a new white house chief of staff. >> john kelly is one of our great stars. >> can a marine general calm the west wing chaos? plus -- >> i did not collude with russia. >> another staff shakeup won't solve the source of the president's anger. and defeat for his party. >> let obamacare implode. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. >> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world thank you for sharing your sunday. this week brings a new white house chief of staff. discipline and order are general john kelly's trademarks. can he impose them on a president who deliberately invokes chaos in the west wing? >> chain of command in the

military, well-run organizations. if he can do that, he's going to be successful. if you have these competing power centers that continue to play out, i think we still have problems. >> two big summer white house shakeups the last word or are is there more turmoil ahead, including a push to oust or to move the attorney general? >> i serve at the pleasure of the president. >> yes. >> if he wants to make a change, he can certainly do so. and i would be glad to yield in that search of this, no doubt about it. >> and what now for the republican agenda? score obamacare repeal as a giant gop promise broken and what could be senator john mccain's last big act was as much to the president as it was a protest of today's polarized politics. >> whether or not we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. we are his equal. >> with us to share the reporting and insight this is

sunday, michael bender of the wall street journal, michael warren of the weekly standard and cnn's sarah murray. word there would be a new sheriff in town came friday evening after a bloody and public week of west wing warfare. retired general john kelly, can current homeland security secretary, starts tomorrow as chief of staff. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a great, great american. reince priebus, a good man. >> you heard the president calling reince priebus a good man. he is gone now after seven months of constantly being called weak, ineffective and worse by the president. he finally took the hint or the shove and offered his resignation. >> the president has a right to change directions. the president has a right to hit a reset button. i think it's a good time to hit the reset button.

i think he was right to hit the reset button and i think it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it's healthy. >> okay. he thinks it's healthy. he's gone. that's what you say. the question is, what next? what changes? can general kelly, the anti-trump in many ways -- believes in order, discipline. he thinks before he speaks. can he change the behavior of the president's inner circle and, more importantly, can he change the behavior of the president? >> yeah. i think two things we need to see, precisely that, how will he impose order on both the senior level staff, the family and outside friends who influence the president or have wide-ranging walk-in privileges, call-in privileges, conversational privileges? will he seek to limit exposure to the president? not to do that but get reports after the fact about what folks talked about? how broadly will that apply? we all assume that the family, jared and ivanka, can come and go as they please.

will it apply to anthony scaramucci, steve bannon, strategist, that sort of thing? and is that the most important thing or is it how he manages president trump himself? does president trump want more self management or is that not what this is about? >> can you be a productive administration even amid all this chaos? the chaos doesn't necessarily bother trump. what bothers trump is that nothing is getting done what he wants to get done. maybe you still have these warring power centers. he's 70 years old. he's not suddenly going to stop calling his friends or people to pop by in the west wing. if you can do that and not be making policy about transgender serving in the military on twitter without going through proper order, can you have a chaotic west wing but still be a strong governing partner? can you do tax reform? if you have a little bit of back biting in the west wing but are still able to execute on those

priorityies, i think trump woul be perfectly happy with that. i just don't know that that's something that john kelly will be able to do either. >> that's a great question. he's a retired general of the united states marines, american hero. retired eight months before he was tapped to serve by trump. he was born and raised in boston, member of the red sox nation. points for that. served in iraq and afghanistan. used to work with leon panetta. he doesn't have a lot of political experience. top eight, nine, ten people in the white house, there's nobody with washington white house experience. can he impose the discipline and, to sarah's point, get things done for the president? >> i think john anklecy certainly capable of being an effective chief of staff. the bottom line is whether trump will empower him. what john kelly has working is respect for the president.

