and the fact that, to your point, steve bannon has risen again. and i also, my more cynical viewpoint, the more dramatic he got today, the less we talk about russia. interestingly enough. >> right. >> had he gone any other direction, and by blockrussia. >> we're getting back to russia in block two. let me bring in my friend, matt sh lap, tweeted earlier today you were invited to be at the rose garden speech. i take it you have a different take on this news. >> completely. it's like there are two worlds out there. i think whether or not the elected democrat leaning mayor of pittsburgh agrees with this or not, there are a lot of people in states like michigan and pittsburgh and ohio and wisconsin, my home state of kansas, a lot of people across this country who have felt like they've been struggling. one of the reasons they feel like they're struggling, they don't feel the economic prospects of the recovery thereat we've seen over the last several years. they vbt sehaven't seen an incrn their take-home pay. every piece of concrete legislation on cli

steve bannon has come in and out of favor, as you said, as have a number of other aides. it seems to be this whole palace intrigue that we've seen play out since this administration has come to office. but there is something really important that we have to observe here. that is that a couple of weeks ago president trump gave his blessing into this russia investigation. he said i have nothing to hide. i have been told i'm not under investigation. and so i -- i welcome them to go ahead and see -- carry this investigation out, see whatever they fine. then for him to backtrack and call it a witch-hunt and really lash out -- whether or not he is hiding anything. of course it's too early in the investigation to know, it doesn't look good. it makes it seem like he's getting paranoid. you know, these very early morning tweets, you know, show that he is possibly alarmed and reacting in haste and emotionally reacting to what he is seeing. this is something that's going to be playing out for many, many months. possibly for years to come it is a long and bulky investigation. for pre

just being selfish, you can look at that and see steve bannon has taken you from 48% to 35%. bannon has said go to war with the intel community, go to war with the press, go to war with everybody. tear it down, i'm a lennonist, we need to tear down the state. play to your base. i've heard it time and again. steve thinks you build from your base. well, he has actually boiled down donald trump's support to 35%. he's ruined the first five months of donald trump's presidency with a big assist from donald trump himself because he's been listening to steve bannon going to war with the press and all these other people. does donald trump, if he doesn't have the self-introspection, does he have the survival instinct to correct himself? >> i give the president most of the responsibility for where he stands. this is now like iran contra, it's like bill clinton and ken starr. it's engulfing the presidency. it's different. reagan and clinton were well into the presidency, had their legs under them. a president engulfed by congressional investigation, an independent counsel and no history o

with next and, that he may -- with nixon, but he may have heard of stalin and if he hasn't, steve bannon has. where are in a situation the most powerful authority in the land declares the news media to be not only his personal adversary, but also the enemy of the american people, that's a change situation. >> that discussion is part of a daylong event hosted by the ethics enter and barb -- ethics bardr and barb college -- college. this morning on "washington journal," we asked how you think the trump administration and the congress are doing so far. we heard from radio hosts and .olors -- callers thoughts in a moment. first, what the president had to say yesterday in the rose garden when he made the announcement to withdraw from the paris climate change agreement. grade based on what the president said yesterday? do you have been opinion on that, or any other policy decision? let's listen yesterday in the rose garden. [video clip] trump: as president, i have one obligation to the american people. courthere's a

trump heavily influenced by steve bannon trying everything he can do to make good on the promises he believes he made to the base in his party. that he believes steve bannon haste board wall in his office in the white house in which all the promising donald trump made on the campaign trail are written. and there are lots of them wolf. steve bannon believes deep down that the way in which donald trump makes good on the promise he made as a condition and helps himself get re-elected in 2020 is to do what he said he would do. don't fall into the trap of going washington. do what you said you would do. shake things up. this is quite clearly phil mudd made this point from the a retraction from the way the u.s. has envisioned itself in the world particularly as it relates to europe in post-world war ii tyson emmanuel marken said he was surprised. he shouldn't be because donald trump said he was going to do in and many other things like it that represent a break not just from the democratic policies of barack obama but from the republican policies of george w. bush. george h.w. bush. we are through the looking glass as it relates to the traditional republican/dynami

if he hasn't then steve bannon has. if you are in a situation where the most popular authority in the land declares the news media to be not only his personal adversary but also the enemy of the american people, that is a changed situation in which carpi ng about this and that imperfection about the media is no longer -- >> i think it is time to open it up to. >> i think this is undermined also by the fact that with the internet we have the ability to silo ourselves. to confirm our beliefs by not, we don't share a common source anymore. thatthink it must be noted throughout this campaign, the media were openly oppositional. on the front page of the new york times middle of august 2 had the media reporters say, what do you do when you think donald trump is a threat to the republic? was acknowledging that reporters think this and they need to behave in an oppositional stance, that they are going to be accused, they're going to be accused of not upholding journalistic standards. it is such an important issue that you have

