maria: joining me right now is former white house chief strategist steve bannon and steve it is goodsee you this morning when you joined me about a month ago you basically said look the president has to shut down the country, take a pause for 30 days, we haven't done that, its been rolling closing. what's your take on the response to the coronavirus, steve? >> well first i want to say maria, one of the reasons everybody knows about this , when you within in davos i believe in mid-january you had an infectious disease person on your show at that time in mid- january, so people were becoming aware of this in mid- january and the lying of the ccp. now president trump laid out yesterday he's going to have one of the hardest decisions any president of this country has ever had in our history coming in the next couple of weeks, and i think what we have to do is number one is that to inform that decision and start to look at outcomes, the first thing i think that we have to do is that dr. birx and dr. fauci and whoever the scientists are we keep talking about the scientists we've got to get

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steve bannon, we'll be right back. stay with us. maria: welcome back. president trump is laying out a three-phase plan to reopen the economy. my next guest's state has been much more impacted economically, than health wise in his state because of the shutdowns and what it has done to the energy sector, tourism and agriculture, joining me right now is republican congress chairman member of the white house task force on reopening the economy, wyoming senator, john barrasso. senator it's great to see you thanks very much for being here. you are a medical doctor, so you clearly understand the health risks. are you worried that you're going to be opening the economy too soon, and we get a relapse and tell us about the impacts that wyoming has seen from coronavirus. >> well it is time to reopen america, to do it in a smart way following the metrics using science, but we need to get americans back to work. everyone in this country has been impacted by coronavirus some more from the medical standpoint, others more from the economic standpoint, and wyoming for o

roll back restrictions joining us now for more on the different states response to this crisis, steve bannonte house chief strategist now host of the podcast the war room pandemic. steve, it's -- tomorrow's may 1st. how is the conversation on may 31st going to be different than the conversation we're opening in your view what's going to transpire over the next 30 days, 31 days? >> you're going to start to see these governors i think prudently but boldly start to unlock their economies in a few minutes you're going to announce, you know, what, another 3, 3.5, maybe up to 4 million more job losses. at 30 million -- this is in the last 100 days, really 60 days we've had greater job losses than the great depression. i think you're seeing the governors i think if you look at the polling, they've got a lot of support from their states you'll see states like texas, ohio, florida eventually start to open up and doing it in a way that makes sure that their states are safe, the public health systems are working and people can get back to work. i think that's what people want to do, they want to do it

wouldn't that be like the president replacing anthony fauci with steve bannon?t would be seen as political, nothing against steve bannon but that would not be seen as a nonpart partisan move made in the name of science. whitmer's office replied by canceling the contract. finally someone was watching. but don't worry, they will try again. judge jeanine pirro hosts justice with judge dean. what do you make of this? >> you know, i have to comment on gretchen's first comment saying, in world war ii, people went back to work and rolled up their sleeves. she sees her tone-deaf or stupid because people do want to go back to work and they do want to roll up their sleeves but she's essentially creating house arrest for them. we knew, tucker, that she was a political operative based on the fact that, you know as you said you can get an abortion but don't you dare try to go to church. you can make sure that you can get alcohol and booze but don't try to buy paint for your house or grass seed. the woman is a political leftist operative and she was taking advantage until she

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that is something that steve bannon and other like-minded conservatives how they feel as well. no question about it, the president gave sort of a squishy answer there on the peter navarro memo. of this obviously circling inside the white house and the real question that needs to be asked, mr. president, were you made aware of the concerns, were you made aware of other concerns and what did you do about it? as you and i both know, we have cataloged this so many times for weeks and weeks. the president downplayed the coronavirus outbreak. it's rich for him to say that the w.h.o. called it wrong when he was calling it wrong for weeks. >> an important point as well. sanjay, i want to play for you and the viewers what dr. redfield said in the radio interview. our viewers know it was a week ago. so there were some models saying if the u.s. did all the right things with the social distancing, the death rate here in the united states might be 100,000 to 240 thousands and if they didn't it could be 2.2 million. >> even those models that were done they assume only about 50% of the americ

joining me now, steve bannon who has been warning about china for almost a decade it seems.u think america including democrats have the stomach for this fight? >> we have to have the stomach for this fight. it's a fight for freedom. the chinese people are the innocent victims. this is about a totalitarian regime ever bit as tough as the the -- as the nazis. in your opening monologue, you talk about new york city. new york was a hot spot because of jfk and the travel coming in from china. the chinese communist party knew they had human-to-human * transmission and community spread. they hid it. the world health organization tweeted, after consultation with senior officials in the communist regime, there is no human-to-human transmission. they went around the world and vacuumed up the ppe. and they knew they could use it as leverage against other countries. if president trump had not stopped travel on january 31. joe biden took the side of the dictators. particularly the bernie people, the labor union, the working class people particularly in the upper midwest who are old schoo

