dropping the memeres and getting them on board most of the success is through traditional partner. they were able to get clinton cash a conspiracy book about hillary clinton into the new york times, into the normal mainstream news cycle. that s what his expertise used to be. you talk about his cambridge analytical firm. they weren t looking for ron paul. they were able to get hired by mainstream republican candidates and by mainstream conservative candidates and some far right oobviously outfits like the sort of folks in england, but they depended on existing infrastructure in order to succeed. can breitbart survive, if the new york times says nothing you send us is legitimate anymore. you re white nationalists. i think they can. i think they will. i think there will be abaudience of a couple million people who read, watch, listen to anything that breitbart produces. i don t think that s unusual and i don t think that s bad. i think they don t have, to you
i ve got my hands on my weapons is what he said. it s bannon the barbarrian. i m going to crush the opposition. there s no doubt i built an f-ing machine at breitbart and i m about to rev up that machine and rev it up we will. your thoughts charlie sykes. are you jealous i got to read that? yes, yes. remember how anthony scaramucci described certain acts steve bannon who perform that were anatomically incorrect, as ryan lizza points out that interview suggests he may have had a point. obviously steve bannon thinks he s going to be more influential outside the white house. there are two problems that he s going to face. he obviously has the mercer money. breitbart needs the rest of the pro-trump media to act as a mega phone and it s not clear they re necessarily going to follow that. number two, he s about to realize the consequences of what he has created, this cult of
personality around donald trump. the number of people who will accept and go along with anything that donald trump says or does, but having said that, in order to understand what bannon s going to do, you almost have to go back to the model of politics and monarchy, where the king can do no wrong. he will not attack donald trump. he will attack the people around donald trump claiming is he trying to protect and save the trump presidency from the globalists and the democrats and the generals around him. so it s going to be very, very interesting, whether or not he s going to have the kind of clout or whether we re about to see a real crackup of the unity of the right wing media. and tara, there are two ways to look at this, this reporting from axios robert mercer who has these racial views, lots of money, he backed kellyanne conway s polling outfit and breitbart and bannon and they met potentially to start a tv channel channel.
we still have a huge movement but that presidency is over, there will be something else. and there will be all kinds of fights and there will be good days and bad days but that presidency is over. were you surprised he gave that kind of an interview? no, because i think in some ways he s also speaking like everyone to a constituency of one. he s reaching donald trump through his favorite vehicle the press and sending the message that the support that he had from breitbart, the cover that they d run for trump whenever anything bad would go on, that that s in jeopardy right now, unless president trump adheres to the ideals and the rhetoric that got him elected in the first place. think bannon s fear is that with these west wing democrats surrounding trump, trump will try to moderate and move to the middle to try to achieve something and steve is sending out the message to donald trump if you do that, breitbart will be there, they will attack you and send a message to their base, to
is going to have a limited viewership, but even now steve bannon is going to have an audience, because we re talking about him today, and our cable tv outlets are going to talk about breitbart that most of us didn t know anything about, outside the beltway, so the interesting part is, let s see what kind of juice steve is going to get outside. i agree with everybody on this, steve bannon is wicked smart. he s going to drive an agenda. the question is, is how powerful will that be beyond the coverage that he gets on cable tv and the coverage that we give him, how powerful will that be, and will mercer really pile a tremendous amount of money to try to compete against fox? again, i doubt that that will happen, but it s a good theory. and sinclair, the huge competit competitor. david corn i ask these questions. if you think about what breitbart did in addition to