this sort of national stuff, nationalistic stuff about steve bannon but he is one of the smartest guys in washington if not the country. steve bannon has pulse on what is going on in middle and lower middle class america. and i think the president respects him and wants him there because he knows that there are policies that he's going to be helpful with. >> just because he's very smart and he is doesn't mean he wants to help the country. in terms of dialing back -- >> he wants to help the country. >> -- do you think that -- steven bannon said he's a lennenist that wants to wipe things out. >> we sound check and snip off little pieces of words here here and there. if you really didn't oosh district words they have used themselves? >> but you're cutting it. i was on another network where i said the 5,000 years of world history and i meant to say -- i said earth's history and meant to say human history and calling me a new earther. >> i can't speak for anyone but myself. >> i understand that. we're cutting people's words. i know steve very, very well. i was in the white house with him on wednesday. i spend a lot of time talking to him. h

we know that steve bannon has a waiver that he can communicate with breitbart news. he has a line in. rod rosenstein's letter he put out last night was rather strange. now the president, who has been complimentary of him in the past, puts out this confusing tweet. >> we're told by people close to rod rosenstein that this was entirely his decision. he was not prompted to do it by anyone else. the white house didn't tell him to do it. he's on his own. he's been frustrated ever since he came into office about what he thinks are incorrect stories, stories he had threatened to resign after the initial disclosure of the firing of comey and his role in it, that he thinks was incorrect. another story said that he had been approached by comey and asked for more resources for the russia investigation and turned him down. rosenstein said both of those were incorrect. comey himself has said that the second one was not correct. so this official says he's been sort of -- his frustration has been building. more stories this week. of course, it's also correct that rod rosenstein does

. >> steve bannon -- president bannon hasd out that to get re-elected, president bannon needs to move past president bannon's hard-core republican base. >> so, jeremy bash, for example, what was yesterday's announcement at 3:00 pm with the ban? it's always when you're having a really conversation and adding to the international stage it's important to have live music. >> i'm sure it was president bannon's idea but jeremy, go ahead. >> i just wanted to ask, would mattis, kelly, tillerson, would they agree with the announcement yesterday and feel that that was really good, symbolically, optically, in terms of our standing, especially with our allies, and the trip? i mean, are they sitting there, clapping at our great president bannon for making these decisions? because i would think they would be very, very concerned about what is haening. >> the pentagon has been on the record saying climate change is a threat multiplier and general mattis, secretary mattis testify bfd congress that it is a major iv at the pentagon and nationa

controversial decision also underscoring how much influence the nationalist within the west wing steve bannon still has. bannon arguing for the president to pull out. while his daughter and son in law were pushing the president to stay put. today that america first message was on full display. >> i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh not paris. >> but the mayor of pittsburgh isn't on board, tweeting. i can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the paris agreement, in a joint statement, italy, france and germany sharply criticized president trump. the president of france saying the deal can't be renegotiated. tonight goading the president. >> we all share the same responsibility. make our planet great again. >> reporter: the u.s. helped craft the accord that includes nearly every other nation on earth, except syria and nicaragua. opponents also arguing, backing out of the deal could put america last. >> it's an extraordinary abdication of american leadership. it's a shameful moment for the united states. >> we don't have a place at that table any more. that's going to reverber

steve bannon has been leaking, i believe, based on everything that i've heard, has been leaking these stories. >> allan, give me your response to that. >> well, it might not help with the executive privilege argument, again, if someone in the white house as high up as steve bannon, if that is true, was leaking information about jared kushner. again, that's certainly going to be a focus of the hearings going forward. comey is going to be asked questions about it. so it again is something else that might not help the president's case if they do decide they would like to invoke executive privilege, which i don't think they will. >> looking forward in your role as a foreign affairs correspondent, how much global interest do you expect there will be in comey's testimony? >> well, there's always global interest in the president of the united states. i think when it comes to this particular testimony, you'll have a lot of the political elites in other countries watching very, very carefully because they want to know how long donald trump is going to last as president because they want to kno

