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Donald trump has reportedly been musing to house leader kevin mccarthy about the possibility. see for yourself. >> if you guys do take the house and finish the job that you almost shocked the world by doing a few months ago and take the house, you are only five seats down, then maybe he runs for a seat or just appointed as speaker. would you be for president trump becoming speaker? >> you know, i talked to president trump many times. he tells me he wants to be speaker and i think he should be pr...

Tonight "the washington post" reports moore stands accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl. while moore denies the allegation theres an open schedule whether conservatives will find this a bridge too far. while ted cruz appeared on sidestep the issue this afternoon, there are those in the conservative media who are so invested in a roy moore win, they will say things like this. >> he was apparently like 32. and he dated -- one girl was 18, one girl was 17, and they never said he did -- theres no...

And then theyre saying this one encounter with a 14-year-old -- >> and it was consensual. >> and consensual, thats true. and theres, you know -- i just -- i dont know how you find out the truth. >> betsy woodruff, "the daily beast." kurt bardello, former breitbart spokesperson, joining me now. betsy, i anticipated a fake news attack. i anticipated deny, deny, deny, "washington post" is fake news. what i did not anticipate was watching a bunch of conservatives today bend over backwards to defend ...

Sexual attack happened, and they still dont think they can believe that, i mean, its extraordinary. it makes you wonder, under what circumstances would pundits like this believe the truth about sexual misconduct is knowable? do they have to be in the room watching it happen? to believe that its actually happened? its astonishing. and i dont really know how else to put it. its hard for me to get my head around. why would you consume journalism if you dont trust reporters and you dont trust their ...

Around. why would you consume journalism if you dont trust reporters and you dont trust their sources? >> kurt, there was this really bizarre thing that happened with your old haunt breitbart in which breitbart was leaked that "the washington post" was working on this story and got out ahead of it to essentially run interference for roy moore. one of their editors on tv today basically talking about the -- how its perfectly fine a 32-year-old man was trying to date a 16-year-old. breitbart is al...

What is the site telling its readers? we looked at headlines. to see whether bannon is going to war against the people he thinks are standing in the way of realizing trumps campaign promises. the answer looks like yes. the site has targeted mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, jared kushner and gary kohen. he spoke up about trumps afghanistan speech, calling it a flip-flop that makes trumps america first base unhappy. bannon told the economist that the harder trump pushes, the more we will be there for h...

Punch on ryan with this. thats what he is doing. he has influence. but this whole thing about somebody -- here is the other part of this that worries me. here is somebody who is saying, were republicweaponizing our p. we call our services breitbart news, but were a killing machine. that goes against everything i believe about journalist. he is important because of what he says, but i think hes not that important in terms of their widespread influence. we overestimate i think his influence to som...

Alt right universe. anybody else who voted for trump, whether not liking hillary clinton, not liking congress, wanting to have that protest vote, theyre not going to be aligned with supporting the kkk. their audience had nowhere to go but down. >> i dont know who is supporting the kkk. the site is more powerful for dc readers, perhaps. >> thats the thing. its an influence play. if donald trump is reading breitbart and supporting breitbart and retweets things from breitbart, then its incredibly i...

Hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars already to steve bannons various political ventures. whether or not you see a return on that capital depends how you define returns. the mercers have seen that their investments have paid off in the complete shift youve seen to this populace nationalist wing of the republican party. they will see another round of their investments as a good use of money. >> his views are very far to the right. kurt, on breitbart itself, people, republicans will sa...