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Top adviser is jared. [ applause ] >> steve, this is good-bye. take him back to hell. >> incredible. incredible. all right. bringing in msnbc political analyst and former obama administration diplomat and our in-house bannon specialist and columnist mike tomaski. kirk. what do you think about this evolution and what does it say about donald trump who has been willing to remove people, his campaign manager, chris christie, other big folks, that he's clearing trying to split the difference with steve rather than boot him? >> i think, if anything, it kind

>> a defense lawyer would never let his client go on television and make that type of a statement. that's what prosecutors like to call a prior inconsistent statement. if evidence comes to light that he was in fact involved in these sorts of things in a more willful or deliberate way than he acknowledges then we're looking at, i think, very good evidence that can be used whether we're talking about the congressional investigation or federal prosecutors to establish willful misconduct. >> mike, you've covered more than one legally tinged political scandal in washington. what do you think of the...

Diplomats -- american diplomats go around the world one of the things we talk about are this rule of law, anti-corruption. anti-nepotism. these are countries where -- i mean, the president of azerbaijan named his wife as vice president recently. we are always arguing against this. our system is a system of meritocracy, experts, as a contrast to what they're doing. one of the things that this trump in-house family gathering does is undermine the arguments we make for democracies for countries to evolve. that's something i see as a problem going forward in all kinds of ways. >> mike, what do you...

The court situations, some of the executive orders put in place early by the trump administration. the racking up the failures created a necessity for trump to pivot, have someone to blame and refocus to try to build as he heads into the 100-day milestone marker. >> did bannon misplay this? >> absolutely. from when he put himself on the cover of "time" magazine and intimating he was the brain of donald trump. >> great photo. >> when you do that and move yourself so far up front, particularly with a boss who puts so much value on being on the covers of magazines and has such an identity based u...

It wasn't true we were asking him very much so ultimately what he was doing is holding out until he got the best deal for his son andrew. he was running for governor the next year too, but the lessons that i learned from that is cuomo was actually quite a good player of it. and a devoted family man. >> and he didn't want to give the answer of well i'm waiting to decide whether i like this candidate to see what he can do for my son. >> right. exactly. >> mike tomaski, in the fact that he didn't run for president, do you think that tarnishes his political impact or is that fine because most peop...