is this a steve bannon budget, a donald trump budget? what's the consequence for the trump voter? well, it is a first-bid negotiation. he's put out his extreme version of what he wants to get and there will be negotiations that will ration it back. you're right. i don't think this is a budget that's going to go through the way he's proposed it. but what is striking, as you say, is how much of the cuts do actually impact the people who seem to be his most natural constituents. the one that strikes me is rural airports. we spend money to help subsidize rural airports where they wouldn't otherwise have air service. the people who are going to lose their airports are the people who voted for donald trump. and that's a very interesting conundrum. maybe he deserves credit for taking on his own bases' priorities but it is an interesting political decision. >> you had this great piece this week talking about reagan '81 compared to trump 2017. >> well, the reason i put it in that context is reagan's first budget in 1981 had a similar set of priorities, which was to put a massive amount in

tonight but we no from capitol hill reporters that there have been sightings of reince priebus steve bannon and budget director rick mulvaney all heading into speaker ryan's office before this 7:00 p.m. meeting. so, what if it doesn't pass tomorrow? will there be repercussions for republicans who don't support the bill? and think about it, what if repeal and replace of obamacare that republicans have been literally talking about for years doesn't happen because of republicans? listen to what the press secretary had to say about that today. >> this is something that we've talked about. you've taken a bunch of these free votes when it didn't matter because you didn't have a republican president and you got to vote for repeal and go back and tell your constituents something like 50 times. well, this is a live ball now. and this is for real and we're going to do what we pledged to& the american people and keep our word. but the members of the house and the senate have an obligation to fulfill the promise and pledge they made to the american people. >> reporter: now, all week that they are confident the bi

steve bannon. this as we await report from the congressional budget office on the price tag of the new republican bill. joining us u austan goolsbee from university of chicago under president obama. steven moore, distinguished visiting fellow at the heritage foundation. steven advised president trump when he was a candidate and sometime after. nop one will be worse off financially under this plan. are those problematic comments. there are tens of millions of americans worse off under obamacare. it's led to skyrocketing costs of health care. 22% increases across the country in terms of premiums which is a

after meeting with budget director mick mulvaney and reince priebus and steve bannon, house speaker paulyan made a decision. >> we will repeal and replace this law because it's failing families. tomorrow we're proceedings. >> reporter: republican leadership failed to gather the votes needed to pass his first signature piece of legislation. >> mr. mulvaney made it clear, the president is done negotiating. >> reporter: mulvaney told house gop members mr. trump wants the vote on the health care bill to be today no matter what. if they fail to pass this bill, he said, the white house will keep obamacare in place and house republicans will be bleemd. >> can you be a governing party, the president has done everything he can to put us in the position to win. >> reporter: after a frustrating day of negotiations, the most conservative members of congress are still not satisfied with the latest changes. >> if you wanted specific numbers -- they don't have the votes. >> reporter: the updated bill drops the obamacare requirement that insurance companies cover ten essential health benefits including

how much of the president's budget is steve bannon, curt? >> i think almost all of it.in, you're seeing a direct correlation between initiatives that bannon cares about are implemented, the held lines are glowing, the stories support the president's agenda. when it's contrary to what steve may want or the approach being employed by the white house to sell it or when congress isn't cooperating the way steve would like, all of a sudden the headlines turn negative and things get personal. things from the past get drawn up. that tells you there's a direct correlation between the agenda that steve has for this president and for this white house and what you'll read any given day on the pages of breitbart. >> very much in communication with them. steve bannon today, mark, came out. he doesn't talk a lot publicly, but he talks to the atlantic, and the article is called kellyanne's alternate universe, which could be an s&l skit. steve bannon credits kellyanne conway with saving trump. in so doing, by the way, implicitly admitting they thought they were going to lose, which they

