and today, one of the most influential figures in trump's maga movement, steve bannon. bannon has harsh words for trump's new found big money friends. he tells me they are coming to washington tomorrow as a form of surrender to donald trump. >> as soon as zuckerberg said, i've been invited, i'm going. the floodgates opened up and they were all there. not trying to be supplicants. so i look at this and i think most people in our movement look at this as president trump broke the oligarchs, he broke them and they surrendered. >> much more on that coming up. but first we go to two major breaking stories this morning involving trump and outgoing president biden in the middle east. a long awaited hostage and prisoner exchange between israel and hamas begins to go into effect. we'll have the very latest on that in a moment. and this morning, a huge story affecting some 170 million americans. the wildly popular social media app tiktok has gone dark. shutting down following a supreme court ruling this week upholding a ban on the app unless it is sold by its chinese parent compan

and steve bannon, i'm sure, is not happy about that at all. >> yeah., has been steadfast, spent time on himself in the white house. >> so i could imagine elon musk, the new steve bannon. and that's you know, and that doesn't sit well with the old steve bannon i can imagine, especially when the old steve bannon is very much still here, very much still here, and very much has a constituency. >> this podcast is very popular. and so he's going to make trouble for the tech side of the trump coalition. >> yeah, absolutely. >> so while that schism is happening, we're also watching the administration start to form in its early phases up on capitol hill. confirmation hearing week kicking off with pete hegseth in the spotlight, i wonder your early thoughts about what we are likely to see today. it's going to be explosive. >> yeah, it's going to be explosive. first, there are the allegations against hegseth of sexual impropriety. there are questions about his experience, obviously, and whether he is remotely capable of running the defense department, one of the b

it's one that pits elon musk against steve bannon. >> it started with a christmas day post by musk onorm saying that the united states needs to quickly let in more foreign workers, specifically highly-educated engineers to work for american tech companies. musk hit back on his pro-trump critics with a series of profanity-laced posts saying, quote, "i will go to war on this issue, the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend." that outburst prompted steve bannon to hit back at musk, saying, "someone please notify child protective services. need to do a wellness check on this toddler." >> quote, "i will have elon musk run out of here by inauguration day. he will not have a blue pass to the white house.ve full access the white house. he'll be like any other person. he is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. i made it my personal thing to take this guy down." >> seth: you know, i'm really trying my best to find joy wherever i can amidst the darkness of a trump presidency, so, let me just say, i'm really [ bleep ] enjoying this. i mean -- [ laughter ] elon musk and steve bannon fighting

bernie sanders and steve bannon agree on getting rid of h1b visas.bling these alliances. do you? >> slightly. the far right, the populist light, has always been somewhat skeptical of corporate power, as has the left and liberals and centrist. but yet what you have under trump is trump bringing in these people on culture war issues, talking about the border and crime and trans issues. this is part of the 687 strategy. focus on culture war issues. do not let particularly working class voters see the democrats as doing anything for them. so, when joe biden and barack obama provide broadband to rural areas, you know, you and i don't need it living in the washington, d.c. area. but they provide broadband to places like west virginia and idaho. and the people there benefit from it. and what do they do? they either watch fox news on broadband and think the people who are doing this are elitist who they should be voting against. it's not just that this is a government of billionaires, it's a government for billionaires. and that's what we're going to see --

so, who is the steve bannon in this administration that's going to have trump's ear? >> i think it's a very different structure, i think that suzie is a safe pair of hands, susie wiles and i hired her in the '16 campaign against the recommendation of president trump at the time. she's fantastic. we would not have won florida if not for susie wiles. she has a safe pair of hands and a different white house staff and going forward than the contentious in the open fighting that we had, but there were all for good reasons, there were different policies. i'm not so sure-- and when you say steve bannon, president trump has been his own strategist. if you look at the way he managed his coalition, the way he put it together, the sweep how he managed in the transition and how he'll manage it going forward, president trump is a deal guy and he understands how to, i think, juggle opposing views and quite frankly, strong personalities. so, one thing i will note that many of the strongest personalities in president trump's orbit are not going into the white house, cory lewandowski,