cabinet officials come in periodically for updates to the president, one of -- john kelly has always stood head and shoulders above almost all the rest of the cabinet, has results all the time for the president. the president respects his record. and something that priebus struggled with from the start. the president viewed him as weak from basically day one. >> i think the question is, how long does the president respect john kelly? right now he does have him at a distance coming in for updates as a cabinet member, not somebody in the west wing. there is tension there between the president and mcmaster. in many ways the president views mcmaster, sometimes talking down to him. if john kelly comes away as

well, that's a relationship that could sour. i find it hard to believe that john kelly can change that. >> who just hired a communications director in a way that john kelly found distasteful. anthony scaramucci came out and said reince is a bleeping paranoid schizophrenic. i'm trying to figure out john kelly's first, second, third day in the white house. he wakes up and is watching the news and sees something like this from anthony scaramucci. >> as you know, from the italian phrase, the fish stinks from the head down. i don't like the activity what's

going on in the white house. i don't like what they're doing to my friend, to the president of the united states and their fellow colleagues in the west wing. now if you want to talk about the chief of staff we've had odds, differences. when i say we're brothers from the podium, we're rough on each other. some brothers are like cain and abel. >> you understand military order and discipline, if you have trouble you don't air your laundry in public and with the vulgar language that anthony scaramucci used in "the new yorker." can he go to the president and say stifle him? can he go to anthony scaramucci and say before you go on television, check with me? can that happen? >> half of what he talks about are his discussions with the president me. and the president in the oval office, me and the president and the first lady out to dinner.

it's clear he was given the go ahead to go after reince and to talk about some of this publicly. and there was quite a different scaramucci the next day, that friday? every day is like three days. it was a crazy week. we didn't see him in public at all. we didn't see him on tv, in interviews. and when you walk by, the press said i'm not going to talk about it. >> if he doesn't know what he's getting into, general kelly -- there are reports that he turned the job done a couple of months ago. he said no, thank you, i have work to do at the department of homeland security. sarah huckabee sanders said, look, the president likes it this way. >> i don't know if he has an opinion on what they should do between the two of them. i think the president, as always, enjoys healthy competition and conversation and he sees that as such. >> right. here is the thing. there's a difference in terms of

reince priebus and john kelly in the way they approach this job. the commander in chief asks him to do something, is coming at things from a different posture in terms of his job than reince did, because he wanted to be there. he wanted that job and the ability to kind of shape this historic presidency and also, to some extent, make it work with establishment republicans who control congress. so general kelly has the ability to a greater extent to set the terms and certainly is being encouraged to do that but a cross section of people inside and outside of the administration who watch this had unfold. he has no shortage of good advice from inside and outside. also if he said no several times, the time you say yes is the time you, to some at least, get to do it on your terms. >> the leadership style we'll come back to later in the program. first week, day one, the president is up and tweeting again already this morning, criticizing republican senators

and how they approached health care. most generals don't like to go back on the battlefield unless the terms have changed. do we have a better weapon, do we have more troops? there's nothing that's changed on the health care debate. the president tweeting on china late last night. i'm very disappointed in chiena. our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars on trade yet do nothing with north korea. china could easily solve this problem. there's also been a test of anti-missile system in alaska last night. north korea tested a missile the other day. is this just another chapter in point counterpoint or are we moving toward something that general kelly is going to have to deal with as white house chief of staff? >> this is something that the administration has been preparing and moving toward its entire existence. this is an issue in north korea that, remember, that's what president obama told president trump on his way out the door, saying this is the biggest issue

you're going to have to deal with. serious people on the national security council who are thinking through new ways to deal with this issue. it is something that general kelly will have to deal with. simply because whether or not the administration decides to push this, that or the other on capitol hill, other domestic issues, national security and foreign polishes end up dictating -- events kind of dictate what a white house will have to deal with. >> the military people don't like the president tweeting because it raises expectation that you're going to do something. >> you're not going to stop the president tweeting. i think john kelly knows that and other military personnel serving around the president have realized that. yes, that's annoying, but that's the president they've got. they have to work around it. president trump has spent a lot of time working on this and thinking about it behind the scenes. that's the counter point. it's not just that he fire this is stuff out on twitter and they don't have a conversation with the president going forward. he took that advice from

