What is motivating Steve Bannon in his post-White House life? (Anita Kumar)

What makes Steve Bannon tick? What drives a man as feared and hated by liberals and conservatives as he is beloved by the army of “alt-right”  white nationalist followers he’s cultivated as executive chairman of the far-right leaning news and opinion website Breitbart? Is President Trump’s former chief strategist “The Great Manipulator” as Time branded him in a February cover story or the “virulently anti-establishment revolutionary out to destroy the administrative state,” as he was described in a New York Times article from back in April? And is Bannon’s political activity since being fired motivated purely by his core beliefs, as his public persona would seem to imply, or is he simply acting out of his own self-interest? According to this week’s guest Anita Kumar, White House correspondent for the news agency McClatchyDC, the answer isn’t so easy to determine. Yet, there's one thing most political reporters seem to agree on--Steve Bannon still has the President’s ear.