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Level. thats one of the reasons why it was probably a spur of the moment thing to say, yeah, im willing to sit down in a room with this guy because i think we can have some kind of relationship that can resolve these problems that everybody else has not been able to solve. >> yes. >> it sound like the north koreans took that into this calculus. there was a "washington post" story that are will reached out asking questions about the trump presidency. they even apparently read michael wolfs book, ...

The parties to this rejects an offer to put money into his business. >> and there are federal laws implicated here. you cannot advise on a policy if the policy, you know, knowingly is going to benefit you. he still owns this, a huge stake in his family company whose entire fortune is kind of tied to whether or not this 666 property collapses because these real estate companies are cross collateralized and steve bannon kind of gloated about this in michael wolfs book if that property goes down, h...

The parties to this rejects an offer to put money into his business. >> and there are federal laws implicated here. you cannot advise on a policy if the policy, you know, knowingly is going to benefit you. he still owns this, a huge stake in his family company whose entire fortune is kind of tied to whether or not this 666 property collapses because these real estate companies are cross collateralized and steve bannon kind of gloated about this in michael wolfs book if that property goes down, h...

This. the new york attorney general is investigating manaforts conduct and these bank and fraud charges would seem to have a state element to them if authorities chose to pursue it. its not clear that a pardon is going to help manafort completely get out of trouble here. >> let me ask you one question about the mueller probe. you go back to bannons comments where bannon basically laid out his theory of the prosecution of the trump/kushner/manafort gang if you will and said weissman, andrew weiss...

He mayor be awful, but he is our awful and well stand by him which is why you see his ratings stand pretty strong despite what seems like scandal after scandal. >> you know, michael wolfs book "fire and fury" got so much attention and there was an anecdote that you made me think of where donald trump not yet president is asked by a foreign model what is white trash and he said people like me only ive got money. >> yes, but that didnt seem to really offend people. the problem is that i think that...

Today bob mueller secured another guilty plea in the russia probe. four people potentially turning on trump, his campaign in a rough period right now. sam nunberg was there at the beginning, in michael wolfs book "fire and fury". thats 19 times. we counted. lets start with some of these reports. >> okay. >> number one, you hear about mueller making progress. >> uh-huh. which he should by the way, i mean hes getting a lot of government money, i would hope he would. >> let me ask you this, have in...

We were heading to a plea deal, it is more bad news. in a weekend of bad news for the president on the russian probe. >> what do you see as the significance of this? >> well, number one, if will puts pressure on manafort, it was a tough case before and now its a lay-down case. the pressure is on manafort. and gates was around the campaign. he was around the russia contracts. i always saw him as but of the workers in and out of the white house. so who knows what he saw or did. this is in the same...

Nikki haley calling out the russians this morning. >> russia can push the regime to speak a peace in syria, a peace that helps the syrian people. a peace that helps ensure the regions security. now is the time for russia to use that leverage. >> dana: so is there any hope of avoiding a proxy war in syria? michael wolf will give us his take. plus an american champion under fire. why shaun white is apologizing after winning his third olympic gold medal. ♪ you hit me like fire, shot me like a bul...

Wolffs book. when bannon left the white house, in public he was loyal. but privately, you say the facts are different. >> publicly he said to me and other reporters he presented this as an amicable parting. but i reveal in the book that privately, bannon was upset. initially refused to take trumps phone calls and said to associates at the time, i am sick of playing wet nurse for a 71-year-old man. that illustrates the frustra frustrations that was documented in wolfs book. >> wet nurse to a 71-y...

Now joshua green. i want to start with steve bannon. appearing before two investigations this week. how key do you think he will be to these probes? >> i think it depends on what it is he is going to tell muellers investigators. certainly a key figure in the trump campaign in the end and the transition of the white house. and we know what he said publicly to the author michael wolf and he believes that donald trump junior went up stairs to inform his father. depending on what bannon has to say t...