"I wish we had someone on our side as evil as you"

“We should’ve had a longer impeachment. We should’ve had Bolton, we should’ve had Mulvaney,” Bannon said, referring to former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.

Democrats sought to subpoena both figures for testimony about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, but the GOP-controlled Senate voted almost exclusively along party lines against hearing from more witnesses.

“Witnesses, let ‘em get crossed, but we [Republicans] get the whistleblower, we get the second whistleblower, we get [Rep. Adam] Schiff (D-Calif.) as a factor. Let’s get it all out,” Bannon said.