because remember steve bannon, trump's former chief strategist and human leather jacket? well, today it came out that he also thinks the trump campaign did collude with russia. >> the president's form ever chief strategist steve bannon commenting on donald trump's, jr. meeting at trump tower where he was promised dirt on hillary cln ton. bannon says even if you thought that this was not tree on so-- treasonous or unpatriotic or bad blank and i happen to think it is all of that, you should have called the fbi immediately. >> saying this about the meeting in addition, saying they are going to crack don, jr. like an egg on national tv. so very harsh words there. >> whoa. don, jr. is going to crack like an egg, honestly, i don't even know if that is a metaphor. i think there is at least a 50% chance you would find yolk where a brain should be. although i am sur priesed that bannon knows that you crack eggs. i always just assumed that you ate them whole, like raw like with the shell and everything leak a snake, like. so bannon slammed don, jr. and then he went on to say that wi

when you work for the government as steve bannon did, all those conversations are not conversations trump owns. those are conversations that steve bannon had, information steve bannon had when he was working for the public, when he was working for american taxpayer. it certainly wouldn't be covered by that nondisclosure agreement. ask anything he said whether during the campaign or in the white house, certainly bob mueller would be able to get to either through an interview or if he needed to with a grand jury subpoena. >> one of the most extraordinary things in my view is someone who worked in the white house where lots of books were written, people very critical of george w. bush personally, people critical of george w. bush's foreign policy. i never had the experience, though, of -- when i was a communications director, i knew a lot of the contacts and conversations that were going on, especially in times of crisis. of having either a reporter that was waved into the west wing 17 times sit in and sort of observe and hang out for that much unfiltered off-the-record time for someone who

miller and jeremy bash, thank you so much. >> thanks. >>> coming up jared kushner, ivanka trump, and steve bannon. "the 11th hour" back after this. >>> michael wolff's new book "fire and fury" is giving us a glimpse into the remarkably toxic relationship between president trump's daughter and son-in-law and steve bannon. the role they played in the white house coming under intense scrutiny by bannon and laid bear in this book. joining us now steve schmidt my colleague from the bush white house and mccain presidential campaign. eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist. eugene, let me just throw this out there. so i have read just about every presidential memoir frto everything written during the bush years and a lot what was written during the clinton years, memoirs and tell-alls. i have never read anything in which a former senior staffer suggests that the president is a dunce, that the president's son committed treason and that the president's daughter is dumb as a brick have. you? >> no, i haven't. and i don't know that we'll ever read anything like that again, except about this admini

roy moore lost the general election but with donald trump endorsing him. steve bannontrump endorsing him and we have statements in the press that steve bannon and donald trump spoke about this regularly just a month or two ago. so, you know, i leave the republican party to you all. i certainly don't know. but it's not clear to me just because donald trump says steve bannon has no voice in the party. steve bannon actually has no voice. he still is a large scale force. >> let's talk about election night because there is this very vivid scene in the "new york" magazine excerpt, the book's author writing, quote, once he lost, that was the assumption that trump would lose, trump would be insanely famous and a martyr to crooked hillary. his daughter and son-in-law would be international celebrities. kellyanne conway would be a cable news star. melania trump who had been assured by her husband that he wouldn't become president could return to inconspicuously lunching, losing would work out for everybody. losing was winning. the white house, of course, call the book trashy tab

the truth of the matter is, a hunch, they spend so long together, donald trump and steve bannon, steve know exactly what is coming forward in the book. everyone is waiting for the book. so, steve bannon is not scared that he has an enormous enemy in the shape of the president of the united states, and he is losing money because the biggest investor in breitbart news is pulling money out of. we spent a huge amount of time with wolff. some say he exaggerates. there is far more say he exaggerates. there is far m o re a ccess say he exaggerates. there is far more access for him than is normally given. he has to have something. it only stands to reason. but this statement from rebecca mercer, her father sold the shares in breitbart news to her, and distance himself. rebecca mercer says she has not spoken to steve bannon in months. there are talks about him being removed from breitbart news. i have not worked for them for some time so ido not worked for them for some time so i do not have inside knowledge. but it is hard to see how you can be in this situation when it has such a poor relatio

