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Vacation at the worst time? >> bannons done like four on-the-record interviews. is he shaping some narrative for himself? he wrote to "the washington post" an e-mail to bob costa -- as long as the democrats fail to understand this, they will continue to lose, says bannon, but leftist elites do not value history so why would they learn from history? and the original american prospect piece, rex tillerson named adversaries including gary cohn and susan thornton. rex tillerson conspicuously shook h...

>> 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 ...

Leaks. as david points out, were not talking about high level national security secrets here being leaked illegally. there are feuding factions in the white house. this is the way president trump has always operated as a businessman. hes going to operate the white house this way from the time he got in in january to the time he leaves, whenever that is. this man keeps people on who hate each other. thats when you create these sort of festering resentments and people leak against each other. so s...

To stop this from going any further. and its interesting that sean spicer resigning and anthony scaramucci coming in could be the red line. and potentially reince priebus leaving could be the red line where suddenly republicans on capitol hill say, hey, listen who is protecting us any longer? and how are we going to get what we want to get done. and who is in the white house that we can call? >> according to somebody in the white house i just spoke to. reince priebus is paul ryans guy. my source...

The president has not said if he will nominate her for a second term. it would be rare not to nominate her for a second term. and some interesting reporting about a successor? >> so politico has some unnamed sources theying that gary kohn, its his job if he wants it. thats an interesting intrigue. >> would he be welcome? >> usually it is an economist. the markets usually you like the continuity of having the same person do it for another term. would it be welcomed? conservatives like him but h...

Democrats and say we all agree this is a problem. lets figure out a solution -- >> your friend, gary cohn, helped with shuster. youre right n this day and age, if you had said lets do it in a bipartisan way, would have made sense. >> to play devils advocate, to me, that safety is tantamount to everything else. once you privatize something and have the donald trumps of the world and everything is cost efficiencies, how do i know in a privatized situation that my operator is not cutting corners fo...

I always get confused. >> its literally president bannon because hes been sold a bill of goods by this huxster saying, hey, this is what you need to do. president bannon is now sitting at 36% in the polls, 37%. it cant get much worse. these are historically low poll numbers for somebody at this stage of the presidency. >> here is my question, and you touched on this earlier. clearly in all different shapes and forms were saying this guy is certainly not well, not mentally stable. so there are ce...

Infrastructure bill that gary kohn, the senior economic adviser said they dont have a plan yet. nothing is getting done because of o all this other stuff. in 40 years of hanging around washington, ive never seen a president attack part of his own administration. ive never seen the husband of a senior white house official send out a tweet attacking his wifes boss, who two days ago was being considered for a senior position. >> youve also never seen the president of the united states or any foreig...

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With some of the kind of ways were talking about. >> i think there are a limited number of people hes going to listen so. hes listening to bannon at the moment. he might listen to jared or ivanka. i think gary kohn is a great guy but trump barely knows him. i dont think hes going to be the guy to walk in and say, president, you need to do it this way. >> we were showing a picture of the president of the united states on "time" magazine, if you can put it up again. the problem is, hes listening t...