a fundamental rupture in the coalition for the coalition to survive, they need the nationalist steve bannonimmigrant, anti-trade america first, if you will. >> that's sort of the bannon lane. >> and then you have musk, who is really a globalist at his core, but has kind of brought in these tech bros that were, you know, radicalized by covid or whatever they might be. >> they might be quote unquote, anti-woke, but they're not, like meaningfully maga across all these policy issues. >> and musk, in his case in particular, like, does business in china and is on the take from china, which again, is fundamentally at odds with kind of the america first crowd that does not believe that the u.s. should be doing friendly business with china or doing friendly business with the world, that we should be decoupling from china. so here we have this fundamental fissure with the musk world. and now he's got vivek with him and some other people and bannon. and they are going to like this fight is not just about personalities. like as policy gets implemented in the next trump administration, this will be a yo

former trump staff member steve bannon got into an argument with elon musk that prompted musk to call people like bannon unrepentant racists. musk seemed surprised to discover that there were any racists supporting donald trump. remember the outrage in both the news media and trump world eight years ago when candidate for president hillary clinton referred to some trump supporters deplorables. the racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic, you name it. donald trump pretended to be deeply offended at hillary clinton's accurate description of some trump supporters. when the richest person trump has ever met. that we should admit more skilled immigrants into this country, even to take jobs that americans are eager to do. i expect severe buyer's regret fairly early in the second trump administration. after all, many americans did so because they believe he would bring down grocery prices. he stopped talking about the subject as soon as the election was over. sooner or later, voters were going to notice. i did not, however, expect a maga civil war weeks before trump had even taken office. e

it would be no better place than to announce what did you some of which is a joint venture with steve bannonservative films back into the ecosystem. government gangsters the movie is the first one end is coming out in the spring just a couple months. we are very excited about that. here's the thing. eight years ago the deep state was real. when donald trump came down the escalator in 2015 in trump tower the deep state was already moving at 100 miles an hour. the deep state projected on us we were the neocons, the conspiracy there is because we dare to call them the deep state. state. when we fast-forward eight years later they have multiplied. they have put their army on the ground in government agencies and departments from the dod o the fbi to the doj. they have weaponized justice. they have politicize the intelligence community. they have sees our department of defense from the men and women who have the audacity to serve and where the cloth of this country and they have tarnished the reputation. they have led to disasters in afghanistan, in ukraine, initial and elsewhere but they blame u

steve bannon was trump's chief strategist back then and an architect of that speech.ew figures in the maga movement are more controversial or more influential. his war room podcast serves up hard-edged attacks on trump's enemies mixed with calls for revenge and retribution. bannon spent four months in prison last year for contempt of congress. he refused to testify about his conversations with trump. he still talks with him regularly. in fact, i'm told one of the very first calls that bannon received after he was released from prison, was from donald trump. i sat down with bannon at the capitol hill townhouse where he broadcasts "the war room." we've interviewed him before. this time his tone seemed slightly different, a bit less confrontational, although as you will hear, he did baselessly call mark zuckerberg a criminal. that's the same mark zuckerberg who will be attending the inauguration tomorrow as a guest of donald trump. i interviewed you just hours before you went into prison, and now we're sitting here again together just hours before trump's going to be swo

molly ball, mike mentioned steve bannon. so this was the latest set of attacks from steve bannon. he says quote, i've never seen action like this in my life. trump's one time chief strategist said he called on the white house chief of staff susie wiles, to sit him, ellen, down and sort it out immediately. there is something fundamentally wrong here about the structure in his understanding of the structure. this is not silicon valley. this is not tech bros. or is it? >> well we'll see. i mean, i think it depends if for now elon's just popping off, right? he's just saying things on social media. he's sort of a critic, but he's going to have an office in the white house. he has an office in the white house. so what is he going to actually try to do? right? and i think the infighting is going to come when he starts trying to actually push whatever initiatives he's going to actually push for, whether they're things that advantage his companies or whether they're just things that he believes in ideologically. but other parts of the maga movement do not. as we saw with the h-1b debate th

former trump staffmember steve bannon got in a public argument on twitter with the owner of twitter, elon musk, that provoked musk to call trump supporters like bannon, quote, unrepentant racists. musk seemed surprised to discover that there were any racists supporting donald trump. remember the outrage in both the news media and trump world eight years ago when candidate for president, hillary clinton, referred to some trump supporters as, quote, deplorables, the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. donald trump pretended to be deeply offended at hillary clinton's accurate description of some trump supporters. when the richest person donald trump has ever met, who also happens to be the richest person in the world, calls trump voters unrepentant racists, donald trump, of course, sided with the rich guy against his own supporters. donald trump decided to publicly agree with elon musk. that we should admit more skilled immigrants into this country, even to take jobs that americans are eager to do. nobel prize-winning economist paul krugman writes in his s

