maria: steve bannon joining me.urder and manslaughter charges filed against a former police officer in the death of george floyd. could there also be federal charges for him? or are there other fired police officers involved as well? former south carolina prosecutor and congressman, trey gowdy my special guest next reacting stay with us. massmutual healthbridge is a free life insurance program just for healthcare workers fighting covid-19. learn more at massmutual.com/healthbridge ♪ maria: welcome back. well a now-fired minneapolis police officer has been charged with murder in the death of george floyd. three other officers involved were also fired, but have not been arrested or charged. trey gowdy is a former south carolina prosecutor and congressman. also a fox news contributor and trey, it's great to have you thanks very much for joining me. your reaction to those charges and what has taken place this weekend? >> took too long. you know, murder one in minnesota is pre meditation with an intent to kill, and murde

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bannon understands very well. i think michael wolff has said the reason he relied on band so much is because he felt like bannon was at best of trump. and will say that somewhat more kindly, trump is not an intellectual but that he has and intelligence that is almost impossible to teach can which is a sort of self-preservation, self-promotion. i don't know how it serves a president and executive but it seems to serve him. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. we have open archives to take a look at some recent books about the trump administration. next pillage prize-winning journalist james stewart talks about his research into the allegations of russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. he talked about his book "deep state" at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. in october 2019. >> trump decides impulsively he's going to fire komi. he calls people in the white house this is i'm going to fire comey and don't try to talk me out of it. he brings sessions and rosen sent in this is what you

and i -- producer, a guy named george, said would you be on steve bannon's show. i don't know a lot about steve bannon, i know he's a lot farther to the right than i am, i said, well in all fairness, i have to tell you i'm not a trump supporter. he said, i don't care. so i -- i just want to get that out -- i don't want to be on the show if they think i'm a trump supporter. he said, i don't care. so then the show went real well. i was invited back. and i enjoyed talking to steve bannon. that was fine. steve got it. he got the cause. and he said i'm going to tell a friend of mine, dr. hatfield, dr. navarro about you guys. i said who is dr. navarro? he told me, i said great. so then dr. -- somebody from dr. navarro's office called me and i ent through the same shpiel. i want to be sure everybody knows everything. so somebody from dr. navarro's office call and asked me about my company. i said yeah, i make masks. in all fairness, i need to tell you i'm not a trump supporter. in fact i did an article in the "dallas morning news" two years ago that was very critical and

steve bannon and rudy giuliani talk china and joe biden. back to "watters world" for all your headlines. log on to foxnews.com. jesse: if nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats get their way, all votes will be conducted by mail on election day to stay home for coronavirus. republicans are calling b.s. there is no way to monitor over 100 million americans voting from home. nancy pelosi wants to pay political operatives to collect ballots and go door to door. one man pushing for universal absentee voting, job. recently i spoke with former new york city mayor and personal attorney to the president, rudy giuliani about all of this. >> there is no doubt they want to interfere in the 2020 election. it's just as dangerous to go up to the door of someone and solicit as it is to have a well organized construct polling place where people can be six feet apart or as far apart as they have to be. that's a lot safer. we'll find out there was a lot more chinese corruption in this whole situation than we realize. i think biden's embrace of china will turn

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. >> reporter: conservative michael pack, friend of steve bannon, president trump's nominee to lead themoving forward on capitol hill even as new questions are being raised over his finances. the d.c. attorney general how investigating the nonprofit run by pack for possible misuse of funds, according to senator menendez. >> why are we voting a nominee who is the subject of an investigation for unlawful self-enrichment. is this the person you want running a u.s. government agency with a budget of almost $1 billion. >> reporter: cnn's calls to pack have not been returned. the it's latest development in a nomination that has languished for two years. >> i feel called back to international broadcasting. america's adversaries has stepped up their propaganda and disinformation efforts. >> reporter: now as trump focuses his ire on the voa -- >> voice of america is run in a terrible manner. terrible. they're not the voils of america. they're the opposite of the voice of america. >> reporter: the white house accusing the voa for spreading coronavirus. >> he's been stuck in committee for two year

turns out steve bannon's lawyer is also the lawyer of the for the guy at the white house he was talkingk >> having somebody on those two different sides of the story both represented by the same attorney that's weird that does it for us tonight. [ laughter ] >> seth: that's weird. good night >> that's weird. good night yeah, sleep well [ cheers and applause >> seth: i am sure you'll -- i'm sure you'll talk about this, this evening the memo we talked a little bit about the memo do you think the release of this memo, which seems inevitable at this point, do you think it will escalate the investigation into trump and russia ties, if that's even possible? or do you think the takeaway, when we look back on this memo, will be this was a degrading of our institutions that someone in congress would basically go after the justice department and the fbi like this? >> well, the memo isn't part of -- it isn't like something revealed from the investigation. the memo is part of the trump white house. and the trump supporters in congress trying to make the investigation go away. so this is part of the

