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>> not just a friend, just a good guy, a friend for a very long time. that's what the president said. and the two of course do seem particularly close in photo after photo. here they are greeting the tesla ceo, elon musk, in the state dining room as trump signs an executive order about the oil pipeline industry. and this, trump speaking on the phone with vladimir putin, and who is there? steve bannon. and then when they worked together in the white house, check this out, their offices, steps apart. in fact the only person who sat closer to the president of the united states than bannon was pre...

This is very, very different. this is as matthew said earlier, about the president's fundamental fitness to serve as president. no one on either side of the fights in the clinton days or frankly the reagan days or bush days, when there was always a war for the soul of the presidency, we have never seen a white house where the senior most officials believe that the president is unfit to serve and that's what this book is telling us. >> to that point, mary katherine, it is the central argument that paul gets to here, and some of the quotes attributable to folks, sam who advised the president for...

Family that makes the trump white house feel more like a reality show than ever. >> it describes ivanka trump as having her own presidential ambitions and a secret pact with husband jared kushner. author michael wolff writes between themselves the two had made an earnest deal if sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she'd be the run to run for president. >> however donald and milania trump had no intention of moving to the white house, the book describes the realization he won the white house, quoting now, don junior told a friend that he looked as if he had seen a ghost. melania was i...

Stephanie gresham issued a statement pushing back on the wolff book too saying it is clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section. mrs. trump supported her husband's decision to run for president and encouraged him to do so. she was confident he would win and was very happy when he did. so clearly, the east wing echoing sarah sanders today and the west wing saying this isn't true, it's fiction, it's fantasy, et cetera, you know, election night happened. melania is first lady, and so we're just keeping our eye on that. >> ladies, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. just ...

Yeah. i think all reporters here, you don't tend to hear it on the record as it's presented in wolff's book. but look, wolff, was a fairly regular fixture in the white house. it was no secret that he was writing this book and talking to senior advisers, not just bannon, all of them. mr. quoted in the excerpts, i expect they'll be quoted in the book as well. but they were cooperating with this book because they thought that wolf was going to offer a positive portrayal of trump in his presidency. and at the time he began hanging out with the trump people, it was during the transition. they all t...