what do you make of steve bannon saying that june 2016 meeting at trump power in new york city was in his words treasonous? >> that's huge in the president's words. wolf, when i think of what steve bannon is saying, one, it lets me know for sure that the fight that steve bannon had with jared kushner and don junior was real. and it was rough because this is hard. treasonous, talking of the president's son, the namesake of the president that's huge. yes, and also it makes you wonder what more does bannon know we don't know or that's been trickled out. for bannon to say this who is still an adviser to the president, he calls every now and again on the phone, that's huge. what happened and not to have a lawyer present, that is saying something, he's putting something in the atmosphere. we don't even know maybe that mueller had already talked about that, as well. so we don't know how far this goes, what more he knows. this is showing the fight between the family meaning junior and kushner and bannon was real and it's worse. is he going for blood with this. >> that meeting in june of 2016

if donald trump thinks that steve bannon can help him, then steve bannon will be back. if donald trump thinks that steve bannon is irrelevant to him, then steve bannon will stay gone. but it certainly has nothing do with right or wrong or whether steve bannon was critical of trump's children. it's about trump, first, second, third, last and always. >> all right, we have to sneak in one more quick break, it's the last one i promise. don't go anywhere, we'll be right back. so that's the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocate but... i kind of feel like it's a game changer. i wouldn't go that far. are you there? he's probably on mute. yeah... gary won't like it. why? because he's gary. (phone ringing) what? keep going! yeah... (laughs) (voice on phone) it's not millennial enough. there are a lot of ways to say no. thank you so much. thank you! so we're doing it. yes! "we got a yes!" start saying yes to your company's best ideas. let us help with money and know-how, so you can get business done. american express open. when it comes to strong bones, are you on

steve bannon. he called donald trump jr.'s meeting with russians as treasonous. >> saying they're going to crack don junior like an egg. >> steve bannon is basically saying, russia's not a witch hunt, russia is not a hoax, this investigation is real. >> president trump escalating his feud with north korean leader kim jong un. >> comparing the size of his nuclear button with the dictator of north korea. >> a wild day on twitter for the president. >> language that many people noted seemed better suited for the playground than the presidency. >> what we really ought to be focusing on is not that nonsensical tweet but this tiny sliver of an opening diplomatically. >> south korea and north korea have some communication for the first time in years at the same time that we see the president talk like this. >> we have two maniacs with nuclear warheads bragging about who has the bigger button. >> every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves. for me that time is soon approaching. >> after 42 years in washington. >> hatch's decis

and steve bannon and donald trump are friends. steve bannon was the architect of the trump campaign. what you're hearing and what you just heard from my former colleague jim jordan is not a desire to get to the truth, it's a desire to get past the midterm elections. it's a year of a midterm elections. so everything that's done now, particularly with respect to the investigation of the trump administration and potential collusion, money laundering, whatever it is, everything is done through a political prism. and the prism of survival. democrats need 24 seats to take back the house. and republicans are going to do everything they can to avoid this lingering over them, going into this midterm. >> all right. guys, we're going to take you through a lot of issues right now. the president also made news about things he wrote overnight, about buttons, nuclear but the d tons. whose button is bigger. neither, as far as we know, has an actual, literal nuclear button. but, beyond that, eliot cohn, who's a former defense official, worked for m

bannon tactics. it's impossible to believe there is somebody else in the trump orbit that was organising that stuff. that was stevehat trump again tried to downplay one of his top advisers, suggesting that he was not ak party of the victory. he previously said that paul manafort, his campaign chairman, that he also didn't play a critical role in the victory. it starts to look like trump is the only person that played a pivotal role in his winning. thank you. much more on that coming up in beyond 100 days. it is still pretty bloody out there, but storm eleanor is well out of the picture. it is actually across southern scandinavia, centred around denmark, copenhagen, infact. this is where the storm is. there is another area of low pressure with weather fronts heading another area of low pressure with weatherfronts heading in our direction. there will be more wind and rain, but nothing of the scale of what we have just had. through the course of the night, a lot of clear skies, like a wind across many eastern and northern areas. you can see the next weather fronts weeping from the atlantic and an increasing wind. the

