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Susan Jones | September 11, 2017 | 7:38 AM EDT
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https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/bannon-republican-establishment-trying-nullify-2016-election(CNSNews.com) - "The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That's the brutal fact we have to face," President Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon told CBS's "60 Minutes." The interview aired Sunday night.
Bannon said Mitch McConnell and "to a degree" Paul Ryan "do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic, nationalist agenda to be implemented. It's very obvious.”
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CBS's Charlie Rose asked Bannon for a story to illustrate his point:
Well, Mitch McConnell, when we first met him...he said I think in one of the first meetings in Trump Tower with the president as we're wrapping up. He basically says, I don't want to hear any more of this draining the swamp talk. He says, I can't even hire any smart people because everybody's all over them for reporting requirements and the pay, etc. And the scrutiny. You know, you gotta back off that.