question becomes what does bannon do now? does he try and continue to ingratiate himself with trump, flatter trump, hope trump takes him back? or does he go rogue and does he start pointing out that trump, in fact, is a phony in terms of his alleged populism, and really isn t doing anything for the kind of downwardly mobile, angry, white working class voters, who are bannon s constituency who supported trump so fervently. that s going to be really interesting to watch. at some point, if bannon is p persona non grata with trump and threatened to lose his job at breitbart? what does he have for himself. he s more of a racist populism than trump it. a clip i want to play. citizens united. somebody who served on the president s transition, and he was asked about michael wolff
he s a walk-on star of the dogs. but i know a couple of cabinet members pretty well. reince priebus. i ve interviewed many of these people. i know senator cotton pretty well. not once has anyone mentioned to me the 25th amendment. they get upset with the president, disagree with the president, support the president. nobody except sort of unhinged critics are calling the president unhinged. and, therefore, when when sonny perdue says to you and i m quoting from your interview, it sounds like he was slinking around the white house trying to dig up dirt, that rings true to you. no, it doesn t. i think he had an access pass from steve bannon. and i believe everything in the wolff book that s a direct quote of steve bannon because i believe there are tape recordings reliably purported to exist. i ve heard tony blair denounce the book, the washington post reporter denounce the book as wholly fabricated.
him back and then he might lose his job at breitbart. seemed to me, i d like to know what you think about this. steve bannon put out a statement on axios sunday basically backtracking some of the comments. flattering the president. we saw he had done that on breitbart radio on sirius. do you think that he s done enough damage control to keep his job, and if he s patient enough as i just talked to hallie about, maybe the president will forgive if not forget? no. i think there are some things you say you can t take back, and when you make the kind of comments that bannon made about the president, about ivanka being as dumb as a brick and on and on and on, and bannon is the source of some of this. he s not the only soers urce of but the lightning rod who s the object of trump s wrath, and trump doesn t really need bannon. i would be astonished if trump took him back, and then the
and who said, yeah, go ahead and talk to him. take a listen. for one second i i outlined in my book, my little debate with chris about north carolina specifically. i understand that. that was your book. we re talking about wolff s book. who told you to sit down and talk to michael wolff? actually, it was it was steve, and i had a conversation about it, and he asked me to sit down with him. seems to me a lot of people if you believe the book, a lot of people had very negative things to say about steve about president trump, and. right. is the president s ire at bannon just because he was actually quoted? is it because he is known a lot of people probably said to the president, look, he s the one who told us to talk to him in the first place? he s the one who got him a pass to come sit on the couch, be a fly on the wall in the first place? even though as you know
meet the press about his rationale for sticking by the president. i got to ask you something. the president sort of joked with you the other day and said, boy, lindsey used to be a great enemy of mine and now is a great friend of mine. what s changed? a lot of a lot of your friends have been asking me that, going, hey, ask the senator why he suddenly is cozying up to president trump? what would you say to that? because he s president of the united states, he s going to make a decision about immigration. we cut that short, but because he s president of the united states. obviously, he s trying to work with him on some issues. bob corker, somebody who has issues also wants to work with the president. he was on the plane with him today. what do you make of some of the president s most vocal critics, david, now suddenly making nice? i m disappointed, and it s part of thes reason i hope mitt romney does run for the senate, from utah, and you think he will not be afraid to cr