trump weigh into these races and if he does, does he go with the bannon candidate or the mcconnell candidate. what s the answer to that question? what is the president s current relationship with steve bannon? well, i know that they still talk from time to time. that s been reported in a number of places. i don t know how close they are. bannon told me he s going to war for trump, not against him, but if you look at what he did in alabama, he certainly went to war against trump s chosen candidate and beat him. so i m not exactly clear what their relationship is, but i do know that trump is very unhappy about the way things went down in alabama and i would imagine would be less inclined to go out and put his neck on the line to support a candidate who might lon a republican primary. the problem, though, for trump and the white hse is that it would be unheard of for a sitting republican president to
the statement from steve bannon is that the white house will be more divided in the future. in an interview this weekend, bannon today this weekend, if the republican party on capitol hill gets behind the president on his plans and not theirs, it will be one big happy family, but he added with no administration in history has been divided among itself about the direction about where it should go. let s talk about this back with me now with my panel. so olivia, let me start with you, just basically out on the gate with bannon being gone, he said quickly that he was going to war for trump. he was going to be on the outside, a better help for those still left on the inside.
what i know and we re about to rev that machine up and rev it up we will do. joining me now is reporter oliver darcy. even though he was forced out, bannon saying he s going to go to war for the president. what are you learning now about the plans he and breitbart may have moving forward? one person at breitbart told me they re already starting the motion of going to war for trump as steve bannon says by basically targeting the individuals that bannon clashed within the oval office. you re looking at jared kushner, ivanka trump, dina powell, general mcmaster. those are the people i think we can look forward to in the next few weeks as breitbart will start zeroing in on them and taking the battle to them. you really think that he is going to continue to defend the president. he doesn t have it out against him. i m not sure we ll see him defend the president or target the inner circle or i am ply, at
because of the statement. because of the interview i had with bannon. because he said i m going to war for trump, not against him. the president not coming out, as david gergen pointed out, not saying something gracious, not saying anything at all? the president is clearly unhappy. but bannon also has a project here, and that is to institute his nationalist policies. whether trump is the guy who does that or not, i think he is smart enough to know you re never going to have another president as willing to listen to steve bannon as this one circumstances ryan liz. ryan lizza? he had very strong ideological views in a way that very few people around trump have. right? he had very well thought out views about how you deal with china. he had very well thought out view aut interventionism abroad. he was vehemently oh oposed to the strike on syria. he has very serious views on trade, on immigration. and there doesn t seem to me even kellyanne conway who is probably the most conse
quote/unquote west wing democrats. they are going to present a picture to the country and portray it as the globalists taking over our movement and donald trump sort of a victim of. that that s what i expect to be the way they drive this narrative. i don t know that for a fact. but based on my conversations today. these people are fired up to take on bannon just mentioned the media, the corporation and the capitol hill. he didn t mention the people inside the white house he s going to fight. i m telling you right now, he will take on gary cohn, jared kushner. they are going to war against all those people inside the white house. i know, reading the weekly standard, he says it will be a jail break of moderates on capitol hill the republican establishment, aiming his scorn at that. i m curious, if that is the direction, what jonathan is describing, if that is the direction, do you think that has any effect? well, i would revise what