then don't you wonder, steve bannon who has been given an official waiver to communicate with breitbart news, breitbart news that has written that jared and ivanka are the globalists in the white house, i don't know, it's confusing to me who exactly is on your team and who isn't. all right. we're going to leave it there. thank you all so much. nbc's pete williams and kristen welker as well as ned price and lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer. you two stick around. when we come back two days away from showtime, former fbi director james comey's testimony on the hill. now with news there will be no restrictions on what he says. i don't know, maybe they should make this thing pay per view. what he says and how concerned should the white house be and maybe the gop. first, you knew i was going to share late night, stephen colbert able to find a sea expert who has supported president trump's decision to pull out of paris climate accord. >> you may not believe this but when there was trouble people seldom said, hey, call the guy who can talk to shrimp. but thanks to trump, pulling out of the pa

steve bannon, globalist versus conservatives. the globalists, we can get on a plane at lax which you and i have done with and flown to abu dhabi and landed in 16 hours. it's not that steve bannon has point of view -- i'm not a liberal but intellectually i understand the point of view and i understand where that philosophy is coming from. the steve bannons of the world are crack pots, right, and what trump has learned in the first 100 days is when i listen to the crack pots it's the equivalent of giving the car keys to junior who then takes the buick and drives it into the wall at 50 miles an hour and so when i listen to people that are steeped in reality, henry mcmaster or jim mattis or a couple of these others from incentive basis, people give him a cookie, good job on the news, right, the intensity, you know, starts wearing off and that's how i think you will see trump comport himself in the next four years. >> i think steve raised something that gives us a very good question, ron, i will start with you, do you agree that nothing major that requires legislation is likely to get done and what we are really going to see in terms of changes is all going to be done where he has unil

the steve bannons of the world are crackpots. what trump has learned in the first hundred days, when i listen to the crackpots, that is the equivalent of giving the car keys to junior and drives it into the wall at 15 miles per hour. when i listen to people who are steeped in reality, henry others,, jim mathis, or from an incentive basis, people give him a cookie. they say good job on the news. [laughter] the intensity starts wearing off and i think that is where you will see trump over the next four years. >> i think steve asked something that gives us a good question. ron, i will start with you. do you agree that's nothing major that requires legislation is likely to get done -- that nothing major that requires legislation is likely to get done if we don't have the unilateral power to do it? ami would hope so but i confident in my team -- more confident in my team to fight this then maybe steve is. ronald reagan got a lot of democratic votes for tax cuts. they are super popular. if trump put forward infrastructure plan that he sometimes talks

it's not that steve bannon has appointed that you disagree on. i'm not a liberal, but intellectually i understand the point of view and i understand that the philosophy is coming round. the steve bannon's of the world are crackpots paired with trump has learned in the first 100 days is when i listen to the crack pots come at the equipment into the car keys to junior who takes the buick and president of the wall wall at 60 miles an hour. when i listen to people steeped in reality, whether it's henry mcmaster or jim mattis or a couple of these others, from incentive basis, people give them a cookie come is a good on the news. the intensity starts wearing off and that is how you'll see trump come poured himself over the next four years. >> steve as something that gives us a really good question. i'll start with you. do you agree nothing major declares legislation is likely to get done and what we will see in terms of changes is all done very as unilateral power to do it? spinlock well, i hope so but i'm not the most competent 19 named steve is. i thi

it's not that steve bannon has a point of view that you would disagree on a spectrum of conservativeliberal, i'm not a liberal but intellectually i understand the point of view and i understand where that philosophy is coming from. the steve bannon's of the world are crackpots. what trump is learned in the first 100 days is that when i listen to the crackpots it's the equivalent of giving the car keys to juniors who then takes the buick and drive it into the wall at 15 miles an hour. when i listen to people who are steeped in reality, whether henry mcmaster, james mattis, a couple of these others then from an incentive basis, people give him a cookie and say good job on the news. the intensity starts wearing off and that's how i think you'll see trump comport himself over the next four years. >> i think steve asked a race of something that gives us a good question. ron, service you. do you agree that nothing major that requires legislation is likely to get done and what we'll see in terms of changes and it'll be done by unilateral power to do it? >> well, i hope so. i'm less confiden

