there are people that steve bannon hits, and so people that steve bannon hits, and so he sometimes felt isolated within the white house, but he certainly feels, and i think he has good reason to feel this, that he is at the link between the people who got donald trump into the white house and donald trump themselves. one donald trump thought that steve bannon was getting too big for his bets, i don't know, but i would argue that song would never have had defined an evil —— had a phenomenal success without him. with the loss of steve bannon, do reno seek a change in tone? steve bannon himself said that the tram presidency that he voted for and supported was now dead. i think he means that there is no longer an automatic assumption that all of the policies that he wa nts to that all of the policies that he wants to pursue will necessarily being enacted. i think it is now on a case—by—case basis, and a guest will have to be made by the right of the republican party as it is made by the moderates in the republic party, and that is why use the balancing new has got his weapon back. h

now whether donald trump felt that steve bannon by being that quy felt that steve bannon by being that guy in the middle was getting a bit big for his boots, i don't know. i would argue that had bannon not been on side trump would never have had the phenomenal success he had. he needed breitbart, the insurgency. and bannon led that. with the loss of bannon do we see a change in policy, the change in policy direction? steve bannon himself said that the trump presidency that he voted for and supported was now dead. what he means by that is that there's no longer an automatic assumption that all of the policies that he want to push through will necessarily be enacted. it's now a case by case basis. the case will have to be made by the right of the republican party, as it's made by the moderates in the party. you hear bannon saying, i've got my weapon back, i'm back at breitbart. i've got the power to push forward that agenda. he will be galvanising people in the way that only steve bannon can. he will motivate them. what he will say is — look, it's not trump, it's the people around him.

the suggestion is that with steve bannon gone other people who are ideologically allied with steve bannon might also lose and this could become somewhat more vague conventional presidency. i think that the president trump knows he won the white house as an outsider. he did because he wasn't going to do the things that have been typically done in washington. so presumably does not want to lose that outsider or rebel image by going along completely orthodox traffic. >> can he do that is to work with congress he - to get things done. people want everything on track. >> the approval rating has gone about 239 percent. we have seen more and more republican lawmakers come out in opposition to him. particularly in the wake of his comments of charlottesville. i think relations between the president and congress are at a low and right now. but the question is whether the president can lose his fortunes in whether he wishes to do so. whether he wishes to put the leg work into those relationships. >> niall stanage, a pleasure to talk to you. >> always a pleasure. >> and take a minute and relax for th

steve bannon's not going away. he is, as he calls himself, the classic honey badger. >> we know his saying, and we won't repeat it on tv. >> i agree. >> rich galen, to you. you chuckled when i was asking david about, what does this mean and he was like, let me try to understand the why first. what -- do you think -- a lot of people this week were saying in the wake of charlottesville, get him out, get him out, this will be so much better, but will it be? >> well, remember what general kelly said when he came in to be the chief of staff. his job is to control the staff, not control the president. so, he didn't set the bar out of sight. >> people had high hopes. >> he's making good on it. i think one of the reasons that bannon didn't leave two weeks ago was so that they could put some space between the scaramucci business and the bannon business. >> which, by the way, was precipitated by the reince business the friday prior. >> right. so the net result is that general kelly is getting control of the staff. he's movin

the post steve bannon area begins. president trump did not respond to questions friday about the dismissal of his chief strategist. bannon leaves the white house but not the battlefield. already back to his former world at the conservative media outlet breitbart named executive chairman and already speaking out. bannon bluntly told the weekly standard, the trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over. this image captures the exitus. all the advisors from this early group now gone. bannon, the hard line nationalist, economic populist, lost his power struggle within to more moderate voices with whom he had sparred. bannon also said of his return to breitbart, now i'm free, i've got my hands back on my weapons. critics including many democrats, blasted bannon as an alt-right leader who gave a bigger platform to white nationalist anger. wall street reacted when news of his exit broke with traders cheering. >> bannon is set to have submitted his resignation. >> reporter: tuesday president trump defended bannon but