steve bannon was a backbencher then and trump's chief strategist have a difficult which were to show trump out overextend and overcommit we were and how this international place order actually worked against us. the meeting did not go well for the globalist. trump basically just a bunch of swear words i can use on c-span, and started shouting and saying we're getting screwed by our allies and the chinese deficit really mean something. why do we continue never winning wars? general dunford was sitting there anyway the meeting was regarded as being a total fiasco. steve bannon said to jared kushner and reince priebus and the chief of staff this was lincoln and his generals. by that he meant obviously this is a horrible comparison but lincoln during the civil win the war war was nothing one, he fired various generals. bannon said trump is linked unremarkable what the presidency is going to be about and then went back to the white house spin is the old ineffectual ways of doing business. >> yes. i mean, trump, i talked people in the national council what is trump like in these meetings?

in your reporting, you mentioned a mask maker who went on steve bannon's podcast and got a lucrativeovernment contract. was there a straight up hookup or is there more to it than that? >> actually there was a little more to it. the american manufacturer called prestige ameritech had been arguing for years and years that it was a problem that there wasn't mord wasn't more domestic manufacturing. they tried to go through dr. rick bright who said heed been retaliated against for some of the decisions he made at the h.h.s. department. but eventually the way the prestige ameritech got its deal was bannon introduced the head of that company or the number two guy at that company to peter navarro at the white house and peter navarro got it going. it's one of two contracts in the history of the american contracting database which goes back now 15 or so years where it says the white house ordered this. >> how is the contract process supposed to work for equipment like masks, especially at a time of emergency? >> well, usually what you'd have is competitive bidding process for almost anything t

declined by almost one percent in the 1st quarter of the year prime minister shinzo are bannon's to massive release program last month to keep the economy on track right mcbride is in seoul and he says the stimulus announced by the government may not be enough to revive the economy we've had now 2 quarters where the economy has contract its.

mike pompeo, along with florida governor ron desantis, former white house chief strategist steve bannoninority leader kevin mccarthy. catch it live, 10 a.m. ian on fox news. and right here on fox business, start smart every weekday, tune in 6-9 a.m. eastern for "mornings with maria." we've got a big show this monday, our five-year anniversary. join us then. that'll do it for us righthave e weekend, everybody, and i'll see you again next time. ♪ ♪ gerry: hello and welcome to the "wall street journal at large." when 2020 began, we all thought the big news story throughout the year would be the presidential election as president trump aimed to repeat his stunning 2016 win while democrats hoped to kick hem out of office. but the coronavirus, of course, has changed all that. not only is it still in the headlines, it's turned the race at least for the past few months into one of the most unusual in american history. because of the lockdown, the presumptive democratic nominee, former vice president joe biden, has been mostly stuck in h

jimmy we've got about 45 seconds before we want to ask you you know that president trump and steve bannon and former advisor they represent the thinking that the nation state is the highest good if you will when we're talking about this organization if he is really a reelected isn't that going to be a national indorsement of this thinking and or do you want to do then with your idea if you have reelected strong. so it's exactly right and this is a year hate to bring in so many historical analogies but i know how well educated your viewers are this is a year like 1900 there's new technology there's an old world that's in many ways collapsing and the struggle is on to define the terms of this next world and everybody is organizing and certainly the forces of nationalism are intolerance are organizing and we represent the forces of hope people coming together around our common humanity well we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight and we look forward to talking with you again jamie metzl with one shared world jamie thank you thank you. well the pandemic has also forced the u

buses have been as bad news is coming as well about here in moscow more about it moscow mayor said bannonhas now extended the coronavirus instructions for the service industry cultural support venues and education facilities now to the end of the month 31st of may before that as we reporting starting from may the 12th next week the moscow authorities are beginning the implementation of the 1st phase of easing restrictive measures means but choose day everyone in the city is going to be required to wear a face mask and gloves in public places and when taking transport obviously i will be in the studio will be outside that's the way things are looking so far this thursday the 7th of may from moscow here doubts he will continue to keep you fully posted throughout all this 24 seventh's from students around the world our social media and our tito com i'm kevin now in to stay safe and well liz ever thank you for watching. seem wrong. why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just days after. and in detroit because the trail. went something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look

