built up in the republican party over this and trump has had no he can t rip off the scars but, you know, the scab. and just to your point, s anderson, about what he s going to do tonight, i went to a lot of rallies during the campaign, 2015, 2016, they are like conservative versions of the grate elf deful dead shows. people who go there want to hear the hits. don t want to speak from the teleprompter, hear president trump, they want to hear trump. i would be very surprised if that s not what we ge. i don t think anyone here thinks he s going to speak from the teleprompter or he s going to stick to the president he was last night or when he gave the joint sessions speech. that s not what the crowd wants, to your point. he doesn t have new policy to announ announce. he s going to feed off the crowd. there s nothing new to announce. all likelihood, we re going to hear some of the red meat that goes back to the divisive person he was a week ago. the fact we don t care anymore that h
gone after his own party. his own party was the democratic party. he s been all over the map. we could talk about, alice, when someone tells you they re pro-life and came up with a few years ago, that s good for people that are pro-life. you want converts at that point. you say, hey, i don t try to study the heart of politicians because it s not worth the trouble. what are you doing late sfly? what trump is doing athelong th lines, to show up in arizona, you think it s a political rally. you think it s only political. it s a transformation of the country. before he ran, no one except jeff sessions took seriously that issue at this level. let s take a break. we re going to wait for president trump to take the stage at his campaign rally in phoenix, arizona. we ll bring it to you alive. also ahead ousted steve bannon back at breitbart news, taking aim at president and not so nice headlines when we come back. over the course of 9 days.
so, look, the republican party has dramatically shifted. if you read what bannon told the weekly standard, he basically said we lost, the presidency, the trump presidency that we, the nationalist, populists, have voted for, is over. and republican establishment in congress is what killed it because they don t agree us on, he listed all the issues. i think i did an interview on cnn, i said this, bannon is a showman also. he left with a showman s flair saying i m coming for you, paul ryan. i m coming for you. now he s going to run a successful media site. again, trump s vision, he s the one common denominator. more of the president eets speech in afghanistan. vowed repeatedly the u.s. will win the war. this afternoon, secretary of state rex tillerson had kind of a different take. what we said when we continue. when i first started working with capital one,
end, we will win. our troops will fight to win. we will fight to win. secretary of state rex tillerson seems to be downplaying some of those expectations. here s what he told reporters this afternoon. i think the president was clear, this entire effort is intended to put pressure on the taliban to have the taliban understand you will not win a battlefield victory. we may not win one, but neither will you. so at some point, we have to come to the negotiating table and find a way to bring this to an end. let s go back to the panel. do you see daylight between the president and his secretary of state? yes. no. yes. absolutely. jen? first of all, the other thing secretary tillerson said is fighting is going to get everyone nowhere. that is in direct contrast to, of course, the clips that were just shown by what president trump said last night. he s right, and most military and civilian leaders would agree with what tillerson said. now, the problem is, we heard a little bit
the breaking news tonight as we await the president to speak in phoenix, feud with mitch mcconnell, new report out of the new york times. the headline mcconnell in private doubts if trump can save presidency. quite a headline. other details, sources say ting the two have not spoke b into weeks. a phone call that devolved into a shouting match. earlier tonight i spoke with alex burns who shares the byline on this with jonathan martin. is mcconnell not sure that president trump will serve his full term? what does it mean that he may not be able to salvage his presidency? well, look, he s expressing pessimism and frustration in a range of ways, anderson. but from the get-go of this story, it was very clear that the senate leader is really telling people close to him, people who are supportive of his agenda in general, and who he relies on to pass legislation and support the party on the national level that he simply no longer feels that president trump can be counted on to be a depe