From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, Steve Bannon walked out of the White House on Friday and headed straight back to Breitbart News.

Will he use the alt-right megaphone to help the president who's just dismissed him or to hurt him?

And will Steve Bannon at Breitbart be more powerful than Steve Bannon in the White House?

It's Monday, August 21st.

Jeremy Peters, where does the story of Breitbart and Steve Bannon begin?

Michael, it starts when Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Breitbart News, and its name say, died in 2012.

Andrew Breitbart and Steve Bannon were partners in crime before Andrew's death.

Steve served as kind of an informal editor, whisperer to Andrew before he took on any type of official capacity with Breitbart.

And what did Breitbart News been under Andrew Breitbart and what did it become under Steve Bannon?

So Breitbart, under Breitbart, was more oriented toward Gacha videos.

Remember that it was the place where a woman by the name of Shirley Sherrod, who was a Department of Agriculture employee, was filmed, saying what appeared to be very disparaging things about white people in her refusal to help them when she was with the Department of Agriculture.

You know, the first time I was faced with Adam, the white woman, saved his father.

He took a long time talking, but he was trying to show me he was superior to me.

It turns out that that video had been selected, the edited and left out some exculpatory information.

It made Sherrod look a lot worse than she really was and in fact twisted her words.

So after Andrew dies and Steve takes over, the site really begins to take up certain political causes that are rallying points for the Tea Party.

And one of the big ones, of course, was the Unseeding of Eric Cantor.

We begin now with the major political upset for one of the most powerful Republicans in the country, Eric Cantor, the number two GOP lawmaker in the House, beaten in the primary by a Tea Party candidate.

An underband in Breitbart really becomes more of a weapon for the Tea Party conservatives, the anti-establishment conservatives who want to unseat and defeat Republican Party leadership.

Yep, that's right. Cantor lost to David Brad, a political unknown. Cantor was widely thought to be the next speaker of the House.

Breitbart, under Steve Van En's direction, became one of the only media outlets paying any attention to this little known economics professor named Dave Brad, who was running in a primary challenge that everyone expected Brad to lose.

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