Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon will not be signed by Fox News or by CNN following his ouster from Breitbart News on Tuesday, according to the networks. 
 
 “Fox News will not be hiring Steve Bannon Stephen (Steve) Kevin BannonIt’s time for conservatives to retire the term �?alt-right’ Kurtz sees media forfeiting credibility in war with Trump Bannon wanted Trump to keep Yellen as Fed chair: report MORE,” a network spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. 
 
 A CNN spokesman also confirmed to The Hill that they are not interested in hiring Bannon. 
 
 The decision by the networks comes after SiriusXM also said Tuesday that the former White House chief strategist will no longer host a radio show after it was announced he was stepping down. 
 
 
 
 "Breitbart News has decided to end its relationship with Stephen K. Bannon, therefore he will no longer host on SiriusXM since our programming agreement is with Breitbart News," SiriusXM said in a statement. 
 
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 Bannon, 64, had rejoined Breitbart News's SiriusXM radio show as host in December. He departed from the White House in August in what President Trump Donald John TrumpAccuser says Trump should be afraid of the truth Woman behind pro-Trump Facebook page denies being influenced by Russians Shulkin says he has White House approval to root out 'subversion' at VA MORE has since characterized as a firing. 
 
 Bannon announced he was leaving Breitbart News on Tuesday after making controversial remarks about Trump's family to Michael Wolff, the author of the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which has dominated headlines since being released last week. 
 
 The populist firebrand became executive chairman of Breitbart News in 2012 following the sudden death of founder Andrew Breitbart, who died of a heart attack at age 43. 
 
 Bannon's career has been in flux since the publication of Wolff’s book. 
 
 In the book, which immediately became a best-seller, Bannon was quoted as calling Donald Trump Jr. Donald (Don) John TrumpTrump Jr. praises 'spirit' of poverty-stricken Indians: 'Still a smile on a face' State Dept. says it did not coordinate with Trump Jr. on India speech The Hill's 12:30 Report MORE “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” for meeting with a Russian lawyer during his father’s presidential campaign. 
 
 Trump slammed Bannon in a statement by claiming that the former Goldman Sachs investment banker had “lost his mind” after the comments on Trump Jr. first came to light. 
 
 In Wolff's book, Bannon said, "They're [the special counsel's team] going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV." 
 
 Bannon has since apologized for the comments, but the White House has rejected the overture. 
 
 “When you go after somebody’s family in the [manner] which he did, two of the president’s children are serving this nation, sacrificing in their service, it is repugnant, it is grotesque and I challenge anybody to go and talk about somebody’s family and see if that person doesn’t come back and comes back hard,” said White House spokesman Hogan Gidley. 
 
 In August, following Sean Spicer Sean Michael SpicerSpicer: Behar's comments about Pence's faith 'despicable' Report: Turnover rate in Trump White House highest in decades White House still doesn't have Spanish-language website year into admin MORE's departure from the White House, all three cable news networks indicated they would not hire the former press secretary. 
 
 The Hill has also reached out to MSNBC for comment on the possibility of opening talks with Bannon. 
 
 - Updated at 11:30 a.m. ||||| Over time, Bannon’s influence waned over rising tensions with the president, and his association with controversial figures like former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, fired after video emerged of comments he made seeming to endorse pedophilia, and Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican who lost a Senate race after being accused of preying on teenage girls. 
 
 During Bannon's tenure, Breitbart had become increasingly devoted to promoting him, welcoming him back as a "populist hero" after he returned following his ouster from the White House. Bannon left the White House in August 2017, in the aftermath of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, and after giving an unfettered interview bashing colleagues to the liberal American Prospect. 
 
 In a statement on Tuesday, Sirius XM announced that Bannon would no longer host Breitbart's radio show: "Breitbart News has decided to end its relationship with Stephen K. Bannon, therefore he will no longer host on SiriusXM since our programming agreement is with Breitbart News.” 
 
