when we watch steve bannon, when i watch steve bannon, the clips of him on fox news, it seems like during donald trump's silence of bob corker, he has steve bannon out there saying the things he desperately wants to say, like the senator should resign the senate tonight. >> steve bannon doesn't think crazy town is crazy enough. this is free form rage. it is not ideology. it's nihilism. pushing the party further and fourther from the sanity that jennifer was talking about, the tell here is that bannon is not only supporting people like roy moore and the challengers, he is also supporting the disgraced senator of new york, michael grim, just got out of jail. he is not a populist, he's a loud mouth, a troublemaker, a thug, a crook. what is the strategy here except to blow things up? when's really extraordinary about it is that bannon is pushing this agenda at a time when donald trump himself is blowing up his own administration, is burning so many bridges and what you are seeing here is, look, this is not a governing philosophy. this is a getting in touch with the steve bannon trumpian id. i

steve bannon knows who the moron is. steve bannon knows who is to blame for the zero legislative accomplishments of the trump administration but steve bannon has chosen to blame mitch mcconnell. senator lindsey graham knows what this kind of chaos means for the republican party. everyone loses. everyone. very much including donald trump. >> steve bannon has said that republicans should go to war against mitch mcconnell, all you all get rid of him and that's the republican rallying outcry. >> he is not our problem. the problem is we promised to repeal and replace obamacare and we failed. we promised to cut taxes and yet to do it. if we're successful, mitch mcconnell's fine. if we don't, we're all in trouble. i thi >> joining us now thrush and david jolly, former republican congressman of florida. david, your party is in a mess unlike anything we have ever seen before and the one new factor in everything that's messed up is the trump factor and the bannon factor. >> that's it. and you nailed it in the open, lawrence. liste

you are tweeting that out about steve bannon. do you think he is a white nationalists and anti-seplite? >> court documents, which that rl references include maligning jewish people, and he ensign yao waited there was a lot wrong. most americans, including the vast majority of republicans completely reject that out of hand. >> so the president doesn't reject him, though, out of hand at all, he was the chief strategist in the white house, and they still talk on the phone a whole lot. the president has not fought back against the candidates that steve bannon is supporting right now. what does that say about the president if all of those things you say about bannon are true? >> there are two significant facts to keep in mind. first of all, steve bannon was fired from the white house a few months ago, largely because he took credit for things the president was actually responsible for and sat around and did not do a whole lot. just a week ago the president endorsed three candidates that steve bannon had targeted for primary challenges

certainly steve bannon identifies himself as part of that world view. verbatim thatou his jacksonian ideals are in sync with walter russell mead. brian: is that how the portrait of jackson got on the wall in the oval office? wil: i believe so, yes. lengthen to a lengthy and perhaps dull exposition about all of that, because i think they misunderstand jackson. brian: one last clip. this is an interview from 1998, almost 20 years ago. , bill the gentlemen strauss, is no longer alive, but the other fellow is to with us. here is the fourth turning. turning, when we look at the cycle and rhythm of american history, we see an interesting pattern. the country as a society seems to encounter crises about every 80 or 90 years. this is a cycle of american history. mostly 1850's a and the 1760's, which means you better repair your roof because it will be an interesting time at the next 25 years. get that -- did you wil: it is interesting that in that interview he talks about the cycles of american history, because in the book it is not about american history. it i

>> reporter: i'll spill a secret about steve bannon. his model in terms of thinking about this is barack obama. the barack obama model of being re-elected was to focus on his base, do things that pleased his base. didn't do what bill clinton did, moving towards the center after moving in the mid-terms. barack obama doubled down, went for what his base wanted and in doing that made sure they turned out and they turned out in states he needed them to. this is bakely the trump and bannon model. focus on delivering to your base. bring them out to the polls again, you can bring in enough other people to win where you need to. that's the barack obama model. you might say maybe we shouldn't have that, go back to bill clinton-style politics where politician -- fighting for fundamental values. so they're going to be trying to do whatever they can to bring their base of voters to the polls. >> joel, good to talk to you. thanks for being with us. breitbart senior editor at large. >>> new revelations in the unfolding harvey weinstein story. nbc new

