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Adviser stephen k. bannon whose job may be in danger. former rnc chairman, msnbc political analyst, and a good sport during political season, michael steele is with us tonight. jeremy, its your own work that you have posted tonight. whats in the story? tell us the latest. >> so as you said, brian, donald trump has been very clear, as he always is, about his subordinates and whom they work for. in this case, he said without equivocati equivocation, steve bannon works for me. he likes the psycholo...

A lot of this you can read into trumps desire to put steve bannon in his place. i think that while he is definitely on the ropes, and while his job is in jeopardy, i would by no means count him out. this is a president who has a notoriously fickle decision-making process. he goes up and down and back and forth in whatever he -- whether youre talking about bombing syria, or reassigning people within the white house. you never know whats going oh happen. so i think you cant say anything definitive...

We have been remarkably unsuccessful. the united states is so successful on so if fronts, but we get a big, fat f when it comes to regime change. >> well, this is a very complicated situation. assad has been ruthless. he was on the ropes, but then when the russians came in, that added a further not only complicating factor, but basically they get a vote too now. on the other side, you have a group of fighters. some of them are radical jihadists. some of them are moderate syrians. you have sectar...

Most pro-western member of the leadership. and imagine what the non-pro-western leadership are telling putin, as -- so for the straight talk, thats what mr. tillerson is -- russia has two questions on their mind. and hes going to have to answer them in a way thats credible to them. they dont pay any attention to spicer. >> look, its a very important point. the interesting thing is, tillerson will be dealing with lavrov who said, on friday, that this is not irreversible. >> thats right. but lavro...

America first. >> now, that line is straight out of the bannon play book. >> thats right. >> is it a coincidence really that this week the president abandons his nationalist message and strikes syria that bannon is booted from the national security council? >> i think it shows a trend towards the normalization of the trump policy team. the establishment pebt are ascend ant and nationalist people are on the ropes. i dont think the battle is over yet. when it comes to trade next week i think youre...

Can also be in on that. does the second amendment extend outside of the home for self-defense? the right to bear arms? the ninth circuit says no, but the depends head, are you kidding me? of course it does. so he can really be key and all of those cases. >> heather: what about abortion rights? could he impact roe vs. wade? >> he probably will not. he replaces a conservative, so roe vs. wade stands as it is. he says its strong presidents during his supreme court hearing. only if breyer and ginsbu...

He is an originalist and text ulist and that means that whatever the subject matter of the controversy that comes before him, he will read the text of the statute or text of the constitutional provision and neutrally apply the law to the facts of the case. his personal policy preferences shouldnt come in to deciding cases. and if he sticks with that particular judicial philosophy for the next several decades when hes on the bench, they wont. >> with your experience working with justice alito, do...

Though. she had to feel stupid. you talking about, oh, yeah, best friend applications are being accepted. i know that girl so glad she got bailed up out of this [ bleep ]. >> whats going on with you guys? >> well, what? >> whats going on with you? >> with who? >> we are not going to have a fight. >> you two. >> we have no issues. im just in here living with her at the moment. yeah, there was a discrepancy, because i guess she felt like i was calling her out, because she was being untrue to the n...

Frustrated with in fighting among top aides and his inability to make more progress on his domestic agenda. the relationship between bannon and kushner has grown especially strained, sources say. with bannon even lamenting to someone that he is locked in an unwinnable battle with trumps family. this week it was bannon who lost ground. trump removed him from the national security councils committee. this as kushner was brushed up on foreign policy. recently returning from a trip to iraq. the chie...

Proudly. >> its an abrupt change of tone on trump from day one when he ham ertz home this message. j from this day forward its going to be only america first, america first. >> but trump has grown frustrated with in-fighting among top aides and his inability to make more progress on his domestic agenda. the relationship between bannon and kushner has grown more stressful with bannon remarking that hes locked in an unwinnable battle with trumps family. he was removed from the principal committee....