he is completely losing his mind. but, yeah, that seems this morning to be the fact that michael wolff may not have gotten every quote exactly right. but it s the same thing we all have been hearing and politicians on the hill have been hearing for over a year now. gentleman, that i think goes to the heart of this. while on the one hand everybody is anxious and devouring the salacious details in this book. no one is fundamentally surprised. right. i think even the quotes that were attributed to steve bannon i think were things he was saying off the record privately. now wall street journal reports that breitbart s board members are weighing whether to fire bannon after all of those comments and president trump s tweet late last night, he told people to quote watch what happens to michael wafflef, the author of a critical new book and floppy steve. he is referring to his former chief strategist.
the rest of the country still scratches their heads about. we just did a fact check. i m sure you saw it. there s fact checks every day about what the president says. politifact is working overtime. do they matter? i don t think they really matter. i think we ve been talking about this for two years, that his base, it s not huge. it was enough for him to win in a very freaky election year. but it stays with him. they like the lying. you know, they they like the fighting is what they like. they like the fighting, the baiteding, the attacking. you feel it when you re in those rooms, which we all have been. and it s not going away. i mean, what i ve been struck by, though, is that he seems to have gotten worse with the racial dog whistles or fog horns, whatever you want to say, ever since the news that he was about to fire bannon and then he fired bannon. it s like he s had to double down on his own rhetoric to prove that he s not going soft, he s still the racially divisive
the picture because he is out of the white house. he might be influencing more to the administration on the outside than inside. shepard: preparation for war against the president s family among others? we are seeing members of the right angry about the things going on. mike flynn s son lashed out against the move to fire bannon and taking shots at hr mcmaster. and we ll see all of that intensify if bannon joins those efforts. mercer. a billionaire donor? a prominent donor on the right who has supported breitbart and media outlets that are supportive of the president
by expressions of outrage. that s the least you can do, as you said, i said yesterday the president s remarks pretty much jumped the shark. i had been part of the group that was saying, get the white nationalists out of the cabinet, fire bannon. fire gorka. at this point it s the president. it s the president. so now we have three branches of government. we have a congress that has to take responsibility for what they can do, not what they can say. and there actually are things that can be done, that they can do if they mean what they say. if paul ryan really says he s repulsed by white supremacy, if members of congress, you know, republicans and democrats, have tweeted about, you know, white supremacy, and we don t stand with this, then let s talk about the white supremacy, what it actually is. let s talk about federal governments finding that the state legislature of texas, and the state legislature of north carolina created voter suppression laws for the purpose of discriminating ag
responsibility for leading this country. because this country is stitched together of many pieces. and it s a patchwork, and it s been difficult. there s been bloodshed to bring us to the point that we re at today, which is not shangri-la, but it certainly is not 1860, and it s certainly not 1954. that took blood, that took sweat, that took lawsuits, that took sit-ins, that took sacrifice to bring us to that point. what we re seeing is the willingness of leaders to kind of cavalierly allow it to be dissipated. and that makes me angry. what i also am is very rez oh lu resolute that we will not be palmed off by tweets, expressions of condemnation. that s the least you can do, as you said, i said yesterday the president s remarks pretty much jumped the shark. i had been part of the group that was saying, get the white nationalists out of the cabinet, fire bannon. at this point it s the