all of us know that the really big thing that s coming up on the agenda is raising of the debt ceiling. right. is infinitely more important than a government shutdown. you can rev back the government up once you pass a budget. but once you destroy the full faith and credit of the united states, we don t know what that will look like. steve, who wins with bannon out of the house, and is it enough for those who think that there are destructive forces in the white house, this populist, nationalist movement that may have caused donald trump to make bad decisions when it comes to condemning neo-nazis and condemning white supremacists and kkk and the things that happened in charlottesville properly? what else has to happen there? because what we know is we ve got h.r. mcmaster who rush limbaugh calls a democrat and general kelly, and they re trying to bring some order to the place. sebastian gorka is still there, and he s, some would say, a damaging influence to the
something changed in the trump white house and administration or are we going to be talking about the same kind of stories? no the president is not going to change that would require the mayhem to calm down in the white house. that s not going to happen. steve bannon is a story, it will probably be a story down the road when he attacks the president or people within the white house. until the president decides that he really wants to have a real agenda and move forward, the more he wants to go off the cuff the more chaos he will create. philip you got bannon in an interview saying or predicting, i don t know, taunting trump saying he is going to go establishment now. will you get an establishment republican agenda on taxes, he is saying a typical republican tax program. is that right? do you think something will emerge of the tax plan we would have gotten from president cruz, from president rubio? is that going to happen? i think what we should keep in mind, donald trump came to
rattling by tweet, the white supremacy tantrums, the guy who is temperamentally unsuited for office, all of that is donald trump, not steve bannon. kelly has learned in the last two weeks that you can t manage this guy. you can t tell him hard truths because 24 hours later he rips up the script and goes off on to an unhinged tirade. so, you know, i think that kelly among other things needs to take a page from al hague, the last white house chief of staff, who was a general during the final days of the nixon administration when nixon was wandering the halls, drinking heavily, talking to the oil portraits in the west wing. al hague and the defense secretary, james sha less injer made sure that the nuclear codes were safe. those were the kinds of things that kelly has to be thinking about. so you are suggesting because there s a lot of pressure on a number of people to resign. there s a sense that if you resign, if you re anywhere around the president, you resign in the next few days,
role, trump said steve bannon came on late and go inthe process of distancing himself from somebody who was very close to the president. just like paul manafort was a campaign chair, steve bannon was sort of right there with the president in the trenches for a long time. you mentioned this, too, i m curious about this, too, bannon s fingerprints, they seem to be on a lot with donald trump sed a machine strax, with his campaign, including, though, a few areas where donald trump departed from traditional republican or to docks. i think areas where it may help make him popular in those michigan, pennsylvania, rust belt states he picked up, i m talking infrastructure spending, a different form of tax cuts, the idea of targeting it down the stail scale, not so much toward the rich, going against traditional republican or to do though dox / /- orthodox. what was going on behind the scenes there? i think that trump believed a
psychologically and emotionally unhinged donald trump is and the radiating effects of that on his agenda and on everything else. the other thing that they underestimated is that this is hard stuff, legislation and governing. these are big bills that the house and the senate were trying to pass, and you need an engaged and alert president to get them through in the best of times. not only was donald trump not there to help them, he was actively hurting them. it was to the point that if you talked to republicans on the hill, they wanted him out of the meetings because he would set back their agenda. so, look, the republican party legislatively is at sea. they ve passed virtually nothing at all, but that is the least of their problems right now because it s not a legislative failure for the republican party. it s a moral failure. it s an ethical failure, and it s going to get worse. and the republican party better realize that and stand up to donald trump on those grounds. john, to your