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

so, yes, steve bannon is gone, but look from -- steve bannon's influence and the way in in donald trump thinks, the way in which he presents almost every argument, steve bannon's, the mainstream media is corrupt and terrible. the alt right stuff. the white supremacist stuff. there is a lot of steve bannon's thinking left in this white house, and to john's point. it's left in the figure of the one guy who really matters in this white house who is the president of the united states. >> and i would say he hasn't acted on a lot of it yet. the fascinating part. definitely the tone, tenor of the remarks in charlottesville were the moral equivalence, the criticism of the alt left, no doubt that is echoing steve bannon and clear. forget steve bannon a second. clearly what donald trump thinks. if you watched him at that news conference, came back to it repeatedly. that is his thinking, perhaps supported and echoed by steve bannon. reince priebus, the republican guy. gone. steve bannon, pitchfork tea party america first, not interventionist in the world. if you're watching the president's having

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

there are other events in the world besides steve bannon, but let's talk more about steve bannon. this is an interesting thing that i have been noticing in the reporting. steve bannon was getting under donald trump's skin because steve bannon played a critical, strategic role in the rise of donald trump. it bothered him to the point he wanted the guy gone. >> we have seen that. people that had a part in donald trump's rise, he gets mad at them. this is the guy during the republican convention said i'm the one guy alone who can fix it. he tries, with the exception of blaming everything on mitch mcconnell, he tries to put it forward that everything that is good is because of me and everything bad is because of someone else. >> for somebody who might be asked to join this administration, a credible, solid resume, not just bannon, look at the roster of the last eight months, what do you take away? >> the amount of people who left about the people within who is attacked. that would have me most concerned going into the white house. this president will never fully have your back. why wo

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

the ideological differences between steve bannon and the likes of gary cohn as well as steve mnuchin cannot be underscored enough. that is a storyline line that we will be following for quite some time even with steve bannon outside the white house. vonnie: obviously phasers have been forming for quite some time and they widened a lot in a few days. after charlottesville, it was clear that something was going to have to give. he did not have friends with the likes of gary cohn and h.r. mcmaster. plenty of people were asked if steve bannon was going to say and when they did not give a definitive answer, it was clear that his time was limited. is that why he gave a follow-up interview to a british newspaper? gave: their review that he definitely had time to look at it. you are looking up the market reaction to this and you're looking at the political volatility index. stocks of bumped upward upon news of this and political risk indicators -- there it is. the vix index has somewhat largely diminished upon news of this. that is fascinating and speaks for itself. on the flipside of that,

so what, steve bannon departs. i don't think that means donald trump is going to renege on any of those things. i think he will remain every bit as committed as if steve bannon never left. >> kimberly: sara, there was a discussion that the president was upset about the book coming out. steve bannon and the article that came out. some of the comments there. when you look at this and frame it in the lens of what has happened in terms of the arguments and what has been going forward in this country about white supremacy and nationalist, do think any of that emotional rhetoric and not charged environment had anything to do to hasten the departure of bannon? >> i would only guess if i said that. i haven't had a chance to speak with the president about that. it could have played a role. i think the bigger issue within the white house was this kind of ideological break that people had, as far as the iran deal. that was huge. mcmaster and bannon but china was another big issue. that's why he talked to american prospect and

pieces at rollcall.com, steve bannon is out. you write his departure follows that of the national security adviser michael flynn, fbi director james comey, sean spicer, reince priebus, deveney national security adviser mcfarland, and anthony scaramucci. at the time, the incoming committee cas medications direc. are you getting a sense that john kelly is getting people in line in the white house that he wants to have there? john: getting the west wing in line and getting these folks in line are two different things. you still have ivanka trump and her husband, jared kushner, they are one faction of the west wing. you still have stephen miller, who is his own entity now. he was somewhat in line with bannon, they had a lot of the same views and they worked together on a lot of the same things. but yeah, i think general kelly is taking the long view and is playing the long game with personnel. it will take a long time. you also have inner circle folks, the acting committee cases director, even though she is 28 years old and kind of