the post-steve bannon era begins. president trump did not respond to questions friday about the dismissal of his chief strategist. bannon leaves the white house but not the battlefield. already back to his former world at the conservative media outlet breitbart, named executive chairman. and already speaking out. bannon bluntly told "the weekly standard," "the trump presidency that we put it for and won is over." this image captures the exodus. all the advisers from this early group now gone. bannon, the hard-line nationalist, economic populist, lost his power struggle within to more moderate voices with whom he had sparred. bannon also said of his return to breitbart, "now i'm free. i've got my hands back on my weapons." critics including many democrats blasted bannon as an alt-right leader who gave a bigger platform to white nationalist anger. wall street reacted when news of his exit broke with traders cheering. [ cheers ] >> bannon is said to have submitted his resignation. >> reporter: tuesday president trump had

steve bannon has been fired. it has been a chaotic four, even by these white house standards, so let's just all take a moment just to remind you what has happened, incredibly significant events, one after the other. so in no particular order, president trump in the last four has -- fires his chief strategist, fires his chief of staff, hires a new one, hires a new communications director, fires him, hires a new one, his fourth in seven months, publicly shames his attorney general multiple times, loses a health care bill, publicly shames the three republicans who voted against it multiple times, bans transgender individuals from the military without telling the military, ticks off the boy scouts, makes up a phone call with said scouts, makes up another phone call with the president of mexico, thanks vladimir putin for expelling americans, hundreds of them, takes days to sign a bipartisan sanctions bill and then blasts congress for making him sign it, condemns leaks but then says he likes the leaks because it shows

general kelly wanted steve bannon to go. the president went along with that part of showing respect to general kelly and maybe buying himself time on changing he doesn't wasn't to make. >> rose: mike allen of axios, thank you for this conversation. >> charlie, thanks for a great conversation in historic times. >> rose: we'll be right back, stay with us. >> rose: we turn to another terror attack in europe, 14 died and more than 100 injured in a pay pair of attacks in barcelona and cambrils. terrorists hoped to inflict heavy casuals by driving vehicles into crowds of pedestrians. we turn to frances townsend, former homeland security advisor to president bush and also a contributor to cbs news. what's the significance of this? >> charlie, i think this is one in a series of these vehicular attacks. the best known that started the trend in europe was the nice attack in the promenade with the big truck and there have been over half a dozen in the last year. the barcelona attack was a little different. what they intended we believe

as for steve bannon, he's back at work at breitbart. employees tweeting out that he has resumed his position. executive chairman. even attending an editorial meeting today. bannon plans to go on the warpath against opponents of president trump, in congress and in the media and in corporate america. and against what bannon refers to as globalists. that would be people like gary cohn, jared kushner, h.r. mcmaster, and steven mnuchin. in some ways, bannon is now unchained from the constraints of the white house that sort of had him pinned down. he is now free to go out and do whatever he wants. what's the reason why bannon is gone? you've seen that cover of the "time" magazine article. it looked like bannon was the real power behind the throne at the white house. there is also the book, "devil's bargain," the rock at the trump road all the way to the presidency. there was some talk in july that bannon may be leaving at the same time reince priebus was. j i am told by sources in the know at the white house that bannon tenured his resignatio

send in steve bannon. on the late—night comedy shows, steve bannon was portrayed as a dangerous, shadowy figure, but also the real brains behind the trump operation. 0k, donald. that's enough fun for tonight. can i have my desk back? yes, of course, mr president. i'll go sit at my desk. something that is not likely to have pleased the president. this photograph of donald trump's close aides was taken just a few days into his presidency. less than seven months later, he has lost his national security adviser, his press secretary, his chief of staff, and now his chief strategist, which may leave donald trump looking a lonely figure. but steve bannon‘s dismissal is a victory for those wanting to remove the extreme elements surrounding their president. but it will take a lot to convince many this will lead to a better—functioning white house. steve bannon has reportedly returned as executive chairman of breitbart news. i spoke to our washington correspondent david willis about what his departure means fo

stevsteve. >> bret: you mean steve bannon. >> steve bannon. is he off the leash in the new sort of order that general kelly is trying to impose where the white house chief of staff controlled who goes in to and out of the office and who sees the president. but i think steve bannon is very much going to be in president trump's ear. >> bret: you look back at this interview with american prospect that he gave and some of the things that he said. among them you have the white nationalist movement. these guys are a collection of clowns. ethno-nationalism, it's losers. it's a fringe element. i think the media plays it up too much. we have got to help crush it, you know, help crush it more. the democrats more they talk about identity politics i got them. i want them to talk about racism every day if the left is focused on race and identity and we go with economic nationalism we can crush the democrats. in the wake of everything we saw this week, it obviously was not a message that was well received. >> i think that was part. it was several strikes ag

