it was wasn't glenn beck sold studio.f you remember he had chalked boards around the place and once in a while he would ring some stuff out and a table to put some stuff on. it was this old ikea table. then there were four chairs. huckabee had the studio audience so they took the huckabee church and the studio audience and rot glenn beck's old ikea table and that was going to be the set for the rest of the summer. it's still the set. it never went away. we moved into this new shiny $30 million studio months ago and it's a new table and new chairs the exact same thing. >> rob went away for a while and then came back. did you all miss him personally? >> you talk about the way roger put it together. he put together this cache of political friends. it was like that. and if you extract somebody like that all of a sudden, it works fine. you travel and during elections you will go to the primaries. we became a family so when you remove someone from the family there is a void there. you feel the void. warren and geraldo, they did

the last thing, people like bannon, the playbook was written by glenn beck. when we pushed glenn beck off fox, he got more powerful in the conservative movement. now that bannon is not where the country can see him, he's betting on becoming more powerful too. that's why we have to built movements in our states to actually move forward. frankly from the left because the right wing is doubling down on hate and doubling down on building movements and people like bannon if we don't challenge them, they'll get more powerful. >> we're coming up on the half hour. 1:30, almost 1:30. here on the east coast for those who might just be joining us on the radio as well for those watching at home, breaking news here top of the hour, steve bannon, chief strategist inside this white house, arguably the man who helped donald trump get elected more than else is out. departing as trump's chief strategist. word from the white house this was semly a mutual break-up of bannon and new chief of staff john kelly deciding to go separate ways. we got word a few moments ago from gabe sh

well, this caused a bit of a grass fire an before i knew it fox and friends and glenn beck and nbc today and stewart varney and limbaugh and cbs, and cbn national review and washington with times and washington post and "new york times" and chronicle of higher education and newspaper and great britain, and the far east -- all of a sudden interested apparently many wanted to hear what i had to say. apparently i said something many were waiting for. apparently the simple and brief response struck a cord. many who even openly disagreed with what they called my religion and my politics wrote me to say, thank you. this is long overu due. please carry on. side bar we have 3.5 million views in about two-week period 97% of the comments were positive. 97%. there were dozens upon dozens not hundreds of people that wrote in texted -- e-mailed, snail mailed -- called, and said i don't like your religion i've checked you out. i don't like your politics i read your website. but it's about time somebody said it. thank you. so why? why? well, i believe it's because we intuitively recognize as rational h

he organized a march with glenn beck. also with us, a republican strategist. so, gentlemen, great to have both of you on. >> thanks, brooke. >> shermichael, if i may begin with you, looking at the president here, you know, he certainly publicly yesterday condemned racism, but when you look at his tweets, it might give you a different impression. let me tick through this. yesterday morning, he went after the african-american ceo of merck. he retweets and deletes the tweet of a train running over a cnn reporter. keep in mind, this is after a car, you know, ran over that young woman, heather heyer in charlottesville over the weekend. and then retweeted a story where he's considering pardoning controversial sheriff joe arpaio. all of that, shermichael, in the full picture, what does that indicate to you? >> well, i think for a lot of americans, brooke, who have watched the president's tweets are wondering how serious was he in his condemnation of the alt-right, of white supremacists, of neo-nazis. saturday, the president had an interesting moment in time to bring