erratic tweeting by the president, but you also have steve bannon who was the biggest mortal threat to this party essentially imploding. i think this is something that reason under appreciated within the past couple of days here, is that steve bannon is really losing his financial benefit factors and the mersers. that this has been percolateing under the surface and if you think about the threat and the pressure that looks like mitch mcconnell were feeling before the few year within they thought that steve bannon could have some wind at his back, i think, despite everything, all things considered that there are republicans feeling some sense of relief. because, joe, yes, you and i as outside observers, see these things very troubling about the president talking casually, joke about nuclear war on twitter, but in some ways, it s more of the same and in terms of raw politics and the raw political calculation that this party is making about the threat that it
everyone arnold are in various states to find a way out of it. the pile on bannon is not just limited to his tensions with donald trump. it s not just that he may be losing his financial backing with the mercers. i think he does some reporting as well on what we are seeing from the bannon-aligned candidates like michael grim. like kelly ward in arizona. can you talk a little bit about whether these candidates may be starting to distance themselves from bannon? reporter: right, it was a few months ago we saw these insurgent anti-republicans flocking and posting pictures with him on twitter, trying to line him up for a fundraiser. some of the shine had come off bannon after roy moore s defeat if alabama. but when we were talking to some of these candidates yesterday to some of their advisers, we started to hear interesting comments, michael grim has gone
can let no slight go. it is not in his nature at all to sit back, keep his mouth shut and let something roll over him. she going to hit back, fight back, punch back, which it must be said brigg bannon into this is one thing that drew bannon and trump towing. it s ideology but the fighting spirit, something trump liked in bannon that he would hit harder if he took a shot back, he would shoot that much more in the other direction. now we have seen that relationship disintegrate to the point where trump is calling him sloppy steve on twitter last night which is not as good as a nickname as lying ted. fought bad. not bad. i think that knowing trump as we all know, in trump s world, even when are you out, you are never really out to the point you are never really out. you know what ban isn t still telling people despite taking all this heat in the last 48 hours that he fully expects after a cooling
in the campaign. this is lindsey graham of late. i think we need a special counsel to investigation the fusion gps episode between the democratic party, mr. steele and russian operatives. a special counsel for uranium one episode, thousands of dollars given to clinton fund and former president bill clinton from groups tied to russia. is there any sign that republicans will hold trump accountable for anything, no matter what he does? you do hear some republicans, jeff flake, will speak out against him. take him to task. but deal that republicans on capitol hill made from day one of trump s presidency, we re going to look other way on all the outrageous, outlandish and provocative and crazy stuff he does on twitter and real life,
it will be harder if he doesn t have the cash behind him. gene, you are always right. we just picked this up from breitbart news tonight. take a listen. let s talk about it on the other side. first of all, i think trump made a huge mistake, steve, bashing you like he did today on twitter. that was devastating to me. i hope in the future you can forgive him for that when we come to 2020, because i m sure he s going to need your help. the president of the united states is a great man. you know i support him day in and day out. going over the country, giving the trump miracle speech. i don t think you have to worry about that, but i appreciate the kind words. so, eugene, you accurately predicted the breakup record division of assets, and breitbart still loves steve bannon. i guess i d be a good divorce lawyer. but to your larger point, the trump base loved the bannon stuff. i ve been out interviewing them, they loved the idea of getting out of nafta, they wanted economic and n