there are increasing calls for her to go. however, john winning and losing could change everything if they do not get back to majority next year, calls for her to go will grow even louder. it s not just the republicans who have these internal family yishgsz shall we say. eliana? piggybacking on michael s comments on steve bannon and the president and their communication, we saw steve bannon give remarks as the values voter summit earlier this week. the most interesting of those remarks, i thought, were his comments that the white house was planning to designate the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization and they were planning to move the american embassy in israel to tel aviv and jerusalem. these are things white house aides say the president has no intention of doing and i think we re going to increasingly see steve bannon not only backing anti-establishment candidates, that s predictable but pushing his own agenda from outside the white house. that s a policy agenda, not mer
is just the analogy, metaphor, they re just looking to see who is your brutus to julius caesar. yeah, the donor are not happy. they all left you. we cut your oxygen off, mitch. to eliana. just a metaphor. he wanted to make clear, this is just a metaphor but he means it. he s stirring up this primary challenges, disaffection with primary groups but he s stirring it up with leader mcconnell at a time we were just talking about, the president just dumped obamacare decisions on their lap again. trying to deal with tax reform, a budget, immigration. mcconnell has 52-48, he didn t repeal and replace obamacare. it s his responsibility. but what does this do to the town at a time the republicans addition don t they need to show they ve done something this year? in many ways the power of banen and breitbart is
this is our war. y all didn t start it. the establishment started it. but i will tell you one thing, you all are going to finish it. they fear you because they understand you ve had a belly full of it and you re taking your country back. now, the proof, as eliana points out will be in the spring into the fall? do they knock off any republican incumbents? do they prove they can put results where their talk of war is? the president will sit down with majority leader tomorrow. we know they have an interesting relationship to begin with. at a time when the president s wing man is out there, you re part of a reporting team that says the president has actually spoken to steve bannon of late. i ve been saying, the president could stop this if he wanted to. he would just have to publicly say, steef bannon, stop. he hasn t done that.