now let's match steve bannon's power with donald trump's brain. the brain that psychiatrists are increasingly publicly worried about. we will discuss president trump's mental health with a psychiatrist later in the hour. but for a moment, let's consider his knowledge. just his knowledge. what does donald trump know about government? he has proved time and time again throughout the campaign and during his presidency that the answer to that is absolutely nothing. nothing. he is operating at an ignorance level never seen before in the presidency. he had to call one of his advisers in the middle of the night, recently, to ask, what is a strong dollar, what is a weak dollar, and which one is good for america. in that empty section of donald trump's brain that should be occupied by knowledge and opinions an governing policy lives steve bannon. virtually everything that comes out of donald trump's mouth about policy and foreign and domestic is a version of what he has been told by steve bannon. the president's dark anti-american inaugural address came fr

they themselves are not sure what the role of steve bannon is. how he interacts with reince priebus. this will be an illuminating conversation. >> we'll, of course, have live coverage. we'll be anxious to hear what steve bannon and reince priebus have to say. stand by for that. thanks very much, phil. >>> i want to continue to watch live pictures also coming in from mexico city where the secretary of state rex tillerson has been meeting with mexican leaders. he's meeting with luis videgaray, the foreign minister. they'll be speaking and making statements in mexico city. i don't know if they'll be answering reporters questions but we'll have live coverage of that. just moments ago, president trump addressed the mexican visit by the secretary of state and the secretary of homeland security john kelly. he told business leaders that tillerson's visit to mexico, and i'm quoting the president now, is going to be a tough trip. his words. a tough trip. we'll, of course, have live coverage of that news conference. the statements that will be made by the s

steve bannon's domestic violence charges were from 1996. this oprah winfrey episode, which we all got access to today, flfs 1990. and what changed today, what led to the yanking of the first trump cabinet nominee was at that at 1:00 in the morning this morning politico.com posted online these clips of andy puzder's ex-wife wearing a disguise appearing on the oprah winfrey show on a program titled "high class battered women. >>" she wore a disguise including those big glasses and she discussed the same alleged physical abuse by andy puzder in their marriage that she testified to in their earlier divorce proceedings. she filed court documents where she said that andy puzder "assaulted and battered me by striking me violently about the face, chest, back, shoulders and neck without provocation or cause leaving bruises and contusions to the chest, back, shoulders and neck as well as two ruptured disks and two bulging disks among other injuries." and you heard her say in the oprah clip, right "my ex-husband was a public figure." andy puzder was a

. >>> okay, steve bannon. steve bannon, his title at the white house is chief strategist and senior counselor to the president of the united states. aside from the president himself, steve bannon is the other identifiable person who appears to be running things, directing things for the white house and the new administration. it's interesting for somebody like him to have that impressive, that powerful a political job not just because of his own ideology, his own politics or anything else you might be interested in about him, it's flat out interesting for him to have such a high level in the federal government specifically because of the fact he's never had a job in politics before. at all. this is his first time ever working in government or politics and he's the chief strategist and senior adviser to the president of the united states. he was in the navy for a while, he worked at goldman sachs for a while, he made profoundly ridiculous movies for a while. he ran a right wing pro-trump web site until trump ta

( laughter ) steve bannon gave himself more power on the dl. >> steve bannon has been given a security clearance usually held by generals as a result offan executive order signed by president trump. >> according to the "times," president trump did not know the contents of one of the executive orders. he did not know he was giving steve bannon a seat on the national security council. >> trevor: this is insane. the president didn't know what was in the executive order. and bannon slipped himself on to the national security council. like a kid slips candy into his mom's shopping cart. everyone realizes steve bannon is the power behind the thrown, even the dishonest media. >> president trump's chief strategist appears on the cover of this week's "time" magazine accompanied by the title "the great manipulator." >> trevor: a sweet milestone for steve bannon. on the one hand, on the cover of "time" magazine. on the other hand, on the cover with this photo. what's going on with the face? that's like a professional -- the man looks like a satellite image of a storm on jupiter. ( laughter ) anyw

