mr. bannon's wife did not show up.ors said they couldn't locate their key witness and without her there to testify, they said they had no choice but to drop all charges. now, late tonight, nbc news has obtained further documentation related to the case and specifically to the divorce that happened right after the case went to court and the charges were dropped. again, this is just in. so i'm just going to quote to you directly from nbc's late night reporting tonight. quote, we have obtained portions of the large divorce case between steve bannon and his ex-wife. even though it was initiated in 1997, the couple was still fighting over everything from d their daughter's schooling to spousal support. he objected to his daughter attending a prestigious prep school because of, quote, the number of jews that attend. he doesn't like jews and he didn't like the way they raise their kids to be whiney brats and he doesn't want the girl going to school with jews. this is from court documents reported tonight by nbc news. steve ba

mr. bannon quite well. why do you say that? >> i'm not saying that bannon won't help him. i think bannnon could help him, steve bannon keep him on track has a record of telling donald trump to double down. breitbart news has created this alternate reality where trump is always winning and his rally sizes matter more than his poll numbers. and he has the history of meeting with people and watching as their career spiral the grain. i think steve's a smart guy, a vicious guy, and steve has his own interests here and his own interests don't necessarily -- >> well, i would think, i mean, now that he's joined the campaign and has taken on the role as ceo of the whole trump campaign, his interests should be aligned with donald trump, in that he needs to win this thing as much as trump needs to win this thing. >> though. >> i don't know why you would take that on if you don't want to win? you want to go down as a loser? why take that on? you could have stayed happily at breitbart and enjoyed the paycheck. >> steve's a smart guy. he doesn't put himself in win/lose scenarios. he put

mr. bannon. mr. nnon, i think is a great hire in concert with promoting kellyanne conway to campaign manager. she's data driven. she's absolutely evidence based in everything she does. mr. trump respects, listens to her, trusts her, that's a great person to have at his side as he's traveling. and as she said the issue-oriented campaign she wants to see going forward is wrapped into ideas put together by steve bannon. i think this campaign is onto something. what the southern poverty law center says means nothing. they've been actually dropped off the fbi's list of credible organizations. that's just another left wing group trying to take a shot at donald trump. >> is mr. bannon's role here to organize the campaign or to sharpen the message, or both? what are his bona fides as a campaign person? as opposed to a message person? >> i don't know exactly what his duties are. right. i don't know exactly what his duties are today. i haven't spoken to the trump campaign. but i think the great way to deploy hi

bannon. trump has turned to the two frequently for political advice. mr. bossy joins me. anks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> who is steve bannon and what is his relationship like with mr. trump? >> well first of all, steve bannon is an incredibly smart and very passionate individual and somebody i've worked with for many years. probably 8 or 10 years that he and i have known each either and have worked on projects large and small and he brings an incredible breath of knowledge. he is a harvard mba. served in the navy as a naval service officer. and warfare officer. and has a tremendous breadth of knowledge and is an incredibly well-read person. i have worked with steve on seven or eight documentary films. we have one coming out next month actually. >> he has his critics immediately after he was announced. critics called him a quote conspiracy they'rist with extreme nationalistic views. is that fair? >> well anyone can have an opinion on an individual. when you goat a prominent position like steve has, with becoming ceo of the campaign, you will have critics co

mr. bannon. the gloves are going to come off. he is going to go back and play to his base.in all honesty the same thing with the bernie sanders campaign it is a numbers game. it is a matrix game. he wants to play to the people who already support him. bring out the trump take off the gloves and let mr. bannon do exactly what he wants to do. >> trying to jump in but give your friend guy the last word here. >> there is so much to respond to. i think let's reconvene. let's reconvene on this program two weeks from now three weeks from thousand and see how we look back on the pivot. i think there are a lot of republicans in washington, d.c. down ticket from donald trump in the senate and house who are praying on their knees every night that this truly is a new trump. >> guy did you just invite yourself back onto the show? >> i wouldn't want to be presumous, but it can be discussed by someone on the show. how about that? >> you are a friend of the show i'm sure. all right. thanks to all three of you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> good to have you. victims of deadly floo

