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Sure. they cant do it with just the base. it is everything you said. it gives them a chance to push back against the president. i dont see this as an opportunity so much as a nightmare. >> fair enough. >> thats not wrong. they can go behind the agenda and now get to say well, tax cuts, yes. but race baiting comments, no. >> this all happened at a meeting where he was being shown a proposal and briefed in a gang of six. i will call them a more moderate group. what they gave the president was not ...

A lost seat that should have been won hands down no contest. this is just a nail in the coffin. >> harris: even outside this book what bannon has been say something that the president was surrounded by establishment types. i want to give you the last word. >> i give the president credit and i have been at times suspicious of some of the advisors, i will be honest. so new york democrats he surrounded himself with. this is a point of strength of the president. he doesnt just need yes men around hi...

The past, supported trump and critical of trump in some areas. she says in the end that its congress that needs the reckoning. shes not going to be sympathetic to the corkers and the flakes. she shings that system is still broken. she wakes up this morning and says corker is probably still doing something right. if euro posed to trump or on the fence, have you to hold in your mind as these revelations tumble out. >> we have -- maybe we have the cover of breitbart. steve bannon taking a victory l...

Them. it is donald trump who doesnt understand that you have to have a certain level of competence in order to make things work. you know, this is -- he has a good has been pbit here for himt switches our direction and gets us to look in the other direction. its not steve bannon, its donald trump and he is still there. >> lets talk about the republican base. run in the republican party. donald trump knew something about the gop base that the rest of the party did not. he defeated 16 other people...

Chief of staff. so far, at least on twitter, we dont have a good indication of what happens next. well obviously look for more details on that, jake. >> thanks, sara. bring us more reporting when you get it. im joined now by david. happy american hero week. that was the focus this week, but the focus has been on everything but american heroes. we have the president announcing by tweet that the chief of homeland security, john kelly, is now the white house chief of staff. >> remember, when the pr...

Said is the key, the thing to latch on to, which is trump wants to be surrounded by people that he views as his peers and his equals. thats not a lot of people. it is usually very wealthy people or his family. thats always been how hes -- >> and generals really. >> and generals. >> mcmasters and now kelly. >> and, so, what you now have is an intercircle that once included some d.c. establishment types. his firing was meant to be on olive branch. you see donald trump saying all these guys are sma...

Overnight the west wing story has become "westside story." were watching the jets versus the sharks. the jets those with trump from early on. maybe not from the very beginning but longer than the new arrivals, the sharks, led by reince priebus and the other establishment types. the other side anthony scaramucci, the one in the street daring priebus to meet him in a rumble. he is the one crooning, when youre a jet, youre a jet. and all this street fighter talk is going on right now in such ritzy ...

Polls to see if they generally support donald trump and if you see that number dropping, watch as members of congress start to distance themselves from him before 2018. >> another interesting point that may not be obvious is a lot of these big donors and different states and texas and florida, you name it, california. people think that lot of these big conservative donors are like establishment types. if you made a billion dollars in business, you must be rational, you must be serious. you must ...

Experience. these guys, neither of them do. >> and last question, institutionalist, its not always a dirty word and sometimes its changed to mean establishment types. but sometimes when youre working with a vast, unwieldy and new-to-you organization, aka the federal government, its good to have an institutionalist around. >> thats right. i dont think anybody could call jared kushner an institutionalist of the government. but hes trying to navigate it and remake it at the same time here. thats go...

What single word dominated the commentary about the strike in syria. the one word i heard the most was decisive. in times like these i find myself thinking about another set of decision makers. the media leaders and producers who decide what gets heard. because there are hawks and there are dogs and on tv and online, we need to hear from both. actually from all of them because there are a lot more than two sides here. proponents of military force. there are reluctance supporters. there are syria...