former white house chief strategist steve bannon discussed the first 100 days of the incoming trump administration. during the conversation he also touches on elon musk's influence on president-elect trump, hosted by political playbook. >> thank you steve for being here we appreciate it. >> thank you politico for having me. >> start with some of the headlines you been making recently there's a new voice and president trump's ear, elon musk. you are not happy about it, is president trump too close to musk. >> is not that i'm not happy about it, elon musk i think i'm the first one who built a narrative he came in basically in the spring and early summer and most importantly, he backed our flag which is going to be maga plus selection. base plus dissonant mom, school boards. people have tried to moderate n president trump being on the campaign trail so elon musk came in a totally back to the populist maga play he didn't return $150 million of ÃÃhe then returned $150 million of checks to back. i said from the beginning both the united states he deserves a place the table. in europe i said i think poli

then he have steve bannon, the nativist majority within maga who want to cut off all immigration to theountry. we have people like my friend, speaker johnson, who sponsored the life begins at conception act. who has been advancing the idea of banning abortion imaginary which was enabled by the supreme court's decision overruling roe v. wade then you have others, which i would include donald trump and this, who don't really care about abortion and are doing everything they can to run away from the issue, even though he was bragging about having a point of the justices who did overturn a woman's right to choose. so i think that they have the slender rest of majorities. and on any particular issue, huge divisions going on with their coalition. and we will do whatever we can to work with people. jim jordan is my counterpart on judiciary, we sponsored legislation together called the press act that i am very proud of and i hope he is still part of it. which protects the rates of reporters not to have compulsory production of their confidential sources and their notes and documents. that passe

newby to this organization, i'm learning about all the things politico can do, including this steve bannon avatar beaming from the war room. very futuristic, steve was going to join us in person and had some airplane issues, maybe, steve, you want to take up with the outgoing transportation secretary. [laughter] >> thank you, steve, for being here. we appreciate it. >> thanks and thanks for politico for having me. >> let's start with some of the headlines this you've been making recently. there's a new voice in president trump's ear, elon musk. you're not happy about it. is trump to close to musk? >> it's not that i'm not happy about it-- elon musk, i think i'm the one that built a narrative and he came in in basically the spring and early summer and most importantly, he backed our play, this is going to be a maga plus election. you know, a base plus the dissident moms at the school boards and people have been trying to moderate president trump hean on the campaign trail. number one, elon musk came in and totally backed kind of the populist maga play and $250 million worth of checks to put

that's not true of steve bannon.ven by fear, which miller and bannon are? and these are two clearly damaged individuals who or sort of using public policy to work out personal issues. or do you believe that we have an optimistic vision of america? i go book to ronald reagan's last speech. say what you will about ronald reagan. it was an old what it meant to be an american, how anybody could come here to be an american. and if we lose that ethos, we really have lost, i think, a lot of what it means to be an american. >> well said. gentlemen, thank you for your contributions today. zeke hernandez and stewart stevens. before we go, starting tomorrow morning my friend and co-founder of the singular alley v club, ali vitali sits down in the anchor chair for the first time as the new host of "way too early." she is bringing a wide range of political expertise. if you usually wake up that early or if you are awake from the night before, join ali vitali for way too early every morning at 5:00 eastern. be there. >>> that's it

i mean, if you see elon musk and the technocrats and then you see steve bannon and what steve bannon said about elon musk, i mean, he has vowed to take him down. just today, he was talking about the, you know, elon musk and what he had said on twitter to undermine the president. i mean, this is a real fault line between maga. >> here's the thing. the coalition is huge. the coalition that came together to elect trump, going all the way from musk to bannon. it's a big, dynamic coalition. it's going to be natural for some. >> dynamic. >> i know i like it. we keep on using a euphemism. >> for something. >> well, by. >> the way, susie did a great job of managing all this during the campaign. i have no reason to believe she can't manage it during. >> the white house. it is. >> rich coming from steve bannon, who contributed to a lot of the dynamics in the first administration. should we say lulu garcia-navarro scott jennings, great to have you both here. meanwhile, tonight we're going to get back to that breaking news i mentioned at the top of the hour. that new wildfire that has erupted in

