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Bookstores about an hour ago it was released early after trump threatened to sue the publisher and former white house advisor steve benen well he calls the book phony and full of flies during an interview on American Television on friday morning the author thats Michael Wolff defended his book and he took direct aim at the president listen not only is he helping me sell books but hes helping me prove the point of the book i mean this is extraordinary that a president of the United States would try to stop the publication of a book my credibility is being pressed question by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point all right lets a break this down bring in joining us from washington d. C. So wolf was speaking just a short while ago on American Television saying that he absolutely had access to the white house and trump trump saying the ads xerox us whats going on here patty just talk us through the past hour or two. You know this is once again one of those instances where President Donald Trump makes an accusation that can easily be proven to be false and then that is what is happening in this case just to give you an idea Michael Wolff says he was there for weeks several days weeks at the white house you dont walk into the white house unless they let you into the white house you have to be cleared so someone like him in the other thing i think worth noting is if youre a member of the media and you have a hard pass as its called so you always have access to the white house to give you this badge its gray that way if i tried to walk in the west wing with this badge they would know to stop me now this author didnt have this great badge he had a blue one which basically gave him access to the entire west wing reporters saw him there all the time so this idea that he had no access is false the other thing hes talking about though is these comments from basically says one hundred percent of people roamed the president think he is unable to perform the job its a pretty harsh words for how they describe their boss i will tell you the one description that that everyone gave everyone has some common they all say he is like a childs and what they mean by that is he has and the need for Immediate Gratification its all about him i know people would point out that in the beginning it was like every twenty five or thirty minutes you would get the same story stories repeated now its the same three stories in every ten minutes and whats the suggestion there because that goes beyond saying ok the president s not an intellectual with whats whats what are you arguing there is a for example he was at mara lago and didnt recognize lifelong friends. I will quote steve benen. Hes lost just looking at trumps twitter feed patty and he tweeted about thirty two minutes ago now calling the book a phony new book just tell us what kind of impact this is all having in Washington Well obviously people in washington are focused on the fact that he is saying that the president is mentally unstable the bigger question is what is this going to do to his support in the country the president has faced more controversies than any other president in the history of the country but it doesnt seem to stick to him with his supporters and thats in large part because hes been able to label everything as fake news hes trying that tactic once again with this book the more telling thing i think is going to be how this plays with his psyche the one thing we know about this president one of his biggest insecurities and how hes reacted is clear he doesnt like being called stupid this is a book says pretty much every Single Person around him believes that he is dumb and unfit for the office so if that starts to get into his head he could start alienating his staff but its not clear that thered be anyone left to fill the void now its important to point out that this author has been controversial in the past some have questioned his credibility but no one whos been quoted here has come out and said that they didnt say that theyre saying well i was taken out of context and one reason we could be seen that is the author says hes got a lot of things on tape ok particle hain thank you so as were saying that book was released early in one of our viewers on facebook telling us well i just ordered mine now trumps domestic dealings are just one part of the book it also gets into his Foreign Policy agenda more specifically the book claims that trump is taking credit for the rise of crown Prince Mohammed bin sandman in saudi arabia officer he replaces cousin hamad bin nayef so here is an excerpt where the president is bragging about the crown prince trump would tell friends that he and jared and generic as saudi crude weve put our man on top. A last october steve bannon spoke about trumps historic trip to saudi arabia and the change in succession at the time the former white house chief strategist praised changes being made by him who had been some man linking them to trumps riyadh visit and he also talked about the trips impact on the blockade on qatar i dont think its just by happenstance that two weeks after that summit that you saw the blockade by the United Arab Emirates and and bahrain. Egypt and the kingdom of saudi arabia and qatar and i said from day one i think that even with the situation in the northwest pacific with korea i think the single most important thing thats happening right now in the world is a situation cover so that was the ban in speaking earlier on lets fix it i mean hooty in beirut hes a senior fellow there are some photos institute for Public Policy at the American University of beirut that is where hes joining us from thanks for speaking to us so so if this is to believe then according to the book trump is taking credit for the rise of crown prince of saudi arabia from advance on money is that a surprise at all. Its not really a surprise that most of the material in the book related to the middle east of the world is stuff that has been talked about before ive just spent three months in the United States and this is pretty much Common Knowledge what the United States under trump is doing in the arab world and what this book does is just reinforce it and gives it a bit more depth and a little bit more drama with some of some of the quotations the key point here is that the United States is dealing in the middle east basically through the lens of the netanyahu government in israel with the support of Sheldon Adelson the billionaire donor to the Trump Campaign to the tune of twenty five or thirty five Million Dollars its been reported and basically playing with the arab world like a toy and doing let me just stop you there for a second because just for clarification i mean clearly for any for viewers that may not know what you could be referring to so what youre talking about is actually an excerpt in the book that talks about jerusalem and the book alleges that the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and who is a mega donor to the Tram Campaign as we know they are the ones that were behind the decision off the u. S. To move its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv and hence declared jerusalem as the capital of israel. Thats right the american unilateral recognition of israel of drew slim as the capital of israel is a policy that Sheldon Adelson has long demanded and finally got and this has is this is symptomatic of a broader trend which is for instance the negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis are being done by jarrett cushion or the son in law of trump and hes essentially following the israeli wishes and giving it take a leave it offer to the palestinians and getting the saudi leadership now under him and some men