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thank you for sharing your sunday. turmoil is the trade mark of the trump presidency at the six month mark. he is shaking up the legal team and white house inner circle. he is described as angry and frustrated. the newest hire seems to shart boss' view that president's behavior is not the problem. >> i was in the oval office with him earlier today and talking about him being himself and express his full identity. i think he has the best political instirvegts in the world and perhaps in history when you think about it. >> now there is trump agenda progress. you look at economic numbers, for example, or the sharp decline in the illegal immigration. it is also a simple fact, not fake news that, this president and his republican party have in six months failed to get any of their big signature campaign promises, like obamacare repeal even close to the finish line. >> let obamacare fail, it will be a lot easier. i think we're in that position where we let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it.

i'm not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. >> putin is the undeniable big winner at president trump's six month mark. the med sdling is a constant source of tension. the special counsel investigation is a cloud over the white house and giant triggerst president's visceral anger. mr. trump's son, son-in-law, former campaign chief and his attorney general face new questions about their dealings and about their honesty. >> sessions gets the job. right after he gets the job, he recuses himself. is that a mistake? well, sessions should have never recused himself. and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. >> a lot to discuss with us this sunday to shart reporting and insights, julia davis of "the new york times," the atlantic's molly ball, cnn's mia henderson.

most of you didn't waste a second on the idea that a new white house communication director with mean a new style from president trump. the morning after hiring him and accepting the resignation of shawn spicer, the president took to twitter to let us know, of course, he has unlimited power to pardon people and that maybe his justice department of the special counsel would be better off investigating hillary clinton. the president misspelled counsel, by the way. the more things change, the more things remain the same, or so it seems. test of whether this white house shake-up means anything that matters to those of you watching, a more effective government on progress, that won't be clear for a while. what we do know is a president who thinks just about everyone around him has let him down the first six months decided to overrule the chief of staff and overrule his chief strategist. and wall street veteran once a fierce trump critic made clear in the opening act that he knows

what the boss likes and wants most. >> i know the president. i'm very, very loyal to the president. i love these guys. i respect these guys. i love the president. the president himself is always going to be the president. i think he's got some of the best political instirvegncts in world. he's done a phenomenal job for the country. i've seen him throw a dped spiral through a tire. i've seen him at madison square garden with a top coat on and he sinks three foot putts. >> but hasn't got a deal on health care, advanced tax reform, moved infrastructure anywhere from square one. why and what to expect from anthony scaramucci and a bigger question, does this make it better or a new chapter? >> one thing you didn't play which is also fascinating about that performance is when he looked at the camera and apologized directly to donald trump for having said harsh things about him during the

campaign before. >> called him a hack. >> much worse, a big mouth and, you know, said hurtful things about didn't treat women well. and so i think what we're seeing there is not necessarily a new press strategy but a strategy for dealing with the commander in chief himself. the play may have been and yesterday morning's tweets undercut this premise quite a bit. it may be a question of making donald trump feel like he is better represented, like he has someone out there fighting for him, protecting him, protecting his flank so that he doesn't then feel the need to strike out on his own on twitter. he doesn't then feel the need to hold interviews like did he with our colleagues without consulting his press shop and hearing from them what they thought which this is a really bad idea right now. and the possibility that that could reset things for the white house won't be clear for quite some time because as you point out this is not really about his policy agenda which is what they really need to worry about right now. nothing of a legislative, the list of legislative items that he promised, they don't have anything.

and that approach doesn't necessarily get them there. >> so the president's critics after watching anthony scaramuc krichlt's opening act, oh, no, someone is going to tell you the president is great. he says let's be contrarian for a minute. let's assume we know he has better access to the president than shawn spicer had. he views him as somebody from the business community, someone with whom he has a personal rapport. might that first act have been an effort show the president, i'm how the "outfron i'm out here and i will help you. i need you to dial it back. give me a chance. give me a week or two. could progress come with this? >> maybe. i don't think we ever know how trump is going to react to particular changes in his orbit. it does seem to me the entire last two years starting with the campaign have been over and over again this groundhog day repeat of maybe this time he'll behave

differently. maybe this time he'll change. maybe this time he'll turn over the twitter account to someone else and back away slowly and turn into a person who acts presidential. i'm not holding my breath for that to ever happen. it seems like this is a defensive retrenchment that entire white house is undergoing where given that the agenda, the agenda is almost off the radar at this point. they're in war mode and focused on defending the president mostly in the face of this investigation. that's what they're all focused on. >> if that's all it, is then they're going to -- we'll have more of the same. in the sense that, again, anthony scaramucci is speaking publicly, that's your job. that's a hard job sometimes. so the fact he was out there saying things are great, ship in the right track, you know, numbers tell a different story. question look at the latest poll. the president's approval rating, 38% approval. 57% disapproval. that's historically low numbers. anthony scaramucci knows that. he said polls are always wrong.