you tomorrow. >>> fists are flying between the president and former chief strategist steve bannon. >> president trump's threatening legal action. >> steve bannon accused the president's son of

my name is mike embley — our top stories: president trump unleashes a tirade against his former chief strategist steve bannonfor accusing donald trump jr of treason. winter storms sweep europe — claiming lives, cutting power and causing chaos for travellers and coastal communities. australia's air accident investigators raise the seaplane which crashed near sydney on new year. we'll have the latest from the scene. one of the world's most sacred rivers — the ganges in india — is also one of the most—polluted — clogged with plastic waste and other rubbish. and the helping hand of science — researchers in italy develop a bionic limb that feels like the real thing. hello. a spectacular war of words has broken out between donald trump and his former chief strategist steve bannon. bannon is quoted in a new book accusing the president's son donald, jr of treason, for meeting during the election campaign with a group of russians who'd promised him damaging material on hillary clinton. the president has responded that steve bannon had notjust lost his job at the white house — he lost his mind as well. this from our n

the most damaging claim is that steve bannon watched a meeting between donald trump junior and steve meeting between donald trumpjunior and a bunch of russian lawyers during the campaign and considered it treasonous. also a meeting between paul manna fought and jared kushner. the three senior people in the campaign thought it was a good idea to me with a foreign government inside trump tower in the conference room on the 25th floor with no lawyers. bannon is quoted as saying. he answered that after the meeting they should have called the fbi immediately. the president hit back ina immediately. the president hit back in a scathing statement. he said steve bannon has nothing to do with me nor my presidency. when he was not only lost hisjob, me nor my presidency. when he was not only lost his job, he lost his mind. he goes on, steve was rarely ina mind. he goes on, steve was rarely in a one—on—one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influenced a full a few people with no access and no clue whom he he helped write looks. sarah huckerby sanders has condemned the contents of the

president trump ripping steve bannon tonight. bannon just one of the many trump insiders who are quoted in an explosive, new book that paints a personal portrait of an incapable, disinterested,

steve bannon was donald trump's chief strategist. they campaigned together. e in the white house together. now this. a lengthy statement on bannon by trump in which the president says, "when he was fired, steve not only lost his job, he lost his mind." he goes on. "steve had very little to do with our historic victory," and says "steve doesn't represent my base — he's only in it for himself." that's just the first two paragraphs. this isn't a democrat, or an old guard republican, or the media — this is the guy who helped him get the presidency, the guy who oversaw the policy priorities at the start of the presidency. if at this point you're thinking, "what's trump doing 7 " well, in the short—term, it's almost certainly to do with this excerpt of a new book on trump by michael wolff that's been published by new york magazine today. and steve bannon features heavily. for matters like this, we tend to turn to katty kay. here is her view on donald trump's day in the office. it has been a pretty spectacular 18 hours. we started with president trump comparing the s

look, let me be clear as much as i admire steve bannon and i do. donald trumps the indispensable man. >> harris: he is also president. >> and president of the united states. that's very important too. they have different roles. steve bannon is outside of the government. sehe is a provoke a pro-tour. they can have the same ghouls and still. >> harris: how do you account for the can capitulatin today. you heard the president say he called me a great man last night. we do? let's watch it. better than me reading it. >> steve bannon -- any words about steve bannon. >> i don't know. he called me a great man last night. you know, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> i don't talk to him. >> harris: i don't talk to him. what changed steve bannon's mind? >> i don't think his mind changed. >> katie: i agree. >> he is a great man, donald trump. he is an amazing leader. >> harris: why did he trash talk him then? >> well, two things. number one, i'm guessing taken at the best for michael wolff very much out of context. at wors

listen, this is also donald trump, and it's also steve bannon, and so you can't rule out a reconciliation at some point, that donald trump may eventually zig. this is one hell of a zag, i think you could say, considering the president said steve bannon has lost his mind. not only lost his job but lost his mind. that is coming from the sitting president of the united states, someone's office about 12 steps down the hallway from him, craig. you can't overstate how remarkable this is and how angry donald trump is right now and, frankly, how angry others in the president's osrbit, people talking to folks very livid about all of this. >> this is the statement on the screen i just read from president trump. a partial statement. one of the things that strikes me about the statement, hallie, while the president spends a fair amount of ink going after steve bannon, he does not dispute so far, at least, anything else in the book. >> reporter: well, he calls this -- he says steve bannon leaked false information, essentially, calls this -- says he essentially tried to have -- is writing phony books.

