knowledge that things would get crazy on january 6th. he made sort of a cryptic comment the day before on his podcast about how all could break loose. he was one of the people planning at the hotel the day the violence broke out. he had direct conversations with donald trump on focusing on january 6th, so they think he has important information for the committee to learn and they do want to hear from him, but they are talking internally about how they will handle this negotiation and when or whether steve bannon will be brought into testify. i am just thinking of what the committee makes of bannon s offer and the fact he may be working closely with the former president to act as his defender . look, no surprise to any of that because you see the way bannon has spoken of the committee since defined the
fury inside the white house. bannon said the miller probe was all about money laundering. there is a lot of other things in this book. we will talk about some of them. let s bring in the panel. jonathan swan, byron york, amy walter. guy benson. jonathan, have we heard from steve bannon in response? i have been texting with him all day but it s all off the record so i don t want to spell anything about it. bret: how washington is digesting this. was clear straight away bannon had touched a third rail
but what he s done is he s pushed away all the potential allies and they were beginning to diminish in number anyway and he s now pushed away business people, ceos. he s now pushed away bannon. you see bannon playing politics with his own boss. he s pushed away, you know, a good percentage of the congress. even in his own party. so where s the potential to survive? and then sitting in the background on this, anderson, is mueller s continuing investigation into russia. he s been lying it s not he started lying when he became president or when he started running for president. this is a man who s been deceitful and manipulative for 50 years plus.
north korea, and you got kind of he s put himself in an isolated no-win position. the level of destructiveness is staggering. what he has done is pushed away all the potential allies. and they were beginning to diminish in number anyway. but he has now pure pushed away business people, ceos. he has now pushed away bannon. you see bannon playing politics with his own boss. he has pushed away a good percentage of the congress, even in his own party. so where is the potential to survive? and sitting in the background is mueller s continuing investigation into russia. he s been lying it s not he started lying when he became president or when he started running for president. this is a man who s been
i want to you listen to something reince priebus said yesterday, to our wolf blitzer. i will say that steve is doing a great job. he is a brilliant guy. who only cares about the president s agenda. he thinks about it 24 hours a day. never quits. he s a great asset to this president. and so, and a dear friend. so my hat s off to steve bannon. chris, what does this shifting the sands mean potentially for bannon? i never thought i would describe steve bannon as not the most outsider of the group. this is a guy who ran breitbart news, this is a man who made his business name on being someone willing to throw grenades at the washington establishment. and yet he s sort of the gray beard of the group that s still there. i think reince s comments reflect the fact that he and bannon did have an alliance. in many ways against jared