omarosa is following in the footsteps of michael wolff. lisa: is interesting because as of these people go after the president so aggressively, whether it is michael moore omarosa, they all have the same effect in that they generate the kind of excitement and chaos that the president feeds off of. and it only ends up serving his -- how can people have not figured a better way to counteract the president? >> you are so spot on! what people do not understand. at least on the left, in america when it comes to the president, is he relishes conflict. he relishes this kind of you know, give and take, push and shove and who comes out always winning? it is donald trump. you do not go up against donald trump, especially if you're building a fortress on a tissue of lies. you're absolutely right. lisa: gorka! what an accent, what a brain! thank you so much for your time. >> don't you start! lisa: it is like pringles, i can't stop! thanks again! >> thanks. lisa: what is omarosa 's endgame. will get the take on the fiasco plus a new poll shows democrats

of hurt him the most, it's the people who are playing his own game -- one is omarosa, one was michael wolff who was sort of obsequious and plattering of the president in order to get access and then told people this would be a positive book and then wrote reality or some reality, any way, some version of it. michael cohen, who taped phone conversations with the president, at least one. donald trump was known for years to tape to have some kind of a proof if he needed it. trump trevors sort of the world as a mirror and so if you do that, then you are going to surround yourself with people who are like you or who are willing to act like you and omarosa has done that expertly. >> when we're talking about the omarosa back and forth, the next person to get involved with this will be the first -- the next credible person to get involved in this debate will be the first credible person to get involved in this debate because there's no credibility to be found here. not at all. >> no, that's totally true. >> and everyday that passes, it's the same thing. sarah sanders yet was -- i don't know what sh

michael wolff is nothing like the journalist that bob woodward is.uspect that there will be a lot of original reporting and eyebrow-raising revelations about what it's like to work in the trump white house. if for no other reason than trump has cycled more senior aides and advisers and at an unprecedented pace than any of his predecessors. there's an enormous number of sources who are available for a journalist of bob's integrity and caliber. so i imagine trump will really freak out, you know. look at how he is reacting to the unproven allegations in the omarosa book. >> thank you, susan, thank you, john. i appreciate your time. >>> president trump tonight trying to justify his retaliation against john brennan by blaming the one thing that's never far from his mind, wait for it -- the russia investigation. >>> sources telling cnn the cia was caught off-guard by trump's decision on brennan and dan coats, director of national intelligence, was not consulted. tonight coats says the president has the ultimate authority to decide who holds a security clea

from a standpoint of credibility that was devastating for michael wolff. that book ended up not laying a single finger on the president politicly speaking. when you're going to accuse a proven liar of lies, your own credibility ought to be pretty good. otherwise you're doing the president a favor. this is what frightens me about the omarosa phenomenon. >> he's tried to tear down james comey. he's gone after him relentlessly and ruthlessly trying to tear down his credibility. >> and failing to do so. >> i would not compare omarosa to james comey. clearly the president is nervous. he's tweeting she's a dog. sarah huckabee sanders said she hopes we never, ever talk about this again. >> she wouldn't even utter her name. that's got to lend credence to her claims if they're that nervous. >> they're definitely nervous. when general kelly came in one of the reasons was because omarosa was in the oval office. just to push back on your point, i don't think omarosa has to be the perfect messenger for some of this in terms of being thought to be credible. just because

we saw with fire and fury, michael wolff's book when it came out in january, and we're seeing it again the white house didn't have any sort of communications plan, how to combat the book in the ready that they would start weeks before the book came out where they could blunt the criticism and try and get some sort of defensive strategy. and, yes, they were lucky in that this reality show caused by michael wolff and omarosa came from people with credibility problems. but what's happening next month? bob woodward's book fear comes out. he has a 50 year track record of honest reporting on both republicans and democrats. he has multiple pulitzers, highly sourced. he will get more information than anything that has come out, and the white house is going to be broadsided. this is going to look like child's play in comparison to what's happening. remember the brennan security revocation. the white house sent out a statement to white house reporters dated july 26. they had it in their back pocket to try and change the narrative. how are they going to change the narrative when bob woodward's bo

that wasn't necessarily the case with michael wolff's book. there were a lot of questions about his sourcing technique, and the voracity of some of the anecdotes he portrayed in it. and you had the same thing already shaping up around amarosa's book. but the fact of the matter is, michael wolff's book sold like gang busters. amarosa is certainly getting a lot of attention. we'll see how she does sales wise. and that is because there is such a public thirst for any information about trump, particularly that which sort of buttresses what people already think they understand about him. so amarosa, there may be details in there that are new and revealing and can be corroborated. but they all sort of comport with the understanding that i think the public particularly trump's critics have of him. this idea to use to borrow from the title of the book, that he is unhinged or that he may maintain some racist sensibilities. this is something his critics have long sort of believed and have a book out there saying it with anecdotes and insider accounts. t

