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You look like you are about to start the 11 00 a. M. Shift at the bank of the weekend. Im loving them. Im loving them. You guys have a great rest of your day and i will see you tomorrow. A very good morning to you, it is saturday, march 16th, and we begin today with Big Decisions and more delays all revolving around Donald Trumps litany of legal troubles and the future of american democracy. Lets start in georgia, where nathan wade has resigned from his role as Special Prosecutor in the racketee...

Tradition. i was optimistic. at 11:21 i pulled out my little twitter machine and i wrote today is a celebration of democracy, the people have voted. the only power we have as representatives and senators under the constitution we swore to defend is to count the ballots, and we will. two hours later we all know what happened. we lived it together. we saw from the gallery the speaker being evacuated. we heard the hiss of the gas masks. we heard the voice of the chaplain praying, some of us tried t...

0 american. its not just words like "democracy" and "liberty." more than that is because an idea embedded in the constitution of the united states, the idea that everyone in america no matter how powerful is supposed to play by the same rules. and every american election is an opportunity to show that, to show what it means. unlike in many other countries our winners dont assume absolute power to do whatever they may want. our losers understand that their rights are preserved. they accept defeat...

The republican party as he is viewing to do, going after mitch mcconnell, its going to make it much harder for the president to keep his base intact. and indeed, to round up all the republican votes he is going to need on the legislation ahead. >> so what was the calculus here in terms of whats the greater threat? what bannon is doing in house or was doing in house, chasing after mcmaster, seeing what kind of leverage he could get over jared and ivanka and making some enemies in-house, or now be...

Phrase. thats exactly the idea he was pushing forward. we have taken hit the far. we won the presidency. trumps agenda is not moving forward in quite the way we like. so im going to go fight on his behalf on the outside. he specified who it was he was going to go to war against. it was establishment politicians. i think by that, he meant republican leaders in congress. it was the opposition party in the media, as bannon likes to refer to us. and it was corporate america too. who trump and bannon...

Lets leave this right here for right. now were going to take a quick break. when we come back, we have david gergen. he has seen his share of successful and unsuccessful presidents up close. and what is the difference between this transition from going through a hard time and making it into a better time? and later, were going to have a defender of the president on this west wing democrat situation that they have going on, that ryan and josh and alice were talking about. how big a deal is this...

That agenda when we havent seen that from him unilaterally to this point? >> look where he stands on immigration. he is certainly strong in immigration. building the wall in mexico. >> we dont know that thats going to raise wages for the working man. thats what im wondering. >> clearly he tapped into something in this country, his ability to connect with the working man. >> absolutely. >> and i think bannon lit the torch and carried the torch. trump will continue to do. so the question is who is...

Election day, he believes that all of these people started rushing in to the trump orbit during the transition -- ceos, advisers tha had democratic backgrounds, establishment republicans. all of the sudden steve bannon was running this tiny little campaign that against all odds beat hillary clinton. it had a well defined ideology that was thanks to him. and then all of the sudden there was a hostile takeover by all of these other forces. and his job since the day after the election was to keep t...

Year, not each have the graciousness to thank him? with a perfunctory written note. i find it strange. so it suggest theres is some real animosity here that we dont know the full story yet. look, i also think that very important to this that the role that steve bannon is choosing for himself could make him more powerful on the outside and could cause enormous problems for the president because he can begin to split the republican party apart. his role as he sees it, if the president cant persuad...

That his version of trumpism is dead. that the populous national agenda is stopped. he sort of personalized this whole thing and says very clearly he is going to breitbart to wage war against the people and institutions that stopped it in its tracks, very clear talking to journalists for months about the war inside the white house. i visited him a few months ago, he threw down the times, saying look at the front page, bannon versus gary cohn. he wanted me to see this is the war happening in the ...