and steve bannon doing what donald trump did. he turned to the audience and talked to the american neme the end there, and said have our back he asked the people and most importantly hold us accountable in the process. corey lewandowski, good to have you here. >> thank you. >> we are waiting for the press briefing. sean spicer answering questions on the transgender bathrooms and chilly welcome that our top diplomat received in mexico. and confronted in rowdy town hall and voters angry about obamacare and more. the congressman who was shouted down in his own gathering next. want longer lasting heartburn relief? try...duo fusion duo fusion goes to work in seconds and lasts up to 12 hours. tums only lasts up to 3. for longer lasting relief...in one chewable tablet try duo fusion from the makers of zantac the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says, "you picked the wrong insurance plan." no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. liberty

steve bannon has an announcement. just a second, the strings are tangled. >> and that's how we wound up with president bannon and his dummy danny. >> reporter: president bannon has his own parody twitter account tweeting things like day 33, donald trump still believes he is president. there are impeach president bannon t-shirts. and even a "new york times" editorial called him president? "the late show" showed bannon tucking in president trump. >> night-night. don't let the bedbugs bite. >> reporter: but in person, the only thing bannon flicked was the press. >> the mainstream don't get this at the opposition party. >> reporter: does the actual president mind all the talk of president bannon? >> maybe bannon is calling all the shots. >> if that wasn't true, then a certain cable news fan wouldn't have felt the need less than an hour later to tweet "i call my own shots". >> reporter: former obama adviser david axelrod campaigned bannon and reince priebus to a song and dance team as they got touchy-feely. >> a very dear

i think steve bannon poses a real danger. he istacks on the press taking away the idea of being people iny a group of that medium to keep america as strong as it can be. there are a lot of things being said on the opposite side. beyond action way that would make the country stronger. it's going to continue to divide the nation. dan and is repeating this in terms of deconstructing the foundation of the united states. media is there to inform us and give us an idea what's going on. i appreciate c-span. thanks for the show. host: keep watching. this is the headline from the wall sheet -- street journal. this is a tweet from camille. he was scheduled and then uninvited to speak at the cpac conference. cpac is a waste and is not conservative. tell us what you think. more from the conference yesterday. he made comments about the all right movement. this is that part from yesterday. filled left-wing fascist group hijacked the term all right. that term has been used for a long time. this group has hijacked it. intentionally deceiveth

steve bannon fills in -- steve bannon fills a lot of that in. you can hear trump in some of the things that he says about the world and about sort of putting a moat around america. so reflecting what is a long-held view of steve bannon who has this apocalyptic view of judeo christian society at war with islam and about global lichl as a threat to the sovereignty of this country. you can hear intimations of that in trump's rhetoric, and i don't think it's something that donald trump has long studied and thought about. yes, i think bannon is really influenced. >> david axelrod, have a great weekend. thank you. >> okay, guys. >>> sunday is oscar night in america. will it be a big night for "la la land" in la-la land. just let that wash over you. ow political will the stars and the hosts get? i think a little political. we'll have all that coming up. your insurance company won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car repla

i'm wondering about steve bannon earlier today. did you learn anything about him that surprise you'd or did it confirm what you already believed about him? >> no it confirmed what i already believed. what is frightening to me is the lack of reaction from the crowd at cpac. he dropped economic nationalism two or three times during that. he talked about populism and nationalism a lot. and then said look how diverse this group is. he knew he was an outsider. and by saying things, for instance, about gore had been saying hey, donald trump did this and he promised the people he was going to do that. they were also laying the ground that we are going to -- we're a white house of economic nationalism and populism. that is not conservative. and really, i think very, very dangerous. >> how does that differ than conservatism than many people at cpac? in what way -- when he talks about economic nationalism, what does that mean to you? what does that mean to him? >> it means tariffs. and tariffs, as you know, anderson, it was smoot-hawley, the

steve bannon doesn't say that at all. he said he could care less about establishing a positive relationship with the media, so it's sincere and something that everyone in that administration has really come to feel and believe. they're wearing a chip on their shoulder because in so many months and some cases years they were told they were going to lose, on the wrong side of the history, they feel they're emboldened. you heard steve bannon say this is the top of the first inning, he really believes that, the approval numbers are low, are they low among the base, low at what's coming out at kr, pac pa no, he believes he only needs to cater to that part of the country. >> mark, i see you -- you want to jump in, what are you thinking? >> it's just a bizarre thing, that was like a scary buddy comedy, the language they use, we're going to impose sovereignty, like kicking -- get rid of the administrative state, and this media thing, frame them as the opposition party allows them to not be accountable for any mistakes contradicti

