Other White House advisers joked that Steve Bannon's only job was leaking stories to the press after he was fired by Donald Trump.
Stephen Miller said that he had a plan to split up Steve Bannon's work. I hope you leak to Jonathan Swan. You call Mike from the WSJ. I will call Jeremy Peters from the New York Times.
The book "Breaking History: A White House Memoir" gives a detailed account of the relationship between the two men.
The New York Times reported that the New York Times received a call from a man who said he was going to leak something to the newspaper. CNN reported that at the time, Kushner was trying to stop the story from being published.
After he told Bannon to stop leaking stories about Gary Cohn, he said he would break him in half.
He yelled "'Jared, right now, you're the one undermining the President's agenda'" as he looked at him. You will be broken in half if you go against me. According to CNN, Kushner wrote, "Don't f--- with me.
Donald Trump's decision to fire his chief strategist and senior counsel, Steve Bannon, was an accomplishment of the president's son-in-law, according to a letter written by him.
I joked that I was able to get Steve Bannon fired because I didn't have any major policy successes to show for my seven months in government.
Lawyers for Bannon didn't reply to Insider's request.