moments ago breitbart's bannon headline said this, bannon returns home to breitbart. breitbart is reporting he chaired the staff's editorial meeting already tonight. this comes after a senior "breitbart news" editor tweeted one word, war, after bannon got the axe. make no mistake thrks is a man that calls breitbart his killing machine. it will be bannon the barbarian. he's not going to go out peacefully. and we're seeing evidence of that already. moments ago bannon told the conservative weekly standard this, the trump presidency we fought for and won is over. and he also throws out this one. i feel jacked up. now i'm free. i've got my hands back on my weapons. i am definitely going to crush the opposition. i built a blanking machine at breitbart and now i'm about to go back knowing what i know and we're about to rev that machine up. bannon, the man who's been called the brains behind the president, one of the architects of trump's america first message, a man blamed for his o cosiness with the alt right. the president tonight at least publically is turning his back on

there is steve bannon. the great manipulator is the -- was the title of that particular article, msnbc contributor, author, commentator, joining me live now. is that fair, charlie, the great manipulator? is that who steve bannon was? >> that may have been the beginning of the end along with the president bannon meme on saturday night live. no question he had a tremendous influence. he was the chief ideologue of this administration. but i would point out before we go too far, that firing steve bannon does not fix what is wrong with this presidency. steve bannon was not putting out all of those tweets. steve bannon was not directly responsible for the white house that we've had. i think it is sort of ironic that this week his firing comes after a week that you could describe as peak bannon where the president embraces culture war, and he braces racial identity and grievance. >> i would say not just embrace it but encourage it and fan the flames of it. >> absolutely. >> and applaud it. other presidents have ob

bannon. he's a friend of mine. >> he gets bounced. >> it is going to get worse every day. >> inside the departure of the white house. threats of war from the world of breitbart. >> is there going to be a war in this white house. >> why he doesn't fix the problem with race. >> you have to ask yourself, where does it stop? >> another mass resignation from a white house counsel. >> excuse me. excuse me. >> actor cal penn. a look back at trump's worst week yet. >> have you talked to him directly yet? >> um, i have not and i will not. >> "all in" starts now. good evening from new york, i'm joy reid in for chris hayes. steve bannon is out, but he's not going easy. exactly a year and a day after taking over the trump campaign, the former breitbart chairman and right wing lightning rod was dismiss zed, effective today from his job of chief white house strategist telling the weekly standard, the trump presidency we fought for and won is over. we will make something of that presidency, but that preside

bannon. i can just imagine him reading this piece in "weekly standard" saying the trump presidency is over. it's almost laboratory test designed to enrage donald trump. if you were going to craft a it would look a lot like that. >> your earlier interview with steve bannon, he didn't know, maybe he did. this was in the "american prospect" bannon openly contradicted the president and chald members of the administration, despite trump's off the touk u talk, bannon said there is no military solution here, they got us. he said they're wheting themselves, he says i fight every day against gary cohn, despite reports he tendered his resignation august 7th effective today. you sa i the conversation ended with bannon inviting me to the white house after labor by a to continue the discussion. so that's an interesting detail here t. word we are getting is there was some talk of an imminent bannon resition i ig nation or department cure. you are talking to him after that apparently happened. he is talking

bannon. the president does not like when steve bannon gets credit for his success. back in april he told a "new york post" columnist he was his own best strategist and we heard from the president he would not guarantee steve bannon's job security. this week at trump tower in a press conference with reporters said steve bannon was a good person but we'll see about steve bannon's future. i guess we're seeing about his future right now today. >> we are. steve bannon out as chief strategist at the white house. get analysis. joining us, reporter and editor at large chris cillizza, and david chalian and editor juana summers and john king. john, shouldn't come as a surprise after this interview in the "american prospect" when he said this about the president of united states, referring to the north korean strategy. he said, in kim, kim jong-un, leader of north korea, hump has met his match. the risk of two arrogant fools bluntedering into a nuclear exchange is more serious than at any time since oct