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but steve bannon, this was a sunlight debut for him. they are different guys but they get along very well. i must say, this was the right kind of debut for steve bannon. i think you know him a little bit, the guy was direct but not dark. he was straightforward but not sinister. he was candid but not scary. so i think he did fine. obviously a very smart guy, operating at a high level and engaged in a high-level argument which no doubt the media and the corporatists as he called them will take up. are there going to be rivalries in the white house? of course. will there be differences ofe opinion between the chief of staff and chief strategist? of course. i remember being a near-secretary of education being summoned to the white house many times because of disagreements. it was usually because i wanted a lower budget and some of president reagan's people wanted a higher budget, but ronald reagan always fixed that. these are strong men with strong points of view. the issues are tough, the load is incredible, there will be differences. i th

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and it was done with jared kushner and steve bannon among others in the room. is that the normal decision-making process for something like this? >> it's not and we don't know at all to what extent there was a normal interagency process? the trump administration because there aren't people in place in many jobs that would review this stuff. there aren't the military lawyers in place, there aren't the national security agency principals necessary. >> ken dill lainian, thanks for your time. >>> joining me now, congressman adam schiff. congressman, do you have questions about what happened? >> i certainly have questions about it and i've gotten a preliminary briefing but there's more to learn about this. i would say i guess a few things. i think it's certainly true that an operation like this is weeks or months in the planning. that doesn't mean it necessarily got a green light by the obama administration. i don't think we know that but i also think the shelf life for blaming president obama is running out for donald trump. he needs to take responsibility for oper

so he goes to work each day, it's steve bannon. is donald trump in any kind of museum. >> it's remarkable. and what's more remarkable about donald trump's appearance today was his complete tin ear to the perception that is accurate that he's anti-semitic. there donald trump was this morning, and he expected like most orders to part because he said anti-semitism was bad. donald trump quacks, walks, and talks like an anti-semite. >> what's an example. >> he hired steve bannon. steve bannon is notorious. donald trump refused to include jews and holocaust remembrance. denying jews had a particular hurt in the holocaust is nothing short of denial. this weekend our organization and others begged donald trump, begged him to comment on the bombing, the bomb threats of jcc. he wouldn't do it. he wouldn't talk about the desecration of 170 jewish cemeteries in st. louis. what happened today, lawrence, as you said, he read soullessly this statement, anti-semitism is a very bhing and jewish person like myself who has a conscience should be shoc

that is what steve bannon needs to be concerned about. the problem was there weren't any establishment figures that could stand up and defend the republican party. and what it had done. i always say george w. bush, get george w. bush on a stage with donald trump and let's see how that goes. and richard's thought should do pretty well against george w. bush. he was a tough guy to debate but no type a like republican candidates that could stand up to trump. >> do you think it was a question of the candidates or that trump's message which is so powerful that whoever, even george w. bush this year this time in our country it was trump's time? >> i think it was -- i think it's everybody's reaction to donald trump. nobody punches back in an effective way. and so he plays by his own set of rules and everybody else they get their white gloves up to their mouth and so shocked. nobody punches him back in the face. >> by the way, the press basically has done the same thing as the republicans which is, oh, i'm so shocked, it's so horrible! then they

but while the president and steve bannon and you all knew, the vice president didn't find out til he read it in the paper on february 9th. question: why didn't you, as chief of staff, tell the vice president over the course of 14 days? >> well, look, here is what happened. yates came in, gave a heads up to the white house counsel. white house counsel looked at the matter. the next day or the day after the investigation was closed and no longer going on, then the issue shifted to whether or not something was done that was wrong. the vice president was then looped in on the situation, and we talked to the vice president about whether or not michael flynn was being honest or not. the vice president knew that there was an fbi interview, and then ultimately we decided after about ten days bringing the vice president in that we decided that he wasn't being honest. that is the timeline. it happened very quickly, chris. chris: but the vice president says he didn't know for 14 days that he had been misled by michael flynn. >> no. the vice president knew that we were -- what the vice president