steve bannon, reince priebus, the budget director, mick mulvaney, all over at the capital, trying to twist arms, as well. the freedom caucus, a group of conservatives is the linchpin right now. the 40 members have frustrated the white house and congressional leaders, as they have the numbers to either push this thing through, or force the bill to fall apart completely. the question right now, though, is at what cost? moments ago with, the chairman of the freedom caucus says, they haven't given up yet. >> i can tell you at this point, we are trying to get another 30 to 40 votes that are currently in the "no" category to "yes." once we do that, i think we can move forward with passing it on the house floor. >> the white house says there will be a vote tomorrow, but is that just wishful thinking at this point? sunlen serfaty is "outfront" tonight on capitol hill. sunlen, what can you tell us about this critical meeting that's happening right now? >> reporter: it is such a critical meeting, kate, happening behind closed doors. we've been watching lawmakers go in right at this moment. the

i think the budget director steve bannon, reince priebus, they were up at the capitol working with the members and congress. they're going to have to negotiate with the freedom caucus. they're on all of the rest of the legislation, tax reform, infrastructure. the math is still the same math, they're going to have to keep working on it. i think the president was committed. i think the administration was committed and they ran up to something that we've in politics known for a while what the math is. you have a group of members that are going to have to do this and they'll have to figure it out. >> the question is out whether he was upset or feeling really anxiety that ivana -- ivanka and jared were not there. ben, is that a -- >> no. look, i put a big asterisk about that information that the president was upset with his son and daughter over this. if the president wasn't able to get this down it's not like jared kushner was going to get the 20 votes needed. there is no way they would have done this. yes, this is a week where we're all hands on deck. but there was nothing that any single

i think this has steve bannon's fingerprints all over it, 2/$54 billion out of the domestic budget for things like environmental protection and protection of clean water and clean air and our food and scientific research and so on. they will and so on.he they will put that money into the pentagon. are it's clearly not at russia. they're throwing valentines and bouquets at russia. i don't do what military power on earth they think they're facing facing where we need $54 billion more of hard millet military equipment. >> host: let's go to j in kentucky. democrats find. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to tell our representative, i've i've been a democrat all my life. i am so disgusted with their lies. the president got on there and said if you like your healthcarl , you can keep it. there are those total lies. nancy pelosi has lied. everyone of them. i will never never ever vote for jim katz again. >> he hasn't leveled any specific allegations against anybody.folee the affordable care act hashealh brought 22 americans who who were previously uninsured into health insurance

flesh-eating hell beast from your worst nightmares. ( laughter ) or as steve bannon calls it, "my mentor." ( applause ) >> jon this budget it's cutting funding for "meals on wheels." really? ( audience reacts ) cutting meals on wheels? that isn't just heartless, it's bad marketing. you stick with things that rhyme. meals on wheels! crack is wack! hop on pop! two buck chuck! avoid the noid! be kind, rewind! this program provides elderly shut-ins minimal nutrition and a scrap of human dignity. what kind of heartless monster could be against that? >> colbert: did someone say "fiscal conservative?" ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: oh, say hello, to my conservative pundit colleague, stephen colbert. hey, stephen, how are you? >> colbert: hello, nation. stay strong. be brave. >> stephen: now, just to be clear, you are not the character from my other show. are you? because i really wouldn't want -- >> colbert: absolutely not. i couldn't be more different his favorite sandwich is a b.l.t. i like a t.l.b. and the "b" stands for balls. delicious, put it in your mouth. ( laughter ) >> stephen: good to know. so what's so importan

steve bannon. this as we await report from the congressional budget office on the price tag of the new republican bill. joining us u austan goolsbee from university of chicago under president obama. steven moore, distinguished visiting fellow at the heritage foundation. steven advised president trump when he was a candidate and sometime after. nop one will be worse off financially under this plan. are those problematic comments. there are tens of millions of americans worse off under obamacare. it's led to skyrocketing costs of health care. 22% increases across the country in terms of premiums which is a huge pinch on american families. i was in arizona a week or two ago. in arizona premiums have doubled. it's hard for republicans to do anything worse -- >> i do understand premiums have gone up and arizona is one of the worst places. if you're saying no one will be worse off financially, the cbo could come out and say 5 million people will lose their insurance, ten million people will lose their insurance. if you're losing your medical insurance, aren't you worse off financially? >> i think republican

