that is steve bannon. that is the effect of steve bannon saying, "you, mr.re going to keep your eye on the ball. you're going to keep saying these things. you're not going to be swayed by these establishment people in washington who don't have your own interests at heart." >> so let me state this as clearly as i possibly can: we are going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. >> u.s.a.! u.s.a.! >> narrator: it was a steve bannon production. that night, as they returned to washington on marine one, steve bannon was seated right next to the president. and bannon was by his side in the weeks that followed, as the white house was gripped by one crisis after another. >> two words: shock and surprise. >> breaking news tonight: president trump has fired fbi director james comey. >> narrator: the administration faced its biggest challees so far. >> fired fbi director james comey wrote a memo... >> just department appointed a special counsel to... >> narrator: they responded with the combative strategy that had brought them to power. fightin

and the only hint i have for you, before you see is steve bannon is speechless. let's take a look at this. >> mr. bannon, this is a huge defeat for you. >> now we don't have ready to go all that video of steve bannon standing up with the microphone, doing his stand-up routine in alabama, having more to say about this than he knew. but maria theresa, there he is tonight getting into the escalade and doesn't have a word to say. >> well, because he lost famously. he went to alabama more times than president trump. he thought this was a slam dunk. again, president trump won alabama a year ago by 28 points, and this was literally the alabama voters saying that not only did they not like the brand of steve bannon, but they did not actually like the brand of donald trump. and let's not look at this in the vacuum. the fact that the president also lost in a bigly way in virginia and new jersey, there is a wave coming. and the person who's going to wake up with heartburn while mitch mcconnell today said, you know, i told you so, tomorrow he's going to wake up with heartburn

and the only hint i have for you, before you see is steve bannon is speechless. ke a look at this. >> mr. bannon, this is a huge defeat for you. >> now we don't have ready to go all that video of steve bannon standing up with the microphone, doing his stand-up routine in alabama, having more to say about this than he knew. but maria theresa, there he is tonight getting into the escalade and doesn't have a word to say. >> well, because he loest famously. he went to alabama more times than president trump. he thought this was a slam dunk. again, president trump won alabama a year ago by 28 points, and this was literally the alabama voters saying that not only did they not like the brand of steve bannon, but they did not actually like the brand of donald trump. and let's not look at this in the vacuum. the fact that the president also loews lost in a bigly way in virginia and new jersey, there is a wave coming. and the person who's going to wake up with heartburn while mitch mcconnell today said, you know, i told you so, tomorrow he's going to wake up with heartburn,

nothing there that i identify with and nothing there that good americans should identify with. >> steve bannongely credited with architecting the trump connection to his base, that bannon knows that base and that's why the president relies on him whether he is in the white house or he is out doing his thing as we saw in alabama. how do you separate bannon from the president in terms of what you guys need to adjust in your party? >> i think the president is a different person from steve bannon, and he's the president that won all the primaries before steve bannon got involved. if anybody won the last election it was trump. i think bannon got too much credit for it, and by the time he got onboard he already won the primaries. >> you did not back roy moore, and the president did, and he said the seat matters more than the allegations, and that was the message to my ears. did you agree with that? >> no, i didn't. i was on with wolf blitzer, and i said no, i would not endorse roy moore and ethical issues are more important than politics, and anybody can have allegations made but it was the way he t

but despite the defeat for steve bannon's candidate last night, bannon's still planning on attacking on several fronts, supporting several insurgent candidates across the country. our friend charlie sykes wrote today on the future of the grondole party headline, a gop tragedy in four acts. and we recommend it. we quote from it now. "for many republicans this is reprice of the choice they made a year ago when they decided ooverlook donald trump pfs own character. but this time it's a defeat for donald trump in one of the reddest states in the country." the aforementioned mr. sykes, long time conservative radio host and msnbc contributor and author of the timely book, "how the right lost its mind." okay, charlie, it's been 24 hours. has the right still lost its mind? >> oh, yeah. everything that -- you think about what it took to get to this particular moment, losing an unlosable senate seat, nominating a bigoted crank who's also accused of being a pedophile who then is supported by the republican national committee and the sitting president of the united states. you know, the republic

