chairman michael steele. and at the roy moore rally in midland city, charlie pierce rea writer. there is strategic jeans you steve bannon. and charles barkley who is actually an alabama native on stage at the doug jones rally there is a lot of big guns in different ways. charlie, tell me what it s like down there. what you ve sort of picked up from your reporting on the race. what are you seeing? well, we re having a right find hoot nanny here in midland city tonight. we ve got david clarke. we ve got louie gohmert. we ve got steve bannon on stage now. and we re actually going to get a proof of life on the candidate, judge roy moore, who nobody has seen for six weeks. i tell you one thing, chris. nobody knows anything about tomorrow. any poll numbers are completely worthless. there are so many subterranean dynamics at work in this race.
a chaos theory of government. if the entire administration and all of the republicans on the hill shared his view, then you might see that. but we have, as donald trump is learning, we have a very complicated system and you ve got checks from the courts, checks from the press, checks from congress, checks from mitch mcconnell s senate. yet don t try to move too fast because the senate will always slow you down. kasie hunt was inside the room and she is our nbc news capitol hill correspondent and she was at cpac there yesterday. you could hear when steve bannon spoke, echoes of all the speeches donald trump had made on the campaign trail the last year and a half and fatalking a the forgotten man. it was fascinating to watch these two men are really embodiments of the half you were talking about. steve bannon on stage next to
reap ins pri reince priebus. he opened saying thank you for invite he me this year. we have gotten a lot of chest beating no one expected us to win, but look, we did. it put priebus in a bit of an uncomfortable position. you could see in the room. i was down in front with the audience kind of watching the two of them to see how they reacted and applause for both of them but some people in the room sat and watched and listen to bannon. didn t stand up, didn t clap. you could hear priebus making kind aftof a pitch to those peo in the room. take a listen to what priebus had to say about that. president trump brought together the party and the conservative movement and i ve got to tell you, if the party and the conservative movement are together, similar to steve and i, it can t be stopped.
donald trump, president trump brought together the party and the conservative movement. and i ve got to tell you, if the party and the conservative movement are together similar to steve and i, it can t be stopped. reporter: and wolf, you ve been hearing that message repeatedly from administration officials throughout the day, a recognition that here at the cpac these are the activists these are the grassroots and the people that need to be motivated at a moment that we re seeing town halls across the country with people raising concerns about issues. vice-president mike pence will try to convey to this crowd for an effort that they will be believe good for the conservatives and entire republican party. out side of washington, d.c. let s bring in our political team. manu raju. we see kellyanne conway, the
any reports of division, fighting for all the agendas laid out in the trump campaign. he s going to continue to press his agenda and as economic issues get better, as jobs get better, they ll continue the fight. if you think they ll give you the country back without a fight, you re sadly mistaken. reporter: bannon appearance with priebus in a public display to try to taper down words of dissent. bannon and briefus united in the belief that the press had been unfair to president trump. just like they were wrong on the cast of the campaign and the transition, they re absolutely wrong on what s going on today. reporter: adding fuel to the fire at a time that is engulfed in media attacks. the trump agenda now dominating