the president kept the base to his credit. the president kept his base. but he hasn't expanded at all. it's a big challenge for anthony. it's not just his challenge. this is a white house that had in fighting since day one. we're told the chief of staff and the chief strategist, two people you think hold some sway with the boss, the president of the united states, didn't want. this i want you to listen to the way our friend and colleague of "the new york times" described she did a podcast with the new yorker. >> we're used to a team of rivals. we're not used to a team of the bloods and the crypts which these are what we v. >> who are the bloods and crypts? >> i think i need to add in new names. there are something like six teams. >> does this shift the power on the street if you want to use the gang analogy? does this help? is this a victory for jared and

ivanka and a defeat for reince priebus or is that an over sim simplification. >> i think it's a victory for the new york elite that is around part of what is around donald trump. i think that -- i have the same deep skepticism that this is going to fundamentally and change donald trump's approach. on the other hand, shawn spicer was always sort of ill fitting in that administration. he wasn't the kind of person in any way that donald trump kind of could look at and say, yeah, that's the guy i want sort of carrying my message. and scaramucci sort of is. i think we will need to see over, i mean, he's on the shows this morning. he's doing other -- he'll be on tv all the time i think. if that proves to be something that is sort of a solve for donald trump, then it may change things a little bit.

>> one thing you can really tell from that press conference is how much anthony scaramucci enjoyed being up there, enjoyed talking to the press. he was kind of given the hook several times. he wanted to stay there and in some ways wanted to talk about him, his best-selling book which he joked was in the basement. talked about his days at goldman sachs and harvard law school. and people i talk to said that might be a problem. there's one thing to be there as a supporter of the president but is this also a platform about him if he ends up on the cover of "time" magazine, for instance, the president might see things a little differently. >> right. he should have a conversation with steve bannon about. th that. here's a question i v i want to show you, ten top white house people. you start with the president himself. the vice president, the chief of staff, the chief strategist, the president's son-in-law who is a big adviser, now anthony scaramucci, ivanka trump and gary cohen.

none of them ever worked in a white house. none of them have federal executive branch experience. mike pence has washington experience. mark short had time with capitol hill working with okay bailkay hit hutchison. he was elected on disruption. he was electsed on change. smart of him not bring in everybody as old hands. but does he hurt himself by having nobody who's done this before? >> i think just on the surface of it, he does. you can't look at the situation and think anything otherwise. of the people you showed, the two people on that chart that have some sort of political and organizational experience in this realm, sarah huc huckabee-sanders. the president didn't even come

out and announce her as the press sector put out a statement until much later in the day. there is a clear sense the people do not have the kind of political experience and certainly not white house experience to get some of the things done. i'm not saying that reince priebus and sarah huckabee-sanders are the foam drive throu people to drive through the agenda wins. they're not driving. this they're the folks trying to push sordz so push towards some white house operation. >> there is a complete lack of consistency. this white house has never been on the same page when it comes to policy. you have the new yorkers viewed as liberals in the administration. do you have people like sarah huckabee-sanders and reince priebus traditional republicans and shawn spicer came from that wing as well. then you have, you know, steve bannon and stephen miller and so on. so there is not a sense there is a coherent ideology driving this white house. scaramucci is someone who his a

republican donor and got behind jeb bush, he tweeted a lot of liberal leaning things. its not clear what direction they want on policy. >> praised hillary clinton. mocked the yfdidea of a border wall. so we have a lot of uncertainty. i want to remind you what we're losing, shawn spicer from the podium from day one was controversial. >> period! both in person and around the globe. i said it from the day that i got here until -- there is no connection. you got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, that is a russian connection. parse every word and make it a game of gotcha as opposed to really figure out what the policies are. ultimate lit best messenger is the president himself. he's always proven that.

