actually really giving anything up and angering former president trump. the thing that has changed and is fascinating is mark meadows came out with a book. this is a book that he truly -- our reporting says he truly thought former president trump was going to love. of course that was a total misread of the situation. former president trump is furious with the book. meadows, we've been told, is beside himself, trying to get back into trump's good graces. if you want to understand this sudden confusing about this, that is what you need to look at. >> john carl, another case of fealty to donald trump. let's talk about steve "beat the clock" bannon who was apparently trying to make his trial part of the midterm elections. >> absolutely. but here's the key thing about the bannon case. bannon is being prosecuted for failing to cooperate. the prosecutors, the judge has no power to compel him to comply