same time, cynical view of gary cohen wants to be fed here. saying -- trying to, like, save the country. i think we talk about general mattis, and there is an impulse there. on the domestic side a lot of senior advisors, if they're dead outrages, donald trump can clearly speak and communicate on his own without asking for advice. i think also in terms of bannon, whether bannon leaves or not, this week showed the sort of lead nationalist voice in the white house is donald trump. >> the president. >> not steve bannon. >> it's the president. what does it say seven months in? reince priebus left. general kelly in. more order, routine, structure in the white house but the president is still the president. colleagues in the "new york times" writing wednesday, mr. trump's venting on tuesday came despite from support from his staff. instead of taking their advice to stop talking about the president, unburned himself with what he vies admiral correctness in favor of take no prisoners. the president is the president. can we just stop any conversation th

gary cohen saying he thinks he did.e to believe the president is not going to be happy with this. >> he is not going to be. it is a public conversation. this is gary cohen, after the white house put this behind them all of a sudden because of the publications schedule. here it is on the national agenda. here it is, one of his top advisers breaking from the president and the white house line and screwing it up, once again into this weekend. it's going to have extra life to it, raise a lot of questions and gary cohen may not have the option of deciding whether or not he wants to resign. >> he chooses his words carefully. he says i am reluctant to leave my post as if he seriously considered it. he has a resignation letter drafted here, kaitlan? >> a couple things to consider, he is a key character in the fight coming up on tax reform and tax changes. from policy perspective, he's been interested in this and there's a reason for being there. there's reports that he would be happy to take a post as fed chairman. different in

was the president aware of the content of gary cohen's interview before it was published? >> i think everyone wants to focus on a very small part of that interview. 95% of that interview was on tax reform. the president and gary have spoken many times. gary has not held back what his feelings are. gary has not held back how he feels about the situation. he's been very honest and open and i don't think anyone was surprised by the comments. >> can you expect the president will reveal any more details about what he's using the tax reform? is, i would: if he not announce that today. i would let the president do that when he's in missouri next week. i know he's looking forward to focusing on tax relief for middle-class americans as we move into the fall. something i think everyone can expect to hear a lot more about over the coming weeks. i just got to keep moving because we are really tight today. >> mentioned two weeks ago possible military action in venezuela. [inaudible] does the president now feel that way or st -- or is he still pushing -- sec. sanders: i think we've been

side of the story as of right now we'll wait and see carl >> given some of hand writtenng about gary cohen whether he would step down, there has been this cohen-bannon feud developing in the media. maybe it makes it more likely that cohen would stay if bannon leaves just a step forward. >> very hard to say. very hard to get in the heads of any of these figures right now they're not talking to us. i've been e-mailing gary cohen he's not replied to give us a direct sense of what his plans are. we have not heard from him on the record the white house said he is staying. they put out a number of statements to that effect yesterday. and they feel like they've said what they have to say about that and it's overwith. and they don't necessarily want to dignify the conflict without further comment. it's not clear we're going to hear anything else from gary cohen for the time being what he would do if steve bannon was fired? that is pretty speculative and i don't even -- can't even begin to say there are a lot of moving parts right now. >> just reading chat frert floor of the nyse. thank you. contin

and since january, i've been working with gary cohen and the leadership on this plan. so we have a very detailed plan. what yesterday was about and we couldn't be more excited that the president kicked off the campaign for tax reform is taking it to the people. and what the president is focused on is explaining to the american public why tax reform is important and it's about creating american jobs fwz creating competitive business so that we can bring back trillions of dollars and have it invested here. and it's about a middle income tax cut and tax simplification those are the issues that president wanted to explain to the people in missouri >> i get that want to talk about that when you say there say package, are there numbers and rates and, you know, growth estimates and things like that in that package that we can talk about >> first of all, as i said, we've been working on the details. you know we came out with a statement on the group of six when we started this process we want to bring the three of us together, make sure that there was one plan with the adminis

to the point, will gary cohen give this interview unless he cleared it with the president? t sure but i have not spoken to mister cohen but constantly condemning these groups is very helpful. it is disgusting to see these types of groups that are still out there. unfortunately the media does continue to give them a platform. we have to deal with that through this resistance movement but this is also an opportunity to highlight that and show where the media is constantly trying to drive these false narratives against the president was of course the president isn't racist and condemns hate groups, he loves all americans, he loves people in general and you will see more of that moving forward. dagen: let's shift to the agenda. the administration pushing for healthcare and tax reform despite opposition on both sides leading republican lawmakers to admit the process is a struggle. watch this. >> what does being majority leader of the senate like? best answer i have been able to think of is it is a little like being a groundskeeper at a cemetery. everybody is under you but nobody

