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He said, i like steve, but you have to remember, he was not involved in my campaign until very late. id already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and i didnt know steve. im my own strategist. it wasnt like i was going to change strategies because i was facing crooked hillary. im curious, what do you see as being the turning point for the president and bannons relationship? >> i think mr. bannon has been elevated in the public mind, and certainly in political circles since the presid...

>> i said we would get the criminals out, the drug lords, we would get them out. >> it wasnt just the infighting that was frustrating trump. it was also the frequent suggestion featured here on "saturday night live" that bannon was trumps puppet master. >> reporter: donald trump spoke to the wall street journal calling reports of infighting overblown. that said he also described bannon as a guy who works for me and reiterated that donald trump is his own strategist. >> david gregory joins us, ma...

Them out. >> it wasnt just the infighting that frustrated trump. >> it was also the frequent suggestion portrayed here on saturday night live that bannon was his puppet master. >> okay, donald, thats enough fun for tonight. can i have my desk back? >> yes, mr., ill go sit at my desk. >> he called reports of infighting overblown. bannon is a guy who works for me and reiterated that he, donald trump is his own strategist. anderson? >> plenty to talk about with the panel. i hardly know them i mean ...

What are you hearing and whats going to happen next? i mean -- >> i think you could probably draw a line to that february time article titling -- titled the great manipulator about b bannon, that he was the puppet master behind trump. trump did not like that at all. >> like the bushs brain comment of carl rove. >> you combine that with his apprentice ethos with staffing the white house different te centers. you never get in a fight with the son-in-law of your boss. i want to make a point about w...

Know hes the puppet master. >> but nobody knows what donald trump wants. therein lies the fundamental problem of this administration. donald trump is not somebody who is tied to any one ideology. hes somebody that goes wherever the wind takes him. so he can change his mind on a dime, sorry to use all those cliches, but he can change his mind any moment and tweet something and everybody has to scramble to find a policy to go with it. >> what jared kushner wants is what the president wants, which ...

One. it kind of rotates. youre never exactly sure why. i think steve bannon is on a downward -- hes in a gully at the moment on the sort of broad plan of where the white house is. >> kirsten, the white house is downplaying all the reports of a potential shakeup. spokes woman says the only thing we are shaking up is the way washington operates. >> i dont think thats right. i think most people, theres definitely a lot going on in the white house in terms of people not getting along. theres no ques...

Reason. white house press secretary sean spicer had this to say about it today. >> well, i think that there has been an acknowledgment that there are documents out there showing that people were surveilled or monitored to some degree. >> exclusively been foreigners devin nunes concedes. >> devin nunes also made it clear he is going to have a hearing later next week with several members of the intelligence community and calling them other. lets wait. >> why president vindicated by it? >> the pres...

Contributed hundreds of dollars to groups associated with the womens march and the work stoppage yesterday. here now, truth serum correspondents eric shawn and shannon bream.. tell me about the soros deal, shannon. >> he has been supportive of a number of these groups that have had big marches against the president, essentially. the media research center $246 million over the last 14 years. poured an estimated $25 million into hillary clintons election campaign. and some down ballot races as wel...

Dollars to groups associated with the womens march and they work stoppage yesterday. here now, truth serum correspondence eric shawn and shannon bream. >> he has been supportive of a number of these groups that have had big marches against the president, essentially. the media research center cracked these numbers down, $246 million over the last 14 years. report an estimated $25 million into hillary clintons election campaign, but this much yesterday, many of these groups are directly linked to...

>> you can see that actually some of the people that -- >> by the way, they walked into the room because the president of the united states said come in the room. this isnt like as we always say, this isnt like -- steve bannon may think he is trumps puppet master. nobody else in washington thinks that. these people came to the room because donald trump invited them into the room. >> i think that you saw the impact of jared and ivanka. you saw the impact of vice president pence, but you really ju...