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this past week will be remembered well for a lot of things. one, the week the president's management style triggered an intervention of sorts from his own party and the conservative base. the president makes it abundantly clear that he wishes that attorney general jeff sessions would quick. it's also clear that he wishes that would happen so that the president would get more control over the russian investigatorer. please cut it out, that was from ken star. listen to the growing chorus of voices who want you to succeed, by being faithful to the oath of office you took on january 20th and by upholding the traditions of a nation of laws, not of men. >> if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. any effort to go after mueller

could be the beginning of the end of the presidency unless mueller did something wrong. >> it wasn't just ken starr. a lot of people say don't make us choose between and you jeff sessions because we will choose jeff sessions. in congress, lindsey graham one of many voices, just one of the more colorful ones. don't force him out. if you do, you won't get a replacement. john kelly moving over from homeland security to the white house, will he just try to move him over to homeland security? is that a feasible option? >> i don't think it's over. i think trump is still upset about the recusal that happened months ago and maybe he has been distracted for the time being. i don't think that trump is over this yet and i don't think that trump thinks this is a political problem for him. yes, there are republicans who are doing everything they can to

stop him, you know, and from firing sessions. his political people don't see it as a problem. jeff sessions is pure in the base, has a lot of fans, particularly in washington, particularly among the conservative set in washington, but his political advisers are telling him things along the lines of what trump said back during the campaign, that he can walk down fifth avenue, shoot someone and the base would stick with him. the base is behind trump, not sessions. >> the interesting question to me, though, is would a new chief of staff, military disciplined, one of the grown-ups in the cabinet, one of the people who did not like the president publicly undermining his attorney general? does he tell the president it does not serve you well when an attorney general travels overseas, does not interview and has to say things like this? >> kind of hurtful but the president of the united states is a strong leader. i serve at the pleasure of the president. if he wants to make a change, can he certainly do so. i would be glad to yield in that

circumstance, no doubt about it. >> be glad to yield in that circumstance. he called the president a strong leader there. a number of republicans openly, and conservative commentators described the president as weak, trying to fire his own words back to him. is this a week where conservatives say enough, mr. president, or is it just them e reacting and theb it will pass? >> this conservative set in washington more aligned with jeff sessions than they are with donald trump, particularly on this issue. but voters voted for donald trump. it's donald trump that they're behind. it's seen by the president this way. if it's seen by the voters that the mueller investigation is a bigger problem than anything he could be doing, trying to get around jeff sessions and this investigation, they're going to stick with him. that's probably the right view

political politically, if not constitutionally. >> is the turmoil over? good laughter. i like that. jeff sessions is twisting in the wind. i like that. fbi director james comey was fired. as the president himself said, because he didn't like the way, at least in part, he was handling the russian investigation. communications director, national security adviser, deputy national security adviser, chief of staff, press secretary. a number of them, reince priebus, sean spicer, were from the conservative party. that's a lot of turnover. you laughed when i said are we done. >> that's because the president is the president. he's not going to stop tweeting, pitting aides against each

other. this is how he has run his business, his campaign. that's how he wants to run the white house. fine. if you are traditionally a white house chief of staff, you're not in that job for tuckly long amount of time anyway. this might be the kind of presidency where we see him burn quickly through a number of staffers. but, no, this is not the end of him being angry at jeff sessions. it's not the end of him pitting aides against each other. >> the question i come back to is management style issue. can a new chief of staff change him? retired marine general will be the chief of staff. active duty generals were annoyed beyond belief because on twitter he announced the change of transgender members in the military. no heads up to the joint chiefs. the president tweeted it out in a series of chiefs to which the chairman of the joint chiefs issued a statement saying there will be no modifications to the current policy until the president's direction has been received by the secretary of defense and he has issued implementation guidance. meantime all of our personnel will continue to be treated with

respect. that's the top general in the united states saying i was just blind sided by the president. everybody stand put until we figure this out. >> absolutely. fundamentally, kelly can manage him, advise him. these various groups helped him become the president. the wing led by steve bannon, the conservative wing and the wall street wing. whether they're the reason he's president or he is the reason he's president and right now he instinct east ofly seems to be leaning to the idea he's the reason he's president. there may be more to come. the question is, for general kelly, can he use not just his experience but ties to essentially other generals, to mattis, mcmaster, to tillerson, to help constrain the president and retool his thinking? >> will the default always be