bannon. >> does steve bannon reflect your values? >> pretty tough on the establishment. quite franky will, someone needs to be tough on them. >> why? >> in some cases they're behaving more like democrats than republicans. >> i don't think a lot of them meant what they said. i think when push came to shove a lot of them didn't push. >> is it donald trump? is it mitch mcconnelling? is it paul ryan? is it every member of congress? who hasn't sold their beliefs? >> donald trump. absolutely. i mean, he's the head of the party, needs to be out there leading and putting forward principles and selling them to the public. >> i think one of the things that has to remain in context and one of the reasons anxiety is there is because republican voters are looking for a victory. >> seems like the republicans have their own type of resistance going on. they're not working to support the american first agenda the president laid out. >> why do you think that is. >> not every member of congress, not every member in the senate, is supporting that agend

if it was not for steve bannon's establishment. they are connected, the leaders of this republican party. >> advising the president coming from a nonpolitical background, you have to give it to steve bannon, he did get his base out to those far right voters who voted for donald trump and steve bannon, good reason he got a lot of their attention. >> bannon is not the problem with republican party right now. the people he is targeting in the senate, a lot of those candidates not going along with the agenda. this establishment versus antiestablishment is a relevant discussion. are they going to go along with the agenda? >> they worry about the agenda and the house past 200 bills and died in the senate. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, how concerned should he be that healthcare is a bust? what about tax reform? how concerned should he be? >> very concerned. don't see it getting past, and in the beginning, over 200 past, eventually die in the senate. the senate can't get aboard with the agenda they will be out of office. >> the f

steve bannon is not. he's not going to be able to completely turn his back on mcconnell despite how close his relationship with bannon is right now. >> accepting a liberty medal last night making pointed remarks about this movement taking over the gop. >> to fear the world we've organized and led for three quarters of a century to a ban don the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and duty to remain the last best hope of earth, for the sake of some half baked spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems. [ applause ] >> is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that the americans consigned z to the ash heap of history. we live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. we are the custodians of those ideals at home and their champion abroad. >> all right. eugene, senator mccain will not go gentle into that good night but will he be the loan voice speaking up against t

steve bannon is out for car, right? he's saying someone else caused it, whatever, it's a civil war, here he is on fox news. >> there's a coalition coming together that's going to challenge every republican except for ted cruz. >> if he succeeds at taking out some of those republicans, he could rip apart the gop, and deliver a lot of seats to democrats, you have more extreme candidates running versus a more moderate republican, force for good or bad? >> there's a real civil war in the party. it's not just steve bannon, there are going to be primaries, against most incumbent senators. there will be serious primaries. trump is in an excellent position. you can't really have it both ways. trump can have it both ways. he's in a position where the established republicans desperately need trump to protect them from the bannonitis. from the insurgents, at least try to. it didn't quite work with luther strange in alabama. you want trump coming into your state and doing phone calls. but on the other -- you need the insurgents to

we're talking about donald trump, mitch mcconnell and steve bannon in the same breath. steve bannon has done excellent job. >> what do you think to go happen on tax cuts, there's unity among some but not much room for error because simple majority in the senate that way not able to clear that bar for the affordable care act. >> i think senator corker did good job of laying out challenges that he faced, saw it on display with the discussion and wobbling about 401(k) and how you adjust their taxability 20 make the amount of money you're taking out of the treasury looks smaller. >> dickerson: the presidents doesn't want the house wants to -- >> as general matter cutting taxes is an easier thing to do than reforming health care. because it is giving things to people rather than potentially taking it away. but when you get into the weeds, any change in the tax code affects a lot of different people then you see all of the constituencies going to that, then you have these things called distribution tables which, it's very hard to cut taxes without helping very wealthy people.