and after the michael wolff book, when he went after michael wolff, he made him a multiweek best-sellerdent would have picked up what he did, his criticism helped michael wolff. his criticism of omarosa and words he use are making him the bad guy, when she actually used recording device notice situation room. she was fired the way in which, we have to be fired we hope to be fired in very classy way. now she has all these tapes. she could look like the villain. instead the president is allowing himself to be the story again. the language gets in the way. i think it is inappropriate to be honest. he hired her. i have didn't hire you. you didn't hire you. i didn't bring her in. she wasn't recommended. he brought her in, he knew her for 10 years. stuart: i'm with you on this one. tiger woods, i couldn't take my eyes off the pga championship. the guy is back. i think that is wonderful thing for golf. >> it wasn't on your list i am so glad you brought this up. i did two topics on radio. plus we have a great st. louis station, kftk, and kmox reported it live. we had the reporter that followed

michael wolff. this is it. fire and fury. it's going to end his presidency. >> there is a lot we just don't know. special counsel has been very quite. but they said there has bean lot of disinformation in the press. so, you know, there is a lot of stuff coming out. kennedy: the on thing he didn't say is hashtag fake news. bring back the fake news. we'll bring back the panel later in the show. first up. space force it's coming and the trump campaign wants you to help pick the new logo. fantastic choices. we'll show you all of them after the break. the republic canning party barely squeak out wins tuesday night. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of

we have been here before with michael wolff's book and james comey's book, there is a lot of build up. and you know people don't talk about the books any more. the question is, we'll go again through president's you know the criticisms about his dishonesty, his racism then it goes away. with this filing, does this keep this story in the headlines? >> i think it does for a while, i don't care. i have wasted so much time talking about omarosa manigault newman, i never spoke about omarosa this were as the last couple of days the entire campaign, i tried to avoid her during the campaign, all i had to do to avoid her is stay close to where the work was. she was never around dnot do much, and she what she was doing was detrimen detrimental on cam. liz: why. >> i just think they were friends, they were not good friends, frankly, in the end the white house so much better off without her, we never should have had her in there, i heard amanda carpenter say, mayor mary shelly wrote this once frankenstein, if you create a monster, evenly it will turn on you. liz: that is quite harsh, she is not a

the allegations are tremendous and where this falls on the credibility matrix with michael wolff suffering credibility of what's real or what's not. how do you judge omarosa's book is a big question. she certainly has a nice runway on a nice august weekend to have the news cycle to herself. >> all the kids watching, don't eat paper if you seeing this at home. this is from the generation that thought it was a good idea to eat paste in school. >> thank you guys enough, frank, ken vogel and thank you all so very much. have a great weekend. what we may think may have been happening behind the scene during the lengthy and unusual delay in the manafort's trial today and preparing for a tense weekend in charlottesville on the one year anniversary of the fatal confrontation and in washington where white supremacists and protesters will square off in earshots of the white house. "the 11th hour" on a friday night is just getting underway. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level? then you need xfinity xfi. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your de

let's think about "fire and furry" the michael wolff book that was explosive we couldn't stop talking about that seemed to have basic lack of fact checking. this is a problem across the book publishing industry as it relates to stories being told about donald trump that everyone is looking for the most explosive story and we can't lower our standards and not fact check. at the same time there is a lot of stuff in this book that was taped that was true and if she was credible enough to be a senior white house official to be quoted as a white house official at the time, then she's credible enough to be listened to now at the same level. you can't have it both ways. that's what i would say about her credibility. >> it comes back to trump hiring her in the white house over a year ago. let's talk about the tapes you referenced. it's interesting she's using the tapes as leverage so when people call her a liar, here are the receipts and tapes. let's listen to part of the tape when the day omarose was fired by john kelly. this was she says was taped in the situation room i guess on a cell pho

the michael wolff book. pretty chaotic. she is saying that the white house is chaotic, backstabbing. that's why she was taping people. i disagree with dana. if you go into the situation room and there is actual national security to discuss, yeah, you would be in violation. what happened here was general kelly took her in here just as a private space and have a conversation with her with nobody else. so i don't know. >> jesse: we are going to be hearing for the president who will be speaking live any minute now. before we get there, kennedy, what do you think of omarosa? >> kennedy: i have known her for years. i was fortunate enough to interview her when she was climbing her way to the top of the precious and gilded reality tv ladder. i think the president's loyalty may be his biggest achilles' heel, to be completely honest. you look at what you might've done within the administration, she wasn't exactly nikki haley. what it shows, and dana can speak to this. this is for future white house hires and this is really a good war