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something that's grais great. we're going to repeal health care, replace that garbage known as obamacare. >> i'm going to ask congress to send me a bill to repeal and replace, finally, obamacare. it's a zafrtd! under senate rules that bill can be passed with 51 votes -- 51. not a big deal. especially if we hold the senate, and i think we will. >> candidate trump was right. republicans did hold the senate in last year's election, but he was wrong, that repealing obamacare could be quick and would be easy. getting a bill through the house, you might remember, was messy. you might also remember he stage this had big celebration at the white house, then pulled the rug out from under those house members who cast off votes by calling the legislation mean. gop's senate effort to keep repeal and replace alive, those efforts collapsed early friday

when senator john mccain walked to the well of the senate, turned his thumb down and cast the deciding vote. >> i, and many of my colleagues, did as we promised and voted to repeal this failed law. we told our constituents we would vote that way. and when the moment came, when the moment came most of us did. it's time to move on. >> the question is, move on to what? tax reform is no cake walk. millions of americans have pressing health care questions now. here is the president's take. >> boy, oh, boy. they've been working on that one for seven years. can you believe that? the swamp. but we'll get it done. we're going to get it done. i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode.

and then do it. it turned out to be right. >> that's the president on friday, let obamacare implode. yet yesterday and again this morning he's tweeting something quite different. he wants republican senators to come back at this. come back. don't be quitters. unless republican senators are total quitters, repeal and replace is not dead. demand another rote before voting on any other bill. why is the president so committed to pushing republicans to keep trying when it's pretty clear from what we saw this past week they don't have the answers to these policy divides and one of the reasons john mccain voted no, he told associates, was otherwise you get a house senate conference committee. three, four months from now they thought they would be having the same conversations. why does the president want them to come back to this? >> there are a couple of strategies at play. they use "they" instead of we. >> they don't like that. >> the head of the republican party. every time he says they instead

of we, he's putting distance between himself and the republicans. part of this may be an effort to go back to his own base and say i did everything i could. i told them to go to 51 votes. i told them throw everything you've got at it. and they're the ones who walked away from it. part of it may be he loved to see them do the nuclear option so he could get some legislation passed beyond the health care legislation. i think there's a little danger in this game of we versus they or they versus we, which is if he's already increasingly vulnerable to having republicans turn on him and then he does things like let go his chief of staff, who many of them like who is a connection to the main group of republicans, threaten jeff sessions, all these different sort of legs of his base at the same time, then putting that distance between himself and them also gives them some freedom to put distance between themselves and him. >> i think margaret is right about the effort here by the president to sort of shift blame to congress instead of himself. it's important we remember most

of the problems with the repeal effort had to do with getting these conferences, moderates, conservatives, people in between, together. did the president do any major speeches touting any of the policy initiatives of this new bill? throughout the whole thing, no. in fact, every time i talk to the white house about what is the white house doing about this, they would say, well, mike pence goes down to congress. speak to the senate luncheon every week. that can do a lot of arm twisting on the inside. clearly not enough. but the public campaign, the president was never a part of. now i think he's trying to sort of correct the record, or change history a little bit. >> what does he do for the people watching in the united states that we're coming up on the season in which the insurance companies set premiums and make decisions. we're not too far away from the end of the year. people have to decide can i leave my job?

what do i do when open enrollment season comes? will the administration continue the subsidies that go to insurance companies that participate in the obamacare exchanges? the president tweeting if the new health care bill is not completed, bailouts will end very soon. house democratic leader nancy pelosi said there are parts of the senate bill that deal with insurance payments. the democrats would support that. take a piece out and support t yesterday she essentially challenged the president. >> this is the law. the affordable care act is the law. and the funds that need to be there, the president has the power to release or hold. we need to make sure he does not sabotage the affordable care act. we need them to put forth the funds and do the outreach.

