BRIAN STELTER (HOST): Let me ask you about debate prep, we were talking about the debates a minute ago. There’s a report this weekend that Laura Ingraham, the conservative talk radio host and Fox News regular is participating in debate prep. She might play Hillary Rodham Clinton if Trump ever gets behind a podium and does that kind of practice. We also know that Roger Ailes is there [to] debate prep, the former Fox News chairman who had to step down last month. And of course Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart, now running Trump's campaign. Is this a conservative media takeover of the Trump campaign and of debate prep?
STUART STEVENS: Well, I think you have to separate Steve Bannon from Breitbart, from conservative media. I mean Breitbart is, they're in the hate business. They’re a bunch of nuts --
STELTER: You say the hate business, that is very strong language.
STEVENS: Well, read Breitbart. That’s what they are. There’s this whole alt-right thing, which I think is just re-packaged racism trying to put a better name on it. And xenophobia --
STELTER: And to be clear, you are a Republican strategist, you ran Romney's campaign four years ago, and you're sitting here saying that one of the most popular web sites for Republican readers is a hate machine?
STEVENS: Yeah. I mean read it.