that's what steve bannon is doing. he is raising money, setting up organizations, recruiting candidates to do precisely that which donald trump says he was going to try to talk them out of. that will not last if donald trump ask steve bannon to do it, he will politely decline. >> bret: another moment picked up on today was the president about calling fallen soldiers, the families of fallen soldiers. >> the traditional way if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls. a lot of them didn't make calls. >> how can you make that claim? >> i was told. a lot of presidents write letters. excuse me. i do a combination. sometimes, it's a very difficult thing to do but i do a combination of both. president obama i think probably did sometimes and maybe sometimes he didn't. i don't know. that's what i was told. >> bret: the obama folks went to twitter and elsewhere and put out all kinds of statements. sarah sanders sang the president wasn't criticizing. sometimes they call, sometimes they sen

steve bannon, great guy. so is mitch mcconnell john mccain tonight, not so much in terms of how the president sees him. he threw the spotlight on the philosophical and operational divide in the gop, john mccain did. and in a gentler, less direct way so did the president. back now with the panel. jason, you were saying john mccain is part of the swamp. is anybody who has served their country for the length of time he has just part of the swamp? >> no. i think when i say that someone's part of the swamp, it means they're opposing a reform agenda. look at the images we saw today with president trump and also with senator mcconnell up there doing the press conference. what this really was about was trying to push people to get on board with the president's agenda and try to get these senators moving. i mean, it's absolutely terrible that we, as republicans, have the house, we have the senate, we have a republican president who will sign anything put in front of him and these guys can't get their act together. now

so i can understand fully how steve bannon feels. >> he knows how steve bannon feels. well, despite today's positive talk about mcconnell, it's been a presidential faith. just about nine weeks ago "the new york times" reporting that a conversation -- he's also spoken publicly about his problems with mcconnell. >> can you talk about your relationship with senator mcconnell? >> i just want him to get repeal and replace done. i've only been doing this for two years. and i've really only been doing this for six months, but i've been running. so now it's almost two years and all i hear is repeal and replace and then i get there and i said where is the bill? i want to sign it. fist day. and they don't have it. >> and when the president isn't talking, he's tweeting. mitch, get back to work. put repeal and replace, tax reform and a great infrastructure bill on my desk for signing. you can do it. i requested that -- they didn't do it so now we have a big deal with democrats holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy. now a mess. majority leader m

and up next more on steve bannon and the central question. are republicans going to allow bannon to be the next republican key maker. more on that as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. i'm all about my bed. this mattress is dangerously >>> the united states senate in particular has done i think a terrible job of supporting president trump. and let me say something about president trump. i've had the great honor of being the ceo of the campaign and being his chief strategist and senior council in the white house and now i'm proud to say his wing man outside. >> that was steve bannon on traed. since then we've said senator bob corker, jeff flake has launched attacks on the sitting president. flame's announced now he will join him. that news prompted a source close to bannon to declare another day, another scalp. bannon's war against the gop stabment includes -- there's some consensus bannon is winning. "the new york times," as gop wends towards trump critics either give up or give up. the daily beast, steve bannon is kicking o

and steve bannon will again claim victory. so the stakes have never been higher to pass one bill before the end of the year, you know, one told me that this bill is apocalyptic to pass tax reform before the end of the year. hey, anita, these poll numbers. this is a fox news poll. is this baked -- when you speak to folks at the white house, are they phased by a 38% number? >> they haven't been faced by the number since the beginning of the administration. >> good point. >> they haven't. it's been low since the beginning. it's been in the 40s, gone through the firts. they feel they have the base still. that might have chipped away a little bit. they still kneel like they have this movement in the country. now the sten movement, but they feel like u this movement out there and that no matter what happens we say every week it's getting worse and worse. no matter what happens they still are with them. if you go and talk to the people who support him, they're blaming medical, paul reason. that's true not blaming trump. societies wha

that is the ideological task for steve bannon, nothing else. >> what steve bannon is doing is actually helping mitch mcconnell. it creates a sense of urgency for republicans, even modern republicans that like the leadership style of both ryan and mcconnell see that, that is threatened. their ability to be able to influence legislation is going to be threatened if we see a lot of replacement between -- >> but bannon helps trump as well. he can thread the needle when he needs to and sit back now and watch this all play out. >> senator, sarah and amanda thanks. >>> coming up the president breaks his 12-day silence on american troops. >>> and later the president claims he's getting an a-plus in puerto rico. many in puerto rico keep him honest and voters are keeping him honest as well. here's cnn poll. when you're close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of

