steven miller came to trump s orbit, there was jeff sessions and then the baum senator, i was with sessions and trump in august of 2015 when they were together in mobile, alabama. in trump, sessions saw a person who could really carry his own agenda forward, a nationalist agenda on trade and immigration and been a constant at trump s side, especially politically, if not personally, over the last year and a half. and this is why i m told, yesterday, when the president was going to his event in virginia and on the way home back to the white house, hwas talking constantly on the plane about sessions, about how he was going to stick by sessions, about what he saw as a witch hunt against his attorney general. because this isn t just another cabinet member for president trump. this is the political soul of his administration. you have trump and his allies out in force to try to protect him. gene robinson, we have a series, not one or two, but a series of undisclosed meeting between the tru
we share an office suite together. we are basically together from 6:30 in the morning to about 11:00 at night. i have the war room and he has a fireplace with nice sofas. matt, the moderator and looked at steve bannon and said you know, you are a likeable guy, you should do that more often. if it is the steve bannon, i know, he will get moving the president s agenda forward. that is the steve bannon on the campaign trail and i don t think he will do more media opportunities. he wants to make sure the country is moving in the direction that the president wants it to. steve bannon is critical of the mainstream media. just like they were dead wrong on the campaign and in the transition, they are absolutely
now clearly. the other challenge they have is they don t have a lot to sell. they don t have a clear agenda. they talk a lot about how it s very active and there s a lot of executive orders that have been put out. but the fact that the vast majority of those are toothless and the only one that s really significant is the one that was struck down by a court. so one of the challenges they had is also they re not driving a narrative, they re not driving an agenda forward, and that coupled with the challenge of this big controversy and potential scandal around russia makes it pretty hard to communicate from there. ryan, cheerily from what we heard from sean spicer and president trump s tweet this morning the white house would love to shift the focus to leaks, which are certainly nothing new in washington, although certainly, you know, cause for concern if it s coming from the national security establishment. do you see that as a winning strategy? certainly washington s always leaky. ri
may have spoken to the russian ambassador about sanctions before president trump took office and those reports that flynn has a tendency to talk too much at a lunch with prime minister theresa may offending the president by reportedly revealing russia s president putin had been trying to get in touch with the president, something that would not normally be discussed in front of the uk prime minister. joining me is jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense and msnbc national security analyst. let s talk first of all about flynn. how sustainable is it for the national security adviser to have very few if any allies in the cabinet. andrea, this is one of the toughest jobs in government on the best day. when you ve got foreign leaders two of them this week a poor job moving the president s agenda forward. you have crises come at you like missile launches, counterterrorism operations and triply hard if your own
priorities of the president-elect and see the collaboration and the spirit that the leadership team has brought to moving the president s agenda forward is inspiring. the president-elect said on the campaign trail he had a three- part agenda, jobs, jobs, jobs and our foc beus after getting our team in place through the confirmation process is going to be on supporting economic growth repealingonerous regulations that are striefling the american economy and working with the house and senate and roll back the avalanche of red tape that came out of this administration. we ll be looking for opportunity and before we get to the spring, pass tax relief that the president advocated for small families and family farms and