mr. bannon never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to archer for their middle school and high school education. look, of course all of this does come as the newly appointed campaign chair is already facing scrutiny about his background. we learned this week more than 20 years ago bannon did face multiple charges including misdemeanor domestic violence stemming from an incident involving his ex-wife. those charges are dismissed because the ex-wife didn't show up to court. she later said it's because his attorney threatened her saying she wouldn't be able to support their children if she came. now that is a charge that his attorney has denied. the trump campaign for what it's worth has said that incident involving 20 more years ago is not going to affect bannon's future with them. >> diane gallagher thank you so much. >>> a short while ago hillary clinton wrapping up her white house intelligence briefing. she was spotted leaving the fbi field offices in white plains, new york, according to a clinton aide her briefing started at about 9:00 a.m. this morning and lasted a litt

mr. bannon.lk about how the clinton campaign has responded about all of these rumors regarding her health. if you are washing us -- watching us in washington dc the listen to us on the radio radio. be right back. ♪ mark: welcome back. joined by a democratic strategist from the newark democratic party and former advisor to hillary clinton. also a republican media strategist and consultant. >> thank you for joining us. they day, big shakeup, new message for trial. a repackaging of the muslim ban and the wall mark. what do you think about it? >> something had to happen. we were in a place where this was a death spiral. i think this is where he is most comfortable. this is a change. this is the good news. knownk we pretty much trump has been aggressive and you will love the final 80 days of this campaign. you have a bunch of animals coming in here now. these guys are serious, play dirty, play hard, so i do not think clinton will got this morning and liked the news. thoughts? >> like, i do not know if

mr. bannon. this could mean that donald trump knows who he is hiring and he is very comfortable with it. >> asking about it, if he is hiring a individual that had close russian ties, or ties to close russian businesses, to the point that rocket was making there, does he not care that these things in the past, these associations that some of his senior staff members had are going to hurt his campaign. >> it could be consistent with his personality. that they don't care. let them attack me and this will feed the beast. but it is a fair attack to say that the people you surround yourself with, and this is where i will disagree with my colleague, the people you surround yourself with are a reflection of your sensibilities and your judgments. back in the '08 campaign, the clinton campaign turned out that one of their top strategists was lobbying for columbia. >> just very quickly, what we're sieg here in donald trump and hillary clinton is the first real decision, if you will, in terms of what they wi

mr. bannon and bringing roger ailes into the midst of his campaign, you know, he is doubling down as you . and i think what we're seeing in mr. cross is the early part of the flow. i think the -- if what we see from trump is trump being more trumpian, it will have a bigger exodus. >> don't republicans in general like attacks on hillary clinton? they want donald trump to focus on hillary clinton? and attack her? >> oh, i do think that they -- there is a lot of hillary clinton sentiment among moderates in the republican party, and that's why mr. dros is s -- mr. cross is agonizing. he said he was going to vote for hillary. but if in fact, what these new -- they're reshuffling of the trump team means he'll go further right and go engage in even more in scidnary against women, muslims, there will be a bigger flood. you know, because much as people don't want hillary, they also feel, look, if i can't vote for this guy, who can i vote for. i throw away my vote, i throw it away if i vote for the libertarian. that's why cross will go for hillary in the end. but listen, i can't emphasize enough wh

mr. bannon sees a path of 260 electoral votes that others don't. in one sense you have to applaud the move from mr. trump. he's running on the ticket of saying i'm not going to pivot. i'm not going to do that. that will appeal to the many voters who are dois pointed. >> is that enough. >> we don't know. >> bannon represents hard right sarah palin type. >> trump is sticking to his guns. i think whatever you believe about those guns, it's applaudable because he's not pivoting. he's not doing something he doesn't believe in. >> right. >>> let's switch focus and head to rio. andrew sorkin joins us with some highlights and previews of the day ahead. >> reporter: huge day here in rio. yesterday, as you know the day was clouded by controversy. this developing story saga overnight about whether ryan lochte and his teammates told the truth about being held at gunpoint took another turn last evening when brazilian authorities pulled two u.s. swimmers off their flights on the way home at the rio airport and questioned them about the alleged incident. this as n