>> steve bannon picked most of the cabinet. his version of populism includes billionaire cabinet members. i think steve bannon is supporting the trump agenda from outside the white house. includes taking on mitch mcconnell, jeff blake and more established part of the republican party. i would argue steve bannon is probably doing donald trump more good outside the white house than inside. he was very ineffective in the white house itself. >> right. comparison there is telling. he's less harmful when he has less power is another way to make the point. this is abstract. jeff weaver writes op-ed, everyone forwards it and talks about it. you have that power -- trying to get jeff weaver to smile. it's hard to do. >> i'll take the compliment. thank you. th . >> this is up in the clouds. zero in on something that affects people. something that donald trump talked about a lot on the campaign trail but major article that claims how dea has been stripped of the power to stop drug companies from spilling narcotics out into american streets

i can understand how steve bannon feels. thank you very much. >> about 20 minutes listening to the president of the united states in the cabinet room talking about every issue under the sun. the fact check on the failing side. the president's whose immigration has stopped. at one point saying they are pouring through. he said he wants budget cuts and he is about to move into a lunch with mitch mcconnell. steve bannon and his strategist said there should be a war on the establishment starting with the senate majori itity leader, mitch mcconnell. he understands what his top strategist is doing when he is challenging them. they are trying to bring in recruiters here. >> he is alluding to the three senator who is did not support repeal. lisa murcowski, susan collins and john mccain. none are up for reelection next year. the people that bannon is targeting are facing reelection. none of them let the president down. one has been critical of the president, but whether it's tax cuts or most of the agenda, he has been supportive. he

there's a steve bannon, kanye principle here. i use their hate as a steam to power my dream. >> i think that's a little offensive to kanye. but he does. he feels relevant. there was a party at the brit barr embassy which is what they call their house. >> it's just a house. a house. they can call it whatever they want. >> and the mood there was so, they were so excited and they felt so victorious. this is what they want. when he first left the white house for a little while, the establishment did not really address the things he was saying. and that seems to have changed in the last couple of weeks and you have to wonder what they think that they're accomplishment. it is legitimizing steve bannon and everything that he's been saying by engaging with it. >> as he hit his ultimate fantasy football in politics, breitbart would pick stories and sometimes selectively drive what it wanted to see in the world. now, he is skipped over that editorializing. he has become a character. he can pick these fights. he seems not unlike the preside

but that is not to put off steve bannon. the election last year showed that the base of donald trump is a mind to many of the ideals of steve bannon and that is why he thinks he can shake things up. i is why he thinks he can shake things up.ia is why he thinks he can shake things up. i a streetfighter, iwill be is why he thinks he can shake things up. i a streetfighter, i will be his wing man outside for the entire time. this is like real life imitating art. that sketch on sanity night live comedy steve bannon was portrayed as the grim reaper. scooping up all the moderates in the congress. —— saturday night live. and if you're running for election next year you do not want to have someone to the right if you or more anti—government than you or more populist than you or more nationalist than you coming along saying this guy is far too establishment. that message does not work, you cannot be too closely associated with the establishment in these times. and that is true of the republican party and that is why steve bannon

that is not putting steve bannon off. last yea r‘s putting steve bannon off. last year's election showed that donald trump's base is allied to many of steve bannon's ideas. that is why he thinks again make things work. and a street fighter. i will be outside of the entire time. thank you. i am going to carry on talking. there i am!| going to carry on talking. there i am! ithought going to carry on talking. there i am! i thought you were going to be looking at donald trump indefinitely. let's continue to talk about president trump. he appears to have challenged his secretary of state, rex tillerson, to an iq test. this was done in an interview with forbes magazine. he was asked about reports that mr tillerson called the president a moron, to which donald trump replied... let's bring in anthony zurcher. as we have discussed before, mr trump has a track record of remembering things that he has taken quite personally? right, exactly. there is this saying that it is a joke is true is wrapped in a smile. 0ften times when they talk about donald trumpjoking times when

