reminds him of where the president is and where the president's base is. but it's not quite master puppeteer pulling strings. it is someone more being trump's id and channeling his brain. >> nothing could have sealed stephen miller's fate, as in with donald trump, as stephen miller staying silent as trump annihilated the reputation of jeff sessions on twitter. stephen miller is only in this orbit because jeff sessions brought him into the trump orbit. and when donald trump took to twitter and smeared and slandered jeff sessions, the sitting attorney general, to such a degree that democrats came to his defense, stephen miller was staggeringly stunningly silent. >> he was, he was. he was protecting his own place in the white house in that circle of trust within the president. and i think just seeing how stephen miller is influencing -- and i agree with ashley that he is not a puppeteer, ehe is not