 Bannon’s position leading Breitbart became untenable after the release of Wolff’s book Fire and Fury, an inside-the-White-House tell-all in which Bannon was evidently a key source and which features him making a number of harsh comments about Trump’s family. The most controversial of these was Bannon’s comment to Wolff that Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in 2016, in which Trump Jr. sought damaging information on Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, was “treasonous.” Federal investigators are currently trying to determine whether the Trump campaign aided what U.S. intelligence agencies have described as an effort to boost Trump’s candidacy in the 2016 election. 
 
 Bannon’s comments enraged Trump, with whom Bannon had occasionally spoken after Bannon was forced out of the White House in August. In a statement last week, Trump said Bannon had “lost his mind” and accused him of being a leaker. 
 
 Though Bannon’s circle pushed him to release a statement smoothing over the incident last week, Trump’s came out first, making Bannon’s position in Trumpworld clear. Then, in a rare public statement, Bannon’s wealthy conservative patron Rebekah Mercer said she was cutting ties with him and that her family was no longer supporting his political projects. Mercer had been unhappy with Bannon for some time; according to a source with direct knowledge of her comments, Mercer told people over six weeks ago that she was finished with Bannon. 
 
 Breitbart’s board, meanwhile, reportedly debated firing Bannon. According to disclosures the company made while trying to obtain congressional press credentials last year, Breitbart is owned by Solov, company founder Andrew Breitbart’s widow Susie, and the Mercer family with a minority stake. ||||| Trump denies he gave author access and hits out at ‘Sloppy Steve’, as spokeswoman dismisses claims about his stability and fitness to serve 
 
 The US publisher of an explosive new book exposing chaos behind the scenes at the White House has brought publication forward to Friday in defiance of an attempt by Donald Trump’s lawyers to try to shut it down. 
 
 The book’s author, Michael Wolff, tweeted: “Here we go. You can buy it (and read it) tomorrow. Thank you, Mr President.” 
 
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 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was due to be released on Tuesday. But after extracts were made public by the Guardian, the White House was thrown into a frenzy. 
 
 Claims in the book about Trump’s mental stability and fitness to serve were dismissed on Thursday as “disgraceful and laughable” by the White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. 
 
 Trump tweeted that he had never granted Wolff access to the White House and had turned down his requests many times. Describing the book as “phony”, Trump said Fire and Fury was: “full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist”. He said he had never spoken to Wolff: “Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!” 
 
 
 
 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve! 
 
 The president’s Twitter outburst followed a remarkable personal statement denouncing Steve Bannon, his one-time confidant, whom he castigated as self-aggrandizing and not a critical figure. 
 
 
 
 “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency,” Trump said. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.” 
 
 Sanders said the president was “furious and disgusted” at Bannon’s attacks on his family, which included the claim that Donald Trump Jr’s Trump Tower meeting with a group of Russians who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”. 
 
 
 
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 Then on Thursday, as the White House struggled to contain the fallout from the book, a lawyer for the president sent a letter demanding Wolff and his publisher, Henry Holt & Co, “immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination”, or excerpts and summaries of its contents. The legal notice, sent by the Beverly Hills-based attorney Charles Harder, also demanded a copy of the book. 
 
 Harder sent a similar letter to Bannon on Wednesday night, accusing the former chief strategist of violating an employee agreement and defaming the president. 
 
 At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends Michael Wolff 
 
 The Guardian published details from the book on Wednesday after obtaining a copy from a bookseller in New England. New York magazine then rushed to publish a lengthy extract and more details began to emerge as major US publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal received copies free from embargo. 
 
 About 250,000 copies of the book had already been shipped, supposedly to be held until Tuesday. On Thursday afternoon, a spokeswoman for Holt & Co told the Guardian publication in all formats was being brought forward to Friday “due to unprecedented demand”. 
 