more hours to fight steve bannon.r image, political progressive channel. i'm not kidding when i say my number one priority in my show is defeat steve bannon and the republicans he supports and the ones donald trump supports. to me that's the most effective way to drive steve bannons and those mind sets out of the town square. republicans will not saddle up to someone who helps them lose all the time. i'm hoping -- i get people think steve bannon is disgusting. i've written articles. despicable, vile, turned proprietary bart into the number one anti-muslim in the nation. ant muslim activist, he -- >> do you believe he should have a voice on sirius xm? >> i believe the speech you don't like is more speech. i believe that in my core. i think in america today we're quickly to silence those. i'll defend klan, anti-muslim bigots right to demonize me in my community because this is america to. me i say respectfully to those outraged, i get it. i don't like it either. don't leave us. join us on the progress channel where we a

this is a repudiation of steve bannon. id not force trump to enforce roy moore or to pardon sheriff ar pay you and say trump to say there are good beam on both sides in charlottesville and on and on and on. so i think there's no question bannon is a maligned influence, but let's remember he's not the guy who calls the shots. he's still in the oval office every single day. >> reporting on the frictions within the bannon world and trump world. it says while bannon reportedly speaks regularly to trump, steve constantly goes a bridge too far and usually the bridge falls apart, says chris ruddy, a friend of the president's. i hope the president continues to listen to steve's advice and then does the opposite. kurt, it doesn't seem that steve bannon has a lot of allies outlet there now. >> one thing we've learned this year is that steve bannon doesn't play well with others. he's not meant to serve at the pleasure of anybody which is why it didn't work for him at the white house. he likes to do his own way. it's kind of my way or

steve bannon, the man who helped donald trump get elected, featured in an explosive profile in "vanity fair" in which he seems to hint at bigger things for himself. >> steve is very committed. he's a friend of mine. >> guess who's coming to dinner? former green party presidential candidate jill stein joins me live. we'll ask her what she was doing at this russian gala at the same table at flynn and putin. >>> president trump, about to leave for christmas break with a major legislative win under his belt. the president could sign the gop tax bill into law today just in time to give americans what he calls the greatest christmas gift. we're going to dig into that. i have a great team here to break it all down and what it means for you, starting with nbc's kristen welker at the white house. kristen, president trump leaving for mar-a-lago in less than an hour. we heard he's got his pen out ready to sign. >> i've been talking to officials here, stef. they say it is very likely he's going to dine what has been a landmark tax bill into law before he takes off in less than an hour, as you poin

this is the way steve bannon's adventure in alabama will always now be remembered. >> mr. bannon, this is a huge defeat for you. >> a stunned silence by the man who alabama voters ignored or hated just as much as washington republicans hate him. steve bannon was immediately attacked by mitch mcconnell last night in a statement of mcconnell's super pac blaming bannon for what happened in alabama. donald trump's marching orders to alabama were ignored just as much as steve bannon's. >> get out and vote for roy moore. do it. do it. do it. >> do it. do it. they didn't do it. here is the robocall that donald trump made to republican voters in alabama. >> hi, this is president donald trump and i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. it is so important. we're already making america great again. i'm going to make america safer and stronger and better than ever before. but we need that seat. we need roy moore voting for us. >> and it rambles on and on for another minute and that robocall did donald trump and roy moore absolutely no good. that robocall just gave donald trump that mu

steve bannon, yes, steve bannon, obviously, a big loser. you also, though, i am sorry, you got to look to mitch mcconnell, who was too clever by half. he didn't want mo brooks in there so he tried to undercut mo broovenlths he tried to under cut roy moore. he ended up within a hair of getting roy moore in there. and so, you know, mitch mcconnell owes a part of this, too. he can point at steve bannon, steve bannon can point at him. you know, if they'd gone with mo brooks, a guy who is a hard right conservative, that that's guy, though that would have won this state easily for republicans. we wouldn't be talking about a democrat winning in the state of alabama. >> so i think, willie, and joe, that, definitely elise, that president trump helped doug jones win. i believe his tweet for anybody that was on the fend about president trump, for anybody, any woman on the fence about roy moore, i think his disgutting tweet about for kirsten gillibrand helped doug jones win. >> it may have helped in the last mont t. people in that restaurant in mound t