budget. when you have a steve bannon in the white house, a member of the national security council, a white supremistf breitbart news and the domestic security policy, that's very dangerous. his fingerprints are all over the muslim plan and all over the budget. remember, he said he wanted to deconstruct the administrative state. when you look at the budget, that is exactly what he has done. they have put millionaires and billionaires in charge of our federal agencies, and each agency such as the department of health and human services headed by secretary price, $15 billion cut on top of that 24 million people are going to lose healthcare as a result of repealing the affordable care act which this secretary supports. this is what is meant by deconstructing the administrative state and so president trump needs to clean house. he needs to remove steve bannon from the national security council and from the white house. >> well, you talked about some of these cuts. epa, 31% cuts. state department, 29% cut. is there any area, we're looking there, department of agriculture, 21% cut. is there any area in the

budget is going nowhere. does he lash out and does steve bannon say, what are we doing here spending all this money that, you know, they did not want to spend? >> with the signal of august being the timing for infrastructure, tax reform, congress is out of session at that time. how effect ive of a time frame s that? >> sources on the hill say that's completely unrealistic. tax reform is much harder than the trump administration thinks. there are so many competing coalitions. there are splits with the democratic party, the republican party. and so that -- mnuchin is a new player to d.c. and he doesn't understand exactly how difficult this proposal is. >> it's an ambitious timeline to say the least. great to have you with us. coming up on "morning joe," we have lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. >>> attorney general jeff sessions is renewing the white house's commitment to cracking down on so-called sank sctuary cities. jeff sessions urged states and local jurisdictions to cooperate with immigration authorities or risk losing federal money. the attorney general said the justice department could withhold a

president mike pence, chief of staff reince priebus, kellyanne conway, steve bannon, health and human services secretary tom price, budget director mulvaney and others were there meeting with the house freedom caucus. we spoke to -- >> kayla. devin nunes has just left the white house after earlier saying he had some intel that he was sharing. let's take a listen. >> why is it appropriate for you to brief president trump given it's his campaign associates that are a part of this investigation? >> because what i -- because what i saw has nothing to do with russia and nothing to do with the russia investigation, has everything to do with possible surveillance activities, and the president needs to know that these intelligence reports are out there, and i have a duty to tell him that. >> -- conclusions before it was completed? >> i am not drawing any conclusion. i am just telling the president what exists in intelligence reports. [ inaudible question ] >> i don't want to get too much into the details. but these were intelligence reports, and it brings up a lot of concerns about, you know, whether things were properly minimiz

steve bannon's blueprint. steve bannon's blueprint is to reach out to union members, to reach out to white working class people. his budgetbudget and health care plan guts health care in the appalachia region, guts health care in west virginia, guts government services. >> a very big tax cut to the wealthy. >> wellies. >> this is not the bannon playbook. >> spent six years saying obamacare is poison. then people say, okay, so fix it. i just want to ask general hayden one thing. we have the presidency under a cloud, to use the phrase that was used yesterday. as you said, this is a big w for russian intelligence service. i want to ask you, if you were cia chairman, adviser advising the president in this period, where we're weakened as a country, what would be your advice to him? >> get access. mike pompeo has gotten increased access to the president. we're probably going to have a little adjustment with dan coates coming on board. what's the division of labor, it's structured to have problems. if he can get them both in the room that's good. the point i would make, david, okay, is when he has to give that speech that starts

budget to the agencies. the agencies have sent them back. and the trump administration sees the epa at the leading edge of what steve bannon calls the deconstruction of the administrative state. they proposed somewhere on the order of 25% cuts b $2 billion, about 3,000 employees. now, scott pruitt, the administrator sent that budget back and said basically overall i'm pretty fine with that. he made a few small things that he pushed back on. overall he didn't fight that number. and now i'm hearing and we reported that inside the white house there are discussions about making even deeper cuts to the epa. that's deeper than that 25% cut. >> jonathan, thank you so much. jonathan swan, kasie hunt up on pitol hill. peter alexander had to run off and do reporting. appreciate you all being here. >>> let's turn to the monster storm disrupting life on the east coast right now. win, rain, snow. states of emergency in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, virginia, and connecticut. 70 million people affected and thousands of flights have been canceled. but it could have been worse. major cities were spared from the doom and gloom of initial forecasts. easy for

