author michael wolff. and musical guests andra day and common. featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: how are you? thank you very much! hey, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) thank you very much! thank you! thank you! thank you, joe! welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) lovely people here tonight. let me ask you here something, did anybody here see last night's episode of oprah? ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) it was so great. now, some people are calling it "the golden globes." it was easily one of the most powerful, moving, meaningful nights of beautiful millionaires giving each other trophies. ( laughter ) and, oprah-- really-- her speech was so moving, even for oprah. >> i want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! ( cheers and applause ) and when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magni

inside the truck white house clerk who michael wolff michael wolff the author of fire and fury joins me now michael wolff welcome i don't want. to. use it during a t.v. interview just last month that you're absolutely sure that donald trump is currently having an affair called just last week you know if you back flips and said i quote i do not know if the president is having an affair do you are the president and the first lady an apology mr wolf. i can't hear you. do you are the president and the first lady at a public event i can hear you. joe you said you were absolutely sure that the president would having an affair i mean i'm not getting i'm not getting anything. you know hearing me but i'm not getting anything. yes the oldest trick in the book now recycling old computers might sound like a good idea but it could put well money california behind bars the full story after this break. i played for many clubs over the years so i know that. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super mone

he does believe -- you know although i think he has many complaints with michael wolff and how michael wolff handled the terms of their interviews maybe and how some of those conversations were conducted privately, he's not gone out and attacked michael wolff, he's not taken back a word he said in the book. i think part of that is he knows he's caught, he's on the record, his words are recorded. and also he told michael wolff the truth, what he thought at the time. that reflects the an mouse he feels towards jared kushner. and i think with don junior it's a low regard. he's not taking him serious. between the two things, the disdain for don junior and the cop tempt and hatred he feels for jared, there's a lot of emotional and psychological baggage and motivational factors that come in. he's not going down for any of these people. >> they're both right. but the congress is looking at a different thing than mueller. mueller is looking at what crimes have been committed and by who. congress should be looking at how do we keep the russians from hacking and hurting our elections in 2018. we

here you start your trouble right now is michael oh michael wolff michael wolff the author of fire and fury joins me now michael wolff welcome i don't want. you sit during a t.v. interview just last month that you are absolutely sure that donald trump is currently having an affair just last week you know if you backflipped and say that i quote i do not know if the president is having an affair do you are the president and the first lady an apology mr wolf. i can't hear you. do you are the president and the first lady at a public event i can hear you. joe lovano did you add that loosely short that the president with having an affair i mean i'm not getting in i'm not getting anything. you know hearing me but i'm not getting anything. and american experts in recycling electronics could face prison and the hefty fine over his plan to save old computers going into month science microsoft has accused eric longer in creating some husbands have any legal copies of itself where he argues he was only using it to extend the life span of all p.c.'s but he faces up to fifteen months in prison and a

now michael wolff welcome i was. usage hearing a t.v. interview just last month that you are absolutely sure that donald trump is currently having an affair called just last week i would have you back flips and say that i closed all i do not know if the president is having an affair do you are the president and the first lady an apology mr wolf. i can't hear you. do you are the president and the first lady at a public event i can hear you. did you absolutely sure that the president with having an affair i mean i'm not getting in i'm not getting anything. you know hearing me i'm not getting anything. pushing out internationally can have more news he. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't. let me. get to stamp out these things comes out to play and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. russia's been reaching out for decades for years under putin saying look we've got to trade more this more trade and america is like no no you're an existential cris

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can start your trip the white house might go michael wolff michael wolff the author of fire and fury joins me now michael wolff welcome on a work. during a t.v. interview just last month that you're absolutely sure that donald trump is currently having an affair just last week backflips and said i quote i do not know if the president is having an affair do you are the president and the first lady an apology mr wolf. i can't hear you. do you are the president and the why the apology i can't hear you. but loosely sure that the president having an affair i'm not getting i'm not getting anything. you know hearing me but i'm not getting anything. a californian who's an expert in recycling electronics is funded self and a whole lot of trouble this is over his idea to help people to save money when it comes to upgrading the computers microsoft has accused of creating thousands of illegal copies of itself well you know argues that he was only using it to extend the life span of old p.c.'s but he faces up to fifteen months in prison and a possible fifty thousand dollars fine lunker and insist

i met michael wolff in west wing. of seconds,s a man not the meant to give him my time, and i will not allow him to exploit my checkbook. host: why did he have such access? guest: that is a good question. i do not know who approved this access to the white house. there are lots of series out there. i have not seen the paper trail. it is a good question is if you look at the previous book he published, not only was it generally bad the receipt, 13 individuals quoted in that book by michael wolff demanded he retract the quotes because they did not reflect reality, and now we know the same thing has happened with fire and theory, blair, thethan tony former prime minister, as soon as the book came out, denied ever saying anything of the sort to michael wolff, as he quoted him in the book. it is just a charlatan's work. host: we would go to tim in ohio. democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: find, thank you. guest: good. caller: i have the comment to say that i really tried to look at things

