i use herpecin l.re, it penetrates deep to treat. it soothes, moisturizes, and creates an spf 30 barrier, to protect against flare-ups caused by the sun. herpecin l. president trump s former chief vat gist steve bannon is stepping koun from breitbart and ban has also been booted from sirius xm radio. the departure follows a public rift with president trump after the release of the new book fire and fury. in that book, bannon took personal jobs at members of trump s family. many including late night hosts are asking what will steve bannon do next. former white house chief strategist steve bannon has stepped down from his position as head of breitbart news. so esunemployed. i guess all this time, he really was dressing for the job he wanted.
where he could reach people. his benefactors, the mercers pulled their financial support. fox news puts out a statement that says we re not going touch him with a ten-foot pole. they said we re not going to hire him. that seems to be what everyone is saying. without patronage, without a megaphone, what does he do? that s unclear. i think he wants to stay involved in politics but he has at this point not vessel to get his message out. he was using breitbart to articulate this nationalist populist version of conservatism and make that popular. now that he has no proximity to trump, no billionaire benefactors funding endeavors, it s unclear how he will stay relevant in politics. it s hard in this day and age with technology and you can launch things on your own, it s hard to shut someone down if people want to listen to them. do you get the sense there is a
joining me now is senior media reporter oliver darcy. you reported, oliver that, folks who work at breitbart were stunned by bannon s departure. right. tell us moore. he had been telling people the idea that he was leaving breitbart was nonsense and a lot of breitbart staffers heard this. they believed it. when the news came out yesterday in the new york times initially that he was being ousted from breitbart, it stunned them. they didn t see this coming. clearly, he didn t see it coming if that s what he was imparting to them. he must have known it was coming. we reported last week there was a hard push to oust him from the website and convince the ceo to essentially fire him. he must have known this was coming. he was defiant and telling people around him this is all nonsense and you know, he s staying at breitbart. they believed him and were stunned that he was ousted. no breitbart. that means no sirius xm radio
swathe or at least an enthusiastic nich out there that would want to hear what he has to say where he could somehow put up some sort of show online or something? that s going to be interesting. i think he did alienate a lot of people when he went after the president. he made a mistake in the president s followers for steve bannon followers. and if you look at the comments, for instance, over the past few days on breitbart, people are kind of going against bannon himself. so i m not sure. i m sure there s some audience he can reach. real quick, what message does this send to other people who cross trump. do not cross trump. bannon learned the hard way if you cross trump, it s not good news for you. like i said, mistaken the trump fan base for his own fan base and wasn t a good idea. it s interesting. great reporting. appreciate it. oliver darcy with us here. up next, a live look at the white house. right now, president trump is holding a cabinet meeting.
is, like so many people, looking for missing friends and family. what is it going to take to dig out of this? to be able to determine where all of the missing and lost people are? reporter: it is going to take some heavy lifting, no pun intended. let s look again at some of these houses and the debris field. i was also talking to the county, and they said they ve heard good news, that they re going to get in. the army corps of engineers and state emergency officials are going to get in to help with these beleaguered and beat up county officials. you ll recall, they just went through this with the thomas fire and now the second half of this reckoning with a flood that did all this. all right. paul vercammen with that live report from montecito, california, thank you. now, changing directions here, from out the door as white house chief strategist to out the door at breitbart, it has really been quite the fall from power for steve bannon. so what s next? we ll talk about that. in t