well, i mean, i haven t talked to the president about this. i think at the end, the white house has been very cooperative on this special counsel. we know that the president is not considering firing mueller. we know that mueller has been straightforward in this process. and in essence, we want to find an end to this investigation. i mean, i think clearly we see no evidence of collusion. and no evidence of wrongdoing. and so we want to focus on the agenda of the america people and the american first agenda. that s one of the reasons why president trump is over in davos talking about the need for fair and reciprocal trade. talking about the need of global engagement and also explaining to these world leaders that the united states economic agenda is strong and it s something that with the tax cut success that we have had is impacting in a positive way american families across the country. ainsley: we re going to bring his speech live to our viewers in about 25 minutes. let s talk abou
Ability to really carry out this nationalist agenda. he s already told the president that if congress somehow balks at the idea for paying for the wall on mexico, he should issue a veto and trigger a government shutdown. essentially, steve bannon if he isn t able to shut down the government, he s going to war with all the people around him and all the people in office. if president trump stops listening to steve bannon, if he starts to feel like an outsider, you ll start to see more stories on breitbart and other conservative media about how president trump is not keeping his promises. so let s take a look at this excertificate with this interview, now i m free. i ve got my hands back on my weapons. it s bannon the barbarian. i m definitely going to crush the opposition. knowing what i know we re about to rev up that machine. this is someone he left the white house with a security clearance. is there any kind of sense of how the white house is prepared
Bannon specifically about that quote but i would think what he s trying to hint out and warn is, people did not vote for the more traditional republican status quo approach. they voted for donald trump and america first and bannon is probably expressing concern that we don t want the trump white house to revert back to more of a status quo traditional republican agenda whether it s on foreign policy or domestic policy. the america first agenda was a winning agenda and this is what i think bannon is going to be doing with breitbart and he even texted me this morning and said steve bannon and breitbart have trump s back with regard to the american first agenda. i think he did that because it was a winning agenda. a short time ago the president tweeted about bannon s exit. he writes, he came to the campaign during my run against crooked hillary clinton. i m curious what you make of that, you just used the word
Mnuchin, a whole bunch of people fighting to try to push trump to do what they believe in and donald trump is kind of a bystander in that process and what you have is just a completely chaotic situation where you re going to have multiple firing squads shooting at each other, the alt-right, the regular right, the moderate republicans, it s a big mess right now. i want to put up the entire quote for you to take a look at. it s part of the weekly standard interview, the point where he says, that presidency is over. what do you think he means by that? i think what he means by that is the fact that the presidency in terms of having steve bannon as a central character at the white house as someone who is going to be carrying out this agenda that is pushing that completely against washington as the presidency that s going to be really trying to keep those hardline promises that the
Warn in your description. do you think he is more about the agenda that put the president into office or about the man? i have to say let me put it this way. there is a significant percentage of the base that will that loves donald trump, the person and will be behind him no matter what he does. i also realize there s a significant percentage of his base that is very much concerned about the agenda. they voted for the agenda and viewed donald trump as the means to the end for that agenda. i think that again the thing i want to make clear and one of your previous guest is now now bannon s agen d is done. donald trump was preaching this message america first months and months before steve bannon showed up. it was a inning campaign agenda and when bannon came in august, i really do think between he and kelly anne, i feel donald trump had grabbed a hold of that populus message was on the path and bannon and kellyanne conway