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According to sources inside who say he's citing executive privilege. we anticipate he will emerge fairly soon, since 9:30 this morning he's been there. and there will be statements from members emerging as well. we'll have coverage of that, stand by. but i want to get some reaction, phil mudd is with us. phil, he was also subpoenaed, according to "the new york times" by special counsel robert mueller, to testify before a federal grand jury. we're talking about steve bannon. what does that say to you? >> a very simple story here. robert mueller doesn't sit on his hands. but he's also methodic...

Basically steve who? he is but a mere staffer. don't know the guy. can't really remember the guy. was he ever really even in the white house that much? and the answer of course is he was. he was an integral player during the campaign and in president trump's white house until he was forced out. in terms of new details emerging, one of the things i find most interesting is something the post just reported, which is that today bannon lost the financial backing of rebecca mercer, who was one of his biggest patrons, sort of the dollars behind a lot of his projects. and so today we saw a great pala...

Himself. >> which are taped, yes, videoed. let's move on to paul manafort, also somebody who was in the president's circle, is suing mueller. >> this is not something being filed in the criminal case as a motion to dismiss, which on its face is a little odd. secondly what the lawsuit is alleging -- what manafort is alleging is essentially the appointment letter that rosenstein wrote giving mueller authorization to conduct the investigation, that one portion of it is too broad, it doesn't specific -- it doesn't limit his scope and this, essentially, makes many of the crimes he was indicted on o...

Really in the white house that much, and the answer of course is he was. he was an integral player during the campaign and in president trump's white house until he was forced out. one of the things i find interesting is something "the post" has reported is today bannon lost the financial backing of rebecca mercer, who was one of his biggest patrons, sort of the dollars behind one of his projects. and so today we saw the great palace intrigue we all love to soak up the gossip on. but for steve bannon he lost his chief paten in terms of donald trump and financial support in terms the mercers pr...

Excommunicated from the president's circle. people come and go, but right now it's not a great day for steve bannon. >> and jeremy peters, could you pick up on that thread? do you have any sense what motivated -- and it's important to point out that the white house defense today was to release visitor logs, which simply in my mind bolstered much of what was in here, at least the quantity of it. in 17, what sounded like in many occasions, day long trips to the west wing of the white house, you could certainly paint an accurate picture of the atmosphere. and in a lot of these books oftentimes it...