this steve bannon thing just keeps coming up. people are saying president steve bannon. we saw it on "time" magazine last week. what staffer have you ever known that is in the job for a week and a half and he is on the cover of "time" magazine? mika, people and i have been coming up and we have been repeating and over again. no, donald trump is the final decider. oh, no, it's bannon, bannon. tell us about bannon, tell us about bannon. we always tell them the same thing. it's not about steve bannon. it's about donald trump, but the media doesn't believe that. and now even staff members are saying that bannon -- well, bannon even told "the times" today, it was said that bannon was rushing to his allies saying take because of the chaos in the west wing, that he and miller only had a brief window to get his agenda through. and so he has rushed into this power vacuum. then "saturday night live" each picked up on it and made fun of the relationship where steve bannon is president of the united states and donald trump works for him. i think people have this backwards. but here

why the "new york times" calls steve bannon the de facto president. pamela brown, what do we know about judge neil gorsuch? >> we know he's been a leading contender for some time leading up to the announcement that he was the pick to feel justice antonin scalia's seat. but during the campaign his name wasn't on the initial list that donald trump released. his name on the second list and we're told recently as people within his circle started scrubbing his judicial record on the federal bench in colorado they liked hadwhat they saw and learned he met with donald trump a few weeks ago and clearly donald trump was impressed by him. conservatives like his track record on federal bench when it comes to religious liberty, separation of powers and he wrote a book saying he didn't believe the law supported assisted suicide. here's what donald trump had a h to say about the nominee tonight. >> i studied every aspect of his life. he could have had any job at any law firm for any amount of money but what wanted to do was be a judge and uphold our laws and consti

steve bannon, wherever steve bannon was, donald trump believed this a long time ago. all this press we've been hearing over the past month and a half. it's steve bannon idea donald trump is going to be an economic nationalist, please, pull tapes of debra norville. >> prebannon era, pre, pre, pre. >> bannon comes in and says this guy thinks like me. the press has it the opposite. all the press and steve bannon. donald trump, i'm teaching donald trump how to think this way. no, donald trump thought this way a long time ago. >> what steve is doing giving trump an ideological vocabulary to suppress these things so they sound pr. >> more dangerous. >> they are in line even though they weren't describing with the same words. >> mark halperin says biggest question in politics, here is what the editorial board writes, donald trump's early weeks in office have been marked by insurgent politics of his aide, stephen bannon and convention gop governance. thanks, steve. the paradox is that while bannonism dominates the media and the public debate, trump's presidency will rise or f

steve bannon. what is the feeling there? a piece on cnn.com asking if donald trump is a conservative? are they happy with the vision? >> in the room as cpac, everyone is very happy. unlike the past few years, people have been agitated and agonizing over the direction of the party. are we ever going to win the presidency and who are we? last year, trump didn't speak at cpac which left a lot of people wondering if he is one of us. the mood at cpac all week has been happy. think about it. they have the house. they have the senate. they have the presidency i. they are about to have another person on the bench in the supreme court. so, you know, this is a very happy crowd right now. pence was very well received. bannon and priebus in the early reporting. the white house is showing the unified message coming in to cpac. that's for their own good. >> let's talk about the deconstruction of the administrative said, if you will, eugene scott. i was saying these two guys here today on the newspapers. steve bannon. the president's they

and of course we know steve bannon agrees with this as well. i do not think you can overstate jeff sessions' influence right now in shaping the policies of this white house. robert: dan, we know attorney general sessions is an ideologue, a conservative. but president trump didn't run on ideology. what are the consequences for a first-term president adopting these policies early on. is that -- does that make it harder for him to moderate late her is he putting his reputation in a hard way early on? dan: on immigration, he's basically where sessions is for the most part. on lgbt issues not at all. if you remember what he said at the republican convention, he was much friendlier on the idea of anti-discrimination issues to the lgbt community. so there's a balancing act that he's having to weigh as he makes these decisions. you know, the lgbt issue, i suspect their calculation is, that's better for them to go in that direction than not because that part of the republican base desperately wants to see that shift take place. on immigration, i mean, y

