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GOOD EVENING ONCE AGAIN FROM OUR NBC NEWS HEADQUARTERS HERE IN
NEW YORK. DAY 211 OF THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION AND THE WHITE HOUSE IS NOW WITHOUT THE MAN
ROUTINELY PARODIES ON SNL AS THE GRIM REAPER.
STEVE BANNON IS OUT. HE SAID HE RESIGNED AND OTHER
SOURCES SAY HE WAS HOUT AND THEY SAY IT WAS A AGREEMENT.
GENERAL JOHN KELLY, THE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF, LEFT THE
WHITE HOUSE AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU COULD SAY ALT RIGHT, HE
WHATS WAS RIGHT BACK AT BREITBART AND FULL OF ACTION
WORD QUOTES FOR THE REPORTERS WHO TALKED TO HIM.
HE WAS GREETED AT HIS OLD SHOP WITH THE HEADLINE, POPULIST HERO
STEVEN K. BANNON RETURNS TO BREITBART.
AND TRUMP WAS ANNOYED THAT HE LANDED A TIME MAGAZINE COVER
WHICH CALLED HIM THE GREAT MANIPULATOR AND TOLD THE WALL
STREET, I'M SEE SAYING THAT HE IS A GUY THAT WORKS FOR ME.
HE IS A GOOD GUY. AND IT WAS TOLD THE PRESIDENT
DIDN'T LIKE THE PHOTO ON THE COVER OR THE FACT THAT BANNON'S
NAME WAS ABOVE HIS. THEN THE NEW CHIEF OF STAFF
ARRIVED, JOHN KELLY, THE DISCIPLINE AND BUTTON DOWN
FORMER FOUR STAR MARINE GENERAL DESPITE BANNON'S YEARS IN THE
NAVY, THE TWO DIDN'T MESH. POLITICO SAID KELLY DIDN'T
UNDERSTAND WHAT BANNON DID AND WHY HE HAD A PR PORTFOLIO AND
WHY HE SEEMED TO CAUSE SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH COLLEAGUES AND SO
WIDELY DISLIKED AND WITH THEN RUMORS SWIRLING ABOUT HIS
POSITION, LISTEN HOW THE PRESIDENT RESPONDED WHEN ASKED
ABOUT THEM. >> I LIKE MR. BRANNON.
HE IS A FRIEND OF MINE. BUT HE CAME ON VERY LATE.
YOU KNOW THAT. I WENT THROUGH 17 SENATORS,
GOVERNORS AND I WON ALL OF THE PRIMARIES.
MR. BANNON CAME ON VERY MUCH LATER THAN.
AND I LIKE HIM, HE'S A GOOD MAN. HE IS NOT A RACIST.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT. HE'S A GOOD PERSON.
HE ACTUALLY GETS A VERY UNFAIR PRESS IN THAT REGARD.
BUT WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH MR. BANNON.
>> WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT ENDED UP TO MR. BRANNON AND IN THE
BUSINESS OF POLITICS WHERE THEY DO EAT THEIR YOUNG, THERE IS
ALREADY INTENSE SPECULATION OVER WHETHER TWO OTHER KIND OF
BANNON-ITS, SEBASTIAN GORKA AND STEVEN MILLER WILL BE LONG FOR
THE WEST WING UNDER GENERAL KELLY.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER TODAY'S BANNON NEWS, FOLLOWED QUICKLY BY
BREITBART ANNOUNCING THE FORMER BOSS WAS RETURNING, BANNON, WHO
DOES NOT SUFFER FROM LOW SELF-ESTEEM TOLD A REPORTER, I
FEEL JACKED UP, NOW I'M FREE. I'VE GOT MY HANDS BACK ON MY
WEAPONS. SMUP SAID IT IS BANNON THE
BARBARIAN AND I'M GOING TO CRUSH THE OPPOSITION.
NO DOUBT I BUILT A FING MACHINE AND WE'RE ABOUT TO REV THE
MACHINE UP AND REV IT UP WE WILL DO.
