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His investigation. and all the issues are being covered and will be covered in the media in the days to come. but it's -- >> let me ask you about the power imbalance because what struck me there is the moores have been emboldened by the standing they know they have. this was a power struggle and steve bannon, roy moore and sean hannity won. they directed the president. you want to talk about the president being someone's puppet? his puppet strings have been pulled. he has followed sean hannity's lead on the roy moore scandal. we have a lot of conversations about whether putin's pulling the str...

Stuff. >> they frequently cited 10 gop. >> it's here. we have it. somebody is the puppet master that says put this out online on this phony group, this russian operation online. they pick it up on rt, give it a reverberation and something with puppet strings is saying let's get this out into the mainstream media. >> right. i can't point to the specific individuals in russia who are the puppet masters. but many high level folks in the trump campaign amplified the message at 10 gop. we've seen evidence that those trump campaign people knew that 10 gop was affiliated with the kremlin but they hel...

You on economic issues, but also coached little league baseball, had kids in the local school system for about 20, 25 years. had a small business. who knows? maybe even let's be radical here, maybe even taught or she taught sunday school. or who knows? maybe served in the air force? we're seeing some of those candidates start to emerge in the deep south and have a story that resonate with roots in georgia or roots in kentucky. but that's what democrats have to do. all politics is local. they've got to stop acting like they can somehow criminal all of this with puppet strings from new york or s...

I assume he recognized that the one thing you can't do in this administration is be more prominent or even close to as prom nept as the president. >> exactly. and i think he learned that the hard way because in the early days of the administration he was portrayed in popular culture and media as being this dark mastermind, this puppetmaster, president bannon as "saturday night live" called him, and as a white house adviser told me trump does not want to have a co-star, especially not one who's believed to be pulling his puppet strings. so bannon lost a bit of his influence then and i think und...

Manipulator. >> bannon had a lot of influnsz. i don't think he was ever the puppet master he was portrayed as being. he was trump's idia log and pit bug. and it enraged trump, obviously because eventually it cost bannon a seat on the national security counsel. he got put in the dog house and didn't get out until a months ago. >> trump does not want to have anyone costarring along side him, particularly not someone seen as pulling trump's puppet strings. >> co starring, right, since he came to prominence in a big part because he's a tv star. is he has powerful as he used to be? >> he's kept a l...