Cillizza on Bannon: ‘You Never Want to Fight a Member of the President’s Family’ Because You Won’t Win

‘You never want to fight a member of the president’s family because you will not win that fight’

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CILLIZZA: "I mean, I think what you’re seeing is not atypical it's just earlier than what we usually see. There's always some level of disagreement, particularly about big things like should the U.S. strike Syria and reaction to the chemical attacks. I mean, these are major policy decisions. If everyone agreed at all times, I think that actually might be more worrisome, frankly. But what you’re seeing here is Donald Trump put in place a sort of four-part sharing of power. Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon are two, Kellyanne Conway, Reince Priebus are the other two. There are four people with different titles but roles that are -- if not the same sort of ill-defined in between one another. So, you’re going to see some bumping up against one another. And I’ll say the answer to your first question, you never want to fight a member of the president’s family because you will not win that fight." 

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