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Conservative agenda, where he was 30 years ago, in politics that doesnt matter so much as where you are today. >> where does the confidence go? the base cant be satisfied. i know if you put it to them in a poll question, i grew up reading and writing them. and i get the finesse, obviously in a binary situation, for or against trump many people in the party are going to go, for trump. in terms of why he got in there, the only thing that has been disrupted is the president himself. it has not bene...

Before you leave. we see the president has not abated an iota in terms of the behaviors that are counterproductive. what do you make for the prospect of fixing at this point? >> the prospect of fixing donald trump is extraordinarily low, somewhere between about 5% and zero. look, he is who he is who he is who he is. and he made it very clear he was not programmed by steve bannon when he went out there tuesday. that was pure donald trump. and i think the issue becomes as with all presidents as yo...

Believing in america again. and i really do see that. standing up to china and north korea, im not saying its all perfect or doesnt feel odd to people that watch it and how it works out. its not all linear, the other thing i would say, chris, nobody is paying attention to. trump is the most accessible president. accessible to the people, they hear and see what he is about. its not always perfect. >> except for the media. >> but in the media, he is doing presses, statements about charlottesville....

Of staff john kelly. a couple of reasons why this was. this has been building for sometime. this is not the first time steve bannon had been rumored to be on the chopping block. the president had fallen out of love with him a while ago, concerned about him being on the cover of time magazine, and sucking up a lot of the oxygen in washington, but i think more critically, chris, the new chief of staff, john kelly, wanted to put in place a much more disciplined power structure in the white house. f...

For governing, any agenda that supposedly puts the president there. joining us, our senior political analyst david gergen. it is a blessing to have you tonight. >> thank you, chris, its a blessing to have you here, thank you. >> let me engage one curiosity here, the timing just seems too convenient to be a coincidence. weve heard all of these competing narratives. i am sure you have heard as many or more than i have. but what do you think the timing of this is, what are your suspicions? >> well,...

Parties to have people running against -- the guy running for president, delaney, saying he is against people running for jobs -- >> little bit of a talking point bogeyman, the idea that illegal immigrants are what are keeping back the american men and women. you know that those are not the problem for working class america. >> no, chris, its not only the jobs they take. its the amount of cost of them being in the welfare system and transformation system. cuomo family, they a simulated. this is ...

Buzzing about it. speaking out about what youre about to tell me, is bannon telling a writer for the weekly standard the presidency that i fought for with donald trump that we won is now over? is that what he was saying to you? >> basically, yeah, he told me that -- and take this with a grain of salt given the source, that this was not a firing. that it was in the works for a while, thinking about leaving two weeks ago delayed it because of the charlottesville uproar, something agreed to with bo...

All right, for all the unknowns about steve bannon being out of the white house, let there be no mystery of what he will do next. he is going right back to what he knows best, breitbart, the website he once described as a platform for the alt-right. after being fired, bannon told the weekly standard, quote, now im free. i have my hands back on my weapons. somebody said its bannon the barbari barbarian, and im definitely going to crush the weapon. joining me now is gop chairman ed martin, author ...

Trump agenda, i dont think that it is anything that shifted. >> the problem with the theory is this is not who trump was before, before this incarnation as a presidential candidate and now president of the united states, these were not policies that he hammered on when he had plenty of opportunity to the way that steve bannon did. so where does your confidence come from that he will continue to be do things that he has not been able to do yet? >> well, bannon emerged on the conservative what i t...

Breitbart, apparently trying to sever ties to his all-important base. and bannon tweeting the word, war, bannon telling the weekly standard the presidency that he and donald trump fought for and won is now over. think of that. all right, a lot to cover. and to talk about so lets bring in cnns jim acosta joining us first with the very latest for the presidents vacation spot in new jersey, jim, what are we finding out about the timing here, how this went down with bannon? >> well, chris tit was al...