with steve bannon, steve has been a friend of mine for a long time. i like steve a lot. steve is doing what steve thinks is the right thing. some of the people he may be looking at, i'm going to see if we talk him out of that because frankly, they're great people. what mitch will tell you is maybe with the exception of a few, and that is a very small few, i have a fantastic relationship with the people in the senate and with the people in congress. i mean, i have -- our house of representatives. i have a great relationship with political people. if you read the papers you'd think i'm on one island and they're on the other. well, it's not the way it is. we have a fantastic relationship. i'm friends with most of them. i can say and i don't think anybody can have much of a higher percentage, but i'm friends with most of them. i like and respect most of them and i think they like and respect me. just so you understand, the republican party is very, very unified. when we get things approved we have to go through hell because we have no democrat support. we

people like steve bannon, well, they love it! they want these guys gone, but what does it mean for the party and for our country? i have an amazing panel here to break it all down starting with msnbc's garrett haake live on the hill. garrett, flake's announcement comes at a time when the president is trying to keep is party together. what's the impact? i mean when i watch the president say yesterday's meeting was a lovefest and go on and on about the double standing ovation, i'm laughing out the door. you and i both speak to people on the hill who might not be ready to go full jeff flake and say it publicly, but they're humiliated by the president and they're republicans. big deal if they clap for him in public. >> reporter: right. and a lot of those senators and other lawmakers who probably feel that way that we talked to, stephanie, sat on their hands yesterday or clapped along privately because they're not ready to challenge this president in the same outspoken way. the die many ynamic that's shap here, the president is going

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steve bannon said this. the quote is this. "today, steve bannon added another scalp to his collection as another establishment domino falls. another scalp mark." >> right. terminology being used in this day and age, as he said, we should not look at the new normal, language like that has become the new normal. i think as a father -- i believe he has five children. as a father, you've got to wonder what senator flake has been thinking this whole time. we know he wrote a book and he was very critical of president trump but this isn't about politics. we have not discussed a fight between republicans and democrats. the only thing we heard when it came to issues is that the traditional conservative has a narrower path to victory. that's all we've heard about politics. when people see us talking about senator flake, the walkaway should not be, oh, listen, they are just against donald trump. that's not the case. the case is that senator flake eloquently laid out there in very simple terms is that the conduct in office is not acceptab

it was written that establishment republicans agree that steve bannon is kicking our -- bleep. dave, i will start with you. i want to play paul ryan and marco rubio, the latter having been very critical of donald trump during the campaign right before he said he would be honored to help him win election. this is the two of them today doing a briefing. >> you know what the american people want to see us do? solve their problems. i don't think the american people want to see us up here yelling at each other. they want to see us fighting for them. >> he was elected president. i'm going to work with him for the good of our country and we're going to try to get good things done. >> you know, david, there is a civil war in the republican party. one would think that steve bannon and friends would want guys like those to be defeated, but they are not fighting donald trump. those guys are absolute utter loyalists to donald trump. >> what our story was about in part was the republican groups that do exist are trying to protect incumbents like the senate leadership fund which is mitch mcc

i doubt steve bannon will back off. i can't imagine that he would back off, and so the donor base is going to be split and that's a problem. >> two thoughts here. i am willing to bet that the conversation in private was not this, you know, rosy. the president brought mcconnell to the white house to talk about nominations and how the senate republicans and his own party and they're not able to move a burch of nominations that he wanted months ago, and i'm willing to bet it was a more frank discussion in private. the second is how long does this last in the president we all know has a very short fuse. he's still simmering over obamacare, and the wall that will be going up soon. i'm hearing from republican sources that they don't think they'll get the wall, same thing with this spring. how long does he stay with mcconnell and keep this? i don't think it will be long either, so you know. >> we'll see what happens, but there were some other major news, i thought that the president made on foreign policy issues. he said yes,