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we will see what happens with steve bannon. by see what happens with steve bannon. by the time that donald trump had made that list than ringing endorsement of the early this week, the die was cast. steve bannon‘s clashes with more moderate forces in the west wing, including jared kushner and donald trump's daughter, ivanka. renewed accusations after the event is a child still over his white nationalist sympathies sealed his fate. this time magazine labelled steve bannon the great manipulator. he is nowjoint —— he has now joined breitbart manipulator. he is nowjoint —— he has nowjoined breitbart news. he says he continues to intend that mackie says that he intends to keep fighting on the president's bar. he has said that the troubled presidency that they fought for and w011 presidency that they fought for and won is now over. leading members of the white house inner circle shown here just seven months ago have the white house inner circle shown herejust seven months ago have now almost all been sacked or stepped down. although his departure is a victory fo

earlier this week, president trump gave a lukewarm endorsement to steve bannon. for steve bannon. let's take a listen. >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. but mr. bannon came on very late. you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors, and i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came on very much later than that, and i like him. he's a good man. he is not a racist. i can tell you that. he's a good person. he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. liz: let's bring in one of the strongest minds in dc. fred barns. good to see you, fred. >> thank you. liz: what do you think of steve bannon's exit? good or bad? >> well, i think trump's going to miss him, but he had to make a decision. listen, this was a gamble by steve bannon, and he gambled that on the record where he said he -- bannon said he was going to clean out the state department, and he would -- and acted like he was going to drive gary cohn, the chief economic adviser of the white house, and all of these things. the president had to choose. it wasn't a -- he h

you said that steve bannon and donald trump are that steve bannon and donald trump a re closely that steve bannon and donald trump are closely aligned, how likely is it that donald trump will continue with this nationalist, economic nationalist movement that steve bannon used to talk about so much without steve bannon in the white house backing him because he is certainly not in that line up at the moment on his twitter page? well, trump never pursued this in a genuine week, he talked on the campaign about wanting in infrastructure plan and economic programmes that would benefit americans that are down on a lot, but he has done nothing in office to actually help people economically. what he has done this talk about economic populism as a pretext for endorsing anti—muslim, xenophobic, and guy black, other repressive policies. you know, these guys do not have interest in what the average american is going through. i actually agree with trump that the economy was in bad shape when he took office, but guess what? it is still in a bad shape and all he is suggesting is that he has fixed

the problem is not steve bannon. i mean he's a terrible human being with crazy ideas, the problem is donald trump. i agree with what brian was just saying. it is donald trump who doesn't know the difference between people who are neo-nazi or whatever term they want to use that the white nationalists and the people standing up against them. it is donald trump who doesn't understand that you have to have a certain level of competence in order to make things work. you know, this is -- he has a good has been pbit here for himt switches our direction and gets us to look in the other direction. it's not steve bannon, it's donald trump and he is still there. >> let's talk about the republican base. run in the republican party. donald trump knew something about the gop base that the rest of the party did not. he defeated 16 other people who are establishment types. is the base of the party more bannonite than republicans want to admit? >> they might be. i think there are a lot of people in the republican party, especially th

just because steve bannon is there or not. bob mercer, the hedge fund millionaire this week, president trump -- and live confirmed that. that means they've been talking things through. about how to play the outside game with steve bannon and the mercer family perhaps. that's an interesting thing in and of itself. >> lisa: hi it, lisa. are we expecting for people like steve miller or sebastian gorka, more closely aligned with steve bannon. does the signal anything for them? are you hearing of any additional staff changes? >> all we have heard is that general kelly is not finished cleaning house. if that's accurate i think there are people that will be looking over their shoulder. people, they're probably a couple of them. steve miller has entrenched himself. on the more communication side of things. maybe a better position. there are a couple others who might be looking over their shoulders. >> jesse: hey, bret baier. i don't want to get into the president's head. i think that's a very interesting place to be. if you're preside

