all right. it is a war of sorts in washington. president trump versus steve bannon. the president now lashing out at his former alg lily, saying tha sloppy steve bannon cried when he got fired and begged for his job. and that he s been dumped like a dog by everyone. now, bannon was quoted by fire and fury author michael wolff by saying that trump has lost it. so political commentator and publisher of morninghangover.com with us here, kurt, thank you for being here. first and foremost, where does bannon go from here? i think bannon is on a little bit of a contrition tour. deciding with the board of directors deciding to keep him
convince the american public that everyone who in in the white house that works for president trump is incompetents. nobody actually believes them. i think the fact that we re taking the fact that in the introduction of it the author givers a disclaimer. i think the fact that we re even treating this as gospel is somewhat bizarre to me. no, i don t think not everybody is treating it as gospel, let s be honest. we have journalists who are saying and as we pointed out many times this morning, a lot of people are saying i did not have the conversations sure. i just looked the daily mail cover page. the website. there s five or six top articles pulling excerpts from this book. that s driving the narrative, unfortunately. lynn, go ahead. i just want to say, sir, it s more than that. we also have the president this morning weighing in really heavily. this is not just one string of
president s ear. it was the final last straw for bannon. but, david, if bannon is going to war for the president, why didn t he just stay in the white house? kate, you re often more effective outside the white house than you are in. i ve seen that in past administrations that when people get frustrated when they re outnumbered and bannon was outnumbered by the team that kelly assembled. and it just wasn t room in it in this white house for him to be there with kelly. it was supposed to be kelly or bannon. i will tell you i think the president wouldn t have done this unless he knew. unless he lets bannon go and clean house, that kelly wasn t going to stick around and the other generals wouldn t stick around. there were a lot of people disgusted over what happened in charlottesville. i don t think steve bannon was the architect of what trump said about charlottesville. it came from the president
call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile.com. steve bannon, chief strategist at the white house is out. fired. i want to bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger joining us on the phone. gloria, you re doing reporting. what are you hearing? reporter: you know, wolf, as we know and have reported, this question about bannon s longevity has been around since reince priebus left, and at that time the president was considering both getting rid of reince priebus as well as steve bannon. but at that time he was convinced by conservatives like congressman mark meadows that, in fact it would not be well-received by conservatives if they let bannon go, and so
how aggressive on certain issues, when to stay in the background. also lived in this almost alternative reality. this whole week, when all of this happened, the white house has been really at a point of crisis, he was in south america. doing a very normal, almost presidential-like trip. and the strategy didn t work. chief of staff and chief strategist left, pushed away. trump is admitting things are not going he is not winning. still doing the minimum. that is the big question. chaos approach hasn t worked. having reince priebus, the establishment. steve bannon, pitchfork nationalist here. the new york group in, steve bannon used to derisively call jared and ivanka, giovanka. four, five competing factions. what do we get from this? part of that, one of the big fears inside the white house has been, if you let bannon go, do you, quote/unquote, weaponize him? turn into a trump critic?