lie? >> my head would've exploded. look, we've got to, again, return to the basics of principal and the republican party, things that we believe in , not reinventing things, not things that are not part of our platform, not things that are manufactured by people outside the party who are not believers, we have to return to the core principles that make the republican party a great party. but you can't do that as a freelancer, you can't do that willy-nilly, and you can't do that out of thin air. you have to be principled and that's where your first question is very germane, who are the believers? >> i don't know the answer. we're going to try to find out. thanks for joining us tonight. >> pleasure. >> tucker: for more on the reaction to the departure of steve bannon, we are joined by author, columnist, and thinker mark stein. mark, did this make america better or worse with bannon gone >> i inclined to the latter