steve bannon is out. he walked out of the west ring and right into the breitbart newsroom and declaring he feels jacked up and frees and his hands are back on his weapons and democrats wonder if the nation's most prominent nationalist was more dangerous on the inside or out of the side white house. and also tonight while the fallout -- continues from the charlottesville, the resolving door swings again as the president is now without the core group he came to office with. all of it as "the 11th hour" on a friday night gets underway now. >> and live on a friday evening, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 211 of the trump administration and the white house is now without the man routinely parodies on snl as the grim reaper. steve bannon is out. he said he resigned and other sources say he was hout and they say it was a agreement. general john kelly, the white house chief of staff, left the white house and as quickly as you could say alt right, he whats was right bac

tonight steve bannon is out. bannon and chief of staff john kelly had agreed today would be bannon's last day. let's start off with two of the reporters intimately connected to what's going on at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. joining me tonight chief white house correspondent john roberts and chief national correspondent ed henry. john, first to you. what do we know about the time line, the tick tock of how this all went down? >> well, a couple of competing narratives going on here, bret. first of all, white house sources have told me that this has been going on for several days now. that john kelly, the new chief of staff has been evaluating a lot of the people who are employed at the white house. and that it was kelly and bannon who came to an agreement that today was going to be bannon's last day, suggesting that john kelly had pretty significant hand in the fact that bannon was no longer going to be with the white house. however, people who are close to bannon say that he actually tendered his resignation back on

legal help is here. >>> in addition to steve bannon >>> in addition to steve bannon leaving today as white house chief strategist, special assistant to the president julia hahn also hit the exits and left the white house. also out today, the white house director of public liaison, which is a title that sounds like nothing but it was a position held by valerie jarrett. in the obama white house. that guy left today. and then today carl icahn left today as well. carl e he will no longer serve as a special adviser to the president on regulatory reform, though this blistering long piece in "the new yorker" today suggests that carl icahn may have some criminal legal concerns that followed him home from that job that he quit tonight. okay. so that's this evening whose left the trump administration. anybody else? where's my phone? before tonight, in addition to losing his national security adviser and his chief of staff and his press secretary and press secretary and chief strategist, the president also saw the departure of not one but two communications directors and his deputy white house

steve bannon trying to sew chaos and ruin my book reading. they decided to give a speech about it attacking bannon and breitbart news where he was chairman frontally of the clinton campaign had a big debate, do we put this term in the title of the speech because most people never heard of the all right. in the end they decided yes, let's do this because reporters are going to freak out and readers will want to know what is this all right and it will generate a series of stories that will reflect negatively on the trump campaign. so clinton gave a speech to crying steve bannon and the forces of hatred and division and racism and anti-semitism. and two days of coverage as she hoped, but with trump and the campaign he can always do some things that would step on a negative story and so all he had to do was send a tweet or take megyn kelly and the media was on something else. the other problem with that speech, i got the internal polling from the come -- the trump campaign. it got a lot of political attention but didn't seem to hurt trump with vo

steve bannon out, what can you tell us? speak out guest, sandra, this is something that that is been rud for an awfully -- >> sandra: that was a bit of a blip. obviously live television, we'll try to get him back. he has conferred this news. >> harris: i want to go back to the question of what sandra was saying. i don't know what he normally would've said, but he saying this is something he says with off the record. >> lawrence: he also cleared his name. people were pegging him as the racist in the white house. >> harris: stronger language on the president was using at that time. >> sandra: john roberts, are you good now, sir? >> i thought it was good before. steve bannon is one of the people that's closest to the president ideology if not personally, and the president has said they came into the campaign late that he was clearly a force during the campaign and a force there at the white house, but they are now controlled by two sources and steve bannon will be leaving the white houses. as communicate with him this morning

send in steve bannon. on a late—night comedy show, steve bannon was portrayed as a dangerous, shadowy figure, but also the real brains behind the trump operation. 0k, donald. that's enough fun for tonight. can i have my desk back? yes, of course, mr president. i'll go sit at my desk. something that is not likely to have pleased the president. this photograph of donald trump's close aides was taken just a few days into his presidency. less than seven months later, he has lost his national security adviser, his press secretary, his chief of staff, and now his chief strategist, which may leave donald trump looking a lonely figure. but steve bannon‘s dismissal is a victory for those wanting to remove the extreme elements surrounding their president. but it will take a lot to convince many this will lead to a better functioning white house. the former bbc news correspondent and presenter liz mackean has died at the age of 52. the award—winning journalist worked on newsnight for m years. she was best known

