Bannon. Right now, its a season of war against a gop establishment. Nobody can run and hide on this one. These folks are coming for you. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning. There is a new wildfire in Northern California and now thousands of people are being forced to evacuate. 39 people have died already. That makes it the deadliest fire in the states history. More than 200 people are still reported missing. And thousands of buildings, including 2,800 homes are gone. Some families, we have seen it for days now, have suffered devastating losses. One woman says her 14yearold nephew died as he tried to escape with his family. His parents, that boys parents just couldnt take it. I wish i had hugged him a lot more times we had no thought in our minds that they would be hurt by this fire. We thought they were just coming down the mountain. When i got the call about kyle, i couldnt stand. I fell to my knees and i just said, oh, no oh, no i cant imagine waking up to worse news that my sister is going to wake up to. She says her sister is going to wake up to that news because the mother and father had been sedated. Lets go to ryan young now standingrosa, california. The fires have decimated that community, ryan. Reporter they have. Listening to that sound, its amazing. Its heartbreaking to hear that. We have talked to so many people who have been upset by this fire because the fact they dont know what happened to their neighbors. We are standing in a neighborhood that, for the most part, is gone. We have been mentioning that over and over that is the scary part. 200 people are still missing so we know at some point they will take cadaver dogs in the neighborhood to see if they can find some of the missing people so disaster is far from over. Step out of the way here. In the distance there, there is a fire near the oakmont neighborhood and we know that some of these fires have combined. What a challenge for firefighters when youre dealing with Mother Nature in this way. The wind really spreading in through the mountainous terrain. Its hard. You cant go out with a hose and fight this fire. It is moving pretty quickly. Sometimes over the trees. Coming back down this direction, you can see a house that we are just kind of standing in front of. I cant imagine the views this house used to have but this hasships dozens of time over. We know 20,000 people have evacuated. Yesterday they were giving another evacuation order. We met another woman who not only survived the Las Vegas Shooting but then came home and lost the place where she was living to this fire. Listen to what she had to say about her survival story. Im not familiar with people shooting at me and that so that shook me up quite a bit. I was kind of a mess that week. And then this. But then once this happened, it was like, oh, come on. I mean, really . This has got to something has got to stop. I cant take much more. Lets put it that way. I feel very lucky because i came out of both of them, you know . I made it out of the vegas shooting. Im still here. I made it out of this. Clearly not everyone made it out. Reporter we are pointing out camera toward this garage and we see this play out over and over. So many cars stuck in that rubble. You have to wonder, did everyone make it out . Did they take one car . How did people find out . When you know some of these fires were moving more than a football field every three to four seconds so you can understand that you definitely have to go through some of these homes and figure out what happened. The disaster continues and they need a lot of help here. Back to you. Ryan young for us there in santa rosa, california. Thank you. Former white house chief strategist has now declared war against the president s party. A fiery speech we heard from steve bannon given to conservative activists yesterday. He aimed at republicans in congress who he say are hindering the president s agenda. Who is he calling out . Reporter good morning. Steve ban none wnon was vocal a aggressively going after congressmen who elbow have failed President Trump, including the Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, at one point comparing mcconnell to julius cesar saying capitol hill was the ides of march and he eluded to finding brutes who stabs julius cesar in the back in the play killing him. Bannon is recruiting conservative candidates to run against gop establishment incumbents. He is also building a Fundraising Network to go after these congressmen. He sees it as a war. Listen to more of what he said. This is not my war. This is our war. You didnt start it. The establishment started it. But i will tell you one thing, you all are going to finish it. Reporter that vow that steve bannon made shortly after leaving the white house that he was going to go full force after all of the president s opponents even within his own party is certainly a vow that he is keeping. One last note. He also predicted a landslide victory for President Trump in 2020 saying that trump would take more than 400 electoral votes in his past four years. He is saying the president had 30 chance of completing his term. Josh rogen is with us now. Josh, how solid of a gauge is there bannons influence . Well, i think its less than what bannon would have you believe it is but more than nothing. I mean, this is bannon being bannon. He has been at war with gop establishment for years before he was Donald TrumpsCampaign Manager while during the campaign, while he was in the white house and now after his white house tenure. So this is a lot of more of the same from ban op. What we look at here is what is the bestcase scenario for him . He is not going to take over the Republican Party. He is going to elect a few more antiestablishment senators who are going to make Mitchell Mcconnells life more difficult and in the meantime, gain resources from the great republican effort to fight the democrats in the next election. So i think we cant discount what bannon is saying. I think he has got a lot of influence and he has got a lot of money and a lot of organizational skills. But in the end, this is a continuation of an ongoing internal civil war within the Republican Party that didnt start with him and wont end with him. Lets listen to more of what he said yesterday. Up on capitol hill, because ive been getting calls. Its like before the ides of march, right . This is an analogy or metaphor. Or whatever you want to call it. They are wanting to find out who is going to be brutes to your julius cesar. Yeah, mitch, the donors are not happy. They have all left you. We have gut your oxygen off, mitch, okay . Fair to pin the blame solely on the majority leader . The president is sitting in the president s seat. The president is julius cesar, not Mitchell Mcconnell. I think basically what bannon is pushing here is half true and half not true. Its very true that Mitchell Mcconnell is unpopular and its true running against him is a way to get candidates elected. Its not true that donors have cut off Mitchell Mcconnell. The republican establishment is still a very Strong Political machine, okay . And that machine will do what it needs to do to make sure that the bannon candidates dont succeed as much as bannon wants them to. They will both pour reresourcso into this fight. Both will win some. In the end youre going to have sort of a fight before the fight and then, you know, they will both head no the general election basically where we are now. All right. Josh rogen, always appreciate your perspective. Any time. 