other plans and schedule changes throughout the weekend. >> can you -- has the president spoken to gary cohen about his comments. he said the administration can and must do better, and consistently and unequivocally condemning mategroups? >> no, the president is regular contact with gary. i will not get into details on specific conversations they have or not had. he speaks about his hate of racism, bigotry, and hate of all forms. there is always more that we can do and we will be looking for ways that we can do more. until there is zero of those things there is always more that you can do and it doesn't just happen in the administration, but i think it happens with the american people. i think the president called on america to come together to ignite his comments through the the course of the peek and i think that is something that we should all step up and be willing to do. john? >> sorry, we're really tight on time. i'm going to try to get to others. >> who are the very fine people protesting with the neo-nazis -- >> john, we're super tight as possible. >> that's why gary cohen is upset? >

bannon very gary cohen.ed me to see that this is the war that is happening in the administration. and so he is now going the take that battle outside, and he always viewed himself as being surrounded by these concentric circles of enemies. they were the so-called globalists in the west wing. then it was the enemy in the media, us. and then it was the republican establishment on capitol hill. and then it was the business community. he used to joke the democrats, he didn't even have time to fight the democrats because he was fighting so many people inside the white house and inside the larger republican coalition. and that's the fight he is going to take now. >> now,uke we saw on the movie "star wars" way back in the day you have struck him down, but he may come back stronger than he ever was before. and we're going to are to see. let's leave this right here for right. now we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, we have david gergen. he has seen his share of successful and unsuccessful presidents

that does include economic adviser gary cohen, jared kushner, aye ivanka trump. but that also included the establishment. i can tell you that attacking those people is also an indirect attack, though, on the president and it's going to be really hard if they are dividing -- if breitbart is responsible for further dividing this republican party because they're facing a brutal workload in the fall and it's going to take a lot of team work to get this legislative agenda passed. >> that's for sure. laura, take a look at this excerpt. >> now i'm free. i have my hands back on my weapons. someone said it's banyan the barbarian. i'm definitely going to crush the opposition and now i'm going to go back knowing what i know. about to rev that machine up. >> here is someone who left the white house with a security clearance. is there a sense of how the white house is set to deal with this if it gets to that point? >> a very bellicose statement from mr. banyan there. i think he's lost a to the extent that the people who are close to the president who are still in the white ho

it's gary cohen, steve mnuchin. it's jared kushner. who i would imagine have a hard time coming up with a policy proposal that's going to work its way through a republican-led congress. molly: as of this air time, steven miller is still there and very influential. he's very much of the same mind, i think. robert: the head speech writer for president trump. >> but if president trump goes too far to the center, if some of those people that you talked about, the gary cohens, affect him too much, he doesn't exactly know how steve bannon is going to use the power that he has with breitbart. how he has a huge, huge voice. and much larger voice that breitbart is since he was in the white house and now outside of the white house. that could be trouble for the president of the united states. >> republicans say that in fact it's not about him going to the center, they just wanted him to be less bannon and more republican. get something done on taxes. >> i think trump really does want to start getting something done. i think that will be the mode

they say flat out gary cohen is not going anywhere.to remain in his position, nothing has changed. that maybe his wife market is now down 75 points and coming back. it was down 137 points and all the way back from there. my question is moot, the white house says is not going anywhere and that is where the market is coming back, your comment on that? >> that has something to do with it. the administration certainly appears to be in turmoil. the market also agrees there will be no tax reform. it took years to get that done in 1986, no way these guys get tax reform done. they might get a corporate tax repatriation that will be huge for the markets but i don't think market is expecting that. >> walmart and l brands, two be retailers reporting pretty good sales, both of them reporting stock prices are down. i am surprised at that because walmart did very well with their online business. your comment please. >> i own walmart because of their online business. they are the ones that can compete with amazon. when you talk about same-day deliver