>> would the president carry through with that threat? >> he hasn't yet. how he talks about letting obamacare fail it's different from letting it fail on its own to pushing it over the edge, which would be sabotaging, withholding these payments. the administration has talked about this issue and it's dangerous to predict that. what trump will do on any given day here. the language he has used so far indicates if he's going to let obamacare fail, he would let it fail on its own. >> what do we make of the deciding vote on senator john mccain? he threw his thumbs down. i want you to listen before we talk about it. this is what he said. allowed the debate to continue but said he had a message for his colleagues.

>> stop listening to the bombastics on the radio, internet and television. to hell with them. let's trust each other. we keep spinning our wheels because we keep trying to find a way to win without reaching across the aisle. >> i hope i'm wrong but the senator is going home for chemotherapy and given what we've seen, that speech may be his last on the floor. >> save mike pence, the republican party -- he hasn't really been in power and rand hasn't been effective in congress. conservatism of trusting each other, not giving into the fringe voices on the outside and

trump is basically removed everyone from inside the white house with connections to that party. >> i think he's making a prosaic point. if you go back, and congressional leaders would say go back to january and start doing this whole health care thing through regular order, having committee hearings, you might have actually gotten a consensus among republicans and could have passed something. so there's a sort of very straightforward point mccain is making here, which is this could have gotten done had we done it the right way. mcconnell left it open. >> what we're doing ain't working. let's try something else. >> the senate should give the president a run for his money, the executive branch has become too strong. it's time for congress to get back in the game. >> that was pretty clear. we're not his equals. clear about that. sit tight. up next, the white house says the president will sign new sanctions on russia. he didn't really have a choice.

i did not collude with russia. nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian fund funds for my businesses and i have been fully transparent in offering all the information. >> just this past week after first of two days being questioned by investigators. russia election meddling investigations fuel the president's anger way more than any rivalries. remember this a week ago from the president's new communications director. >> he called me from air force one and basically said to me, hey this is -- maybe they did it. maybe they didn't do it. >> so consider this irony. the president will sign his first major piece of

legislation, law imposing new sanctions against the kremlin for election interference. election interference the president himself refuses to fully acknowledge and condemn. he can't like that, but have no choice. the white house confirming that the president would sign this legislation. it passed with such overwhelm ing majority, if he vetoed it the congress would pass it. >> i would bet on yes and what's it going to say? assuming there is one on that front, will he have not just his own legacy in mind but that of presidents who come after. if you're the executive branch you don't want congress constraining your ability on sanctions. to some extent that's what this does. you can imagine if there were an obama or bush in the white house, this thing would have never gotten this far. because it's trump and the baggage he brought with them it

became an unavoidable -- >> tying the hands of a republican president. >> because they don't trust him on this issue and that statement that scaramucci made is why. the intelligence agencies are in agreement about the russian meddling, the chief thas that t put in are in agreement. and the president thinks it's an attack on the legitimacy of his presidency. it's gone so far down field he has no control of what's going on with the special counsel investigation. is the anger against sessions going to dissipate? the risk that he could wake up one day and decide to fire mueller going to go away? no, it's not. mueller has hired white collar attorneys, jared k suchlt hner and his children's finance koss all get drawn into this. that makes him more livid than anything, that he cannot stop this ball from going further down the field and it could involve his businesses.

>> more lived than anything, the president goes on the road. they get him out of washington. the event friday with the police in long island was scheduled before they knew they were going to lose the health care vote. >> i have a simple message today for every gang member and vinl ail kren that are threatening so violently our people. we will find you, we will arrest you, we will jail you and we will deport you. >> he talked about the border wall again in that speech. is this just singing his greatest hits at a speech out of town or are they worried about their own base and the president was trying to bring up his own base? >> i think they're always concerned about the base here. his approval ratings are high 30s at best. that's generally the base. if they give up any ground on that, what's left? i mean, that's his -- that's all his leverage right there.

