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Administration was talking about of populist coalition that would involve working closely with democrats on something like major infrastructure project. i think the bannon vision which is trumps him -- its not partisan. puts democrats and republicans together. i dont know for saying that but theres a predicate to this kind of thing. goes back to whether republicans like mitch mcconnell or paul ryan should trust donald trump. >> bret: the politics. we are talking about the republican side and the...

Steve bannon early in the administration was talking about of populist coalition that would involve working closely with democrats on something like major infrastructure project. i think the bannon vision which is trumps him -- its not partisan. puts democrats and republicans together. i dont know for saying that but theres a predicate to this kind of thing. goes back to whether republicans like mitch mcconnell or paul ryan should trust donald trump. >> bret: the politics. we are talking about t...

He is going to grab policies off the shelf that paul ryan put on the shelf. >> we will give them to him. >> the whole game was lot more complicated i think than trump thought it was going to be. this whole thing was a lot harder than trump thought it would be. he thought we had stupid people. >> and replace them. right. then the other part of this, if you see senators drifting away, you saw a hint of this as health care went down, you know, perhaps temporarily of the president thinking well, why...

Right. then the other part of this, if you see senators drifting away, you saw a hint of this as health care went down, you know, perhaps temporarily of the president thinking well, why am i grabbing the off the shelf agenda of paul ryan? i felt sort of the raise act today, maybe ill go back to this bannon vision of what i could be. you wonder if he might try wedge himself against the republican party at some point if he finds that advantageous. >> one, he turns a thousand times. he doesnt talk ...

Understood like a good salesman during the campaign that what people wanted to hear out in the -- on the hustings, the republican base, they dont want to hear about milton friedman economics and free trade and entitlement reform, the kind of stuff paul ryan talks about. they wanted to hear about mexicans, muslims, chinese people. so does he buy into the bannon vision, or is this just a convenient kind of marriage of expediency? >> i think he does to an extent but i think what trump sees in the b...

Freeman economics and free trade and entitlement reform, the kind of stuff paul ryan talks about. they wanted to hear abo-- is th kind of an american expediency? >> i think what trump sees in the bannon vision is not a philosophy or an intellectual underw underpinning for trumps ideas. the idea of america first nationalism. who could be against that? and trump with his salesman skills was able to distinguish himself from what bannon and what trump would consider the globalist pro free trade, haw...

Conservatives by years. you go through the issues, it seems that trump ran on and they went in the other direction. i can understand they dont feel comfortable calling themselves trump conservatives. robert. >> bannon has been a mysterious anything not white house. i was leaving cpac to come to "hardball" tonight, he said bannon vision is not domestic, its global. he wants to up -- >> whats his goal, bannon? >> its about destroying the right, left norms of american politics.

Country. lets get to the bottom line with cnn political analyst carl bernstein. great to have you here. >> good to be here. >> do you want to argue semantics or argue the substance? >> lets talk about reality. this is a piece of trumpest bigotry massacre reading at national security policy to solve a problem that according to all the experts in the department of homeland security wasnt there. it is to fulfill campaign promises. it is to fulfill an authoritarian vision of himself and his presiden...

Problem? why let anyone in at all? it seems the president is echoing that. >> the president, even before steve bannon was on board in the campaign was saying this, in essence. it is part of what donald trump campaigned on, to basically keep muslim immigrants out of america. the reason that we are seeing the reaction to this from republicans as well as democrats, they got a reprieve last night with a supposedly presidential looking announcement about a supreme court justice which, in fact, part o...

Able to serve his four years because of his wretched excesses. >> a bargain all the say. there are republicans who say ill take what i can get. >> absolutely. >> let me ask you something before we run out of time. joe manchin said he heard that the administration had congressional staffers sign ndas, non-disclosure agreements to work on the executive order where they couldnt tell the congress members they worked with that they were doing that. have you heard that? >> i have not. i listened to th...