he resented steve bannon the narratives that steve bannon was a central figure in his election victory. he resented the profile that bannon had got. and frankly trump which we've reported axios on the weekend, trump had been telling people that bannon was a leaker. my understanding is he even told bannon that on one occasion in the sort of offhand way that trump does. it was all the cards were against bannon and frankly by the end it was very clear that steve himself wanted to go out in a blaze of glory and set himself up for the next phase which is a leader of the nationalist populist worldwide and he's partnering with bob mersa. they are planning the next moves in terms of political and media strategy. i don't know if bannon will return to breitbart but my reporting is that that's possible if not likely. he described it as a killing machine so you can expect him to cause a lot of trouble on the outside, particularly for the quote up quote globalists that he wants to destroy who still remain inside the white house. >> you've got a great line from your piece this morning, it says one s

lisa: you talk about the things steve bannon had as priorities. >> no, steve bannon happens to be someone whose priorities were president trump's priorities. he's not going to stop fighting for a better path forward on negotiating trade deals with other countries. trade deals best for the american economy, american workers most of importantly. i believe because there was so much symmetry on their priorities of fighting for the american people, priorities that got president trump elected last november that president will keep fighting for it. there are a lot of people who agree with president trump on these priorities. >> switching gears. you have been catching heat for supporting what president obama said in the sense there are different violent sides in charlottesville, virginia. do you worry? there has been universal condemnation for the members of the kkk, the white supremacists, that showed up that day. but do you worry the left does not condemn the violent groups throughout the stun tri, not just black lives matter but groups like antifa. >> there is a responsibility for the left to

gina: steve bannon wouldn't be steve bannon if the media did their jobs. citizen journalism rose up and took over which essentially started with the tea party being frustrated with the fact that their narrative never got out into mainstream media. that's what created "breitbart" which essentially are citizen journalists. that's the movement that made old media crumble. so they resent him on two levels. howie: you saying there was still void for the populist sometimes cultural warrior views steve bannon is identified with? gina: back in the day when you had alphabet soup network news. people like me and steve bannon and andrew breitbart, i remember talking about how can we start a citizens movement and take our phones and go to meeting and cover what the media didn't cover. howie: . mikmika brzezinski says blood ad carnage will be on his hands. gina: i wonder if the media at any point will try to recover credibility by calling out people like her out and never calling people out on the left. we had officers killed this week. where is the outcry from the med

you wanted steve bannon out. are you a happy man this morning >> yeah, listen i have nothing personal with steve bannon but the way he was operating within the white house was undermining the president by giving an interview where he was un declaring the president's policy on north korea and obviously behind the leaks in recent weeks and again you can't have somebody like that within the white house. let general kelly do his job. i think john kelly is the hero of this. >> maria: congressman good to see you this morning thanks so much. >> thank you, maria. >> maria: congressman peter king , a different perspective on the president's perspective to secure the borders back in a minute. live-stream your favorite sport at the airport. binge dvr'd shows while painting your toes. on demand laughs during long bubble baths. tv on every screen is awesome. the xfinity stream app. all your tv at home. the most on demand your entire dvr. top networks. and live sports on the go. included with xfinity tv. xfinity, the future of

steve bannon fireds. joining me to talk about this, thanks for joinings us, congresswoman. >> good to see you. >> do you support the president firing steve bannon? >> well, i support any changes in the white house at this point. i think that this is probably a, a showing of general kelly shaking things up knowing that things aren't going quite well in the white house and, you know, i think this might about good move. hopefully anything is better than nothing, and the aftermath, after the president's initial response on the nazis marring on charlottesville and what mitt romney said on facebook today, "what the president communicated caused racists to rejoice, american -- appaologizapologize unequivocally racists are to blame for the murder and violence in charlottesville." do you agree and do you think that would make a difference? >> i think now more than ever, people in the united states and even throughout the world need certainty and leadership. and it would have been nice to get that. but this goes to

and now steve bannon is fired. so the only two left in this photo are the two who are elected, the president and the vice president. despite turmoil in the west wing, the president is still casting his administration as a well-oiled machine. >> there's a free speech rally and a counterprotest against it. a cause for concern for some today in boston. there's fears of violence like what happened in charlottesville a week ago today. but don't controversial groups, even those we saw last week, have a right to demonstrate? our panel will weigh in, next. i make it easy to save $600 on car insurance, so being cool comes naturally. hmm. i can't decide if this place is swag or bling. it's pretzels. word. ladies, you know when you switch, you get my bomb-diggity discounts automatically. ♪ no duh, right? [ chuckles ] sir, you forgot -- keep it. you're gonna need it when i make it precipitate. what, what? what? if you could book a flight, then add a hotel, or car, or activity in one place and save, where would you go? ♪ ex