>> and i think he's sensitive, too, to the fact that there hasn't been a lot of movement on any of these issues. and so maybe, again, playing those greatest hits is a way to sort of toss a bone to the base or at least to say, look, i'm thinking about this. even if there's nothing substantive. and he probably recognizes that. >> another thing that happened -- i want to play a little more of that speech. the president spoke to boy scouts in the past week and the boy scouts apologized after, saying the president gave used some coarse language and after the police event the president said this. >> you see these towns and these thugs being thrown into the back of the paddy wagon, thrown in rough. i said please don't be too nice. like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over -- like don't hit their head and they've just killed somebody. don't hit their head. you can take the hand away,

okay? >> the police department in that county and the new york police department said that was reprehe reprehensible. why does the president say these kinds of things? >> he loves this. i wonder if any of those statements from the police, the boy scouts ever get back to trump. we were in the oval office tuesday for an interview. he insisted that that boy scout speech went well. when i tried to suggest that maybe it was a little mixed he was adamant i was wrong and in the room everyone loved it. >> our reporters share from their notebooks next. a look at the president's summer travel plans. about a medication... ...this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain... ...and protect my joints from further damage. humira has been clinically studied for over 18 years. humira works by targeting and helping to... ...block a specific source... ...of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms.

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have enough to do, enough challenges in this first couple of weeks the west wing is going to be largely close for the record renovations for about half of august. this is going to kick in days after he starts his new job. repairs to hvac system that is 27 years old but in dog years is like 81. it needs to be replaced. we leak in the roof the other day. they have to do painting and new carpet. on top of the actual structural challenges, geographic challenges as well. >> add some cameras as to who is going in and out of the oval office. >> one of several personnel issues for donald trump in this administration. if he's going to rein in anthony scaramucci, stop belittling jeff sessions. rex tillerson is very frustrated that the white house is running more and more of the foreign policy out of the white house.

and h.r. mcmaster is not gelling with tillerson, steve bannon and has been rebuffed by the president for request for modest increases in troops in afghanistan. >> fun job. fun job. michael? >> 20 news cycles ago it seems, but there is the question about jeff sessions and what is the president going to do about his attorney general? if he does fire jeff sessions and tries to get a replachl, the best possible option is a recess appointment. they're talking about this in the white house. two of the top lawyers in the administration are experts on this topic. francisco, the nominee to be solicitor general and james burnam, one of the white house counsel lawyers argued in front of the supreme court two years ago actually against the obama administration and their attempt to make recess appointments. those were some people that i imagine the president is, you know, calling on for counsel on what to do if he decides to go

ahead and do a recess appointment. >> i bet they took good notes about what the other side said. sara? >> white house ren vagus may be coming at a good time for trump. we're expecting him to spend time in august at, of course, his golf club in bedminster. doing more rallies, going to west virginia next week. the thing to watch is whether the president has learned any lessons from this health care defeat. does he try to sell specific agenda items, does he try to sell specific elements of tax reform or do we get the same sort of kitchen sink, slam the media, rant about whatever you're feeling that day and maybe do a little tax reform along the way? we'll see if he has learned any lessons about having strong partners on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. >> great month to travel, august, of course. watch the dynamic between the president and top two republicans in congress as we move into august and beyond. speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell

have never been warm and fuzzy when it comes to president trump. they view him as unpredictable, unreliable. and it's getting worse, they think. he just forced reince priebus, ryan's ally, out as chief of staff. the president suggested republican senators are fools and that mcconnell just doesn't know how to make the best use of his power. allies describe both the speaker and majority leader as beyond frustrated with the president's behavior and increasingly worried they will pay a price for it in the 2018 midterms. keep an eye on that. that's it for "inside politics." up next, "state of the union" with jake tapper. stume p. bill assumed his mayo was the best choice. assume nothing. just like the leading brand, kraft real mayo is made with high quality ingredients at a price you can feel good about no wonder kraft is so good.

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