there was this moment outlined in michael wolff's book, you had reince priebus running out to the carjeff sessions threatened he would resign. are you surprised how long he's held on? >> i'm not surprised. jeff sessions is doing all the things on his policy wish list he's wanted to do. far long time he's wanted to be the attorney general. he's in his dream job. he's implementing the immigration policies and the criminal justice policies and the war on drug policies he has always wanted to implement. he's not going anywhere. he's not going to quit. he won't be shamed into quitting. he was senator for decades. you think donald trump scares him? and i think donald trump is again she sh-- showing he's a bully. as soon as they're in his face, he doesn't have anything to say. he's all smiles. >> you've been lending an ear to what senators were saying this week. initially it was we don't have time for additional hearings if the president were to ask session stoegs resijeff sessions to resign. that seems to be changing now. how much confidence do you have in this? >> less than ai did a few da

back in january, after bannon was making anti-trump statements in michael wolff's book, the presidentid in a statement that when bannon was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. but that apparently is not stopping steve bannon from launching a pro-trump political group aimed at helping republicans keep control of the house by framing the midterms as a vote on impeachment. here's what he told msnbc's ari melber in an exclusive interview airing tonight. >> this is an up or down vote on president trump. this will come as a referendum on him. he permeates the entire political culture. i think those around him that are telling him that, hey, it's okay to lose the house, you can work with the democrats and you can run against a democratic house in 2020 is bad advice. >> yesterday when i asked former trump political advisor sam nunberg who's part of bannon's new group whether bannon is back in touch with the president, sam said he did not know. we will see what bannon says tonight about that and a whole lot more. you can see the exclusive interview with steve bannon tonight at 1

where this falls on the credibility matrix with michael wolff's book suffered from some questions of credabilities and what's real and what's not. how do you judge omarosa's book is a big question. but she certainly has a nice runway on a nice august weekend to have the news cycle to herself. >> all the kids watching, don't eat paper if you're seeing this at home. this from the generation that thought it was a good idea to eat paste in school. can't thank you guys enough 37 frank figliuzzi, ken vogel, annie karni, our omarosa correspondent for just tonight. thank you all so very much. have a great weekend. coming up for us, what we think might have been happening behind the scenes during that lengthy and unusual delay in the manafort trial today. and later, preparing for a tense weekend in charlottesville on of course the one-year anniversary of that fatal confrontation. and then in washington, where white supremacists and counterprotesters will square off, some of them within earshot of the white house. "the 11th hour" on a friday night just getting under way. booking a flight at th

i'm sure michael wolff wasn't a cooperating witness in the mueller investigation, but after that book steve bannon were suddenly of interest because he said, oh, money laundering, it's a weissmann thing, the prosecutor, you go right through manafort to jared and that's how you bleep trump. is it possible something omarosa says on her book tour could pique the interest and answer something she's talking about on our air? >> sure, she has to be able to prove it. you can't just say stuff, you have to be able to back it up. what's interesting to me, nicolle, she claims to be cooperating. when i was a prosecutor, someone was cooperating with me, the first thing i would do, the first thing, would be to ask them to talk only to me and to my investigators and not on national television. the notion of cooperating means, this sounds kind of silly, you're cooperating. you're doing what the prosecuteders ask you to do. this does not sound like a cooperator to me. this sounds like somebody, i'm sorry to say this, who is selling books. >> let me just -- it makes me think of michael cohen. he's sudd

after the president came out and gave michael wolff millions of dollars by going after his book.ems to be doing the same thing with omarosa's book. ainsley: yesterday was the white house press briefing and sarah huckabee sanders was forced to answer questions about this. few questions about. four times the amount of questions were about omarosa. the media is on sellsed with it. listen. >> we have heard from the president via twitter on omarosa. >> are you threat how you feel about omarosa. >> the president says he kept omarosa on despite complaints from colleagues. >> one of the mostly cloudies for omarosa was to tear this entire place down. are you saying you would like the president to stop tweeting about omarosa? >> omarosa. >> omarosa. >> omarosa. >> omarosa. steve: omarosa is a topic that sarah huckabee addressed but she would rather talk about policy. >> the individuals in this room continue to create a large platform for somebody they know not to have a lot of credibility for someone they frankly refuse to give a platform to when they worked here at the white house. it was

what's interesting, i keep going back to this page 379 in michael wolff's "fire and fury." bannon blowing his stack over this meeting and what they did on the airport. he said donald junior will crack like an egg. michael cohen will crack like an egg. bannon said way back when -- whatever we think about that book, bannon expressly said that this would be the problem, this meeting right here. >> and you can disregard so much, kasie hunt, of what bannon said. you can disregard so much of what's in fire and fury if you want to, but bannon was dead on there. i actually talked to a reporter back in march or april of 2017, and i asked who do you think is in the most legal jeopardy. his response, don junior. he knew about this meeting. none of us, though, knew he was in close with the trump campaign. he knew about the meeting. and if he knew about the meeting, you know mueller's team knew about the meeting. there is no doubt for over a year the mueller team has been looking at don junior and this meeting and the setting up of this meeting and how excited he was to have this meeting