all right, you didn't want steve bannon, he's no longer here. let's get about doing the business of the american people, let's pass tax reform, let's go full steam and make sure that we are actually doing the job that the american people are happy with and aren't stagnating like we did in the first eight months. melissa: evan, part of the problem was defining exactly what steve bannon's influence was and precisely what he stood for. it was so easy to call him a white supremacists, so many people said that except for people that knew him and worked with him and said that wasn't the case. i've never met him, i have no idea, but if you assume that, you know, now he's out, does the populism go with him? that seems to be deeply ingrained on what the president himself cares about. >> steve bannon is not a white supremacist. there are people that are going to say that steven miller is the voice of the populism. steven miller is jewish so i don't think that fits in with white supremacy. i think that the president is going to have his fair share of criti

we'll take a deep dive into the numbers and the fallout from steve bannon. will he prove to be a friend or foe outside of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. and then the excitement, yes, it is building. we are 24 hour away from solar eclipse 2017. we have the best watching spots and i hope everyone has found their viewing glasses because they're hard to find. >> first, we want to get into the brakieaking news. word when the white house and president trump will tell us his plans. the address is set for tomorrow at 9:00 p.m., and nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us from bridgewater, new jersey. kelly, explain this will be the first full working day at the white house for trump and team after the extended holiday with the renovations at the white house. so explain what the news is about and if we have information on the strategy to be revealed? >> well, this will be about what really comes out of the camp david strategy session that happened on friday, thomas, where we saw the president spending several hours in the afternoon at that facility which is a military secured faci

bannon, he did those things without steve bannon being in the room. steve bannon wasn't there for the press conference. this white house doesn't fundamentally change even though bannon is no longer in it. >> to the point, bannon's departure being a victory for the democrats. >> i think it's a good think. you don't have a devout white nationalist in the white house getting taxpayer salary but i still think there's a number of positive siz that this administration is putting forward through the attorney general and other areas particularly immigration where you still have the same problem. you still have people families being split up and people being deported. there's a number of different policy issues that this administration is really putting forward that are problematic. >> on another vein here, how soon you think robert mueller's team is going to be knocking on bannon's door and should that concern the president? >> bannon came in late to the campaign as trump likes to point out. i don't think there's a connection between him and russia interferen

did steve bannon fit in that category? >> 100%. i don't believe for a minute that steve bannon has gone against the president's agenda in any way, shape or form. >> so anyone that would suggest he was working for humself as opposed to the president would be wrong? >> general kelly, obviously the new chief of staff coming in, has broad authority to make changes as he sees fit. he will continue to do that. he wants to have and run a shop that he creates. this is something that -- the reason that steve offered his resignation was to give that general the opportunity to have a clean slate. i think much like reince priebus and sean spicer before him. >> there's an interview late friday night that steve boon did with the weekly standard. "the trump presidency we fought for and won is over. we still have a movement and will make something of this presidency, but that presidency is over." what does he mean? >> he means that congress has failed. what i was mentioning before. mitch mccongress -- mitch mcconnell and paul ryan have to step up

david: you mentioned steve bannon. >> yeah. david: i put forth talking about it earlier, my own understanding or belief that in fact it was his note about north korea, talking to a reporter suggesting that there was never now, or never ever will be a north korean military solution, that is what got him in trouble because that put him at odds with both the president, secretary of state and the defense secretary. what do you think? >> let me parse this. i understand what steve is saying here. he is trying to say look, ultimately we can't resolve the north korea, south korea split by military. i agree with that. with that said, david, you and i both know credible deterrents requires the enemy believe you will use military force if necessary. david: right. >> that is the piece that was missing here. no, i do believe if needed we will use military force but ultimately as the president said we're seeking a diplomatic or negotiated solution. i think that is wasn't clear. david: can't publicly disagree with the commander-in-chief. >> c