HE ADDED THIS OMINOUS CLAIM. THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY THAT WE
FOUGHT FOR AND WON IS OVER. WE STILL HAVE A HUGE MOVEMENT.
AND WE WILL MAKE SOMETHING OF THIS TRUMP PRESIDENCY BUT THAT
PRESIDENCY IS OVER. IT WILL BE SOMETHING ELSE.
AND THERE WILL BE ALL KINDS OF FIGHTS AND THERE WILL BE GOOD
DAYS AND BAD DAYS BUT THAT PRESIDENCY IS OVER.
WHO SAID FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, MUCH TO DISCUSS ON A FRIDAY
NIGHT AND LET'S BRING IN TONIGHT'S LEADOFF PANEL.
KRISTEN WELKER, WHO SPENT THE DAY REPORTING FROM NEW JERSEY
WHERE THE PRESIDENT HAD BEEN STAYING DURING HIS WORKING
VACATION. HE'S ALREADY IN CAMP DAVID FOR
THE WEEKEND. JONATHAN LA MERE.
WHITE HOUSE REPORTER FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PHILIP RUCKER, FOR THE WASHINGTON POST AND JONATHAN
SWAN, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER.
HE REPORTED EARLY THIS MORNING LONG BEFORE BANNON WAS GONE THAT
OFFICIALS INDEED EXPECTED HIM TO BE GONE.
JONATHAN SWAN, I HAVE TO TELL YOU, TWO NIGHTS AGO YOU WERE
HERE WITH US WHEN BANNON HAD GIVEN THOSE TWO ODD PRINT
INTERVIEWS. ODDLY EMPOWERED.
AND YOU WERE THE FIRST TO MAKE A POINT THAT LOOKING AT HIS
KWOELTS -- QUOTES, HE SOUNDED LIKE A PRESIDENT TO YOU.
YOU NOTED THAT THE PRESIDENT DIDN'T LIKE THAT.
IT IS UNBECOMING ON OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT PRESENT AND WALK US
THROUGH TODAY AND THE ANATOMY OF THIS STORY FOR YOU.
>> WELL THIS WAS DONE LONG BEFORE TODAY.
DONALD TRUMP, WE REPORTED IT ON SATURDAY.
LAST SATURDAY, THAT DONALD TRUMP IS TELLING PEOPLE THAT STEVE
BANNON WAS A LEAKER. HE TOLD MULTIPLE PEOPLE THAT.
I WAS TOLD A FEW DAYS LATER, HE EVEN TOLD STEVE BANNON THAT IN
FRONT OF AT LEAST ONE OTHER PERSON.
AND DONALD TRUMP WAS FED UP WITH STEVE BANNON.
HE WAS SAYING THINGS LIKE WHO DOES THIS GUY THINK HE IS.
AND HE THOUGHT THAT STEVE BANNON WAS A SELF-INDULGENT AND HAD
CREATED THIS MYTH THAT HE HAD BUILT THE ELECTION VICTORY AND
THAT HE WAS THE ARCHITECT AND HE VERY MUCH RECENTED -- RECENTED
THE BOOK, THAT PEOPLE CLOSE TO TRUMP BELIEVES IT WAS A
BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE BANNON. AND ALL OF THESE THINGS CAME
TOGETHER WITH A SENIOR STAFF IN THE WEST WING THAT WAS ENTIRELY
UNITED AGAINST STEVE BANNON. YOU DESCRIBED EARLIER STEVEN
MILLER AS A BANNON-ITE. NO WAY, IT WAS STEVEN MILLER AT
THE END OF BANNONITES. HIS LOYALTIES WERE NO LONGER
WITH STEVE BANNON. STEVE BANNON HAD TWO PEOPLE IN
THE WHITE HOUSE THAT REMAINED LOYAL TO HIM BY THE END AND NOB
OF THEM AT THE TOP RANKS. SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS CAME
TOGETHER AND PEOPLE THEN, WHEN JOHN KELLY CAME IN, TOLD STEVE
BANNON -- TOLD JOHN KELLY THAT STEVE BANNON WAS ENCOURAGING THE
OUTSIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST GENERAL H.R. McMASTER, KELLY WAS STUNNED
BY THAT AND HORRIFIED BY THAT. STEVE BANNON TOLD PEOPLE HE
WASN'T INVOLVED IN THAT BUT NOBODY IN THE WEST WING BELIEVED
THAT. BUT ALL OF THESE THINGS CAME
TOGETHER. HE WAS FIRED.