steve bannon and the globalists versus the conservatives. the globalists, he got on a plane at lax which you and i have done before to fly to abu dhabi. it is not that steve bannon has a point of view that you would disagree on from a spectrum of conservative to liberal. i'm not a liberal. i understand the point of you and i understand where that philosophy is coming from. of the worldnons are crackpots. what has -- trump has learned is when i listen to the crackpots it is equivalent of giving the he driveso junior and it into the wall at 50 miles an hour. if i listen to the people steeped in reality, jim mattis or a couple of these others, from an incentive basis, people give him a cookie. and say good job on the news. the intensity starts wearing off and that is how i think you will see trump comport himself over the next four years. >> i think steve has raised something that gives us a good question. major agree that nothing that requires legislation is likely to get done and what we are going to see in terms of change is going to be done where he has unilateral power to do it? >> i hope so. i have more confidence and my team to fight then maybe steve is. ronald

pictures in the colonnade off the rose garden with reince priebus, the chief of staff and steve bannon. this has been a real fight between the globalists in the administration and the nationalists in the administration. people like steve bannon that believe in keeping america first and against globalization. then you have people including jared kushner and ivanka trump, the president's daughter and son-in-law, also gary cohn, the head of the national economic council, the president's top economic adviser all of whom pushing very hard to stay in the agreement. everybody agrees this agreement isn't perfect and isn't by itself going to save the economy or the environment. there's some people, the supporters of the agreement that believe that it's an important first step, it's the first time you've gotten countries like china and india, major polluters on board, agreeing to some limits on their carbon emissions. and john roberts was just talking about, well, we negotiate another deal. this took years and 195 nations agreeing to it. the chances because donald trump came in agreed to renegotiate it ar

it's not that steve bannon has a point of of view you we disagree on. i'm not a liberal but intellectually i understand the point of view and i understand where that philosophy is coming from. the steve bannons of the world are track pats and what trump learned is when i listen to the crackpots it's equivalent of giving the car keys to junior and he drives entitled the wall at 50-miles-an-hour. when i listen to people steeped in reality, then from an incentive basis, people give him a cookie and say, good job on the news. that's. >> i think steve asked a -- raised something that give us a really good question. and ron, i'll start with you. do you agree that nothing major that requires legislation is likely to get done in what we're going to really see in terms of changes is all going to be done where he has unilateral power to do it? >> well, hope so. i guess i'm a lot less confident in my team to fight this than maybe steve is. i think that ronald reagan got a lot of democratic votes for tax cuts. tax cuts are super popular. if trump really put forward

trump is unfamiliar with it but he may have heard of stalin and if hasn't, steve bannon has. if you're in a situation where the most powerful authority in the land declares the news media to be not only his personal adversary but also the enemy of the american people, that's a change situation. >> that discuss was part of a day-long event hosted by the ethics center and bart college in april. we'll announcer: c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. for the next hour, a book tv exclusive. our cities tour visits redding, california, to learn more about its unique history and literary life, for six years now we've traveled to u.s. cities bringing the book scene to our viewers. you can watch more of our visits at c-span.org/citiestour. >> i grew up as a son of a game warden and so the first -- my teenage years i spent a lot of time riding on patrol with my dad and i had all these great adventures working with him as well

he has gone back and forth if he should do this and has heard competing voices. steve bannone blue shirt there has been a supporter of pulling out asi has been a supporter of pulling out as i said. of course the president's daughter is opposed to pulling out. it does seem like he has decided that america as we are hearing would get a better deal is what he is expected to say if it pulls out of the paris accord. let's go live now to our state department correspondent at the white house. barber what are you hearing? steve bannon and his wing have won this battle because according to talking points, the president is about to announce he is going to withdraw america from the paris accord. he's going to say it is a bad dealfor americans and he will keep his pledges to support american workers, he will say that it is a reminder of us competitive bonus and that the us can cut its own emissions and its own emissions without being part of the accord. what we have been wondering which way the president will go, it looks as if he will take the step to pull america out of the paris agree

it's been reported that steve bannon has that white board and on it is written every campaign promise then candidate donald trump made during the campaign and he checks them off. the ones they've kept and the ones they haven't. was this about checking the box near the paris accord, and what does it tell us about who has the ear of the president? >> this is 100% politics full stop. this is about president trump trying to change the narrative of the presidency to send a signal to his supporters. i'm fulfilling my promise the to facts be damned in many ways. we have succeeded in creates new jobs and made double digit reductions in carbon pollution, so we can do both. >> knowing what you know now, what you saw yesterday in the rose garden back when president obama signed this paris accord, should he have gone through congress as opposed to doing it with an executive order. >> there are too many republicans in congress that are also playing politics on this, and they would have prevented it. >> would it have made it harder for this to do? >> ideally when members are focussed on facts, then