but with the added copy, does eli and musk represent my good in your mind, steve bannon, these are very different people. okay. and there are other characters within the trump or bit there is just as different from others. go ahead tom. yeah i, i, i don't, neither of those men represent what maga actually is. i think mag, at this point is a complete overhaul of the way we do. things was thinking about this for my, let my latest writings and, and i really do believe that is we're at a moment where everybody in america is feeling that we either we have to revolve, or we, whether it rack that inflection point. and if we don't evolve, then we will weather and, and i think the fires in california are a perfect example of, you know, the kind of an emblematic symbol of the, of the right within the existing system. and i think that that is what ultimately we want and it means different things to different people. and with my own community, i can see it. we have divisions all the time about what you know and the anxiety over getting it done. magic is the biggest impediment to getting anything do

i think steve bannon is wrong, and i think that's what career mind represents among other things. and when you put the totality of this together and you will get what's going on in the financial markets with what's going on with that policy and the movement and the way that they were going to pricing your dollars in the future. it's very clear that everybody is done with the ussr, included in the russians, the chinese and everybody else. and they can all get together and say, you know what, you want to be communist. you have fun, we're done and leave us alone and leave us out of it. we have a world to read. well, it is, i think the best, my son but, but tough as long as you by our energy. that's all. yeah, that means there's that. but what's really important is on is that on monday or tuesday, he's gonna speak virtually at davos play talk. all right, all right, everybody, that is my speed. that's what i'm what i'm going to ask everybody to hold your breath until monday. okay. that's all the time we have. i want to thank my guest in florida and, and natural. and of course i want to

thought it would be no better place to announce what you just saw which is a joint venture with steve bannon to launch conservative films back into the ecosystem so government gangsters the movie is the first one and it's coming out in the spring just in a couple months so we are excited about that but here's the thing, eight years ago the state was real . when donald trump came down the escalator in 2015 in trump tower the deep state was already moving out 100 mph but they projected on us that we were the neocons, we were the conservative tconspiracy theorist becausewe call them the deep state and when we fast-forward they have multiplied . they have put their army on the ground in government agencies and departments from j the dod to the fbi to the doj. they have weapon eyes to justice . they have politicized the intelligence community. they have seized our department of defense from the men and women who have the audacity to where the cloth of this country and tarnish their reputation and led to disasters in afghanistan, ukraine, israel and elsewhere but they blame us and one of the weigh

. >> but this is where you were seeing steve bannon come out and say, i want to text the wealthy. this is the new agenda, the full populist agenda. he talked explicitly about the fact that there was the killing of the healthcare executive. he thinks that donald trump needs to respond to this and i think you will see a huge clash right away between traditional republicans and the sort of steve bannon pressure. >> donald trump has spent the last five weeks in all his glory, right, he has been lathered up at mar-a-lago, his favorite place on earth, in a 24 karat bathtub surrounded by super wealthy people kissing his ring. and look at the people he is appointing. the number two guy in treasury is a huge tax lobbyist who last worked for microsoft and cruise lines and knows full well how corporations can avoid paying taxes but is not focused on collecting them. >> they just cut $25 billion from that budget. >> today may have looked calm and orderly but it can't hold and it can't last. these factions exist. >> today president biden announced that he is blocking japan's nippon steel from

steve bannon couldn't govern. they're great when they're in the opposition. i expect two years of utter chaos. >> give them a chance. >> give them a chance. >> all right i got to go to this. okay. so just five days ago, right. president, president elect trump declared, quote, the extension of the debt ceiling by a previous speaker of the house, a good man and a friend of mine will go down as one of the dumbest political decisions made in years. and drumroll, here he is tonight, spending quality time with that former speaker kevin mccarthy at mar-a-lago. trump has this remarkable ability to just shred you and then see you come calling like nothing happened. is this in mike johnson's future? >> i hope not, but i think there's definitely going to be some disagreements that percolate. we just saw it with the cr, right? i think obviously elon musk put the president, backed him into a corner a bit on that. but that's going to happen again until they figure out a way to work together. i think a lot of these problems started with the kevin mccarthy fiasco. and anothe