that's steve bannon. the same steve bannon who left the white house back in august. the same steve bannon who backed the candidate running against trump's choice in the alabama senate race. the same steve bannon promising to wage war against the leaders of the gop, like mitch mcconnell. >> i have a very good relationship as you know with steve bannon. steve is doing what steve thinks is the right thing. >> and trump also thinks he is doing much more for the families of fallen soldiers than his predecessor. >> if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls. a lot of them didn't make calls. i like to call when i think it's appropriate, when i'm able to do it. >> that's not true either. back -- barack obama during his time in the white house made calls just as other presidents had done. so let's discuss all of this now. i want to bring in now cnn senior political analyst mark preston, david axelrod and political analyst april ryan. where do we start here, mark? >> where do we start with this. >> let's start with mitch mcconnell becau

and i can understand where steve bannon is coming from. because i am not happy about it and a lot of people are not happy about it.>> senator mcconnell, his tax reform a must pass and if you get a legislative success, is that the antidote to steve bannon's agitation against you? >> coming to stay with a glossy element you are referring to here, they've been up for a number of years. they cost us five senate seats in 2010 and 2012. that maturity -- majority sooner. they were defeated everywhere 14, and 16 as well in the difference is that we have been in the majority. and 2014 and 26 team to congress is in a row. this is not our personalities. it is about achievement and in order to make policy, you have to win the election. the kind of people that are supported by the element that you have just been referring to, are specialists in defeating republican candidates in november. and that is what this party skirmish is about. our goal is to nominate people in the primaries next year who can actually win and the people who win will be the one t

soledad: how successful do you think steve bannon can be? i mean, clearly, the gop is afraid of him joshua: absolutely the republican party is afraid of him, particularly political washington. yeah. bannon's idea was of these incumbent republicans are insufficiently loyal to trump. and so he is going to get a slate of candidates and he is going to go them after personally and directly. it would put the fear of god in mainstream republicans to toe the trump line or risk being ousted. i think bannon's threat is so powerful it doesn't even requir running candidates against the incumbents. they are just giving up. soledad: do you bannon? i mean, you have talked to him a lot -- probably more than any other journalist. joshua: d am author, he is my favorite character, because he is so consequential, so interesting, and so multi-dimensional. you don't often get that in journalism. and bannon, from the first time i met him in 2011, has been thi, wild-eyed bomb thrower who happens to have some very interesting ideas -- and ideas that it was clear, ev

steve bannon. steve has been a friend of mine for a long time. i like steve a lot. steve doing what steve thinks is the right thing. some of the people that he may be looking at, i'm going see if we talk him out of that. but frankly, they're great people. what mitch will tell you is that maybe with the exception of a few and that is a very small few, i have a fantastic relationship with the people in the senate, and with the people in congress. with our house of representatives. i have a great relationship with political people. if you read the papers, you think i'm like on one island and they're on the other. well, that's not the way it is. we have a fantastic relationship. i'm friends with most of them. >> i'm joined by kristen welker who was at the white house this afternoon and was there for all of it. kristen, it's hard for me to get all of this straight. just last week we heard the president say he hates everybody in the white house. and now we have the feeling he likes everything on capitol

party and there's no doubt that steve bannon is among those leaders. i actually saw him earlier this week at a book signing for laura ingraham, for her new book. i have to say even though i'm a firm part of the deplorable crowd, but i'm also a former supporter of president bush. i think he's a decent man. i think history is going to treat him a lot better thanclos of his administration. i think it's tragic that the republican party seems to be in a circular firing squad because this really should be a golden age for the party. >> how potentially damaging do you think it is? >> i don't think so. i think if we can get out of our own way and realize we have more dominance with both houses of congress, the presidency, two-thirds of the state's legislatures. more dominance since the 1920s. we've got wages that are going up. we've got a stock market that is booming. jobless claims at a near half century low. this is a good time to be a republican and be a conservative. if the economic nationalists and the more establishment wing can get our act together and

