there is no doubt over the past month, month and a half especially, we ve seen steve bannon fight back against jared kushner and now has the preeminent role inside the white house. doesn t he? the president, i m told, is very concerned about keeping his base. and bannon, to him, to the president, is someone who helps keep that flame lit. and i think kushner s struggles with russia-related issues have helped bannon come back within the west wing priebus and bannon came back from the overseas trip early and started thinking through this while the rest of the administration was abroad. he was telling his friends that he was going to finish jared off with russian stories that he didn t have to, quote, worry about the son-in-law because of russia. and then smiled and laughed to his friends. and then a few days later, steve
they gave me a livup date. it is 30 degrees warmer at the winter olympics than it is in new york city. how about that? willie, a lot of stuff going on up there. and you talked to the great one. reporter: had a great conversation. we re going to play the full interview coming later in the hour. but he sat, spent a lot of time with me and talked about being there at that opening ceremony on friday night, how close it came to not going off at all, really, with that fourth hydraulic army getting stuck. he gave a little insight into that and shed some light on the secrecy about who was going to do it, when he knew he was going to do it, who he was going to tell, who he was not able to tell. it s a cool story. once they finally did get that flame lit, joe, the americans went to work on saturday night. apolo anton ohno went to work for the americans, he got a silver in the 1500 meter. a bizarre race. he was trailing in fourth place and two korean skaters collided into each other, knoc