steve bannon at this point? he has nothing to bring to the table. other than jared kushner, though, bannon was the guy who was closer to the oval office, closer than reince priebus. now listen to how the president is talking about him. did steve bannon betray you, mr. president? any words about steve bannon? i don t know. he called me a great man last night. he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all that much. i don t talk to him. i don t talk to him. that s just a misnomer. thank you. what might the fallout of this book do to the growing republican divide? that s a great question, ana, one i m not hearing enough people asking. steve bannon has been the head of the war on the republican party. honestly, i don t understand why his career wasn t over after the alabama senate race.
cease and desist letter, accusing him of def maamation b bannon had nothing to say but nice things about the president in a radio interview. the president of the united states is a great man, you know i support him. what do you make of bannon s response there? bannon s on a contrition tour now. he s going to do everything he can to get back in donald trump s good graces. and history shows donald trump can be susceptible to flattery from people in and out of his own staff before. you can be on the bad end of donald trump today and at the end of the day back in again. sessions spent half the time attacking republican senators and he s working with them now trying to get an agenda moved forward. he s very hot and very cold.
here he managed to take one of the deep, reddest states in america and give it to the democrats. i think steve bannon almost single handedly is responsible for a shocking political failure. it s amazing to me that people took him seriously after that. it s quite amazing it s only very personal comments about the president and his family that have finally seen him fall from grace. it will be interesting to see what happens with the republicans. i was kind of curious, the sort of trump base, where were they going to come down on this? reading comments on breitbart, they are firmly with the president. i think that says a lot and that might mean maybe a little bit of stability in the republican party except for the fact that the president of the united states is a republican and certainly not on board with a traditional republican agenda. we are seeing some of those candidates, those primary challengers to the establishment are now distancing themselves from bannon. the president has sen
in a fight between trump and bannon, it s not really even a real fight. it s trump beating down steve. bannon is trying to be much more conciliatory, looking for that reconciliation opportunity. ultimately the american people don t know who steve bannon is. i ve never heard of any voter or their candidate what do you think of steve bannon? it s usually what do you think of donald trump? it s why trump has the advantage here. it s like bannon became a person bass of donald trumpecaus rise in politician. i want to read something to you bannon s tone veered from absurdum desperation to resignation. let s do it, let s get it on.
steve. i want to bring in my guests. bannon has lost the support of a major donor, rebecca mercer. he s on the outs with the president. if he loses his job, too, does he continue to be a relative force in politics? no. because seemingly within a week, he ll have lost everything that made him useful to the president. his major financial backer, the mercers, the person who is supposed to fund the entire effort to take out the 2018 republican primaries, go after the establishment, run these league of extraordinary candidates he boasted about, he doesn t have any money now to do that. if he loses breitbart, he loses his platform, his mouth piece, it gave him the opportunity to be a front in the republican party. all of those things are gone and in jeopardy. why would anyone care about