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you know, steve bannon came to trump's campaign late. he came to alabama late. i haven't seep any evidence that bannon actually knows how to win these raise. most of these republican senators, if not all these republican senators, are popular and won in these states before. trying to nationalize primaries, look there's primaries every year, most primary challengers lose. i see no evidence for why 2018 should be any different than 2016 which was also, obviously, a very anti-washington year. and yet most republican senators, including my former boss marco rubio easily won their primaries against candidates who in many cases tried to emulate president trump. >> we have to leave it there. alex, nice to have you. dana, great reporting of you, eric and gloria. >>> we have a new death toll number in i want to bring to you, 42 people have died in puerto rico as a result of hurricane maria. devastated the island three weeks ago. 43 deaths so far. according to puerto rico's housing department, more than 6,000 people still living in shelters. the governor of puerto rico is

we need to remember who steve bannon is. he boasted his media platform breitbart is the platform for the alt-right, which includes neo-nazis, white nationalists and klans men marching through charlottesville. he's give a platform to people in the republican party but have abhorrent views that stand against american values. he'll make a headache for the mitch mcconnells of the world and may make him more the democrats control parts of congress because taking on vulnerable republicans will make it easier for democrats to pick up seats and taking on safe seats for the republicans, people like mitch mcconnell if they face a primary challenge, that will be money diverted. it is going to be a huge headache for the republican party going forward and a reckoning coming because there are two parties within that party. there is the authoritarian populous wing and the establishment mainstream wing of the party. and bannon is very much going against the establishment mainstream. >> right. you talk about his alignment with the alt-right.

steve bannon's white house days officially over could trump soon find and up on the chopping block let's ask tonight's politics panel. with me for the night's politics panel our earlier a vera editorial director for reactionary times and progressive organizer with democracy spring thank you both for being with us tonight let's get started thank you so much thank you just in case you haven't heard the big news steve bannon is out at the white house depending on who you ask the now former white house strategist was either fired or handed in his resignation a few weeks ago and left earlier today this news of bennett's departure comes of course just a few days after he spoke to the american prospect and publicly mocked. the white house's north korea strategy bash some of his administration colleagues and called the all right losers so who else spent the afternoon listening to ding dong the witch is dead and could this actually be a dangerous moment for our country given the ban and to the best of my knowledge was about the only person in this administration with a sensible position on north

steve bannon takes center change declaring war on mitch mcconnell. we'll hear from chris mcdaniel, a conservative state from mississippi who came this close to beating an incumbent republican in 2014. will he try it again? we start with drama -- over the president's decision not to certify the iran deal. secretary of state rex tillerson has reportedly developed a tense relationship with nikki haley, the ambassador to the united nations. a white house official described the spat as, quote, world war iii proportions. the speculation, haley wants tillerson's job and has a better relationship with the president o. meet the press haley didn't encourage the feud but he didn't exactly deny it either. >> that is just so much drama. i mean, it's really -- it's all this palace inteagrigue. i am glad to be living in new york. i don't want to be near the drama and i don't want to be near the gossip. i'm going to continue to do a good job. >> encouraging. adding to tillerson's troubles, senator bob corker has president trump has undermined tillerson's effectivene

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is it the former chief strategist steve bannon, or the former president, george w. bush? >> well, i think given that donald trump is in the white house, president trump is the face of the republican party right now. and you can't claim to not be part of the establishment when you're in the oval office. so i think in many ways bannon, president trump, they are the new face, and they continue in many ways attacks that have been going on since the primaries that the old republican party, the party of bush, needs to be replaced. and i think that other part of the party is fighting back, but let's remember who's in the white house. >> so, patrick, how do you gauge the reception of steve bannon's words within the gop, whether it be, you know, the establishment or a new gop or whatever you want to call it since there are so many, you know, divisions as of yet. i mean, you did hear some reaction, maybe some nervous laughter, some cheering from the audience, but what's a way in which to gauge how potentially influential or meaningful steve bannon's words are? >> yeah, i mean, you

