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Matters when theyre worried about their kids and health care. bannon and trump were able to be talk past to us those americans and say i care about you. it was brilliant. now were talking to the author of this book. is he a puppet master and starting to get back into the washington, d.c. part of it. >> the author makes that point well about how steve bannon heard the voices and figured out that donald trump was somebody who also ironically was able to, despite his wealth, able to kind of connect...

>> why? >> what it looks like is not good, and what it -- what it looks like from the kremlin perspective, i mean, if youre in human intelligence, in collections, the ideal circumstances are for you to get the person alone. so i think before the world stage, weve seen putin get trump alone, and what does that say, symbolically? what does it say strategically? i think, again, it shows this -- it shows our administration to be a little bit of amateur hour. i mean, you dont want to make it look lik...

At first trump didnt seem excited. he wound up going to iowa did a speech on it and planned out and the crowd loved it. >> back now with the panel. based on his reporting if thats how this started, does it in any way undercut the idea of the wall? >> i mean i think steve bannon was sort of looking for a vessel for his ideas. if you look back, sara paylen was somebody he discoverstumble and discovered. and michelle balkman and he stumbled upon donald trump and it seems like they made the agreemen...

The two men are the focus of a new book on the campaign trail and even on election night. steve bannon, donald trump and the storming of the presidency. i spoke to him earlier. so the narrative that surrounds bannon, i think on the cover of "time," hes called the great manipulator, that hes running the show there. how does that jibe with reality? >> bannon had a lot of influence. i dont think he was ever the puppet master he was portrayed as being. he was trumps idiot log and pitbull, but i do t...

He sees cnn as a institution like coca-cola, like xerox. and he, like, he loves stars. he wants to be a part of that. someone who doesnt shower love on him gets him upset. thats a good way to put it, its petty. its beneath the dignity of the office. bannon came wielding enormous influence over the president but found himself on the outs after being put on the cover of "time" magazine after being touted as being the master manipulator. >> bannon had a lot of influence. i dont think he was ever th...

Storming the presidency by joshua green. i spoke to him earlier. so, the narrative that surrounds bannon, i think hes on the cover of time he was called the great manipulator, hes running the show there. how does that jibe with reality? >> bannon had a lot of influence. i dont think he was ever the puppet master that he was portrayed as being. what he really was was trumps ideologue and pit bull. the portrayal enraged trump because eventually it cost bannon a seat on the national security coun...

Should he have handled it better? maybe. but he had concerns he expressed during the hearing about who he would have gone to. >> one small point is he did consult with his senior staff on this. it wasnt as if he kept it to himself. when you say said have consulted with others -- >> and theres just another factor to remember about how james comey should have handled this. well never know how he ultimately would have handled it because the guy he was investigating fired him. >> you keep bringing u...

Citizen in virginia now and which one is president of the united states. >> thats irrelevant. >> oh really? whose conduct is more important to evaluate here today? >> its going to get flushed out in that mueller report. >> lets flush it out. >> lets press rewind. if comey was so concerned about it, the very first time, why didnt he leak it to his columbia friend then? >> he went to the attorney general. he did go to the attorney general. >> but he asked the attorney general -- he was behind the ...

Appeared to have waned and the fact that he was predicted as trumps puppet master and snl even called him the grim reaper, here he is surrounded by saudi officials and looking quite awkward. thank you all for being here. i want to play one more clip from this "frontline" documentary about what unites steve bann and donald trump. >> so breitbart, palin, trump, all are sort of anti-establishment figures and i think that appeals to bannon. it more about destroying enemies. thats where he and trump ...

Were at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict. we are in an outright war against jihadist, islamic fascism. this war i think is metastasizing almost far quicker than governments can hadndle it >> white house chief strategist steve bannon has come a long ways since he made those remarks at a 2014 conference at the vatican shown here on the pbs "front line" documentarywaned w removal from the security council, and puppet master, "snl" portraying him as the grim reaper call...