i think that a lot of it lies with this question of gary cohen whether he was going to stay or go.y after the remarks that the president made on tuesday during the press conference in which it was record that gary cohen was -- cohen and badgeon have been known to go back and forth. both of them are brash and they butted heads on a number of kaeshz, and cohen is really been responsible for moving and working on the tax reform infrastructure, health care, and i think that as long as congress is not able to pass those type of packages, you know, bannon and his followers in the house and senate, including mark meadows, who talks to him on a regular basis. he brags about that. he is the head of the freedom caucus. bannon is not doing too badly. >> molly, let's talk about jeff flake for a sending. surprising to see how public he was in his disappointment with the president yesterday. tweeting support and then the president, of course, then tweeting support for flake's primary challenger kelly ward. we've seen some pushback publicly for that. take us behind the scenes of what snalt republ

i can imagine what it was like for gary cohen up there that day.in, where agendas align, agendas align. people recognize when they have to work with someone they may not like very much. again, it's about the ability, about political capital here. in washington, everything runs on political capital, and typically the beginning of presidency is when that president has the most of it. they come into office typically at the most popular point. there's a lot of goodwill toward them. they often score legislative wins in their first 100 days. certainly by august recess where we find ourselves, this president came in almost limping well when it comes to political capital. and this type of episode is exactly the thing that undermines his ability to twist arms and sweeten the pot with folks in washington to get things passed. he is not going to be able to be in the driver's seat in any of these issues if he continues to degrade his standing with the american public. that's how it plays out. >> one of the people warring with gary cohen is steve bannon. we've

that's gary cohen for example. that is ivanka trump. and jared kushner. we know that steve bannon doesn't like hr mcmaster, the national security adviser, who is not necessarily of the left but is pushing some national security ideas that are not quite in line with what steve bannon and sebastian gorka want. i think when he says we're winning and we're going to come back and get them, he is talking about how steve bannon and sebastian gorka at the helm of breitbart is going to go after those individuals within the trump administration and perhaps smear them, write about them that sort of thing. i don't think he's talking about going after the large american left throughout this country. >> okay. a lex, same question to you. what do you make of this darth vader/obi-wan kenobi sound bite? did he push or did he jump? >> that was not actually the last scene from "star wars." there's still about 45 minutes left in the movie after obi-wan gets struck down. as important as personnel decisionsters are bhushin the w house and they absolutely are and deserve the at

and now jared kushner is the only one remaining, and his favorites, you know, gary cohen, dina powell, general mcmaster are there. and that he continues to pull the strings. and this source believes, in fact, that jared kushner is a more powerful person in the white house right now than general kelly. >> general kelly himself who is the white house chief of staff, you want to elaborate on that, gloria? >> well, he believes that jared is working with kelly, but that jared kushner and his wife ivanka have much more access to the president, can have the president's ear, whether it's at bedminster, whether it's upstairs in the residence, in ways that nobody else can at that white house. and, you know, that remains -- you know, that will remain, wolf, because the president is loyal, most of all, to his family. >> yeah, very, very interesting, gloria. caitlyn, you've got more information coming in as well. >> yes. we're learning more as we said a second ago, the chief strategist of the white house who is gone today, steve bannon, has returned to his position as the executive chair of breitb

. >> that sounds like influence of gary cohen very much opposed to across board tax cut.r question was he strong enough, i view this as just opening bid to get the clock ticking, get it going, i don't know what took so long frankly. because there was not -- there was no much there. no detail, this i think was just an opening of a long slog toward some kind of resolution. stuart: you don't stimulate the economy, if you have middle level tax cuts, you stimulate the economy by cutting tax rates across the board, and pumping money into the economy. that is not what the president was talking about today. >> you get to middle tax cut it is about a political issue, not a real economic issue, the economic issue is lowering business tax, stimulate the economy. more av fle affluent people whoe more money to put back into the economy get in the mix, but michael is right, koen is protectinprotecting what the gon sachs boys want, he and mnuchin are goldman sachs back people they are not going to be out there. i think that congress will have to come forward with a plan, not sure that w

gary cohen, of course, may have needed steve bannon to go in order to stay on. cohen was unhappy with what happened with charlottesville. many people were happy he did not go. many were unhappy he didn't. and in terms of pressing forward with tax reform and donald trump now has lost a lot of support from several leading ceos as we saw over the last few days. pushing forward more of a liberal agenda economically is less obstructed with steve bannon gone. he was a protectionist and nationalist. if you go back to the inauguration speech that was shaped by steve bannon's language. he thought it was too toned down. we have seen this ongoing battle with the globalists and nationalists. there are still others in place that support the agenda. far fewer. he has lost a number of battles. the muslim ban. first signature policy got pushed back by civil society. it is fought through the courts. it will be heard by the supreme court in october. bannon, as much as he created disruption, he is likely to continue that on the outside. he did not have a lot of wins in the white ho

