inevitable he would lose his platform at breitbart because financially, they were in a situation where if they kept steve bannon, there was going to be no financial support coming their way, either. they would find themselves in real jeopardy. you talk about your tenure at breitbart in a new new york times op-ed which was completely fascinating. you talked about how, what the site was like when you first joined, trying to champion conservative principles and policies, to then trying to take down the gop establishment, and you say it happened in 2014, when dave bratt unseeded eric cantor. quote, an untested candidate, mr. bratt was a signature project for steve and breitbart. they published a litany of stories supporting mr. bratt and viciously attacking mr. cantor. they were the only platform willing to push the narrative that mr. cantor was in jeopardy and they were right. steve regarded the defeat as a quote, scalp, as he put it, for breitbart. tell me more about that. you know
including one inside the trump camp. now, that last claim, from this, again, op-ed place, weird place to break news, but that s where it s breaking tonight, that last claim, that the steele dossier wasn t what started the fbi s counter intelligence investigation into whether or not the trump campaign colluded with russia, we are now learning, tonight, that the guys behind the dossier told the senate that in august, maybe that s why the republican s in the senate don t want to release those transcripts. but we had a big new piece of public reporting that corroborates that, as well. that s not from the op-ed paging, but from the reporting pages of the new york times. this bombshell story, which doesn t just say that the dossier isn t why the fbi started its counter intelligence operation, this new york times story explains what did lead to the fbi counter intelligence investigation. according to the times, trump foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos, who is now cooperating with
they are putting some icing on that cake. quote, we walked investigators in these congressional hearings, we walked investigators through our year-long effort to decipher mr. trump s complex business past in which the steele dossier is but one chapter. republicans are refused to release full transcripts as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. it s time to share what the company told investigators. and then in this op-ed just released tonight at the new york times, they do that, at least, they share some of what their company has told investigators, and this is all stuff we have not heard before. this is all new. quote, we suggested investigators look into the bank records of deutsche bank and others that were funding mr. trump s businesses. congress appears uninterested in that tip. reportedly, our bank records, meaning fusion s bank records, are the only bank records the
think. some red state democrats have not come out for more gun control in the wake of those shooting and they probably won won t. it s not as clear cut. when you are talking about gun control, facts versus emotion. today in the washington post there was a writer who did an op-ed which used to work for 5:30 eight. she said she was for gun control but as she analyzed statistics, nothing led her to evidence that would support gun control changes. greg: i plead with people who have emotional arguments like jimmy kimmel. it s a purely emotional and incorrect argument. he impugns people who disagree, he impugns people who read these articles and know the facts. i spend hours on this stuff and i love debating on guns. if you use facts instead of feelings, you find you may have to make the switch because your feelings are going to evaporate and you re not going to have anything left. emotional arguments with her.
well, i think this is, you know, the number one thing that i would i thought when i read his op-ed was not helping. i think that, you know, the polling has really been misleading all along and michael moore is evidence of this. he s someone who wanted single payer. and so he would be among those that as polled and disapproves of the law. but you wouldn t think of michael moore and ted cruz both being aligned in disapproving of the law. but that s exactly what s happening here. and it really has hurt, i think, the pr push that the white house has been trying for many, many years up against millions and millions and millions of dollars and misinformation. and i think it damages the long-term outlook to attack the law. i do, too. and i felt the same way when everybody was attacking the website as if the sky was falling and it was the be all, end all of the policy. and i think what we need to be focusing on now in 2014