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Awards for the fake news later this week. spending a lot of his time focussed on that. and so, this comes, this bit of reporting comes at a time that this book is going on, but this reporting is -- was presented by a very good reporter with solid -- >> axios. >> and this is again an issue that the white house will push back on, but the fact that the president tweets about this so often kind of shows that he is watching a lot of television. >> and sarah, another thing on presidents agenda this we...

Guardian. most recently he worked for the hollywood reporter and usa today. >> theres a michael wolff here to see you. >> read michael worksf and thank your lucky stars hes not writing about you. >> this is off the record! >> reporter: wolff once wrote a scathing book about rupert murdoch, calling him the floor master of the tabloid business, niceties are not his specialty. >> he will go where other reporters generally wont, and that earned him quite a reputation. >> reporter: and its that busy,...

Talks is undoubtedly due to the pressure that is building up on the country. >> reporter: pressure that only stands to increase in 2018 unless both sides find a diplomatic path. a path that begins here, at painful reminder of the violence past, tense, present, and uncertain future. will ripley, cnn, seoul. when we come back, the president is calling the author of in a new tell-all about his administration a fraud and says the book is a work of fiction. but who exactly is michael wolff? the man...

Excerpts from fire and fury that were explosive and drew into question not only the presidents mental fitness for office, but also his relationship with his former chief strategist steve bannon. today steve bannon putting out a statement for the first time directly in response to those quotations of his in that book. specifically taking exception to a portion where he describes a meeting between trump campaign officials and russian nationals at trump tower back in june of 2016 as treasonous and ...

>> well, i cant say that helps. if you have to stand up and say that youre stable, i guess that raises questions about your stability. look, the president made an error in judgment by bringing steve bannon into his orbit in the first place. bannon kind of represents anihilism and a disruptive way that i think is very unhealthy for the country. and its good riddance that he is gone, but the fact remains that the president brought him and hes going to bring in great people and brought in steve ban...

>> i spoke with democratic congressman dan kildy last night who said this -- >> what i worry about is that privately you laer republicans -- i do all the time saying many of the same things we hear in this book, and publicly and officially, they are falling all over themselves to protect this president from legitimate inquiry and from legitimate oversight, and that is very dangerous for this country. >> congressman dent, when you mentioned the mental fitness. >> i read excerpts from the book, i ...

Of discussion among the staff. how would you handle it? >> its strange. a lot of things about this presidency are unprecedented. were dealing with issues for the first time weve really never dealt with. one of those issues, of course, is the presidents ability to change the course of conversations in the blink of an eye. sometimes i see these tweets that he does like the one today and i try to put myself in his shoes, and today, think about it, hes endured 72 hours of the most brutal news cycles...

Meeting in trump tower was purely and simply about russian adoption policy. that was what discussed period. period. >> as the book alludes to, the setup for that meeting, the dangle, if you will, by this publicist who set up this meeting between had russian lawyer and russian american lobbyist, jared kushner, donald trump jr. and paul manafort was that there was the possibility that this russian lawyer had dirt from the russian government on hillary clinton that she was going to offer. so that e...

Steve bannon at this point? he has nothing to bring to the table. >> other than jared kushner, though, bannon was the guy who was closer to the oval office, closer than reince priebus. now listen to how the president is talking about him. >> did steve bannon betray you, mr. president? any words about steve bannon? >> i dont know. he called me a great man last night. he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all that much. i dont talk to him. i dont talk to him. thats just a misnomer....