BONUS: Steve Bannon's full interview with Ari Melber

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, Versant Media, Daily News, Versant, News, Government, Ms Now

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In an exclusive interview, Steve Bannon sits down one-on-one with Ari Melber for his first ever interview on MSNBC. Bannon outlined, among other subjects: his new plans for the midterm elections and why he thinks impeachment is on the ballot; why he is critical of parts of the Trump administration’s economic program; his views of Bob Mueller and the Russia probe; his thoughts on Trump’s gender gap with women voters; and his opinion of the president’s response to the 2017 Charlottesville riot. During the interview, Bannon said for the first time that he has raised over $5 million for his midterm effort, confirmed he did sign an N.D.A. for Trump (but was not paid for it), and that it would be a problem if Donald Trump did know about the Trump Tower meeting in advance.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone listening to our podcast. This is Ari, and we have a podcast extra that you may or may not like, but I think is worth listening to.
0:07.2	It is Steve Bannon's first ever interview with MSNBC, and you can't know what he's doing, what he's up to, or if you want, how to combat him without confronting some of his ideas.
0:17.7	I tried to do that when we sat down this week. And what you get here is a longer
0:21.8	extended complete interview. Everything we talked about from the economy to the midterms to Charlottesville,
0:27.0	to his support for Roy Moore, to his fact witness role in the Mueller probe. We even talked about
0:31.6	the first time he met Bob Mueller when he entered the White House for an Oval Office meeting
0:36.6	just days after James Comey was fired.
0:39.8	It's a lot, and it's all in this interview.
0:42.1	Take a listen.
0:42.9	Let's start with the midterms.
0:44.4	If they were held today, who do you think would win the House?
0:47.9	I think they're held today.
0:50.1	We'd have a tough time holding the House.
0:52.2	I really do.
0:53.0	I think it could be north of 25, maybe 30 seats, maybe north of that.
0:57.0	There's people that are projecting today it could be 45 or 50 seats.
1:00.0	I believe by November 6th we're going to win this. I think all this takes is people on our side of the football, focusing on what has to happen.
1:09.0	This is upper down vote on President Trump.
1:11.6	You know, this election is going to come as a referendum on him.
1:13.6	He permeates the entire political culture.
1:16.6	And I think those that are around him are telling him that, hey, it's okay to lose the House.
1:21.6	You can work with the Democrats and you can run against a Democratic House in 2020.
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