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that part of a 21 gun salute for the president in chief as he commissioned a new afy aircraft carrier and promoted one of his top priorities, more military spending. >> it's been a very, very bad period of time for our military. that is why we reached a deal to secure an additional $20 billion for defense this year and it's going up. and why i ask congress for another $54 billion for next year. >> now the exact numbers are

still being debated. a bigger pentagon budget is one of the campaign promises the president is on track to keep. the overall score at the six month mark is more mixed and down right bleak. on the biggest promises. take a look at the ways to judge this. number one, how do you feel about how things are going on in the country? in january, 72% said no, things are not going well in the u.s. six months later, country feels just about exactly the same. that's not good for the president. he hasn't convinced people to be more satisfied about the direction of the country. now this is good news for the president. you look back to the beginning of the obama administration, unemployment spiked at 10%. 4.4% as president trump heads into the second six months. that's a good place for a president to be. low unemployment rate. the problem is the president's promises are built on morrow bust growth and the campaign he o promise aid job boom. so far the economy is doing well. not any better than the -- if you compare his first five months of jobs reports to the last year of the obama presidency, the same five months, actually job growth is morrow bust under president

obama. not bad for president trump but not the job's boom he promised just yet. take a look at another way to look at. this the jobs added in health care, not so much when it comes to coal mining or construction. growth but not the growth the president thought would be coming, in part the infrastructure plan stalled. coal mining, he says the jobs are coming back. let's look at the bigger picture. no progress, a little bit of progress maybe in obama care repeal and replace. the house passed the bill but stalled right now. there is progress in tougher trade deals. he had a few problems with can d.a. on the big ones, china, nafta, a lot of talk, no action yet. progress on immigration, absolutely. illegal border crossings are way down. there's been more enforcement in the cities. base is happy with. that no progress on building the wall yet. zero progress on tax reform. a lot of talk, no action. infrastru infrastructure remains stalled. the big ticket items, nowhere near the finish line. at the big military event, the

president put in a plug for his agenda, specifically, health care. >> i don't mind a little hand so-called that congressmen and senator and make sure you get it. by the way, can you also call the senators to make sure you get health care. >> anthony scaramucci said the ship is heading in the right direction. there are regulatory actions again. the economy is doing okay. some executive action, the immigration enforcement. but on the big things the president promised, you know, the big theme of the trump campaign, washington is stupid. i'll hire the right people and cut the big deals. we've not seen that six months in. >> we haven't. and in many ways it feels like groundhog day in this administration. lots of tweets about russia, lots of tweets about hillary clinton. lots of fights with the media. but on those big ticket items, not much is done. you don't see the president using the ample following and

actually going out there to get anything done. one thing you are starting to see is republican senators. not being afraid of this president. not being afraid to part ways with him, essentially thinking, you know, if you're ron johnson or dean heller in wisconsin or nevada saying i ran ahead of the president in any respective states. so that's one of the things we're seeing. this six months, not a lot getting done in the other -- the senators going their own way. >> he's on the road twice this week. he's going to west virginia and high hichlt wi ohio. will we see a shift? do you think he'll go to specific states and say i need a tough vote. i need her to do it, i want you to blame me, not her. will we get some of that? >> he's not going to the states where there is a vote to move. portman in ohio is already thought to be behind the health care legislation that's being done. west virginia, that may be a

problem for him. there's not a sense of focus on getting votes in the senate or getting senators into a room to work out a deal. did he have that one time on health care. it's amazing, the reference to health care was an aside. by the way, you can call -- will you please make them do it? and that has been his attitude towards this whole thing. >> virginia with two democratic senators. i know he is speaking to a national audience much the particular state he was in yesterday has two democrats in the senate. not happening. >> the lunch that molly referenced, you asked will the president learn? we have seen no evidence that president so far has learned from these kinds of things and that lunch that he had with half a dozen senators, they were all already in the -- in the yes category. in other words, he didn't use the power of his white house to bring folks over and lobby the hard cases. it was -- there's no evidence. >> and in addition to that, the president at the white house the other day says i don't own it. that scared a lot of republicans in the sense that if they cast tough votes, they want a

president to hold their back to support them. if the poll says bad idea three months from now, you don't want the president saying wash my hands of this as he did at the white house. >> let obamacare fail. it will be a lot easier. i think we're probably in that position where we'll just let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it. i'm not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans will not own it. >> the fear is that he doesn't understand. he always says they. he is the republican party. >> right. the other side of the coin is what neil is talking about, senator -- republicans are not afraid of the president in any of the useful political ways like they're going to vote with him because they're afraid if they don't they'll suffer political consequences. i think they're afraid of him in a sense that he's going to make us walk this plank, take the hard votes and then not be with us if it ends up hurting us in our states and driktistricts. that's a real problem for him much that's why you see a lot of the dysfunction on the hill and inability to move things.