it is reported that steve bannon people of paris if one of our r countries was threatened. board. on his written every c >> steve bannon has in the whit promise donald trump made during the campaign and he house that white board with hec off. every campaign promise and theya check them off.nd the ones they haven't. is this about was this about checking the box mere the paris accord and wha near the paris accord?t is it about who has the >> this is 100% politics pure the president in the west and simple, full stop. wing? >> politics pure and this is all about donald trump . this is all about donald trump trying to change the narrative trying to change the narrative of this presidency of this presidency to send a o signal to his supporters signal to his supporters across the country. i'm fulfilling my promise to s i'm fulfilling my promise to u and shake up the shake up washington, to shake u. facts be dammed in the global order, facts be man. beca dammed in many ways.use when it economy, the truth is when it comes to the economy, last eight years we had the truth is over the last eighd years we have succeeded in in 10 milli

it may be wanting to smash it down, if steve bannon has his way, at least it's not tending it. >> writing about my father in a piece titled zbigniew brezenski feared donald trump would wreck valuable alliances. gulf separates the brezenski and trump views of american leadership. in march mr. brezenski called mr. trump's handling of foreign affairs chaotic, unclear unfocused. mr. brezenski's career was spent thinking about and defending a pax americana, built around post-war alliances and formal institutions. it is hard to convey how strongly that expansive world view is rejected in mr. trump's white house. the president's inner circle makes america sound like an aging, declining hedgemon with a grievance, one that may squeeze a few more years of primacy but only if it becomes tougher and more selfish. mr. trump's inner circle sincerely score scorns the foreign policies of previous administrations from the obama era back to the days of bill clinton and both bushes. that contempt extends to the global institutions that mr. trump inherited. this builder is a demolition man. >> fro

and the advocates are steve bannon, my latest reporting shows that reince priebus aligns himself with steve bannon. kellyanne conway has always had her finger on the pulse of the voters who got him there. and then josh and myself. sort of permanent. the kind of people who go in and out of every republican administration. people, well, donald trump as many as most republican dozen. but establishment figures who value things that we were talking about. not just being part of a global community but leading it. so it is not just a conversation or a day about the environment. i don't think there's anyone who thinks this was a good day for the environment. but it is important that even in the moment of incredible crisis for this white house, donald trump was reminded of exactly who brought him to the dance and he decided to stand with them for better or worse. >> that's certainly part of how they'll be dealing with. this it was supposed to have started 19 minutes ago. we believe that pretty much at the center of that picture, the oval office which is just there to the left. you sue at the remote camera set up to get that sho

i think trump has advisors. steve bannonwould be a good example can identify and fare out a formal loyalty. that's an inside, washingtonsidw issue and as far as i am concerned, my life has been spent and even this book about trump has been the conservative grasp needs to rise up. when i came to the right as a leftist, as a former leftist i said where's the ground on this? where's the activists? where's the student organization? not until the obama presidency has the right prison at the grassroots level. the great thing about trump is that it's a grassroots movement. its ordinary people. you've got to do this at the local level. the case 12 schools are now indoctrinating kids from kindergarten up and we need a code of ethics. the republicans -- we need a code of ethics for k-12 teachers that will prevent them from indoctrinating students, from taking positions on controversial issues. they can teach the controversies but they can't advocate for any side whether it's the right or the left in a k-12 classroom. let's pull away t

that wants to pull out, scott pruitt, who is a big skeptic of climate change, and steve bannon the chief strategist haseen arguing you said this was a campaign promise, people would create jobs, that we should focus on promises, what is best for america and creating jobs. david: this is classic trump. we have been talking about the last few days going into this now, like 3:00 your time, what will it be like? we have seen other nations meet the threshold. shannon: i don't know the details. it will be interesting to see if he brings in ceo's are reporters were advocates. -- or reporters or advocates. but this is a president who is very aware of optics. he thinks about ings visually could last time you saw the rose garden was after the passage of the health care bill in the house. that is an interesting choice because the bill had a lot of criticism even among republicans. now the bill might not even come off. it was interesting visual the certain of getting a win. that is what he is looking for today. david: shannon pettypiece joining us from the white house as we await the president's announcement later

megan: that's the last time you hear steve bannon described as a buddhist monk. tom: he has point of view. all these other things on the leaks come from management by confusion. command and control is the president. to give you an example, the president goes to i.m. pei. he says what you want me to do? i want to use your name and i will design the building. true story. he says i want you to build it. i don't really want you to build it. i need your bond and i will negotiate the drywall contract. he has the plumber command, the electrical. today you want to the white house you are walking into -- there is no james baker. there is no differentiation between him and what is happening in all the spheres. that is how he manages. the death by a thousand leaks is a problem for every administration. on reagan it was exactly the same thing. the only tilde bureaucracy has besides budget to get back at everybody. eventually, i think will evaporate because what will happen to the president, once his troops are in place -- there is only 50 people. mnuchin and say we let the repatriation

