mnuchin and jared, bannon was displaced from the national security council. so anger to h.r. mcmaster. and perhaps, i think, a sense that, you know, his time there was always limited. he had nothing to lose. better to revert to not unlike donald trump himself, be a bomb thrower, to be willing to blow things up and pursue his own agenda. bannon, a guy in his 60s, doesn t come over as a yes man or a diplomat or somebody who would want to keep his own counsel. we want to keep you around because you re the only one who has read the entire book. there s a moment in the book where wolff is writing about president trump and perhaps painting a bit of a picture of a man a bit paranoid. quote, long afraid of being poisoned, he would say one reason he like to eat at mcdonald s was because nobody
the president has made a number of decisions that have gotten in his own way and this could wind up being a really big one. like a lot of things, it probably wasn t thought through. in the obama white house, it would have taken months. the president sees the opportunity in the moment and what come can come out on the other side? what does your party do? you saw mike, he s trying to find the split. the agenda is there. what do you think? i still contend for a vast majority of the folks, the freedom caucus or the whole house or senate, they begin to get to where they can t stomach it and stand in front of a crowd of republicans and justify it. and at that moment, that s when
own, steve bannon, steve is learning that winning isn t as easy as i make it look. steve had very little to do with our historic victory was delivered by the forgotten m enand women of this country but had everything to do with the loss of senate seat in alabama held for more than 30 years by republicans. steve doesn t represent my base. only in it for himself. so that s another piece of this. but let me juxtaposes that when he made the announcement has ban stop chief of staff in 2016 president said this, steve and reince are highly qualified leaders worked well together on campaign and led to historic victory. noup i ll have them both with me in the white house as we work to make america great again. i m confused. which one is it? does he like the man or does he think he s lost his mind? i think he liked the man hand doesn t li and doesn t like him anymore. when you turn on the president he turns on you. but you get to rewrite the history the same man as he was ten months ago? y
change. but wasn t just them. everybody had their plans for trump not to win. but this is something that they re really pushing back on which is interesting. i was in that meeting that trump had with president obama in the oval office two days later. and you could see the look on his face. just the, almost like a deer in the headlights. it was a sean spicer cleaned it up. the 350 electoral votes that hillary clinton would carry less than 24 hours before the election. everybody in trumptown believed it. including the rnc. the point here is that the worst possible outcome for donald trump turned out to be winning. now his entire business thing has been exposed. now everybody has to find out his tax returns. now he has a special prosecutor lookinging at his business
seat in alabama held for more than 30 years by republicans. steve doesn t represent my base. he s only in it for himself. steve bannon pretends to be at war with the media which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the white house leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. it is the only thing he does well. steve was rarely in one-on-one meetings with me, and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue whom he helped write phony books. we have many great republican members of congress and candidates very supportive of the make america great agenda like me. they love the united states of america, and they re helping to finally take our country back and build it up rather than simply seeking to burn it all down. that statement coming from the president of the united states just a few moments ago. hallie jackson, our chief white house correspondent, is back