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

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 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

steve bannon is out. conservative groups are protesting the move but stocks turning around on the news. president trump, camp david we've been showing you talking to his team on military strategies. there he is is right now. thethe news of steve bannon addg to more questions about the agenda going forward. neil back monday to take you through all the fallout from this. you better watch "cavuto: coast to coast" on monday. neil is back to witness the solar eclipse. happening during this show, believe it or not. trish regan through the next hour. trish: thanks, gerri. market is off 30 points. they are trying to address what it means for the agenda. steve bannon leaving the white house. whites who issuing a statement, i quote, white house chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon mutually agreed it would be steve's last day. welcome to "the intelligence report." bannon has been somewhat controversial figure in the white house. he often clashed with other white house advisors as well as members of president t

steve bannon is out. do you anticipate he will shake things up at breitbart and perhaps help with mercer? >> i have no idea. i know bob mercer very well and i know, bob mercer is i think a great person. i have no idea what steve is going to do and at this point, it is not really on the top of my agenda. i repreponderate the 4th district and ready to get back on to the agenda and get rid of all of the distractions. >> it is for you. the distractions. there is a lot of the distractions and that's what the left is trying to play to their advantage. does it make it challenging to a republican law maker who needs to get elected when there is this kind of division. >> as a mother, i don't care. i do care about the future for my children and care about the future for all american children out there and people who don't have a voice and watching adults act like they don't have any common sense or all about them. i care about what is going to happen when we are so out of control with our spending and so out of con

steve bannon is out of the white house. in what may have been the last straw, sources say the president was fuming that bannon gave a brazenly self-serving interview in which he undermined the president on multiple fronts, even suggesting his boss perhaps was a fool. tonight, one source tells cnn that bannon is not likely to stay quiet on the side lines. there is speculation he may return to his former role leading the right wing website breitbart bart, a possible sign of things to come, an editor responded by tweeting, #war. this is all playing out in the midst of a rapidly expanding backlash against the president and his response to the violence in charlottesville. >>> former gop presidential nominee mitt romney is blasting mr. trump in a new statement, saying he's made racists rejoice and minorities weep. >>> the mother of the charlottesville victim, heather heyer, says she hasn't spoken with the president and doesn't want to. some of the biggest charities meantime in the country are now cancelling events at trump's flor

now steve bannon is back at breitbart. but we're told by a source who talked to steve bannon earlier today that he has no plans to go to a hash tag war as a breitbart editor put it earlier today, against president trump. that he wants to go to war with president trump and push for the president's agenda outside the white house. of course, steve bannon really had his i would say -- i don't want to call them disagreements, certainly, with jarod kushner, the president's son-in-law. so it remains to be seen if the president and the issues with jared kushner, may prompt breitbart to respond for kind. >> quickly, do you think other heads could roll? >> yes, we are hearing that sebastien gorka, another controversial staffer at the white house, somebody who drew a lot of fire from democrats and republicans because of his loose lip style. he is on thin ice, the knives are out for him as well. there is another figure in the white house who is quite controversial and had his head on the chopping block. that did not come to pass. we'r

there are other events in the world besides steve bannon, but let's talk more about steve bannon. this is an interesting phil thing that i have been noticing in some of the reporting tonight. apparently steve bannon is getting under donald trump's skin because of the perception that steve bannon played a critical, strategic role in the rise of donald trump, and this really did truly bother donald trump to the point -- >> we have seen this before. if someone has a reported role in donald trump's rise, and donald trump wants to be -- this is the guy in the republican convention who said i'm the one guy alone who can fix it. i think he still tries with the exception of when he is blaming everything on mitch mcconnell. he still tries to put that forward as being everything that is good is because of me. everything that is bad is because of someone else. >> for somebody perspectively who might be asked to join this administration, somebody with a credible, solid resume, you look at not just bannon, but you look at the entire roster over the last eight months. what do you take away from

it is good that steve bannon is gone. but until the president understands that he failed all of us, i don't anticipate that there will be any significant changes inner its of the president leading us in the right direction. >> following the president's response to the attack in charlottesville you tweeted this -- i'll put it on the screen as well. as a jew, as an american, as a human, word cannot xres my disgust and disappointment. this is not my president. like it or not, senator, he is the legitimately elected president of the united states. i know you received a lot of criticism for saying, this is not my president. i want you to explain why you said that. >> well, i think it's important to say, wolf, and i appreciate what you're saying. he is the legitimately elected president. legally, he's the president of the united states. i recognize that. we all have to recognize that. and contend with that reality. but this is a president who has failed to do what we expect every president to do, which is to provide moral clari

steve bannon is now a household name. there is people that will be upset that he left this white house. i talked to a bannon ally earlier this week. they said we had a sense this is coming and we look at this white house now and we see new york democrats and generals. that is not what we worked for in 2016. steve bannon is the leader of a coalition and it remains to be seen. >> let me bring in jennifer reuben. the author of the post, so your paper is quoting friends of steve bannon's assayi saying lo he can help the president's agenda from the outside, that things were not working on the inside. gabe sherman reports something very different that he will go back to breitbart and become a thorn in the side of gabe sherman. which way do you see it. >> they try to occupy that space. and in the area that he is trying to drift back, the more antagonistic they will become. so i think they need to occupy that pace for business reasons. that is where fans are and that is how they made their name. she to figure out what he wants to