steve bannon's agenda. steve bannon has told us. by the way, steve bannon is not a conservative. cozying up to russia is not conservative. putting out a budgethat will blow an absolutely hole in the national debt another $10 trillion is not conservative. there is nothing conservative about any of this. >> why don't i rephrase myself and saying they are pushing a very dangerous agenda, an extremely dangerous one. whatever it is that is being pushed on president trump, it has nothing to do with respecting the constitution and respecting the office. it just doesn't. i don't know what happened saturday morning. i don't know what was going on in his head. as you pointed out weeks ago, president trump's saturday morning routine also involves spinning out of control and sending out tweets that then ricochet around the world. there was the saturday before he was sworn in when he tweeted that congressman john lewis was all talk and no action or results. john lewis, on saturday, january 28th, he attacked "the new york times" and "the washington post" calling them dishonest in all caps. it was saturday, february 4th when he called the federal judge who

now we get a budget yesterday from the state department that will cut foreign aid left and right. they know they're not getting the cuts. so that i think was to appease steve bannon. i don't know that it will have any effect on the real world. the one place where they are really going to screw things up i think is mexico. it takes real ingenuity and drive to turn mexico into an enemy of the united states. but they may succeed in doing that. but overall, i don't see that playing out. i think it's because trump is not terribly interested in foreign policy and very happy to contract it out to his generals. and that's where i think it will be dealt with. the one problem is the unforeseen middle of the night crisis. the 3:00 a.m. phone call. i just hope they let him sleep through it. [ laughter ] i hope nobody is tweeting this. i've been in enough trouble as it is. >> i feel another donald trump book review of your works coming. so the travel ban, it was the initial version struck down from a judge in washington state on tenuous grounds. now we move further west and the latest version is struck down by a judge in hawaii on even more tenuous grounds. eventually we will

budget impact potential, and therefore would actually be able to survive reconciliation rules. host: let me get your reaction to a headline that we talked about in the first hour. steve bannon the former editor now senior adviser to president trump. seven reasons why obamacare is all the guarantee to impose crushing costs on voters, hurt trump's base, and hand power back to the democrats. your reaction. guest: i think it is a bill -- i haven't looked at all seven of their reasons. i've got five or six things that i would change in it to fulfill the promises that president trump made in the campaign trail. we had a very good meeting with him, by the way. the house and the speaker were saying it's this bill and nothing else. and the president and his staff sate, no, we're still negotiating this. so we urged him to keep the promises that he made. we'll support him. we want a good bill to pass. and then he can fulfill that and americans will be better off. their insurance premiums will go down. host: how will insurance premiums go down? guest: one is that competition across state lines. another is to remove the regulations that obamacare puts on insurance industries that says t

after meeting with budget director mick mulvaney and top white house advisers reince priebus and steve bannon, house speaker paul ryan made a decision. we will repeal and replace this broken law because it's collapsing and it's failing families and tomorrow we're proceeding. >> president trump dispatched his leaders after failing to pass the first significant piece of legislation. >> mr. mulvaney made it clear mr. trump is done negotiating. >> he wants the vote on the house care bill to be today, no matter what. if they fail to pass this bill, he said, keep obamacare in place and house republicans will be blamed. >> the test for the conference, can you be a governing party. the president has done everything to put us in a position to win. >> after a frustrating day, the most conservative member of congress are still not satisfied with the latest changes. the updated bill drops the requirement that insurance companies cover ten essential health benefits including hospitalization, maternity care, prescription drugs, and mental health services. >> i'm not confident in anything right now. the fin

. >> this budget marks president trump's first major attempt to dismantle what his aides dismissively call the administrative state. is this steve bannonocking he is take down now? >> i think you saw from mulvaney there's a fair number. president's advisers that save this belief but steve bannon is the one that everybody identifies with. he talks about deconstructing the administrative state, which is to say not tinkering around the edges, not doing what all republican candidates have done, which is trim here, trim there but they go to the heart of the city we're in and take a lot of it down. whether or not that happens i'm skeptical because you do have a congress and even the republican party is kind o invested in a lot of this stf. >> we have one minute until we get another look inside the west wing where president trump is holding his veterans affairs listening session. sue, jump in here. you had chris comeins collins c saying his mom loved meals on wheels, he loved seeing someone come up every day bringing her something. maybe it's going to be more neg at t -- negative than positive. 30 seconds before we take this tape. go. >> now