president tweeted this yesterday on steve bannon. i want to thank steve bannon, he writes, for his service, he came to the campaign during my run against croke and hillary clinton, it was great, thanks. bob woodward, take us inside the west wing, how does it change now? >> remember, bannon was the chief strategist and is the chief strategist he failed because there was no strategy. strategy is you have to not just be a word person, you have to be somebody who comes out and says okay we are going from here to here, it's going to take time and this is the plan. that's not the way bannon thought, somebody who would make some very loud declarations to serve this purpose. it's very interesting and important, general kelly is a former four-star is a strategic thinker. you have to be that in the military and you have to have a plan. whether it's going to work, we will see, but that's the idea. >> bill: charlie, there has been a lot of reaction. a sticking republican from iowa, conservative side said the following. who is going to defend the

there's no redemption to donald trump because steve bannon is gone. who hired steve bannon? donald trump. who listened to him on the paris accord? donald trump. who said he was going to weaponize, donald trump. i'll tell you this, there are no undecided voters that read breitbart. i was a republican for 20 plus years. i got elected to congress. i've never read breitbart nor will i. he's not speaking to undecided voters. he speaking to the trump base and may steal that base from the president in the next year. >> i want to clarify. it wasn't steve bannon who is quoted as saying that they would round up votes for impeachment but it was a steve bannon lieutenant, a high-placed staffer unnamed saying that they would round up votes for impeachment for paul ryan, as if paul ryan was eager to do that at some point. ron, david, thank you both. >> thanks, lawrence. good to be with you. >>> coming up, elected republicans don't seem to think that the trump problem is going to be solved by the firing of steve bannon. i was playing golf days ago... love golf. i used to love golf. wait, w

they are expecting steve bannon to be fired. bloomberg news has not confirm these details yet, but a recent deluge of media coverage of steve bannon has not escaped the president's attention nor kelly's attention. a decision on steve bannon's job from john kelly is imminent. the dow is down more than 1/10 of 1%. up though on this news and the s&p has turned positive by less than a point so far, but had been lower for all the session. the nasdaq composite index is up 2/10 of a percent. is imminent coming from chief of staff john kelly, xios.ccording to ask yo nejra: even as you show the s&p 500, we saw the losses from the session. you can see a number of these benchmarks down more than 1%. portugal, for example, the ftse 100 off by 8/10 of a percent. it is about the policy paralysis in the u.s., but that has been compounded perhaps by some of the jitters around the geopolitical risks with these attacks in spain. we've seen them quite a bit of risk off sentiment. the euro flat after earlier gains. we have seen a bit of dollar weak

president tweeted this yesterday on steve bannon. i want to thank steve bannon, he writes, for his service, he came to the campaign during my run against croke and hillary clinton, it was great, thanks. bob woodward, take us inside the west wing, how does it change now? >> remember, bannon was the chief strategist and is the chief strategist he failed because there was no strategy. strategy is you have to not just be a word person, you have to be somebody who comes out and says okay we are going from here to here, it's going to take time and this is the plan. that's not the way bannon thought, somebody who would make some very loud declarations to serve this purpose. it's very interesting and important, general kelly is a thinker. you have to be that in the military and you have to have a plan. whether it's going to work, we will see, but that's the idea. >> bill: charlie, there has been a lot of reaction. a sticking republican from iowa, conservative side said the following. who is going to defend the conservative republican agenda,

why did steve bannon call you? >> you know, he might have been trying to distract not just the media attention from charltszville, but he might have been trying to distract himself. maggie haberman is out with a story from the times that he had tendered his resignation a few weeks ago. so if that's true his calling me was even crazyier. based on the early part of the conversation, bannon wanted to talk about some kind after a grand left wing right wing alliance on behalf of taking a harder are line with china trade. and being a journalist, i noticed two or three minutes in that he hadn't border to put this off the record and so i started asking me some other things. what stunned me was how reckless he was in completely taking issue with the president's own view of corey,a in terms of talking about how he was going to do in his very enemies, in terms of on the one hand when i really pushed him on well, if you want to be an economic nationalist does that mean you have to get into bed with neo-nazis and he started dis

steve bannon does. how does that stand? >> donald trump's ties to the institution of the republican party are fraying. reince ran the rnc. steve bannon has been attacking the republican party. kelly is a military guy. the people on the hill are wanting to make those connections and they just don't have them. they don't have people in the white house they can call and trust. >> this will be an interesting trust of kelly's power in the white house. after scaramucci did this, maybe it was off the record or on the record interview, very similar to the one we saw steve bannon just do and speaking about his colleagues in a way that frustrated and bothered general kelly. so, if this evokes the same reaction, will general kelly push bannon out or does president trump like him better? >> michael, step back, take the 30,000 foot view in light of the conversation we've been having. you've been writing about the president choosing fighting over healing this week. give us that big picture look. >> donald trump's response to the events i

