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>> there is a time and season for everything. and right now its a season of war against a gop establishment. they have no interest in what you have to say. they think youre a bunch of rubes, right? they hold you in total contempt. >> thats steve bannons 2017 highlight reel. there he is taking jabs at the gop establishment and predicting a bannon-led reckoning. but now that 2018 is here, the political climate and steve bannons political capital look very, very different. bannon has gone from wo...

Fate who helped our nation push bark t back the horizon of discovery. he died yesterday of pneumonia. he was 87. >> deep freeze. more than 100 million americans facing bone-chilling cold for yet another day. blizzard backlog. passengers flying in and out of j.f.k. airport facing major delays and being told to pack their patience. >> and fighting words. a bombshell book about the trump white house has washington in a tizzy. the new attempts to turn the page. hel hello, everyone. im ana cabrera in...

>> president trump loves to talk about the economy, he did it in the press briefing room 200 pete from the oval office. is it necessary to give the president credit for this boom? >> the president talks out of both sides of his mouth. when he was on the campaign trail, he hated jobs numbers and the interest rate. but now he loves them. but deregulation and tax reform or the tax cut, it helps corporate america. thats a positive. whether or not cutting taxes is going to help the rest of america, t...

This book is not about steve bannon. this book is about donald trump. >> author michael wolff making his point there in that exclusive interview on the "today" show this morning. this bombshell book officially goingthere. his bombshell book officially going on sale about two hours ago. youre checking out a bookstore in washed. we just got a tweet from the president about all of this. he said the mercer family recently dumped the leak noern as sloppy steve bannon. smart. thats a new one. rebec...

>> but heres what wolf told savannah. listen. >> i absolutely spoke to the president. whether he realized it was an interview or not, i dont know. but it certainly was not off the record. >> and you spoke to him at the white house after he was sworn in? >> i spoke to him after the inauguration, yes. and i had spoken to -- ive spent about three hours with the president over the course in the white house. so my window into donald trump is pretty significant. i spoke to people who spoke to the pres...

And a third of them have never heard of this guy. phil, are we giving too much attention to him? >> i think so. look, hes a very prominent figure, he has a lot of bold ideas, he wants to be a key player on the political scene, but at the end of the day, hes just a strategist, an operative, and right now he looks to be an operative without the funding and infrastructure he once had, and so hes a little bit less of a threat to the establishment republicans today than he was last week, but i dont t...

We might be able to do something here and they saw him over that time come to the conclusion he cannot do this job. >> pretty explosive charge there, phil. >> thats right. you know, its an explosive charge there. if you read the book, it looks like thats a charge leveled by a number of other people in and around trump and the white house. there are a number of aides, many of them described anonym s anonymously in the book who take issue and have concerns about the presidents ability to conduct h...

So it will be up to the author to bring out the evidence, bring out the recordings, bring out the issues so that he can regain his credibility as this book goes to market. >> so just to be clear, congressman, so your concerns are not about the presidents mental or cognitive fitness for office? i just want to put a fine point on this. >> yeah, you know, hallie, all i can tell you is from my experience. look, during the first year, there were a lot of personnel in the white house leading a lot of ...

Rattling the west wing, author michael wolf on the "today" show. what hes saying in face of the threats from the president. the book as of 61 minutes ago on sale coast to coast. days earlier than expected. >> my credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has walked on earth at this point. >> reporte >> with us now to kick off the show, michael schmidt, nbcs kristen welker is standing by at the white house, also onset here, former deputy assistant at...

Trust. do you think based on what youre seeing from this book that people inside donald trumps west wing have respect, regard and trust for this president? >> certainly not in the way michael wolf writes about it. that is going to be the question of how credible the sources are. and savannah guthrie pressed him on his recordings and so forth. i think shannons got it right about how you conduct an interview in the white house. but in our case. and just talking to other people close to president b...