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Letter last week asking the trump administration to rescind the bannon appointment. >> what appointment? >> the bannon appointment. >> so they think she's playing with them? >> yes. the people in hawaii think -- they are deeply concerned. >> howard dean said that earlier. there's a lot of anger about that. thank you so much, susan, john and tim. when we return, let me finish with tonight's edition of trump watch. it's tough. warning. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. your insurance company won't replace

Hate and violence. >> it's easy to look at the tv camera and tell people to stop the hate, but when you say that and look at the tv camera and then in the next moment the action you take is to appoint steve bannon, then you're sending a very different and stronger message in the opposite direction. >> democrats called on trump to rescind the bannon appointment as the only way for trump to make a clear break from the more -- well, divisive aspects of the trump campaign and show he was serious about bringing the nation together. >> it is not normal for the kkk, ku klux klan, to celebrate the ele...

Steve bannon, then you're sending a very different and stronger message in the opposite direction. >> democrats called on trump to rescind the bannon appointment as the only way for trump to make a clear break from the more -- well, divisive aspects of the trump campaign and show he was serious about bringing the nation together. >> it is not normal for the kkk, ku klux klan, to celebrate the election of a president. if trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of steve bannon. it will be impossible to take trump's efforts for the nation seri...

Planning. >> sara murray, a lot to talk about. thanks very much, sara. and as all that plays out, the controversy continues over the president-elect's choice of steve bannon as his top white house strategist. we were just talking to glenn beck about that in the last hour. bannon you'll recall served as his campaign ceo. before that he ran breitbart.com, the far right website, and has been accused of using the site to essentially mainstream white nationalism. late this afternoon, departing senate majority leader, harry reid, obviously a democrat, took to the floor and took aim at the bannon app...

He even talked about unification. he wanted to get a lot of those before he went overseas to deal with major issues and concerns to let people know, look, we are moving towards unification to be a united country healing. there are a lot of protest rallies out there. >> and robert costa, another question for you. this weekend we learned priebus was going to be chief of staff, maybe the most powerful job in washington. this bannon appointment is obviously going through. he will be very close figuratively and literally. is there any evidence that donald trump has sinensed the gravity of the prote...