media play together. what bannon has done and knows how to do and i expect based on the conversations i ve had in the last in the last few hours but last few weeks that breitbart will go to war. they ve openly declared this now one of the editors #war on twitter. they are going to go after the quote/unquote globalists in the white house. steve bannon will base he canally basically continue a war he s been fighting in the white house. against people like h.r. mcmaster, and dean that powell, gary cohn, the top economic adviser and jared kushner, who bannon has been in the war with for some time. that s what he s doing next. kristen welker, nbc white house correspondent is live in bridgewater. i understand you have new information as well? reporter: craig, information comes a source familiar with this situation. this is a very high level source. bottom line, i ve been told there were a number of factors
steve bannon was not putting out all of those tweets. steve bannon was not directly responsible for the white house that we ve had. i think it is sort of ironic that this week his firing comes after a week that you could describe as peak bannon where the president embraces culture war, and he braces racial identity and grievance. i would say not just embrace it but encourage it and fan the flames of it. absolutely. and applaud it. other presidents have obviously manipulated and exploited racial grievance but what you saw was a very concerted statement when steve bannon talked to the quts new york timsz, take down more of those statues. he likes it. he wants this to be about race the democrats on the left talking about race whereas he s going to talk about economic nationalism. reality is that you ve seen some very significant cracks now in
confederate statues or speak up and talk about this insidious terrorism we ve been dealing with for centuries. but the republican party needs to decide, are they going to be the party of lincoln once again or stay on this bad road. the last thing, people like bannon, the playbook was written by glenn beck. when we pushed glenn beck off fox, he got more powerful in the conservative movement. now that bannon is not where the country can see him, he s betting on becoming more powerful too. that s why we have to built movements in our states to actually move forward. frankly from the left because the right wing is doubling down on hate and doubling down on building movements and people like bannon if we don t challenge them, they ll get more powerful. we re coming up on the half hour. 1:30, almost 1:30. here on the east coast for those who might just be joining us on the radio as well for those watching at home, breaking news here top of the hour, steve
seems to get it right. last week he got it wrong. 2017 jonathan cape heart, i believe the headline, why steve bannon isn t going anywhere. right. what happened? okay, so that was a podcast that i did with ploom bloomberg s business week about his book. and up until today, that headline and the premise of josh s book was absolutely correct. remember, i think it was kristen welker and jonathan swan reported that steve bannon resigned a couple of weeks ago but made the effective day august 14th because that was the one year anniversary of his taking over then candidate donald trump presidency campaign. when the presidential campaign was in chaos, was a swirl was a disaster. and steve bannon enand kellyanne
that could be such a sea change. as a bannon ally told me moments ago, if the trump administration goes down from bannon s point of view, this will be the day that marks it. then you ve got to get rtd ready for your show. a current trump adviser said this was inevitable but no one should forget it was steve bannon who brought back into the republican fold white union voters. so obviously being embroiled in such an ugly chapter of american life around the rise and emboldening of white prsupremac is also a part of steve bannon s body of work that he shifted white union workers into the republican column for first time since ronald reagan. this is someone who thought he had to go and said it was inevitable. part of his political legacy was to tailer a message for donald trump that brought white union