friend david owns the national enquier and us weekly, we know that president trump has been a leaker before and steve bannon, former executive director of breitbart news who has a waiver to still speak to breitbart, let's be clear when we talk about leaks, they're everywhere. i want to bring in my panel. mike lupica is an msnbc contributor and columnist for the "new york daily news" and megan murphy not just the editor for "bloomberg business week" this week, yesterday it hit stands "bloomberg business week" relaunched, is it a new direction, new brand, looks fantastic. so fantastic that megan rocked up with celebration hair today. this is a party. michael, i want to start with you, your reaction to vp mike pence lawyering up? i learned something a moment ago i want to point out in terms of the swamp his lawyer happens to be james comey's daughter's godfather, hello swamp. what's your take? >> it's a prudent thing for the vice president to get a lawyer because he doesn't know where robert mueller is going with the investigation because nobody does. less than five months into your administration, if there's

host: i want to ask you about steve bannon and the influence or lack thereof he has in the administration based on what happened last week with the president's decision on the paris climate accord. where do you sense his authority is at the moment? guest: i honestly do not know. i cannot name to know the inner dynamics of the trump white house. c-span andthat with a good number of other people, who are committed to people proved outside of politics what principles they believe in and that president trump has brought those people into the white house and i think they will do a good job. i believe whoever is having the influence, whether been in or someone else, -- bannon or someone else, president trump is moving the agenda he got elected on. host: thank you for stopping by. a reminder, the hearing that will be focused on this week at 10:00 a.m. eastern time this thursday, the former fbi director james comey testifying before the senate intelligence committee. the house and senate are in session this week. it will be streamed on a website, www.c-span.org and you can listen to it, live on c

first it was it's basically president steve bannon and then steve bannon is going to get fired and then jared kushner has purpose. i think there's a method here and a strategy. all of the people are still there. i think it's to keep people on their toes but it produces things like this statement from rod rosenstein where you just kind of wonder what the point was. >> the twix in between. can you do that next break in. >> absolutely i can. >> thank you all so much. >>> coming up next, a major development in the fight against terror. russia says it may have killed the leader of isis in an air strike but russia and the details coming out, is this even a credible claim? what the u.s. will do to verify this and what will it mean for the terror group going forward if in fact it's true. >>> and the verdict is still out on the bill cosby case. we'll bring it to you live if and when it happens. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. step two: choose la quinta. the only hotel where you can redeem loyalty points for a free night-instantly and win at business. and i quit smoking with chantix. i was very grateful t

steve bannon of all people showed how little regard the white house has for the press and the briefingssked why the briefings are now routinely held off camera, white house chief strategist steve bannon said in a text message, sean got fatter. he said the guy is too fat to respond. this comes amid reports that spicer's time in the briefing room may soon be coming to an end. they keep leaking on this guy. spicer is searching for his own replacement as part of a larger plan to shake up the white house communications operation. among replacements, catch. this laura ingram. during his five months on the job so far, sean spicer has had to go to great lengths to push against the president's critics and defend even his most outrageous claims. let's take a look. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. in person and around the globe. the default narrative is always negative and it is demoralizing. >> he is using the words that the media is using. is he confused? no. it is iron noke matter how many times he talks about, there it is never good enough. bureaucrats

his son-in-law, jared, his secretary of state, rex tillerson, who are sh steve bannon wants him out. see what the president hassay today at 3:00. >> tracie, the former fbi director james comey is expected to testify on capitol him next week. what can we expect to hear from him? >> reporter: when we hear from james comey it will be interesting to see what we get from him. in that meeting with sources from comb yee, he'll say the president asked him to back off of the russia investigation. this is the first time we'll have to hear his account of what the president had to say. by the way, central counsel okayed this testimony. >> thank you, tracie. >>> if you thought the bitterness between president trump and hillary clinton eased after the election, think again. the two got into a bit of a twitter argument overnight. it started after clinton took a few swipes at a former rifle at a conference in california. she argued some in the u.s. must have helped russians weaponize information against her. the president said crooked hillary clinton. she said people in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe. >>> joe biden is

