--- title: CPAC: Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus' Interview Transcript description: White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and President Trump advisor Steve Bannon continued their odd couple press tour Thursday. canonical: https://time.com/4681094/reince-priebus-steve-bannon-cpac-interview-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-23T20:59:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:29:51.391Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus Interview at CPAC og:description: I think the biggest misconception is everything that you're reading." og:url: https://time.com/4681094/reince-priebus-steve-bannon-cpac-interview-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98741251bd4f28f0/6988bba07cdbac032cd573c7/reince-priebus-stephen-bannon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Leading Conservatives Gather For Annual CPAC Event In National Harbor, Maryland og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus Interview at CPAC twitter:description: I think the biggest misconception is everything that you're reading." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98741251bd4f28f0/6988bba07cdbac032cd573c7/reince-priebus-stephen-bannon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus' Joint Interview at CPAC > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Feb 23, 2017 8:59 PM UTC  White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (R) and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (L) participate in a conversation during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland on Feb. 23, 2017. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (R) and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (L) participate in a conversation during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland on Feb. 23, 2017. Alex Wong—Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Feb 23, 2017 8:59 PM UTC White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and President Trump advisor Steve Bannon continued [their odd couple press tour](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/bannon-and-priebus-want-you-to-know-they-are-friends.html) at a [conservative grassroots conference](http://time.com/4679396/cpac-donald-trump-conservatives/) Thursday. In a joint interview at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., the two [reiterated](http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/516847668/top-trump-advisers-bannon-and-priebus-set-to-address-cpac) that reports that [they do not get along are untrue](http://time.com/4681001/cpac-reince-priebus-steve-bannon/). “In regard to us two, I think the biggest misconception is everything that you’re reading,” said Priebus. As a former head of the Republican National Committee, Priebus represents the Establishment wing of the GOP, while Bannon, who once boasted that his news site Breitbart was home to the alt-right, represents the more populist side of the Trump Administration. 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