. >> but you're seeing steve bannon saying tax the wealthy, this is my new agenda, full populist agenda. because he sees, he talks explicitly about the fact there was the killing of the health care executive. he thinks that's huge for the american public and that donald trump needs to respond to this. and i think you're going to see a huge clash right away between the rtraditional republicans a steve bannon pressure. >> okay, but donald trump has spent the last five weeks, not saying this in a negative way, in nall his glory. right? he's lathered up at mar-a-lago, his favorite place on earth, 24 karat bathtub, surrounded by super wealthy people kissing his ring. and number two guy in treasury overseeing tax policy is a huge tax lobbyist who worked for microsoft and cruise lines and knows full well how corporations can avoid paying taxes but is not focused on the irs collecting them. that bannon agenda and maga universe -- >> they just cut $25 million from the irs budget. >> today looked calm and orderly but it can't last because the factions exist. >>> new topic, the current president,

and as steve bannon put it to me, and steve bannon knows trump quite well. it's also worth noting he is not a fan of the technology. but he said, look, it's like walking into teddy roosevelt's game lodge and looking at all the stuffed heads on display. it was a power move for trump. it was not necessarily a flex for all of these tech guys who have way more money than him, but are desperate for his approval. >> donald trump comes into office this time around with a team who's been studying what they want to do and how to get it done. it's just a much different ball game in 2025 than it was in 2017. all right. ashley parker, ryan nobles, vaughn hillyard, thank you very much. and our thanks to courtney kube and also to julie sorkin for that. that great reporting. still ahead, january 6th. convicts are walking out of prison today. ashley and i were just talking about it. let me describe to you who exactly has been released and what they are saying about their release. plus, the lawsuits are being filed. what executive orders are likely to face injunctions? what

there are people who are not in line with what trump believes about musk and i'm talking about steve bannonfor example. i want to play for everyone what you said about him in an interview just recently. >> he just the maga movement as being racist to the old trope that the lefts said, these oligarchs in the silicon valley, they have a different view of how people should govern themselves, i call it techno-feudalism, they don't believe in the underlying tenets of self-governance. >> steve bannon is delivered -- revolutionary, he usually finds enemies in his own camp when there's no one to fight and when vivek ramaswamy and elon musk came out in favor of the h1b visas, that put a clear target . in the maga movement, even beyond that, and labor, the way in which these visa programs have been administered or described is unpopular. bannon is on the side of the base and bannon knows that and he believes eventually, donald trump is going to come his way and not elon musk sway. >> mark and tim, thank you both so much, much more live cnn coverage from the second trump inaugural . ♪ ♪ z's bakery is

if he says let's cap interest card fees 10% he campaigned on i would spur that if he does what steve bannonaid make sure billionaires pay more taxes in this you can you be i would support that billionaires were paying 20% effective tax today paying 30 to 35 administrators in 90s when we had 3.5 percent economic growth if he says i want to invest in manufacturing i would support that, i may support some issues on tariffs, on strategic products coming from china. but if you are just going to say i want tax cuts for the wealth, and taxi breaks i can't support that. >> hold on our california lawmaker do you want the settle a deduction cap lifted? >> i the salt deduction cap lists? >> i do i think it should be lifted to amount that covers, working in middle class families, but that is one issue, about a i rather focus on is giving americans working middle class a raise, raise minimum wage, focus on investments in this country in manufacturing but do i support the proposal i am not going to vote for it if it means giving more tax breaks to billionaires and corporations, many whom outsourced their

take the maga civil war between first bro elon musk and steve bannon.k has gotten ire from bannon and laura loomer for his support of h-1b visas. even after donald trump took musk's side in the feud, bannon had this to say. >> don't come up and go to the pulpit and your first week here and start lecturing people about the way things are going to be. if you do that, we are going to get and rip your face off. because you can't beat us. >> you can't beat us. don't get fly up here. then there is the drama in the house. house speaker johnson barely managed to win re-election with one republican defecting congressman thomas massie and already johnson has the far right house freedom caucus breathing down his neck. they wrote that he has to prove he will not fail to enact president trump's bold agenda. johnson already has a slim house majority to deal with. if he didn't please the hard right liners like, well, we know how that resulted for kevin mccarthy. and so here we are. once again with one party in full control of government, or at least about to be. it's

