced that repatriation centers in rakhine state were open and ready to receive some of them as of tuesday parts of crossed the border bangladesh officials say the paperwork for the refugees is incomplete it comes as a former u.s. diplomat resigned from an advisory council after a heated exchange with leader aung san suu kyi bill richardson said he feared that the crisis was being whitewashed man mark hughes's him of pursuing his own agenda turkish security forces arrested fifty thousand refugees on the land border with jordan greece refugees are becoming increasingly desperate and turning to smugglers for different routes lawrence lee has an exclusive report. is done will isn't well known as a gathering point for refugees yet there is all the evidence you need that a significant smuggling operation is based here. in the central districts of x. arr

mentally unfit for the job the book was released on thursday not four days earlier than planned on estabrook has more. president donald trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then a new book on the white house i don't think they really care about some trash that an author that no one had ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannon when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially bannon 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 pres

picture of life inside the oval office describing the president as mentally unfit for the job diane estabrook reports from washington. president donald trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then a new book on the white house i don't think they really care about some trash that an author that no one had ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannon when 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 th

and students who have filed lawsuits against the university so this scandal is far from over done estabrook live for us in washington d.c. thank you very much. they're a dud so what are planned return of some ranger refugees from bangladesh to me in ma u.s. diplomat bill richardson has accused me and mot of trying to whitewash the crisis he resigned from an advisory panel sparking a rift with cheez government it's called has more from young gone. if you listen to government leaders in myanmar this week was supposed to see a trickle of britain's refugees returning to these new repatriation centers in rakhine state they said from tuesday the centers were open and ready to receive but the other country in this equation bangladesh said incomplete paperwork for the refugees is causing a delay no word on just how long some human rights groups think it's much more than paperwork the fundamental problem is that all these operations and set up these plans have been devised these negotiations have been done leaving the refugees outside the door and they haven't been consulted they haven't been talked

trump jr and a group of russians treasonous well let's get more on this now we're joined by don estabrook she's live for us and washington d.c. did bad and leave on his own accord diana was he pushed. well according to bam and according to breitbart and then left on his own but it seems like he may have been pushed rebecca mercer who is a billionaire donor to republican causes publicly rebukes bannon last week about the comments that he made in the book byron theory she also is an investor in breitbart and sits on the board there so she may have actually had something to do with him deciding to step down from his position at breitbart and what does this mean. for him and his political career is it over. it's hard to say you know there are a lot of second acts in washington he had a very meteoric rise here in washington took over breitbart in two thousand and twelve four years later he was having president trump's political campaign and then with his white house strategist before he was let go yes a very strong following in this nationalist core of the republican party the question is will

leader has branded the book as phony and full of lies and estabrook has the story. crowd swarmed this washington bookstore at midnight friday snatching up. copies of fire and fury inside the trump white house present the crowds are no i can't take your order of the phone politics and prose opened it ten am within thirty minutes eager buyers had nabbed all thirty copies the store had i'm super excited to read this i went to a couple of different bookstores even midnight last night there was another bookstore selling this they sold out in twenty minutes why are you so interested in this book. why would i not be interested in this book it is so salacious and to see . politics die hard and scary to read it at three hundred twenty pages this is a relatively like home but it is filled with explosive material the author michael wolff said he spent eighteen months conducting about two hundred interviews with senior white house staff in one passage wolf says former british prime minister tony blair offered this nugget of information to the president's son in law jared cushio

other things a new immigration plan and a spending plan to avoid a looming government shutdown dion estabrook al-jazeera washington. dan mansion well spoke includes a wind array of into of years and covers a range of topics for today's episode we want to focus on what wall says about trump's middle east policy for example his support of sadik rompers one has been selman m.b.'s as he's known had assumed that position in june soon after trump's visit to riyadh wolf writes within weeks of the trip b.s. detaining one hundred been a quiet in the dead of night would force him to relinquish the crown prince title trump would tell friends that he and joe had engineered this with a man on top let's bring in our guests joining us on the set here in doha a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university in beirut senior public policy fellow and junk professor of journalism of the american university of beirut and in london in black visiting senior fellow at the london school of economics middle east center welcome to you or someone who would like to ask you this we will read the excerpts of

