have them disagreeing in front of him. a lot of people compare or talk about the george w. bush administration, comparing steve bannon s role in a way to karl rove s influence. and i m wondering if you see any parallels or too much is being made about that sort of alleged parallel. i don t know bannon. i do know karl rove. and he s among the most effective and astute, both political and policy people that i ve ever had the privilege of working with. i was chief of staff when carl was senior adviser. and so to go back to the point about equals, i don t think that president bush had any advisers to whom he listened more closely than karl rove. maybe more so than me, as chief of staff. and i was fine with that, because president bush empowered me to run the white house staff.
steve bannon. trump said this, bannon and priebus will continue the effective leadership team they formed during the campaign. working as equal partners to transform the federal government and making it more efficient and effective and productive. priebus is known in the beltway and has good working relationships with republicans on capitol hill. senator mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan. those relationships and priebus knowledge of how washington works could be key in helping trump pass legislation through congress. now bannon, who is the trump campaign ceo, also ran breitbart news. that news site accused of racist and sexist and anti-semitic audiences. and bannon has been critical of the gop establishment. both men will advise the next president, president-elect trump. victor, christine. thank you, chris.
experience and judgment, he s a good choice for, to be a trump chief of staff. i don t know bannon, but i do know that the white house works best when there s only one chief of staff. so the tenure of the announcement concerned me who would actually be in charge. the white house has a hard time running if there isn t a singleler chief of staff well empowered by the president. when i got this press reless yesterday from the trump transition team, announces senior white house leadership team and went ton say president-elect donald j. trump announced stephen bannon will serve and reince priebus white house chief of staff. looked like bannon got top billing. the release said they will work as equal partners which i assume
of the trump white house. the white house is pushing back. but there are no signs the fallout from the bookleting up. some of the most explosive quotes from fire and fury are attributed to steve bannon, president trump s former chief strategist. now bannon says he regrets not responding sooner to what s in the book. he says he still believes this the president and his agenda, and that he never bad-mouthed donald trump jr. as the author suggests. when the book came out friday, this despite legal threats from the president s personal attorneys, the president responded furiously on twitter calling it a fake book written by a totally discredited author. all of, this though, may be too little too late. we re told president trump is drawing a line in the sand, calling allies and friends, making it clear they must choose between him and bannon. our boris sanchez picks it up from here. it has now been five full days when we first got the excerpts from fire and fury
statement i think is pitched at being sure that he can remain a very serious voice and have important influence over the public debate and over the white house and more specifically over donald trump. how that will turn out is very difficult to know. as you can see, he is at risk now of losing a lot of his backers. but he understands that attacking the president s son is no small thing. and he uses that word patriotic clearly as a response to what he was saying earlier, which is that behavior was treasonous. i think it s not surprising given bannon s very clear desire to really push forward with a very nationalist agenda. and to do it from outside the white house. bannon now has a new nickname called sloppy steve. here is his question with statement of regret, returning hat in hand to the president. is he accepted again do you think by this president? well, again, i don t think