the enemy of my enemy is my friend, unless it's steve bannon. [ laughter ] that's right. old an italian newspaper that he would have elon musk, quote, run out of the maga movement by inauguration day. oh, he runs out on his own, said his kids. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] the supreme court is set to hear challenges this week to the constitutionality of state laws restricting access to pornographic websites. it's the first court case where witnesses will not raise their right hand. [ laughter ] i don't think i can make it through a testimony without doing it. according to a new poll, former new york governor andrew cuomo leads mayor eric adams and other democratic candidates in a prospective mayoral primary. here's how the numbers break down. [ laughter ] google confirmed last week that it has donated $1 million to president-elect trump's inaugural fund. and this is nice, bing ponied up $50. [ laughter ] according to a new survey of tourists, new york is the least friendly state in the country. though i do have to ask, did those tourists ever consider getting out of

take a listen. >> this might be the only time i agree with steve bannon. he has questioned elon musk's influence and his connection with the foreign leaders. musk has conversations with chinese presidents, with the russian president, and he has an enormous amount of influence. i guess that is what comes with being the richest man in the world. >> do you agree with that? is, in fact, elon musk, or should he be seen as a national security risk? >> absolutely should be. i mean, it has been laid out. it does not matter, americans deciding they will stand up and say something, right? we know when it comes to maga and trump, they believe they have a mandate, but exactly what it is, i do not know because he has made it clear he is like him i do not know if i can really get the cost of food down. well, i can tell you his face needs to be loud about the fact that they want to be's faith in this country and i need people to not take it for granted that we do have oceans on the east and the west coast of us that are actually helpful to us. it is water that helps us,

jonathan carl sits down with steve bannon to discuss donald trump's plans for his second term. >>> newoncerns tonight about the bird flu. the virus detected at commer commercial facility in georgia. facilities under quarantine along with surveillance and testing. authorities calling it a serious threat. reassuring the public the products on shelves are safe. >> reporter: tonight, health authorities in georgia on high alert after confirming the state's first commercial case of bird flu at a poultry facility. all activity suspended statewide until further notice. on wednesday, a facility noticing signs of bird flu in their flock. emergency management deployed to dispose and disinfect. all commercial poultry operations in a six-mile radius placed under quarantine. the agricultural commissioner calling it a serious threat to geo georgia's number one industry. reassuring the produblic the products are safe. >> no affected products entered the food chain. there are protocols that prevent that from happening. >> reporter: it comes two weeks after the first bedeath was reported in louisiana. t

it i was time to decide and the president called meo and steve bannon into the oval office and had the whole cabinet there. whole cabinet and called us his heavies and said, all right, my heavies, you tell these guys why we have to kill the iran deal. we told them. he knew why, but we told them and then he killed it. that was my proudest moment. god bless you all and merry christmas. [ cheering ] >> wow, what an honor to follow seb and be here in phoenix with you and give you a 90 minute talk about how we can make money great again in america. five -- you already know this, but the fed knows it too. fed chairman powell says we're onfe the unsustainable fiscal path. you know what, i wrote a book called pirate money. i wrote it a year and a half ago. we have $32 trillion in debt, $36 trail now and $4 trillion added in the last year and a half. that's unsustainable. the other nations, the britt nations want to destroy the american dollar. can we blame them. elon musk said if we weaponize our currency enough times, other countries will stop using it. number 3. we have inflation. and inflat

former trump adviser steve bannon sees that as a major victory for trump as he told our chief washingtonnt jonathan karl in an interview for "this week" airing tomorrow. take a look. >> but, but, as soon as zuckerberg said i've been invited, i'm going, the floodgates opened up, and they were all trying to be supplicant. so i look at this and i think most people in our movement look at this as president trump broke the oligarchs. he broke them, and they surrendered. oh, we'll take off any constraints. there will be no more checking, anything. trump said, i view this september of 1945, "the missouri," and you have the imperial high command. >> imperial japanese. >> and he's like douglas mcarthur. that is an official surrender, okay, and i think it's powerful. >> whit: and you'll be able to see more from jonathan karl's with steve bannon tomorrow on "this week." janai? >> janai: a lot to look forward to there. >>> turning overseas now to the cease-fire deal between israel and hamas. the israeli cabinet approving the agreement overnight, now set to begin tomorrow morning at 1:30 a.m. eastern

and let's all let's not forget, steve bannon is a felon, and i hope more people start to remind folkshat's a convicted felon. why do we care what the hell he has to say? >> you know what i'm going to go to? i'm going to go to break early because i want to have some more time on the other side with april and tara, because we got to talk about, well, april, how are you going to cover trump, too? but then we got to trump, too? when the we got to talk temperature drops... you've got two choices. close your eyes and think warm thoughts. or open your eyes and get out here. there's only one vehicle lineup that embraces everything the cold has to offer. the official vehicles of winter. jeep, there's only one. right now, during the jeep start something new sales event, get $3,500 dollars total bonus cash allowance on most 2024 jeep wrangler gas-powered models. hurry in today. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protei