to basically support this and to put pressure on the jordanians and the palestinians to go along with it so all over the region you see the results of the trump policies which are based on the combination of massive ignorance of the details on the nuances in the region with a. Measure of arrogance and this day in for the arab world that they can do anything that the u. S. And israel can do anything they want in the region and youre seeing the policies of the Saudi Arabians in the region and cut that in yemen and lebanon jordan palestine and syria all over the region increasingly dangerous and wreckless creating tremendous problems and instability in the region combined with the there was one very interesting quote in the in the in the book by bannon was saying Something Like well were going to just do this in palestine and israel and the palestinians the west bank can go to jordan if they want they can vote in jordan and jazzer can go to egypt and let the jordanians and the egyptians the quote is let them deal with it or sink trying let the jordanians and the injured there be any sort of follow alans drum from the from these allegations or could there be any consequences if it is indeed proven that there is foreign interference i. E. The israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is interfering in u. S. Matters of states. Well thats been going on for a long time i mean netanyahu was invited twice to speak to the American Congress about the iran deal to go against the American Government the american president obama back then so Israeli Government interference directly in the u. S. Congress is a long standing process but when you get the American Government manipulating arab countries to pursue policies that the Israeli Government of netanyahu would like pursued then it becomes a little bit more problematic more dangerous is that longstanding. Allies of the u. S. Like jordan for instance is a very delicate position jordans a vulnerable poor country the saudis are been pressuring at the americans may be pressuring it egypt is in a similarly tough situation so the message coming out of the white house is we dont care about the big can go to hell they can they can do as they say they sink trying to take care of the west bank or orgasm and this creates greater tensions greater turmoil across the region which will play out and very very ugly ways of will have long term impacts all across the region this is a region already burdened with the wars sectarian fighting refugees terrorism fragmenting states and to have this kind of policy coming out of the us under this kind of leadership is very troubling now none of this is new this is whats really even more frightening this has been clear i run into this in the three months i was in the us talking to people in washington new york boston everybody is aware of this its just more out in the open now clarified maybe more confirmed and in many ways there will be a pushback from some people in the u. S. But not very much against against israel israel remains partly immune to the rules of International Relations among sovereign countries. But i mean we thank you for speaking to us from beirut and stray arns on facebook a saying this to our. That the u. S. Pushes democracy on middle east countries in the president of that country is trying to ban something that someone wrote about him freedom isnt viable anymore in america lets find out if others feel that way and bring in our social media producer and a ship out and youve got some people calling this a civil war within trumps a base and whats going on well much of the internet latched on to the name that trump called steve bannon making sloppy steve trend on twitter at one point and many people appear to be taking sides here in the trump versus bannan feud and while the former white house chief strategist says that he still thinks that the president of the United States is a great man most of or quite a few people on his site bright bartz appear to be splits brenne here has a popular post talking about a huge divide in trumps base that these comments this book have created and if you mine the comments on breitbart a bit youll see quite a few people using words like betrayal to talk about the sites creator so divisions are clearly apparent there and more broadly speaking the most prominent or effective voice that ive seen in the past day or so pushing back on the book is arguably the former White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci youll remember he was in the job for about ten days before being sacked for some very colorful comments he made to a journalist about steve bannon well he might be making a play to get back in the white house hes been making the rounds on Cable Networks including the president s favorite morning show fox and friends saying that bannon needs to apologize and walk back comments that he may have made about the president s son. Everyones talking about this book that Michael Wolff wrote and talked about steve bannon saying all kinds of salacious bad things about the president s family when he was working at the white house what is this true listen i dont know if its true but what i what i what i would suggest to people because what goes on in the industry now is people just say whatever they say lets go verify it ok at the end of the day some of it may be true some of may not be true but i have to say this if he did say it he should get out there and walk it back donald trump is not treasonous hes an American Patriot he loves his dad he loves his country so walk it back not just to focus on that a bit more those people across the political spectrum who are talking about truth and verification of things that are found in this book you have journalists like sarah kenda zor saying that we should take all of its revelations with a grain of salt shes been very critical of the books author Michael Wolff and others including the staff the New York Times have been Fact Checking excerpts of fire and fury and theyve already found numerous factual errors now that something that the White House Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders pounced on on thursday to say that the book contains quote mistake after mistake after mistake but others like mike allen and jim vande to say that there are definitely parts of the book that are wrong sloppy or betray off the record confidence but they say hes right and his depiction of trump as a emotionally erratic president and also about the low opinions that many of his staffers have of him and on the subject of verification wolf says he has dozens of hours of audio recordings to back up his interview so were all waiting to see if those are ever released if youve got a copy of the book and you start to read it let us know what you think you can send me your thoughts directly on at andersonville or to. Get well janine is telling us on twitter that the fact trump is reacting so strongly against the book only serves to increase general interest and promote sales trumps reaction leads one to believe there is much truth in it otherwise why instruct his lawyers to have it banned and take a look at our. Website aljazeera dot com because youll find this article the tragedy and blessing that is trump its a catchy title of this opinion piece on al jazeera dot com novelist Larry Beinhart best known for wag the dog in fact takes on all the highs and lows of the donald Trump Presidency its an interesting reads on al jazeera dot com were getting a lot of comments and questions on this particular story so keep them coming if youd like to get in touch with us you can do so on any one of our social media platforms were on twitter list or were on facebook at facebook dot com slash a. J. 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