between all of them are the anti- russian or the pro- russian or the attempt to get together that steve bannon is working so hard to achieve with the populace nationalism. on the other hand the socialist one stay they are not back in power and those that strike me i cannot pronounce his name correctly but i have been reading the writer of the socialist manifesto. the book is somewhat nutty but it is striking that he has read everything. history, all major socialist theories, the new ones and the old ones and goes through the whole history. trotsky and he knows all the stuff and he still comes around to the idea that nothing will work because real socialism because you read how it will work in the book those are on - - ideas are nutty and off-the-wall. but he commends bernie sanders as a sellout as a social democrat. why do people follow bernie? these people fall to the left of bernie sanders. and there is a big article in berlin and germany and is a real socialist not social democracy and then move away to social democracy and socialism and to go on and on. he is not the anti-semite and those

guest: you'd have to ask a steve bannon that. was on vocation-- vacation where it friend texted me and said have you seen the news. no, i was cut off from the world and i like not to be plugged in and i went to an area where i could check the internet and i sort of see steve bannon had resigned out of the blue. he was my immediate boss and there was only one layer between me and the president. steve was chief strategist and without telling me steve said i'm leaving. in about two months prior to that, it had become clear to me that the new national security advisor hr mcmaster was not a fan of mine. i was not on the national security council, but i was always present for key meetings regarding isis, china, russia and left off the invitation for a classified meetings once he became national security advisor so i knew i was being boxed out and in my immediate political top cover reside and i had a top decision. my wife and i sat down and thought do i stay in the white house picking up a pretty good federal salary paid for by the us

remember, robert mercer was a long time benefactor for steve bannon, the chief strategist for president. all of these interlocking lines and parallel networks within the right wing as they look at these states and governor ron desantis of florida, for example, has been a supporter of some of these groups that are now organizing these protests. but they have real consequences beyond just being a right wing revival and revival of the tea party. i've spoken to the governors of michigan and illinois. pritzker worries about violence on the streets of his state because of these protests and president trump's liberate rhetor rhetoric. >> bob costa, you're the second person this week to raise the potential of violence. -- was the first. we hold bernie sanders a standard to disainvoicing hateful rhetoric from online from his supporters. we held presidents bush and president obama responsible for the conduct of their supporters at rallies and in the public square. is anyone holding the president or robert mercer accountable for this? i mean, has there been any effort? is there anyone in the senat

. >> and not the resistance we are not the opposition party that is the phrase steve bannon was using and then trump latched onto that we do have to push back on this especially my role as representing the white house press corps it's dangerous when it is over the top it needs to be called out there was an incident there was an event of a pro- trump organization that one of the presidents properties in florida. and they had an exhibit where they played a video clip from a movie showing somebody in a church killing newspeople and democrats. it was horrific. you've got to call this out. it is actually dangerous. we saw with the guy who sent to the pipe bombs to cnn. there will be people and i have said this to the president directly and i recount that at the end of the book that there are sick people who will take these words literally into heart and hurt people and it's dangerous and it is particularly irresponsible coming from the biggest bully pulpit of all. >> you raise that with white house staff and the press secretary and other people. >> yes. but you have to recognize with this

steve bannon talked about deconstructing the apparatus of government. this is what happens when you deconstruct the apparatus of government. i think it was grover norquist that said something like wanting to drown the baby of the federal government in the bathtub, gutting the -- i don't know the exact word, but it was something really harsh like that. and if he didn't say it exactly that way, i'll get the exact quote. but i will tell you, i'm a small government conservative. and mika can attest to the fact that i've been going around for the past decade warning republicans that they can't just gut the 12% of the budget which is discretionary domestic spending. now, when i say that, of course, people's eyes have glazed over. thank you. but, all of their cuts, all of their cuts while they were ramping up defense spending came from gutting the nih, came from gutting the pandemic task force, came from gutting education, came from gutting the ten, 11, 12%, what we americans consider to be government. you know, of course you've had social security, medicare,

