you talked with a staffer who said bannon had become a distraction to breitbart. this is actually, hallie, the continuation of a story that began when steve bannon came back to breitbart after being forced out of the trump white house in august. there was a faction inside the company that was really not thrilled to have bannon back. they felt that the site had kind of gone in a new direction and did not want to become the steve bannon show. but, nevertheless, he did come back. and quickly, the site over the fall and this winter became sort of a mouthpiece for his own populist crew said to try to unseat mitch mcconnell. and there was a feeling inside breitbart that it had become steve bannon s website and not the natural list populist right-wing news site others inside the company wanted. so i think when this latest scandal erupted over michael wolff s book, the detractors used this to force him out. isn t it, as it always does,