he doesn t run the state department well, but he has been able to stand up to the president. he is one of the few people after the charlottesville comments by the president who said, he does not speak for the united states. he speaks for himself, which was pretty strong language he got away with it. he feeds into the rumors he might be leaving his job. but again, the people who would know whether the president is getting ready to chuck him say no. he isn t. whether you think tillerson is great or underrated, whatever you think, it s unambiguously true. he has not managed well. the president doesn t like to be surrounded by people who get bad press. it s really stunning because i m thinking my reaction was, wow. he is just bored, but you re right. we would have started this show today with, so, trump spent his first week in office as a democrat last week. nobody is talking about trump the democrat. i could have written it for this show at this point.
if you are senator bob corker, you re under pressure from the left coming to town halls and pressure from trump on the right. you re paying attention to alabama, and thinking about maybe retirement. i m trying to hone in on those dynamics. who will retire? phillip, stay with us. ahead on morning joe i think this is a war between the split of this party, and you have donald trump on the side of the establishment with mitch mcconnell spending millions of dollars there to keep the appointed incumbent in place, and you have the judge who is liked like the conservatives and breitbart, and steve bannon who is not in the white house, and despite what people say, you don t have influence when you are out of the white house. steve doesn t have an opportunity if he is behind judge moore, and moore wins, this is an interesting exprofessie exposition. alabama played a pivotal role
bannon is a senior adviser to the president but he doesn t have a big staff. i think that is the most damming detail for steve bannon yet in a very bad couple weeks for him. the political story that said he s now working under the office of innovation for jared kushner. he s closely aligned with bannon and that office was supposed to be a joint effort. if steve doesn t have anyone helping him out over there working with him, he s in trouble. talk about palace intrigue. this is a complicated one. bannon and miller have always been tied together and all of a sudden in the trade press of washington, d.c., we see it leaked out that steven miller is separating himself trump white house survivor version. you think someone is about to get voted off the island you switch teams. reince priebus, the chief of staff is supposed to be bringing
much. thanks a lot. steve: that s just bad. straight ahead, david bossie, president trump s deputy campaign manager is going to join us live at the top of the hour. brian: he doesn t same as happy as he does in that picture.t $4.9 steve: doesn t look like ted cruz. fidelity, where smarter investors will always be. .as a combination of see products.. and customers. every on-time arrival is backed by thousands of od employees, .who make sure the millions of products we ship
so they have a real mind melt there, and that more than anything else will be steve bannon s role to be the antiestablishment force within the administration. now, this is not good news, necessarily, for paul ryan. halle was talking earlier about people on capitol hill that know steve and they know steve because he has been one of the major an tag northwest trying to drive him. i would look in the months ahead for tension between ryan and the white house. so not a white nationalist but an economic nationalist. i think steve doesn t see things how he explained them to me when i spoke to him, he doesn t see things in terms of race, but in terms of class and in terms of opportunity, and i believe that if you look at his