e comments caller: i wasn't -- it wasn't a was a by bannon, it comment made about bannon on t.v. what -- remember host: okay. caller: -- what program it was, my mind and i think of trump and bannon as trump joel gray in caberet, going on for what is behind the scenes, which was the fascism, rise of fascism. host: talk about steve bannon's influence. bannon has been quoted saying, not that he wants but blowup e party, the political establishments of both parties, he has been -- reporter of the daily beat said bannon described lennonist, he wanted to blowup the system, that may be what the caller is referring to. that is accurate representation of what bannon thought he was doing in 2013, to give him credit, he's pretty much achieved that. he blew up the republican helping trump y win the republican nomination, not a single republican in washington wanted that to happen and the party resisted and resisted until the very last moment. and i think by virtue of the fact trump defeated hillary he has also to an extent blown up the democratic establishment. washington, every clinton woul

bannon came on very late. you know that. i went through 17 senators and governors and i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came on much later than that. >> he was one of the first step members hired and played a key role in the controversial travel ban. inauguration, he described himself as part of a new political order. >> if you think they are going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. every day, it is going to be a fight. >> his prior work at breitbart rod made him a lightning for criticism. president trump it will be a great wall. >> in 2015, bannon interviewed mr. trump about immigration and described himself as having more hardline views. unafraid to feud with other white house officials, particularly the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, gary cohn, and h.r. mcmaster. just this week, bannon seemed to undermine trump administration foreign policy when he said an interview there is no military solution to north korea. >> more arrests were made today to jeers from onlookers. in all, f

this is steve bannon. steve bannon, you're fired. that's what the president's chief of staff said to him today. but while bannon right now is the latest embodiment of a chaotic white house in crisis, in eight short, or long months, depending on who you talk to,

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 back at breitbart and full of action word quotes for the reporters who talked to him. he was greeted at his old shop with the headline, populist hero steven k. bannon returns to breitbart. and trump was annoyed that he landed a time magazine cover which called him the great manipulator and told the wall street, i'm see saying that he is a guy that works for me. he is a good guy. and it was told the president didn't like the photo on the cover or the fact that bannon's name was above his. then the new chief of staff arrived, john kelly, the discipline and button down former four star marine general despite bannon's years in the navy, the two didn't mesh. politico said kelly didn't understand what bannon did and why he had a pr portfolio and why he seemed to cause so m

we see bannon and the president. the president does not see it that way >> there is something just ironic, is there, mike the idea of mr. bannon including mr. trump on the eve of the total solar eclipse, is there? >> both rare and historic event. steve bannon is going to war saying that he's going to back to bart news he plans to go thermal nuclear is the word they're using intensity the moderate elements of the white house, the ones that's known to be globalist, gary cohn, we are hearing all day yesterday on cnbc because he's seen as such an important force in this white house by wall street. >> the rhetoric is getting over heated, oh boy, oh boy >> everybody needs to stay off twitter for the rest of the day if you are a high level government official. >> put your exclamation points away >> exactly >> jonathan swan, i read his tweet actually, we talked about the quote "thermal nuclear commenuclear" comment. what do you think that mean, jonathan >> they're going after the administration's policies and there is therma

bannon came on much later than that. of ther: bannon was one first white house staff members hired, and all right with a nationalist agenda, playing a key role in the controversial travel ban. shortly after inauguration, he described himself as part of a new political order. >> if you think they are going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. every day, it is going to be a fight. reporter: his prior work at breitbart news made him a lightning rod for criticism. president trump: it will be a great wall. reporter: on breitbart radio in 2015, bannon interviewed mr. trump about immigration and described himself as having more hardline views. >> we are the know nothing bulgarians. reporter: bannon was unafraid to feud with other white house officials, particularly the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, gary cohn, and h.r. mcmaster. seemed toweek, bannon undermine trump administration foreign policy when he said in an interview that there is no military solution to north korea. reporter: mo

are you sorry to see steve bannon go? >> i think steve bannon is one of the more talented people i have seen in politics and polic policy. it is not only communication skills but he is a real policy guide. i'm sorry he is leaving because he is talented but this proves yet again, donald trump is in charge, no one else gets to call the shots, he's not a manchurian candidate and i think steve bannon will be the first -- if you know politics and if you know real leadership, when the boss says go, you submit a resignation and you go. conservatives, i am not unhappy with anything other than the fact that the president is being tied up by too many moderates in the republican party from getting more of his agenda. steve did a great job, he will be a great player wherever he i is. president trump is in charge and it's great for the country. >> jon: there are rumblings that he intends to return to brietbart where he will obviously have quite a platform. what if his positions there don't agree with this white house? what if essentia

