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Hes a, quote, very stable genius. hitting the road today, the president had this message. >> oh, are you happy you voted for me. you are so lucky that i gave you that privilege. >> the presidents grandstanding and self-promotion coming as hes calling friends and allies and telling them to choose, him or steve bannon. bannon, of course, is a central voice in the bombshell book that has put trumps mental state front and center. republicans are now standing up for their man, even his fiercest gop c...

Seekers although they have many of them have a less a status now that these are technical details but the bottom line really is that the social democrats that party the class roots will decide in the end on whatever agreement could potentially come out of this and that really the social democrats and. insults will have to prove that they have one big project that will make the difference in the coming government insults was quoted by german daily built citing as saying if this fails my political...

Public eye for the last 2 1/2 years, he seems incapable of telling the truth. thats why you see his lawyers rig to push back on doing an interview. >> cant he just say to the best of my knowledge no. isnt that a strategy to get him around this? >> of course it is, or he could say, i dont recall that. if you say that, and bob mueller has other testimony where aids to the president recall him talking about these events a couple weeks ago, a month ago, thats a false statement. >> matt miller, thank...

Trump strongly defended himself against these new questions arising from this bombshell book about his mental state. what did you make of his response? >> i think the unfortunate thing for the president and really for the country is that the presidents responses and his tweets and the bizarre tweets seem to affirm some of the allegations in the book and i think raise questions, you know, about the issues that were brought up in that book. >> give me an example of what your concern is. >> well, y...

Possibilities. but i think mueller is not interested in this thing dragging on either. and, you know, i think -- >> it depends how interested he is in donald trump. i mean it sort of depends what he wants to talk about. does he want to talk about obstruction? then hes going to be really interested in donald trump. >> all of this, rebecca, the president and his team are dealing with this new bombshell book, making all sorts of accusations. the author, michael wolffe, sat down in a very special in...

Yes, indeed. amazing speed, coverage and control. all with an xfi gateway. find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. youre watching "cnn newsroom." it is good to have you with us. im george howell. >> and im rosemary church. i want to check the headlines for you this hour. donald trumps former top strategist says he regrets not responding sooner to the new bombshell book about the white house. comments attrib...

>> that was author michael wolff talking to christiane amanpour. were back and continuation the conversation about wolffs bombshell book, "fire and fury." with me now is cnn political analyst and "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman. maggie, to be clear, wolff had amazing access and got a lot of juicy quotes from people, especial and steve bannon. i dont want to take any of that away from him, but this book contains several inaccuracies and maybe even more to the point, the...

Opponents. thats very concerning. >> the president also threatened a war with nuclear north korea tweeting i too have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his. and my button works. by day two, michael wolffs bombshell book had mr. trump lashing out again. 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. >> furious, disgusted would probably certainly fit when you make such outrageous claims and ...

Son-in-law, jared kushner, in a long-running feud with bannon, is involved in financial crimes. trump allies attacked the insider account. >> this is obviously a hit job on the president. >> its outrageous. >> hes a sleaze bag. >> absurd allegation by someone whos talked to a lot of disgruntled people at the white house. >> complete fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip. >> but by day five, the president clearly not satisfied with defending his own fitness for office, calling himself a genius ...

Trump jr., for his negative comments. well, bannons apology came after the white house began to downplay his role in donald trumps presidential campaign. earlier this morning, "fire and fury" author michael wolff outlined bannons 2016 role on nbcs "meet the press." >> he made donald trump president. >> he believes this. >> not only does he believe this, its absolutely true. steve went into this campaign in the middle of august. it had fallen apart. it had imploded. it was over. steve was the guy...