so in many ways, steve bannon's great-grandfather was a dreamer. yeah. anyway, anyway, bannon-- [cheers and applause] bannon... bannon held his own in last night's interview, but there were times where you could tell that charlie rose was getting under his skin. just look at his face when he's asked questions that he doesn't like. - you know that this white house leaks like nobody's ever seen a white house leak, and that's where the reporters are getting the story, and they're getting a story about conflict between you and h. r. mcmaster. they're getting stories about conflict between you and jared kushner. - what the hell is that? like, just, like, what is that? i almost felt like if this interview had gone on any longer, i would have been seriously worried for the safety of charlie rose. - and that's where the reporters are getting the story, and they're getting a story about conflict between you and h. r. mcmaster. they're getting all these stories... - [screams] - we'll be right back. derefreshing. pepsi. ah. my wish was a clubhouse, but we call it "

even in the state of alabama, you had steve bannon push forward and we got a democratic senator in alabamahat is the view from bannon world beyond, oh, it's the democratic ground game. they must know this candidate they picked and steve bannon helped convince president trump to support was troubled, to say the least. >> right. i think some of his allies would admit in private conversations, jake, that they weren't a perfect match in terms of ideology. roy moore was not a populist nationalist in the steve bannon mold, he was this christian conservative warrior, but they aligned in the first place, steve bannon's right-hand man told me originally, because he saw this as a proxy fight with mcconnell. he saw it as an opportunity to take on the washington establishment as he might call it and make a point. obviously he fell short in this case but that doesn't mean his greater war against the establishment is going to be over. in in fact, a source close to him told me that the war inside the republican party is only going to get more vicious and bloodier. they see this as a battle they lost, not

steve bannon wasn't terribly productive when he was in the white house.asically, as long as steve bannon was in the white house, the whole west wing operated like episode of gossip girl. all he talked about who is up, who is down. who is making fun of who inside the west wing. the second he left and a new regime came in. they have straightened out entirely and serving president trump the way he deserves to be served. now you see he comes in on the political side and destroys all that and throws a seat away in the process. look, i would distance myself extremely quickly. the entire party and certainly president trump is a part of that. >> also assuming that president trump has any control over steve bannon at this point. i mean, he is out there. he is doing what he wants. just wanted to add to josh's initial point. >> dana: then i have got to run. >> >> thanks, dana. >> dana: more on that stunning night in alabama. why is chuck schumer talking to capitol hill police? we'll tell you. ♪ ♪ >> dana: with the results of the alabama senate race in, political ana

i'm not sticking up for steve bannon. i thought everything he said was wrong, reprehensible and hypocritical. the trifecta of offensiveness. but nonetheless, he is -- he is in the ascendency in that race -- >> moore is. >> moore is and bannon is. he picked the right -- the winning candidate in the primary there and he may be riding that horse to the senate. >> ryan, i'm sorry to be cynical here but it looks like they are all track touts -- or at the race track or it looks like moore will win and i'm going to endorse him now and that includes mcconnell and the president and that includes bannon. all of them. they are jumping on a winning horse. >> it looks like he's going to win. it puts senator mcconnell in a difficult position. he called for him to get out. if he gets to the senate there is an ethic investigation right away. but look, the team isn't on the same page. the republicans wanted to get moore out tv and trump came around and said i'm going to endorse humanitari endorse him and the rnc is not thrilled about this

. >>> steve bannon went to alabama last night. why? to stump for roy moore, the republican candidate in the special election, but ended up picking fights with a list of republicans, nobody is safe from his attacks, not mitch mcconnell, not mitt romney, and this is a man still very close to the president, though not in the white house, his former chief strategist. he laid into these establishment republican figures. romney, he went after his faith and his kids. >> reporter: yeah, poppy. he certainly went in very hard to mitt romney during that speech last night. steve bannon came down to alabama to rally support for his candidate in this case, roy moore. he spent more time bashing mitt romney than he did his opponent, doug jones here. that doesn't come as a surprise because mitt romney not only called for roy moore to step aside in the race but recently said if he was elected as a senator it would be not only a stain on the gop, but the nation, and that seat was not worth losing honor or integrity. steve bannon clearly did not take kind

