looking at, i m going to see if we can talk him out of that. frankly, they re great people. bannon will continue to keep going pledge to usurp mitch mcconnell. i m joined now by rosie gray, white house correspondent for the atlantic. thank you. what is the bottom line consequence of all of this. if guy looking like a brucer. i m a tough guy, going to push people around. trump going to war with mccain saying it won t be pretty. what s the bottom line? are they going to lose their majority out of this? bannon s ultimate goal is to get rid of mitch mcconnell. what s the point? who is going to be the leader of the republican party? some other establishment guy. i don t know if that part has been really thought through actually. but the point is, you know, something that really an mates steve bannon is the war in the
erosion of democracy in venezuela. as the president of that country and his cronies have tried to usurp so much power from democratically elected, they now have this constituent assembly. we call it illegitimate constituent assembly. it s something that president madeira came in and clawed away and gave it to political cronies. we want to see that change and the vice president has been great at that too. steve: when he was running for president and take aim at that big building on the east side of manhattan and say they are ineffective. they have got way too many people. it s a bloated bureaucracy. how much of that guy will we hear today? we heard the president speak about that yesterday. and he applauded the united nations for taking steps to reform itself. they also recognize, as do the member states, that they have reforms that need to be made. make the united nations far more about helping people and far less about a bloated bureaucracy. so they are starting to make those changes
the vice president is out campaigning quietly to sort of usurp president trump in 2020. can i ask you, alexi, given that donald trump has always demanded loyalty, we know his newly installed white house chief of staff had a public message to the white house employees saying here s the way it s going to go down, country first, the president second, and self third. is that conflicting, those two top positions with what you believe has sort of been the m.o. within the white house before now? well, donald trump has certainly put himself first and those who are loyal to him first throughout his presidency so far. and i think the people are seeing that, right? yesterday axios was given a poll that showed in his first six months his support on his base is dangerously low. and this should speak to him and his administration and goes to the new york times report that republicans who are quietly
overall looking back, talking to people at the fbi, was there a morale problem with comey? well, i think there certainly was a group of agents i don t think it is was half of the organization that felt strongly that the director did go too far last july in his comments and that did usurp the role of the prosecutor in how you regard a subject of an investigation in the public. so enough to poison the environment? i mean people are always going to disagree in an investigative environment. was it enough to poison the environment? look, a small amount of poison can poison a bigger organization or an environment. i think there were loud voices who think that director comey did wrong as far as he went in immersing not only himself, but the fbi in the political season in the election. there was a time for a change. the attorney general made reference to that today, that it may be is a time for a fresh start. there were certainly voices inside the fbi saying the same
would give a president carte blanche to do anything with an fbi to use sort of a private enforcement service. you can t obstruct a president can t obstruct justice. subject to the constitutional power of impeachment, which is a political power vested in congress. we just have to remember we have a unique form of tri par tide government which vests equal power in each branch of government and no branch has the power to usurp i see your point. i guess i was thinking more broadly as a form of punishment whether obstruction of justice would lead to the constitutional authority of congress to impeach somebody, the president in this instance. there is no reviewing of congress s power to impeach. the congress can impeach a president and there is no court power to review that. would you agree congress could impeach, hypothetically, a president who was obstructing