bannon came on very much later than that. >> bannon was one of the first white house staff members hired and arrived with a nationalist agenda, playing a key role in the controversial travel ban. shortly after the president's inauguration, he described himself as part of a new political order. >> if you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. every day -- every day it is going to be a fight. >> his prior work at breitbart news which lent editorial support to the white supremacist movement made him a lightning rod for criticism. >> we have a wall, a great wall. on breitbart radio in 2015 2015 bannon interviewed trump about immigration and described himself with hard line views. >> we'll always be to the right of this. >> bannon was unafraid to feud with other white house officials particularly jared kushner, gary cohn and h.r. mcmaster. this week bannon seemed to undermine trump administration policy when he said in an interview there's no military solution to north korea. >> more arrests were made today to jeers from onlookers. in all fo

the chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon together agreed that today would be bannon's last day. with also a little bit murky or foggy is what role of this article the american prospect played in bannon's departure. a lot of people at the white house were very upset by it. they believe you can't contradict the president on items like north korea, the things you did -- about gary cohn, without having repercussions but bannon was already out because we were told he tendered his resignation. it might have been a massive exit interview where he got the air all his grievances. in a forum where he was short a lot of democratic working people might see it. jesse. >> jesse: thank you very much. greg gutfeld, i think the understanding is the president has gotten rid of reince priebus and sean spicer. he's also gotten rid of steve bannon, one of the more ideological populist nationalis nationalist. he has surrounded himself by generals, his family, and some moderate wall street people. it is that you see it? >> greg: i kind of see it as he unloaded bannon as a way to feed the a angry mob.

bannon. bannon was taking credit for the election victory so trump is annoyed with steve bannon and i can imagine him saying, the trump presidency is oh. it is almost laboratory test designed to enrage donald trump. if you were going to craft a sentence to enrage donald trump, it would look a lot like that. >> your interview this week with steve bannon, he didn't know it was an interview, or maybe he did. this was in the american prospect. bannon openly contradicted the president and challenged members of the administration, despite trump's tough talk to north korea, bannon said there's no military solution here. they got us. he said they'i fight every day. despite reports that he tendered his resignation august 7, effective today, you also bring the conversation ended with bannon inviting me to the white house after labor day to continue the discussion. so that's an interesting detail. the word was there was imminent bannon departure from the white house but you're talking to him after that

bannon. he is a friend of mine. but mr. bannon came on very late. i went through 17 senators and governor and one all of the primaries. i like him and a good man and not a racist and he is a good person and gets unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. >> shepard: good man and we'll see, not a racist. the dismissal is fraught with danger with the white house. steve bannon won candidate trump in the russ belt and contributed to a book crediting himself for the president's success and that angerred mr. trump. and the president was furious to the interview steve bannon gave to the american prospect. in that interview, bannon controdicted the president's fire and fury and saying there is no military solution here, they got us. in that same interview steve bannon talked about the white supremist and his own role in flaming the far right. bannon said his losers and a collection of clown. bannon said he thought the interview was a good thing because it drew fire away from president trump and the charlottesville's comments. h

that is the power bannon has. it is not political, it is more personal. >> i was fascinated by the research institute bannon and the mercers put together to research hillary, as a possible model for research institute to investigate trump and the trump family. how much money was put into that, how do they organize that? how do they set this up? >> i say in the book, trump will hate this, without steve bannon, donald trump would not be president. i make a contingent between 2 reasons. one, bannon is the avatar, populist nationalisms a trump ran on that resonated so deeply with millions of voters who in previous elections has been interested or turned down. that is way number one. the other way bannon helped trump win the election wasn't initially intended to help donald trump specifically, rather it was meant to tear down hillary clinton. what drew me to bannon originally was he had what struck me as a very astute analysis why conservatives failed to stop bill clinton in the 1990s. bannon argues that conservatives