before that diane thank you very much for that finale that don estabrook live in washington d.c. . well soon after trump assumed office baton was appointed the white house chief strategist which gave him a direct line to the president before months into the high profile job he began losing the confidence of his boss and april baton was removed from a key role in the national security council and things went downhill for him from there and august he was fired the investment banker turned media executive then returned to breitbart news the controversial comments like calling the sacking of james komi as f.b.i. director as the biggest mistake in modern political history only added to balance tensions would trump we're going to get more on the smell and speak to bill schneider professor of public policy at george mason university who's joining us live from los angeles very good as always mr schneider to have you with us on al-jazeera so right now he does seem a very ostracized figure what does that say given his past popularity about the president's current popularity with the all trie

congress still controlled by the president's own party that two seems unlikely at least for now dion estabrook al-jazeera washington. well alexander nazarian interviewed steve bannon for this week's cover story in newsweek magazine he gave me his assessment of balance motives he is terrified of what robert morvillo the special counsel is going to come up with and he is pointing to jared questioner and daal tom junod specifically in saying these guys are in real trouble he's sending out sort of almost flares maybe even messages to president trump saying these are the guys you better you have to include in your son the they could be in real real trouble why do that in a book like this in such explosive language i don't know i don't think steve benen really worries about what he says i don't think he's out there to make friends to make money. he doesn't want the former and he has plenty of the latter i think this is for his ideas and his ideas are bigger than steve benen according to steve benen bigger even than donald trump so he's willing to burn any bridge in order to get where he is what he b

could lose millions of dollars in donations usa gymnastics could lose millions in sponsorships dion estabrook al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera a country divided we look at the challenge ahead as the president of honduras begins his new. my. trial by theater a new play confronts a strain his policies on immigration. because some very wet weather pushing towards southern parts of the u.s. at the moment at present we've got this band of cloud which will make its way across the great plains not a little area of cloud just pushing in across texas and that will ease its way towards louisiana as you go on through saturday with some very heavy downpours the to join up they'll make their way across the appalachian chain gradually push further east was suddenly winds and look at those temperatures fourteen celsius in d.c. and getting up into double figures that for new york a fourteen as well for san francisco up towards the pacific northwest here we're looking at rain sleet and snow some very strong winds driving in a day power of low pressure bringing some rather nasty conditions as we go on thr

house panel has announced it will investigate sexual abuse in organized sports dion estabrook has the details. well this was a major housecleaning and now the usa gymnastics organization has to replace its entire board that includes about twenty people which also includes representatives for the athletes it has twelve months to do this the u.s.o.c. listed some other demands but this really was the most important one if it doesn't get that team in place then it risk losing its authority both the u.s. o.c. and the usa gymnastics have been under intense fire since the nasser scandal broke out about eighteen months ago and the fallout from this scandal is really far from over we're we're also hearing that the governor of michigan is calling for an investigation as well as the attorney general of michigan is calling in for an investigation but see the boss the u.s. secretary of education says her department is looking into this and we're starting to see fallout on the campus of michigan state university where nasser was attached the president of the university has stepped down already toda

blistering words from the man he helped propel to the highest political office in the world dion estabrook al jazeera. the book has revealed more insight into trump's first year and office one of the biggest claims says that he never expected to beat hillary clinton his son donald trump jr is quoted as saying his father looked as though he had seen a ghost on election night. publicly claimed more people attended his inauguration then barack obama's in private he was furious that a list star spoke openly of a void in the event and i'm moving into the white house trump is said to have found the building and mitigating which forced him to spend a lot of time alone and his private bedroom. just letterman is a national security journalist for this to say at a press he says the republican establishment will be believed to trump's distancing from steve bannon. the president's new battle with former chief strategist steve benen could create tensions with his base steve benen really helped represent a lot of the voters across the country who felt angry and disenfranchised and supported the presiden

blistering words from the man he helped propel to the highest political office in the world diane estabrookal-jazeera. the u.s. president's former campaign chairman paul man of forty is suing the u.s. justice department and special counsel robert muller over the rush or investigation amount of forces trying to fend off his criminal trial due to start in may he faces laundering charges related to work he did for the ukrainian government his lawsuit accuses mala of going beyond his legal authority by filing the charges against him . lots more still ahead on al-jazeera the jury in the u.s. decides the fate of a turkish banker accused of taking part in a scheme to breach sanctions against iran plus. i'm a listener i'm here to report on the western region after car where voluntary doctors together with the country's marines are bringing health services to once conflict ridden areas. and there is still bitterly cold for us in parts of north america here's some pictures from chicago and i feel cold just looking at them look at the amount of ice there own not river that is bitterly bitterly cold an