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. earlier, i spoke to a washington post journalist and he earlier, i spoke to a washington postjournalist and he said both sides agreed it was mutually agreed but the

you are no fan of steve bannon. you called him dangerous more than once, and called him many other things. >> and the resolution is know he would be fired, specifically. >> do you leave open the possibility now with steve bannon out that things will get better with this president? >> one hopes and prays that they will get better, because he is the president so i certainly hope they will get better. the fact is the president who hired people like steve bannon and sebastien gorka, who is involved with neo-nazi groups in europe -- i think it's president clear. in any event, has been indulging in dog whistles and many events before he hired these people from the birther controversy to many other things, he said to judge curry, calling other mexicans rapists. >> congressman, appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> and thank you so much. john berman is in for anderson cooper. "ac360" starts right now. >> good evening, it's the end of the trump presidency as he knows it and steve bannon feels fine. john berman here, steve b

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

that is what steve bannon has had to hold over him. as i spoke to white house officials in recent days about the decision that was one of the , factors. part of the bannon survival plan was he did hold the heartbeat of that trump base. and the flipside is he is the one person who could do real harm on the outside. he could go back to breitbart news and go after this white house. the reporting by jonathan swann indicates that is not the case. i would look for steve bannon to be supportive of the president on the outside, perhaps even working on his midterm strategy for 2018, his reelection strategy for 2020. to get there, the president decided to make this radical change. charlie: have you seen any diminution in leaking from the white house? mike: of course not, charlie. you know that. [laughter] the leaks come from everywhere, including the president, who talks to his longtime friends and we hearhey yap, what they are talking about. we have extremely accurate leaks. this will do nothing to change that. general kelly has tried to clamp

those 19 conservative groups when wind of steve bannon's departure swirled around said steve bannon and kelly ann conway faithfully represented the position in the white house. >> shepard: this is a new development but it was happening for months. >> he was simpattico with the president and he was ininstrumental in getting the president-elected and bias you power and in the white house he was in tannedum with reince priebus and at some point they would depart the white house. a lot of people thought he would have departed before now. and on two walls was white boards with all of the things he wanted to accomplish. and a lot of things were checked off and some not. and some grumbling that bannon's aggressive agenda was not getting through. reports of steve bannon on the outside and closest people in donald trump's sushgle. how much is it that you know. >> his distaste with the establishment republican and how he wants to fight against them and through breitbart or team up with robert mercer and launch war with the white house and congress would not be too much of a stretch. it is early g

steve bannon was not helping with that efforts at all. he was alienating members of congress even if he was securing the base he was alienating others in the west wing in pursuit of his ideology. and that was hurting the president. >> george thank you. i want to go to matt dowd someone that advised presidents in the white house and campaign trail. if you had had to advise president trump now what would you tell him? >> well, he has created a white house that we know from day one was in chaos. that is how he ran his campaign, but a white house cannot be in chaos. this is the worst blow coming at the tail end of probably his worst week and as george said he is in his lowest approval numbers at this point many i don't know what he can do than other try and stand back and re-examine himself and cause himself to have some self reflection. the problem ultimately for president trump is not steve ban bon or anthony scaramucci or mike flynn, and the fbi director before the recent firings those were fired and he has to have some self reflection but

steve bannon in the white house. he concerns of who ends up filling that role. there are few conservatives who are championing a certain vision. donald trump is not easily pulling in a certain direction and frankly, just in terms of effectiveness that a lot of people in new york, where they have necessarily have not been pull him in a direction. donald trump has a lot of impulses that he had stuck to and believed in. i don't expect that's going to change. steve bannon, i don't think he's going to be that much reliable. >> to what extent do you think steve bannon had won the important battle where he shifted the republican party and at least among the base of the popular wing. >> in that sense, he has. he's been trying to find somebody who can change of the focus of the republican politics. he tried with sarah palin and trying to get dobbs to run for president and jeff sessions to run for president. not because he thought sessions could win but he thought sessions could elevate the issue of trade. regardless of what t

so what, steve bannon departs. i don't think that means donald trump is going to renege on any of those things.eg i think he will remain every bit as committed as if steve bannon neveras left. >> kimberly: sara, there was a discussion that the presidenton was upset about the book coming out. steve bannon and the article that came out. some of the comments there. when you look at this and frame it in the lens of what has happened in terms of the arguments and what has been going forward in this country about white supremacy and nationalists, do think any of that emotional rhetoric and that charged environment had anything to do to hasten the departure of bannon? >> i would only guess if i said that. i haven't had a chance to speak with the president about that. it could have played a role. i think the bigger issue within the white house was this kind of ideological break that people had, as far as the iran deal. that was huge. mcmaster and bannon but it heads over that. china was another big issue. that's why he tal