. >> steve bannon, in response to your reporting at axios reporting said it was his impression that peter navarro had to do this because of the arrogance and ignorance of the people around the president who disagreed with navarro's assessment and put the country in danger. so do you have a sense inside the white house of who was trying to block this message? >> we know that peter navarro had a fight with anthony fauci over the weekend related to chloroquine being a treatment for covid or at least a preventative drug for covid possibly as well. fauci is somebody who as we understand it was on the other side of the travel ban debate for instance. he didn't think the travel bans did much in terms of containment. navarro argued otherwise. but there were a bunch of economic advisers and many of us have reported on this repeatedly who thought that this was being overstated as a threat, we know that jared kushner the president's son-in-law had agreed with the president that this was being, you know, used by the media to harm him, which the president has said over and over again. kushner insisted

i mean, sometimes -- i don't think steve bannon -- excellent interview this morning -- would choose the word fascist. we tend to limit that to certain people i find fascist to be a bit extreme, but elon can be an extremist. >> yeah. no, he can, and maybe utilitarianism maybe we want to talk about the greatest number, although that is still creates a debate, jim, because frankly, what is the greatest good for the greatest number when you shut the economy down is there going to be more suffering as a result of that than there will be from the virus? this is that balance we have been watching play out as our viewers hear the opening bell of the new york stock exchange. we get that shot of times square for the nasdaq as we open the final trading day of the month in the red, jim, right now, after what has been a furious rally overall. >> gains, david. geez, are we comparing this 1974 downfall of nixon. by the way, nixon created osha, then the president got rid of -- oh, i'm sorry. there still is an osha what are they doing? what does osha do? >> he also created the environmental protection a

that the coronavirus could become a global pandemic of catastrophic portions, peter navarro and steve bannon are here and also ahead senator tim scott on part partisan grid lock on funding small businesses what will happen this upcoming week, senator john barrasso also here, a medical doctor himself on how the country can safely reopen all that and a lot more as we look ahead right here right now on "sunday morning futures." >> and china coming under intense scrutiny this week amid mounting criticism of its early response to the coronavirus outbreak. my first guest this morning was one of the first to see the pandemic coming. we want to bring in white house trade advisor peter navarro. peter it's great to see you this morning. >> good morning maria. maria: thank you for all your early warnings and great work on this , peter i know you've been busy with the supply chain issues but i want to talk first about china and what we're learning this morning. pro-democracy activists were arrested over the weekend, peter , a further crackdown on hong kong, as china continues to exert author their yanke

he read steve bannon, know what they are thinking. but they are really focused on china, china, china. where will that lead us? is that dangerous? >> yes, i think it's dangerous. you are right. we don't know where china is headed, and there are a number of possible futures. we're presupposing that we end up closer to that. i look at covid, in a lot of ways, as an accelerant for things that were already in the works, right? accelerants for american companies that were thinking about supply chains anyway will not think about them even more. not just because of the trade war, but will think about them even more carefully. are we too reliant on other countries? it will accelerate worrying trends in china. because you hear beijing talk about part of our success was our ability to monitor who they're coming in contact with, where they're going, and i think it will push in china of where xi jinping was going as well. if you're a tech company, it's way fromrant in a good openditional economy to an that's pushing china in the one. direction th

and is china going to be -- when we hear steve bannon this morning talking about, you know, holding chinaible for coronavirus, when we have reports since denied on the "washington post" about, you know, using our debt as a weapon against them, you wonder, is apple too reliant on china >> yeah, it's a huge part of their annual revenue -- or their quarterly revenue. and with stores -- it's startinging to open back up. this is the test bed in china for apple, when they open back up it will be interesting to hear on the call if they put forward a plan for reopening the apple stores here in the united states and elsewhere in europe and other countries that got affected later than china. and on top of that, just the whole economic downturn has these questions about the price of apple products. you know, these $1,000 iphones at the top tier, but what i noticed was, apple has these cheaper suite of products that are really appealing and just as good last week, they launched the iphone sc, which starts at 400 bucks, and it's just as good as the $1,000 iphone 11 pro staz smaller screen, but the int

here is what steve bannon said about that. he said, let's put that up there. he said the principal reason peter wrote this memo is to make sure real information got to the president, because the real information was being suppressed by the chief of staff at the time, mick mulvaney. is that true? >> let me make something crystal clear about this memo. i heard a lot of chatter this morning on some of the left-wing cable news channels. that memo went not to the president but to a small distribution list to the task force. people this morning who were criticizing the president for not bothering to read the memo or whatever, he never got the memo. it was not sent to him. what's interesting to me, martha, even as i was trying to present significant issues to the task force itself, the president was one step ahead of me. because as i was advocating the travel ban in that memo to the task force, the president was already moving to do that. he did that on january 31st. i think that's what's important to understand. >> martha: we are aware of that. >> what i can tell yo

