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These two men quite well. author of the now very well known ""devils bargain." and thomas ricks is here, "churchill and yoorwell." josh, to you first. "the journal" editorial board i think has written two or three critical opinion pieces about this president, but generally pretty friendly. this is something rupert murdoch would have to sign off on. >> absolutely. i think the cause "the journals" concern is bannon has almost an isolationist view of american foreign policy. even though bannon does...

Should be concerned but democrats also i think have reason to be very concerned. just running against donald trump will not win them back the house, certainly its not going to win them back the senate and right now, they seem to be a party just as lost and just as adrift as theyve been over the past six to eight years. >> you know, i hear democrats and progressives saying donald trump wont win a second term. look at how bad hes been. you better find somebody if you want to prevent a second term....

The president simply did not like anthony scaramucci getting more publicity than he was getting. jake? >> jim acosta, thank you so much. im joined by my panel we have with us, mary katherine hamm, senior writer and author of a book "end of discussion." joshua green of bloomberg business week, author of another great week, "devils bargain," about the trump-bannon relationship. we also have with us the source of all this problem, ryan lizza, the washington correspondent at the new yorker, her inte...

That anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. >> reporter: despite the presidents own history of vulgar comments. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> reporter: which led to a rare apology in the final stretch of the campaign. two sources close to the white house tell cnn that the president initially found scaramuccis comments amusing but eventually soured after it appeared scaramucci was overshadowing him. the new white house chief of staff making it clear that he wants ...

Needs to be imposed, most famously with the speech to the boy scouts and the law enforcement speech. >> theres a lot of those in the security establishment, that simply having a law and order disciplinary like general kelly will have all those processes move smoother. i think the hope is that general kelly is bring order to these sorts of things so you dont have misfires like the boy scouts speech. but its up to the president whether or not he wants to allow that authority especially when it goe...

You in the board room. >> see you in the board room? president trump talking about the board room, that might have worked on the apprentice, but in the white house its called the cabinet room, where he did meet with the full cabinet. so lets get the inside scoop, we couldnt do better than having carol lee, nbc news national reporter, and michael lee, senior corporate for business week, and author of the book "devils bargain." boy, is your timing great? just producing a book takes however long to...

Exa -- disciplinarian. the things you need. i heard on anderson coopers show, josh green, whos written a book called "devils bargain." that that morning josh had been on "new day" with chris christie and alisyn camerota and in the course of the interview mr. scaramucci called in and got into a debate on-air on the phone with chris. fine enough. the problem is, that while that was going on, josh green was getting texts from people inside the white house dissing mr. scaramucci. thats not a good th...

Leaks. >> we get phone calls like that all the time. were getting more of them these days because, ryan, im sure its true in your experience as well, never had a white house leak as much as this one does. why they do it is worthy of discussion. ryan, thank you for the reporting. always good to have you on. get back to the kids. joining us is our panel, david chalian, cnn political director, a.b. stoddard of realclearpolitics and josh green senior correspondent and author of "devils bargain, st...

For years to defeat hillary clinton when she would run for president. you wrote that bannon had built a trap that snapped shut on clinton. explain that. >> well, most people know of steve bannon from about the time -- they date his emergence in the popular culture, about the time he took over trumps campaign in august 2016, and helped guide trump to his upset victory. the other story i del in "devils bargain" is the fact that steve bannon backed by a secretive right wing billionaire family, the ...

Havm, josh green who is out with a new book titled "devils bargain." steve bannon, donald trump and the storming of the presidency. first of all, josh, you went to college with sean spicer? >> he was a year ahead of me in college. i used to hang out with spicer at keg parties. >> is that true? are you surprised that after all he has dealt with and all the indignities, it was actual the the idea of reporting to anthony scaramucci that was the bridge too far for him? >> i am a little surprised, bu...