economic war with china. bannon allies have called him the linchpin that connects trump to his base and the intellectual heart of the trump movement. so with him gone, what happens to trump now? joining me are sarah kinsior, former breitbart media consultant kurt bardella, former chief white house ethics lawyer for president george bush richard painter, and david corn of mother jones. thank you for being here. kurt, to you first on what it means for not only bannon to have left but left the way he did. he walked over to breitbart.com and sort of walked into cheers and gave a big rah rah speech. what do you think it means to the white house he s no longer there? well, i think it means that you re going to see a lot more of steve bannon publicly than you have really to this point. lot of what s been happening in recent weeks and months is bannon under the radar, maybe leaking stuff or having people leak for him. he wasn t necessarily the public