before steve bannon was fired today. we have to be careful that we will see a major course correction and policy. thea lot of folks in grown-up wing of the white house, they are hoping by removing steve bannon, a troublemaker, maybe they can get back to work a passing tax reform and obamacare repeal and the other things donald trump is trying to accomplish. david: gina, i want to come back to the equity markets that you study so well. it is not clear why the markets moved up after having been down for a while. what do the markets want to see out of this white house? or have they just given up? >> i think there is evidence they have given up on the white house. we did a report earlier this week on taxpayers in the s&p 500 and how they performed -- we found since november of last year, the taxpayers that pay the least amount of taxes are outperforming. you would expect the reverse if we were counting on tax legislation in the near future. there is a not -- there is not a lot priced in. there is upside. legislation, greater

look, i think bannon -- i spent a lot of time talking to bannon. i visited him in his office in the white house both in march and then again last month. and, you know, what i can tell you is he believed that he was beset by enemies that started in the west wing, right, people who were idea logically opposed to him. he believes there were concentric circles opposed to him, the media, the republican leaders on the hill. he barely had any time or criticism of democrats. he believed there were so many people within the trump administration and the republican par pi that were fighting what he believed was the soul of the trump agenda on immigration, on trade, on some of the executive orders. and i think he believes this quote to peter boyar in the weekly standard, he's lost not just the recent skirmishes, but the wider war. and he's going to go set up shop at breitbart and do what he was doing before he ever joined the trump campaign, and that is go on the attack against the folks in the trump -- in the white house and the republican party who don't bel

bannon bounced all the way back to breitbart. >> 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. >>> so why did the president show him the door and why is bannon going to war for the president? >> boston braces today. a right wing protest versus a mass of counterprotester. so what is the city doing to prevent another charlottesville? >>> the big break to catch that deadly driver. >>> president trump's chief white house strategist, steve bannon is out. president trump speaking on the matter this morning taking to twitter to thank bannon for his service and adding, he came to the campaign during my run against crooked hillary clinton. it was great. meanwhile, congress is weighing in on whether the oust will do much to change president trump or the white house's messaging. here's what they told colleagues last night. >> the president did ab

a lot of people around bannon have made a similar case, and bannon has always thought to draw a line against his nationalism, economics, it's not racial. and the left, the politics, and my friend wrote a piece related to this, in the u.s., politics tend to break along race lines, not class lines. bannon does not engage in it himself, is what everybody close to him has said. he however has not put a stop to it. and there has been all sorts of race baiting that has gone on in posts, not breitbart, but some posts at breitbart. i think people who think it's the end of steve bannon, still a new moment at the white house, i think they're going to end up very disappointed. this is who donald trump is. very long -- >> very little change, from when he jumped into the campaign, maggie stick around, we'll have many more questions, we'll bring in the rest of the panel plenty to talk about. whether it's steve bannon, carl icahn, we'll see more on the mayor of charlottesville on why he has changed his mind and says the statue of robert e. lee has got to go. >> heads up. you need the best equipment

bannon. the president was quick to point out he had already won all of the necessary primaries to have dispensed with his competitors before bannon came on board. bannon was part of the fall strategy, turning toward working against hillary clinton and the campaign. and so the president wants to retain a sense that his nationalist impulses as you might describe it or his political instincts new as they were back then were his alone and that that did not require bannon on the inside. and at the same time, tuesday we heard him praise bannon at a distance referring to him as mr. bannon. not as steve, not as someone who's been at his elbow for a full year and then saying we'll see what happens. that was such a big tell looking back. in addition to john kelly making it clear through top white house officials that he was doing an assessment of who could stay in their lane and who could not. those couple of clues right there spelled when -- that this would eventually happen and jonathan who was out f

and bannon tweeting the word, war, bannon telling the weekly standard the presidency that he and donald trump fought for and won is now over. think of that. all right, a lot to cover. and to talk about so let's bring in cnn's jim acosta joining us first with the very latest for the president's vacation spot in new jersey, jim, what are we finding out about the timing here, how this went down with bannon? >> well, chris tit was alt-righ, stage left for some. steve bannon was supposed to be fired a couple of weeks ago and that did not happen. he was given a chance to resign, which apparently he took the opportunity to do. but make no mistake he was forced out, fired, apprentice style by the president and chief of staff john kelly. a couple of reasons why this was. this has been building for sometime. this is not the first time steve bannon had been rumored to be on the chopping block. the president had fallen out of love with him a while ago, concerned about him being on the cover of time magazine, and sucking up a lot of the oxygen in washington, but i think more critically, chris, the n

