candid interview bannon gave coming at a time the new white house chief of staff was trying to impose discipline. yet another bombshell shakes the foundation of the trump administration. will trump s controversial chief strategist forced out after a short and stormy tenure at the white house. i can run a little hot oh occasions. reporter: his deper cher at the end of a brutal week. blame on both sides. reporter: the last straw, maybe, for bannon a controversial interview the former breitbart news executive gave to the liberal publication, american prospect. and the official white house statement cited the tough new white house chief of staff john kelly who has been trying to restore order to the west wing. john kelly and steve bannon have mutually agreed today would be steven last day. we re grateful for his service and wish him the best.
one was admitting that the russian investigation was on his mind when he fired james comey. another was allowing attorney general jeff sessions to play a lead role in the firing and interviewing new fbi candidates. sessions promised to recuse himself from anything relating to the russia investigation. the last straw, word the president pushed comey to pledge his loyalty. rosenstein says he was left with little choice. trump allies see this as payback and that is the political dynamic as this goes forward. the president was watching fox and friends this morning and tweet the out why not a special counsel for obama, why not a special counsel for hillary clinton. bright b breitbart calling this rosen si rosenstein s revenge. he told russia holt i was thinking about doing it before the inauguration. certainly it was on my mind. what about rosenstein now, who
campaign for an unusual nominee. why would he faceoff in a fight with the family who are the one wing of the white house that are unlikely to ever be fired? because i think steve is someone and he s talked about this. he s willing to blow things up. he feels most comfortable when there is chaos, when there is conflict and dissension. that is the environment that he likes to create and the environment that you see from the content at breitbart that they like cover. and i think he s just as likely to blow things up, walk away, set the stage for things in his mind to melt down so that he can one day come back and save it all. francesca, one report described the last straw, news stories portraying him as the only keeper of the trump blame in opposition to jared, ivanka and gary cohn, all new yorkers. what do you make of that? i think there is a difference between him potentially walking
in may, the secretary of veterans affairs ken shinseki resigned. delays at treatment for v.a. medical centers around the nation are under investigation. number seven, can you hear me now? a white house intruder made it all the way over the fence into the east room. a report said one secret service officer with an attack dog on the grounds at the time was talking on his personal cell phone, did not have his earpiece in and left a second police radio in his locker. the last straw, the agency head, julia pierson resigned after 18 months on the job. number six, the president called this the most transparent administration ever, but administration health care wiz jonathan bruber w gruber was ca video saying americans stupidity helped obamacare pass. i apologize. number five, the irs targeting scandal where mostly conservative groups got singled
another correspondent quitting. the russian news outlet, rt, and wait until you hear the reason why. trace gallagher with more from our west coast bureau. trace. reporter: megyn, rt formerly known as russia today is an english language news channel funded by the kremlin. the last straw came shortly after the crash of malaysian flight 17 when rt s coverage was focused on blaming ukraine for firing the missile but failing to mention those same missile systems were also controlled by the pro-russian separatists. she tweeted rt style guide rule one, it is always ukraine s fault, add name as applicable. in other words blame anyone but russia. she goes onto claim that rt has spread russian propaganda for years and used young obedient reporters on big stories who are likely to stay on message. rt responded saying sarah has declared she chooses the truth, apparently we have different definitions of truth.