trump and his family members, saying all of that is a violation of a confidentiality agreement that steve bannoning to this letter, signed with the trump campaign. we are joined by tim o'brien, the executive editor of bloomberg view and author of trump nation. joyce vance, former federal prosecutor is back with us. i want to go over the legal points here. this is fascinating thing because they're saying that he signed a confidentiality agreement, nondisparaging agreement for the campaign. so there's the legal question of how much of this interviewing was done after the campaign. and then there's also the problem of you might have this signed agreement with him, but for practical purposes you don't really have a legal remedy because the only way to stop him from violating this agreement is to take him into court and sue him, in which case all of this stuff becomes public. >> absolutely. and the devil is the in the details on these agreements. as you point out it could be that it only applied during the campaign. hard to imagine that it would apply during the actual run of the administration, beca

. >> donald trump and steve bannon go to war. >> it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse every day. >> he levels explosive accusations in a new book. >> did the president's son, donald trump jr., commit treason? >> tonight, fallout from "fire & fury" including an irate president. >> i think furious, disgusted would probably certainly fit. >> an inner circle describing trump as an idiot and a dope. and an intense trump family soap opera behind it all. >> i don't think that any of us necessarily got the shy gene. >> as republicans try to block the release of the fusion gps transcripts, why steve bannon says the mueller investigation is, quote, all about money laundering. >> i have no dealings with russia. >> "all in" starts now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm joy reid in for chris hayes. according to the author's note in journalist michael wolff's new book, wolff got nearly unfetterred access to the trump white house, taking up what he calls, quote, something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the west wing. over the course of several months, wolff conducted over

president trump setting his sights on steve bannon after the former chief strategist allegedly calling donald trump jr.'s meeting with russians treasonous. >> going after the president's son is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody. >> what the president says now about his former friend. and a new book making surprising claims about the first lady. >>> plus chef curry. her nba might be king of the court. when it comes to the kitchen, she's the warrior. >> we have our jamaica johnnycakes. >> this is the specialty? recipe. >> celebrity chef ayesha curry dishing on her marriage and family life. >> one thing my mom told me was never lose yourself inside of your marriage. >> but first the "nightline 5." >>> not all fish oil supplements provide the same omega 3 power. megared absorbs three times better. one softgel has more omega 3 power than three standard pills. megared advance triple absorption. >> i'm never going to be able to sleep with this cold. i'll take a sick day tomorrow. >> on our daughter's birthday? >> moms don't take sick days. moms take nyquil severe. snifflin

bannon, donald trump wins. steve the only thing he can accomplish is he lost a seat in alabama. he's really not delivered much of anything. in fact, he essentially pulled the pin out of the grenade and stuck it in his mouth. i can't imagine any of these candidates -- >> listening to bannon today, it feels almost like an acknowledgment of that, he's stressing we're still on the same page, still on the same agenda. looking at your party and what it stands for in the air of donald trump, if there's a split between trump and bannon, what does trump represent that bannon doesn't represent? what has the republican party severated if you separate them? >> in this case i would have to say it's more personality. steve bannon certainly represents the alt right and donald trump embraced elements of the alt right. so i suspect that in this case, you know, the president's message will probably remain the same. the question is, who's going to run breitbart? who's going to carry that message won't be able to do it. >> tom, what do