cameras off so the press d the public can see what they are doing, getting a promotion to steve bannon's business partner in the middle of a health crisis. this is such a gross misuse of power in the majority. while unemployment reaches astronomical levels, the senate republican caucus is often on a wild goose chase. the conspiracy is back with a vengeance. that is the name of this republican senate majority, the conspiracy caucus. that is where their focus is, not on eradicating covid-19 for helping people get back to work, not on feeding hungryes familie, on pursuing conspiracy theories. memorial day weekend is usually a time for senators to meet with constituents and hear their concerns. in these strange times, we won't be able to do that in person, but we will find ways to hear from the people in our state. and i expect my republican colleagues will get an earful. the american people should be furious about what washington republicans are doing in congress, and more to the point, what they are failing to do. as we approached the day of reckoning, more than a hundred thousand deaths f

yo bannon then began to alternately pace in the room and sit in the chair. then, a paramedic began to speak with mr. o'bannon. she explained that she was not a police officer, and she wanted to provide medical care to mr. o'bannon. she wanted him to leave the room so she could provide medical care to him. mr. o'bannon would not leave the room. 7:25, sfpd officers resumed speaking with mr. o'bannon. mr. o'bannon became agitated, picking up the wooden board, again holding it diagonally across his body. at 7:25 a.m., a woman who identified herself as a case manager attempted to speak with mr. o'ban an. the case manager asked him to pass the board through the plexi glass window several times and mr. o'bannon refused. the case manager was later identified to be an employee of the tender line housing clinic. the case manager continued to try to speak with mr. o'bannon for several minutes. mr. o'bannon alternated speaking with the case manager and striking the wall and window with the board. he then thrust the wooden board against the plexi glass opening and slamme

one was about $3000000.00 some of them have given up their salary for the year but looking forward bannon your and your humble opinion you know you also have you know boeing is at the forefront of this where they received a ton of that bailout money they actually had a lot of their orders for the 737 max cancelled by a number of countries the airline business just seems like not the business you want to be in right now what do you foresee in the for sure happening with all of this well i think we're going to see is a short term and a long term 1st of all there will not be a v. shaped recovery where you know everything falls off when it comes right back it's more of a you shaped recovery you're going to come down you're going to flatten out for a little while and then you're going to come back up but but it is without question airlines are going to have to. they're going to have to cut costs they're going to have to limit what they're doing and they're going to have to restructure become more nimble there's no question that has to take place but i do think it's important to separate the co

model of flooding the zone with excrement -- bannon used a stronger word.ly what rick grenell is trying to do and bill barr is trying to do and the counter narrative is trying to do and that is so muddy the waters that people can't ferret out the truth anymore and there is nothing more destructive to a democracy than the idea they're pushing that there's no such thing as truth anymore. >> congressman adam schiff of the great state of california, chairman of the house intelligence committee, sir, thanks very much for being with us tonight. i apologize for just sort of dumping on you my sense that this is just really weird and i don't get it. that the not usually the way i conduct an interview. in this case, i am bamboozled by their behavior but you have made sense of it. >> you're so right. it has that alice in wonderland quality of going down the rabbit hole. it's hard to wrap your head around. >> exactly. exactly. flooding the zone with excrement is the way to understand why we feel that way. it's on purpose. thank you sir, great to have you here, mush app

steven miller back in the day, steve bannon, someone seen as key to driving the strategy and messagingn really the governance coming out of downing street. and what people are really striking as hypocritical here is dominic appears according to these critics to have broken the lock down rules he himself created as part of the government. we first got reports that he took his family and drove more than 250 miles away from their london home in order to self-isolate closer to family because both cummings wife and he himself would eventually fall ill with the coronavirus and they wanted their family to help take care of their young child. but the advice at the time said if you are exhibiting symptoms of coronavirus do not leave your house at all, seven days after symptoms have subsided and everyone was told not to travel. don't travel 20 miles out to a beauty spot even if you're feeling healthy. so many criticerize calling it so hypocritical when he and his family were actually sick were traveling against what seems to have been the government advice. but as you have noted despite all thes

it was a private meeting where they briefed then-reince priebus, sean spicer, steve bannon and president-electeting when it finished, everybody left except james comey where he then presented the fake dossier to the president and then turned around and leaked that information and said that it was an official document that was presented to the president-elect during the transition. and "the new york times" and other media outlets reported it as factual. we know now that that dossier was a russian disinformation campaign that the hillary clinton campaign actually paid for through perkins law firm. so it's amazing that even when members of the department of justice warned the fbi that the information that they were using to spy on americans was inaccurate, they proceeded anyways, they lied to the fisa court on multiple occasions, we know that. they redacted information. and not one person from the fbi has been held accountable for it yet. elizabeth: corey lieu wan dow sky, thanks for joining us. come back soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: republican kelly armstrong, he sits on house judiciary, on th