could lose millions of dollars in donations usa gymnastics could lose millions in sponsorships dion estabrook al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera. they're making it up that they let me go they were begging me to stay here as diplomat bill richardson denies he was asked by man as government to step down from an advisory board on the range of crisis the internet is the internet of information now we have the internet of money new money meets old money the world's financial elite discuss the future of digital conses such as because. from the clear blue sky of the doha moony. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of la. what has been a rather wet week a disturbed wait for eastern parts of the mediterranean but things will improve as we go through the next couple of days here's our offending area of low pressure still swirling away across the south the first cyprus syria lebanon jordan seeing some rather wet weather will gradually ease as we go through the next couple of days this is the same in tel aviv for same behavior a making its way across southern parts of israel through the gaza str

other things a new immigration plan and a spending plan to avoid a looming government shutdown dian estabrook al-jazeera washington and john hendren is joining us from washington there is already been a series of tweets from the president himself just a short time ago john. that's right daryn it's just another saturday morning here in washington and this time we have the extraordinary situation where the president of the united states is tweeting in defense of his own intellect that's of course all based on the reporting in this book he says throughout my life my two greatest assets have been my mental stability and being like really smart. this is really knocking him off of his message and he says that what is happening is that democrats and critics are taking a page out of the book of critics of ronald reagan who used to say that he was suffering from dementia that he was not altogether there but in fact in the book it's members of trump's own administration largely making these accusations steve bannon said he's lost his stuff rupert murdoch. the media baron said he's an idiot. tom barrett

use the device may also reveal highly sensitive information about the whereabouts of soldiers died estabrook explains. well fitness tracking devices have become very popular around the world in fact about twenty seven million people globally have these things including people in the u.s. military well it's starting to become a concern now for the u.s. military because this global heat map that went online last fall lets anybody go onto the internet and see where people that have these tracking devices are located and if you look at this map you see it places like the united states in north america and in europe are lit up because a lot of people in those areas of course have them but also now you can see areas where potentially u.s. military personnel have them the pentagon a few years ago gave out about twenty five hundred of these devices to some personnel in an effort to fight obesity so now there is concern that people can go onto this map and they can zoom in and they can see places where a military personnel are active places like the c. hill region of africa and an area south of mosul

could lose millions of dollars in donations usa gymnastics could lose millions in sponsorships dion estabrook al-jazeera still ahead on al-jazeera. but america first does not mean america alone. as president donald trump declares america even for business but insists trade must be fair. test china's ban on ivory forces artisans to find new ways to use their skills. how i want it's been a rather wet week a disturbed wake forest in parts of the mediterranean but things will improve as we go through the next couple of days here's our offending area of low pressure still swirling away across the south the first cyprus syria lebanon jordan seeing some rather wet weather will gradually ease as we go through the next couple of days this is the same in tel aviv for same behavior a making its way across southern parts of israel through the gaza strip and now it's pushing further eastward so easing across a good part of iraq into the northwest of iran turning to snow as it does so twelve celsius in tehran on saturday it will be coldest and as we go on through sunday that snow really setting in i'm if a

other things a new immigration plan and a spending plan to avoid a looming government shutdown dian estabrook al-jazeera washington oh orthodox christians around the world are getting ready to mark the christmas holiday and we can see some preparations underway for a parade in the occupied west bank city of back to him. and in istanbul armenians celebrating christmas the eastern orthodox faith follows the old julian calendar which puts the birth of jesus christ on or near january the seventh russians ethiopians and ukrainians are also marking christmas. q.n. is investigating last month's attack in the democratic republic of congo that killed fifteen of its peacekeepers and suspects the allied democratic forces ugandan the group was behind the attack as fighters are known to be active in congress north kivu province where the assault took place and says it will examine the circumstances surrounding the death of the towns and in the national and make recommendations. the a smell is a professor at the university of minnesota he joins us now from kosmo in somalia via skype thanks very much for be

called the talks a good first step and hopes of willing to discussions on denuclearization than estabrook has more now from washington d.c. . well the state department says that anything that lessens tensions on the korean poland and insulate it sees as a positive but it also says it would like to see talks on denuclearization white house says that it's seeing it's hopeful that. in his desire for a border wallace part of immigration reforms the president says lawmakers need to find a bipartisan solution to protect thousands of young so-called dream immigrants he says any agreement must include funding for border with mexico complete how could his following events in washington d.c. . well certainly there has been repeated speculation about the president's mental fitness when it comes to his presidency those accusations intensify in the past week but that may have been countered by a spontaneous press conference by the president a bipartisan appearance of both democratic and republican lawmakers here at the white house that appeared to run in front of the press real time negotiations on a