gary cohen. they fix sate on these personalities, and they fix sate on those personalities.e would be steering away from the agenda that we elected them on and i think you will see that kind of targeted approach in the beginning. >> thank you for that. i want to bring back in eric wemple. peter king, the new york congressman said he should go, roger stone said he should go. anthony scaramucci, not that he has any france at the white house, he also was a voice, but the new york times reported that there was a push by the head of fox, rupert murdoch. what do you know about his influence in the ousting of steve ban non. i think it may have as much to do with john kelly and his ascension to the chief of staff roll as anything else. you know it is interesting you bring up murdoch, now bannon is outside of the white house, but as kirk or anyone would tell you donald trump has a cell phone he can continue talking to steve bannon. donald trump is terribly undisciplined. he will continue to go around the efforts of his aides to funnel information to him. steve bannon could be as much

it's so interesting -- gary cohen, chief economic adviser, there was a rumor yesterday that maybe he'd be out. maybe the president was isolated -- >> he's jewish. he was standing aside the president when he said -- there were fine people there friday. >> the stock market fell because on wall street -- wall street pros think gary cohen is the last, best effort for the president to be able to get tax cuts through. it was interesting to me -- the president so isolated, it's reverberating on wall street. >> he'll need the senate to get tax cuts through. he has to get them -- it's going to be difficult. >>> three fundraisers pulling the plug on events at the florida's in club. we'll tell you who and why next on "early start." run. that's how i feel about blue-emu pain relief spray. odorless and fast-acting, it soothes all my muscle aches and pains. and its convenient for those hard to reach places. and if you're like me, you'll love blue-emu super strength cream. it's made with real emu oil, its non-greasy, it's a deep penetrating formula that works itself down into your joints. take it fro

the whole point is that gary cohn is the trade. it is not trump. cohens the tax, cohen is the intellectual board behind the trump administration. would you agree that is our risk? guest: i would totally agree. last november, december, markets assumptionve on the on fiscal measures to reboot the u.s. economy. that is obviously now history and the most fundamental point is that the more turmoil you have in the trump administration, the more risk you have on very serious people like eric cohen possibly desk cohncohn possibly -- gary possibly leading. matter, you have stress in the trump administration. it needs the probability of important policy measures are significantly reduced and that is negative for markets and you see that in the downturn in the s&p and more importantly, you see it in the increase in the vix. anna: if he is less in favor as he was as a result of this week in relationships and the white house, who leads the fed? guest: i think that will be a focus on the markets later in the year. janet yellen might be replaced in early 2018. there is

was known to clash with white house colleagues, including hr mcmaster and economic advise zer, gary cohen. rules of it accelerated with john kelly as the chief of staff and bring order to the west wing. according to reports, it may have been a book that decided bannon's fate. the devil's bargain on bannon's role and paving the way for the trump campaign. listen to the response when asked about bannon earlier this week. >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. mr. bannon came on very late, you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors and i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came on very much later than that and i like him. he's a good man, but, we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. >> buzz feed reports he said that fing steve bannon taking credit for my election. he told the weekly standard, i feel jacked up. now i'm free. i have my hands back on my weapons. joining me now to talk about what just happened are two men deeply sourced inside the trump administration. gentlemen, thank you for being here. gabe, i'll start with you at the table, that's quite a quote and another one

he writes -- with gary cohen, steve mnuchin, and jared kushner did last week, or rather what they did not do, is a shonda. it is yiddish for shame, a disgrace, the three men, the most prominent jews in president coulds administration, have spoken out to say that those who march with neo-nazis are not "very fine people," as their boss claims. the treasury secretary, that you could -- the chief economic advisor were standing with trump when he said it. they said nothing. jeffrey is calling in from our independent line in mississippi. what do you think? jeffrey, are you on the line? caller: i am. host: can you turn down your tv and tell us what you think or what do you think hate speech should be protected? i do not think hate speech is protected at all. i think you should be able to say what you wish as long as it doesn't threaten any national security or the livelihood of any person in the country, so i do not -- i think it should be allowed. we should have a chance to voice out opinions, opposition for whatever it may be in this country. theyse back to i do think are pushing a lot of

