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Steve bannon was not there for that process, which i think says something. you also have i think concern among some folks inside the west wing and close to the president about bannon's role about the machinations with h.r. mcmaster because the two, remember, do have very different policy views. that's what this comes down to -- the bottom line is this -- while steve bannon's personal influence may be waning with the president, his policy influence does not seem to be. look what happened with china trade policy, that's steve bannon, with afghanistan, still nothing announced as the president gra...

Lot of criticism from the left, president trump's senior adviser and son-in-law is in iraq today. before the secretary of state has gone to iraq. kushner is the joints chief, general joseph dounford, meetin with iraqi, american, coalition officials. spokesperson for general dunford said kushner was traveling on behalf of the president to express his support to iraq and u.s. personnel involved in the campaign against isis. for more, i want to bring in nbc's hans nichols from the pentagon. back with me, jeremy peters with "the new york times" and msnbc contributor. break this down for us. what d...

What's the first thing comes to your mind. >> grace and intelligence for sure. she was a first lady with a storied career before she moved into the white house. i believe she was a hospital administrator back in chicago and with a harvard law degree. when she moved into the white house, she took a role that is traditionally passive and a bit -- doesn't have a lot of policy influence, and she took it and turned it into a platform that both married her role as mother of two young women and a woman, two young girls, and a woman passionate about making america a better place. she found her initial...

Turn and bringing in those from goldman sachs? >> i would agree with paul that it fits with trump's framework, and there's no question he made tremendous political hey during the campaign, at first going after ted cruz and then going after hillary clinton, and it was a big campaign theme for him and something he brought up repeatedly, and he said he didn't need to be owned or bought by anybody at goldman sachs and he has so many bankers now up to close proximity in the white house, and kellyanne conway was threading a needle, saying it was not political influence but policy influence, and hard...

She is holding out for something that has policy influence in it. i don't think we know the answer to that. >> thank you so much. we continue to watch donald trump's plane there. he makes his way to new york for those meetings tomorrow. we'll keep a close watch on all of it. we'll be right back. so all you have to do is search for the car you want, there it is. now you're an expert in less than a minute. this is truecar.