hapsz you ll see breitbart become one of the biggest critics and bannon will rely on folks like the people in the left media, sutdly the people who bannon supposedly hates. he ll be on all of their shows now because they don t like trump either. he knows that they ll bring him on to bash trump. and so he s put himself in pretty good position to be a significant thorn in trump s side over the last couple of months and certainly the last week. ben, what makes you think that with steve bannon out of the white house, the president is now going to lean more towards these globalists instincts than the nationalist instincts which seem to have guided him so far. i think those instincts haven t guided him in a lot of policy. his talk has been very nationalist populist. they ve been in line with his talk. his walk has been gary cohn walk. that s what bannon recognizes.
friday july 21st when sean spicer decided he was leaving, air quotes. a week later reince priebus, chief of staff gone. now steve bannon out on this friday. keep in mind anthony scare wham also decided to leave on a monday i think his fate was sealed on a friday though, am i right? it s duck and cover fridays in the trump white house. it s really important to understand that this doesn t happen quickly. this wasn t a knee jerk reaction to charlottesville. it s really important not to give them that much credit. bannon had sewn so much animosity among his west wing colleagues, not just through the war with h.r. mcmaster but having his own operation. it s completely unprecedented for a member of the senior staff to have his own personal staff. he did. he had his own press staff and policy folks and no portfolio. what were they there for?
civil rights and fighting to end poverty and expand opportunity. that s why we lost. not just white working class folks who voted for trump but black working class folks who didn t vote. we ve got to see the threat of a far right wing populist movement, seeks to divide people and play them and the only real way to combat that is for democrats to get back to the dems again and win over the hearts and minds of working class people of all colors who feel we don t actually fight hard enough to make sure all of them have health care that work pays and schools work. makes a great point. the democratic party, we ve seen them get the act together to take advantage of the moment. i think that steve bannon is in an ideal position to make the case that donald trump isn t who he says he was, which many of us have been making for a long time. the problem with his base, which is a breitbart base and some of
inauguration, weeks before inauguration, he was being investigated for this turkish work. should somebody be held accountable for not vetting him properly? well, absolutely. we went through a rough period because of his appointment and then withdraw and the trump administration lost a lot of time. i think the way the trump administration has performed, it is our oversight responsibility in congress to look at that. we re going to get some of that information today when mr. rosenstein appears before all the senators. it ll be in a closed session, but we ll find out a little bit about how the sequencing has been done, toward the fbi firing. i think all the issues raise serious questions that the congress needs to oversight the executive branch of government. we need to exercise our constitutional responsibility. let me ask you about jim comey here. have your colleagues on the intelligence or judiciary committees been able to reach him about testifying? can you tell us about the
going through all that we have learned in the last week but the main thing to remember about this is we re going to keep learning more. it s not as if this is going away or if trump gives a speech the investigation stops. michaeyns appointed national security adviser to the president by the president. the president had his one on one meeting with jim comey, the president fired jim comey. these are actual facts that are going to be investigated and that s not going to stop because some people rally to trump or trump says a few things or tweets or doesn t tweet a few things. bill you talk about the things we learned over the last week, the new york times report that says mike flynn his lawyers notified white house counsel during the transition in early january. tim, who was head of the transition at that time, it was mike pence. his loyal support of the president, do you see that affecting his political fortunes moving forward? sure. my colleague, sorry, yes, tim, go ahead. mike