to note that nobody knew who he was a year ago. that s exactly right. yeah. and donald trump sort of made him. yeah. and he is now a huge figure, especially in that movement and in a position if he s angry at donald trump, you know, either because trump fired him or because he s angry that trump seems to have sided with new york globalists, so-called, he s in a position to do trump real damage, just like out of a novel. fascinating. this is what sarah palin wanted. when sarah palin quit as alaska governor. she thought she could have a bigger impact on politics by leaving politics, and she quickly dissolved into the comments section on facebook. bannon s got more juice than she did, even having been a vice presidential candidate. we just have to see what he s going to do with it. michael beschloss, great to have you here. we ll be right back. stay with us.
violence in charlesville. he reached further isolation, this time from his political base. for more i am joined by the right turn progress, ms nbc analyst and contributing writer for the daily beast. eli, let me pick up a point, i m curious what you make of it, hey, steve bannon is leaving the white house, he s going back to breitbart, he s talking about launching a war against some of the people around the president. is that necessarily meaning his days having a line of communication with donald trump, giving him advice, talking strategy with him, could that endorse still? oh, yeah, we seen that with people trump ejected from trump world, cory lewandowski being the most obvious person who has a direct line and the president enjoys personally. steve bannon and the president had a close relationship during
size, and republicans pass a corporate tax plan of their own and present it to him to sign as a fait accompli. now, the question there is how will his ego react to having that happen? and that s something i fear we know the answer to all too well. peter, this is an interesting point because we ve had sort of 16 years really of presidency before donald trump of presidents who have tried to gain more executive power and make the presidency bigger. now it may be that the presidency, as john says, gets smaller. but here s what grover norquist, who i think prior to steve bannon was the most powerful unelected man in washington. here s what he said in 2011 about what republicans need. listen. the leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the house and the senate. so focus on electing the most conservative republican who can win, and then pick a republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the united sta
i said weeks ago that he should the first thing he should do is go into the oval office, close the door, and tell donald trump that, you know, i m drawing a line right here. if you cross it, i will resign. clearly that never happened. right. but now you ve got we re at a point where donald trump is increasingly isolated. he s more angry by the day. he s unraveling, it seems, if this tirade is any indication. so you have to wonder at some point, you know, what s the remedy if things get much worse? it is a question that everybody is asking along with the question about whether or not this raises issues about donald trump s fitness for office. well, we may not be there yet. but the day could very well come when donald trump is so unhinged as he gets angrier and more isolated that he becomes a threat to national security and so domestic tranquility. some people would argue that he already is.
mouth on tuesday. when monday comes, those words that he uttered on tuesday don t go away. and i ll just say this. for any republican, any republican that thinks that it s okay not to repudiate donald trump personally for that moral equivalency before this rally in phoenix, i ll just say putting principle aside, just politically and pragmatically, you ve got to be nuts. i want to remind in case someone is mistaken. what you just heard from steve schmidt. he s a republican. this is what you re saying as a republican. that s not democratic criticism of what s going on. but will hylton, to receive s point, this takes attention away for a moment from what president trump has faced criticism for all week, including the departure of all those business leaders. in the end, with steve bannon gone, donald trump gets to prove to america whether the things