 A statement from the publisher added: “Henry Holt confirms that we received a cease and desist letter from an attorney for President Trump. We see ‘Fire and Fury’ as an extraordinary contribution to our national discourse, and are proceeding with the publication of the book.” 
 
 
 
 Wolff is due on NBC’s Today show on Friday morning for his first on-the-record interview. 
 
 Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s speech, privacy and technology project, said earlier Trump’s lawsuit had no chance of success. 
 
 “Even Donald’s Trump’s lawyers aren’t crazy enough to present this to a court,” he said. “It would be extraordinary and unprecedented for a court to respond to these claims by blocking publication. That is not going to happen. 
 
 “I think there is an audience of one for these legal threats and that’s Donald Trump.” 
 
 In a column for the Hollywood Reporter titled My Year Inside Trump’s Insane White House, Wolff gave more insight into what he discovered as he sat “day after day on a West Wing couch” for a year. Administration officials, he suggested, do not believe Trump is capable of fulfilling his role as president. 
 
 “Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his repetitions,” Wolff wrote. “It used to be inside of 30 minutes he’d repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories – now it was within 10 minutes. Indeed, many of his tweets were the product of his repetitions – he just couldn’t stop saying something.” 
 
 He added: “Hoping for the best, with their personal futures as well as the country’s future depending on it, my indelible impression of talking to them and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency, is that they all – 100% – came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job.” 
 
 In a final anecdote, Wolff wrote: “At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.” 
 
 Much of Thursday’s White House press briefing centered on the book. Sanders said any claims about Trump’s stability were “disgraceful and laughable”. 
 
 “If he was unfit, he probably wouldn’t be sitting there,” she said. 
 
 Trump appeared before the media earlier in the Roosevelt Room, where he was meeting Republican senators about immigration. There were shouted questions from reporters, including: “Did Steve Bannon betray you, Mr President? Any words about Steve Bannon?” 
 
 Trump replied: “I don’t know, he called me a great man last night, so, you know, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick.” 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, pictured with Eric Trump, are central figures in Wolff’s book. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA 
 
 Wolff’s book – “filled with false and misleading accounts”, according to the White House – soared from 48,449th on Amazon’s bestselling books list to No 1. 
 
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 The author said his book was based on more than 200 interviews, including multiple conversations with the president and senior staff. Sanders claimed Wolff “never actually sat down with the president” and had spoken with him just once, briefly, after Trump took office. She dismissed the book as “trashy tabloid fiction”. 
 
 “Aides thought they had more time to prepare for the book’s formal release,” the Washington Post reported. “Trump spent much of the day raging about the book to top aides, officials and advisers said … As he fumed, some aides were still frantically searching for a copy of the book.” 
 
 On Wednesday, Bannon hosted Breitbart News Tonight on Sirius XM radio as usual, making little reference to the public rupture. 
 
 When a caller brought up the issue, Bannon replied: “The president of the United States is a great man. You know I support him day in and day out.”
– Stephen Bannon expressed regret Sunday for the explosive statements he made about Donald Trump Jr. that were quoted in the just-released book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Reversing a comment he made in Michael Wolff's book that Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with Russians was "treasonous," Bannon begins his statement, first made to Axios, by calling the president's oldest son "both a patriot and a good man," the Washington Post reports. Bannon goes on to say that the quote was the result of "inaccurate reporting" and that he wasn't actually speaking about Trump Jr. at all, but rather former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, a "seasoned campaign professional" who should have known that the Russians are "duplicitous, cunning and not our friends." Bannon's comments have resulted in very public falling-out between the former senior White House aide and the man he helped get elected to the White House. After news of the comments broke last week, President Trump began calling Bannon "Sloppy Steve" on Twitter, and saying the Breitbart head had been "dumped like a dog by almost everyone." Bannon's apology comes just hours after his former protégé and current White House senior adviser Stephen Miller called Bannon's comments "grotesque," "out of touch," and "obviously so vindictive" on CNN.