and a third of them have never heard of this guy. phil, are we giving too much attention to him? i think so. look, he s a very prominent figure, he has a lot of bold ideas, he wants to be a key player on the political scene, but at the end of the day, he s just a strategist, an operative, and right now he looks to be an operative without the funding and infrastructure he once had, and so he s a little bit less of a threat to the establishment republicans today than he was last week, but i don t think he s going disappear quietly. i think he s going very much be a force in the months to come and he s going to find a platform. listen. donald trump may be talk about rebecca mercer now. he was railing against donors before. remember something we learned this week before this book came out, bannon told trump he wanted to run his campaign and if trump didn t make it, he wanted to run
we might be able to do something here and they saw him over that time come to the conclusion he cannot do this job. pretty explosive charge there, phil. that s right. you know, it s an explosive charge there. if you read the book, it looks like that s a charge leveled by a number of other people in and around trump and the white house. there are a number of aides, many of them described anonym s anonymously in the book who take issue and have concerns about the president s ability to conduct his business, about whether he s even reading the briefing materials presented to him, whether he understands the decisions that he s making, and i think that s one of the reasons why the president has become so enraged about this book because of the negative portrayal of him. and the enragement about steve bannon. he could have thrown a verbal grenade. he kind of pulleda punch.