that was the phrase i talk about steve bannon was the first of the opposition party and then trump grabbed onto that. we can't act like the opposition party would do have to push back and i do push back on this. specially my roles representing the white house press corps, when the stuff gets dangerous, when it is over the top, it needs to be called out. there is an incident where there is an event for approach trump organization at one of the presidents properties in florida. they actually, they had an exhibit where they played this video clip it was a doctor seen from a movie it showed somebody in a church firing, using -- killing newspeople. and democrats. it was horrific. you've got to call the stuff out. it is actually dangerous. we saw with the guy who sent the pipe bombs poorly made to cnn that there will be people. i have said this to the president directly. i recount that at the end of the book. there are sick people who will take these words literally and to heart. and hurt people. it's dangerous. it's particularly irresponsible coming from the person with the biggest pulpit of al

i spoke with steve bannon on sunday morning futures yesterday, the former white house strategist.hed in on biden an the 2020 election. watch this. got to get your reaction. are they going to replace him at the convention. >> i think they're going to look at someone replacing biden. biden cannot take on donald trump, no way, not on china or any other topic. maria: wow. he was pretty adamant about that. what do you think, mike huckabee? >> well, i don't know if there's a mechanism to get rid of him other than just locking him up in a room and saying he didn't show up so they'll have to nominate someone else. if there was a movie made about joe biden's presidential campaign right now, the title of the movie would be the current hit, the invisible man. i mean, this is a candidate -- first time i can ever remember in my lifetime when the nominee of a major party has virtually disappeared from the scene and when he does show up he's incoherent and he makes these rambling reports. so i think it's going to be a fascinating race to watch and i don't think anyone can beat donald trump. mari

general dunford ran that so it sitting there and then with this being a total fiasco and then steve bannon said to jared kushner and writes previous and by that with that comparison so the point that bannon was trying to make was to laying down the marker them back of the white house. for those with the national security council and what what trump was like in these meetings these were consistent and what does this mean for the american people and why are we hear 16 or 17 years later. these are not unusual questions but of course we live and the consensus with the dim so the fact it isn't bad but what i've been thinking about is the endless wars. >> we were really careful how we wrote about different sources of how people reacted in the room just because we understand how somebody reacted and was thinking about the way the president was mistreating them does not mean they were not directly direct sources. we talked to a lot of people that were briefed at the time with the principal spot and one of the most important things we did recording this book was protect the people who were talking

anti- russian and the hungarians are so russian but there is this attempt to get together that steve bannon is working so hard to achieve with the new populace nationalist but on the other hand you have to the success of the socialists one in spade are now back in power and as far as the socialist in this country and i have been meeting and i can't pronounce his name correctly but [inaudible] the writer whose new book the socialist manifesto is out and he is the editor and founder of jacobin magazine and the book is somewhat nutty but contrary to what josh said the guy hasn't read everything. he's read history and nature socialist theories and the new ones and the old ones and goes through the whole history of socialism and all these trotsky's and my kid again and all the stuff and he still comes around to the idea that nothing will work except real socialism and when he presents in the book how it will work his ideas are off-the-wall but he condemns in the book bernie sanders as a sellout and says he is a democrat but not a socialist. [inaudible] so these people consider themselves to the

president trump, steve bannon. nobody ever said that about barack obama. nobody ever said that about bill clinton. is it a partisan thing. is it the press tends to think republicans aren't smart enough to do it on their own and democrats aren't smart enough. how do you explain this? >> i mean, just answered the question. [ laughter ] that was too easy. >> the question is don't you agree? >> look, i did not work with bill clinton. although i certainly spent time with bill clinton. barack obama you could say many things about him. on his face, very smart. very professorial. to his fault he had his hands on a lot of things. part of it is the ethos of the white house. we can talk about this. we had a mantra, no drama obama. it was a low key white house. we didn't leak. we didn't write books after we left. it was all about what was doing -- what was best for the president and so, it's not to say there weren't people who weren't strong advisers before him, but that may not have came out. >> yeah, this is -- boy, this next one is -- this one's a little harsh. >>

i used to call it the steve bannon 33% strategy.d trump moved that up to sort of a 42%/43% strategy. in 2018, when people are asking, "are the republicans going to take control and have another great night? looks like they are." i said, "he is a 40% president." he doesn't have magic powers. 40% president's parties don't win. i can say the same of a 43% president right now. the bigger problem is, so many of these senators are still following him. marco rue o marco rubio in florida. remember when rubio tweeted members of the press were delighted and gleeful people were getting the coronavirus and dying? it's just -- it makes no sense. especially for somebody in a swing state like marco. >> republicans have latched themselves to this president, for better or for worse. think about to 2000. george w. bush wins the presidency after losing the popular vote. he had poor poll numbers. after september 11th, 2001, made efforts at a moment of national strategy, moment of crisis. he made efforts to reach across the aisle. he made an effort to b