. >> donald trump's former chief strategist steve bannon under fire tonight from donald trump. >> disgusted would fit when you make such outrageous claims against the president. >> powerball jackpot has swelled up to a whopping $460 million. ♪ ♪ >> there is a live shot where the snow is starting to settle, a little dusting on the ground, we have a lot of news to get to this morning. at 4:00 am but things are already happening, you are watching "fox and friends" first. let's get right to the fox news alert, monster winter storm barreling up the east coast unleashing snow, ice and hurricane force winds. the sunshine state looking more like a winter wonderland with snow in tallahassee for the first time in almost 30 years. the brutal below freezing temperatures turning water fountains into icicles, ice statues and the same system setting its sights on the northeast, over a dozen states under a blizzard warning and the forecast just got worse. let's get straight to janice dean tracking the latest. what is going on? >> we haven't seen snowflakes in new york city yet but it is coming. yesterday i

we can't forget steve bannon is very close to trump's base. this is not good news for the president, in terms of continuing to pick candidates, steve bannon is not very good at it. we saw it with the election in alabama. look, today is very interesting day for political news. this political fight between trump and steve bannon is not going to end. this will not end well for the president. this is distraction for him. he should be governing. we have elections in a few months. time will tell what happens but this is not food for the election. dagen: brad, in terms of trump's base, trump's base was there, even learned running for the nomination he knew how to communicate with individuals left out by the establishment. i should point out bannon came on to the campaign two months after this meeting between donald trump, jr. and these russians which he labels treasonous in this book. so that point, trump's base doesn't to anywhere. those loyal to his agenda don't go anywhere. the fact that the republicans pushed through that tax reform law is a real

trump's family members. that was all at the direction of steve bannon. en steve left the white house last august he gave a quote saying the trump presidency we fought for and won is effectively over. it gives how he felt about the president and his family at that time. >> we are still locked in, he's a great man, we're there step for step. >> because he knows trump remains popular with the base. bannon is going to be watching as this goes along. he may do a deal with democrats on daca. he's already passed a tax bill largely basically, as trump has admitted, a corporate tax bill, which is not exactly a populist move. bannon will wait and watch and see how popular trump remains with the base. if bannon turns on him and says, hey, wait a second. this is what breitbart has been doing, they're going to be watching trump and saying, are you staying with religion? are you staying with the populist religion. if not, they're going after him. that could be damaging to trump >> what are sources telling you about whether or not they talk, bannon and trump? >> they sa

steve bannon. after president trump said bannon had lost his mind, rebekah mercer distanced herself. and i have not communicated with steve bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements. today president trump weighed in. the mercer family recently dumped the leaker known as sloppy steve bannon. >> for the purposes of this conversation, the author of bannon, always the rebel. ken, you followed the money pretty well. the mercers, they pulled the plug on bannon. so he did others. why has the republican donor class turned their backs on steve bannon now? >> well, the extent to which steve bannon actually had inroads into the republican donor class is fairly limited. it was really just the mercer family. the family of the hedge fund manager robert mercer. that was huge. they put tens of millions of dollars into outfits and group that's were affiliated with bannon including breitbart news, cambridge analytica, a variety of nonprofits which famously produced the clinton cash expose that hurt hillary c

in it, steve bannon slams that 2016 2016 trump tower meeting with russians as treasonous. last night and this morning, steve bannon seemed to backtrack on his criticism. here's president trump. >> did steve bannon betray you, mr. president ? >> he called me a great man last night, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you very much. i don't know, i don't know. >> harris: an important day to get word from the white house, that coming up in a moment but let's first go to white house correspondent kevin corke, joining us live from the briefing room which will be a hot spot about 45 minutes. >> bottom of the hour we are expecting sarah sanders to come out and address reporters. if you know anything about the white house, it probably won't happen at the bottom of the hour but it will happen nonetheless. very interesting, i think i should point this out, harris. the president's lawyers are pushing back very forcefully. a flurry of letters going from his lawyers offices today, not just to steve bannon but also in particular to the publisher of the book "fire and fury."

