eastern time that was shortly after breitbart's senior editor, joel pollack tweeted "#war" implying bannon or breitbart may launch attacks against cohn and mnuchin. fascinating day overall here, guys the markets ending anywhere in the green would be a big victory for bulls and it would reinforce the strategy that it's still safe to buy the dips guys, back to you. >> indeed. thanks, bob. we'll see you on the close >>> let's get to our "closing bell" exchange now, as we do head towards the close for this friday ian wapner is with us today, so is peter costa from empire executions he's here with us at post nine and rick santelli joins us from the cme in chicago what a week, people. >> you've got to come to me first. >> of course >> what do you make of the market's response? we start the week with this relief rally on monday then we've had a lot of volatility in the meantime, and here we sit down nine points on the dow, but the s&p is still up three points >> when the news finally came out and it was confirmed, i think it was a divisive piece of the puzzle in the white house has been removed i

for more i want to bring in joel pollack. he's the senior editor at large for breitbart news. thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> joel, about an hour ago you tweeted out hashtag war. what was that about? >> hashtag war has been our moet toe since the days of andrew breitbart, and we use it whenever we go to war against our three main targets, which are in order, hollywood and the mainstream media, number one, the democratic party and the institutional left, number two and the republican establishment in washington, number three. and i tweeted that to let our readers know that our mission remains the same. as it has been before trump, as it was when trump was elected and as it will continue to be through the trump administration and beyond, we remain true to our mission and we are happy warriors. we fight onward. >> i appreciate since the mainstream media is one of the targets that you're here with me today because i want to have a constructive discussion with you about what your constituency, what we need to know about your constituency. let's just stick

a warning from breitbart, former white house chief strategist, joel pollack said this to chuck todd on msnbc daily. >> the conservative base trusts mike pence more than almost anybody else in washington. it's going to depend what donald trump does. if he can move forward on his agenda, if he builds the wall on the border which is a fundamental promise, for example, then i think you'll see people stick with trump regardless of the personnel. >> bannon returned to breitbart right after the news broke and even chaired the company's editorial meeting. let's bring in raheem cass san, editor and chief of bright barredon done and author of "no go zones." raheem, thanks for joining us. steve bannon returned to breitbart last night virtually at least for the evening editorial call. what have you heard about that and what has been the reaction to his return? >> well, it's bittersweet, but the sweet part of it was great jubilation. we love steve. he is's kind of like a father figure to a lot of us. he's such a great manager, such a great inspiration. it was great to hear he was coming back. the b

that is joel pollack, war in all caps. does the president risk alienating the conservative media, which his supporters really flocked to? if he loses the conservative news media, what's that going to mean? how does steve bannon's ouster factor into all of this? our own gregg jarrett, and gaynor from the media research institute. dan, talk about the conservative media and role of shaping everything that happened in the last six plus months since the president has been there? >> donald trump obviously has a media problem. the entire traditional media are out to get him in bulk. so he needed conservative media outlets a lot to get his word out. trish: is he running risk he loses the conservative media? "breitbart," for the editor to be sending out a tweet, saying war, it may actually be very problematic because if he doesn't have the left, and he doesn't have the right, what are you left with? >> well, donald trump is a smart guy. he can never go left enough to satisfy the media and the left. he can literally do anything and

pollack of breitbart. and joel had just minutes earlier tweeted a single word in a tweet, #war. here's the discussion that ensued right after that. >> is there an implication here that there is going to be a war that involves steve bannon versus the trump administration? >> i don't know. it really depends on the trump administration. the key to the administration's success has been and will continue to be whether it sticks to the agenda on which donald trump ran for president. and in many ways, he has, indeed, stuck to that agenda since taking office in january. and the issues are what bind him to his base. it's not personalities. it's not even steve bannon. it is his performance on those issues. and those are issues that our readers generally want to see action on. if he pulls in arnold schwarzenegger and tries to reinvest himself as a liberal, he will see that support erode very, very quickly. >> steve schmidt, where does this put donald trump vis-a-vis the republican base of support both in the public a

. >> joel pollack. senior -- i'm going to get your title right. one of the senior editors at breitbart. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> you got it. >>> all right. so with bannon out, is that a win for the new chief of staff john kelly or will bannon just become even more powerful outside of the west wing? more "mtp daily" right after this. and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you ♪ >>> when we come back, we'll brain down bannon's west wing exit with the panel and of course if it's sunday, it's "meet the press" this week. how a presidency in crisis handles it's first, second, third, 50 major test. is this white house stoking racial tensions. where do we go from here? joined exclusively eye son. marchist poll numbers out of michiga

earlier today, you saw that one editor for breitbart was joel pollack was tweeting that, you know, it was going to be #war. and i talked to a source who talked to bannon earlier today, he said no, no, no, wait a minute, i'm going to be going to war with this president for this white house. he does not want the see president trump fail, according to a source who spoke to steve bannon. but make no mistake. if they see -- if breitbart sees, and bannon sees this white house moving in a more moderate direction, you know you might see some of these hostilities resume. >> all right, jim acosta, thank you very much. appreciate it. let's bring in the panel. we have tonight a great group of minds to put to this matter. you've got josh green, author of devils bargain. steve bannon, donald trump and the storming of the presidency. also with us kristen powers, joseph pinion, alice stewart and ryan lizza. all right, josh, we've got to get to why this happened. man, there are so many competing narratives. i'm sure all of our devices have been buzzing like crazy about this. what is speaking out about

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