larry decided to approach his friend steve bannon and basically asked him to be the public face of breitbartbecause bannon was already happy to be out giving public speeches and had already positioned himself as a very andrew breitbart like person. he and andrew breitbart had bonded on that basis, he had given andrew breitbart office space early in the site's career in california to host the website. and so by the time the website merged and relaunched in 2012, steve bannon was perched atop the empire next to larry sotloff as the executive chairman of breitbart. brian: does larry still control the finances of breitbart, and how did he make his money? wil: larry's personal finances are a mystery to me. he gets his money for the site from the mercer family. and so the mercer family, robert and rebecca mercer, have put $10 million into breitbart. brian: father and daughter. wil: exactly. they are the koch brothers of the even further right. host: who are they? where did the money come from? wil: i don't really know. they are billionaires, so they have tentacles and everything. it is actually ki

but had roy moore won, even just by a little bit, i'm wondering if people would be saying steve bannoning by him and this is the next wave of bannon candidates. >> listen, anderson, you and i know, everybody knows if roy moore had won, steve bannon would have been up on that stage last night instead of hiding back in the back room. but listen, i just want to say one thing. those of us who weren't for roy moore who are republicans, i don't think we should be patting ourselves on the back too much because this was a race that was won by african-americans in alabama and i think it's just very important, and frankly, moving to me that when there's a call to decency, not for the first time, blacks voted in record numbers. they won the day yesterday and i think that's just a tremendous step in this long civil rights march that alabama has been at the center of. >> there's another thing that was at play here. democrats did a really good job with the black element specifically but there's this part where the gop looks like it's taken college-educated white moms, married women who they normally

but let's look, steve bannon has lost, steve bannon brought roy moore in, pushed roy moore and roy moore stumbled. he managed to lose alabama. another big loser are people who like the second amendment, people who don't like abortion, people who don't like amnesty. conservative voters have lost an important voice. this is not a good night. we got another one coming up in a year! >> shannon: [laughs]no it's never over. as you all know andea as the president tweeted tonight, it never ends because there is always another election.s richard, walk us through your winners and losers with jones being the winner tonight. >> with jones the winner, i will add to my list. i think black voters were a big winner because they once again showed up for the democratic party in a major way. the other one is "the washington post," who was the first publication to rollout a story about roy moore and ito think they are big winner tonight. the third big winner is the establishment. to go off of what bret was saying a couple of moments ago is they normally have to worry about the guy sleeping downstairs, but n

i have a very good relationship as you know with steve bannon. steve's been a friend of mine for a long time. i like steve a lot. steve is doing what steve thinks is the right thing. >> remember what he said about steve bannon who happens to be fresh off a big defeat in alabama. he's unleashed about his time at the white house. startling revelations as they say, published today, in a new interview in article by vanity fair. donald trump serving out his presidential term, and sharing details about a strained relationship with various trump family members. the article suggests that what started out as camaraderie forged through an unlikely friendship, has devolved over time. he went on to describe trump this way. he's much more moderate, he's an accommodationist. back in october, you might recall vanity fair reported bannon believed trump had a 30% chance of finishing his full term. he went even further this time. trump has lost a step and is like an 11-year-old child. the article also shedding light on the controversy surrounding bannon and trump's

roy moore starts the home stretch of his campaign today, the final six days with a boost from steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist headlining a campaign event just a day after the president himself endorsed moore. moore has been accused of sexual assault and impropriety involving teenage girls. >> bannon slammed several quote establish republicans including mitch mcconnell and jeff flake who earlier tweeted out this. a check donated to the democratic opponent, doug jones. the white house not backing down from the president's endorsement. >> we've said that the allegations are concerning. and if true, he should step aside, but we don't have a way to validate that and that's something for the people of alabama to decide which we've also said and we maintain that. and ultimately it will come down to the people of alabama to make that decision. >> gary tuckman has more for us this morning from alabama. >> reporter: sweet home alabama is now playing as this rally has come to an end. it was held in a barn here in alabama. it was quite an event. it was a roy moore rally but the r

