quotes from his former chief strategist steve bannon criticizing the e trump campai's conduct with russians have angered the president himself. tosteve bannon has nothing do with me or my presidency. when he was fired he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. >> according to the book, bannon disapproved of the 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump's eldest son, son-in-law and campaign manager with a russian lawyer. calling ththe move treasonous ad unpatriotic. fire andnd. also reports that beben and questitions the intelligence of ivanka trump, the president's daughter and trusted advisor. the white house press secretary hit back at the x aid who had spent seven months within trump's inner circle. >> serious, disgusted would probably fit when you make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president, his administration and his family. >> his alledge from arts may have caught the u.s. president but they are not the only revelations. the book also suggests that donald trump did not expect to win the 2016 election and that the ivanka trump has presidential amb

bannon ran the trump campai served as president's top adviser until he was fired in august. last week, that new book, fire and fury quoted bannon referring to a meeting between russians and donald trump junior during the 2016 campaign as treasonous. days later, bannon left his job at breitbart news. >>> and some new information about the death of an ivy league student. >> calling it a homicide. >> learning more about the friend that was with him the night he disappeared. nbc reports. >> reporter: parents are searching for answers after body found in lake forest, california, in a park. >> we want to see resolution. >> reporter:le they said last week he met up with a friend and drove to the park late at night. according to a search warrant obtained by orange county that friend who said just before midnight bernstein walked into the park by himself. unidentified fied friend he told authorities he waited about an hour and tried to contact bernstein at snapchat then 1:00 a.m. returned to his girlfriend's house and after returning to the park 3:40 a.m. detectives noticed the friend

he was not unlike attorney general jeff sessions a surrogate for trump during the campai campaign. when rosenstein was on capitol hill and asked should robert mueller be fired, he said no, he saw no reason for it. as this investigation moves forward and as the question comes to whether trump will meet with the special counsel and under what conditions he could, i think that only is inflaming the president to field those frustrations, and we're hearing take them out in a sense on rosenstein. >> really quickly, if you will, michael moore, any chance of the president doesn't have an interview with mueller face-to-face if mueller wants to go there? >> i think it will either be in person or he'll find himself being questioned in a grand jury. i think that mueller will want to have an interview with him face-to-face. that's the kind of thing prosecutors live for, that is to get the adversary or the suspect or target on the other side of the table and have a shot at him to see where they're at. i think trump is going to find himself there. let me say this. rod rosenstein is a good guy. i

. >>> president trump is once again blasting the russia meddling investigation calling allegations against his campai emerge about whether he'll be meeting with special counsel robert mueller. tracie potts joins us live from capitol hill now with a look at the president's remarks. tracie, good morning. >> aaron, good morning. the president now says it's unlikely that he needs to talk to the fbi because there's no collusion. keep in mind, he said that he would cooperate 100% with the investigation. and we also know from our own sources that his legal team has been working with the fbi to set up the parameters for a possible interview when they would do it, how they would do it. what topics would be covered. when asked about those. an interview may not be necessary because he believes there was no collusion. >> tracie, this comes as president trump continues to talk about immigration reform. yesterday he brought up the issue of the border wall again. what kind of deal is he looking for? >> he's looking for some money for the wall. not necessarily as you said, a 2000-mile wall. there's natural buffers t

trump doctrine is? >> in ways it's a continuity of what we've had in the past. he has not reneged on article 5 of nato, a company campai-- key campaign, and still have american troops in afghanistan in iraq, in syria. in way things are the same. what's different is that in the foreign policy, the big security strategy review that the president gave at the end of the year. no mention of climate change as a national security threat and no mention of american human rights and values. for me the single biggest change with the president, we are not seeing america leading the world through principle. america hasn't always got it right but has some sort of principle and high-moral standing. >> rich, you're nodding a lot there. >> the basic structure, a center-right realism. you see what the actual policy is even on north korea. rhetorically he's been aggressive, it's a status quo of policy. ve cautious in asia and more emphasis on ideals. the crusade, president bush fought for those but important against our adversaries and in favor of our interests. >> seem, get tough on china and then goes to china. they're pals and you're

trump was asked tonight how he declinefines collusion. here he is. >> you're going to define it for me, okay? there's no collusion. i couldn't have caredless about russians having to do with my campaiampaign. the fact is, you people won't say this, you but i'll say it, i was a much better candidate than her. you always say she was a bad candidate. you never say i was a good candidate. i was one of the greatest candidates. nobody else would have beaten the clinton machine. as crooked as it was. but i was a great candidate. someday you're going to say that. >> well, you know, it's interesting because in his mind, russians interfering in the election had something to do with his win. he's mixing the two together. he can't hold two separate thoughts at the same time. that maybe he was a good candidate, maybe he was helped by the russians or maybe the russians did influence the campaign, the electoral process. what's your reaction to protests that he couldn't care list about the russians having to do anything with his campaign? >> i think it may be true. i think in the end, there may be no collusion, as he says. it's so interesting and revealing, it always comes back to -- about him and