well it's big to dion estabrook is live in washington d.c. for us hi there diane so why is the white house responding quite so strongly to this. well julie i think sarah sanders who is the president's press secretary summed it up fairly well this afternoon when she says you do not curry favor with president trump when you accuse his son of committing treason and being unpatriotic and so in other words what they're saying is steve bannon really crossed a line in this book when he said that. donald trump jr should not have met with these with this russian lawyer who claim to have dirt on hillary clinton he said that he should have immediately not he shouldn't taken the meeting at all and he should have immediately gone to the f.b.i. and of course this comes at a very sensitive time for the tron white house because right now robert muller is in the midst of this deepening investigation into russia meddling into last the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign and possible collusion by people within the trump white house so that's it's a s

blistering words from the man he helped propel to the highest political office in the world dion estabrook al-jazeera. just letterman is a national security journalist for the associated press that the republican establishment will be relieved that trump's distancing from state ban in the president's new battle with former chief strategist steve benen could create tensions with his base steve benen really helped represent a lot of the voters across the country who felt angry and disenfranchised and supported the president wanted and now the president is saying that you've been is out of his mind that he didn't have a lot of influence either in the white house or in the campaign but steve benen was never an establishment republican he was never part of that group on capitol hill that has run the country for so long a lot of mainstream republicans on capitol hill and elsewhere will be delighted to see the president distancing himself from steve benen and that wing of the party bed and has been waging a war against incumbent republicans across the country as we head towards the midterms the w

picture of life inside the oval office and it describes a president mentally unfit for the job diane estabrook has more.

blistering words from the man he helped propel to the highest political office in the world diane estabrook al-jazeera the u.s. president's former campaign chairman paul man of forty is suing the u.s. justice department and special counsel robert muller over the rusher investigation man the forces trying to fend off his criminal trial due to start in may he faces laundering charges related to work he did for the ukrainian government his lawsuit accuses mother of going beyond his legal authority by filing the charges against him. and iran's ambassador to the un is accusing the u.s. of interfering in his country's domestic affairs he wrote a letter of complaint to the u.n. secretary general it comes after days of unrest in which at least twenty two people have been killed the government's received to show support in the form of tens of thousands of people who rallied to condemn the unrest matheson reports. on iranian state t.v. pictures of government supporters filling city streets condemning protests and deaths during the day and. it's basically people who are believing that what so what's h

other things a new immigration plan and a spending plan to avoid a looming government shutdown dian estabrook al-jazeera washington. well along with the revelations about trump style of government there are also passages in the book on the president's foreign policy specifically in relation to the gulf it says trumps and a circle centered at for middle east policy on full play as they go to united egypt israel and saudi arabia against iran it also says the president was telling people that the saudis were going to finance an entirely new u.s. military presence in the kingdom potentially replacing its command headquarters and causes and in another exit quote gave a nod to the saudis plan to fully cut it in june saudi arabia egypt the u.a.e. and behind cut diplomatic and economic ties would cut it. but david rush's a professor at national defense university and a former pentagon official and he says he wouldn't be surprised if the trumpet ministration had considered setting up a new base and saudi arabia. the u.s. national security interest is to have a constellation of bases in every country a

preposterous the casino tycoon led fundraising efforts during donald trump's first year in office style and estabrook reports now from washington. well steve wynn said that he was stepping down as finance chairman of the republican national committee because he didn't want to be a distraction to president trump or the party when it is a billionaire casino owner who is the latest person to get swept up in the sexual harassment scandal that has been sweeping the u.s. . and actually president romney has been rivals at one point in the casino business when the president trump only can see you know in atlantic city but they were friendly and he was tapped by the president to come on as the finance chairman when the president took office last year but he said that he could not stay on again because he didn't want to be a distraction going into these highly contentious midterm elections coming up in the fall he most recently held fund raising events at the president's mar a lago retreat in florida and had also had a recent fund raising event in new york city but because the republican party had been so crit