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can start your trip white house mark go michael wolff michael wolff the author of fire and fury joins me now michael was one of my work. during a t.v. interview just last month that you're absolutely sure that donald trump is currently having an affair just last week backflips and said i quote i do not know if the president is having an affair do you are the president and the first lady an apology mr wolf. i can't hear you. do you are the president and the but why do you have a problem i can hear you. believe the shore that the president having an affair i'm not getting i'm not getting anything. you know hearing me i'm not getting anything. california news an expert in recycling electronics is found himself in a whole heap of trouble that's over his idea to help people to save money when it comes to upgrading their computers by kosoff those accused of creating thousands of illegal copies of itself while he argues he was only using it to extend the life span of a world peace. but he faces up to fifteen months in prison and a possible fifty thousand dollars fine line going to insist he

bannon is quoted in "fire and fu fury" by author michael wolff saying this. "you realize where this is going, this is all about money laundering. mueller chose senior prosecutor andrew wiseman first, he's a money laundering guy. their path to bleeping trump goes rite through paul manafort, don jr. and jared kushner. it's as plain as a hair on your face." maybe on your face, mr. bannon. michael schmidt, you had the big scoop last night. this is something i have to say, i've heard from chris christie i think on this show, other people, nobody thinks it's a good idea for the president to talk to the special counsel. what did you learn? >> as you sort of saw it today, there are concerns about the president's discipline, not only that he will tell the truth -- what? >> the understatement of the century. there are concerns he's going to end up giving them the obstruction of justice case on a platter. isn't that one of the concerns? >> but the other concern is that he likes to talk and that he would go on and on and try and explain himself and in the process of that

the michael wolff book and ask questions about that.as complied with the house, the senate, and he sat down with the mueller team. i think he's doing everything that he needs to be doing in this. >> that's not completely true. 13 democrats sent a letter because he was not complying with requests that they had made from him concerning financial entanglements. >> he has a multi-billion-dollar business that he's vesting himself from and that takes time. we haven't had successful people in business like this just come in who haven't been active -- >> nepotism at its worst. >> it's for this very reason right here. you can talk about his multi-billion-dollar business, the 666 fifth avenue project is a billion dollars in debt. if he can pick up the phone and make some calls to different people that may potentially help him out, that's a problem. >> if there was some issue or he was freaking out about it, he would have stayed outside the white house and just stayed in his business. >> or maybe he has more access because he is inside the white h

and his face went back, his eyes went open, and he says, you don't give michael wolff 45 minutes. and then he said why don't you come back to the house after i do the show, and we'll sit around, which we did for, like, hours as he ate these pints of ice cream. [laughter] >> well, let's talk more about president trump -- [laughter] and media. because i do think that we have a president who is a media creation, and you are someone who, as you just said, writes about the media. and you write on page 215, this is president trump's, even citizen trump's view. if you couldn't get press directly for yourself, you became a leaker. there was no happenstance news, in trump's view. all news was manipulated and designed, planned and planted. all news was to some extent fake. he understood that very well because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. this was why he had so naturally gotten to the fake news label. quote: i've made up -- i've made stuff up forever, and they always prohibit it, he bragged. print it. he bragged. that is -- i mean, we have seen that. >> totally, i mea

michael wolff was on cnn as part of their new all wolf lineup. ( laughter ) yes, "over, to, you, chomperso, trump just invites anyone who says anything nice about him to the white house? "who's that eric kid i saw on 'fox & friends?' get him in here. i want to meet that guy. he seems nice. ( laughter ) put a tarp down, though. put a tarp down." ( applause ) once wolff was in the white house, everybody assumed it was fine to talk to him. in fact, nearly everyone who spoke with wolff thought someone else in the white house had approved their participation. "well, of course, i'll talk to you, michael. listen, if we allowed you in here without approval, then we shouldn't be allowed in here. anyway, are we rolling? good. he takes a cheeseburger to bed, and i don't think it's consensual. ( laughter ) yeah, write that down. you can quote me." but what really sold the administration on the book is the fact that wolff didn't tell them it would be called "fire and fury." he told them it would be called, "the great transition: the first 100 days of the trump administration." and they believed him. (