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

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

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

steve bannon leaving the white house. whites who issuing a statement, i quote, white house chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon mutually agreed it would be steve's last day. welcome to "the intelligence report." bannon has been somewhat controversial figure in the white house. he often clashed with other white house advisors as well as members of president trump's cabinet, including the new chief of staff, john kelly. while this sort of hard-nosed conservative, very nationalistic economic agenda, earned him a lot of support from trump supporters it caused friction with more moderate aides think gary cohn for example. maybe steve mnuchin. family members like jared kushner and donald trump. i want to go to blake burman, standing by at the white house with the breaking news. as i said the market doesn't quite to know what to make of it. we're off a little bit because there is some concern they're still going through a lot of speed bumps here blake. reporter: this shows, trish, i think you could says influence of new ch

>> steve bannon was the heart of darkness of the white house. that's not to take anything away from donald trump. as we seen the last week -- >> okay. >> saying very fine people -- >> you're saying you don't want to take away trump's claim to darkness either? >> i don't want to do that either. this is a fellow that told us at mother jones that he saw breitbart which he was the publisher of or the head of as a platform for the alt-right. if you read breitbart in those days, they said, themselves, the alt-right was composed by white nationalists. somehow he ends up in the white house serving the president of the united states. shouldn't have happened in the first place. i don't think his departure means a lot in terms of policy because i think he's lost a lot of policy battles to the globalists and the people more reasonable than he is. what it does mean is children at home, pay attention. if you're a disrupter who plays fo footsie with racist and tries to stab in the back then maybe your white house tenure won't work out so well. that's a good le

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,

charlie: how does steve bannon feel about the president? what do we know about how he feels about the president that has not been expressed publicly? >> that is a very good question. i think he saw the president and white house as a vehicle for him achieving his own nationalist, populist goals he had been pushing for quite some time outside of the white house. i think he saw the president as an imperfect vehicle for that. and he understood the president can be swayed by the person he spoke to last or by competing factions and impulses which is one of the reasons why bannon was at war with colleagues in the west wing who he felt represented a contrary point. the democratic or globalist worldview. he also recognized in the president something of a kindred spirit. there are a few issues the president has been consistent on , not just in his campaign, but dating back decades. those are some of the same things bannon has championed. trade, immigration, and a wariness of sending young men and women overseas to fight in wars. charlie: could the pr

but with steve bannon gone it really is an open question. >> so i know you said is steve bannon welcomed back at breitbart to run it if that is the decision that's made? >> i don't know what's going on with that and i certainly welcome any role he wants to play. yes. i think he's a fantastic leader and it would be a privilege to work where him again. >> and i guess this -- the issue of alt-right, i thought it was interesting the way you answered the question to my colleague ali velshi earlier. it sounds like you -- do you regret that steve bannon once said breitbart is a platform for the alt-right? do you think the alt-right has now two synonymous with white supremacists these days? >> i think steve probably regrets that quote. i think that he was talking about the degree to which we had developed a new audience for our stories, but it didn't describe the content of our stories. and that was probably because there were many conservative media outlets as you know that refused to support donald trump, national review did a whole issue opposing trump in the primary. so we were one of the fe

steve bannon has been more 01’ upper hand. steve bannon has been more or less banished. there is this theory doing the rounds that he was effectively dismissed because of an interview he gave to an american prospect, saying he didn't think there would be a military solution 01’ there would be a military solution or there should be a military solution in north korea and a p pa re ntly solution in north korea and apparently that hugely angered the president. is that what you have heard as well? i think that's the last straw. 0ne heard as well? i think that's the last straw. one of the things about president trump is he doesn't like to have anyone taking credit, he doesn't like anyone to be sharing the spotlight with him. steve bannon was ina the spotlight with him. steve bannon was in a book byjoshua greene, a bestseller in america, in which he claims credit for the victory of president trump in november and i think that rankled president trump far more than this interview, which was in some way a suicide mission. he was kind of ceding the ground for his next move. we ap

