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Like steve bannon and like breitbart. i think president trump saw an opportunity. he took it. these comments which appear to be true, president trump used it as an opportunity. >> when you attack his family, you attack the president. even more personally than attacks on him or his intellect or mental stability. when go after his family and his children, thats his red line. >> for many of us. the american people if you look at social media, they seem to agree on that point alone. nbc news anchor,...

Im glad steve walked it back. im not sure that undone the damage. at least going on record and saying, don jr. was wrong. >> i think we also have to take into account, potentially this was an out for president trump. steve banson has soaked up lot of oxygen, lot of negative attention. i think president trump feels that steve bannon put them in bad position in alabama. perhaps, this is an opportunity for president trump to break up with steve bannon. you have the mercer also saying, were done wit...

We know about bannon is he has been in so many careers. he was in the navy. he was a harvard business school, goldman sachs. he ran bio sphere 2 for a while and produced movies and obviously breitbart. i was trying understand who he was and where the viewpoints came from. and what he points to is his father who despite the sort of chaos and drama of steves own life his father worked 50 years at the same company at at&t with a high school education. his grandfher worked for 48 years at t same com...

Americans were wondering whats going on here. >> meanwhile, fbi director james comey is on capitol hill today. he is facing questions about russia and the presidents wiretapping claim. are we getting closer to any answers from the fbi? well talk to a member of the house intelligence committee next. plus perhaps no one has the presidents ear more than the man we just mentioned. steve bannon. who used to run breitbart, now a top white house advisor, he remains a mist troy many people around the co...

A hit in the 2008 crash and leads us to trump today. >> economic nationalism is the term he uses but his critics say white nationalism. is there a racial component to it? >> he denies any racial motivation here at all. you know, he is obviously referred to as breitbart as a platform for the alt-right which does have some racial aspects to it. but you know, what he -- talking to his father and his friends, thats something that they also want to push back on, quickly. i was sort of less interested...

Get rid of. here you have now a familiar enemy for that platform, that audience, in case this goethe south. >> now you have paul ryan responding to breitbart. he just did in an interview with martha over on fox. she asked about this breitbart situation and heres what the speaker said. >> ive got really thick skin, martha. this is ancient history. that was back when that video came out. look, its no secret donald and i had our ups and downs, the president and i had our ups and downs but we merged...

Again, youre seeing a direct correlation between initiatives that bannon cares about are implemented, the held lines are glowing, the stories support the presidents agenda. when its contrary to what steve may want or the approach being employed by the white house to sell it or when congress isnt cooperating the way steve would like, all of a sudden the headlines turn negative and things get personal. things from the past get drawn up. that tells you theres a direct correlation between the agenda...

Many government departments, steps towards what the presidents own adviser steve bannon, who came from breitbart, has called -- >> destruction of the administrative state. >> reporter: but that may be hard to come by as long as establishment republicans still hold sway so it appears the right is hoping to reignite the rancor of the campaign and trump called ryan weak and ineffective. after all, this was just one year ago. >> how do you like paul ryan? how to you like him? do you like him? [ boos...

Important. >> i just respectfully disagree. i think donald trump saves himself. >> how dare you. >> but nonetheless i dont think its significant whether she saved him or not. whats significant is steve bannon is putting out the word and thats -- >> hes saying nice things about kellyanne conway. >> embracing her and that strengthens the alliance within the white house and the government of the people trying to take on the, quote, administrative state. >> very interesting take on it. maybe it was ...

Tonight, is the president trying to dismantle washington? an idea champion championed by the presidents chief, steve bannon, is completely upending it, including radical changes to how agencies are funded and dramatic slashes in the funding, taking on establishments like the house speaker who today found himself under attack by the website once run by steve bannon. tom foreman is out front. >> i am not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. >> reporter: another shot across the...