not comment. >>> coming up, breaking news, an extraordinary war of words between president trump and steve bannonwho in his new book is quoted as calling the 2016 trump tower meeting with russia, treasonous. >>> happening now, treasonous, that's what steve bannon is calling the meeting at trump tower, he's unloading in a new book, dishing dirt on the white house, the trump family and the russia investigation. in it for himself, the president is firing back. portraying bannon as self-serving and downright crazy. his anger is clear but are his attempts to disown one of his former advisors believable. >>> former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort

early story out of book is all about what steve bannon said about donald trump. it is all about steve bannon's distancing himself from trump, criticizing the trump family. if steve bannon is the one person who begins to say none of that is true, i didn't say that, then it comes time for michael wolff to play tapes or not and allow donald trump to continue this beratement of michael wolff. >> i want to play an exchange that miller, adviser to trump, with jake tapper on cnn this morning. talking a bit about steve bannon. let's listen to what he had to say and what was a very heated exchange with jake tapper on cnn. >> the book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction. and i also will say that the author is a garbage author of a garbage book. the portrayal of of the president in the book, to my own experience having spent the last two years with him -- >> that continues about 12 minutes. let me ask you about the president's tack here. he is talking about this book allot, engaging with what is in the book, said about him in the book. by all accounts

excerpts out today reveal bannon's stunning smack down of his fellow trump campaign workers, according to a piece in the guardian, stevethat trump tower meeting back in june of 2016 with a russian lawyer, treasonous and unpa unpatriotic. he calls jared kushner greasy. quote, what has he gotten himself into with the russians? mostly says bannon he went to russia and thought he was going to meet putin but putin couldn't give a bleep about him so he kept trying. let's go to white house correspondent jim acosta. ahead of the briefing. many questions to be sent to sarah sanders. what's the response to the president to all of this? >> reporter: well, brooke, i think this book, fire and fury has lit trump world on fire. that is what we are seeing today this war of words between the president and chief strategies steve bannon is nothing short of stunning and perhaps capable of what was over shadowing a tweet twrt president less than 24 hours talking about the size of the nuclear button. but just in the last couple of hours president has put out a statement with respect to what steve bannon had to say in that book, fire and fur

trump is reacting to. steve bannonquoted in his forthcoming book talking about donald trump, jr.'s meeting in 2016 with a group of russians. he is quoted as saying, even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad -- and i happen to think it's all of that -- you should have called the fbi immediately. let's start with that meeting. what do we know about it? carsten: well, it was a meeting that was convened by donald trump, jr., the son of the president, who had been offered compromising material, dirt on hillary clinton, the opponent of donald trump in the presidential election of 2016 -- which apparently was coming from russia. and donald trump, jr. then sent a now-infamous email back to that person that offered that material, saying, i love it, even though that informant basically said this information is coming from the russian government and its campaign to undermine hillary clinton. so this was pretty damaging and damning, and now having steve bannon as quoteded in this book, basically conf

michael wolf, steve bannon and donald trump. n washington, the washington examiner contributor. kristen, you worked at breitbart. you have been friendly with steve bannon. it seems his attacks on the president may jeopardize his position at "breitbart." >> i think bannon will be fine whether he stays at "breitbart." he's a skilled political strategist with a lot of deep ties in the conservative wing of the base. the media would love to see bannon crash and burn. he's perhaps more despised than donald trump himself. there is a perception in the media that barn noon is the one controlling the narrative. the media is treating bannon like this temporary chapel "on. but i still think the media hates him. they love it when republicans fight with each other and this bannon trump feud is being used as a distraction. howie: steve bannon played a key role in the campaign and the white house. do you think the media has a seething lay tread for him? >> i don't. if you mention, his credibility is in jeopardy. there was an article in the natio

chief strategist. >> according to a new book seen by "the guardian," president trump's former chief strategist, steve bannon this about the 2016 donald trump jr. meeting in trump tower, where trump jr. was promised dirt from the russians on hillary clinton. steve bannon says, even if you thought that this was not treasonous or unpatriotic or bad blank, and i happen to think it's all of that, you should have called the fbi immediately. >> cnn's justice correspondent, jessica schneider, joining us live from washington. you know, a lot of people stunned to see these comments this morning from steve bannon, jessica. >> stunned is the right word. steve bannon going after donald trump jr. hard, calling o out that june 2016 meeting with the