the reason so many people showed up was to hear steve bannon introduce it sand steve bannon went into attack mode. he attacked democrats, members of the news media but then he really went off on people he called establishment republicans. mitch mcconnell, arizona senator jeff flake but he reserved his ire for mitt romney. he had tweeted the other day, roy moore in the u.s. senate would be a stain on the gop and the nation. and listen to what bannon said. >> you ran for commander in chief. you had five sons. not one day of service in afghanistan and iraq. we have 7,000 dead and 52,000 casualties and where were the romneys during those wars? judge roy moore has more honor and integrity in a pinky finger than your entire family has in his whole dna. >> reporter: many people in the state have said this election should be left up to alabamaians. and that's true. it was only alabamaians that would be voting. he also got a tweet from doug jones, the democrat running against roy moore. he said we don't need an outside agitator like steve bannon carpet bagging in alabama. >> all right. six mor

one of our attorneys is a jew. >> steve bannon. >> former white house strategist steve bannon firingo republicans who said the former judge should drop out. >> there's a special place in hell for for republicans who should know better. >> moore taking no questions from traditional reporters. instead one of his rare interviews went to pro-trump super pac online video. interviewer a 12-year-old girl. >> what are the most important issues to the voters of alabama. >> i think one is religious liberty. >> his opponent democratic doug jones sees the race differently. >> the majority of the people of alabama say that it is time that we put or decency, our state before political party. >> experts say turnout will be crucial. jones calling on former nba hall of famer charles barkley to help get african-americans out to vote. alabama native with harsh words for home state. >> at some point we have to stop looking like idiots to the nation. at some point, i mean, listen. i love alabama. we have to draw a line in the sand so we're not a bunch of dam idiots. >> for mark reynolds, evangelicals, th

do you keep running with steve bannon? more and listen to him or ivanka trump? what do you do? >> i think with t surprise of the trump election, there were those that said all the political rules we've lived by are thrown out the window. that characteristics like likability and decency and kindness and graciousness, which are the hallmarks of the regan presidency, the first bush presidency, those are of us who are drawn to the party because of those qualities that they're no longer needed, no longer valued at the ballot box, i don't think that's the case. and when you look at candidates doing well these are very likable, decent people who are about bringing people together and not dividing. say what you will, my friend lost in virginia. but he lost to someone who was very likable. and jones is just a likable, decent guy that you could be for even if you didn't agree with him on every issue. i think that's where the political part of america still beats and to look at trump and say this is all thrown out the window would be

work donald trump will say something he shouldn't say and then call steve bannon and do whatever steve bannon tells him to do because steve bannon's going to flatter him, he's going to do it and then in congress people like mitch mcconnell are going to act like they're against steve bannon because he's crazy and then they're going to get freaked out about losing primaries so they will end up being with steve bannon anyone. everybody in the picture except congress will be swept out of washington except steve bannon and you will have democratic coming in beginning of 2019 that's when something will finally get done for the american people. >> why do you say the president trump will follow whoever talks to last. >> that's how it works whoever is in his ear that's who he goes with. particularly if they said something nice. i did the dishes tonight he's probably watching if i give him credit for it maybe he will never hate tweet me i don't know. that's how he works. they create briefing documents with his name in it so he will pay attention to what's going on in north korea so they had comp

all aimed at steve bannon. know, when you set yourself up as the sort of messianic leader of a historic, revolutionary movement and you fall on your butt, there are a lot of people who have knives out for you and steve bannon is a big target today. >> but he clearly had an impact and an influence on the president's decision to support roy moore. >> i think that's true. and i think the president sort of -- you come into favor and you fall out of favor. i think he was very angry at mcconnell for talking him into being for luther strange against roy moore. now he may be angry with bannon for persuading him. we should say one small thing, i do think the president had some impact on this race in favor of moore, in the sense that you saw the late-breaking vote going for moore. >> right. >> i think in places close to where he campaigned, he probably had some influence. it's just that, much as in virginia where there was a heightened turnout in some of these republican areas, it was dwarfed by the turnout in these demo

natural pet food. >>> steve bannon is going after top republicans.ma last night, rallying support for senate candidate roy moore there. of course, roy moore facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, assault, and abuse, but bannon ended up picking fights with mitt romney, jeff flake, mitch mcconnell, to name a few. our kaitlan collins is in mobile this morning. and when you talk about a man very close to the president, formerly the chief strategist inside the white house, he laid into mitt romney, attacking his kids and his faith. >> yeah, poppy. steve bannon certainly did not hold back when it came to mitt romney here in alabama last night. though he was hear to rally to get some support for roy moore in the last few days before the high-stakes senate race, he spent a lot of his time focusing on republicans, and specifically, mitt romney. now, this comes after mitt romney has called on roy moore to step aside out of this race, after those sexual assault allegations first surfaced and more recently he said, if roy moore won, it would be a stai

