tell us, steve bannon, who is going to be there breathing fire and has been an ardent, passionate, and consistent supporter of roy moore, how significant is he? well, bannon speaks right to roy moore s base. he fires them up, and i think his job is to get the turnout out of the base. but i think the election, erin, is going to be decided by a pretty small slice of republicans who are trying to figure out whether or not to vote and whether or not they can vote for a democrat. and i don t think bannon speaks to them. right, and that s obviously what this does come down to. i want to talk about turnout in a minute. margaret, first of all, it s stunning the lack of conviction from people who came out with such statements of conviction about what they could or could not tolerate. now, all of a sudden, as if they never said it. it s deeply disappointing and frankly embarrassing as a republican to see this kind of total lack of spine and moral courage on the republican party. but sadly,
the vote efforts. i think trump s endorsement there could possibly help a few people who might have been on the fence in that middle ground. republicans who were swaying back and forth. trump s endorsement possibly could. bannon, if you are worried about a bannon endorsement if that matters to you at all then you were most likely going to vote for roy moore anyway. i think the money in trump could help him in a small amount there if he needs a little push to get over the hump. i don t think bannon will carry any weight. you know how things work on capitol hill. could this put senate republicans in a difficult position if roy moore wins? because a number of them have said and we just heard it again from mitch mcconnell if he gets elected they will look at whether or not to seat him. absolutely. senate republicans are horrified by the prospect of a roy moore joining them in the senate.
conducted his campaign and young presidency. always fight back. never give an inch. doesn t matter what the access hollywood tape shows you doing, just say it s all a lie. doesn t matter if you have no intention of suing any of the women who are making acquisitions of sexual assault, say you ll sue them all. it doesn t matter if you lied a couple of years for this birthism conspiracy theory, just stick with t it. so i don t think bannon would be foreign, it s something he would do absent any other options. one thing that i think is worth noting though, brooke, when the papadopoulos plea was exposed yesterday, it was revealed yesterday, donald trump went silent on twitter for about 20 hours. and that doesn t happen very often. no, it doesn t. i think he really got thrown for a loop what s going on. so whether he s going to seethe some more or take advice of his
conversation that they had with the president and a chief of staff who comes out to defend that conversation and then inaccurately goes on the attack after a florida congresswoman. so how do we get back on track? thomas, we feed to g need get away from the distractions and regrettably what we ve seen in the trump administration and even in the campaign is using elements of race and ethnicity and immigration to take the focus away from some deeper heavier issues. so here the question about who said, she said, is getting us away from tax reform, from health care, amajor overhaul on immigration and this is a pattern that we have seen in trump. he takes his shiny ball of whatever is happening and then he moves it around over here so folks are not paying attention to who is going on. and i this think bannon helps in stoking those feelings. bannon in his speech was
and fund himself and breitbart and his initiatives to the mercers? who are two of the biggest donors in republican politics? it s an absolute crazy thing that the republican establishment has and kabdicate of its authority and influence on these issues. i don t know how it came down to breitbart, bannon and mercer running the republican party or trying to run it on that weight. the one thing they are willing to do important for republicans to look at, willing to go into states, go in early. willing to organize on the ground, and that is something that the establishment has not done actually for either party for a very long time. and that s why they re successful. i don t think bannon cares about republicans or democrats. i think he just wants to get people with his ideas behind him and if the president has to be a president who s running against a democratic house, so be it. i don t think he really cares. i on a moment ago, saying