steve bannon is sharply against this deal. so he haseople on the inside close to him pulling on both sides. on the outside, some two dozen companies, some taking up big ads in papers today, urging the president to stick with this climate deal. on the other hand, you have nearly two dozen senators on capitol hill who sent him a letter saying dump it. he's literally getting this pressure on the inside and from the outside on both sides. president trump very independent-minded will be making his decision later this afternoon or announcing his decision later this afternoon. >> so that answers the question, he's getting advice on both sides. thank you very much for joining us at the top of the hour as we await that decision. >>> business leaders are making their opinions known about the decision. following reports of a withdrawal, tim cook and elon musk phoned the white house to try to persuade the president to reconsider. musk saying don't know which way paris will go, by i've done all i can to advice directly with potus through others in w

steve bannon is the white house strategist, barry cohen, steve powell, bill, and is a bloomberg tv exhibiting editor and hasbill cohan has written an article. it's a great title. noting the strongly anti-goldman rhetoric used, how did he do this complete 180 degrees? bill: obviously he hasn't consulted with me, but my feeling is he had to show the capital markets that he wasn't a complete lunatic, you know? he said so many crazy things during the course of the campaign. in the hours after it looked like it would that he would win the election, the futures market headed down even further. what better way to calm them down than to say -- look, i've got these positions to fill, why not go to the best personnel office in the world, goldman sachs, and start taking from those people? and of course, since he's done that, i don't know the cause or the effect, but since he has the market has gone from whatever it is. are goldman sachs and the trump administration closer now? there was talk before the election that goldman didn't do very much business with trump. bill: did any business with trump was the majority inv

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president may have soured, but you also have to remember, he still has supporters here in the west wing. you look at people like steve bannon, stephen miller, who are definitely still, at least still as far as we know still in sessions' court. so, he still has some support here in the west wing, but the optics of the meeting of those two men at that cabinet meeting is going to be something to behold. kate? >> something to behold. let's see what he hear coming out of that. great to see you, jason. thank you so much. >>> now to a big decision that just suddenly fell into the senate's lap. will he or won't he? whether they will allow the attorney general to testify behind closed doors, or will they require and demand that it be before cameras and the public? cnn's suzanne malveaux is joining me from capitol hill with much more on this. suzanne, word is that sessions caught folks off guard with his offer to testify, so what exactly do we know about this? >> reporter: he did, kate. and you would think that, of course, they want to see him before the committee. it would be a no-brainer, right? but there is a lot of debate that's

it's reported steve bannon and his office has that whiteboard and on it written every campaign promise, then candidate donald trump made during the campaign and he checks them off. the ones kept and haven't. was this about checking the box near the paris accord, and what does it tell us about who has the ear of the president in the west wing? >> yes. 100% politics, pure and simple, full stop. this is all about donald trump trying to change the narrative of this presidency to send a senate to supporters across the country, i'm fulfilling my promise to come and shake up washington, to shake up the global order. facts be damned in many ways. because when it comes to the economy, the truth is over the last eight years we have succeeded in creating more than 10 million jobs in our economy. at the same time we have made double-digit reductions in carbon pollution. so we can do both. >> quickly, real quickly -- knowing what you know now, what you saw yesterday in the rose garden, back when president obama signed this paris accord, should he have gone through congress as opposed to doing it wi

>> it's certainly a win for steve bannon and scott pruett on the screen as well. this has been a constant theme as we've covered this white house of sort of two poles that the president finds himself between. the groups are sort of disparagingly referred to by the other sides as the new york crew and the breitbart crew. but this is absolutely a win for steve bannon, who remember for a little while was sort of on the outs at the white house and seemed to be losing influence. if in fact the u.s. does actual out of the paris agreement in some capacity, this will be a rebuke of that sort of new york wing that had been perceived as getting power by some conservatives. but you know, it's not the end of the story. i think the bigger picture is that this sort of power struggle continues and trump sort of finds ways to apiece these different factions in the white house. >> you know, musk saying he will stop advising the president on economic issues if they pull out of that agreement. 3:00 today, tal. see you in 30 minutes. >>> when it comes to climate big business has a question, w

whether it's steve bannon and others, this has to trouble trump, the campaigner.publican, brought in democrats. if you're going to govern successfully, you can't govern with those numbers. people make the point that ronald reagan and tip o'neill got along very well when reagan was president. the reason is because reagan's approval numbers were so high. you cannot be an effective president if you're hovering in the high 30s and low 40s. i don't care how enthusiastic your base is. you're not going to win support in the congress. add to it you're under investigation for alleged collusion with russia during a campaign. you cannot pass health reform, tax reform, regulatory reform with those numbers. >> steve bannon, as long as he's preaching tear down everything, the number will stay right there. it's not going to get higher. us against the world. if you make everybody your enemy, everybody makes you your enemy. it's that simple. >> if you're at 60%, you can do that. >> i heard somebody in the administration early on, you're so tough to us. politics is a friend-making