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trump's right-hand man steve bannon making a rather public appearance. he breaks his silence. let's go"out front." >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front, we have exclusive reporting tonight that the white house asked the fbi to knock down media reports

i didn't say that. >> steve bannon saying got to fight to take the country back. this is everybody's country. >> say this to trump supporters who are watching. we're all in the same boat. all americans and going to sink or swim together. so i believe very strongly in that. and i'm willing to listen. just talking to next guest, trump supporter back there. and we had a good conversation. and we can have this conversation, the dialogue, but fight for the things you believe in. and let the people decide. the people actually did decide by 3 million votes but we have a different law to take care of the popular vote. >> i've got to run. it's always a pleasure. >> thanks for having me on. >> maybe play "the star-spangled banner ". >> or call it part two of "the history of comedy." >> talking during the break and asking for edit tips. >> michael moore, we'll be right back. >>> president trump's top aide steve bannon and reince priebus would like you to know they are very dear friends, no matter what you have heard. discuss with symone sanders and kayleigh mcenany, jonathan

the white house chief strategist steve bannon. let's begin with our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. jeff, some pretty tough talk today. >> reporter: tough talk indeed, wolf. now, this is from one of his key advisors who was at the center of every decision that's made inside this white house. we know his world view and we see the actions his fingerprints are all over. but we seldom see or hear his voice. we did hear that today. and he said the president is simply doing everything he promised to do. president trump's most influential advisor had a blunt message today for anyone wondering whether the president will change in the white house. >> all the opportunities he had to waver off this, all the people have come to him and said you have to moderate. every day he tells reince and he, i committed this to the american people, i promised this when i ran and i'm going to deliver on this. >> reporter: steve bannon, a master mind of the west wing making a rarely public appearance today. he joined white house chief of staff

i look at the big picture concerning steve bannon. people from as many the voice of america, it goes to 120 countries, 16 languages. there was a board of six people that takes care of this. fired andthey were two 20-year-olds are taking care of what is being out -- put out to these countries. that scares me. you can fact check this and it is true. what's the point, why did they do it and i think steve bannon did this. he is a self-proclaimed lennini st which means tear down the country and make it the way you want it. i think people should be aware of our freedom of beach and not -- freedom of speech and not to take it away from us. this is scary because this started in world war ii and it show andbiased reel now it is republican. thathad heard some chatter after -- and there were rumors that donald trump was buying some sort of media venture or television network in the event he lost an election. was what people were calling it and there was some it might become the outlet for some of that creative energy. membersot followed the of t

. >> i believe steve bannon to be a good man. i don't believe he has any racial hatred or anti-semitism. i think these are ridiculous charges. i think every question is fair game. i think you should ask him on your show and ask him these questions. >> would you ask him to come on our program. we'd love to him him. >> he's a fearless guy. you can't say he shies away from taking the tough questions. it's appropriate for him to be here. he's playing a very important role at the white house. look, a lot of people in the conservative movement, these elite writers even in the republican party, there's a lot of change going on, poppy. a lot of these people who have criticized me for decisions i made at cpac, the reason why they're upset is because they matter less. >> final thought from you, what's getting a lot of headlines are these town halls across america, where angry constituents are speaking out. the president has pointed to those in tweets. he says these are all liberal activists, the white house press secretary talked about the

and steve bannon, one of his senior advisers, representing that. they want to disrupt the establishment in the way that the president did during his campaign. and so, i think you're seeing this battle play out in realtime, and the travel ban is a perfect example of these sort of outside views saying we need to do extreme things early on to set a tone to try to move washington forward, not do business as usual. but the way this was rolled out caused plenty of confusion, mass protests, and donald trump was said not to be extremely pleased with the way this was rolled out. maybe the policy itself he's certainly supportive of, but the way this has played out he's certainly not happy with. >> david, the major part of the battle between chief strategist steve bannon, homeland security secretary john kelly and all of this, because kelly's plan was to issue a waiver for green card holders from these seven majority muslim countries. so, what's your understanding of the dispute, where there was the disconnect between those two? >> i think if you have green c