>> i think steve bannon has spent all his time since he left the white house focusing on steve bannon and promoting his own interests whereas mitch mcconnell is promoting the president's agenda. i think bannon is taking the president for a ride here. if schumer and pelosi aren't paying to support breitbart, they should be. >> you think bannon is taking the president for a ride and listening to him he'll be in trouble? >> the site is devoted to attacking the president's advisers, his family and to taking out senators that vote with trump nearly 100% of the time. so, the net effect of what he is trying to accomplish is to undermine the president's agenda. >> so, alice stewart, again, we have been asking this question for sometime. is it steve bannon's party or mitch mcconnell's party? >> it is the republican party and right now donald trump is the president. mitch mcconnell has a significant role in that. i think betsy is right. the success of the trump presidency lies in large part in the hands of mitch mcconnell and if they cannot gate legislative accomplishment that a large part of i

be steve bannon? we don't know yet because, ultimately, the president knows that in order to get his agenda passed he's not only going to need some democratic buy-in, he's going to need a solid republican front. and as long as there's this war within the party, it's very hard to see how he gets that. eric: and quickly, finally, what if he uses bannon for the base and then pivots off to, you know, potentially some democrats and that sort of thing? >> well, that could work if the damage from this furor and warfare is not too great. we just don't know yet, and we won't know, i think, until 2018. but this we do know, this war is going to continue for a long time. eric: and your money would be -- [laughter] >> yeah. i have enough trouble analyzing the present. i think why i'm not making predictions about the future, eric. [laughter] eric: judy, good to see you in the studio. >> thank you. arthel: smart answer. okay, we're going to go to conor powell now in jerusalem with more and secretary of state rex til

steve bannon declaring war several weeks ago. now, mitch mcconnell and his allies getting into the fray, firing back and the thinking is they are going to target steve bannon specifically without going after the president. that's going to be a tough needle to thread. hallie. >> kristen welker at the white house, i'll see you in a little bit. thank you very much. >>> former rnc chairman and friend of the show, michael steele, matthew and jill also back with us. so, here's how we put it in "nightly news." the republican resistance at this point appears to be capped at 2. the silence from capitol hill is speaking volumes in all of this. but another fight happening because we can't let a day go by without a civil war somewhere. >> of course. >> steve bannon and mitch mcconnell. pull up that "washington post" headline, again. trying to feud with steve bannon. how is this fight going to go? >> it could be interesting. look, these guys have weapons of their own that they can use. and, you know -- >> you're talking about mitch mcconnell.

where steve bannon is coming from. >> really? after months of buildup, president trump lowering expectations around tax reform. >> it took years for the reagan administration to get taxes done. i've been here for nine months, a little more than nine months. >> trump walking us back, walking us back. finally with some hard numbers at the white house, it becomes clear that the president may be downplaying the big plan. we're going to begin this morning with the breaking news, congressman tom marino, the president's next pick to be the drug czar has officially withdrawn his name for consideration. i have the best team to break it down, starting with kristen welker at the white house. kristen, what do we know about this marino story? >> reporter: this is a big development, steph. let me read you the tweet and we can do some analysis on the other side. president trump tweeting just moments ago representative tom marino has informed me he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar. tom is a fine man and a great congressman

bannon was saying and in typical fashion, is this the steve bannon that we've all come to know and for certain people in washington to fear? >> well i think it's interesting, thomas. most people's knowledge of steve bannon is focused on the campaign where his main target was hillary clinton and democratic candidates. today it was all about republicans. he came right out and declared war on the republican establishment saying senators like bob corker have to go, majority leader mitch mcconnell has to go. all of them have to go, not necessarily for a crime of not voting for the president's agen agenda. in most cases most republican senators have voted in lock step with the president so far. but for not being vocal enough, not being forceful enough no defending him in public and being part of the president's army. we can play a little bit of steve bannon today on stage. take a listen. >> this is not my war. this is our war. and y'all didn't start it. the establishment started it. >> and, thomas, he goes on to say that republicans who want to keep their jobs essentially have to come out an