A White House official disputed the reports , saying White House chief of staff Reince Priebus held a meeting with Bannon and Kushner to "get them on the same page", according to CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta. Others, like this Friday Washington Post story , claimed that Bannon was the one considering a departure, preferring the free-wheeling, knives-out strategy of campaigning to his new buttoned-up reality in the White House.