YOU HEAR THE RESIGNATION. THAT WAS A FACE-SAVING
CONVERSATION BUT HE WAS TOLD HIS TIME WAS UP.
>> AND LET'S NOT FORGET, I REMEMBER THAT BANNON SAID THERE
IS NO MILITARY OPTION IN NORTH KOREA.
>> THAT INTERVIEW WAS -- >> [ INAUDIBLE ].
>> TO BE CLEAR, THOUGH. I WAS STILL STICK BY MY
REPORTING ON THAT STORY. THAT WAS THE ONE INTERVIEW THAT
HE REALLY DID NOT INTEND THAT TO BE ON THE RECORD.
THAT WAS PURELY BANNON EXCITED ABOUT A CHINA ALLY AND IT WAS
TRULY A BLUNDER. THAT INTERVIEW.
>> IT WAS ON THE PHONE WITH A VETERAN JOURNALIST WITH A
PROGRESSIVE LEANING WEBSITE. KRISTEN WELKER IN THE FLESH.
>> IT IS GOOD TO SEE YOU. >> AND I'M REMINDED CAMP DAVID
WITH A DAY TRIP FOR AN AFGHANISTAN MEETING.
PRESIDENT IS BACK IN BEDMINSTER TONIGHT.
SO TALK ABOUT BANNON'S BALIWICK, AND IT WAS AN INTERESTING TITLE,
PEOPLE AGREED HE HAD NO BUSINESS ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNSEL
AND WAS EASED OFF OF THAT EARLY ON.
BUT HOW BIG OF A GULF DOES HE LEAVE.
IS THE OTHER WAY OF ASKING. >> IN ONE SENSE, BRIAN, THAT WAS
THE PRESIDENT'S TOUCH TONE TO HIS BASE.
HE WAS THE PERSON WHO WAS THERE REMINDING THE PRESIDENT OF ALL
OF THE REASONS THAT HE GOT ELECTED AND ALL OF THOSE PROM HE
ISSIZE -- PROMISES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WHETHER OVER
TRADE OR -- WHEN HE ANNOUNCED HE WAS PULLING OUT OF THE PARIS
CLIMATE AGREEMENT AND THAT WAS OPPOSED BY JARED KUSHNER AND
IVANKA TRUMP AND THE QUESTION IS HOW MUCH MATTER.
AND LOOK AT WHAT WE SAW THIS WEEK.
THE FACT THAT HE CAME OUT AND MADE THIS VERY CONTROVERSIAL
COMMENTS ABOUT CHARLOTTESVILLE, IF YOU BELIEVE THE TIMING OF
THIS, THEN STEVE BANNON WAS ALREADY OUT WHEN THE PRESIDENT
MADE THOSE COMMENTS. WHEN AFTER THE ATTACK IN MADRID,
YOU HAD THE PRESIDENT COME OUT AND REVIVE THAT DEBUNKED MYTH.
THAT IS ALL DONALD TRUMP. THAT IS NOT STEVE BANNON.
YOU CAN'T POINT THE FINGER AT HIM FOR THOSE ACTIONS.
AGAIN, IF YOU BELIEVE THE TIME LINE THAT HE WAS ALREADY OUT.
SO I THINK THAT THE GULF THAT HE LEAVES IS A BIG QUESTION MARK.
WHAT WILL WE SEE FROM THE PRESIDENT'S BASE IN WILL SOME OF
THE SUPPORT START TO ERODE, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU WILL SEE A BIG
SHIFT IN THIS PRESIDENT. DONALD TRUMP IS DONALD TRUMP.
>> AND YOU AREMINDING READERS, STROIB ROLE DUR THE CAMPAIGN.
