and we ll make your first month s payment. experience amazing. welcome back on the beat. we re joined by bob woodward who had won a pulitzer prize for his watergate reporting and continues to report on washington power right on through the current trump era. five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eaves dropping equipment at the democratic national committee. the country tonight is in the midst of what may it be the most sisters constitutional crisis in its history. the president has set himself against his own attorney general and the department of justice. reports bob woodward and carl bern teen pieced the story together bit by bit. suppose we had not written those stories. we ve thought about it and we ve realized it s futile because you can t answer it. these are the people who said
here s my next nominee, let s get it done. and there s nothing mcconnell can do except get it done because you ve got to put these positions in play. and you ve got a guy that didn t support trump during the primaries. he said some nasty things about him and just revealed a day or two ago that donald trump and the white house gave him the direct order and he basically told them to go straight to hell and he figured out a way to do it behind donald trump s back and making him look weak and impotent as a leader. interesting to see president trump on air force one almost bend over backwards to defend him, but saying he s doing a great job and i think it s because of what jim said, he s getting all these regulations undone that trump promised but what you see is a state attorney general from oklahoma who is drunk with the washington power right now. he wants the $50 a night apartment from the family of the lobbyist. he wants his protective detail
how they really have influence? it s when the mainstream media shows them. like if on monday breitbart writes something attacking javanka or cohn or something and the cable news networks puts them out there, that s where they really have the power. okay, thank you all. john, you take it, buddy. thank you for coming on. we ll see you next time. thanks for having me. thank you very much. thank you all. just ahead i m going to talk to a pastor who has resigned from president trump s evangelical advisory board. i ll ask him why. e tired of being surprised with extra monthly fees. we want hd. and every box and dvr. all included. because we don t like surprises. yeah. like changing up the celebrity at the end to someone more handsome. and talented. really. and british. switch from cable to directv. get an all included package for $25 a month.
stepped off his council and he s alienated a lot of mainstream republicans, including mitch mcconnell. his loyal base are people who read breitbart, who agree with steve bannon and see him as a leader. so the power will remain outside the white house and trump already listens to breitbart news more than anything. is this the white house trying to change the narrative that trump is a racist? i don t think that s going to succeed. trump is great at creating spectacle and new dramatic events. bannon leaving on a friday night is one of them. that is the narrative. it s going to continue the narrative and we re going to see it reinforced by bannon and breitbart international in this new guise. so his firing doesn t solve any of the major problems this has had. because it it was the president who said there were very fine people in the neo-nazis. plus, we heard this firing was in the work for weeks.
concern about bannon being one of the problems of leaking. so bannon and his supporters are spinning this like it is a win. but this is not a win. but typically when you leave the white house, you don t have the, i guess, the power, the washington power that you once wielded. and also there is a concern and they re spinning this because they don t want that base, that bannon base, that bannon base, the people who were in charlottesville, some of the other people around the country who support that kind of thing, to break away from the president. they re trying to make it look good, but it s not. and we will see what happens in the next coming weeks, days, what have you. michael, i said that it was possibly to change the narrative, but bannon brought the alt-right into the west wing. does his ouster address any of the questions of racism or competence from this president? no, don.