all options. but steve bannon, the president s exiled chief strategist, has another idea. instead of firing mueller, just cripple the investigation. the washington post reports bannon is pitching a plan to west wing aides and congressional allies to cripple the federal probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. the first step these people say would be for trump to fire deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. rosenstein was at the white house for a meeting with the president. the white house also says it is regarding routine department business so right now he, too, still has a job. the washington post also reports bannon is recommending the white house cease its cooperation with mueller. nicholas christoff is a column this for the new york times, the nation will pay if it fires mueller. daniel goldman, former district attorney for the southern district of new york. the president is defending his
person in the campaign. yes, it s true that the president himself set the agenda and started talking about immigration from day one, long before bannon was on the team. but still the president is the president and needs a team around him serving him well and giving him confidence in their judgment so he can have confidence in his own. bill: not long ago you went through campaign managers in six months. a lot of people don t stick around to trump unless you re fam legal very long. do we know? we don t know. he is in a new situation. that s his corporate history. he needs to be comfortable with the people around him. that s so important. but at the same time he needs a diversity of ideas and opinion around him, too. those two things are almost inherently in conflict. bill: if someone would say the death watch on steve bannon is underway, would you say it s true or not so fast? i would say it is true but i wouldn t say it will happen
today or tomorrow. i think the president is giving him time to fix what bannon apparently has broken. i think if the president we ll see how much patience he has. i don t think we ll hear by 5:00 today. bill: thank you, michael. my pleasure. michael goodwin, new york post. shannon, what s next. shannon: one sanctuary city reversing its stance on protecting illegal immigrants after threats from the trump administration to cut off funding. is the president s tough talk on immigration reform working? we ll have a fair and balanced debate. bill: nasa narrowing its focus for a livable planet. a system with two suns might be the key. what s that all about?
just shared here. if there is infighting where is it coming from? steve bannon against jared kushner or more than that? fund mentally there should be infighting in the sense there should be disagreement. i think that the difference between disagreement and infighting can be night and day. for example, you don t want everybody to say the same thing. there is an old saying if i have three assistants and they all agree with me i should fire two of them. why do you need a group think and a chorus of yes men and women? there should be disagreement. but i think when it crosses the line, when it becomes undermining. there have been reports bannon was leaking stories against the president, against jared kushner. bill: is that true? i don t know. the fact the president has seen those reports, maybe he has confronted bannon, i don t know. i think there is room for difference of opinion. there should be difference of opinion. we want the president to hear all of the option, all of the views
republicans on both the house intelligence committee to discredit the infamous steel dossier. efforts that according to new york magazine s jonathan chape are ultimately aimed at attacking comey. it s not hard to see why the white house would have such an interest in wrecking comey s credibility. mueller is burrowing in hard on the obstruction of justice angle, which helps explain comments by steve bannon in his 60 minutes interview. someone said that you described the firing of james comey. you have history as the biggest miss is-take in political history. that would be probably that would probably be too bombastic even for me but maybe modern political history. there s reports bannon and others are increasingly worried about their own legal exposure because they were with trump during those frantic takes around comey s firing and nobody was saying and what was on his mind.