D. R. E. A. M. Ers. In other words, no bannon. So this news is going to send both sides into a tizzy, but forget about the spin. What matters is how we got here and how things may change. Facts first. Lets remember why trump cozied up to bannon in the first place. Mid august, 2016, trump picks bannon to be his campaign chairman, why . Because bannon hated the gop establishment that was going after trump, encourage trump to be his most bombast i can, which trump liked, and he had a feel for a group of americans that trump wanted to connect with now known as the base. So trump wins. That skinny margin reinforces how important the base was and he raises him to chief strategist. You remember when bannon said darkness is good. Dick cheney, darth vader, satan, thats power. Is steve bannon the second most powerful man in the world . That was the beginning of the end. Trump is not one to share the spotlight. By april President Trump referred to bannon as simply a guy who works for me. In july
Important issues. And, boy, did we pick the right day to start. Anthony scaramucci is here. Were going to be oneonone in just a few minutes on a day where it seems everything has changed. Steve bannon out at breitbart, and with word of that, it was like a spell was broken. President trump called for comprehensive Immigration Reform and a bill of love for d. R. E. A. M. Ers. He held a meeting that was televised with both sides of the aisle. No hate speak, no faux populism. In other words, no bannon. This news is going to send both sides into a tizzy, but forget about the spin. What matters is how we got here and how things may change. Facts first. Lets remember why trump cozied up to bannon in the first place. Mid august, 2016, trump picks bannon to be his campaign chairman, why . Why did he pick him to be chairman . Because bannon hated the gop establishment that was going after trump, encouraged trump to be his most bombastic, which trump liked, and he had a feel for a group of americ
Official announcement, biden cutting right to the bone articulating the stakes of the next president ial election as being about the soul and character of our nation. Watch. It was there on august of 2017 we saw clans men and neo nazis come out in the open. Their crazed faces illuminated by torches, fangs bulging and baring the faces of racism, chanting the same bile heard across europe in the 30s. They were met by a Courageous Group of americans, and a violent clash ensued. And a brave young woman lost her life. And thats when we heard the words of the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the consciousness of this nation. He said there were, quote, some very fine people on both sides. Very fine people on both sides . Those words the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. In that moment, i knew the threat to this nation was unlike any i had ever seen in my life
And more often, and even giving names. Were also keeping an eye on the deadly weather situation. At least two dead in tornados in oklahoma. An update on that this hour. Stick around with that if youre on the road or in the area. Starting in japan, President Trump getting ready to meet with Prime Minister shinzu abe. The Prime Minister and i talked a lot about trade and military and various other things. I think we had a very productive day. Then theres the tweet from the president before all that action that is still reverber e reverberating, quote, north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others but not me. I have confidence that chairman kim will keep his promise to me. But those other people the president speaks of is japan itself. Japan is in range of many of the short range missiles. Kristen weller traveling with the president. This does underline the complexity of the way that International Security works in that region, number one, and numbe
Listened in on the president s july 25th phone call, the call. Telling investigators that that call was, quote, unusual and inappropriate and it shed light on other possible motivations to hold Security Assistance. Also transcripts just released frod white house adviser tim morrison. He confirms the testimony of ambassador bill taylor telling investigators that the ukrainians were told that military assistance, not just the white house meeting, was conditioned on a public announcement of political investigations that the president wanted. Now, that news breaking even as a saturday deposition was just wrapping up. Office of management and budget official mark sandy you see there, defying white house orders to testify, speaking with congressional investigators for roughly 5 1 2 hours. The omb is at the center of this investigation, this inquiry that actually held up because it is agency that actually paused and stopped the military aid being paid to ukraine. Were going to start with msnb