and devicing figure. i don t know him personally. he may be a honey bunch. i have no idea. as a political persona, he is terrifying to donald trump s detractors. and you don t want your national security policy process to include a person that terrifies people of the other party. our 70-year-old non-ideologue president who came from a different world more malleable to this kind of thing? i have not seen anything that suggests that donald trump is malleable in terms of wanting his way. he s not ideological so i think on policy he s probably very malleable, but steve bannon is it has been reported by people with multiple sources, he is to get the credit if you re a fan and the blame if you re a detractor for all of the sort of populism that we heard in the inaugural address, for the dividing of americans along class lines, for the speaking directly to the forgotten man and woman which was the closing message that got donald trump elected and whether you love that message or hate it
sure. but george w. bush believed when a campaign ended the business of governing was serious and shouldn t have even an appearance of a political adviser in the room. steve bannon isn t just any political adviser. he s the one who s made donald trump answer questions about the alt-right, the only reason the whole country knows what the alt-right is. he s an incredibly polarizing and devicing figure. i don t know him personally. he may be a honey bunch. i have no idea. as a political persona, he is terrifying to donald trump s detractors. and you don t want your national security policy process to include a person that terrifies people of the other party. our 70-year-old non-ideologue president who came from a different world more malleable to this kind of thing? i have not seen anything that suggests that donald trump is malleable in terms of wanting his way. he s not ideological so i think on policy he s probably very malleable, but steve bannon is it has been reported by p
trump to send some signals of unity and reach out to minority groups or women or any other voters who may not have been donald trump supporters and may be concerned the direction of the country. i should say he also sounded hopeful saying he found trump during his 90 minutes discussion with him in the oval office to be non ideologue. back to you. athena jones, thank you. monday night football. giants trying to accomplish something they have not done in three years, but they would have to get past the cincinnati bengals first. coy wire with the bleacher report. that s next.
and reach out to minority groups and women or any other voters who may not be trump supporters. he sounded on a hopeful note. he found trump during the 90 minutes in the oval office with him last week to be non ideologue, but pragmatic. thank you, athena. let s see what is coming up on new day. alisyn camerota with us right now. good morning, guys. great to see you. we will be bringing you on new day all of the latest on the trump transition team. this morning, a few hours from now, vice president-elect mike pence will be sitting down with donald trump to go over the names of the people that they want in their cabinet and cash it all out. we will bring you the developments and news from that. we will speak with congresswoman debbie dingel of michigan.
delivers. not only for the people who voted for him, but the people at large. reporter: the president also offered trump advice because of the nature of campaigns and bitterness surrounding the campaigns, it is important for trump to send signals of unity and reach out to minority groups or women or any other voters who may not have been supporters and may be concerned about the direction the country is going. he also sounded on a hopeful note saying he found trump in the 90 minutes discussion in the oval office last week to be non ideologue. thank you. we are hearing from michelle obama for the first time. the first lady spoke at a conference of veterans homelessness. she offered bipartisanship. i want to take a moment to