is the gop under president trump a party at war with itself? and who will win that war? could it be steve bannon? about to take the stage. to speak to california republicans in anaheim. back with my panel. doug, explain, why you say there is a neo civil war in the republican party. i think that s part of what s been going on this past ten days or so with bob corker. john mccain, george w. bush, the so-called gop establishment is rearing up and saying enough of trumpism. and it s going to play out in 2018. who did the opening salvo of this is hard to say. but bannon has declared war on this so-called establishment politicians. so we ll have to see how it plays out, but i think it s going to be the big story in 18, who gets who is really running the republican party. is it trump supporters, or is it
decisions? when you put a country like chad on the muslim ban, do we know what that means? do we understand that we have troops there. all of those questions are not fully integrated into trump s decision-making process. we can thank steve bannon for that. even though one could argue that there s not some disruptive change by trump, that s arguable. the processes have been so imploded already. that the next president is going to have to rebuild processes, right, and non-partisanship in our national strategy if there isn t some major catastrophe between now and then. everybody gets their turn. we re not beating up on you. i agree. she makes some good points. the way the president has operated has been a bit unusual to say the least. let me just interrupt. he s been at war with some of the more established figures in his own administration,
the major force involved. it s just that he is different. i think it may he may never be a part of the club that they are part of. you and alice win the award tonight. he is different. the former presidents said they it they weren t there, they would have at least sent a video message. when we come back, the gop at war with itself. the man who declared war on the party establishment is about to take the podium in california.
the establishment? i wonder if was yesterday a fresh battle in the civil war? absolutely. i talked to steve bannon last night. he is fully engaged and ready to continue this war. he made it quite clear that he is at war with the gop but it s not just his war and it s not just president trump s war. it s the supporters of donald trump. those who voted for him. it s their war. he made it clear he is ready to carry the mantle for the nationalist, populist movement. he is ready to drain the swamp. he is ready to take on the washington establishment. never in his wildest dreams did he think he would be invited to speak at the california gop. there he is. he made it clear, anyone whether mitch mcconnell or speaker ryan or any of the people that stand up to trump, he is going to speak out. he made it clear he will try to find candidates to go against all of these incumbent senators running for office because he wants to get rid of the establishment and bring in people that in his mind wil
in recent memory, president bush you remember the aircraft carrier that said the war is over, whatever it was mission accomplished. mission accomplished. you also had president obama pull our forces out before they had fully done what they needed to do in iraq. that left room for isis and other terrorist groups to come in. we haven t done this very well in africa so far. we have to do a lot better job. fiddling around, getting in there and half heartedly doing something is the worst of all possibilities. the short time we have left, i want to get bill in. this is important, one thing secretary mattis made clear, the u.s. is expanding counterterrorism there. what is your take on the extremist threat in niger? i m sure it s just exactly what jim had to say. you are going to have the presence of isis and/or other