elon musk is part of that tech utopianism that steve bannon and others reject. >> well, musk seems ton top in just every area. ramaswamy is off to run for political office in ohio. he's got sole control over the budget cuts. do you have concerns about writ large the conflicts of interest, as well as the power of someone like elon musk and others who are. >> elon musk. >> from the front row of the inaugural, you know. >> absolutely. all of them sitting right in front of the cabinet, not sitting in front of the commerce secretary. so, yeah, an inordinate amount of power. i think what worries me the most is that elon musk is used to operating not only in the private sphere, but the very private sphere where he controls spacex. he he controls tesla, he owns neuralink and pretty much owns his ai company, x i. and so he can take extraordinary risks. and those risks sometimes pay off. he's the only person being able to launch rockets and then land them upright with the mechazilla arms catching him. so he's been able to recreate the internet in outer space. if you look at some of the things t

and let's all let's not forget, steve bannon is a felon.art to remind folks who these people are. that's a convicted felon. why do we care what the hell he has to say? >> you know what i'm going to go to? i'm going to go to break early because i want to have some more time on the other side with april and tara, because we got to talk about, well, april, how are you going to cover trump, too? but then we got to talk about the snoop of it all. that's when we come back. work, play, blink, relief, work, play. >> blink. relief. >> the only 3 in 1 extended relief formula for dry eyes. >> blink. >> as a cardiologist, when i put my patients on a statin to reduce cholesterol, i also tell them it can deplete their coq10 levels. i recommend taking qanon coq10. schnoll has three times coq10. schnoll has three times better ( ♪♪ ) my name is jaxon, and i have spastic cerebral palsy. it's a mouthful. one of the harder things is the little things that i need help with: getting dressed, brushing your teeth, being able to go out with your friends by yourself

so that steve bannon agenda and that maga universe -- >> they just cut $25 billion from the irs budget. >> but this is why we're saying today may have looked kind of calm and orderly, but that can't hold, it can't last because these factions exist. >>> all right, we have a new topping. today president biden, the current president announced he's blocking japan's nippon steel from taking over u.s. steel. now, a lot of people have views on this jason furman, former obama economic advisor, put out a tweet that was really surprising to me. super smart guy on all things economic, but a far more aggressive statement than you hear from a jason furman. he called it pathetic and a craven cave to special interests that will make america less prosperous and safe. he said i'm sorry to see him, meaning joe biden, betraying our allies while abusing the law. what do you think about this? >> i'm very surprised at the verbiage here. i know jason and he doesn't usually speak like that. >> that's what took me. >> i agree with him to a certain extent substantively we're trying to bring them closer to the u

is an elon musk, steve bannon, steve miller vision that that definitely has a larger white nationalistplicit about saying that. >> well, then my other question here as we see it, you know, these these various executive orders and memos being put out is how do the dei orders fit within the larger framework of other orders that president trump is signing this week on everything from, you know, immigration to the way the federal government is run from a bureaucratic sense. >> right? well, the rollback of not just civil rights but also civil liberties. so if we think about the civil rights act of 1964 or the voting rights act and the immigration act of 1965, those three acts are part and parcel together. so when you roll back one, you essentially roll back all of them. and what we're seeing with some of these executive orders are not only are we rolling back civil rights, we're rolling back immigration policies. we're rolling back ways that would make communities safer when it comes to policing or governance. and so all of these things fit together and are interconnected. and we've seen ov

>> steve the bannon is a revolution ary. when ve vikram vivek ram wham swami came out, he was targeted. the way they described it administered, was unpopular. bannon is on the side of the base. and he believes that donald trump is going to come his way and not elon musk's way. >> i want to talk to the rhythm or whatever the people are going to dance to. that's snappy. martin, tip, thank you so much. >>> next, more live cnn coverage of the second trump inauguration. and the second ball he's been to today. stick with us. ♪ ♪ >>> we are keeping our eye on the inaugural balls all over washington. the president and first family at their second ball of the night, the liberty ball. one of president trump's executive orders begins this fight over his attempt to scratch out a piece of the constitution, that outlines birthright citizenship. here with us in the studio, is cnn legal analyst elliot williams. elliot, this will not come as a surprise to you, if you have been listening to con ing ing ing ing to conservatives for some time n