bannon, wrote about bannon on bloomberg today. before i ask you a question, i want to read you this bit headline. quote, "the cost of bannon's failure to adapt from campaigning to governing became evident on friday. bannon on wednesday gave a rare interview to the american prospect of the liberal policy journal which he vows and oust his -- how can you govern this way and was this ever going to end any other way? >> brian, i want to say that i think that trump is always going to be trump. for people think that john kelly is coming in there and somehow cleaning house, it is the wrong frame to which to be looking at this. you cannot clean house for somebody that does not want their house cleaned. this is the way donald trump likes things to be. he likes chaos and this is the way he works. i don't think there is going to be any less of a bond between him and steve bannon because bannon is on the out. there are many people where he had to cut ties with who he still continues to keep in touch with, corey lewandowski, and he kept in tou

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 the 7th of august. that it was supposed to take effect the beginning of this week

and steve bannon's gone. i know we've been talking a lot about him, but it's not because of steve bannon that republicans failed to pass health care reform and the president seemed to have a very loose grasp on the details, nor is it steve bannon's fault that tx refoax r, well, very little progress has been made. they were hoping to pass it in august, and the big six, they've chosen a name. i guess that's a start but they have a long way to go these big agenda items, and the one thing wall street probably did like from steve bannon, the infrastructure stuff, that's gone no well i think it's a big comedown. >> so terry, at the same time, we have people tweeting today about whether this has become a democrat white house with bannon leaving. again, what are the policy implications of that, even if we take it at face value? >> well, i don't think that's the case, kelly. and thank you for having me on look, these folks are interested in serving the president we've always looked at this through an establishment tru

bannon's departure does not change that. vonnie: let me ask you why the stock market might be rallying on this particular news. it still seems like this is why. as soon as these reports, the stock market did make a quick reversal. is this to do with bannon leaving the white house in one form or another was it just unrelated? to tell's always hard exactly why the stock market does what it does, but marty makes a very good point in that steve bannon will probably still talk to president trump. frankly forthe ceos many of the ceos who sort of quit the councils in the last few days will continue to talk to donald trump. i'm sure that jamie dimon and schwartzman will talk to trump as needed. i think if i were a stock market investor knowing that steve bannon was no longer going to be in the white house, that would make me feel a little bit more comfortable. trump always does things to defy conventional whic wisdom, but i would take some comfort from that. vonnie: effectively what difference will this make if indeed it does happen

steve bannon is out. he said he resigned and other sources say he was out 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 was right back at breitbart and full of action word quotes for the reporters who talked to him. he was greeted at his old shop with the headline, populist hero steven k. bannon returns to breitbart. and trump was annoyed that he landed a time magazine cover which called him the great manipulator and told the wall street, i'm see saying that he is a guy that works for me. he is a good guy. and it was told the president didn't like the photo on the cover or the fact that bannon's name was above his. then the new chief of staff arrived, john kelly, the discipline and button down former four star marine general despite bannon's years in the navy, the two didn't mesh. politico said kelly didn't understand what bannon did and why he had a pr portfolio and why he seemed to cause so much tro

he said steve bannon said, if there is any confusion, let me clear it up. i am leaving the white house and going to war against donald trump's opponents in the media and corporate america. announcer: health and human services secretary tom price sat down for a profile interview with c-span to discuss his personal and professional life. the reflected on his early years in michigan, practicing orthopedic

bannon's actions? will he fight strongly for the administration on the outside or will he take a different approach?ct that will let us know under the terms of what he was separated. >> kimberly: excellent. lieutenant colonel allen. thank you so much. coming up, the controversy over confederate monuments is heating up as liberals call for the removal of more statues.s. we are joined by charlie kirk, james harris, and doug schoen next as this special edition of "hannity," continues. during the classic, you can get up to a $100 instant rebate on select gear when you purchase with your bass pro shops mastercard. for 100 years, heritage and innovation have made gillette the #1 shave in america. now get gillette quality at lower prices -- every day. brought to you by 1200 workers in boston -- we're proud of giving you our best. gillette. the best a man can get. so you miss the big city? i don't miss much... definitely not the traffic. excuse me, doctor... the genomic data came in. thank you. you can do that