conviction for steve bannon's website as he does for the aclu. that is my comment and i want to thank you for taking my call. host: let's hear from rob in stockton, california. republican. caller: good morning. get right to it here. number one, i think we need to -- again. when obama came in office there $9.8 trillion and it went to almost $20 trillion in debt. dohink mr. trump is going to an awesome job with curbing the way the financials are run in washington, d.c. and cleaning up this situation with all of the refugees and people coming in and pulling the finances in this country is a big part of it. this is the problem, the guy that was on a little while ago for tennessee, that guy has to go. this financial situation is one of the biggest problems this country has and this is where the focus has to go. i thank you for taking my comments. host: ok. frederick in blakesley, pennsylvania. did i say that correctly? caller: yes, thank you for taking my call. cohen had something really important to say. form of white supremacy going on with donald t

about steve bannon. he was a goldman sachs banker, got wealthy doing media deals. got into conservative media doing documentaries and met andrew breitbart, became friend and counsel to him and when andrew died took over breitbart. he transformed breitbart. when he came in, it made a lot of noise and tapped a lot of people called the complex, the hollywood actors. but then steve bannon turned it into a populist, nationalist political movement i think donald trump eventually road to power. >> woodruff: phil rucker, as somebody covering the white house, how much of the nationalist, populist movement has steve bannon brought to the white house? >> all of it. you can point to many of the acts that president trump has taken in his first month in office, and it's that agenda, it's that ideology, and it's not so much bannon is a pu puppeteer here. they both have same beliefs of pop list and nationalism and upending the structure we've become accustomed to in the post world war era. >> woodruff: ken stern, spell

>> alex: the last time we heard from steve bannon? >> harris: you're not our brain room. >> sandra: we are waiting for them to speak at cpac, a big week that we are hearing from a lot of voices, and they are about to take to the microphone. >> meghan: and allegedly they have a quite contentious relationship, putting on a good face right now. >> kennedy: they are fighting for the soul of the white house, judge. >> harris: he trying to stay out of it clearly. >> alex: i don't want to be a target with steve bannon but what i brought on is his position on the nsc. i'm curious to what he has to say. >> sandra: it's fair to say there are questions about how well they work together. questions about who is really in charge in this demonstration whether it is reince preibus, steve bannon or someone else. meghan, you can wait in on that. >> meghan: there's always infighting with campaigns and loyalists are always angry at new people coming in, so steve bannon being a loyalist, reince preibus aid establishment republican type. he ceased to be wi

what you saw steve bannon saying. obviously it's a red to so he wants to throw them some red meat. >> kimberly: their bellies are full after that. >> yeah, i guess i would object to one thing which is he portrayed it that chaos is completely created by the media and not reality. let's remember, it was not the media who hired and then had to fire at the national security advisor in the first three weeks, it was not the media who signed an executive order on immigration that three different federal courts said was unconstitutional and ill thought through. it wasn't the media who promised during the campaign and to have a secret plan to replace obamacare that was going to cost less, cover all of all americans, and to be better in every dimension when in fact donald trump had no such plan and they are scrambling now to figure it out. maybe it wasn't the right venue, but this -- we could never admit that we did anything wrong that we ever made an error or that were going to try to fix it, i think it's not healthy. i think

steve bannon. mr. i think i'm the president of the united states instead of the president. >> no, that's what people say about him. >> reviewed the past criticism in whether he could be trusted. president bannon is trying to figure out whether president trump can trust abrams, who has a history. wasn't he involved in the iran contra? >> he was. he pled guilty, then he was pardoned. rand paul is opposing him. >> right. >> they can't lose anybody else. >> he's a full blown neocon, right? >> he is. >> does rex want him? >> he is rex's choice. >> then tillerson should get what tillerson wants. >> they hit it off. he helped tillerson through the confirmation process. >> good. >> he's for foreign policy. he has democratic support, though. but, you know, the question of whether he's confirmed will be with rand paul saying he's against. we'll see if other republicans oppose. >> the thing is, though, donny, in management, it is so important. of course you have to go through all the other stuff in the background

