letter last week asking the trump administration to rescind the bannon appointment. what appointment? the bannon appointment. so they think she s playing with them? yes. the people in hawaii think they are deeply concerned. howard dean said that earlier. there s a lot of anger about that. thank you so much, susan, john and tim. when we return, let me finish with tonight s edition of trump watch. it s tough. warning. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. your insurance company won t replace
hate and violence. it s easy to look at the tv camera and tell people to stop the hate, but when you say that and look at the tv camera and then in the next moment the action you take is to appoint steve bannon, then you re sending a very different and stronger message in the opposite direction. democrats called on trump to rescind the bannon appointment as the only way for trump to make a clear break from the more well, divisive aspects of the trump campaign and show he was serious about bringing the nation together. it is not normal for the kkk, ku klux klan, to celebrate the election of a president. if trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of steve bannon. it will be impossible to take trump s efforts for the nation seriously.
steve bannon, then you re sending a very different and stronger message in the opposite direction. democrats called on trump to rescind the bannon appointment as the only way for trump to make a clear break from the more well, divisive aspects of the trump campaign and show he was serious about bringing the nation together. it is not normal for the kkk, ku klux klan, to celebrate the election of a president. if trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of steve bannon. it will be impossible to take trump s efforts for the nation seriously. for elected republicans on bannon, it was a different story. look, i would just simply say that the president is going to be judged on his results. in is a person who helped him win an incredible victory, the president will be judged on the results of this administration.
planning. sara murray, a lot to talk about. thanks very much, sara. and as all that plays out, the controversy continues over the president-elect s choice of steve bannon as his top white house strategist. we were just talking to glenn beck about that in the last hour. bannon you ll recall served as his campaign ceo. before that he ran breitbart.com, the far right website, and has been accused of using the site to essentially mainstream white nationalism. late this afternoon, departing senate majority leader, harry reid, obviously a democrat, took to the floor and took aim at the bannon appointment. if trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of steve bannon. rescind it. don t do it. think about this. don t do it. as long as a champion of racial division is a step away from the oval office, it will be impossible to take trump s efforts to heal the nation seriously. so i say to donald trump, take responsibility. rise to the dignit
he even talked about unification. he wanted to get a lot of those before he went overseas to deal with major issues and concerns to let people know, look, we are moving towards unification to be a united country healing. there are a lot of protest rallies out there. and robert costa, another question for you. this weekend we learned priebus was going to be chief of staff, maybe the most powerful job in washington. this bannon appointment is obviously going through. he will be very close figuratively and literally. is there any evidence that donald trump has sinensed the gravity of the protest? there has. you re putting your finger on something with bannon that s