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Wondering if the russians are running the president. >> you think that that story, hannity forced that story? my feeling is that story would have -- >> hannity certainly gave the president encouragement to overrule his brand-new fbi director christopher wray. sean hannity -- the president is on the record questioning the role of his officials at d.o.j. in the interview at mar-a-lago where the truth always comes out, "the new york times," i wanted my guys there. my point is i think we sometimes give them less scrutiny than they deserve and i think looking at fox is a reflection as the white hou...

Wants. should we expect that anybody else could be going next? i don't know, ben carson or somebody? >> good question. i guess the answer is you better watch your phone these days. that is how the president makes these announcements. again just to be clear, in my private conversations with those around the west wing and those close to the president, david shulkin's name was the one on the top of this list. we've had conversations about scott pruitt and ben carson at hud, ryan zinke, the interior secretary. but in all of the conversations that i've had, the only name that was really circled was...

To say look, you knew there must have been something shady going on here. because when he was asked directly about it by reporters, he obfuscated. it's definitely in the wheelhouse of what prosecutors want to know. is the question of whether it proves obstruction and is evidence of obstruction is an analysis you can only do when you put all the facts together. we should say, bob trout, the lawyer for hope hicks, who is not normally a media guy, issued a pretty flat denial. and not one of those washington nondenial-denials this was a denial-denial. that did not get said, we did not try to obstr...

Book far more than the economy, i do think that's a problem. however, when you have the white house and vault coming of the white house talking about the book, the president tweeting about the book and the white house firing someone over the book and then releasing that hot fire statement about steve bannon, that is news can't necessarily be ignored. >> melissa: he's driving it, he knows it, he is a media guy, none of that as a surprise. the way that the administration operates is intentional. >> katie: you can make the argument which has been made that while the media is focused on the drama ...

Because of the statements he made to this "fire and fury" book, in addition to the fact he sort of crashed and burned with roy moore, both of those things caused folks like the customersers who have been the major funding behind breitbart and steve bannon to distance themselves to potentially take away the funding and put some pressure on the "breitbart" board. howie: bannon says he regrets his delay in responding to the comments. but the family that banking rolled bannon and "breitbart." that could jeopardize his role as an independent force and a media guy. >> a lot of michael wolff's