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the form president s endorsement power. republicans around the country will be wahing. joining me now onset is the national correspondent for politico and an msnbc contributor. marie kumar, an msnbc contributor. and matthewcontinet tirks. welcome all. thank you for being here on this monday. let me just start with you. kick it off a. you heard matt gaetz. you summed it up very well. this is a key test not of only president trump, but of trumpism. the question of who gets to be the standard barer. josh mandel is claiming even though trump doesn t support him, he s the real trump guy. there s no serious candidate who is distancing him or herself from the former president. the big question is can trump actually engage in puppet mastering of some of these primarie that s been the perception and
president is pretty good at puppet mastering, getting the news media having a new frenzy. that decent doesn t help us. donald trump didn t create this. he plays the fiddle better than anyone ever managed before. the new book them why we hate each other and how to heal. a week from saturday, bethunbet cook is coming. brett stevens, former deputy national security adviser to barack obama ben rods and russian pro democracy activist join us when morning joe comes back.
there s no puppet mastering with donald trump. he makes the decisions. and some people criticize him for doing everything but he does everything. the president is in charge but he found someone in steve bannon that he agreed with and someone that they re heading down the same path. they were able to work together. steve bannon is one of the few people that doesn t need a lot from the president. a lot of people need something from billionaires. his life was the same when he was running breitbart. now that he s running white house. he s been successful. he has a group of people that listen to him, sort of his group of conservatives. he brings that to the table. that s a relationship they have. it s no different in that regard to any president that has someone in his coalition. you re right. many presidents have people like that. breitbart and so forth it is a mini army. bannon was able to grow this especially after andrew breitbart s death, grow this into a mini army that overt
master and i think he is of donald trump. i think he s the god master of the things behind donald trump. so you re saying ideally demy god? there s no puppet mastering with donald trump. he makes the decisions and some people criticize him for having the essential doing everything. the president is in charge but he found someone in steve bannon that he agree with. someone they re heading did you know the same path so they re working together. steve bannon is one of the few people that doesn t need anything from the president. exactly the same when he was running breitbart and now that he s but he has been successful, he has a group of people listening to him, sort of his group of conservators right. he bring that to the table and that s the relationship they have. it s no regard to any