open dispute over an issue which is not nearly important as united states australian cooperation and working together. reporter: the worries come as the president said he is weighing his options on how to deal with provocations from iran which include sanctions on entities. i don t know if you re a republican or democrat, but i m appoints you for another year. reporter: the president also took years from the lip style at the national prayer breakfast. he mocked arnold schwarzenegger. a replacement on his old tv show. the ratings went down the tubes. it s been a total disaster. and i want to just pray for arnold, if we can, those ratings. drawing this rebuttal from swart neger. why don t we switch jobs in you take over my job and i ll take over your job and people can finally sleep comfortably
time magazine put him on its cover, calling him the great manipulator. the story inside is headlined is steve bannon the second most powerful man in the world? bannon s actual title is chief white house strategist. he s a key member obviously of the president s inner circle who now has a seat on the national security council. today house minority leader nancy pelosi called bannon a white supremacist and said putting him on the nsc is making america less safe. bannon as you may know is the former chairman of breitbart news the far right media outlet that bannon himself has touted as a tablet of the alt right which espouses extreme views. bannon hasn t spoken much in public since the election but in the past he s talked at length about his views on zblimz and refugees and immigrants. gary tuchman tonight reports. reporter: nine months before steve bannon joined the trump campaign he had this to say about screening refugees from syria. i don t understand. what do you mean vet? why
beliefs. it sounds like some of your thoughts on what he said are based on a disagreement over policies over what the president is elaborating on. is that fair to say? i think that s fair to say, but given the one example, the policy example that he did say about overturning the johnson amendment, and what that majority is is the prohibition for churches to endorse candidates. and what people may not think about is the fact that if that s overturned, that means that churches can use their charitable contributions which are tax deductible to the donors, for political advertisemen advertisements, and quite frankly the issue is the fact that churches get this tax benefit, then they should be limited in their participation in physically participating in that political process. individuals can still use their voice but not in their church
took crimea, there was a certain amount of pressure and it was possible to put some kind of measures in. people start drifting away. they want to do business with russia. it s the u.s. maintaining sanctions with germany. the fact that she spoke out will be important in keeping that coalition. we ll see if we hear more from the white house. we heard from mike flynn on iran and did not hear from the white house directly. interesting to see. fareed, thanks very much. fallout from a pair of calls between president trump and two close allies and the controversy following president trump s remarks at a prayer breakfast. we ll talk to two people who were there. you re gonna love birds eye steamfresh vegetables.
perspective. and it s that mixing of church and state that i think is problematic. right. i should point out, you were kind of a never trumper until i think about a week before the election, and i think it was mike pence who sort of finally made you decide to support the ticket, joel, so it s interesting that you felt that early on but the lens through which you re seeing what the president said tonight or this morning was different. clearly you feel differently about that amendment? yeah. because, look, i was. i was a never trumper through 16 different candidates. i readily concede that. his choice of governor pence to be vice president caught my attention, because i ve been a friend of mike and karen for a long time, or the vice president and the second lady, and i really like his style, and when i watched him more and more sort of embracing the way pence approaches things and putting him more involved in policy, i like that.