mr. bannon. >> i was. >> when we walked off the set you said you were getting absolutely pounded on twitter. says campaign rookie, you had a lot of people saying this is the worst guy in the world. most horrible human being ever and then we saw an article saying this is the most dangerous man like in the westernhemisphere. >> i never met bannon. he has been heavily covered. >> he has been heavily covered. is he as bad as everyone says he is? >> he certainly is a controversial figure to someone we have never worked. to be at the top of one with 75 days to go. t the. >> i saw dana lowe she was not a left-wing supervisor. >> he's got detractors. >> he has detractors not just on the left, but on the right. it's fascinating. good morning, it's thursday, august 18th. you know, in connecticut, kids don't go to school until like october. down in florida, they're already back in school. >> texas, tennessee, as well. >> they start early august. i don't get it. i kind of like, actually, the first day after labor day. it seems right. >> you get to go to camp, joe. >> yeah, exactly. speaking of camp, mi

mr. bannon never said anything like that and broudly sent the girls to archer for their middle school andchool education. of course all of this comes as the new lu appointed campaign chair is already facing scrutiny about his background. more than 20 years ago bannon did face multiple charges, including domestic violence. those charges were eventually dropped. thank you so much. >>> and you can catch donald trump's running mate, mike pence live on cnn tomorrow morning. he's set to join "state of the union" 9:00 a.m. eastern time. >>> as trump prepares to lay out hiss plan for immigration, hillary clinton tries to paint him as a racist. could this tactic backfire with voters? we'll discuss. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (whispers rocket) with this level of engineering... it's a performance machine. with this degree of intelligence... it's a supercomputer. with this grade of protection... it's a fortress. and with this standard of luxury... it's an oasis. introducing the completely redesigned e-class. it's everything you need it to be... and more. lease the e300 for $549 a month at your local mercedes-benz d

mr. bannon, there's also the pollster who is now the technical campaign manager, kellyanne conway. and she's been on tv a lot, speaking for the campaign, and has actually thrown a couple of criticisms at mr. trump as well as the media in just the last few days. evolution was complete with the resignation this morning of paul manafort which donald trump suggested. eric trump, donald's son, suggested what was going on was mr. trump was essentially trying to send the distraction that was some of the problems circling around mr. manafort's role as campaign chairman. there have been a series of of reports and increasing criticism from democrats about paul man manafo manafort's work for the pro-russian political party in ukraine and his work with the then-president between 2007 and 2012, victoriktor yanukovych. these connections and some of the business that mr. manafort had done may not have been adequately disclosed in the u.s., whether he was a foreign agent for a foreign country or not. he insists he was not, but there were an onslaught of reports in "the new york times" and elsewher

mr. bannon's spokesperson. even when we asked if the campaign was aware of these things before they happened. this happened 20 years ago. and the spokesperson said now he and his ex-wife and daughters are good friends. >> okay. jacob rascon, thank you for that from des moines. and kate martell from the hill and opinions editor for penn life and patriot news. with a welcome to you. kate, we'll get to you first. is there a sense of they plan to deal with this kade of news on him. >> tracking on, move away from the controversies and talk about what they want to talk about. steve bannon was brought on to be a more aggressive voice. to help outside donald trump's very active twitter feed. he has been advice all along. just quietly. they just recently brought him along. they just hired bill stepien, who was fired during the bridge gate scandal under chris christie. lots truck on, move on, and get rid of these controversies. >> we are having before it of technical difficulty with john so i will pose this to you. john

mr. bannon, the ceo of breitbart, in charge of his campaign as a chairman position, and i think he's definitely-right. they see this as their moment. trump's not really for them, but they're for trump. but it's given hillary clinton a great way to kind of drive a wedge between trump and those college-educated white voters that he needs to bring back into the republican coalition if he has any hope of winning this election. >> all right. those ads are out there. nomiki, you saw the new clinton ad. do you see those as effective? >> i think it is effective because it reinforces the message that the stakes are high in this election. and while there's massive voter registration and outreach and organization between the african-american community and latino community, expanding the states like georgia, and arizona, which were never on the map for democrats, it's important that they remember the stakes are high. the choice is between a unified big tent democratic party and donald trump, who represents a very extreme right-wing of the republican party. >> all right. we'll leave it there. thank you, bot