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welcome back. we learned this past week the special counsel investigation is expanding in ways that have the president and the beefed up legal team on edge. the president's eldest son, his son-in-law, and former campaign chairman are about to face congressional investigators who want to understand why they met in the heatst 2016 presidential campaign with several russians known to have kremlin connections who promised incriminating information about

hillary clinton. >> a lot of this to me had kind of the standard textbook trade craft long employed by the russians and the soviets and now into the russians. so i don't find it surprising that these connections are trying to coming out. it would have been a really good idea maybe to have vetted and whoever they were meeting with. >> expect a public hearing down the road. but for now, donald trump jr., jared kushner and the campaign chief paul manafort will be interviewed in private much the special counsel this week told the white house to preserve all records, e-mails and notes related to that june 2016 meeting orchestrated by the president's son. there are new indications the investigation includes a look at trump organization real estate deals and financing.

>> i was looking at your finances and your family's finances unrelated to russia. is that a red line? >> is that a breech of what is actual -- >> i would say yes. >> in that stunning interview, the president made clear he blames his attorney general, jeff sessions, for the fact that there is a special counsel investigation in the first place. >> zero. so jeff sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself. which, frankly, i think is very unfair to the president. how do you take a job and then recuse yourself? if he would have recused himself before the job, i would have said thanks, jeff, but i'm not going to take you. it's extremely unfair. and that's a mild word to the president. >> i have rered and reread and relistened to parts of that interview because the president is telling us a lot in that

interview. he knows things about the investigation that we don't. he's being told attorneys what they're asking x and y and z and what records they're asking for. you get a sense in that interview where he blurts out about selling condos to russians and about how there is nothing wrong with. that about how just open he is there about how he believes jeff session sessions did something unfair to the president. we're at a very interesting moment. what do we make of that? >> look, i mean, the implication of that part that you just played, right, was that if -- is that what the president wanted in an attorney general was somebody to come in and protect him from the investigation swirling around him which is such a kind of perversion of the job of attorney general, right, in a kind of, you know, focus on just him which is then -- the word he used is unfair not to the presidency or the white house or the country but to the president. >> the constitution or -- right. >> and that i think is what -- i

mean it was an amazing interview that my colleagues d but that was the part i think that jumped out. >> the way he kind of played the time element there. he wanted him to think in advance of would he recuse himself if something like this happened. the recusal came after the revelations about the meetings that he had with russians, that he didn't disclose on the original disclosure forms and he had a conflict because of that. that is what caused him to have to recuse himself. so by saying now that he wishes that jeff sessions told him way back in november when he was chosen that he would recuse himself of anything like that came about, that gives you the sense and there's no other conclusion to draw without knowing what transpired in private that they knew there were going to be revelations to come out and he was under the impression that jeff sessions was going to stay and fight and protect him from the revelations. >> but it is the case that jeff sessions knew he had had these meetings. he didn't disclose them in the confirmation process. "the washington post" reported

on friday night that there are these intelligence intercepts of jeff sessions actually discussing campaign managers according to the russians and then trump seemed to confirm that was an authentic leak. he basically i will lewded it to having be -- eluded to it being a real thing. the news is fake but the stories are real. but there sis an issue to the white house. i don't think the white house is out of line to be displeased with sessions' lack of disclosure. >> a new leak from the amazon "washington post" this time against ag jeff sessions, thez illegal leaks must stop. the story is that the ambassador talking to his ambassadors back home said that jeff sessions in the meetings did talk about the trump campaign, did talk about potential trump administration policy, about sanctions, about how to deal with the kremlin. jeff sessions has said listen here, i did not.

