them up and soliciting their opinion. he did it with corey lewandow i lewandowski, and other people who left the white house. why would because of the statement. because of the interview i had with bannon, because of the fact he said look, i m going to war for trump not against him. if you wanted to not coming out as david pointed out. not saying anything at all the president is clearly unhappy but bannon has a project here to institute his nationalist policies. whether trump is the guy who does it or not i m not sure that bannon knows, but i don t know if you will have a president that is as willing to listen to steve bannon as this one was. for better or worse, whatever you think of bannon he had very strong ideological views, in a way that donald trump had. he had very well thought out
breitbart, apparently trying to sever ties to his all-important base. and bannon tweeting the word, war, bannon telling the weekly standard the presidency that he and donald trump fought for and won is now over. think of that. all right, a lot to cover. and to talk about so let s bring in cnn s jim acosta joining us first with the very latest for the president s vacation spot in new jersey, jim, what are we finding out about the timing here, how this went down with bannon? well, chris tit was alt-righ, stage left for some. steve bannon was supposed to be fired a couple of weeks ago and that did not happen. he was given a chance to resign, which apparently he took the opportunity to do. but make no mistake he was forced out, fired, apprentice style by the president and chief
system. my question is, who is the conservative connection to that base. speaking with a lot of conservatives that i have spoken with today and a lot of conservatives, look, bannon helped to energize the disaffected republicans, a lot of obama voters, they wanted somebody to go in and drain the swamp and bannon helped do that. a lot of conservatives are looking at kellyanne conway to be the gateway to the president and she is ready and willing and able to step up and do just that. so whether we re talking social conservatives, she is somebody but if kellyanne conway had it the way bannon has it then you wouldn t have needed bannon, because there was a lot of baggage to come in with him? right, there was a lot of baggage to come in with him. so the connection to the base is not to be rivalled with the remaining people there, i don t think, right? i think his tie to the conservative base will still be steve bannon. trump is famous for firing people and then still calling
issue. my point is that trump s agenda, his agenda america first is working. whether you like it or not he is more competent than everybody admits and steve bannon was a big part of that. but so will sessions and miller and carson and pruett and the next two or three supreme court justices will all be part of that agenda. well, we ll see who can keep the president or message or help him keep himself on message and get these things that he promised the american people. ed martin, thank you for joining us tonight. appreciate it. thanks, chris. all right, coming up, it s getting to the point where jared kushner and ivanka trump are the last ones standing with the president in their family. and the question is where are they right now? oscar mayer deli fresh ham has no added nitrates,
have all of these policies being shoved down our trehroat that w don t like. or on the other side, he is the reason about what we do like. so the curtain has been drawn back and we re forced to see in many ways in stark terms that as we said before there is literally nobody who can force the president to do anything he doesn t want to do. he is a force of nature on to himself, for better or worse. on some level he may have exposed himself with the firing of bannon, because at this point for the first time possibly in his entire life, the buck has to state trooper wi stop with him. there would be nobody to point to but him. he has fired most of the people who have served him in that purpose of well, whose fault is it if it is not your own? how do you see it in terms of the implications for the president? with regards to the populous national agenda and the economic