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For a stinging book review. >> i consider it a work of fiction. >> reporter: president trump vi invited cameras in saturday as he disputed author michael wolff's county that the top white house aide said the president has lost it. >> he was never in the oval office. weapon didn't have an interview. >> reporter: in tweets, the president defended his psychological fitness. "my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart." he blamed ousted strategist, steve bannon. >> i guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit and it was one of these things --...

Republicans were really concerned about that, remember the lessons of alabama. many republicans said that bannon's influence in the party and on campaigns was overrated, overexaggerated. but he was influential to the point that he was supported by the president and by the president's supporters who had financial backing, financial money -- money to give -- to back bannon. now those two things are gone. the mercers have cut ties, the president has cut ties. so bannon's influence in these campaigns is virtually none. so you've had in some of these primaries, those who weren't backed by bannon tr...

This makes them very happy, because they want bannon out of the picture as it pertains to campaigns because they don't want to lose any seats. >> john, do you think the bannon/trump alliance is dead for good? how many times has the president reconciled in the past with people who he's called worse names than sloppy. >> you're exactly right. look at his relationship right now with lindsey graham, who he mocked and ridiculed. lindsey graham was one of the tough opponents of president trump and now they play golf together and they're getting along fine. no, i don't assume that that relationship i...

In the 2018 mudd teidterms, i t that presents a lot of complications for the party. >> not offering diagnosis, but observations. >> what caitlin said is precisely the point. some people have framed this as like, trump did this, bannon did this. bannon is mostly irrelevant in this discussion, because all of bannon's influence is a derivative of what he was given by president donald trump made him the top executive of his campaign made him the chief white house strategist. so what sloppy steve did was a reflection of the sloppiness of the white house itself. that proves the point that wolff is m...

To go until we get to election day. but all of the signs electorally, the early polling, the mood among the parties in congress, who's retiring from congress, tells you that this is going to be a very good democratic year and it's because this president has so galvanized opposition. you know, he's got approval in the range of 40% right now. maybe a little bit below 40%. but the whole rest of the country is repelled by his behavior, in particular, suburbanites, college-educated white voters, women have turned away from him in ways that are problematic for republicans. >> and for all those reaso...