on the very morning we reed into the financial times that gary cohen has talked about how unhappy he'sn with the response to charlottesville by the president and others in the administration. how do you react to this. >> well. >>> first of all, we revealed yet again how closely he monitors the news. the i mean he is aware of every story that comes out, that he views as negative about him. and he likes to push back on it. he's also deeply invested. the we know this before. the deeply invested in the idea that everything is running smoothly, and that any attempt to say that it is not is quote unquote fake news. the now, the facts seem to belie the idea that everything is running smoothly. we -- gary cohen in the financial times this morning, top economic adviser for president trump, expressing his dismay about charlottesville. we have a second chief of staff. four communications directors. the press secretary has left after the new communications director was brought in, who then left ten days later. there's been a massive amount of turnover. i forgot steve bannon who was let go aweek ag

you have gary cohen, former democrat.en mnuchin, jared and ivanka and others in the white house who don't have a traditional republican background, and who certainly don't have the nationalist, populist politics that bannon pushed so hard, maybe too hard, from his job in the west wing. >> and andrei, one of the things trump supporters are worried about that now breitbart, the website, the, that bannon said he wanted to be the platform for the alt right, now it will be weaponized further. obviously it has gone after bannon's rivals within the white house. reince priebus, jared kushner, gary cohen and others. now with bannon out of the white house, people say, who knows? likely they will not attack president trump but likely other people in the administration. does that matter? >> well, it does matter. you want every friend you can get when trying to govern and at some point in time this president has to try to work with the legislative branch and anytime there's chaos or someone's stirring the pot that makes it more diffic

he risked losing gary cohen on the domestic side and h. r. mc master on the foreign policy front. the white house is better off without him. >> first of all we'll see what c ohen does, no economic plan. mcmasters had problems with the president himself so let's just see. i think anybody in the white house and i worked in two of them so i understand what that life is like. it's a lot of insight depending on the man and this in this case it wasn't bannon creating chaos. donald trump has not settled in yet to be an effective president as long as he keeps tweeting steps on his own story infrastructure this week big story, totally blown off the radar screen so i think to a certain extent bannon was a very valuable player and i think the people who conservatives who supported this president and again president won by 75,000 votes and those three states. >> maria: wow. >> bannon was a guy, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania 75,000 votes. bannon knew where he was going a lot of people telling him he couldn't win those states and he stuck in and made it work. >> maria: you have to marvel at

the gary cohen break was a huge deal.illerson is somebody who chooses his words carefully, he's very measured, deliberative. almost the opposite of trump in style. this is more than a difference in style. this is a man who felt he was called to service, called to duty to serve his country as secretary of state and he clearly felt so strongly about this, that a man as taciturn as he is, and how he chooses his words so precisely, knew exactly what he was doing when he said the president speaks for himself. if i were donald trump i would be unsettled by that. >> but both of these men in the different things they did, in the facebook interview and the interview with fox news if you want to interpret it as not a break with the president you could. you could hear rex tillerson, saying, the president speaks for himse himself. you can hear james mattis saying america is divided right now. we don't have that problem in the military and likelihood that's how the president is going to play this. >> many people in the administration

can they get anything done i know gary cohen wants to that's why he's saying in there to his credit. hope they do our economy needs this we don't need cutting h 1 pv 50%, we need to expand them. >> steve, as we continue to wonder about the after effects of that stunning week we saw last week, do you think ultimately taking this moral leadership stand from corporate executives will prove to be good business >> well, you know, i, again, i think it's fraught with risk to go after a moral, ethical religious political stance as a ceo. your constituents are so varied. customers, employees, owners and i think bill is right. some of the vehicles are not working and they're a waste of time clearly, you should discontinue them but we still have to stay engaged. we have to find the productive roles regardless who have is in the office you know, whether it is somebody with a red shirt or somebody with a blue shirt. the ceos need to be agnostic about that and focused on what is good for america and what is good for the economy and these issues that bill is talking about are the issues that we sho

we will see more than aiming his artillery fire at ivanka and jared and gary cohen inside the white house, most immediately where steve bannon and breitbart will be focused is on the republican establishment, leaders in congress. >> he is throwing it to the family. directly hitting the daughter, the dream daughter of the president. he is saying she is javanka and crying on his desk. >> it does seem to me that is one place where bannon should not go. i completely agree with you. this person has some power now. when you leave the white house, he is leaving with this giant sort of high, it seems. but he needs to be careful. this is an area that trump will not put up with. he never has. and i think that there is only so far you can go before he is -- >> my question is, this guy looks dangerous to me. it is better to have inside going out than outside coming in. we know what they're talking about. i think he will have a guy on the outside taking shots everyday at his enemies and start at the white house and work his way to mitch mcconnell, paul ryan and the rest of those guys. >> i don't know

