Service. School and homes have been targeted. Children have been morning the casualties, wolf. The Syrian Regime and russia have not stopped this. A warning from the united nations, there will be mass starvation in this city if food, Water Supplies and water are not allowed in very soon. Will ripley reporting for us. Thanks very much. Thats it for me. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront, the Breaking News, President Elect trump at this hour laying out his promises for day one. You will hear him. Plus, trumps controversial Chief Strategist steve bannon speaking out and saying, im not a racist. Trump meeting with americas first selfmade black billionaire. Hes a democrat. How did that conversation go . Hes my guest tonight. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin
burnett. Ooutfront tonight, Breaking News, trump releasing a new video, first policy statement since his trip to the white house after the election. Trump breaking his silence breaking straight to camera in a somber
Casualties. There has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u. S. Air campaign against the socalled islamic state. And under trump, a massive increase in u. S. Drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u. S. Foreign relations. Today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u. S. Led air strike may have killed civilians or even our allies, with 18 syrian fighters alied with the u. S. Killed in a Coalition Air strike in syria. The pentagon blamed partner forces. That news comes on the heels of last weeks air strike in syria and now today the decision to launch the mother of all bombs. And we are just 84 days into the Trump Administration. Im joined by Steve Schmidt larry corb. Larry, im going to go to you first because there is a very strange donald trump relationship to the military. He claimed during the came papa
that you knew more about the generals, that he was smarter about isis, now hes in office hes outsource
Have ultimately been a decision that two men came to at the same time. Whether or not there was some thought, and if there was not consider about making the administrations life and the president s life more difficult, he might have been left it. Kelly was said to have delivered the news. It is unclear and unknown, its a wild card. He goes outside independently. Steve bannon is now a household name. There is people that will be
upset that he left this white house. I talked to a bannon ally earlier this week. They said we had a sense this is coming and we look at this white house now and we see new york democrats and generals. That is not what we worked for in 2016. Steve bannon is the leader of a coalition and it remains to be seen. Let me bring in jennifer reuben. The author of the post, so your paper is quoting friends of Steve Bannons assayi saying lo he can help the president s agenda from the outside, that things were not working on the inside. Gabe sherman reports something very
was ecstatic that her husband had just been elected the 45th president of the united states. did you flatter your way in? i certainly said whatever was necessary to get the story. reporter: that was nbc s kristen welker. let s bring in julie manchester, reporter for the hill, and sean sullivan for the washington post. great to have you here this morning. thanks, dara. sean, you and your colleagues wrote about former allies like rebecca mercer, severing ties with steve bannon as a result of this book. i want to put back up president trump s tweet from last night, saying bannon cried like a baby when he was fired and begged for his job. sean, is this more about just bannon attacking president trump s children here? well, i think what this is, is the president trying to make it look like he is the one in control of the situation. you have, you know, his book, where you have aides, associates, people close to him, people who used to work for him portraying a situation that
more this week more than ever in the trump white house. you know, it s interesting you mention the javanka. eliza, i want to ask you, are they off limits to steve bannon? this is the president s much-beloved daughter and her husband, two of the closest people to hi personally and professionally given their roles there in the west wing. they may not share his ideology completely, but i think if steve bannon goes after them, there may be some sort of backlash. what do you think? i don t think anybody is off limits to steve bannon. i mean we saw steve bannon and jared kushner have been kind of at war throughout this presidency, counterleaking with their allies. and so i definitely don t think they re off limits. i d actually like to point out i was talking to a conservative aide last night about just bannon s departure and what this meant for conservatives and there s definitely concern about access to the white house now that bannon and even to some extent priebus were gone. they f