this is steve bannon, bob and i were talking about this before the show. steve bannon was never so much the whisperer in trump s ear feeding hill lines as he was an echo of what was going on inside donald trump s ahead. while trump kind of intuitively and emotionally understood this conservative that he sat atop, bannon was the intellectual guy that provides the framework, the vocabulary, the philosophical underpinnings of this movement. i think if you watched what happened tonight and you were worried that steve bannon s departure from the white house meant that donald trump was losing his hard line conservative populist edge, did you not come away from the speech disappointed. anita, sharp-eyed viewers will net the president just said drain the swamp. he said we don t need the advice
said. left both sides. he also left out the name of the woman who was killed. he eventually brought her up but it was way into that and it wasn t just to talk about how his thoughts and prayers were with the family. he kind of mentioned her. there were a lot of things striking about it. it was striking about all the things he didn t talk did. he barely mention immigration. health care, tax reform, barely got a mention so he could do 30 minutes on the media. robert cost ana, i m told he just cranked the one-hour mark on this speech. clearly a lot of pent up energy. when we came on the air last night with our afghanistan coverage, we made plain that last night s speech was designed to have a shelf life of a little more than 24 hours. i heard from a former white house aide tonight saying those poor afghanistan policy shop workers. it s been obliterated now by
as a result the criminal defense bills will mount too. toipt thank our guesting for helping us in this life coverage of this presidential speech. . i m not sure we ve done it the right way by interrupting the president and pointing out when he is lying. but it is a unique situation to have a president go out to the american public like this on live television and lie this way. james fallows david k. johnston. mayor ellen, jennifer thank you for joining us thank you for helping us through the hour. stay with us live and msnbc because the live coverage of this presidential speech continues now into the 11th hour with brian williams. the breaking news we covering donald trump let s it fly in arizona. he reargues his response to charlottesville. he launch as huge knew attack on the media some by name and in the next sentence insists he loves all the people of our country. he also said there weren t as many protestors outside as promised. and about the business of the presidency when
the campaign you can t always get what you want. jeremy, robert raises a good point about general kelly. here is the problem. did general kelly have advance knowledge that the boss was going to relitigate charlotte tonight, attack members of the news media by name like george stephen op lous. he was going to preside over a chant against cnn and tell the crowd the division in this country is the fault of the nation s news media. absolutely. i think anybody watching in speech tonight should finally be able to get out of their minds the notion that it matters who is around donald trump who is advising him, who is telling him to hold back. no one can hold donald trump back. donald trump is his own man. he has his own brain. pan as anita was pointing out earlier he is at his most defensive and reckless when he is being told by everyone around
him no, boss don t do that. that s exactly what happened last wednesday when he went out in the lobby of trump tower and doubled down on his both sides caused this violence statement after charlottesville after he had made that more contrite statement that everybody in the west wing had hoped would let this blow by. so, no, donald trump will not change. i think anybody who expects- this is actually what mitch mcconnell is most worried about too. and see anybody who expects to see a president grow into this job is likely to be quite disappointed. anita he went back and forth between the kind of dog whistle buzz word for the crowd our people we know what he means trump supporters. then back to what was a lot of the language from the top of last night s afghanistan speech,