brett, what should we make of that? yeah. well, first of off, vice president pence is still there. but the rest in that picture are gone. it s a lot of turnover for that administration with steve bannon, the chief strategist going, preibus became sean kelly. he was also communications director for some time. so was mike dubke. so was anthony scaramucci. you ve got the fired fbi director james comey. and the deputy chief of staff. and the national security adviser mike flynn is now h.r. mcmaster. there s a lot of turnover in six months of this administration. what it tells us is this administration has not gotten its footing yet about how to deal with not only washington, but a unique president in president trump. this is a signal that john kelly has a lot more power and a lot
the president. well, bannon s role was essentially to act as sort of, if you will, keeper of the flame. his job appeared to have been to remind the president and the president s people of what the president had promised to do and sort of try and keep the ship moving in a general direction of fulfilling those promises. let me tell ya, i was a senior adviser to president george w. bush. but andy card, the white house chief of staff, told me something at the beginning that has stayed with me ever since. he said, i don t want people whose only job is to walk into the oval office and give the president their advice. so you can advise the president as a senior adviser, but i also want you responsible for running things in order to execute the policy decisions that we make. so he gave me several offices that i was responsible for, including one called strategic initiatives whose job it was to
in fact, steve bannon was, you ll remember, he was appointed to the so called principles committee of the national security council. when mcmaster came in to replace general flynn one of the first things mcmaster did was boot him off of the council. the other question is, what does steve bannon do when he leaves the white house? does he go back as he did before or does he maybe form an alliance as is being reported in some outlets with robert mercer, a deep pocketed conservative and wage war against the establishment figures in the white house? we ll have to see. even though the panel is intrigued with bannon in the white house is over for the moment, it is far from over when you look at what could happen going forward. sandra: you gave us so many question, john roberts. reporter: every question begs another question when you re covering the white house. sandra: yes, sir. good to see you. thank you for that update. things changing by the minute.
elements on both sides. it might be charlottesville with one particular case and then we see our good friend steve scalise get targeted. he battled through rehabilitation. it was just yesterday missouri state senator was calling for president trump s assassination. these are extremist elements though. and i see americans, they really do, because we re so passionate and patriotic, there is that strong desire across the ideological spectrum to come together more than we have seen. i want to be optimistic for our country s sake, the greatest country in the world. sandra: thank you for coming on having that very open discussion with us. good to see you. thank you. sandra: it s friday afternoon. the white house making another staff shake-up. we ll talk to karl rove who said bannon s swanson interview was par to president trump s leadership. do you see anything about this
interview to a reporter from the office inside of the aisle, so to speak, a conservative white house staffer calls up a very liberal reporter and proceeds to diss his white house colleagues and administration colleague, contradict the president, both from a policy perspective and a priority perspective, declare that he s going to remove opponents and, quote, enemies within the administration and otherwise covers himself with glory, he d be gone. but this is not a normal white house. steve bannon s relationship with president trump has been close and there have been questions as brett eluded to as to whether or not it was better to keep him inside the white house firing out rather than outside the white house firing in. but he s now gone. it s really a sign of maybe a