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Steve bannon and the president had a close personal relationship during the campaign i'm not sure it is as close now. in large part because the president has been irkd by the notion that bannon was the mastermind behind all of this. the president wants credit and that's why he was so pre disposed for letting him go this week. steve bannon may leave the white house but that story is being conflated with the other story that makes this, if not the worst week of the presidency, one of they will. that the president just bungled the response to charlottesville so badly. in doing so, he was embracin...

Trump that he needs to continue to be feeding this base, this base that bannon represents that the breitbart news represents. >> it's shrinking. >> it is ability to do anythin wants to accomplish, lejs laifbl and politically. >> without bannon, whom does trump have? >> well, he has kellyanne conway. he has his kids. i mean, there are other penal there. >> the latter are probably in big trouble for one thing and they're probably keeping a low profile at the moment. >> but bannon speaks to the remainder of the trump base. the absolutely can shoot a man in the middle of fifth avenue. they will st...

The republican party that mr. bannon represents does not by and large represent the entire republican party on a whole. i think if you look at what many have called the alt-right, there isn't any intellectual defense of many of the nationalistic principles and ideas that mr. bannon has maintained. so, it is my hope that priebus will help president trump become more of a more mainstream republican as it pertains to policy, as it pertains to foreign policy, but i think as it pertains to mr. bannon, he is not representative of most republicans. but i do think he is representative of many of the v...

From iraqis, from syrians, and the ref of st of it, and now we saying, you're second-class citizens. you're not even allowed in the country. and now you look at iraq, we have 5,000 troops there. the parliament there wants to throw the americans out. how do you fight the war on terrorism? none of this makes sense. there's nothing more impervious to fact and reason than political fantasy and this is what bannon represents. >> and he now has a top seat on the national security council. he's going to have a role in some of the most sensitive operations facing this nation. what do you think of that...

National security to go after the friday pick? >> you look at bannon and reince priebus as kind of coequals at the top of the trump advisory chain there. they're kind of like the yin and yang. i don't think you'd ever hear a reince priebus make a statement like that. but it speaks to the team they've got to put together. that trump is putting together, you've got establishment republicans, you've got conservative republicans. and then you've got outsiders, anti-everything republicans, like bannon represents. and trump as president really has to find a way to kind of merge them all together. yo...