steve bannon's time running biosphere 2. he was accused of screaming at a woman living there that he would take her safety concerns and ram them down your [ bleep ] throat. bannon actually admitted to saying exactly that in the court case. thafts just a couple of years before he was charged with assault and battery, and he was found to be interfering with his wife's ability to testify against him. his wife didn't turn up to court to testify about the charges. that was also before we learned about the reported meth house that he rented and where he received his mail in florida and now that you mention it, that was before we learned about him being registered to vote in multiple states at the same time while also leading a crusade in the trump white house against supposed voter fraud. there are a lot of people who were weird choices in the trump campaign, and in the trump administration once they won. people who just don't make sense in terms of where they came from and where they ended up. at least with most of them there's t

steve bannon is out of the white house, back at breitbart, and apparently ready for war. >> steve bannon is officially out at the white house. >> take him back

>> i think, sarah, that steve bannon present himself pretty much as a disrupter. he was proud of that reputatio: i guess by taking him out you could have a smoother or somewhat orthodox white house. in saying all of that, this is president trump we're talking about he's young lady a highly unorthodox and somewhat volatile figure. i don't think this mean this is go the to suddenly assemble the george w bush white house or something like that >> this is a theory that i have. i think this is could potentially help president trump and help trump seems susceptible to whatever the last person at night says in his ear, bannon clearly had a lot of influence, is it possible that with bannon gone we might see somewhat steadier of president trump >> it is possible and in fact, people who are of the hard right and are bannon loyalties worry about that, they worry it's going to be the more establishment figures who do get the last word in the presidency. but i think the whole debate about that topic, tony points to the issue that you're raising, that if you have more conventio

i don't know if i want support. see what happens with steve bannon. i don't know if i want supportm was steve bannon talking to a left—leaning magazine. whether this is him feeling like he is on the back foot and had to come out fighting, or whether, actually, back foot and had to come out fighting, orwhether, actually, his feelings are involved, you never quite know. yeah. what is clear is that he will not go without a fight. he will go down shouting loudly. that he will not go without a fight. he will go down shouting loudlym may be a case of wanting to keep your enemies close. very possibly. the south china morning post. these student leaders being given tougher sentences. we touched on this issue before. it shows the new political reality in hong kong in many respects. three of the pro—democracy leaders jailed being a victory for the government. for many of us and the government. for many of us and the rest of the world, it shows the tricky balance arrears. for those of us tricky balance arrears. for those of us doing business in places like h

this steve bannon. same as the old bannon, he is ready to do battle. >> steve has always been that way. it's a sort of half playful but also half very committed to his principals, his values, the values he built. you know, not just breitbart on but he lived his life by. i'm not surprised to see this from him and see that kind of chatter. what i will say is this, i noticed a lot from the washington post to you guys as well the use of this term fired all the time. but actually, steve resigned two weeks ago. that's why it was such an easy and quick transition back. it was already planned out. >> he was given the option to resign from what we understand; isn't that right? >> sure. >> when you give the option to resign, you're being pushed out, right? >> that's not entirely true. to say fired i think is slightly disingenuous. he's obviously been building knowing he was going to leave. >> would you agree that he was pushed out? >> don't get me wrong, i think there were lots of people in there that are not for

. >>> tonight, steve bannon out. president trump's controversial chief strategist now the latest high-profile departure for the administration. inside the white house intrigue. >>> terror manhunt. the urgent police search to take down a suspected terror cell linked to the back-to-back attacks in spain. and new tonight, the american killed in the violence. >>> stabbing rampage. a knife-wielding attacker strikes another european city. was it also terror? >>> police chase crash. the dash cam video. a cop car slams into another vehicle at over a hundred miles an hour. >>> eclipse excitement. bumper-to-bumper traffic as the great getaway begins to see monday's total eclipse. we'll tell you where the weather might ruin the view. >>> and a league of their own. kids throwing out the rule book and playing america's pastime just for the fun of it. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. west wing lightning rod steve bannon is out tonight as president trump's