is back with us and jonathan allen co-author of the book shattered which chronicled the hillary clinton campaign also a co columnist for roll call. you re better read than any of us. what s the expression, if you kill the king, be sure you can kill the king. does the party need to pick a fight with mcconnell and ryan? does the white house need to pick does steve bannon need to pick a fight with mcconnell and ryan? of all the people to make a fight with, i would not pick a fight with mcconnell and ryan. at the end of the day, you need these guys to get your program through and by the way, donald trump is already considered an unreliable ally as it is, right? is a guy, you vote for the obamacare repeal and get thrown under the bus. you cut a deficit reduction or a debt ceiling deal that republicans don t even like. in many ways, this is a challenge for republicans. they need to be unified to get
anything done and simply aren t right now. jonathan, same question. the amazing thing is on the debt limit deal with the appropriations and harvey funding, these guys just needed the air cover from trump. mitch mcconnell and ryan had to pretend they didn t like it. on the floor 80 votes and house floor 360 votes and went to the president. i don t understand how that the frustrating donald trump s agenda or getting in the way as steve bannon suggestioignifica t guestsuggests. perhaps this is unanswerable. how do they view having steve bannon on the outside of the west wing when they are sitting in the west wing and especially having watched an interview like that? well, you love to ask me unanswerable questions. i will say today we saw sarah huckabee sanders from the podium and talked earlier about the