: the republicans, mitch mcconnell, orrin hatch, kevin brady, gary: released a statement -- and gary cohen released a statement. here is what they had to say -- it is to protect american jobs and make taxes simpler and fairer for hard-working american families. we agree it should be at the heart of our plan. there should be lower tax rates for businesses and more rates for all american businesses to compete with foreign ones. it is to reduce tax rates as much as possible. it places a priority on jobs toce and creates come back from overseas. guest: it is a general statement. it is an expression of principles. you will not find many people who is agree with half of the words being spoken in washington. the devils up in the details, of course. ee have a few things w will have to center on. how do we keep a progressive structure? it looks like we will. the trump plan calls for reducing the top tax rate as well as the other rates. of rate reductions may have to be revisited further now there is no longer a border adjustment tax in the picture. it was going to raise a great deal of revenue. it

wants to install a new federal reserve chief, and that might be the top trump economic advisor gary cohenight signify less independence for the fed, but all eyes and ears will be on european central bank president mario draghi. there could be a slowing of asset purchases from the current level of 60 billion euros a month. others expect the disappointing speech with no real changes. mr. draghi has been secretive about what he will talk about. time for more analysis of the meeting of world central-bank leaders, let's go to our financial correspondent in new york. what do people on wall street expect to come out of the meeting? reporter: yellen is going to be an important point because they have a complicated love-hate relationship, yelling and trump, but i don't think wall street -- they definitely favor gary kelly as well. he has a valuable connection to the business world and goldman sachs. he is a part of trump's ambitious tax reform with people have been waiting for so long. he could be seen here at this beautiful hotel. mario draghi will be watched closely as well. no one is expecting

so gary cohen holding on slimly perhaps to the hope of becoming chair of the welder reserve swallowed misgive, and the odor of anti-semitism that smacked donald trump's remark and agreed to continue to be a patriotic plan and we should salute him. >> woodruff: it's a zigzag course. when the president is reading from the teleprompter the message is we reject racism, we reject white supreme sear and neo nazis but it's in these speeches where there's another message that seem to come out the i was just reading the radio address that the whitehouse is going to put out tomorrow from the president. he's back to the scripted lines rejecting everything that smacks of -- >> to his credit he's incapable of insincerity and hypocrisy. he can keep up for 24 he'll say what they want him to say but then 24 hours he has to come back and be himself and explode beyond those barriers. we've seen that again and again and again. i just think the trump administration is going to wander into these fields more and more in the months and years ahead. simply they don't have an economic awe general dob small ch

this is a fear in the trump base that, because gary cohen, national economic director, former directorgoldman sachs is dam, jared kushner who is a former democrat, and these different voices are around the president who aren't breitbart readers, aren't people from the conservative movement that maybe the president will go in a more centrist direction, that alarms the bannon crowd. >> sreenivasan: did he feel like he wasn't having mus enough influence? a lot of people look at at the vents after shaforts and say that's steve bannon's influence on president trump. >> it wasn't about bannon's influence on president trump. president trump's always governed and led on his own instincts. bannon was an echo of trump's -- instincts. he was with president trump in spirit, that's why he remains so long etch as others fell away. >> sreenivasan: what about the the point of view bannon represents? doesn't mean he's -- just because he's gone doesn't mean the white house is clear of it. >> president trump remains there, a bannon style republican, and steve miller writing the speeches for president tru

on the rumor that gary cohen could be leaving the white house after president trump's remarks, the stockket is dropping. business leaders across industries have said mercy, we're out. so where is the selling point for president trump now? >> thanks for letting me be on the show. my thoughts and prayers go oun to heather hire's family, the two troopers that passed as well as the people injured in charlottesville. as far as what's going on -- i spent four years with president trump before he ran for the office. so i have got a lot of insight around him in the business world. and some of the comments i'm seeing yesterday with the ceos who have departed from this economic board, it's really amazing. the market is actually doing very very well, up 10% year to date. >> sir, the market at this moment, this morning the market is dropping on rumors that the president's economic adviser gary cohen could quit. >> look, i'm not a market timer i'm a value investor and most people should be value investors. when i look at the long term, this number one catalyst that nobody is going to talk about, espe