. >> reporter: meanwhile, steve bannon has chided musk over his criticism of an a.i. tech announcement at the white house in support of visas for high-skilled foreign workers. president trump reiterated that musk will have an office in the white house complex, leading doge, that unit intended to cut government costs, which would indicate that at least for now elon musk isn't going anywhere. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> today is holocaust remembrance day, 80 years after the liberation of auschwitz by the red army. over a million jews were murdered in the extermination camp during world war ii. today dignitaries from all over the world will gather at the site to pay their respects. let's turn to jay gray. a lot of reflection there on this solemn morning. >> reporter: yeah, frances, good morning. and as you talked about, it's going to be very solemn, very somber. dignitaries, including king charles here, the french president macron. a delegation led by steven mnuchin, the secretary of the treasury. but none will step to the podium, it's an honor reserved only for the survivors here. >> t

steve bannon has largely been orchestrating. kind of watch the dance between him and elon musk right now, which has been going on for quite some time. because steve, you know, game recognizes game baby, right. he knows he knows exactly what elon was up to. he's like wait a minute. you try to you're going to move in on my turf. you're going to move on on my ground. that's why he's suddenly such an evil person. now, if he just stayed in his lane and just, you know, continue to use his money and authority that he has to benefit donald trump while all the other, you know, players got to do their thing, that's a different story. but yeah, these three pieces do connect in a way that i think is very telling about how this incoming second term for trump is likely to play out. it's not just the bending of the knee by bezos and musk and others, and it's about what they do once they bend the knee. and that's the part that comes next. >> yeah, i think that's well put. and the difference between journalism, which has plenty of criticism and

but then you had the sort of maga base, the steve bannon's of trump world saying, no, no, no, no, we got to go after some of these enemies. some of the people that have been detractors of president trump. and i just spoke to a trump aide on background who told me i leveled up even more than what we heard from trump. they're saying if bolton thinks he can abuse the system in order to make himself feel like a special person, he should get himself checked out. so he's coming out of the gate here, laying it down. this is my washington. i'm going to do this my way. >> it's pretty personal. lance, this is somebody, by the way, who has gotten many threats. i mean, just listen to what fox's brit hume had to say. who is not, by the way, a bolton fan. and it says in the tweet that i don't care much about bolton losing his security clearance, but i wish trump had not pulled his security detail. he got that detail because iran has a price on his head. people know that's the case. why do this? >> i know people who have threats from iranians that do not have security. there's a lot of people who h

even when it is steve bannon talking to some -- oh, elon musk. [ laughter ] one racist telling another racist to go back to africa. i don't like it. [ laughter ] okay? telling people to go back to their home country is childish, closed-minded, and totally applicable in this situation! [ laughter ] and it's not nice, okay? i don't care if this is the only time i've ever heard of someone being told to go back to africa and they're actually from africa. [ laughter ] i can't stand for it. go back to africa. i wish he would, but we're not saying that out loud. so, steve, doesn't matter that it's hilarious. you've got to cut that out, okay? and elon, i'm going to tell you like every little black child gets told. some of those little white children aren't your friends. [ laughter ] they're racist. but in your case, elon, baby, that's every last friend you got! [ laughter ] >> seth: amber ruffin, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] we have got a fantastic show for you tonight. he's an emmy, peabody-winning director, writer and actor known from projects ranging from "zoolander" to "escape at dan

i want to ask you about your interview with steve bannon that will air this morning on "this week."reworks in conversations you've had with him in the past. what does he say about the tone of the inaugural address and the tech bosses in attendance there? >> this was a fascinating conversation, and if you remember the last time i spoke to him, he was on his way to prison. so this is a guy who spent four months of the campaign in prison released right before the election. >> announcer: this is an abc news special report. >>> good morning. i'm whit johnson in new york, and we're coming on the air with breaking news. hamas is in the process of releasing hostages as part of a ceasefire deal with israel. morning eastern time. it was delayed nearly three hours because israel said it had not received the names of the three hostages who were to be released. but then those names were released. and i want to show you these live images right now. these are actually this was recorded just moments ago. this is in gaza. you can see the chaotic scene right there. it's not clear exactly what was hap