>> i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i didn't have -- did not have communications with the russians. let me be clear, i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian interimmediainterimm the trump campaign. >> i never had any discussions with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any interference with any campaign or election in the united states. >> so the president's son, his son-in-law, his former campaign chief rinlt viewed by congress this week. the attorney general either was lying when he said that or the russians could be playing a game. let's be careful here. they understand they're being monitored. they understand they're being watched. sessions talked about all the things when did he not. that's why i make my point that at six months vladimir putin won. this is a sense of tension in the politics. the integrity and honesty of the people, if you thought the job

of the administration, the first six months was to put this in the rearview mirror is expanding, not contracting. >> you saw them in that interview, donald trump talk about what the strategy is and essentially to discredit everyone who is attached to this whether it is bob mueller or the deputy attorney general because he has ties to baltimore. so that is one thing that they're going to try to do essentially saying they're partisan. you do wonder about the fate of jeff sessions. does this put him on thinner ice than he was before? you heard the president express his dismay about the recusal. does this new revelation even put him on thinner ice? what can the president do now? it does seem like the ultimate target is mueller. the ultimate goal from this white house might be to get him removed and sessions obviously can't do that. >> one last comment, congress is about to send the president a sanctioned bill that slaps new sanctions on russia because of the 2016 behavior. it also deals with iran and north korea. can the president veto this?

we know he doesn't like it. but because it involves putin, russia, can he? >> he could. but the white house has worked very, very hard to not put him in a position to even have to consider a bill that had a h. a congressional review process in it for just this reason. this is going against a precedent that this white house and past white houses have rejected in the past and the question is, i mean, nothing else that they've done would indicate that they're going to take the political stakes of this and decide, you know what? it's too much. we can't. >> it's going to pass with a veto. >> yeah. >> the fact this is going on his desk represents congress standing up to the president in the most forthright way that they have to date. and that is going to set a benchmark for congressional relations where i think they're going to get more and more aggressive in the things that they are putting on. >> and worth repeating, congress led by republican senate, republican house. next, for all the chaos of the past six months, there is one constant, when the president wants to make a point or lash out, we all know where to look.

we're showing you a tweet from 12 hours ago. that's the last time the president tweeted about his visit to the uss gerald r. ford yesterday. he often tweets on sunday mornings. he's been quiet this morning. but let's take a look at history at the six month mark. you know his twitter handle. he has tweeted 1,026 times since becoming president of the united states. take a quick look. one of the reasons, he has 34.3 million twitter followers. he believes it's a way to communicate with the people who follow him. now if you want to take a look at the tweets, the president tlikz tweet in the morning. look at. this 5:00 a.m., 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m. that's when you see a lot of the tweets. sometimes later in the day when he is watching the news. he watches things on the news and reacts to them. the morning is the preferred time of tweeting. often on sunday mornings. what do people think about this? 67% of americans disapprove of the president's twitter use.

24% approve. let's look at more numbers. words associated with the associated. what do you think? inappropriate, insulting, dangerous. interesting, infectiveffective, refreshing. as the president now some of the aides often tell us that because they're frustrated, the boss catches them off guard, paid little or no attention to the president's tweets. the new communications director at least at the first public appearance makes clear he's a big fan. >> and the president is a very, very effective communicator. and he'll use social media, i think he's got -- if i get this wrong, i know i'll hear it from him. he has 113 million or 114 million. i know he's picking up 300,000 followers a day, god bless him. so to me, i think it's been very effective use of reaching the american public directly and so, listen, we -- i welcome him continuing to do that. >> now the speaker of the house

and the senate majority leader disagree with that take. the president should not and will not stop using twitter. it has been part of his political identity. it's very important to him. the question everyone has at this moment of shake-up is will he moderate it? if you ask the speaker, they've been public. they think at times it's distracting. at times it undermines the sensitive negotiations they're trying to do on things like health care. but it has been the constant of his first six months. >> well, he was only off by a factor of four there, scaramucci. >> yeah. >> that's not right. they're counting all social media including facebook. add them all together and assume there is no overlap. >> that's the problem, they're all overlapped. >> but the number does come from many sm wher somewhere. >> he doesn't expect him to moderate the twitter usage. ? the dream scenario he would keep it in dhcheck and only when it politically useful and communicate with his core supporters. i do think it's ininformative to