mr. bannon, i think h. will go back to playing to his base not those who will ever vote for him. just in all honesty, it is a game, a matrix game, d bring out theo. gloves -- >> are you trying to jump in --r give your e.friend, guy, the la word here. . >> there is so much to respond to. i think let's reconvene on this program twor weeks from now and. see how we look back on the ho pivot. there are a are lot of republict down ticket from donald trump who are is praying on their knet every night that this truly is a new trump. >> guy, did you just invite yourself back onto the show? >> no,o, i wouldn't want to presume. but it can be discussed by someone on the show, how about that? >> you're a friend of the show. all right,t,at.t thank you for g us to all o o three of you toni good to have you. >>> all right, f victims of deay flooding in louisiana get an he unexpected visit from donald trump. as we learned now the president will soon follow suit. did the gop nominee pressure the president into action? >>> plus, hillary clinton reportedly blaming one of america's most respected men

mr. bannon's representative said on the note the charges dropped, he and his ex-wife have a great relationship. on the note of anti-semitic remarks, the spokesperson denied he ever made those remarks that the children went to this school where he apparently had those remarks about jewish people. ayman. >> all right. jacob rascon live in des moines, iowa. moments ago hillary clinton arrived at an fbi office in new york near her home to get her first intelligence briefing. this is video of her arrival. joining me in the studio is msnbc kasie hunt. good to have you with us. let's talk about this briefly. what can we expect to have this take place? what do we know about this? >> this is a traditional courtesy extended to major party nominees. hillary clinton well steeped in national security and foreign policy from her time as secretary of state. she's going to get an updated briefing from officials from the dni, director of national intelligence. we expect the briefing is going to last about two hours or so. we know that donald trump already had his briefing along these lines. a little bit probab

mr. bannon and ailes.ith their recruitment, the next three months will be highly entertaining for some. the question remains whether they will be far to alienating for many. joining me now, talk radio host, buc six sexton, fells in for sean hannity. amy holmes, political analyst for rasmussen reports. and brian rosenwald, phd at the university of pennsylvania, he's writing a book on the development of talk radio. buc, let me begin with you. aren't conservative talkers who are upsets with trump as their nominee reaping what they have sown? >> it depends on which conservative talkers you're referring to. there are those that have done everything in their power on conservative media to try and prevent the rise of trump. there is the very prominent never trump movement. if you look at some of the most prominent right wing publications, national review, weekly standard, among others, they have said quite openly they think that trump has hijacked the republican party. and this is a faction. trumpism, if you will

mr. bannon who has clearly said he wants his news organization to be the platform.nderstand you hire people who can make you win. you don't. you are as our parents told us, you are who you associate with. >> brian, do you agree with the trump supporters who are saying that this is a response to concern that the clinton campaign has donald trump reaching out to african-americans? >> and we're not nervous about it. >> i think it is fair to say that clinton does not want to talk about clinton. doesn't want to talk about her controversies. she wants to talk about donald trump and breitbart. bannon has not given any interviews in the week cynic he was hired. he hand spoken publicly. no one who knows he is except the news conference about him. so it is an opportunity for clinton. breitba breitbart, it is not the most extreme version of it. there are much more fringe websites that promote this vile content. breitbart is breitbarbreitbart. er relatively moderate compared to the white supremacist sites. >> did he say he wants to be the platform for the movement. >> that make

