wouldn t that be a twist? i totally agree with mr. gergen. it s a lot about steve bannon. he s making the argument to donald trump, his former boss, and to the republican party that he alone should be able to vet and choose republican nominees for united states senate in 2018. his first project and tonight it s blown up on the republican party. what he does tonight to me is going to tell us a lot about how the republicans are going to deal with this. i agree with mitch mcconnell and chairwoman of the rnc he should step aside if allegations have a shred of truth to them. as said, no one is going to be able to prove it. for the republican party, don t look at it through tribalism we look at everything through now. is it worth saving candidacy like roy moores over fighting out this issue?
we hadn t had the primary vote, then it was republican versus republican, the answer may have been yes. and although you don t really see a lot of democrats coming out of alabama in the last 20 plus years, this is a general election, and i think it could just have the opposite effect to ally democrats who don t actually vote or republicans who don t luke this fwie to vote against him. the other thing i just want to say is my signals tonight from bannon world is don t hold your breath that he is going to say, you know what? for the good of the party i think that roy moore should back down. it s slightly different but the same kind of atmosphere iks. he was the guy and the only guys in trump tower the night the access hollywood tape came out who said fight fight fight fight fight fight. when a lot of people people said you know what? this is terrible for the party, terrible for the country. you re going to lose. back out. david, i mean, you know, one thing that struck necessity is ju
republican, answer may have been yes. and although you don t see a lot of democrats coming out of alabama in last 20 plus years, this is a general election. it could just have the opposite effect to rally democrats who don t vote or republicans who don t like this guy to vote against him. other thing i want to say, my signals tonight from bannon world is don t hold your breath that he s going to say, for the good of the party, roy moore should back down. remember, slightly different but same kind of atmospherics, he was the guy, one of the only guys in trump tower the night the access hollywood tape came out who said fight fight fight. lot of others said this is terrible for the party the country, you re going to lose. back out. david, one thing that struck me is how quickly senate republicans came out to condemn moore today. what does that tell you where
bugged and hotel rooms where foreigners stayed. would that still be the case for high profile person like donald trump in moscow in 2013? absolutely. technology has only gotten better just like the internet and everything else has. basic skill set that fsb has is there and they train and resources they put towards this are incredible. to phil s point if i could, points of information that we re beginning to see as we pull the picture together are indeed critical and it s important piece of this. i would hasten to add, because of the salacious part of the dossier unconfirmed by the way, don t know how long he stood outside the door or what happened rest of the evening. nothing may have happened. bottom line, you have to