and then you have the michael wolff report. so you take those together the suggestion that mark corallo saw the issues here, saw the trouble the president was wading into, be immediately radar went off. knows the law, knows what mueller might want to look out. knows what it means the lies that tumble out of other lies. and also knows when hope hicks said this thing that he said she said, and told people contemporaneous that she said it, was either naive, which is possible. not a stupid person but thaugtd this is a small number of people on the e-mail chain it might not get out. not realizing that these e-mails have been dragged into the investigation, they were on their way to capitol hill. but in either case, he sees that jeopardy and there is a strong suggestion that as he looked back on this quickly thereafter, he's like, i'm out of here and left the white house. >> barb mcquad, as a former prosecutor, your reaction to this? >> i think robert mueller will be interested in the comment by hope hicks about no one seeing the e-m

reason i'm smiling is because a lot of my are out thank you so much here's a look at some of michael wolff's exposÉ on dan harris gets his thoughts and then they that's with ulysses s a look at some of in which he recalls how he balances professional the leading half your life. followed after that opera winfrey's insight from her most meaningful conversations. the wisdom of sunday's. and wrapping up i look at some of the books from the los angeles times nonfiction bestseller list is the dangerous case of critical look at the mental health of the president. many of these authors have appeared on book tv. you can and it when we were where the gods of the sky because what was important and so the way that was through those aspects of and most the moon is often seen as sun is most definitely a sky is a male kitty. when we transition our focus went from the sky to the earth as opposed to the sky is life. we that way in a way. but then something very interesting happened. which is organized was in constant movement. but when we stopped moving and we settled down and we began to and a place the god

michael wolff is with us now.this is leading given the reporting in your book? >> i think this is a crucial episode. effectively mark corallo was the spokesperson for the president's legal team and he said point blank to me i think there was an obstruction here and that the obstruction was actually wide-ranging and his argument -- i mean, this is a guy who has been involved in these things his entire career, super smart he said when you draft a press announcement that is purposefully misleading, its purpose is to obstruct justice. it's to taint the investigators, it's to taint the pool of -- i mean, you are specifically out there doing this with the intent to essentially mislead everyone. and it wasn't only -- so mark corallo was there and he was kept to the side and this was going on but trump's lawyer was not allowed into this conversation. so all of the people who would have said, hey, wait a minute, this is -- you can't do this, were kept out. so mathe president's lawyer was kept on the phone for an hour waiti

house aides was granted through hope hicks who appears to have miscalculated the situation and michael wolffabout kind of hoodwinking his way into the white house by suggesting perhaps he was going to write a counternarrative about how good things were going in the white house. of course, that didn't work out. but the president hasn't been thrilled with hicks for misjudging that one either. >> to be fair, in the conversations i have, people highly respect hope. they think she's thoughtful and heavily engaged in the process. and perhaps her best ally, not just the president, but his daughter, ivanka trump and son-in-law jared kushner. of course, she worked with ivanka trump for years. >> that's right. that's where she worked. her experience was not in politics but working for ivanka trump's brand. as we know with this president, he values sort of a personal rapport and trust very, very highly which is something he has probably more with hicks than he did with previous communications directors. so that factor suggests that she will have a longer leash than they did. and so i don't know if ther

. - president trump was venting again today possibly taking a swipe at michael wolff's new book.ere's what he had to say. - our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent american values or american fairness, so we're gonna take a strong look at that. we want fairness. you can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and, uh, be able to smile as money pours into your bank account. [laughter] - seriously? "say false things as money pours into your bank account"? that's the story of donald trump's whole life. [laughter] it was the motto of his fake university. at a speech in ohio, he took a moment to complain about the democrats who didn't clap for him during the state of the union. - somebody said "treasonous." i mean, yeah, i guess. why not? you know. - people with a hard-on for democracy didn't like the president casually accusing his political opponents of treason, which is why the queen of comedy, sarah huckabee sanders, came out to explain a thing or two. - the president was clearly joking with his comments. - yeah, guys, lighten up. the president

. >> stephen: now, everyone is talking about this book, michael wolff's "fire and fury."ant to know, what do you have to say about this book? >> the author is a garbage person of a garbage book. ( laughter ) >> stephen: how about this one? >> page after page after page of the book is pure false. >> stephen: and this one? >> nothing but a pile of trash through and through. ( laughter ) >> stephen: and, finally, this one, stephen colbert's "midnight confessions." >> something magical that's happening in the heart of this country.