>> HE CAME IN AT A LOW. HE AND KELLYANNE CONWAY CAME IN
LATE AUGUST AND TRUMP WAS TRAILING IN THE POLLS.
AND HE ENCOURAGED TRUMP TO FIGHT, FIGHT AND FIGHT.
AND EVEN HARDER THAN HE DID BEFORE AND HE SHAPED -- IT IS
MUCH MORE HONED IT AS A POPULIST NATIONALIST VIEW.
AND INJECTED WHAT SOME SUGGESTED WERE CONSPIRACY BEFORE BANKERS
AN THE ELITES. >> SOME OF IT VAGUEY ANT
SEMITIC. >> AND HE REALLY HONED THE
PRESIDENT'S ATTACKS ON HILLARY CLINTON.
THAT AT THE TIME TRUMP WAS STILL SORT OF REWAGING THE PRIMARY AND
THE ATTACKING OF THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT.
BANNON GOT HIM TO FOCUS ON HIS DEMOCRAT OPPONENT AND PRETTY
EFFECTIVE AT CHANGING THE NARRATIVE AND I WILL NEVER
FORGET A WEEK OR SO AFTER THE ACCESS HOLLYWOOD TAPE DROPPED
AND WOMEN CAME FORWARD AND SUGGESTED THAT DONALD TRUMP WHAT
HAD DONE -- HE HAD DONE TO THEM, BEFORE THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE WITH HILLARY CLINTON. THEY HAD A SURPRISE PRESS
CONFERENCE FROM ALL OF THE WOMEN IN A ACCUSED BILL CLINTON OF
SEXUAL ABUSING THEM. AND I WAS PART OF THE CREW THAT
DAY. THERE IS FOOTAGE OF ME AND OTHER
REPORTERS WITH OUR MOUTHS OPEN AND HARD TO BELIEVE.
>> PHILIP RUCKIR, YOU GET IN MANY WAYS THE HARDEST QUESTION.
THIS VERBIAGE FROM BANNON ABOUT THE FIGHT AND HIS WEAPONS AND
ABOUT THE PRESIDENCY BEING OVER. THIS IS A GUY REFERRED TO THE
WEST WING DEMOCRATS VERY DER IZIVELY AND TELL ME WHAT THAT
MEANS AND WHO HAS THE MOST TO LOSE AND WORRY ABOUT WITH HIM ON
THE OUTSIDE, KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER.
>> WELL, I BELIEVE THAT GENERAL JOHN KELLY REMOVED BANNON, AND
FIRED HIM IN ORDER TO INSTILL ORDER AND DISCIPLINE IN THIS
WHITE HOUSE. I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT IS
GOING TO LAST. BECAUSE BANNON IS SIGNALING THAT
HE WILL WAGE WAR WITH HIS FORMER COLLEAGUES FROM THE OUTSIDE.
AND WE KNOW THAT FOR MONTHS NOW HE'S BEEN FEUDING WITH JARED
KUSHNER, THE PRESIDENT'S SON-IN-LAW AND SENIOR ADVISER
WITH GARY COHN AND WITH HR McMASTER AND ANOTHER GENERAL AND
THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER AND I THINK HE WILL CONTINUE TO
DO THIS FROM THE OUTSIDE, HIS ALLIESING WITH TELLING ME AN MY
COLLEAGUES AND OTHER PANELISTS HERE THAT BANNON IS GOING TO GO
TO WAR OVER THIS AGENDA AND FIGHT TO TRY TO KEEP TRUMP
HONEST WITH HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES AND TO ENCOURAGE HIS
FACIALIST IMPULSES FROM THE OUTSIDE AND WE SHOULD REMEMBER
THAT BANNON WILL STILL HAVE A CONNECTION TO TRUMP.
REMEMBER CORY LEWANDOWSKI, THE CAMPAIGN MANAGER, HE WAS FIRED
FROM THE CAMPAIGN BUT HE CONTINUES TO TALK TO THE
PRESIDENT TO ADVISE HIM AND FORMALLY HE HAS HIS CELL PHONE
NUMBER. I EXPECT

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