know that steve bannon is necessarily high up in the pecking order. donald trump is the leader of this republican party into this country. what he was able to do was harness a lot of the anger people had out there across america, who are frustrated and furious with politicians from both sides of the aisle who made promises for decades and nothing got done. he's been here in such a short amount of time and we've seen an economic explosion, a laser type focus on things like tax cuts, that's what people are angry about because they haven't been listened to forever. the president was able to tap into that anger and show people there was finally someone in this building behind me actually working for them, that is with most important. >> harris: does the president look at the situation as he tightened the gap between doug jones and roy moore? when you dig into some of the exit polling, roy moore was in trouble with women and we knew that going into yesterday and as people were coming out, the deficit for him was with women. >> i think donald trump did a lo

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this is what an aide to steve bannon tells nbc news.te, after doing everything in their power to throw this election to a liberal democrat, the mcconnell establishment should expect the very same america first movement that elected the president in 2016 to be out for their blood in 2018. was steve bannon's influence diminished at all last night or does he still have enough pull among trump's base to still cause trouble for mitch mcconnell and other members of the so-called establishment? >> that's the key question before the 2020 presidential election, is did bannon -- did the breitbartism of the america first wave that elected trump, did that carry such a flawed candidate to within 20,000 votes? senator-elect jones won. it's probably good news for the country, probably inarguably. but it was close. this was not a blowout. i do think that that's going to be a salient factor going forward. we're about to have a big race in tennessee, which is about as red as alabama almost. where a former democratic governor, phil bredison, is running fo

steve bannon is a bad guy.ut this is a way for republicans on capitol hill to basically deflect from their own blame as enablers of donald trump. and the fact so few are willing to speak up against roy moore. i have to give kudos to senator shelby who did yeoman work on sunday by blasting it more. so few other republicans were willing to come out. the rnc when it locks up with donald trump to support the accused child molester. and roy moore at the end of the day, he probably would have won if it hadn't been for the child molestation charges. the fact that he is opposed to the rule of law, he wants to, he thinks slavely was the good old days. all of this wouldn't have been held against him by the voters of alabama. i'm very glad that roy moore lost and i'm very glad that steve bannon was embarrassed. let's not pretend this one victory has solved a deep, deep sickness that plagues the republican party. >> you make such a great point. thank you both. ahead, alabama and the mampbl vote. how did jones actually exce

there's something else going on here with steve bannon that doesn't get enough attention. the rallies down in alabama. when bannon would come out to speak, he wasn't really speaking about roy moore. he was trying to push his ideas about nationalism, about populism, his feud with bannon and cultivate this image of himself as a folk hero. so this wasn't -- he does it ostensibly in trump's name, but what he's really doing is trying to build up his own aura. >> can i ask you a question? do you think that's because he's looking at the long game into the midterms? assuming that roy moore was going to win, that he would be able to point to that and use whatever he thought -- whatever lore he thought he was creating so that he could go in with these other candidates in primary republican -- >> i think that's it exactly. that's exactly what he was thinking he was going to do. and it failed disastrously. >> disaster. it was a disaster. something else that i think is interesting about this, and to scott's point, candidate recruitment does matter. and republicans learned this the hard

steve bannon. here is what he said. >> back in 2010 and 2012, the person you mentioned and his allies succeeded in nominating five candidates who all lost. we succeeded in 2014 and 2016 in defeating sure losers. >> shannon: let's welcome the political panel tonight. senior columnist from townhall.com, and radio host and fox news contributor, great to see both of you tonight. gentleman. >> great to be here. >> shannon: on one hand, mitch mcconnell is not a happy camper tonight, he has lost a seat, but on the other hand, he might be doing a victory dance because he wouldn't even say bannon's name and he wanted to say this guy keeps picking losers.. i'm doing the right thing. he's not. >> i think that sounds about right.t. one of the big winners is the quote unquote donald trump likes to call the swamp but establishment republicans. remember, at the beginning, they wanted luther strange, they lost that race, and then you saw establishment republicans, including richard shelby, saying, hey, listen, don