. >> stephen: now, everyone is talking about this book, michael wolff's "fire and fury."t to know, what do you have to say about this book? >> the author is a garbage person of a garbage book. ( laughter ) >> stephen: how about this one? >> page after page after page of the book is pure false. >> stephen: and this one? >> nothing but a pile of trash through and through. ( laughter ) >> stephen: and, finally, this one, stephen colbert's "midnight confessions." >> something magical that's happening in the heart of this country. ( applause )

our sources say mueller was ornl interested in the testimony after it was reported in michael wolff's book "fire and fury." abc news, washington. >>> i.c.e. will not arrest undocumented immigrants at courthouses unless they're wanted for crimes or pose a threat to public safety. federal immigration officials made that promise yesterday. they say i.c.e. agents need approval from a supervisor before making an arrest. i.c.e. is responding to critics who say agents unfairly target undocumented immigrants at courthouses for noncriminal proceedings like family court or small claims court. the san francisco district attorney told "the chronicle," courthouse immigration sweeps keep people from working. many fear their immigration status will be used against them. >>> more developing news in san francisco. the fund-raising battle between two candidates in the mayor's race heating up. norma breed has raised more than $300,000. she's almost on par with one of her rivals, former state senator mark leno, who has raised more than $400,000 in contributions since last year. the special election will

so what she's saying rings true and it's in line with what was in michael wolff's book.larious sha she's on a television show, on cam remarks micced up and whispering. i don't understand that that's bizarre to me. >> we've got this. lots of criticism, rick, aimed at omarosa. is it fair? >> no, alex, look, the country is in real trouble. it's not going to be okay. >> no, no, no. look, it's a wonderful country when you can make a living at redefining who you are. this is as simple to figure out as checkers. omarosa had no constituency in the white house. nobody liked her. she said she lost 100 friends, i don't think she had 100 friends to begin with far be it for me to say, i don't think she spoke for the black community. >> she did not. >> now she's back on "big brother" and this audience doesn't like trump so she's got to play to this audience and they love it when she dishes on trump. she'll get ratings that way and it's the best she's ever going to do. >> you think the criticism of her is fair? >> yes, i think it's fair. we talked a few months back about a conference i

maybe it is tied to the michael wolff book, but more, we just don't know in many cases what the specialing. shimon prokupecz, thank you so much. >>> scott pruitt's travel expanses under investigation. house oversight committee launching a new probe, this following reports that pruitt traveled first class on multiple business-related trips. pruitt reportedly said last week that he travels on military jets and first class due to security concerns, telling a reporter, quote, we live in a very toxic environment politically. >>> south korean officials say they will not set up a meeting between ivanka trump and the north korean olympic delegation. ivanka trump headed to south korea where she will lead the u.s. delegation at the closing ceremonies of the olympics. she will also attend a dinner with the south korean president on friday. >>> we're still watching this live developments from the cpac conference. dana lash wrapping up. we're expected to hear from the executive director of the nra, wayne lapierre any minute. his first comments since the shooting in parkland, florida. how much pressu

i met michael wolff in west wing.seconds,s a man not the meant to give him my time, and i will not allow him to exploit my checkbook. host: why did he have such access? guest: that is a good question. i do not know who approved this access to the white house. there are lots of series out there. i have not seen the paper trail. it is a good question is if you look at the previous book he published, not only was it generally bad the receipt, 13 individuals quoted in that book by michael wolff demanded he retract the quotes because they did not reflect reality, and now we know the same thing has happened with fire and theory, blair, thethan tony former prime minister, as soon as the book came out, denied ever saying anything of the sort to michael wolff, as he quoted him in the book. it is just a charlatan's work. host: we would go to tim in ohio. democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: find, thank you. guest: good. caller: i have the comment to say that i really tried to look at things logi

