state, still misunderstood by people. a new book details the relationship between bannon and president trump. there it is. it is called devil s bargain. it was released today and this is impressive. it is already number one best seller on amazon. the author, joshua green. after an exhausting initial day is with us during the shank of the evening. he is also the senior national correspondent for bloomberg business week. congratulations to you. how is this anything more? because trump won t allow himself to have puppet strings that somebody else will pull. and bannon is less svengali than idealogue. somebody with deep rich motivations that have funneled
relationship between bannon and president trump. there it is, it s called devil s bargain steve bannon donald trump and the storming of the presidency. it was released today and already number one best seller on amazon, the author joshua green after an exhausting initial day is with us during the shank of the evening here this evening. he s also the senior national correspondent for bloomberg business week. congratulations to you. thank you. how is this anything more than svengali and sigh fer? because trump won t allow himself to have puppet strings that somebody else is going to pull and bannon is less svengali than ideologue, somebody are really deep strange motivations that have funneled themselves into this idea of nationalism that trump espoused during the campaign and rode to the white house. you used the word ideologue. if the president isn t an
linear evolution. in other words, is this the product of a man who, you know, came in to office without knowing that much information and is learning and growing on the job, or is this the product of a man who just oscillates from one svengali, steve bannon, to another, h.r. mcmaster, and will he then flip back at some point? good point. is it a fundamental shift because being president is different than running for president? and no one would argue with that. or is it another flip-flop and he is back and forth? errol louis, to you. it s also a question of who has his ear. we know from a lot of reporting throughout the campaign, this is a president who very much listens to the last person in the room, if they respect that person. so, this is very anti-steve bannon, america first. this is much more sort of the world view of a jared kushner or even gary kohn, who came in as an economic adviser, former president of goldman sachs, but who s now getting a lot of chatter. maybe he replaces
frightening views on the council, he took off the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the chairman of the overall intell jensen community, director of national intelligence. i think that is reckless and my legislation would put those individuals both back on. he would have them only as needed. put them both back on as permanent members. if you want to put somebody that s not traditionally an appointee, your political svengali, get approval. thank you so much. always appreciate it, sir. thank you, jake. president trump says iran is, quote, not behaving. is he setting himself up for his own red line moment? that story next. then he almost died in 2015 from a suspected poisoning. now could history be repeating itself for this putin critic? stay with us. across new york state, from long island to buffalo, from rochester to the hudson valley, from albany to utica, creative business incentives, infrastructure investment, university partnerships,
i want to quote the harvard lawyer professor, laurence tribe tonight, it s as though history is being clams edclams collapsed hole and everything is happening faster than the speed of light. doesn t it feel that way? think of it, we re base quli reporting the aftermath from the immigration ban. we are eight days into a new administration. we are also tracking another fast-moving story tonight. the addition of white house aide steve bannon to the national security council. of bannon tonight, the new york times editorial board wrote this, a new executive order politicizing the process for national security decisions suggests mr. bannon is positioning himself not merely as a svengali but as the de facto president. let s bring in jeremy bash whose background is in national security, after all.