former breitbart reporter steven bannon and rnc chair reince priebus. the trump team is trying to delay a lawsuit. arguing he s too busy transitioning and that the suit should continue sometime after the inauguration. so we ve discussed this from the political perspective. let s discuss it from a legal perspective. we have with us former u.s. attorney, michael moore. wlet let s argue why the trump team wants to delay this. now that this is over the trump team should not have to be required to stand trial during the next two months. the time and attention to prepare and testify will take
turned violent. our guest, reverend traci blackmon, one of the counterprotesters, had to leave our interview when it turned deadly. a white supremacist drove his crowd into demonstrators and claimed the life of counterprotester heather heyer. that spoked this infamous response from the president of the united states when he endorsed some of the people in the clashes as very fine people. and today not too far from the white house white supremacists will rally again marking one year since those deadly clashes in charlottesville. joining me now is curt bar della, former breitbart media consultant and president and ceo of endeavor strategies. jennifer rubin, opinion writer at the washington post, and michael steele, former chairman of the rnc and political analyst for msnbc. thank you all for being here. curt, let me start with you, because if memory serves, you were on the air with us that morning a year ago when that happened.
are thrown out of the republican party. that includes all those people in the white house, that includes steve bannon, breitbart news, the racist platform they ve been running, people like ann coulter, who run around attacking people. we need those people out of the republican party so we can govern and pass legislation to help americans get health care, protect the planet, and do what republicans and democrats traditionally wanted to do, to serve the american people. i see caved corn nodding his head. your thoughts? i love richard painter. you ve been speaking truth to power from the republican side. all those things that you mentioned, it s not gone that happe gonna happen. it s a wish list. donald trump is 71, whatever, 72 years old now. he has been playing with racists for decades. he got to where he was as a birther. i think he suffers from certain personality issues. i don t think there s going to be any conversion. that s not going to happen. to me the interesting thing here
economic war with china. bannon allies have called him the linchpin that connects trump to his base and the intellectual heart of the trump movement. so with him gone, what happens to trump now? joining me are sarah kinsior, former breitbart media consultant kurt bardella, former chief white house ethics lawyer for president george bush richard painter, and david corn of mother jones. thank you for being here. kurt, to you first on what it means for not only bannon to have left but left the way he did. he walked over to breitbart.com and sort of walked into cheers and gave a big rah rah speech. what do you think it means to the white house he s no longer there? well, i think it means that you re going to see a lot more of steve bannon publicly than you have really to this point. lot of what s been happening in recent weeks and months is bannon under the radar, maybe leaking stuff or having people leak for him. he wasn t necessarily the public