Steve Bannon CPAC 2017 Live Stream: Watch Trump's Controversial Adviser Speak Alongside Reince Priebus

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which got under way this week, is an event typically rife with intrigue and controversy. That may hold true Thursday afternoon, when one of President Donald Trump's most controversial advisers, former Breitbart chief Steve Bannon, was set to speak at the conference in National Harbor, Maryland outside of Washington, D.C.

Interestingly enough, Bannon was expected to appear alongside Trump's Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. The two top advisers to the president have been regular subjects of palace intrigue as rumors swirled that the two men struggle for increased power in the White House. Priebus and Bannon have publicly attempted to dispel such notions.

Bannon was scheduled to speak starting at 1:05 p.m. EST on a panel called "A Conversation with Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon," which will also feature Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union.

Bannon and Priebus have spoken in glowing terms about one another and about their partnership in what appears to be a concerted effort to push back against reports of infighting for control of the West Wing. New York Magazine even ran a piece titled "Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus Want You to Know They Are Friends" that described a phone call in which the two top advisers tripped over themselves to seem like buddies.

"They have to come up with the gossipy stuff," Bannon said to New York Magazine about the media. "It's just like on the campaign."

Bannon ran the tail end of Trump's campaign, which employed three different managers. There was a strong pushback against him after he was named Trump's chief strategist in the White House, in part, because he ran Breitbart, which Bannon once called a platform for the so-called alt-right. White supremacists and white nationalists have embraced the alt-right as a movement the could get behind. During Trump's fledgling presidency it has been suggested that Bannon, more than anyone, has the ear of the president.

A live stream of CPAC can be found here.