. >> steve bannon is somebody who is sympathetic to the house freedom caucus, but you're looking at a bill that costs more money according to the congressional house budgetnsurance less people. when you're talking about health insurance and whether somebody can afford, this is a kitchen table discussion, where americans will feel the difference. this is exactly the reverse of what we saw in 2009. i was a congressional correspondent covering healthcare reform, more accurately health insurance reform. you saw the same thing, you gain a couple of people, and you lose four. it's a difficult balance to strike. >> republicans have been going after obamacare for seven years and they've had at least since november from the election to get it repealed and repleased. look at the poll, republican healthcare plan to replace healthcare, 56% disapprove, 17% approve, 26% undecided. that's pretty lopsided majority against this current effort to replace obamacare. >> that's going to give people who don't want to replace this bill more fodder. they're going to have to go to the districts and sell to the constituents. if you don't believe that you're voting for, it's hard

steve bannon, the white house advisor. he was asked what is his message to house republicans web said, let's vote. mike mulvaney, one of the founders of the freedom caucus. he's now the budget director. mark meadows the chair of the freedom caucus says nothing has changed. lou: what does that mean when the chairman of the freedom cow cuts saycow -- the free come cas nothing has changed? >> they don't feel they are ere to vote on thibill. they can't get there just yet. that's always the challengwhen you get to these big votes. it's like goldilocks. not too hot, not too cold, just right. they are saying they want the bill this way, and you have the moderates saying they want it another way. you have to hit that sweet spot of 216 votes. kevin mccarthy the majority leader said tomorrow will be a good day and we are going to vote. that will be the test. i have seen messages from senior republican sources putting the onus on mark meadows saying he better be able to deliver the votes. lou: whoa, whoa! mark meadows is the chair of the freedom caucus. he and his caucus -- as far as i understand it, mark said let everybody vote their conscience and their will. and he said all along t

steve bannon, the white house advisor. he was asked what is his message to house republicans web said, let's vote. mike mulvaney, one of the founders of the freedom caucus. he's now the budget director. mark meadows the chair of the freedom caucus says nothing has changed. lou: what does that mean when the chairman of the freedom cow cuts saycow -- the free come cas nothing has changed? >> they don't feel they are there to vote on this bill they can't get there just yet. that's always thchallenge when you get to these big votes. it's like goldilocks. not too hot, not too cold, just right. they are saying they want the bill this way, and you have the moderates saying they want it another way. you have to hit that sweet spot of 216 votes. kevin mccarthy the majority leader said tomorrow will be a good day and we are going to vote. that will be the test. i have seen messages from senior republican sources putting the onus on mark meadows saying he better be able to deliver the votes. lou: whoa, whoa! mark meadows is the chair of the freedom caucus. he and his caucus -- as far as i understand it, mark said let everybody vote their conscience and their will. and he said all alon

row where paul ryan, a budget hawk, is trying his best with what he has been served up by donald trump, and then breitbart put this out, and they are of course linked to steve bannoncause at the moment, the white house really needs paul ryan. he is defending them on national television programmes here, defending their health care bill, doing what he can to rally the republican party to get the health ca re republican party to get the health care bill passed, and then the tape comes out and it seems to be a kick up comes out and it seems to be a kick up the pants by him, and why would you do something like this to somebody that you need, if indeed those links between steve bannon and breitbart are as close as they used to be? would you do it for political covering in case it all goes wrong? you are machiavellian, christian! we are playing you at clip that went viral over the weekend. what will it mean for the ride —— the wider region? shifting sands and relations with the north may change? pardon me. my apologies... what will this mean for the region? north korea... south korea's policy... still makes me laugh every time, christian. that clip has been viewed more t