because we need somebody with a sound head like gary cohen there.lly, i think the business community, many ceos i know did not vote for president trump. but they said, okay, it's attractive agenda. we can get something done. we can get more attractive tax rates and make us competitive. we can get infrastructure, regulation calming. you know, i think they now feel the agenda is totally sidetracked by continuing neverending chaos in the white house. it has nothing to do with the agenda. even though people like cohen are working hard to get things done, that was with the whole infrastructure press conference was about, was to try to save we're moving forward and he said he'd been working on tax reform. what's going to happen now? what's going to happen with the congress when they come back? can we get something done that will help have a pro growth economy? we all want that. we all want to create jobs. it's not just a business issue. everyone is very worried and it's quite unpredictable what's going to happen. this is a president who will never admit h

but i think gary cohen is the one devising the list or managing through it.onathan: worked for dick cheney. shawn: i think it is absolutely very important in terms of how he thinks about it. the names that have been put forward should give investors a little bit of confidence that you're not seeing these ideas, at least not yet. jonathan: get your thoughts on this, chris. i remember the last time around, we were speculating as to who would be leading the fed, and it was larry summers, and it was janet yellen, and the market has made a decision that janet yellen was going to be dovish and that larry summers was going to be the hawk out of the two of them, and how wrong we would have been if larry summers would have been the fed chair, gven his current thoughts on monetary policy and economics. but where's the bias right now for the market, for janet yellen getting another term and what that would ultimately mean, and if gary cohen got it? chris: my understanding is there's a tiny bit more hawkish than janet yellen, but fairly pragmatic. in reality, i actually

there for you want gary cohen to stay because he is point man for cutting taxes. allow the white supremacists to win outside the white house, the neo-nazis, and he can go into the white house, have his influence and get tax reform done so i he ultimately made the right decision to stand up for his country and not let him win. stuart: those of us who want tax cuts he made the right decision. moment ago the president tweeted about hurricane harvey. i have spoken with her abbott of texas about louisiana and louisiana governor edwards, closely monitoring hurricane harvey development and here to assist as needed. you are in texas right now. are you in dallas? >> i am in dallas. you will see this it in houston and galveston but the president reaching out is a good step, this is an opportunity for the president to lead. with these national tragedies, this could be a tragedy, the president having generals in his ear and people who know how to do risk management and emergency management and having an effective plan, this is where the president should excel, he is a busines

feud with other white house officials, particularly the son-in-law jared kushner, economic adviser gary cohen, and national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. just this week, bannon seemed to undermine trump administration foreign policy when he said in an interview, "there's no military solution to north korea." as for bannon, he has already rejoined breitbart news and even ran an editorial meeting there this afternoon. he has pledged to go to war on behalf of the president, but as one for said to me, "others might need to duck." anthony. >> mason: margaret brennan with the president in new jersey. thanks. bannon's departure comes as the president continues to take heat for his handling of charlottesville. on facebook mitt romney wrote, "mr. trump caused racist racisto rejoice, minorities to weep, and want vast heart of america to mourn." romney said the president needs to admit he was wrong and apologize. a number of charities that had planned to hold fundraisers at mr. trump's mar-a-lago club in palm beach have pulled out, including the red cross, the american cancer society, and the salvatio

as she did with libya the people in charge of the white house are now jared kushner trump gary gary cohen h.r. mcmaster paul douceur all very pro-war people and those are closest advisors i think that most people who support trump hope they keep to his promises but they do recognize that all of his closest advisors are now opposed to the agenda that got trampled elected yes the new team trump isn't exactly made up of peace mongers and it's pretty far from the vision that americans voted for caleb oppen r.t. new york you know we asked former u.s. congressman ron paul about trump's policy reversals. he changes the words and makes it sound like the world will come apart if we don't continue to be the world's policeman he says he's not into nation building but there was a pretense anyway how many nations that we can really build or improve we've torn nations apart so he is seen as a flip flopper which i think politically is a bad position to be. going to be perpetual war nobody knows exactly who the enemy is and nobody will know when it is ended but i think trump has been maybe a little bit m