mr. bannon, i don't know, but it's betters. >> ultimately, we know the negatives on hillary. it's going to keep people from moving to her and be a turnout election for everybody's core base. >> the question is, i have a feeling we're on our way to a plummeting turnout situation. >> i'm hearing that day after day. the problem is, which side is going to get impacted more. >>> this sunday, on "meet the press," we're talking trump 3.0. reince priebus will be joining us. the decline in decorum is not just at candidates at the top of the ticket. stay tuned. >>> governor paul lepage of maine once said he was donald trump before donald trump became popular. well, take a listen to the voice mail message governor lepage left a state lawmaker in maine yesterday. >> i would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you [ bleep ]. and i want to talk to you. you want -- i want you to prove that i'm a racist. i've spent my life helping black people, and you little son of a bitch, socialist [ bleep ], i need you to just friggin' -- i want you to record this and make it

mr. bannon bring? >> donald trump said it best, judy, where he said i know them well.nd i want people who want too win, and who believe i can win, and who are warriors. and i think bannon is the guy ready for the right kind of battle. realizing that this is a pretty simple choice.h you either want donald trump's view of free market health carea where it is portable, it is affordable and accessible to more people. or you want more of aetna pulling out of 11 to 15 states just yesterday, announcing 430 million dollars worth of losses over the last two years. that followed united health care saying it would suffer a billion dollars in losses by being on the exchange. these are serious issues that impact people.e and to bob costa and to your point, judy, women are the chief health care officers of their households. these health care exchange realities on obamacare are very real to them. as the chief health care officers. and we would like to know if mrs. clinton owns obamacare, in other words, if she feels it iss a good policy moving forward. would she move to a single payo

mr. bannon was hired were the alt right, were basically the new neo-nazi movement.hey have been openly supportive of donald trump, they're calling him the dear leader. they have been beattracted like nothing else. can you do the thing that gian-carlo is saying republicans should do and be associated with that? >> absolutely not. i tweeted this, i said trump assumed in his speech that black people have severe short-term memory loss of some sort. because to come out and say you're making an appeal to the black community, the african-american community after playing footsy with white supremacist, in particular david duke who said donald trump inspired him to run for office, to devalue the -- the contribution that african-americans have made, to devalue the first black president of the united states -- >> as a birther. >> demanding his college transcripts? that was a huge dog whistle. the birtherism, also a dog whistle but what i find so offensive is that donald trump when he comes out and he says these -- this speech saying he's appealing to black people me says i want

mr. bannon is a businessman and he also worked at goldman sachs and goldman sachs gave a lot of money to hillary clinton. >> who you choose to run your campaign says a lot about how you're going to govern. >> i just wanted to add in here that i spoke to a source who is familiar with the speech who made it a very specific point about it being broader than race. >> right. >> obviously, you talked about and you've all talked about the allegations of having a sort of racial hatred underlying a lot of this and she's going to talk about hatred more broadly that she will insist is not just about bannon or about breitbart. what the key thing that we are -- i am told to look for tomorrow is, as you can imagine, hillary clinton to tie that into donald trump. to say -- no, no, no, but of course, to specifically to say it's not about bannon and it's about donald trump. >> this is relevant because it relates also to the immigration debate and this is just coming in. donald trump gave a town hall tonight on fox news with sean hannity. as you know, donald trump has said that anyone here illegally in th

mr. bannon is still close with his ex-wife. they get along fine. they have raised two college-aged children -- >> the two years came later. >> we're talking about this -- must be a slow friday. we're not talking about the fact that hillary clinton used bleach bit to wipe all her emails. we're not talking about the fact that she perjured herself in front of congress, not issues -- >> we have talked about. that but -- >> 20-year-old stories about campaign staffers, not the fact that -- hold on -- not the fact that the democrat candidate for president broke the law. that's what we should be talking about. >> tara, on the issue of relation with women and advisers around the trump campaign? >> the reason we're even talking about this is because donald trump continues to surround himself with people who are not competent, that have these sordid history. people think trump will surround himself with the best people. minus kellyanne conway who is phenomenal -- i'm talking now. are we going to start this now, boris? >> the computer -- >> the reason we're ta

