negotiating tactic and how you would feel about it then? i don t know if it s a tactic or not. all i know is he s testing our state and i believe it s something he really wants to get done. as to if it really gets done, i don t know if that matters. what matters is we take the most respective route to eliminating illegal immigration. some the prime issues we have in our state as well. melissa: you stick to some of the issues at the president campaigned on, have you been frustrated lately that the discussion has gotten sidetracked on issues and he isn t necessarily helping himself in the sense that last night was a great opportunity to really pound the table on policy. he talked about the wall, but you want to hear about tax reform. you want to hear about regulation.
his departing, they saw him as a manager of the presidents worldviews and the public they had an ally in the west wing that would fight for the changes that the president campaigned on. now that he is gone, and number conservative groups say they are concerned that others in the white house will push the president to take more moderate positions on issues such as trade, immigration and tax reform. in a letter to the president as a group of 19 conservative groups wrote in part saying, it is important that those who have been your staunchest supporters no that they are not being drowned out by the swamp which due to his nature seeks to - bennett himself told the weekly standard that establishment republicans in congress along with some of the president s other advisors many call west wing democrats are to blame for blocking the campaign agenda. and now that steve bannon is back running breitbart news, his allies say he will be able to do more to pressure
when s the last time to you spoke with many bannon? earlier today. elizabeth: what did he say, sirsome. he s pleased to be back. he s very excited what he can do. to paraphrase him, getting his hands back on his weapons. you know, let s not forget that the breitbart.com web site was instrumental in pushing the economic nationalist agenda that president trump won on. this is something that donald trump as a candidate and a citizen had talked about for a great very many years, and now he then he had a media ally and somebody who had a great public voice and a big, big audience in steven k. bannon. so i think what david bossie just said to you guys is correct. i think it gives him now a little bit more freedom to operate. he has a lot more allies on the outside than did on the inside. but let s not, you know, twist this into something it isn t as other networks are trying to do elizabeth: well, that s what i was going to ask you. you have, certainly, a lot of speculation and there
things develop in boston. we ve got crews both on the ground and, obviously, aerial pictures from wfxt in boston, our affiliate. elizabeth: right. and, of course, we re going to continue following the protests, but we also want to talk about another major story in the headlines. as you know, reaction has been swift following news steve bannon is out as white house chief strategist. the move comes exactly one year after bannon joined the trump team in 2016 on the campaign. garrett tenney has the story and the latest fallout. it was a big announcement this week in washington. reporter: it was, and there was a lot of concern after this announcement came from conservatives who are concerned about the departure of steve bannon. in bannon, they saw someone who shared president trump s populist, nationalist world view, and they felt like they had an additional ally who would push for the changes the president campaigned on. with his departure, many conservative groups are concerned the pres
this is something that the president campaigned on. democrats said we re willing to work with him on this. so why hasn t more materialized in the last seven months and what could materialize coming up is this because we saw some infrastructure discussion with folks in the house and that hasn t seemed to have gone anywhere fast. well, like you mentioned, that is kind of what is crazy to remember here. early on in december and january, dchls were actually on board with infrastructure. chuck schumer talked about this was an area where he could work with donald trump. those days could hardly be further away now. we re seeing today an executive order which will try to streamline the permitting process, but there is no grand multibillion-dollar infrastructure plan as trump promised and a lot of people see that as a missed opportunity. if he had started with something like infrastructure instead of obamacare repeal, maybe he could have worked with democrats. i think in the wake of everythin