in 2016, and this is exactly what donald trump is doing right now, he's flooding the zone as steve bannon put it during the 2016 campaign. >> and he's promoting all sorts of very weird theories out there, totally, totally unproven conspiracy theories. you make any sense of this at all, gloria? >> no, i -- look, the only way you can make sense of this is to say this is exactly the way donald trump behaves when he feels like he's threatened or in a corner, and he's clearly looking at the pulse in some of the battleground states. you don't think it's a coincidence he's talking about michigan and nevada, do you? those are states that are potentially very much up for grabs in the next election and for some reason he believes that, say, voting by mail would benefit democrats although there's been absolutely no proof to that effect. so he's in izhis campaign mode and clearly feeling threatened. >> in some ways, kaitlin, this is nothing new from the president, but in the context of this crisis right now, what 93,000 americans are died in the past couple of months from the coronavirus pandemic. wh

was jared kushner, steve bannon, kellyanne conway, we don't know the answers to that but we know thathael flynn's fourth amendment was clearly violated. >> martha: to have any specific reason to think those people were listened in on and unmasked? >> it begs the question, who else did the phis applications cover, we know carter page was one of those, we know the obama administration has been anything but forthright. what we know is when president trump was in the transition. mack, there were two individuals who attended the debriefings with him. one was governor christie, the other was michael flynn. we now know that michael flynn was being looked at and his name was unmasked by people in the oval office less than two weeks when they transitioned from the government, what other information do we have? >> martha: with regard to joe biden's role here, how concerning is that as he is the presumptive democrat nominee? >> i don't think it's concerning at all, what happened was completely routine. i would like to direct cory's attention about what happened during the trump administration du

other members of the campaign, steve bannon and myself and others were unmasked t costs us, hundredsf thousands of dollars if not millions of dollars to defend ourselves when the government came after us. it is a scary proposition when people with badges and guns do that to american citizens. elizabeth: you spent a lot of money defending yourself here? >> oh, i did. i spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending myself against a crime i never committed. solely because i supported donald trump and worked for a candidate in political office i thought would change the direction of our country and i was right. can you imagine this being done in this great country or done the other way. if the previous administration, if george w. bush had spied on the obama team, it would be world news t would be people accountable, not one person from the obama administration has been held accountable yet. i hope that time is coming. elizabeth: all right. corey lewandoski, thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate it. okay. next up we've got democrats now attacking republicans saying, what

pack worord closely with steve bannon, ththe former head of breitbtbart news. in media news, the atlantic is laying off 68 workers and freezing salaries even though the magazine has reported record online traffic and a spike in subscriptions. most of the layoffs will be in the atlantic's live events division. and food not bombs is marking its 40th anniversary this weekend. the worldwide all-volunteeeer movement recovers food that would otherwise be discarded and provides free vegan and vegetarian meals in over 1000 cities in 65 countries. the movement began in 1980 to protest the u.s. military budget, poverty, and destructitn of t the environment. food notot bombs volunteers have been arrested dozens of times while attempting to feed the hungry. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. following weeks s of outcry, authororities have arrested the man, the third white men for killing ahmaud arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was chaseded down and shot to deathy two white men in februar

president's pushing for the senate to install this contentious filmmaker, his name is michael pack, a steve bannonlly. the president has been trying for years to get him installed as the u.s. head of global media, which is the group that sends money to the voice of america and radio free europe, all these different u.s. government funded entities. these are just journalists trying to report fairly and but the president is saying they are pro-china and should be doing propaganda for the u.s. that's not the role of voice of america. >> right. it would ring a little more true as criticism if he weren't promoting an outlet that suggested that the virus started in north carolina. he's promoting one outlet that's pushing these crazy conspiracy theories that is chinese propaganda. >> yes, indeed. there's a senate committee hearing about the nomination coming up. that's new development that we'll be keeping an eye on. finally, another story involving the united states and china. there's been this back and forth more months now. there's been this clash over journalists being able to access these two countr