you get really jammed up at playing ball with steve bannon. they may not have a choice. maybe the only thing that i can do is dance with bannon. >> the news of doug jones's victory won't be the only headline greeting donald trump tomorrow morning. the "usa today" editorial goes after the president for his sexually suggestive tweet directed at kirstin gillibrand and reads, a president who all but called a senator aer who is unfit to clean toilets or to shine george w. bush's shoes. this is one of the two or three national newspapers. >> this is not a newspaper who is known to be a lefty paper. it reads like a lefty screen you might hear at a thanksgiving dinner. this is "usa today." their circulation is the middle of the country. this changed the whole alabama race. without it he would be senator-elect right now. why did trump imply clearly that kirstin jill brand had come into his office alone to get money. that was the suggestion in what he said. >> donald trump has no control when it comes to this thing. my wife said to me before i left, don't mind the tweet he said tod

but let's look, steve bannon has lost, steve bannon brought roy more income a pushed roy moore and roy moore stumbled. he managed to lose alabama. another big loser are people who like the second amendment, people who don't like abortion, people who don't like amnesty. conservative voters have lost an important voice. this is not a good night. we got another one coming up in the year! >> shannon: [laughs] it's never over. as you all know and as the president tweeted tonight, it never ends because there is always another election. richard, walk us through your winners and losers with jones being the winner tonight. >> with jones the winter, i will add to my list. i think black voters were a big winner because they once again showed up for the democratic party in a major way. the other one is "the washington post," who was the first publication to rollout a story about roy moore and i think they are big winner tonight. the third big winner is the establishment. to go off of what bret was saying a couple of moments ago is they normally have to worry about the guy sleeping downstairs, but

there's something else going on with steve bannon that doesn't get enough attention. i was in a lot of the rallies in alabama. when bannon would come out to speak, he wasn't speaking about roy moore. he was trying to brush "r" push his ideas about nationalism, populism, his feud with bannon and cultivate this image of himself as a folk hero. he does it os sensibly in trump's name. >> do you think that's because he's looking at the long game into the midterms assuming that roy moore was going to win? that he could use whatever lor he thought he was creating to go in with other candidates. >> that's exactly what he was thinking he was going to do. and it failed. >> disaster. it was a disaster. candidate recruitment does matter. republicans learn this the hard way in 2010 where we had the opportunity to pick up senate seats in places like nevada, delaware. we had horrible tea party candidates they were considered back then. christine o'donnell had to address an execution about being a witch. >> which she denied. >> she said i am not a witch, which is as bad as new york ci

representative pete king went a little further: after alabama disaster gop must do right thing and dump steve bannonact is tired, inane and morally vacuous. if we are to make america great again for all americans, bannon must go! and go now!! joining us now from capitol hill is the bbc‘s laura bicker. what do they make of this on the democratic side? i have been listening to one senator who has been speaking to the networks and talking about a grassroots movement in alabama. he said they were on the ground way before the sexual allegations came to light. they're saying that this is the path to victory when it comes to 2018, but they can wrestle back control of the senate. the republicans are throwing a bit of cold water on that because they are saying when it comes to this victory it was a one—off, it was extraordinary circumstances and thatis was extraordinary circumstances and that is what caused their man to lose. that he was the wrong candidate in the first place. when you look at the numbers and break it down it is interesting to see that the democratic vote came from predominantly african—amer

party overall. >> like the proxy, alice, usually for the president, is hillary clinton, because steve bannonim at mitch mcconnell, as well. and mitt romney, a proxy war between bannon and the accomplishment. >> sure. that was the game he played in the election. draining the swamp. it was successful. another powerful tactic that bannon has been able to use for president trump, and he's using it with moore, is putting the power back in the people's hands. he said, don't let washington tell you how to vote. don't let democrats. the republican establishment. this is your vote and you should do this how you see fit. he managed to make it us against them and not about these allegations of sexual harassment. that was a key to success for roy moore, given that he is doing well in the polls. but to kevin's point, the long-term impact for the party -- i think the fact we're supporting someone -- bannon, and the rnc and the president, it ee's important to put princi and integrity above any outcome in this case. and continuing to support someone with this cloud over them, is a long-term black cloud on t