watch what he chooses to tweet about and those that he doesn't. those are the things that are most important to him and supporters. the problem for republicans is that doesn't necessarily line up with them and their priorities. >> right. to that point, it's undermine the obamacare negotiations. we had the big meeting we knew about. then he had a dinner conversation. the president tweeted out fake news of secret dinner with putin is sick. press knew. we knew he was at the dinner. we didn't know he had an hour long one-on-one conversation with the president of russia without any other american president. so there is no official government report of all. this i bring that up because part of the conversation, the president's tweets have driven a lot of the conversations about the russia story and given the russians, here's the foreign minister, a big platform n this case, it will be kind of funny. >> did you know about president putin and president trump meeting three times in the g-20? they met obviously for the

bilateral meeting and the dinner. >> maybe they went to the toilet together that, was a fourth time. >> they miss also photographed shaking hands much that's my question. did they meet other times? in the hallways? were there other occasions? >> when you're brought by your parents to a kindergarten, do you mix with the people who are waiting in the same room to start going to class? >> it's the g-20 though, not a kindergarten. >> that has little to do with anything. except that russian foreign minister a desired guest on "american morning" television. >> he talked about being sick of losing. the russians are sick of winning at this point. they invested time and money into meddling into the election and destabilizing things. and also being seen as an equal partner, equal footing with the united states and that's in some way what's is happening. what trump has given them.

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higher. even the prospect are very much in doubt. there is a lot of uncertainty about whether they're even going to be able to get that this year. >> that would be a huge set back. tick to being goes the clock. molly ball? >> a bipartisan couple of senators, dick durbin and lindsey graham reintroduced the dream act this week. this is the proposed legislation that would grant a form of amnesty to young illegal immigrants that have been in the country for a long time and meet certain requirements and may seem like a strange time to be doing that. but this administration sent very conflicting signals about a similar but executive program that exists. there are some state attorneys general that imposed a deadline on administration to tell them whether this is going to go or stay. they have been issuing work permits. so lindsey graham in the press conference introducing this said president trump, you can act against time and sol of this problem. they're hoping there's a chance for this. >> that will be a defining

moment for the president. >> we talked about anthony scaramucci, obviously one thing that looking forward we might see is -- and this, is you know, always determined dpeepending o donald trump himself and desires -- there could be an opportunity for press reboot over the issues that press corps is arguing with the president about, access to the president, press conferences, on camera briefings. there is a new white house correspondence association president who is coming in as it happens at exactly the same time that we have a new communications director and head of the communications shop. so will the president allow there to be kind of reboot on these issues? we'll see. >> we shall see. time will tell. >> the naacp meeting next week on starting monday in baltimore. really beginning the most important stretch of their annual conference. the question there, how does this very old, the old efest ci

rights conversation reinvent themselves in the era of resistance? they invited donald trump. he said no. he wasn't going to come. the white house said that they will be happy to work with the organization and be in touch with the organization. who will be there? eric holder there be l he'll be talking about gerrymandering, something important to democrats particularly. also being looked at as something of a 2020 cattle call. also in attendance, cory booker and bernie sanders. bernie sanders, of course, struggled a bit getting african-americans support when he ran last go around. we'll see what they have to offer. >> fun week ahead. i'll close it w. this the past few days caused a disturbing chill from the worker bees to cabinet secretarieses across the executive branch. the white house shake-up just part of it. more troubling to many is how the president in that remarkable "new york times" interview so publicly and repeatedly threw one of his earliest supporters, its attorney general jeff sessions, under the bus.

among those who found that unprofessional to say least, secretary of state rex tillerson, the former exxon mobil ceo. he has a long list of disagreements with the white house from personnel fights to big policy disagreements. that list grew even longer this past week. his friends outside washington for some time have been saying that tillerson talks of calling it quits around the holidays so he can say he gave it a year. it could be just fresh venting but keep an eye on foggy bottom. in the past day or two, there are rumbles that secretary tillerson is actively debating a much earlier exit strategy. we'll keep an eye on. that that's it for "inside politics" again. thanks for sharing your sunday. up next, "state of the union" with jake tapper and a live interview with the new man running the communications shop, anthony scaramucci. dude. yodude.unching's sthey're just jealous. kellogg's raisin bran crunch with crunchy clusters

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staff shake-up, shawn spicer is out, a fresh face is in. >> the president is a winner. what we're going to do is a lot of winning. >> can anthony scaramucci right the ship? he'll be here with me in minutes. and trump team under fire. a new report says jeff sessions maybe did discuss trump campaign m matters with the russian ambassador. >> i never had meetings with russian operatives about the trump campaign. >> as the inner circle prepares to talk to congress. al franken is going to grill