as for steve bannon, trump advisers are rushing to his defense, but the bannon backlash is growing. in selecting steve bannon as his chief strategist, donald trump has invited into the oval office one of the leaders of the so-called alt-right. he says he will act as equal partners with reince priebus, who will serve as white house chief of staff. while trump advisers are praising the bannon pick he s been the general of this campaign. reporter: bannon is already coming under fire when he was chairman of breitbart news. for years, he s called for a takeover of the republican party. what we need to do is bitch slap the republican party and
to try to keep the republican establishment in check. he talked at one point about and i m looking for the quote here about the fact that he here s what he said in a radio interview in 2010 what we need to do is bitch slap the republican party and get those guys heeding to, and if we have to, we ll take it over. so, that s where he comes from. and the fact that he in the past couple of months tried to get donald trump to kind of swallow some of that sentiment in order to get elected president and consolidate the republican base around him, which he did incredibly successfully, is kind of telling. dana bash, thank you for the reporting. stay with me. we have obviously a lot more to get through right here. we re going to take a quick break. much more of our breaking news straight ahead after this. i m my team s #1 fan. yay. sports. i ve never been #1 in anything until i put these babies on. now we re on a winning streak and i m never taking them off.
welcome back. lots of outrage tonight over the fact that hillary clinton is winning the popular vote but lost the election. back with me my panel. welcome back. cnn is reporting the choices for chief of staff are steve bannon and reince priebus. trump prefers bannon, and others close to him are bushing for reince priebus. this is steve bannon in an interview back in 2010. what we need to do is bitch slap the republican party and get those guys heathing, too and if we have to, we ll take it over. what would choosing bannon over priebus suggest to you? well banno, who is one of his chief advisors, and who runs breitbart. and sort of.
one prime target, house speaker paul ryan. whom bannon once complained was quote rubbing his social justice catholicism in my nose every second. weeks after being named speaker of the house, bannon said that he had plans for the republican, quote, long game is him gone by spring. what we need to do is bitch slap the republican party and get those guys and if we have to, we ll take it over. bannon guided trump to take his campaign and american politics into places that establishment republicans found uncomfortable. he was a major force behind trump s decision to appear with women who accused bill clinton of sexual assault. regardless of trump s own vulnerabilities on that issue and that access hollywood tape that had come out before. grab them by the pussy. trump, who was general societal niceties. and you can tell them to
prisoners strategy against his observe party. we don t get the support from guys like paul ryan. so look, i don t know i don t want his sport. i don t care about his support. seems to be covered in the fingerprints of this man steve bannon who s long time mission to target the establishment wing of the republican party may be egging on trump s anti-establishment tear. the shackles are some of the establishment people that are weak and in effective people within the republican party, senators and others and paul ryan led to a certain extent by paul ryan reporter: in august from the far right conservative website bright bart news. what we need to do is bitch slap the republican party and get these guys heeding too. and if we have to we ll take it over. reporter: a no holds bar stance of his own. if you are fighting to take the country back it is not going to be sunshine patriot. it is people who want to fight.