they think it s a winning issue for them come midterms. i think that the bannon faction of the trump party very much wants their base to be gemmed up on the fear of brown people crossing the border. it s one of their go-tos. it s one of the defining characteristics of donald trump s campaign which is for all of you economically anxious folks in the upper midwest, i m going to stop the brown hoard of ms-13 gangbangers from coming to your town. i don t think the president even has the majority of the republicans in the senate right now. there is a lot of nervousness right now. these guys especially that are on the border. john cornyn and ted cruz tonight are saying we have to pass something specifically to stop this particular practice. donald trump isn t going to get this sweeping mega package that builds his dumb wall in the course of this just because he s holding these kids hostage,
here. rick, he did just admit to what the questions that the reporters are asking at the briefing today are these children today being used as political pawns. he s right, there s reporting tonight that they re going to ranch this up, they think it s a winning issue comes midterms. i think that the bannon faction of the trump party very much wants their base to be gemmed up on the fear of brown people crossing the border. it s one of their go-to. for all of you economically anxious folks of you in the upper midwest i m going to stop the brown horde of gang bangers from coming to your town. i don t think the president has the majority of the republicans in the senate right now. there s a lot of nervousness right now. these guys that are on the
said. i spoke with the president last night about this very issue and he wanted me to re-emphasize to everyone including this morning that he has full confidence in his current chief of staff, john kelly. so there s a lot to talk about in this story. if we focus on john kelly, what is the status of john kelly, and why does this pose challenges wider than just this moment? well, it s interesting this is a scandal in which the white house never came up with to this day a single narrative that they all agreed on what facts actually happen. they still have conflicting stories. they still do. this makes kelly, at least to many people in the white house, look like he s not being, shall we say, forthcoming, candid. what is interesting they have now taken their complaints, at least on background, to the press. so there is a civil war going on in the white house. i feel we re back to the days at the beginning of the administration when the bannon faction and reince priebus
first year in office. harris: here is how we know that s right. the president s response is to open a can of whoop stuff and steve bannon s is to soften his rhetoric. look, if i can use a religious analogy. harris: oh, please. not to overstate it, of course, trump is jesus and steve bannon. harris: didn t see that coming. and steve bannon is john the baptist. they are both incredibly necessary. he was incredibly important, steve bannon was at getting president trump elected the indispensable man is donald trump. let s say there is a fracture. i m not sure there is the fracture the media wants us to believe. if there is let s say that s the reality. the bannon faction are they going to support somebody other than donald trump? harris: i haven t seen katie pavlich roll her eyes like that since we ran out of anniversary cake. katie: i know that the media overplays things and
general barry mccaffrey one of our military analysts, a decorated commander in vietnam with experience in government appear military throughout the world. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the pentagon and cia and nayyera hauck with the late ambassador richard holbrooke. welcome to you all. general that one quote stands out we are not going to we re turning from nation building to killing terrorists. what do you make of that, and what else did you hear? well, you know, i actually think it was an excellent presentation given the disastrous situation we re in in afghanistan. i think you know he was thoughtful. a lot of people made much ado about the fact he read a speech. that was a victory of common sense, mattis and tillerson, h.r. mcmaster over the bannon faction. i thought conditions based made sense. i thought the new putting leverage on pakistan using