other things a new immigration plan and a spending plan to avoid a looming government shutdown dian estabrook al-jazeera washington well folks questions around the world are celebrating the christmas holiday the patriarch of jerusalem feel feel for this is a third visiting the occupied west bank city back to have to hold mass to mark the festivities it's also been the cause of growing public anger of to be accused of saying the flaws swathes of church land to private businesses many palestinians are also good at the u.s. administration's decision to name to receive them as israel's capital how much on june has more from bethlehem. despite the best efforts of the organizers there has been a dampened sense of enthusiasm here in manger square in bethlehem in the occupied west bank far fewer people than would usually be here on orthodox christmas eve now part of the reason for that is the fact that there have been calls by groups to boycott the arrival of the greek orthodox patriarch the awfulness the third because there is growing anger among palestinian christians about allegations that have be

blistering words from the man he helped propel to the highest political office in the world diane estabrook al-jazeera. the book is a real more insight into trump's first year and office of the biggest claims in the book is that he never expected to beat hillary clinton his son tunnel trump jr is quoted as saying his father looked as though he had seen a ghost on election night publicly claimed more people attended his inauguration than barack obama's in private he was furious that celebrities spoke openly of avoiding the event and on moving into the white house trying to set to a found the building intimidating which forced him to spend a lot of time alone and his private bedroom just letterman is a national security journalist for the associated press says the republican establishment will be relieved at trump's distancing from steve ballmer the president's new battle with former chief strategist steve benen could create tensions with his base steve benen really helped represent a lot of the voters across the country who felt angry and disenfranchised and supported by the president want t

that meeting essential to an investigation into suspected russian meddling and the election and estabrook reports from washington. for the first time a furious donald trump publicly. thrashed his former strategist over comments in an upcoming book saying steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind in fire and fury inside the trump white house bannon says donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic when he met with russians who claimed to have dirt on democratic presidential candidates hillary clinton press secretary sarah sanders called the president's anger at bannon justified i would certainly think that going after the president's son and absolutely outrageous an unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody the book's release coincides with special prosecutor robert miller's investigation into russia's meddling in the twenty six thousand election and possible collusion by the trump campaign it includes interviews with white house insiders including bannon and paints an administratio

on coal the twenty sixteen meeting between donald trump jr and a group of russians treasonous don estabrook as more from washington d.c. . well steve bannon and breitbart are both saying that he left the his position at breitbart but there's a lot of speculation in washington that he was probably pushed out. one of the investors and one of the board members that breitbart is a republican a billionaire republican donor by the name of rebecca mercer she hopelessly called bannon out last week over the comments that he made in fire and fury so there is speculation that she probably had something to do with his leaving the breitbart news. this afternoon what is the political future for steve bannon kind of hard to tell right now he appears to be rather toxic this was a man who had a very meteoric rise started at breitbart in two thousand and twelve sort of led this nationalist movement and helped get president trump elected and then was part of his staff now he's fallen out of favor with trump he's lost his job at breitbart and he's also lost a show a radio show on sirius satellite radio so he s

olympic committee over the handling of the abuse claims diane estabrook has the details. well this was a major housecleaning and now the usa gymnastics organization has to replace its entire board that includes about twenty people which also includes representatives for the athletes it has twelve months to do this the u.s.o.c. listed some other demands but this really was the most important one if it doesn't get that team in place then it risk losing its authority both the u.s. o.c. and the usa gymnastics have been under intense fire since the nasser scandal broke out about eighteen months ago and the fallout from this scandal is really far from over we're we're also hearing that the governor of michigan is calling for an investigation as well as the attorney general of michigan is calling in for an investigation betsy de vos the u.s. secretary of education says her department is looking into this and we're starting to see fallout on the campus of michigan state university where nasser was attached the president of the university has stepped down already today the athleti

blistering words from the man he helped propel to the highest political office in the world dion estabrook al-jazeera. palestinian leaders say they won't be blackmailed after the us president threatened to cut aid worth around three quarters of a billion dollars a year donald trump tweeted blaming palestinians for refusing to engage in middle east peace talks he also said he'd taken jerusalem off the negotiating table relations with the u.s. have plummeted since trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital last month iran's ambassador to the u.n. is accusing the u.s. of interfering in his country's domestic affairs washington's ambassador had called for an emergency un meeting to discuss anti-government protests in iran at least twenty two people have died in days of unrest ethiopia's government says it will release and pardoned all political prisoners the surprise announcement by the prime minister will see the notorious mao kilauea prison turned into a museum it follows months of anti-government protests. a turkish banker's been found guilty in the u.s. calls taking part in the scheme