steve bannon saying it is a manufactured crisis. do you have the environmental protection agency with strong links to the coal agency who has doubted this link between human activity and global warming. >> you are speaking about science. the science is clear and the signal was sent. scientists all around the world. the question today is not about .cience or about washington it's about one man. it's about donald trump being blind to science. as you just said, and also blind to the fact. the undergoing transition, that domestically, as well. question isthat likely to go to the fax and look at the transition. , which is farbs more than the fossil fuel industry in the u.s.. i would say it is all about the blindness of donald trump in front of that. and in addition, you are speaking about politics. >> heavy seen the polls around the electorate? it is clear that they are supporting the paris agreement. we only have any a trump electors that are supporting an exit. this is pretty clear that this man is alone, completely isolated. it's aboutt trump, it's not abot the reality. >>> what about the fact that he promised this during the campaig

even though reince still has his job, insiders say that he's a dead man walking. not to be confused with the that's steve bannon he looks fine. he looks good. he's got a nice tan. got a nice tan. now, there's one thing really keeping priebus from being replaced, and that's finding a replacement. apparently, his greatest job security is that there are few takers for what might be an unworkable gig. so, i just want to say to the president, you might want to hold off building that border wall, because white house chief of staff is another job americans don't want to do. and it's a lot like farm work: long hours, low pay, and a whole lot of manure shoveling. we've got a great show for you tonight. i'll be joined by selma hayek pinault. but first, i'll be talking twitter with a certain cartoon world leader. stick around, won't you? dearthere's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfy ectlncbalaed. our senses awake. our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say...if you love something set it free. see you around, giulia it's your glass of

has been from the very beginning. into theprevious when white house knowing it would be somewhat chaotic because he had steve bannon coming the campaign, jared kushner, son-in-law, playing an important role. the national security advisor within a month of the administration. level, i think president trump's success has been in chaos and i think he thought that would work for him as president. at this point, it remains to be seen whether you can be effective as president. certainly, he is having his challenges on capitol hill. about -- if you have the strategic job of setting an agenda to work with the hill on policy, and you are trying to message around that and create the backdrop and backup so people feel they can stick with you, and every day, the story is changing. they make plans, and they are blown up virtually every day. that, in part, is a result of the investigation and the president's inability to stay away from it. but it is also just the nature of the way he has always conducted himself in business. and certainly the way he conducted himself on the campaign trail. it may be a tall order to get any chief of sta

has been pushing the president to stay in it. rick perry is pushing for him to stay in it there is a different wing that's been pushing trump to keep his campaign promise. steve bannon saying get out. you promised to do this on the campaign, now follow through. trump's epa administrator has made a similar argument to him. that side seems to be winning. as we've seen time and time again, until the words come out of his mouth, things can always change. he has a way of moderating the things he's going to say. and sometimes changing his mind completely. >> as we said, president trump vowed to pull out of the paris accord during the campaign. he said so repeatedly. >> the paris climate deal, i believe so much in the environment -- people are shocked. we will cancel this deal so our committees can compete. >> including all global warming payments to the u.n. >> we're giving billions and billions of dollars away, we have no idea for what. >> we're going to fix our own environment. >> i've won many environmental awards, i am not a believer in climate change. >> we want clean beautiful air and crystal clearwater. >> in 1890, they had the greatest flood. in 1901 they had the

almost every senior adviser since they started has gone through a phase where it was leaked that they were imminently on their way out. remember when steve bannonto be fired, reince priebus was going to be fired. >> kellyanne conway disappeared for a while and she came back. >> and sean spicer and his associates have been leaking that his job has been on the line. it does seem he has gotten a little control over the story now, because the story is he is now being the one who is going to find his own replacement. so that suggests he's not being pushed out but will retain this title of communications director, which is above the press secretary. and he's going to find someone to be the face of the white house. frankly, i don't think it matters who the press secretary is. they could have jeffrey lord as their press secretary. i'm floating that. what matters is, can the person do the job that the press and the public requires? do they have access to the president and do they get reliable, timely, and honest, truthful information to the public on a daily basis? that's not been the pattern so far. >> kirsten, no matter what the title is, unless they