So Steve Bannon has a new nickname, Sloppy Steve, deemed to be that by President Trump.

We'll talk about that.

We'll also talk about the Trump administration's new marijuana policy.

It's got a lot of people up in arms, or at least they would be up in arms, if they could get up off their couch and leave the Doritos behind.

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you. All right. So we begin today with this supposedly bombshell book from Michael Wolfe. So there's been a lot of hubbub over the Trump administration's treatment of the Michael Wolf book. So Michael Wolf, you'll recall, is this journalist who's kind of sketchy. I remember during the Bush administration, there was a journalist named Kitty Kelly. And Kitty Kelly came out with a couple of books that were very gossipy about what had happened. One was about the Bush administration, another was about the JFK administration. And it was all very gossipy. It was very hard to peg down what was true and what was false. And it sounds a lot like Michael Wolf's book is the same way. Basically, he was given large-scale access to the West Wing, apparently by Steve Bannon, who allowed him in and just let him sit on the couch outside the West Wing. And as Wolf says, the West Wing is very small. It is. I've been there. It's a pretty small area. And the, and there are constantly people of note walking by. And so Wolf would just sit there, and then he would sort of buttonhole people and ask them questions. And then he writes this book. And this book is filled with kind of juicy anecdote, stuff about how Trump would make his own sheets. He didn't trust other people to do his sheets and how he would eat KFC because he was afraid of being poisoned and how he'd watch TV endlessly and fulminate about his aides and how he would just go crazy on a routine basis, how everybody around Trump thought that he was a moron and a crazy person, and how they would tell the public that he was a genius, and then secretly they would tell Michael Wolf that he was adult and all of this kind of stuff. So what to believe and what not to believe. First of all, don't believe everything that you read in Michael Wolf's book. As I said earlier, I think that it should have been subtitled as told by Steve Bannon, because it's pretty clear that Bannon is the guy who is spilling his guts to Michael Wolf. It was Bannon who just got blown up for spilling his guts to Michael Wolf, suggesting that all of his enemies in the White House were guilty of criminal conduct during the campaign. That's what has led President Trump to go all out against Steve Bannon now.

So he released his statement about Bannon, nuking him two days ago. Yesterday, he came out and had

the White House attack. Bannon said that Breitbart should probably fire him. Sarah Huckabee

Sanders was asked specifically whether Breitbart should consider firing Bannon, and here's what

she had to say. We were eager to call on ESPN to fire one of its sportscasters for criticizing President

Trump.

It wasn't just criticizing it was a little bit different than that.

It should Breitbart part ways with Steve Bannon after the comments in these books.

I certainly think that it's something they should look at and consider, Brian. Thanks. He said a couple of things here. Number one, of course the Trump administration feels this way. Second, is it appropriate for the Trump administration to be dictating to a private news organization? What exactly they should be doing with their own staffing? The answer is no. I opposed it when they told ESPN they should fire Jamel Hill or suspend

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