mr. bannon. so now you have breitbart. that's what you see giuliani doing, what you see amy doing. suggest frankly some of the trump surrogate supporters and maybe the candidate himself get their heads checked because this is the kind of thing you don't need in a campaign. this is horrible. this is the type of thing you saw -- i mean, for laughs. for our laughs. i think it was "the daily show" who put out a clip of this woman saying that hillary clinton shouldn't have access to nuclear weapons because she had hormone, right. i mean, like, her her moneys would be out of control. this is laughable. maybe save this for "saturday night live," amy, it doesn't belong on at -- >> plus talking about the issues that donald trump really wants to talk about today. >> we all know what those are. >> go ahead, amy. >> i mean, what i'll say is, look, when hillary clinton is only campaigning 11 days out of this month so far, where is she? why isn't she out on the campaign trail? that does -- >> watching ya'll mess up, watching you do stuff like this, amy, that's what she's doing, she's watching yo

mr. trump looking ahead, you haroger aile roger stone, steve bannon and mr. trump himself. mega personalities. you think there is a potential clash or potential for implosion before we even get to the first debate? >> i think there is always a potential for a clash, any day, any hour, in trump world. steve bannon stepping in certainly doesn't lower the odds of such a thing. but from where i sit, seems like a pretty clear move by trump himself to decide, i'm done with this idea of trying to moderate my image, contain myself, make myself palatable to the republican establishment. instead i'm going with someone who is a media person like me, which bannon is, who is out there, and provocative and outrage s. i expect we will see more of that from trump out on the campaign trail and certain/ln the debate stage. >> steve bannon's motto is -- >> honey badger don't give a shit. you can google it. >> i believe you. joshua green, bloomberg. >>> david chalian joins me next to break down battleground races. can you say that on cnn? you did. >>> plus, donald trump calling for more polici

mr. bannon should say that. and then move on. and unfortunately, many cases are dropped. and this one, because his ex-wife did not show up. which is one of the other challenges of domestic violence in the first place. so it's just a part of the overall, you know, clown show of this going on with the trump campaign. and it's just one more thing. >> kellyanne -- >> scottie -- >> i'm so sorry, scottie, i was going to ask you about what kellyanne conway said next. but i should also point out, this also -- other folks were pointing, as chris frates said in that piece, roger ailes is now apparently an unofficial adviser to donald trump, right after getting booted from fox news from what seems to be, certainly allegations of serial sexual harassment, you know, combined with the steve bannon thing, do you think it's a problem? >> all of those are unexcusable. the way men are treating women, the way those conversations before the mr. trump was running for office, for whatever reason, there's no excuse for it. but let's look at the hillary clinton camp. let's look at the sexism tha

mr. bannon runs -- or has run breitbart, a thorn in the side of congressional republican leaders for severalears now. so they're not going to be happy to have a guy like that associated with the top of their ticket. and we'll have to wait and see what exactly they say publicly about this. but i think, you know, this is clearly now a campaign that is hunkering down, keeping focused on what he has been able to do, believing at this point he might as well just be the guy he is, and there is no sense in pivoting. and that means, likely, that there's going to be very little room for growth, that there is an incredibly narrow path to getting to 270 electoral votes. it requires winning a place like florida and holding on to places like georgia or arizona, which is looking increasingly difficult. and, you know, this may have just as much to do about what happens after the election and mr. trump as it does to what's going on right now. >> any -- five weeks away now, if my math is right, roughly five weeks away from the first presidential debate. we assume trump is going to be there. at this point, wh

mr. bannon. we saw reports saying he had been charged violence in 1996. according to court record, told his wife not to appear to file the charges. was mr. trump aware of this is the is he okay with it? >> i don't know what he was aware of with respect to a 20-year-old claim where the charges were dropped. that's all i know is what i reed. >> let's talk about immigration. questions about mr. trump's policies the last couple of days. throughout the primaries, he was clear. all the undocumented imfwrants in the country would have to lee >> yes, i think you've heard him over the course of a week explain his position as being what it's always been. no amnesty. he's going to build a wall, the center piece of his campaign from the beginning. he wants to protect the americ american worker. a way of talking about immigration that few people do. he wants to make sure american workers looking for jobs who feel like they're competing with other folks have the opportunity. he has made clear that those who have returned immediately. and enforcing the law, unfortunately

