By Eli Watkins
...Steve Bannon, (click here) President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, is trying to pitch a Russia probe response strategy to White House aides and congressional allies despite Trump's dismissal of him, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The Post, citing four people, said Bannon's plan includes having Trump fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who named Robert Mueller to be special counsel, as well as having Trump stop cooperating with Mueller and invoke executive privilege in an attempt to render interviews by Mueller's team with White House officials "null and void."
"It was a strategic mistake to turn over everything without due process, and executive privilege should be exerted immediately and retroactively," Bannon told the paper....
