party. so this week the moral failure of the president, the moral equivalency between neo-nazis who venerate adolf hitler, who venerate the most murderous and bult and despotic and evil regime in all of history, you can t transact with them for political purposes. and what steve bannon represents is a populist wing of a coalition that winks and nods and it s okay to be with those people. they re expedient for the moment. this presents a profound moral test for the republican party. so, ali, i interpret these comments this way. let s say they have 12 days to avoid a government shutdown and a default on the full faith and credit of the united states. i see breitbart running editorials, pressuring trump to demand funding for the wall. if there s no funding for the wall, do we see a shutdown? and the power of breitbart is not direct. he can t make anyone do anything.
basically three camps of republicans. can you explain what you mean by that? yeah. well, as harry pointed out in his piece, one of the big problems for trump right now is that he is not uniting the republican party. you see the party being divided with its more establishment ring and the freedom caucus which is giving the administration plenty of administrative troubles. and having a political impact, too. the most important factor for trump right now is getting that republican party united. he has control of the house, senate and clearly the presidency. so, the fact that you have these divides between the establishment and the more populist wing of the party and thought freedom caucus is reasserting its own influence is making it just incredibly hard to govern. day deign but, harry, given the fact that they are meeting tonight at 8:00 and i have been hearing little whispers the last couple of days that they are actually nearing some sort of agreement and then had you president trump
basically three camps of republicans. can you explain what you mean by that? yeah. well, as harry pointed out in his piece, one of the big problems for trump right now is that he is not uniting the republican party. you see the party being divided with its more establishment ring and the freedom caucus which is giving the administration plenty of administrative troubles. and having a political impact, too. the most important factor for trump right now is getting that republican party united. he has control of the house, senate and clearly the presidency. so, the fact that you have these divides between the establishment and the more populist wing of the party and thought freedom caucus is reasserting its own influence is making it just incredibly hard to govern. day deign but, harry, given the fact that they are meeting tonight at 8:00 and i have been hearing little whispers the last couple of days that they are actually nearing some sort of agreement and then had you president trump
then you ve got president trump sort of populist wing. from what we could see here, everybody seemed to be standing for the president, the standing ovation seemed to be throughout the room. reporter: i think you re right. this was a crowd that got here early, there was standing room only at the back. there was one person who was clearly a protester who was escorted out by secret service. this is an invitation-only event. you come into this room because you ve been again a credential. i was here yesterday for reince priebus and today they were excited for president trump. clearly they were willing to embrace their new president, even if there may be questions on how this administration is going to unfold.
president s son-in-law, who hovers above everyone and has the president s ear. you have reince priebus who comes from the republican party apparatus and you have people like steve bannon and kellyanne conway, who also represent sort of a maybe more populist wing of the party and also have donald trump s ear. ashley, let s talk about jared kushner, right. based on your reporters, is he getting in there and throwing elbows a little bit to get folks out of the inner circle? he absolutely is if he believes someone is not serving his father-in-law, the president s best interests. so, you know, and a lot of people as we also saw in the campaign, if you got on the wrong side of jared kushner, as, folks, corey lewandowski did,