site once run by steve bannon who is now the president's chief strategist, he says this claim could be the contender for the lie of the year. joining me now, former congressional budgetdirector doug ellendorf, he was at the cbo when obamacare was passed. doug, thank you so much for being with us. promises like "no one will be worse off financially," those end up being pretty hard to keep. >> yes. secretary price's claim is absurd. this legislation will cut subsidies substantially. millions of people will lose health insurance. we don't know how many yet. cbo will make an estimate shortly. but certainly people will be worse off. >> there will be people who are worse off under what the cbo is likely to say, is what you're saying, if in fact they lose insurance. now, house speaker paul ryan, who is a key backer of this plan, maybe the most prominent backer and architect of this plan, he says this is not the way we should even be looking at this at all. listen to what the speaker says. >> the one thing i'm certain will happen is cbo will say, gosh, not as many people will get coverage. you know why? because this isn't a government mandate. this is not the government make

budget. there is more defense and more immigration enforcement. but some of the other cuts, i cannot believe that the bannon wing of the white house are crazy about. : stevenon has spoke about this, the deconstruction of the administrative state. spendingking about the in these departments. as the white house looks at its agenda, which is to raise military spending by 54 billion dollars, they have to offset that and they are taking ask to the state department, to hud, to the epa, to everything. charlie: are they doing it because of ideology or because they need to deal with the increase in dispense -- defense spending or do these issues come together at this time? bob: it is a reflection of what they want to do politically. most people in washington and the white house do not believe that the trump budget will pass or will have heavy support within the congressional ranks. charlie: and that includes republicans. bob: that includes the congressional majority. they see this budget as a statement of how they want to rattle washington. charlie: there was an article in your paper over the weekend suggesting the factions were at night. bob: that was my story. c

budget. were the want ceiling. hdo in the short run? does he enact political revenge? for those who defied him. >> we're told steve bannon an enemies list. >> he's not the only one. >> it wouldn't be hard toeedom . someone like an alex mooney. congressman from the second district in west virginia. this is a district that trump took by 75%. this is coal country. a place where trump is more popular than the congressman. is he going to support a primary -- >> that district is the one that i have heard mentioned most frequently over the last few days by trump advisers. they're advocating, we're not going to go after everybody but that we should pick a couple of targets. >> what does it get them? >> not much. >> i agree. when they have a supreme court nominee who they need to have approved. they have a budget issue coming up in a month. where they have major issues ahead of them. they also are aware that there has to be in their minds, again, i'm not saying there's a great answer either way. but in their minds, they have to demonstrate there's a political price for going against the president. >> if donald trump wants to find

steve bannon. his right hand guy. what does that mean it looked like to the world? to our allies and our adversary? it's all going to play out when he unveils the budgetd cutting money. >> cut the state department by 37% and it's incredibly short cited because diplomats and soldiers are flip sides of the same national security coin. they reinforce each other and if you undermine one you undermine the other. most of the problems around the world don't have solutions. you needy employee mats and development assistance to try to get to the root of the problems and build coalitions. if you're starting to take away the administrative state you're going to have a very tough time doing that. so one republican that came out loudly against that in the past few weeks is marco rubio for example and you create this hole. you create this instability around the world when you make cuts like that and who does that help tony? wouldn't that arguably help them. >> the world is not self-organizing. >> including with our diplomats. >> somebody else was going to be doing it or you have vacuums that are filled. if you're out of the picture the picture starts to look worse.

steve bannon, to capitol hill. delivering an ultimatum to house republicans. vote today or obamacare stays. the budget director warned the room the president is done negotiating. but house republicans are split. >> are you still a no? >> thank you. >> do you think it will pass? >> i don't know. >> this will be a one and done, up or down. if it's down, we're done. >> reporter: the mood, grim. a far cry from the morning. president trump getting a standing ovation, from the conservative freedom caucus. mr. trump offering a compromise that would have cut back essential health benefits, under obamacare, require insurers to cover maternity leave, mental health care and emergency visits. >> we have a great bill. and i think we have a very good chance. >> reporter: back on the hill, it may not be enough. >> i am still a no at this time. i'm desperately trying to get to a question. with all the freedom caucus, they are really trying to get to a yes. >> reporter: among the sticking points, coverage for pre-existing conditions and kids under 26 staying on their parents' plans. mr. trump won't budge on either. la