steve bannon's was among them. i'm also told by an administration official that the interview that bannon did with the american prospect, quote, didn't help his case, in terms of staying on at the white house. while bannon was definitely a darling of many conservative, he was also seen in the white house as something of a divisive figure. though it was also said to be aoeud logically very much along the same lines as the president. here's official statement from the white house saying, quote, white house chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon have mutually agreed today would be steve's last day. we are grateful for his service and we wish him the best. you can tell as early as tuesday of this week that the writing really was on the wall for bannon. after months of speculation. when the president was asked about him at that now infamous press conference in the lobby of trump tower. listen to what the president said. >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. but mr. bannon came on very late. you know that. i w

that is something that steve bannon would probably know. let's bring back the panel and talk about he and his wife, ivanka, they have been absent during this horrible week, given the understanding that they are jews, they laid lows, but if it's true, kirsten, that jared was against them the whole time because bannon was trying to put a move on him from early on and trying to have more leverage what does it mean about who this war is against? if that war tweeted by one of bannon's people, war and the presidency being over is not about how he feels about the president. it can't be good for jared kushner. >> i don't think so, i don't think so it's good for jared or ivanka or dina powell or any of the people viewed by steve bannon and the breitbart crew as being the barrier to donald trump -- being the person that -- >> what can he do? >> well, he has been in the white house, and he was on the campaign, i assume he has a lot of information about these people, right? and he is now in a position to go after them. the question is does that alienat

. >> 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

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

bannon brought him the nod, this anti—immigrantand steve bannon brought him the nod, this anti—immigrant and anti—foreign policy and the opposition to trade deals, all issues that steve bannon fostered on his radio programmes before he joined the white house. just to be clear, your impression is that steve bannon will be just as if not more powerful outside of the white house when it comes to influencing donald trump policy even though there are signs that the white house is trying to be more moderate, organised and stable? moderate, organised and stable7m many ways, when you think what happened when steve bannon was in the white house and tried to push as immigration ban, it did not go, there were lessons for the checks and balances of the constitution. so some of these major net is just that he tried to push through but donald trump actually stop the president from doing things. so perhaps on the outside where they can throw bombs, steve bannon will be more powerful. it will be interesting to see. thank you for that analysis. the latest headlines now. the spanish government says the

bannon 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

steve bannon believes in these ideas. it is the other way, he wanted to help push these ideas into policies and have been the one question on the president. here is the tension we keep oncoming he's going to have access to the president and guarantees he still talks to the president and pushing these ideas. >> did mr. bannon think he's responsible for mr. trump's election >> i guarantee he thought he's more responsible for the president. of course, steve bannon, who was part of the ones that ran the campaign and helped crack the code against the odds and the prediction so there should be plenty to celebrate. plenty to go around. this president, we know is jealous of the credit and every time "morning joe" and your sister network would put up of "times" magazine cover that would rattle the president and makes him so angry we know from our reporting the president saw the cover, i don't know that the president crawl up with it and read up page by page he felt that steve bannon was promoting himself and taking too much >> mik

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

host: did steve bannon sanction this book? did you talk to him for the book and if so, for how long? guest: he did not sanction the book, that i met bannon in 2011 because i am always looking for interesting characters who break the mold. bannon if nothing else, breaks the mold of the type of person you encounter, and washington. i would interview him, over the years. hundreds of hours of interview tapes. i did not actually write about him until 2015. i did a cover story built on this elaborate plan that he had conceived to tear down how the clinton who everyone was -- everyone knew was likely to be the democratic nominee. i travel to florida with bannon and interviewed everyone around him. he did not sanction the book. i decided to write it on my own. i don't think he is happy that it is out there. we see what happens to steve bannon when his profile gets out. he did talk to me after the businessweek profile because i think he did appreciate the fact that a mainstream business reporter could look into what he was doing. i rem

steve bannon, and no chamber of commerce. the president went with mitch mcconnell not steve bannon. is that yet another sign, if you believe the rumors, steve bannon is on the outs? perhaps headed for the door, or too soon to say. that's next. so there are no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no artificial preservatives in any of the food we sell. we believe in real food. whole foods market. won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. tthat's why at comcast,t to be connected 24/7. we're always working to make our services more reliable. with technology that can update itself. and advanced fiber network infrastructure. new, more reliable equipment for your home. and a new culture bui

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

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 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.