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Pushed. the line they're trying to sell from the bannon side is that it was an orderly good-bye, that it was on his terms, that he filed his notice that he would leave two weeks ago or maybe it was ten days ago or maybe it was a week ago. he at least definitely had already decided to leave on his own terms a long time ago and everybody knew he was leaving, including him. and that's all fine. if you're going to try to sell that line except for the fact that three nights ago he made a call to the american prospect to brag to people in the administration about who he's about to fire, who steve ba...

Reclusive right-wing billionaire, robert mercer, the single largest donor to elect trump as president. even though bannon was taking over as the campaign manager for manafort, he insisted on being called the campaign ceo. okay? once he was installed as senior white house strategist, steve bannon insisted it be made publicly known that his chief strategist role was of equal rank to be white house chief of staff. he then named himself to the national security council. before that national security adviser, the first one got fired and the new one kicked him out of there. well, now as of today, he...

Well, now as of today he is gone from the white house altogether with a flourish of random contradictory information about how exactly he left. how much he jumped and how much he was pushed. the line there trying to sell now from the bannon side is that it was an orderly good-bye, that it was on his terms, that he filed his notice that he would leave two weeks ago or maybe it was ten days ago or maybe it was a week ago. he at least definitely had already decided to leave on his own terms a long time ago, and everybody knew he was leaving, including him. that's all fine if you are going to try ...

Have distinctly different viewpoints. and bannon is not a guy who likes to fall back and defer to other people. and even though he's been kicked off the national security council, he obviously still has a voice in the administration's foreign policy and is trying to exert his influence through other channels. >> we should be clear to the extent there's a war party, the other side, the bannon side on afghanistan, wants to outsource the conflict of 5,000 mercenaries. so it's not like there's a big peace faction on the other side. >> bannon's view, to the extent i think understand it, he wants to...

Represents what the nationalist faction calls the war party. so on every issue that has come up, whether it is afghanistan or syria or now north korea, they have distinctly different viewpoints. and bannon is not a guy who likes to fall back and defer to other people. and even though he's been kicked off the national security council, he obviously still has a voice in the administration's foreign policy and is trying to exert his influence through other channels. >> we should be clear to the extent there's a war party, the other side, the bannon side on afghanistan, wants to outsource the conf...