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President trump is calling for the nfl to force the players to stand. Frankly, the nfl suspended him for one game and he would have never done it again. They could have then suspended him for two games and they could have suspended him if he did it a third time for the season and you would never have had a problem. But i will tell you, you cannot disrespect our country, our flag, our anthem. You cannot do that. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell stresses that the league has no plans to mandate players to stand for the National Anthem. The league and Players Association say that the agenda is on how to make progress on the important social issues the players have been speaking about. A German Soccer Team following in the foot steps of the nfl. Players took a knee before their game yesterday in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick and other nfl players. The team said it did it, quote, for an openminded team and saying they stand for tolerance and social ability. Mark lemont hill, thank you for joining us. We are trying to get ben hill to join us but technical challenges. The commissioner has said that he is coming to this meeting with a possible solution that is he going to present the team owners and the Players Association. I wonder, first, what you make of the concept that there is a solution to peaceful protest . He is trying to go to them to get off their knees during the National Anthem or them to abandon the issue during games . What do you think of that . What he is trying to do is stop this controversy. He is worried that the controversy is causing people to stay away from the games. I, for example, dont watch nfl games until this issue is resolved and hopefully until Colin Kaepernick is back on the field that many people who feel that way. I dont think he cares so much about protests as he does the bottom line. Is there a long tradition of people trying to coop to protest. American universities are one of the hotbeds of protest and resistance. Students all over the country whether youre on the left or right, they protest on campuses and oftentimes campuses what they try to do is give students now a protest area. Or you can go over to that square and protest or this room and protest because they dont want them taking over the Student Union or the president s office so they try to coop the resistance but protest is about disruption. If you give somebody a protest area it doesnt matter. If they tell players where or how to take a knee they give them like a designated knee taking area it defeats the purpose. Let me read what we got from the cowboys owner jerry jones. If we can put that up on the screen. He says the following. Is he right in any way here . Not at all. If we werent tag knees, if we werent talking about the National Anthem protest we would not talk about Police Brutal its. Its this doesnt take away from our substantiveness. If anything is highlights our substance and exactly why we are doing it. Now if his argument is if we keep doing this and engaging in the ritual and dont do anything else about it, the means has become the end. Yeah, he would be right about that. That what the protest is about. The protest is get the league to make a different choice, to get america to Pay Attention and for us to come up with concrete Material Solutions to a very big problem. That is where we need to go next and where the nfl is going to have to do something serious to show it takes this issue seriously and all of america takes this issue seriously. Ben, what do you make of this idea there is a solution that can be proposed by the commissioner at this meeting this week . Well, i do think they need a solution. I think the nfl needs to go back to doing what specifically they do, which is to play football and entertain their fans. I think that is what causing problems in the nfl now is this about the political protest or is this actually specifically about, you know, going out there and playing football . I think the nfl has basically completely overlooked the negative impact of what this is going to be for their fans. And there is a lot of people that say, look, you have the right to protest. You have the right to protest and your involvement in the community but do you have a right to go out there and go out there and disrespect this country every single weekend and expect the fan base to stay there . I dont think the American People are going to continue to stand by the nfl if they continue to do this week in and week out and instead of doing this outside of a normal day. Most people dont have the right to go out there at work and have a political protest at their desk at work. Why does the nfl not have the same exact standards the other people do when they got work monday through friday . Except the Vice President who last week went to indianapolis and according to what the president said, himself, he sent him to that game and if was there kneeling, he wanted him to get up and leave and the press pool was told that there is no reason to get out of the van. The Vice President wont be here very long. The 49ers, Colin Kaepernicks team will be playing the redskins today. Do you expect to see a Vice President , a member of the cabinet go and pull what many call a stunt this week during the game . Here is a similar point with the president of the United States. Their job is always to protect this country, honor this country, and honor those that give the ultimate sacrifice for this country. I dont care if youre republican or democrat, black, white, hispanic, any other color, it doesnt matter what. When youre the president of the United States of america, you never go to a private business and allow the United States of america and the men and women who fought for it. I dont look for a stunt for the president or Vice President saying im not going to be a part of a moment in history that is disrespectful to the United States of america and to the men and women in uniform that protect in service. They have a dutedduty, an obligo stand up. If he walks out of the game the rest of the time this is going on, that is never a stunt when youre the president of the United States of america. That is your job. Ben, this is reframing this entire conversation as it is a stunt to disrespect members of the military. The kneeling was actually individualed by a former military of the military to Colin Kaepernick. The original question was he was wrong, though. Can someone go to you said these people who are at work