now revolves in part about credibility. steve bannon, author of michael wolff and pressure drop joining us to join the coverage. here in washington, [inaudible], washington examiner contributor as the former leader of the ohio senate, christian you worked at breitbart and you friendly with steve bannon and alex like his attacks have backfired to the point that his leadership at breitbart may be the price for your thoughts. i can t predict whether or not breitbart will be to bannon but i think bannon will probably be just fine whether or not he stays at breitbart. i suspect this is not last will see of him. he s a skilled political strategists a lot of deep ties in the populist wing of the conservative base. i think he will be okay. the media love to see the bannon crash and burn and they have a seething hatred for him. he was more despised than donald trump himself because there was
howard: so unknown in washington. never happens. never happens. at this point right now because of the statement he made to the fire in theory book and in addition frankly to the fact that he has crashed and burned with roy moore and i think both of those things have caused people like the mercer s have been the major funding behind breitbart and steve bannon are distancing themselves and taking away the funding and to put pressure on the breitbart to talk. howard: been in telling the website that he regrets his delay in responding to what he says are inaccurate comments about donald trump junior. rebecca mercer is a billionaire family has bankrolled many of bannon s adventures including breitbart put out a statement saying my family and i have been community with steve in providing financial support for his agenda and that could jeopardize his role as an independent force. yeah, we don t know the context in which the comments were made and a lot of michael s credibility has been c
life and how we, their bids are more for your past life. howard: why did you permit that by part would drop him? i don t know. did they drop him i just said if he continues if he continues on this course and splitting this hard from the president of the united states who literally has an agenda that should be in the spot of at least the economic agenda for breitbart which is now economically desperate, lower middle-class families and to embrace the idea of researching manufacturing america continues to break this to the president i ll be shocked if they don t drop him. if he comes back in the fold which i recommended and many other people have recommended, drop the steep managers and come up on the donald j trump and team america jersey and there will be no reason to drop him. howard: let me jump in yeah, sure, i understand. there s been a lot of criticism as you know of michael wolff book and left the white house
who made up stories in order to sell the bowling and onto public and used floppy steve fanon who cried when he got fired and begged for his job and now sloppy steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. too bad. fanon who runs breitbart responded with praise for the present while the white house mounted a tough campaign against him and against wolf. he is a great man and i support him day in and day out. the president is saying will allies that he didn t have the axis you had. would you release those reporting center credibility is being questioned? my credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has worked on earth at this point. i guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit and was one of those things and that is quite sloppy steve is now looking for a job. howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage is white house correspondent for bloomberg news. gail who works for townhall .com on the hill and mo, f