and ban none said in the michael -- bannon said in the michael wolff book. can the president be charged? >> there are two goals. one is to justify the existence of mueller's office. he can justify the existence of his office by indicting manafort and this dutch lawyer for things that have nothing to do about the campaign. second goal may be to find out what they know about donald trump. money laundering which was alleged by chris steele or obstruction of justice. this is the standard operating procedure of federal prosecutors. you indict, you charge, you punish at the bottom of the totem poll. we all know who is at the top. kennedy: we do. it's a matter of whether these loosely connected figures and points create a ladder to the white house. if it doesn't, what a phenomenal waste of time. >> manafort would say -- but the down side is, an unaccountable special counsel materially interfering with the president's ability to govern. when will this end? i don't think this will end this year. i think more indictments will come. if they try manafort, the country wi

they only a few days after the publication of michael wolff's book, in which steve bannon rips apart house and the president gets publicly excommunicated, not just by the white house, but eventually loses his ties to breitbart. he watches the ceremony of all the women's power meant movement, and the backlash, an embodiment of the #metoo movement. he has this oh my gosh movement. this is the next political backlash that is going to, you know, sweep washington and away the institutions. of course, he's the guy who harnessed the last one, the populist ghana nationalist movement. he's telling josh, who, you know, as there watching this, this is a seminal moment. the irony of course is this is coming just as payment has been exiled out of the party -- the irony is that this is coming as bannon has been exiled out of the white house. this could do potential damage for the republicans in 2018. julia: he declared it's a cromwell moment, we're talking oliver cromwell. we are talking the u.k. what did he mean by that, and where does he see the danger? matthew: he sees this as an anti-patriarch

never trump media are suddenly finding their moral compass regarding sleaze ball fiction writer michael wolffd he turn his attention to writing fan fiction for living. if you honest lefties called him out but most held their fire so long as he was dishing dirt on the president. today, mika brezinski kicked up a fuss over an affair that never happened between the president and nikki haley. >> i'm going to go as far as to say that you might be having a fun time playing a little game dancing around this but you are slurring a woman, it's disgraceful. >> laura: i'm sure that wasn't done for affect, a little bit late. fair minded folks found the wolff book so filled with inaccuracies, he demanded his name be removed from acknowledgments and subsequent publishing. who could forget when it trevor noah of the daily show put the nail in his coffin. >> you insinuated and said out loud that donald trump is possibly having an affair with someone in the white house, where you get this from? >> you have to read the book. >> i read the book i don't know what you got that from. >> read between the lines, the

one of the reasons people want to talk to him is because of the quotes he gave in michael wolff's book. kennedy: he was specific about the kushner empire and how they are edging their bets. >> the white house has taken out his career and maybe he's trying to find a soft spot in donald trump's heart to bring him back in. kennedy: he's such a sympathetic character. >> regardless of whether you think this is politically motivatedder >> has nothing to hide. he is not someone who handles himself well as a punching back. i don't know how you can ignore a subpoena from congress. the constitution is clear. congress is powerful with their seen a powers. this is not going to be across long-term strategy that will work for him. kennedy: this institution he loathes, i'm not talking to the swamp>> the u.s. marshals will t him from his house if he doesn't show up. kennedy: tino you are a lawyer. but just because you don't testify doesn't mean you are guilty. >> absolutely not. it becomes problematic when you start saying we are all about transparency and aiding this investigation and getting truth.

we leader about it a few weeks ago when steve bannon in michael wolff's book is quoted as talking about meeting at trump tower with trump jr. and the gang as treasonous. and he ended up having to apologize for that and take it back. but he called that treasonous. now, the obvious reason he said that is because they were meeting with russians. so, but the president is saying that the democrats are treasonous for sitting on their hands? so it is just ridiculous. the fact the president would even say it. by the way, we're not paying attention to the other word. unmerge. unamerican. how is it unamerican to decide not to applaud something? >> the concerning thing is not necessarily that he said it, i think he believes, he views himself as the country. donald trump is the -- so if you don't cheer for donald trump, you're not cheering for the country which of course is not, that equation is never true with any president. >> listen, i agree with what's being said. treason is a crime. for the president to accuse the democrats, i don't think anyone should take that lightly. >> it is happen during

a lot of this really caming to -- came to light in the last couple of weeks, especially with michael wolff's book "fire and fury," multiple occasions in the book he called trump tower meetings with donald trump jr. treasonous and a number of other accusations against members of the campaign and close confidantes to president trump that are now obviously the subject of great interest for the house intel committee and for special counsel robert mueller. so those are definitely some of the issues that they're going to want to grill bannon on to see to what extent, you know, he knew about these issues and whether or not they are treasonous as he alleges them to be. so those are the answers they're trying to get, but from what adam schiff said earlier, it doesn't sound like they got a lot of answers so far. >> matthew as i said earlier, gates is one of thelesser known names in this, just by lack of exposure. remind us, if you can, why he's an important player in all this. >> right. he was something of a deputy to paul manafort, who we know has not yet pleaded out and is facing indictment from mue

