Page 3 - Position A News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

President trump's former chief strategist steve bannon is back at his old job running the far right website breitbart news. he may have fired the first shot in his war against some of his former white house colleagues. bannon was against further involvement in afghanistan. breitbart posted articles last night calling the president's position a, quote, flip-flop. president trump's america first base was the biggest loser of trump's speech on afghanistan intervention abroad and focus on nation-building at home. joining me here in the newsroom is associated press white house reporter johnathan la...

With steve bannon, whether bannon will be someone in trump's ear on the phone or will just communicate to him via breitbart. i should point out, bannon has suggested he doesn't want to go after trump by name, yet. but in an article in breitbart right now about the potential immigration plan, he suggests if trump does away with his promises around dhaka, this could be, quote, his merkel moment. >> steve bannon didn't join the campaign until august of 2016 but had influence before that, he was on the phone with donald trump a lot. vanity fair special correspondent gabe sherman had a report on su...

Strategist doesn't make a good governance person in either your office or in this case, the presidency. and the president needs to make that determination. and that's where a good chief of staff can come in and sort of sort those things out. not just because they were there during the nastiness of the campaign, as i said, doesn't always mean, you know, they're right for position a or position b. they all have a skill set and a talent set that the president should taken advantage of, but, again, i wouldn't make a lot of it -- this is a human nature event, when you go something, through a campai...

Through the ride with the candidate all along, versus people who are coming in, you know, in the latter days of the campaign, latter months of the campaign, or even now that east president-elect? >> you know, i think that plays into every candidate for office. sometimes your best campaign strategist doesn't make a good governance person in either your office or in this case, the presidency. and the president needs to make that determination. and that's where a good chief of staff can come in and sort of sort those things out. not just because they were there during the nastiness of the campaig...

What is the white house saying about the issue? >> reporter: craig, they are saying that they are encouraged by the fact that house speaker, john boehner, is putting forward a proposal that increases the debt limit without an equal amount of spending cuts. that was his long-held position a and he is abandoning that position, and saying that he will increase the debt ceiling for a period of three months and in that timeframe, the congress has to come up with a budget and that is a win from the democrats standpoint, but they do not like the idea of increasing the debt limit in increments. the qu...