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Curb her and ivanka and dean powell, whos also an alum of goldman is, quote, youre democrats. we got elected by having this hard-hitting agenda and you want to make peace with china and we think china is ultimately going to be an enemy of the united states. so it does have consequences in terms of policy. i think thats what a lot of the fights are about is about the direction the president should actually take. kushner is saying why dont we have a major course correction in terms of policy which...

Steve bannon to "cut it out." thats what senior white house officials are saying tonight. coming as were told the two are causing major riffs in the white house. david gergen is back with us. you worked in four different white houses. what do you think is causing this tension between bannon and trump and curb nerp? >> the fact that the first 35 days have not been successful. he had a very good week this past week. he had a couple of good days with guj judge gorsuch. any mtd with the lowest appro...

Heads. this is not what they expected. they expected a republican presidency and a republican congress. i still think because he has the republican congress if he somehow got a grip on his impulses and brought in professionals that he still could have a successful presidency. but every day that goes by it just adds to this feeling this is the marks brothers duck soup. >> so lets talk about course correction here. all right, dan also reports that trump inner circle was given 30 binders of materia...

Important role, which, as you mentioned, is usually reserved for military and other high brass. so i think that, you know, it would be overplaying this to say that its a shake-up. i think its more of a course correction. bannon has a huge portfolio. hes a very trusted adviser of president trump. hes done a lot of focus on domestic issues, particularly health care, in the last couple of weeks. clearly this is a sign of the influence of the generals like mcmaster rising on trump. and with mcmaster...

Voices in the white house, the mcmasters and dina powells of the world and gary cohen are starting to rise and influence around what had been a very tight circle. >> april, quickly, what are you hearing on the bannon move? >> well, the way i understand it, many people in the intelligence community, when this president was president-elect, were very concerned with the fact that business would be at the table when issues of national intelligence security would be discussed. so this is somewhat of ...

Stalled. there was talk there from adam schiff, the ranking democrat, that proposed witness lists are being passed back and forthright now. there have been some proceedings for this week that were put off. going forward, based on everything you just said right there, can you see a scenario where nunes recovers his credibility with the democrats on the committee? recovers enough sort of standing to proceed with this investigation and have the results, whatever they may be, accepted by both sides?...

American people. >> reporter: such an easy one the president says. he knows all too well health care legislation so much more difficult than that. the fact he invited bipartisan group of senators to the white house is the late skreft in a series of steps this white house is calling a course correction. they want to bring some democrats on board as well to try to get some difficult pieces of legislation through. well see if health care falls in that list or not. but he certainly talked about it h...

Outside. republicans, of course elected many of these people for years to do something about health care and after the dramatic failure last week it fell apart. now there are serious talks going on. president trump invited senators from both parties to the white house last night. he mentioned health care actually isnt that hard. lets watch. >> i know that were all going to make a deal on health care. thats such an easy one. i have no doubt that will happen very quickly. i think it will happen. w...

>> do you still want to repeal obamacare, mr. president? >> reporter: no reply, no comment. faced with a divided republican party and congress, the white house has suggested it may be time to reach out to democrats. is the president serious about working with democrats, going forward, after what happened with health care? >> absolutely. >> but wouldnt this require a serious course correction from the white house? i mean, the presidents branded chuck schumer a clown, you know, worked entirely wit...

How do you cobble together the coalition? it may not be exactly along the same lines that we saw on health care, but, again, if the republican party is divide and democrats will remaining convinced that opposing trump is the way to go, donald trump will have a very hard time, even in something thats a little bit more politically palatable cutting peoples together, very difficult to put together a coalition. >> jeff, youre well plugged in. has the president moved beyond the blame game for the hug...