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>> reporter: joining the debate, the chief strategist steve bannon slammed white supremacists to the progressive american prospect saying, et no nationalism, its losers, its a fringe element. weve got to help crush it, you know, help crush it more. at first bannon claimed he didnt know he was being interviewed. >> he called me. and weirdly he never said that we were off the record. >> reporter: but sources close to bannon said he intended them to divert attention from the presidents comments on ...

Good for the brand. >> i want to ask you about an interview steve bannon gave when he called up the editor of the american prospect and just started talking. he didnt think it was an interview, then he said apparently he told people that no i did it to distract people and it was act of genius, but more importantly, he said in this interview about north korea, theres no military solution, forget it. until somebody solves that shows me ten million people in seoul dont die in the first 30 minutes. ...

And i do respect that service. i cant imagine he has the sort of knowledge and expertise that those four generals have. he dont know jack about north korea. i dont know why the president would listen to him. >> im stunned that bannon would go and tell this person hes never met before, from the american prospect, you know, its all just a bluff. theres no actual military option. >> and theres this idea that hes doing it just to distract from the story about charlottesville that it was some strateg...