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People cannot take this book as the truth and is this so dishonest, its a tragedy what this is doing to take us off ofs the agenda of what this president has done for the t american people over this lasto year. >> sean: what do we expect this year?e the media is never going to get better, they dont want to admis theyre wrong. hell is going to freeze over first. ill give you an example -- 60 hours ago they were all saying a nuclear war is coming. then as soon as stephen bannon is believed to atta...

To earn favor back in president trump but its hard to see how that happens. right? bannon did something that really i think crossed the line with trump which was he attacked his family. he went after his eldest son, donald trump, jr. and he went after kushner and those things, i think trump takes very personally and its hard to see how he would welcome him back with open arms. that said, the president does have a history of, you know, alienating or exiling someone only to allow them back into hi...

We wont betray them or put on the record what was off. but we can say that the following lines from the book ring unambiguously true. how trump processes and resists information, instinct over experti expertise, ill-preparedness and low regard for key aides. theres this piece in "the national review" who says the same thing, if this surprised you, if what was in the book shocked you, you havent been paying attention for the last year. >> i think there are two ways to read this book. theres a lot...

The justice department to open an investigation. longstanding analysis of presidential power says the president does not need grounds to fire the fbi director, mr. dillon is a veterans department lawyer and had been so before joining the trump white house and assigned a junior lawyer to examine this issue. they determined the fbi director was no different than any other employ ne the executive branch and there was nothing prohibiting the president from firing him. but mr. dillon who had earlier ...

Revelations from tonights "the new york times" account describes how a white house lawyer dribterately misled president trump about whether he had the authority to fire fbi director james comey. >> according to thooimts, a deputy to the white house council assigned a junior lawyer to research that very question. and the staffer determined that nothing was stopping president trump from removing comey. quoting "the times" here, but mr. dylan who had earlier told mr. trump that he needed cause to f...

Check into e-mails from a podium during a public event. so the -- the truth of the matter has always been very different from the narrative that has been spun from the white house. and its disturbing to anyone in that room whos in search of mere facts to have to sit there and listen to that story change and to be told day after day, that were the fake news, that were the false media, and then they tell us stories that never pan out. >> you know who -- >> exactly, because when you have reporters ...

Mar-a-lago. but another thing some of these quotes are coming from trump aides, only known him the last couple of months or years. im jur st curious if thats fa to make comment on the presidents competency. >> im going to echo what abby said about not being an expert in this realm. but i think when you are drawing -- people that are close to the president are going to draw inferences. michael wolff spoke to a bun are of people close to the president even because they work in close proximity to h...

President trump had a good call with president moon yesterday morning, which i participated in, and their intend is to talk about the olympics. obviously a very important upcoming event for south korea and the potential participation of north korea in those olympics. so our understanding is thats the content of the meeting. so i think its a little early to draw conclusions at this point. >> but it could be a positive sign maybe that north korea wants to engage a little bit. >> well, well see. pe...

Candidate. when he encouraged russia to check into the e-mails at a podium event. the truth has always been very different from the narrative thats been spun from the white house. and its disturbing from anyone in that room whos in search of mere facts to have to sit there and listen to that story change and to be told day after day that were the fake news, were the false media. and then they tell us stories that never pan out. >> yeah, exactly. because when you have reporters who go and bundle ...

So we are back with our panel. as we wait for this white house briefing to begin. lets talk cell phones. the white house has now banned staff, et cetera, from using cell phones, cnn is reporting that sources say its not security, its frustration over leaks and that they are not happy. and apparently one of the people in the west wing floated this whole idea was chief of staff general john kelly. thoughts on that? how unprecedented is that? >> well, okay, by way of broad context, brooke, barack o...