director james comey. as you may recall, bannon was the president s chief advisers, chief strategists when comey was fired last year. any insight that he can provide into the process that the president and his team went through prior to that firing, any insight he can provide into the president s thinking with regard to firing jim comey would be helpful to this panel. i think the second issue is more relevant here. as you may recall, steve bannon is a former board member of a firm called cambridge analytica. there will be a lot of interests in his ties to them because that was the firm jared kushner hired to run the digital operation. to the degree that there was some collusion between russia and cambridge analytica with regard to trying to sow seeds of
embattled former trump administration chief strategists steve bannon expect today speak with the house intelligence committee this week, but to members of congress say they want more transparency on what exactly that committee has discovered so far. congressman ron desantis joins me now from the great state of florida. congressman, good to see you. good to see you. you sent a letter to house speaker paul ryan this week, what do you want the speaker to do, sir? well, we have the ability in our house rules to declassify, classify documents that are in the possession of committee and we had major breakthrough with doj and fbi finally agreed to provide the information regarding the trump dossier, the fisa surveillance, all those questions that we ve had for months and i think all the members of congress will eventually be read into that and even people not on the intelligence committee will be
the trump white house developed this pattern we have come to recognize easily at this point. it s fun to watch for whenever s somebody gets in trouble. whenever a former administration or campaign officials gets in really hot water, suddenly, they have never heard of that guy. mike flynn, a campaign volunteer. campaign chairman paul manafort, he worked on the campaign for a short period of time, foreign policy advisor carter paige, that dude nobody ever met him. today it was white house chief strategists steve bannon s turn. how close were they when they were in the white house? one of the claims in the book is you frequently dined with mr. bannon unless he was already in bed. the book says he had been sidelined by april, which i think goes further to indicate he had very little credibility to give much information after that point, which most of the book is based after that time frame. again, this book is mistake
certainly a problem to have been paid by the russians. look, everybody knew that they thought they were going to lose. they were talking openly about it with journalists, people like yourself, colleagues. we were all here in the green room. everyone s phones were blowing up from the expectations game. so what you have here is a ship that has run aground long ago. this lack of loyalty is going to play out over the next few days in a way that is going to affirm, i think, a lot of what s said in the book. people are going to talk about this now. they re going to validate it. you ll not have a lot of people in that white house backing up sarah huckabee sanders. they ll be backing up themselves and covering their own tails because this is not a president who has ever made them feel like they matter. he s treated them like he treated bannon. this is a man he put in the white house as his chief strategist. people who actually were chief strategists, karl rove, david
vice president s press secretary and the deputy national security advisor, the deputy chief of staff on the security counsel and head of the office of government ethics, the white house chief strategists and we found out the deputy assistant to the president that goes on fox news all the time, and we found out he couldn t get a security clearance, he left, too. and also, the secretary of health and human services, he left. that s not even counting the high-profile law enforcement people that have been flung out like acting attorney general sally yates. and the fbi director james comey and the dozens of u.s. attorneys they fired on no notice, get out by midnight tonight. it s a long list of people that served in significant roles who are already gone. well, this week we got two more names to add to the list. one of whom got a lot of media attention for her departure.