were financially to bright wart going from essentially a collection of blogs to being a media company. they were the sort of they staked it, the money and capital it needed to become the platform that it would become. right. remember, in the wake, immediate aftermath of andrew breitbart s passing are there was a lot of questions what would happen to breitbart, would it survive, is it a viable platform without their namesake behind and it active? all of a sudden here come the percent is with deep pockets giving breitbart that second lease on life, and in fact giving them the resources that made them even more impactful having even more of an audience, being able to use social media to grow their following. they are so much more impactful because of this money. we re seeing now them deploy that. they re not just a media company really functionally, they re a political action network. that s the key point here. this is the the percenters made a variety of investments that are all
conservative whose app has been kicked out of the itunes store, and lo and behold there it is, bannon writes an e-mail being like this is a victory. they have avenues for their political intervention, whether it s a super pac, bannon, breitbart, money the candidates, came bridge anylytica, a diverse portfolio. it creates a self-is staining ec echo chamber. to reaching the president of the united states. one of the most terrifying anecdotes so far in the new kelly regime at the white house is trump had asked, where s my breitbart news? think about that. the commander in chief wants to get his information from platforms that are basically self-sustaining propaganda machines. that s terrifying. let me ask you this. i followed your career for a while, watched you go through various iterations. when the way you re talking about breitbart is hard to square with you working there. how do you come to you re talking about this place as sort of this contemptible hornet s
spokesperson for breitbart news, kurt bardella. how instrumental are the mercers as sort of a force behind breitba breitba breitbart. they re the life blood of it. at the end of the day what matters in politics are outcomes of elections. the way you get there is with resources and money. the reason why people are taking steve bannon s attack and assault against the republican establishment so seriously is because they know it s not just steve bannon. it s steve bannon with a benefactor that has very deep and unlimited pockets and resources to put into these type of elections and races and make them at the least competitive, if not to outright have enough money on win them. it s one thing when you have a lunatic like steve bannon and breitbart at the fringes putting up ridiculous headlines, it s another when they have enough money to build an entire political action network that can be incredibly effective in the political process. there s also the fact going back through the sort
nest of conspiracy theories, deleterious actions to the country. when did you realize that? so i m sure a lot of your audience right now is wondering, how can chris have this guy on who worked at breitbart in the truth is this. when i first came across breitbart, it was after andrew died, steve had talked about wanting to build a platform that told and chronicled the story that was going on on the center right. there was a lot going on there and i thought, yeah, that story should be told, that s interesting. what i didn t sign up for and didn t realize i was getting into was someone that was as frankly crazy as steve is, who also had this political saegd and wanted to build this ecosystem to prop up someone like donald trump. when i saw that happening i decided i need to get out of this, this isn t right for me, i don t want to be a part of this, i don t feel good about this. so i made the decision to resign and become a to speak out and tell as much of the truth as i can about who
in the white house and clearly it s a according to this guy, he said they re evil. the fact is if you watch what happened, since i was on the rnc until 2015, everybody thought it was going to be jeb, working up, all the media things were played out right, and brigeitbart stard to surge and bannon was fearless. when bannon went in the campaign, some of us were surprised in the sense he would be going after ryan on positions. not personally. i think that stuff is distasteful. i toedon t know what that was about. he s going to do it again. in is a contrast. breitbart was consistent and is consistent on where they are. it s not where the whole republican party is, but it s where a chunk of the party is. they re going to be fearless on it. i think the personal, i don t know. as kristen pointed out, they called the president s daughter and son-in-law evil and hatched a plan, he thought he was talking to bannon but he wasn t, and hatched a plan to drive them out of the white hou