. >> steve bannon is officially out at the white house. >> take him back to hell. >> steve bannon was the heart of darkness of the white house. >> controversial from the very beginning. >> you know, i can run a little hot on occasions. >> the entire senior staff had basically turned against him. and frankly the president had turned against him. >> we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. >> tonight he is already back in charge of breitbart news. >> he says, quote, the trump presidency that we fought for and won is over. >> it's almost laboratory test designed to enrage donald trump. >> every day it is going to be a fight, and that is what i'm proudest about donald trump. >> the problem here isn't bannon. the problem is trump. >> this man does not seem to me to have what we would normally think of as a soul. he has an open sore. >> i think he's in a position right now where he is much more isolated than he realizes. >> general kelly can change the people in the white house, but that's not going to change the president's instincts. >> he is the malevolent fury. >>> the presidency, that p

bannon's actions? will he quite strongly for the administration of the outside or will he take a different approach? that will let us know under the terms of what he was separated. >> kimberly: excellent. lieutenant colonel allen. thank you so much. coming up, the controversy over confederate monuments is heating up as liberals call for the removal of more statues. we are joined next on the especially edition of "hannity," it continues. "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma . it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. the risk is unknown in copd. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems.

get more people like bannon close to trump now that bannon's out? you see why it seems sort of backwards. >> well, one way to look at this is bannon did all he could as he sees it inside the white house. he didn't get his way on an awful lot of things, particularly having to do with economic nationalism, you know, all kinds of things having to do with trade policy, and they didn't build the wall, and he is hell bent to try to get his way by pushing from the outside of the white house. and the mercer fortune will be behind him pushing this movement. i think one of the first showdowns we're going to see in the fall is going to be over funding that wall and i can imagine, i think you're going to see probably breitbart which is largely owned by the mercers and bannon which is -- who is an incredible propagandist and i think they will see if they can shut down the government, play hardball like they did with bannon before and eric cantor. >> jane, i'm thinking about the role of breitbart and the decision by the mercers to fund that and then take bannon o

this is steve bannon. steve bannon, you're fired. that's what the president's chief of staff said to him today. but while bannon right now is the latest embodiment of a chaotic white house in crisis, in eight short, or long months, depending on who you talk to, there have been plenty where he came from. today, it's bannon. >> we are in an outright war against jihadists, islam, islamic fascism. >> but just a few weeks ago, july 31st, this was the face of chaos. communications director anthony scaramucci. you're fired. >> the president is a winner, okay. what we're going to do is we're going to do a lot of winning. i love the mission that the president has. i love the president. i obviously love the country. he's genuinely a wonderful human being. i love the president. i'm very, very loyal to the president. >> well, there wasn't much love for this guy, though. this was the chief of staff, gone just three days before the mooch took over. reince priebus, you're out. >> the president has a right to hit a reset button. i think it's a good

bannon. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us now at the inside story. >> jesse, good evening to you. steve bannon and others, a lot of his acolytes and democrats are now in control what the president here's at the white house. as for cds bannon, he's back at work at breitbart. employees tweeting out that he has resumed his position. 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 unchanged 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 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

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 but he's a good person and i think the press treats him, frankly, very unfairly. >> we learned today knowing eight days before bannon submitted a letter of resignation, though mr. trump had yet to decide to accept, because long before charlottesville mr. bannon had been a figure of controversy wrestling with other top advisers of the president over policy issues and accused of leaking information to the press. those who blame bannon for the president's controversial comments on race and racists as many kdemocrats have done is no supported by facts. bannon came on the campaign very late, the president pointed out. august, 2016, three months from the campaign's victory. one year and two m

get more people like bannon close to trump now that bannon is out? you can see why it seems sort of backwards. >> one way to look at this is bannon did all he could as he sees it inside the white house. he didn't get his way on an awful lot of things. particularly having to do with economic nationalism, you know, all kinds of things having to do with trade policy. the mercer fortune will be behind him. one of the things we're going to see in the fall will be over funding that wall and i can imagine -- i think you're going to see probably breitbart which is largely owned by the mercers and bannon, which is an incredible propagandaist pushing to get funding for that wall. if they don't get it, i think they'll probably see if they can shut down the government or do -- you know, play hardball the way they did with boehner before and eric cantor. >> thinking about the role of breitbart and the decision by the mercers not just to fund that, but then to take bannon out of there and move him over to the trump campaign when they felt like the time was right.

