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>> even michael wolff and his authors note, does a nod to how difficult it is -- how slippery the truth is in a trump administration. does his best. theres an illuminating passage about them expecting to lose. once he lost, trump would be insanely famous and a martyr to crooked hillary. his daughter, ivanka, and son would be international celebrities. kellyanne conway would be a cable news star, and melania trump, who had been assured by her husband wouldnt become president, could return to inco...

Cnn is hearing that some white house staffers are frustrated over this new ban prohibiting the use of personal cell phones within the west wing. the move comes days after details emerge from the bombshell book about the inner workers of the white house. we hear this has been in the works for six months. first appointed by obama later resigned after clashing with the trump administration. welcome back to you. and joining me kim zeter long time cyber security journalist that covered for wired and ...

White house. was no secret that he was writing this book and talking to senior advise rers not just bannon, all of them. mr. quoted in the excerpts, i expect theyll be quoted in the book as well. but they were cooperating with this book because they thought that wolf was going to offer a positive portrayal of trump in his presidency. and at the time he began hanging out with the trump people, it was during the transition. they all thought he was there to document this great victory and enscribe ...

>> going back to what jim was talking about, the idea that these guys, i think what with you were saying that these guys did not expect trump to win. >> no. >> and that includes people inside the campaign. >> right. >> i think that say theme that we keep coming back to as weve been covering this story now for the past year, which is that it drove a lot of the decisions which is coming back to bite them. >> they did not -- for instance, they talk about michael flynn accepting this $45,000 payment...

Credit for it has always been something that enrages trump. in the trump myth, he was on time magazine cover, he got angry at bannon, he doesnt want a co-star. bannon used that line with me, trump doesnt want a co-star, he wants all the credit for himself. the fact that a book like wolfs is coming out and insulting him and suggesting that hes an idiot and that hes stupid and that other people get the credit for his presidential victory is exactly the sort of thing thats going to lead to a statem...

White house probably. >> yes. >> but lets let steve bannon speak for himself because moments ago steve bannon in his first comments after president trump blasted him today over the book comments, he called the president and im quoting now, a great man and responding to a caller on the breitbart news talk tonight radio show bannon said im quoting again, you know i support him day in and day out adding you dont have to worry about that. so you have a steve bannon there and i actually listened to t...

Reporting in the book? that a six-point loss was actually a win because it was better than anybody thought he could do. >> well, yes. the problem here is that i dont think he has the mentality, the state of mind to be an effective president, or as we saw with these tweets about north korea and nuclear weapons, to be a safe president. he does not control his impulses. everything is about himself and his own image and his own ego, and thats the way hes led his whole life. hes never even been head ...

Concerned about how he appears, how damaging this is going to be to his psyche to read all of this. if he reads it. hell certainly hear about it on cable news. he apparently spends a lot of time watching cable news to hear these people who were his friends, who are in his inner circle with him. at one point, someone talks about him being semi-literate. whats also interesting is, as much as he can blame bannon, apparently, trump let michael wolff into the white house. he was there for 18 months. ...

The second thing thats really important to keep in mind, the white houses statement, thats the most damning thing to come out today. the white house could have said this is fiction. the president issues a statement basically saying this is true. its disloyal, but its true. that is completely unprecedented. >> its an incredible thing. we have so many more things in this book. stay around. well talk about this, including something ivanka trump said about her own father, which is pretty stunning. b...

Easily unhinged and horrified that he won the election. one account, a former campaign aide talks about trying to explain the constitution to mr. trump. he goes to say, i got as far as the fourth amendment, he recalled, before his finger is pulling down on hisly and his eyes are rolling back in his head. former deputy chief of staff katy walsh is quote dollars as saying that mr. trumps leadership style is like trying to figure out what a child wants. >> the book reportedly claims that the presid...