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Yes, indeed. amazing speed, coverage and control. all with an xfi gateway. find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." it is good to have you with us. i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. i want to check the headlines for you this hour. donald trump's former top strategist says he regrets not responding sooner to the new bombshell book about the white house. comments attributed to steve bannon are critical of the president and his son donald trump jr. but bannon says ...

>> that was author michael wolff talking to christiane amanpour. we're back and continuation the conversation about wolff's bombshell book, "fire and fury." with me now is cnn political analyst and "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman. maggie, to be clear, wolff had amazing access and got a lot of juicy quotes from people, especial and steve bannon. i don't want to take any of that away from him, but this book contains several inaccuracies and maybe even more to the point, there is such hyperbole in the book and also the claims we listened to, 100%. there is no way that 1...

Opponents. that's very concerning. >> the president also threatened a war with nuclear north korea tweeting i too have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his. and my button works. by day two, michael wolff's bombshell book had mr. trump lashing out again. steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. when he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. >> furious, disgusted would probably certainly fit when you make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president. >> by day three, the president's legal team was thr...

Son-in-law, jared kushner, in a long-running feud with bannon, is involved in financial crimes. trump allies attacked the insider account. >> this is obviously a hit job on the president. >> it's outrageous. >> he's a sleaze bag. >> absurd allegation by someone who's talked to a lot of disgruntled people at the white house. >> complete fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip. >> but by day five, the president clearly not satisfied with defending his own fitness for office, calling himself a genius and a very stable genius at that. >> why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning? ...

Trump jr., for his negative comments. well, bannon's apology came after the white house began to downplay his role in donald trump's presidential campaign. earlier this morning, "fire and fury" author michael wolff outlined bannon's 2016 role on nbc's "meet the press." >> he made donald trump president. >> he believes this. >> not only does he believe this, it's absolutely true. steve went into this campaign in the middle of august. it had fallen apart. it had imploded. it was over. steve was the guy who said, you know, there is a case here. it's the economy, stupid, if we go through florida, ...