mr. bannon. and we saw those reports yesterday saying he had been charged with domestic violence back in 1996. actually, according to court records, told his wife not to appear to file the charges. was mr. trump aware of this? is he okay with it? >> i don't know what he was aware with respect to a 20-year-old claim where the charges were dropped. so, that's all i know about it is what i read. >> let's talk about immigration. a lot of questions about mr. trump's policies the last couple of days. throughout the primaries, he was very clear. all the undocumented immigrants in the country would have to leave the country. is that still his position? >> yes, i think you've heard him over the course of a week what it's always been. which is absolutely no amnesty. he's going to build a wall, which has been the centerpiece of his campaign from the beginning. he wants to protect the american worker, which is a way of talking about immigration that very few people do. he wants to make sure american workers l

mr. bannon brings to the post his own background that includes misdemeanor charges of domestic violence andegations that he threatened his been wife with retribution if she testified in a criminal case. the charges were dropped in that case. how difficult does this make your efforts? upst: this kind of burns me when i see these types of things coming out. they had to work long and hard to find something, of which he was not convicted. nothing andt to be it has gone on. i wish that the press would do the same investigating -- if they are going to talk about sexual behavior or actions towards women, to somebody who is a campaign person, all we have to do is look at the first gentleman if you want to talk about sexual escapades and treatments of women. -- treatment of land. there is no comparison between what is more important. things in our past that we probably are proud of. if you want to research any person on the planet you can find something. this turned out to be nothing. host: mary lou in new jersey on the independent line. bill andood morning kathryn. thank you for c-span. catherine i

mr. kristol. bannon'sing described on your web site today says this in part "a campaign overall means trump is choosing to end his campaign living in the alternate reality that breitbart creates for him on an every day basis, where everything he does is the best, where anyone who questions him is an idiot, where house speaker paul ryan is a problem with modern conservatism, where polls that find him down are fixed where elections are rigged and where truly trump alone can fix it all." you guys should say how you really feel. you think bannon reinforces trump's bad habit? >> yeah, bannon is like a mini me. 85% people trump is not qualified to be president. let his kids go on stage. people are electing a president, not someone whose kids happen to like him. paul ryan in deep trouble in his wisconsin primary. that was his analysis. they wanted him to lose. he won by 84-16. this is the site that says all the polls that you see that cnn does that show trump down 9, 12, 14, all phony, all rigged. so trump decide

mr. bannon never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to archer for their middle school and now, of course, all of this does come as the newly appointed campaign ceo is already facing scrutiny about his background. we learned this week just that 20 years ago bannon faced multiple charges including misdemeanor domestic violence stemming from an incident involving his ex-wife. now, those charges were eventually dismissed because his ex-wife didn't show up to court. she said later that it's because bannon's attorney threatened her saying she wouldn't be able to support her children if she did. that is a charge that attorney has denied. of course, it is just another chapter in what has been a very controversial career for steve bannon. >> diane, thank you. >>> drug dealers in the u.s. are mixing heroin with a powerful elephant trin quillizer, creating a drug so lethal there have been 100 overdoses in cincinnati, ohio, in just one week. cnn's rachel crane spoke with one self-described addict about why this drug is so appealing and why it is so dangerous. >> terrified. it terrifie

mr. bannon, have had a reputation of walking very close to the edge on racism.o how much of this is real and how much of it's a feint, i don't think we know. i think there's one other question, and i'd love david chalian's view on this, if he's still there, in terms of the relationships at the top of the trump campaign. where do the children now fit into this? where does ivanka fit into this? and where does her husband jared fit in? do they remain influential voices? after all, they have been associated with the forces that did want to have their father turn -- become more presidential, to pivot, and we haven't read their names as being influential in bringing in bannon and promoting kellyanne conway. where do they stand? i think that's an interesting piece of this still to come out. >> it's an excellent question, david. it is, indeed, true that jared kushner had come back. he and ivanka were in croatia on vacation. came back to participate in the meeting at trump tower to announce and set the new changes in place with the top leadership. so i do think that ther