the last thing i'm going to go through was the exchange with steve bannon, former trump advisor on theign. he was commenting on the trump tower meeting in moscow from 2016 and he says "i don't think it was treasonous. i think it was stupid and unpatriotic." those are just three different quick takes there, slices of these 6,000 pages. there's going to be a lot to cull through tonight and into tomorrow. we will -- reported last night that we thought we would get them staying here they are. this is the initial framework for the russia investigation. we knew about meddling in the campaign. >> bret: chad, thank you. we will continue to comb through the 6,000 pages. let's bring the panel, ben domenech, kimberley strassel, and chuck lane. we are skimming the surface. it seems like there are things here republicans want to get out to show context of what was known about the beginnings at least of the investigation. >> we've been waiting for this for a long time and i think that we will spend the next several days and weeks calling through was going to be an incredible story to look back on an

hope hicks and steve bannon appearing before the committee, i can barely remember this.s a tough customer, interestingly this may help john radcliffe's confirmation, democrats may decide that they are better off with ratcliff than having grenell in there but it will eventually get out and my guess is we need disinfecta disinfectant, there's something in here that's rotten. >> bret: if republicans are pushing to put it out, one would think it's not bad for republicans. >> i think that's correct and grenell wants to push it out. let's let the chips fall where they may. same rules, both teams. >> bret: last thing, the russia investigation, how that all came about and how it finished, do you think that it is -- to bill's point -- in the collective mind-set of any voter heading into november? >> i think it still motivates the trump base. they feel there was a real injustice done there, i think there are legitimate questions to be looked into and to be investigated. i think there are also legitimate questions about the way the fbi behaved. you can't read some of the things tha

comparing him to somebody in the white house, he would be a stephen miller or a steve bannon.as revealed in march dominic cummings took his wife and child and drove 200 miles away from their home in london, to a family property to isolate themselves closer to family to have help taking care of their child. but at the time the advise was if you have symptoms of coronavirus, not to leave your house at all for seven days. listen to hough he defended himself just earlier today, though. >> i behaved reasonably. [ inaudible question ] >> who cares about good looks? it's a question of doing the right thing. it's not what about you guys think. >> and the opposition labor party is calling on dominic cummings to resign. there have been other government advisers, including one of the chief scientific advisers to the government who themselves had to resign over similar instances of breaking lockdown rules. so far downing street and the government is defending him, saying he was following advice at the time, but the uproar continues because it seems hard to square if the government was say

so i will sign this, and then , steve, steve -- bannon will speak and we will go around the room and say what we want. i want to congratulate rick grenell for doing such a outstanding job. acting, i don't think you want to be permanent, i think you are happy to be acting, but what i job you will go down as, the all-time great acting at any position. thank you, rick. [applause] would you like to say something? go ahead, please. >> i would just say greetings from an intel community that is very interested in providing policymakers and everybody around this table with raw intelligence that is not politicized in any possible way. i have to tell you, mr. president, i have heard from hundreds of members of the areent intel community who extremely pleased with transparency of their work, and that is what they are shooting for. that is what they want to provide the policymakers, is information that is not politicized by politicians in any way on any side of the aisle, but to be able to protect their intelligence estimates. we all know they are estimates. they are proud to give them, when not

maria: joining me right now former white house steve strategist steve bannon to talk about that great you so much joining us. >> thank you. >> in terms of this economy steve you had another bomb thrown at it at us yesterday with mnuchin and powell saying june is going to be worse than may you are former chief strategist of white house what do you tell president trump into election where he is the business president that is supposed to be leading growth we've got these kinds of numbers. >> look, every day is election day, every day is november 3 i think if you look at message yesterday, i think it is quite reassuring president trump chairman powell secretary mnuchin are on point on this number one secretary powell said hey we support it flooded zone with liquidity to report assess classes on debt side more sfier power if we need it mnuchin i thought very specific, he says look we understand we have had demand destruction i am focused on that, and at appropriate time there could be another relief package to focuses on small business cash into consumer's hands going to take care of deman

he's made at brad pascale or politically, what you see, and getting attention in the process, steve bannonn the cocover of the time magazine, or cabinet secretaries you mentioned, the problem becomes when you start to hug the spotlight from trump and it's in a negative way and in process of trying to enrich yourself, this is what pompeo is doing here, he's trying to enrich himself politically, and trump absolutely despises that. someone trying to cash in on trump with his political capital. it spells -- look, we'll see what happens. he likes pompeo, but pompeo is heading down a path that's very familiar and it doesn't go to a good place. >> i almost laughed out loud when john said, he likes pompeo, he likes no one and i think he has found pompeo a reliable stooj if you will. pompeo was on the phone with zelensky. but mike pompeo has always been a partisan political animal but no one thought he was a dummy, some of this conduct is so hue brisistic and from a political standpoint is just dumb. >> and so unbecoming, nicolle, he graduated first in his class at west point, what a disappointment