josh green, j.d. vance and political writer of 538. josh. is it a fair assumption that the president is now making it clear that he is all in with the base and the idea that steve bannon could be on his way out is nonsensical because that is his conduit to the same base. he's going to -- he's going to go against his own, clearly he's got one strategy, and that's to go hard at the right. >> trump is always thinking about his base. also not thinking ahead to his legislative agenda, clearly or he wouldn't be doing what he did the other day. i think we saw his true feelings the first time he gave a statement about many sides were to blame. he had a kind of forced march to walk that back. as always happens with trump. it didn't last. his true feelings came out. he was angry. even though he had advice not to