bannon. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us now at the inside story. >> jesse, good evening to you. steve bannon and others, a lot of his acolytes and democrats are now in control with what the president hears at the white house. 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 w

more people like bannon close to trum now that bannon is out? you see why it seems backwards? >> well, one way to look at this is bannon did all he could as he sees it inside the white house. he didn't get his way on an awful lot of things particularly having to do with economic nationalism, you know, all kinds of things having to do with trade policy and they didn't build the wall. and he is hell fwoent try to be get his way by pushing on the out side of the white house. the mercer fortune will be behind him pushing this movement. one of the first showdowns we're going to see in the fall is over funding that wall. i think you're going to see breitbart which is largely owned by the mercers and bannon which who is incredible propagandist pushing to get funding for building that wall and if they don't get it, i think they'll probably see if they can shut down the government or do, you know, play hard ball the way they did with bannon before and eric cantor. >> jane, i'm thinking about the role of breitbart and the decision by the mercers not just

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

get more people like bannon close to trump now that bannon's out? you see why it seems sort of backwards. >> well, one way to look at this is bannon did all he could as he sees it inside the white house. he didn't get his way on an awful lot of things, particularly having to do with economic nationalism, you know, all kinds of things having to do with trade policy and they didn't build the wall and he is hell bent to try to get his way by pushing from the outside of the white house. and the mercer fortune will be behind him pushing this movement. i think one of the first showdowns we're going to see in the fall is going to be over funding that wall and i can imagine, i think you're going to see probably breitbart which is largely owned by the mercers and bannon which is -- who is an incredible prop began dist and i think they will see if they can shut down the government, play hardball like they did with bannon before and eric cantor. >> the decision by the mercers to fund that and then take bannon out of there and move him over to the trump campaig

bannon bounced all the way back to breitbart. >> i like mr. bannon, he's a friend of mine, but mr. bannon came on very late, you know that. i

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 k-- 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 ba

. >>> happening now, bannon fired. president trump dismisses his divisive chief strategist steve bannon as the west wing is buffeted by a storm of racially charged controversy over the president's wee responsible to the violence in charlottesville. and forcing out bannon with ties to the alt right do anything to calm the uproar? heading for the breitbart. what bannon once calm add form for the alt right. where his next role be antagonizing the president he worked for? >>> no thank you. the mother of the woman killed at the white supremacist attack in charlottesville says she won't talk to the president. what is her message to the president about his infilammatoy words. >>> and violence overt weekend. concern that protests by emboldened white supremacists could lead to dangerous confrontations with counterprotestors. can law enforce ers eliminate another attack like the one in virginia? >>> we're following the breaking news. a new bombshell wokking the rouse. rocking the white house. president trump fired steve bannon,

bannon. welcome back to the show, sir. >> good to be with you. >> let me start -- i know you talked about this with a colleague earlier, so i don't want to be totally representative on that. you had said your hashtag war, it sounded like you don't want it to be interpreted as breitbart's declaring a war on the white house, that that is more about your -- what breitbart's philosophy has been, you know, whether it's about the media, the democrats, conventional republicans. but is there going to be a war with this white house? i mean, it certainly on one hand you're saying no. on the other hand, you put your own warning out there, don't become arnold schwartz neglect ger. >> that depends entirely on president dut. if he sticks to the issues on which he was elected, if he fulfills the promises that used to hang on steve bannon's wal in the west wing, then i think you'll see positive konk not just from "breitbart news" but from other conservative outfits. however, if this becomes a sharts neglect

the president hinted bannon's days were over. >> whemr. bannon came on late. i went through 17 senators and governors and won the primaries. mr. bannon came on later than that. i like him. he's a good man. he is not a racist. i can tell you that. he's a good person. he gets unfair press in that rerd we will see. >> reporter: add to that, bannon irked the president by granting interviews to under cut president trump's message. asked about the fire and fury of north korea, there is no military solution. bannon needled the press as in a conference this year. >> just like they were dead on the campaign and dead wrong on the transition. they dead wrong about what has gone on today. we have a team grinding it through on president trump promising the american people and the mainstream media better understand all of the promises will be implemented. >> reporter: he told the "times" the media should be embarrassed and listen for a while. the media is the opposition party. the white house leader says the outgoing chief strategist doesn't want to go to war with president