one month ago steve bannon give a speech to the conservative action conference and he professed a white house priority is the deconstruction of thehat state. the budget cut for epa was the next hammer to fall. sadly, the judge's ideology will further this agenda. hamstring the epa's ability tonight safeguards anda incentivize polluters at every turn forcing judges to second-guessed agency scientists. in closing, we stand at a precedence in history. how will we deal with climate disruption, how will we leave as safe and livable future for children? america cannot afford another appointment who favors corporatg interest leads to the degradation of the environment and our democracy. this is why the suit sierra club respectfully opposes. >> chairman grassley, on behalf of the national federation of independent business monitored to testify. in support of a combination of judge neil gorsuch to be an associate justice of the united states supreme court. where the nations leading small business advocacy organization with hundreds of thousands of members across the country in every industry and sector. every as the lead plaintiff in this historic challenge t

steve bannon gave a speech to the conservative political action conference in which he professed a white house priority is the, quote/unquote, deconstruction of the administrative state. trump's massive budget cut for epa was the next hammer to fall. sadly, judge gorsuch's ideology will further this agenda. hamstrin hamstringing the ability, incentivizing polluters to challenge the epa at every turn thereby forcing federal judges to second guess agent spi sicy scientists. in closing, we now stand as a precipice in history. how will we deal with climate disruption, lift up our communities to lack access to clean drinking water and clean air? how will we leave a safe and livable future for our children? america can't afford the appointment of another justice whose ideology disfavors citizen groups, favors corporate interest and leads to the degradation of the environment and our democracy. this is why the sierra club respectfully opposes the conf confirmation of judge neil gorsuch to the supreme court. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. gallagher. >> chairman grassley, i am happen b honon honored to testify today in support of the nomination of judge neil gorsuch to be an associate justic

budget that's coming up, he's going to cut the safety net. donald trump does not stand on the side of the american people. when you look at steve bannon, this man is part of a white nationalist supremacist movement. the alt right. and he has him as his national security council. i have legislation to remove him, get him out of the white house. when you look at his cabinet members, he's putting those cabinet members in to do what? as steve bannon said to eliminate the state really. they want to just take away the public sector, eliminate all the cabinets and say go for what you know, turn it over to the corporate sector and that's what america would look like if they had their chance. so i don't see a way that i can cooperate with that agenda. >> tomorrow it's back to washington, right? >> we'll see the affordable care act and budget committee on wednesday t. will be a marathon session. >> thank you so much. >> barbara lee, always good to see you and thank you for coming in. >> thank you again. >>> time is 7:13. we'll turn now to you. our question of the day is how concerned are you with the effort to repeal and replace the affordable

steve bannon is the former chair of breitbart. early in the day breitbart took time to highlight how the ryan plan will drop the number of insured by 24 million in 2016 citing newly released congressional budget office report. jeremy, you know, a lot of republicans were put in the position paul ryan was in to make a call on trump. i just wonder if they are going to get to the point where they have to do that again. with all the work they want to do, i can understand why they might be navigating and dancing a very fine line. but if this president keeps making bold-faced lies like obama being a felon and wiretapping trump tower at some point he's going to come to bear in congress and senate and say, you know what, we can't get behind this guy and we have to do something. >> i think the release of this breitbart tape, this is how it starts. this is how the relationship between paul ryan and donald trump starts to unravel. i would not be surprised if the tension over this health care bill becomes so great there's a sharp break between the two of them. you're already starting to see it happen. in the oval office meeting donald trump had last week with conservative movement leaders, i'm told that h

steve bannon are both there all the time. it is not like he is taking sides just yet. here is the thing -- charles: we'll know a lot more when the budgetes out, right? >> we'll know a lot more as it manifests itself. here is another thing. this thing has a potential for blowing up into a showdown where one of them leaves. there is no doubt about that, given personalities involved here. they both -- we should point out there is whole write-up about this on foxbusiness.com which gets into the nitty-gritty, these are two let's face it, two wicked alpha males who have very strong opinions about the way this country should be run and they're that close to the president. charles: by the way the trump administration brought on another goldman person. >> i saw that. charles: you have a dep hety treasury secretary. >> unlike gary cohn, donovan is a long-time republican. he was a big romney supporter. charles: right. >> they all have similar dna. charles: same kind of dna hopefully they have great ideas and know how to put a blueprint together to get the economy going. >> they make a lot of money at goldman. hopefully they make a lot of money fo