trump's presidency. i spoke to andre walker, a founding member of breitbart uk who used to work with steve bannon. in underplaying mr bannon‘s role in the election campaign. on the one hand, steve bannon is very very tuned in with the voters that support donald trump, but on the other hand is that he literally supported ted cruz in the primary. if you take the idea that i do that hillary was a week candidate, by the time trump called the nomination, was probably going to win the election and that is the context at which he arrived. on the other hand, he was chief strategist, as far as i understand trump wanted him to be the chief of staff but the robber who can establishment were not keen. —— republican. he is someone who is clearly significant as one herston say, it has to be said, was dogged allegations of leaking at the white house. something he denied. what is happening with his support now? he has the news site, a massive possibility to speak against trump and this revelations in this book have been suggested, he has gone supportive again donald trump. what is going on? the former white house

steve bannon. that is president trump. we all figured that out. steve bannon changed his tone on a radio show. he really sounded very difficult, very conciliatory. this is what he said, the president of the united states is a great man. you know i support him day in dayout. i thought we had audio. that is specifically what he said. >> to me this is the important fight, families fight. the trump movement, populist, economic nationalist movement is having a fight. we have sections and battles as we come of age but the more important point is, we have common goals. by the way one of those common goals, the tape just played of donald trump was securing our border. cheryl: right. >> controlling illegal immigration. there is no room between donald trump and steve bannon on that issue and on almost every issue. let's focus there -- cheryl: mistake we pulled up wrong piece of film, that is what the president wanted to focus on. he said that in the piece of sound we just played. a lot more coming up from the white house. ford, steve, thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> well we have the washington s

the relationship between donald trump and steve bannon is one of the most curious in modern america. ade winning the presidency look easy, steve bannon — some will tell you — was the strategic brain behind the campaign. he was also the ideological rump of trump's ‘make america great again‘ strategy, introducing him to those on the right who would become a proud and vocal base amongst his supporters. like many of trump‘s advisers, he didn‘t last the course of the transition to power. if bannon was the one person who, rumour had it, was allowed in the oval office without a tie, he was nevertheless unceremoniously fired from his job in the white house last autumn. but anyone who thought bannon would go quietly couldn‘t have been further from the truth. he backed roy moore for the alabama senate race last december and is encouraging hard—right candidates to take on sitting republican senators in almost every seat that‘s up for the mid—term elections this november — part of what he sees as his broader populist war against the republican establishment. bannon remains a powerful force in the

what i can say is i think steve bannon's allegiance is to trumpism, not necessarily to trump himself, the man. so when bannon thinks that trump is making mistakes or not sticking to his promises, he will properly call trump out on that. steve is an honest guy. he's brilliant. i thought that trump made a mistake in his statement saying that bannon had nothing to do with his win. that's nonsense. when bannon came into the campaign, it was a disaster. manafort had no idea how to control a candidate who was so unconventional like trump. bannon came in there. he knew to let trump be trump. he knew how to connect trump to his base. when he was in the white house, bannon served as probably trump's stronger tie to his own base. >> and building off of that -- >> trump looks really bad right now. >> i agree with that. building off your point, this is par for the course for donald trump in disowning key members of his team. he says paul manafort didn't manner. george papadopoulos was the coffee boy. now steve bannon didn't play a role. i doubt this will come to kellyanne conway as the day is you

i don't think so. [ laughter ] today on twitter, trump lashed out at steve bannon. u remember steve bannon is trump's former chief strategist who always looked like he was halfway through melting. [ laughter ] he looked like frosty without the hat on. but anyway, he is quoted in a new book accusing jared kushner, trump's son-in-law, of money laund laundering, accusing donald trump jr. of treason, which now you tell us? thanks a lot. [ laughter ] but this book paints a very unflattering picture of a detached and flat-out stupid president who eats at mcdonald's because he's afraid of being poisoned. [ laughter ] this is in the book. he sprays his hair with just for men and ivanka makes fun of him for it. he's constantly leaking information about himself and demanding to leak the information. he didn't want to win the presidency and he was horrified when he did, melania cried. we all cried, really. [ cheers and applause ] but the real bombshells from the book were from steve bannon. trump fired back today, he wrote, steve bannon has nothing to do -- this was a press rel