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steve bannon repeatedly referring to it as the opposition. is that a consistent rally for the conservative base that he is speaking to? it certainly works in the room. every time he had agoat works in the room. every time he had a go at the media, you sense a ripple of applause amongst the conservative faithful. at cpac. an organisation that has not in the past been welcoming to steve bannon and they have not invited him before. so really fascinating. does that cousins —— suggest conservatives are becoming more conservatives are becoming more conservative or the administration is tempering itself? steve bannon said something justin, when the conservative movementjoins forces with the republican party, they are unstoppable and donald trump did that in a way that no other person could. christian. you say it is one rule for those in the news media, but a lot of people in the uk would be familiar with steve bannon, reince priebus, stephen miller, these characters in his inner circle, i cannot think of a time before when so many members ofan a

steve bannon talks about it. they say you know what, america's losingt's cultural identity, what do you say? >> you have to worry about losing not your identity, but your health care. eastern washington and cashmere washington, one of the apple growing capitals of the universe, there were 400 people in a town of i don't know, three or 4,000 trying to talk to their republican congressman who refuse to come to meet with them to talk about the loss of their health care. this is not an ideological issue. it's whether you're going to get treatment for your cancer, that's number one. number two, in eastern washington, our agricultural economy is significantly, if not solely dependent on labor that is provided by people, many feeding us for decades, even though they may have come here without documents and their children as well. they're going to soccer games where their neighbors are kids are a soccer program. these a neighbors, these are co-workers, these are student williams these are not the stereotypes the presiden

steve bannon is loving it. he is the man running the show. donald trump is a front man and steve bannon is the orchestrator. he is pulling the strings and he has been in so many -- given credence to white supremacists and any semites. it is scary. do you havevidence that steve bannon is pulling the strings? rep. cohen: everything he has talked about. there was a story that was out, a group went back three years to and talks and everything he has talked about was the trump agenda. about america first and pulling out in trade organizations and not being concerned about other countries and trying to spread democracy and human rights. everything he has talked about andconcern about islam everything the president is doing are things that have been written by or spoken by then -- spoken by steve bannon. the idea of not mentioning jews in a holocaust remembrance session, shame. for your daughter is and what religion she converted to. shame. not to mention that in the holocaust is holocaust denier talk and that is breitbart steve bannon. host: rose i

steve bannon knows that and donald trump knows that. before bannon went there yesterday it was donald trump who said the press was the enemy of the american people and yesterday steve bannon said they were the opposition party. forgive me, bill, for stating the obvious. there is a coordinated war on the media. and bannon and company would say we didn't start this fight. they tried to delegitimize us, we'll try to delegitimize them. here is my question. what happens when they both succeed? we'll have a press that has less credibility than it has today, right? they bring a lot of it on themselves, no question about that. with their biases and we'll have a president who is less credible than he needs to be in order to be successful. tell me, who wins if they both delegitimize each other? >> bill: it depends on who is paying attention and where you get your news. the supporters clearly are there. let me come back to that point in a bigger sense, bernie. first listen to reince priebus and his characterization from yesterday in that same conv

when steve bannon went to cpac he was talking about disassembling major chunks of the u.s. government. the people didn't vote for that in the last election. that's a very radical agenda and when he talks about economic nationalism, that's code for trade barriers, a trade war. which will cost according to most economist, many of them conservative, four, five, 6 million jobs -- >> we know president trump did run on a trade war. he wanted to bring everything home. he was against tpp and nafta and he thought that that was a winning strategy to people who have felt effected by job loss and that this was going to help them bottom line in their wallets. >> there's a difference between some real problems with tpp and nafta which people in both parties agree on and getting into erecting these trade barriers which is what economic nationalism means. other countries retaliate and then we have a trade war suddenly everybody loses and many of the conservatives in that room understand that because they are free traders, but they're so corrupted by their grasping for power that they appla