this point where they re at war with each other. trump is right that steve is all about himself, he s all about advancing his own agenda, he uses the platform of breitbart to prop himself up, the brand of steve bannon. on the flip side of it, bannon, he doesn t have loyalty to anybody. he is free to do and say whatever he wants. he has a daily platform to espouse the direction he thinks this administration should go. and really he has his platform to weaponize and settle scores, which is a lot of what sounds like happened here was him settling scores against jared kushner and trump junior who he s been at war with since he joined the trump campaign. given that he has no there s no love lost between steve bannon and jards kushnc j and ivanka, we ve known that for some time, people in bannon s world will call reporters and try to denigrate ivanka and jared often, and will try to do so by saying they re doing this or they re doing that. it happens. that s the reality. given that, does
donald trump did say in july in paris, donald trump the president, not donald trump jr., most people would have taken that meeting. also describing his son as a wonderful young man. again, the president of the united states saying most people would have taken that meeting. that meeting that his own chief strategist called treasonous. a big question is why did steve bannon stay in the white house after that? we re going to get into that. ken dilanian, hallie jackson, and phil rucker. guys, thanks so much. and kirk lidell is a former spokesman for bright b.a.r.t. news. you know steve bannon really well. the president says he s lost his mind. has he? the crazy calling had each other crazy right now. in august when steve bannon left the white house he said publicly, the presidency we won and fought for is over. if you pay attention to what steve has been saying, it s not that far off where it s got-tone
bannon s credibility within a number of the things coming out of this book right now? i think that bannon s making the calculation that he ll outlast his detractors, he ll even outlast perhaps the president. he clearly believes there is some real significant jeopardy as he aused to in the book, that the mueller investigation poses to trump and his presidency. talks about it being a category 5 hurricane coming at them and they don t seem to recognize that or their public posture doesn t seem to recognize the severity of it. i think steve is speaking so brazenly because he thinks he s going to outlast all of these guys. why did he stay in the administration if he thought that meeting was treasonous? i think steve also realized it was good for him, good for his proximity to power, good for his public standing, the idea what does that say about the administration, that you have a bunch of folks in there who are just there because it s good for them, it s good for their proximity
before they operated on him. the president and steve boone reason helping out the future, i guess. because every time they endorse a candidate, the candidate fails. it s fun. well, i mean, i don t know if it s fun. i m having fun this morning. what s that about, louis and aymon, i don t get it. who a remarkable night. i got to tell you, it was a night. it once again proves that nobody knows nothing. there was a joke, somebody tweeted the early exit polls could show that john kerry was going to be the next president of the united states but he tweeted that, to which john kerry tweeted too soon. too soon. at 10:00 last night, i had been told by top alabama officials across the state that there were not enough votes for doug jones. this was at 10:00. then i talked to some people at
because remember, there s no allegation that trump knew about this meeting when it was happening, but there is a question about how he characterized it later. he wrote a statement saying it was all about adoptions, which it plainly was not. and we think, we believe, we ve reported that this was part of the obstruction of justice inquiry that mueller is conducting. so the fact that bannon thought this meeting was treasonous i think could loom significant as this investigation moves forward. the president himself said at one point, and hopefully you can correct me if i m not getting the nuance of, this but didn t the president at one point himself say of course you take a meeting like that? steve bannon definitely wouldn t have taken a meeting like that, katy. he in fact said in this book that if he did it was sort of this convoluted connecting the dots, he d take it at a holiday inn in manchester and have a lawyer talk to another lawyer and print it out in breitbart or someplace lik