the owner, michael wolff, gives them power and water and toilet facilities at no cost.rst the city called what wolf set up an illegal trailer park and said the trailers had to go. >> there's a lot of work that has to be done and not enough people to do the work and not enough places for them to stay if they come from outside of the area. >> santa rosa's housing director decided to make an exception and allow the trailers to stay where they are because nearby campgrounds and lodging are all full. >>> bart has started introducing some new seats in their old train cars. bart is replacing the fabric for priority seating on train cars with a light brownish yellow as a new way to remind commuters that those seats are reserved for senior citizens and people with disabilities. >>> good morning. more than 150 people whose homes were damaged during devastating floods last year along coyote creek in san jose are filing suit against the city and county. what they are claiming coming up. >>> 20 women say they were abused at a high school over a span of 30 years. more on the claims a

kennedy: in michael wolff's book, because he wasn't granted access that long. gone. yoyou are a writer and editor-in-chief in washington, d.c. >> as soon as bannon and priebus and a couple of these guys were gone. the leaks that were every day have basically evaporated. kennedy: was that all bannon? >> he has a kind of fan as -- f fantastical idea of everything. he's definitely someone who used the media to hurt his enemies. he wasn't the only player but he was a major player in spread something of that discord. kennedy: the leaks we were documenting seemed to most of live have dried up. is that because of john kelly and because of that will he keep his job? it seems kelly has brought more order and, you know, discipline to the oval office. >> he definitely has. it's been his job, it's been his career. reince priebus wasn't in an enviable position. he was a technocrat leading the rnc out of chaos. he wasn't a highly range mad reason corps general or businessman. kelly has shown a slight sign of weakness, all the ghouls spread to the press every day, kelly is ab

michael wolff, a retired u.s.ine, and a better business bureau a+ rated contractor was facing a $10,000 a day fine if these trailers were not gone today. >> there's a lot of work that needs to be done. and there's not enough people to do the work. and there's not enough for them to stay if they are coming here from outside of the area. >> reporter: reasonably caused by browns, telegrams, -- campgrounds, already full. he's supplying them with water, power, and toilet facilities. this is nonetheless an illegal trailer park. the director of housing is that lot requires such parts to be set up in accordance with health and safety codes. the city has decided that this trailer park can be left to stand. the current zoning doesn't allow for a single-family lot to have multiple trailers on it. in this case, we think we can make an exception and look at it. >> reporter: a temporary use permit to be for a day to even several years. so problem solved. >> it's always had a great relationship with the city of santa rosa. i wou

the president, a subject he's sensitive about after the unflattering portrayal of trump in the michael wolff book. >> and john kelly has very few supporters in the white house top staff, especially the family because he's been controlling their access and establishing more order. >> right. according to sources, he has sort of been frustrated with jared kushner and ivanka trump, the president's daughter and son-in-law who of course have very powerful positions in the white house. he has curtailed -- he's done his best to curtail their influence in the west wing. now people around that couple suggest that they have not been behind any effort to push kelly out, they're disputing that line of report iing but there's no question this isp precarious how kelly's hold on this job has been. he came in to clamp down on who the president could see and talk to and to get policy rolling in a better way. our reporting, the president isn't ready to make a change but there's no question his frustration level has grown. >> mack mcclarty, as a former chief of staff to a white house that had its own share of c

but you know if you believe the narrative that michael wolff built up in his book, donald trump needs to be calmed. so you have these people trying to please him with this information. i wonder if that means the next one will be more hyped. >> he needs everything is fine, he's about to win, the strain is about to be over. i don't know if that's an infinite loop you can continue to promise him. but for the rest of us we need more relief. >> magic beans. >> yes. >> i'm joy reid in for lawrence o'donnell. for weeks devin nunes one of the most determined republicans when it comes to derailing the mueller investigation has been scripting his very own reality show. there is no russia-gate. donald trump is the victim of interference. and the real villains are robert mueller, hillary clinton, and the fbi. he even gave it a new name, #releasethememo. and he got it trending a twitter with russian bots. it's been a huge hit leading to today's season finale with help from fox news. >> i have a special message for robert mueller, your witch hunt is now over, time to close the doors. that's the imp