two or people to keep your eye on i m really curious what happens with gary cohn. there s been some pressure on him from friends and former colleagues to leave given some of the things the president said regarding charlottesville. some of his former clients gathering up a petition very powerful. the other person i m really interested in is general mcmaster who is the national security adviser who you know feuded a good bit with ban oon and now that he s gone what happens with questions on north korea questions like iran. you saw the new york times this week that talked about iran effectively controlling iraq at this point. and that s a whole conversation we haven t even gotten into worried as we are things going on now in north korea, china and other places. meanwhile with steve bannon going back to breitbart was pretty much theage tart going after mcmaster and whether or not he should even be in that role and someone was trying to kneecap him basically and his effectiveness
his outgoing chief strategist steve bannon, wishing him well, thanking him for his time and service to the country and to the campaign. and then also calling him a tough and smart voice who will be at breitbart news now. and this is perhaps a way for the president to try to keep a friendlier tone from someone who has just been ousted from a very powerful job. because the mega phone that breitbart will give steve bannon with the kind of backing he has from the far right and the populism that sort of lifted the president into office is the same kind of ideology that bannon espouses and that is something that we re seeing at least with smft top advisers around the president. not in that nationalist wing. and bannon called them globalists, so the president perhaps trying to keep a friend on friendly terms despite the big break up they just had on friday.
if the day ends, you know, now. but if this gets ugly out here tonight with people refusing to go home and clashing with pol e police, it s a different story tomorrow morning. i want to turn now and focus on the white house because there s been a lot of news because of the far tour of chief strategist steve bannon and that s drawing questions about what influence his absence will have on the trump administration because shortly following his resignation bannon announced that he was retaking the hem of the alt-right news outlet breitbart and returning as its executive chairman. in an interview with the weekly standard bannon said, quote, the trump presidency that we fought more and won is over. bannon also saying in many ways i thinkic be effective fighting from the outside for the agenda president trump ran on. this is all coming as president trump continued this week to blame both sides for the violence in charlottesville. nbc s kelly o donnell is on the ground in new jersey.
interview with the weekly standard he said, quote, i feel jacked up. now i m free. i ve got my hands back on my women s. someone said it s bannon the bar bareian. i m definitely going to crush the opposition. there s no doubt i built a [ bleep ] machine at breitbart and now i m going to go back knowing what i know and we re about to rev that machine up. is rev it up we will do. i want to ask you steve bannon obviously expected to go back to breitbart although i think he had an ethics waiver to continue his association with breitbart while he s at the white house. now that he s had seven months in the west wing w what do you expect to take back, the knowledge that he gets to take back and now utilize that or weapon eyes it through breitbart? well, he s obviously going to be able to take advantage of his time in the white house knowing what he knows as somebody in the west wing of the white house. that s a very powerful experience to have had. but he s outside of the white