steve bannon's influence into the midterm election. steve bannon made their job really easy. he self immolated by attacking trump so easily. d it looks like a lot of candidates that were looking to give steve bannon support are trying to distance themselves from the former trump adviser. that's why a lot of the advisors republican -- publicly spiking the football. >> dana: regarding paul manafort's lawsuit against bob mueller for going beyond the scope of the investigation, do you think that that one will have any standing? >> i do not think that it as much of a chance. i think it has as much of a chance as matt lauer cohosting your show. >> dana: that is not going to happen. >> a different vehicle for it, which would be a criminal motion to the smith, that is a logical avenue to attack the scope of the investigation. that may still come, but i do not know what the strategy would be to go with the civil motion that is going to have all procedural burdens and may be substantive ones as well. >> dana: thank you so much for being with us after the briefing. we will talk to karl rove next and get his 2018 predictions as well. ♪

mark: president trump is firing back against his former trees strategist- chief steve bannon, after bannond donald trump, jr. "treasonous" for holding a meeting with russians during the campaign. trump said donald "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." were on thetors senate floor as they took their oath of office. to doug jonesnext as he was sworn in today, and walter mondale, a former arizona senator, stood next to tina smith. jones attracted national attention when he defeated conservative republican senatorial candidate roy moore in alabama. smith was lieutenant governor which you was appointed to replace al franken. he resigned after a series of sexual misconduct accusations. the death toll from the freezing temperatures across much of the united states has risen to 16, and it is not letting up with a bomb" gettingow ready to hit the east coast with snow and high wind. this is the falls in sioux falls, south dakota, frozen solid. a weeks worth of protests in iran are prompting calls from the united eight

thank you very much. >>> president trump blasting steve bannon for turning on him in the new book, and what effect with the bannon/trump feud have on conservatives and the republican party as a whole, next. i had frequent heartburn, but my doctor recommended... ...prilosec otc 7 years ago, 5 years ago, last week. just 1 pill each morning, 24 hours and zero heartburn. it's been the number 1 doctor recommended brand for 10... ...straight years, and it's still recommended today. use as directed. >>> a war of words between president trump and steve bannon have insiders wondering where his base will go. this as some bannon-backed members are already distancing themselves from the former breitbart boss. bill, who will the base side with? >> we will see what comes out. i don't think it's a personal jobable between these two. why did donald trump order his lawyer to send cease and desist letter. i think this is a huge crisis for the trump presidency, not just a fight between two individuals. >> matt, is it a huge crisis for the trump presidency? >> it's drama, and it's coverage over people set

trump adviser. chief strategist steve bannon. 's a quick snippet of that interview. >> with respect to the trump tower meeting that he is talking about, he was not even there when this went down. he is not really a remotely credible source. it reads like an angry vindictive person spouting off to a highly discredited author. it's a work of very poorly written fiction. >> let's discuss with my panel. commentator and republican strategist alice stewart and hillary rosen and princeton university historian and professor, good to see you all. let me begin with you. in that interview, miller appeared to be making the case that the president is a political genius and discredited the author of the book fire and fury and attacked steve bannon and steve bannon himself releases a clarification saying that he is quote said as saying about don jr. and how he was quoted in the book bannon said is inaccurate. what does this say about the white house and bannon trying to secure support or get in the last word. >> this is another in a long line of

in the white house. >> and -- look, trump would not be president were it not for steve bannon. but the fact that he gets public credit for it has always been something that enrages trump. in the trump myth, he is the -- >> like when he was on "time" magazine cover. >> when he was on "time" magazine cover, he got angry at bannon, he doesn't want a co-star. bannon used that line with me, trump doesn't want a co-star, he wants all the credit for himself. the fact that a book like wolf's is coming out and insulting him and suggesting that he's an idiot and that he's stupid and that other people get the credit for his presidential victory is exactly the sort of thing that's going to lead to a statement -- >> there's a pattern too. >> there's a pattern here. it's not just about the credit. he calls his former chief strategist a staffer. >> look at paul manafort, he says he barely knew him. >> i mean, paul manafort, barely knew him, he was a campaign c r chairman. that's rich. >> this is rich. but with bannon, bannon we all remember a month ago giving a great speech for roy moore, an