but let's look, steve bannon has lost, steve bannon brought roy more income a pushed roy moore and roy moore stumbled. he managed to lose alabama. another big loser are people who like the second amendment, people who don't like abortion, people who don't like amnesty. conservative voters have lost an important voice. this is not a good night. we got another one coming up in the year! >> shannon: [laughs] it's never over. as you all know and as the president tweeted tonight, it never ends because there is always another election. richard, walk us through your winners and losers with jones being the winner tonight. >> with jones the winter, i will add to my list. i think black voters were a big winner because they once again showed up for the democratic party in a major way. the other one is "the washington post," who was the first publication to rollout a story about roy moore and i think they are big winner tonight. the third big winner is the establishment. to go off of what bret was saying a couple of moments ago is they normally have to worry about the guy sleeping downstairs, but

certainly steve bannon showing up down there to make this slashing speech tells you that steve bannonre and he wants to get the credit for it. and he wants his insurgency within the party to get the credit for it. i am struck, as i have been before in his case, by the lack of shyness about making slashing personal attacks on members of what had been his party. and i think all of this is part of the breakup of the republican party. >> but, peggy, he attacks mitt romney, who got 98% of the vote in alabama in 2012, the general election. and all across the country, people are booing the names of john mccain and george w. bush when they're mentioned at republican club meetings. >> uh-huh. >> it's as if amnesia has -- >> to me, it's part and parcel with what elected trump. people decided i don't like what is. i don't like the way we've been going. >> yes. >> i don't like both parties. i don't like their mess and dysfunction and their separation from our concerns. they don't care about us in the least. so, they're in an ornery mood, still. >> that's the painful truth. >> it didn't go away af

here's what steve bannon had to say about the republican establishment tonight. watch this. >> all that establishment up there every day that doesn't have trump's back, you know they don't have his back at all. what they want him for is that corporate tax cut. that's all they want him for. as soon as they get that tax cut watch what happens. there's a special place in hell for republicans who should know better. you know what they're doing and they're trying to shut up president trump and judge moore? they're trying to shut you up. why do you think the whole world's here? this is about -- this is about raw power. >> a special place in hell that's the same phrase remember that ivanka trump used when asked about allegations against roy moore. do you think that wording was intentional? >> absolutely. steve bannon doesn't say things by mistake. that's a clear shot across the bow at the trump family. a couple things that i would say, if roy moore is elected, it's the worst thing that could happen to the republican party in a long time. this is not a political test, it

he said steve bannon, he saw him go down. they had conversations about steve bapen thought moore could win. steve bannon was interesting in picking this fight with mitch mcconnell of course, so in a sense, he had a different objective than the president. there's tho doubt here the question tonight at the white house and on capitol hill, will the president listen to steve bannon in the future? what will his role be in 2018 and those midterm races? there are signs at least early signs tonight that steve bannon's wings will be clipped in some respect in terms of recruiting candidates. the president tweeted today strong candidates win elections. roy moore was not a strong candidate. but at the end of the day here, there's a sense of lemonade being made here. because the president reached out to doug jones in a phone call this afternoon before the tax speech in the white house. he congratulated him for the victory. there's one reason for that. he invited him here to the white house. they need his vote. now it's a 51-49 split after

but roy moore was steve bannon's candidate. it's hard to say whether bannon still has as much influence as he did before, but i think the president definitely still listens to him. i think roy moore is a key testament to that. despite getting blowback from his own daughter, mitch mcconnell, members of his own party, the president still endorsed roy moore in the election despite the sexual assault allegations against him. i think the president still definitely listens. >> yes, well, kevin, the president left for mar-a-lago for the holiday. it marks the president's 106th visit to one of his properties in 2017, according to some reports. but he didn't hold a traditional end of year news conference. >> i was surprise td at that. we were at the white house yesterday right before the helicopter took off. he shouted merry christmas after he signed that tax bill. i was surprised simply because i thought he would want to talk about the tax bill and whatnot. i'm told by folks there that they just wanted to stay on message and keep it all