it's right-wing trolling material we've seen for years from now from people like breitbart and steve bannonnd this is right out of their playbook and it's no coincidence all this escalation we're seeing is happening right when joe biden solidified the democratic nomination, when polls show biden has a lead over trump and trump is in trouble and under water. in typical, trump is trying to create racial tensions, inflame them and take attention away from his failures and put it somewhere else. >> including making china the new mexico, the new scary, non-white people are the chinese, right? it's like he's still trying to use that same racial trope, the same playbook. renee, i want to go to your reporting. you're coming to us from boston. i having lived -- gone to school in that neck of the woods knows there's a lot of racial tension. how is this playing out in the world up there? because, you know, it's not that hard, unfortunately, to turn a health crisis into a racial, ethnic crisis? >> well, one thing i think is interesting is how these protests have started after all the headlines the last

former white house chief strategist steve bannon joined me on sunday morning futures, i want to get yourction. >> if you're going shut it down and i will continue to harp on this, let's shut it down. 30 days to crash this bug and this requires no more air traffic of people into the united states, cargo can come but no more people flying into the united states, no domestic air travel. it's virtually shut down but let's shut it all down, even stop vehicular travel except interstate commerce in logistics in medical emergency. also put all 50 states in uniform lockdown policy, maybe it uniform and make it as tough as possible because we are taking the 30 days off. maria: yeah, it certainly feels like we are in national shutdown but i guess when you look at the pictures of georgia with people on the beaches obviously it's not the case. so what do you guys think about that, mitch, dagen, jump in here. mitch: one of the things the president talked about and has been a lot of talk on social media is about starting another task force to figure out how to get the economy going. i had a lot of conv

shutdown we saw then and what can be done noun and also talking with congressman doug collins and steve bannone as we look toward a potential opening in the face of these next two weeks, which as you know, the president said will be horrific. we're on it. pete: always very clear-eyed about communist china, maria great show thank you very much. griff: thanks maria that will be great. still ahead, the voice of an angel. a michigan nurse stuns as she sings "amazing grace" to her co- workers before another long shift. that nurse joins us with an encore performance you don't want to miss. >> ♪ ♪ remind me to call petsmart for ralphie's appointment. who's his groomer? carrie. full groom for sure what? i just booked ralphie's appointment online. that work? wait you what? it's that easy! download the app or book online at petsmart.com >> ♪ amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me ♪ jillian: i mean truly a voice that gives you chills. we first showed you that powerful performance yesterday as a michigan nurse sang to her co-workers as they prepare for yet another long day fightin

this is real trouble this is going to cause trillions in terms of market value and talk with him, steve bannon's task force to reopen the economy coming up at 10:00 guys. pete: maria i'm sure your in box will be full of i'm sorries from your critics no doubt you're the best. maria: [laughter] jillian: have a good show. pete: still ahead, a dynamomite alter ego is getting one minnesota family through quarantine. watch. >> i think we really like this. >> no. >> [laughter] >> oh, my god. griff: i love it. lucky for you the dadosaur and his family will join us. you don't want to miss it we saved the best for last. rving ts you love. delicious subs made fresh and easy to get for takeout or delivery. and now, with our family takeout special, get a free footlong when you buy two. ♪ >> hey, do you think dadosaur wants some cake? knock it off. don't even start with him, no. knock it off. >> [laughter] >> don't. >> [laughter] >> knock it off. >> stop it. jillian: [laughter] griff: [laughter] pete: this is what this weeks in quarantine looks like for one minnesota family. jillian: frankie turning into hi

like not to be plugged in and went to an area where i could check the internet and i saw that steve bannon had re-signed out of the blue. he was my immediate boss, there is only one leg between me and the president, steve was chief strategist and without telling me, steve said i'm leaving. in the two months prior to that it had become clear to me the new national security adviser hr mcmaster was not a fan of mine. he was not on the national security council but i was always present for cheap meetings regarding isis, china and russia and i was being left of the invitations to classified meetings once hr become national security adviser. i knew i was being boxed out, then my immediate political top cover resigned and i had a tough decision, my wife and i stepped down and i want to do i stay in the white house, pretty good friends paid for by the us taxpayers, to be consistently boxed out by somebody who has issues with your july support the make america great again agenda from the outside and as i wrote in my letter to the president, right now the anti-maga forces are in a sentence in the wh