up on what you picked up on. he was an honorable general and he was someone who was doing a very good job at homeland. >> yeah. and that's going to leave a huge gap to fill. but the main thing is, again, maybe priebus wasn't the right political job. it is pay political job of the he needs a politician in there. >> a little more respect on the way out. all right. that does it for this hour. more breaking annuals now with "mtp daily" and chuck todd. hi, chuck. >> wow, one way to end a friday. >> how is that for a lead in. >> i'll take it. well, good evening. yep. there is the news. i'm chuck todd. we've seen a lot of dramatic and bizarre weeks under this president srkts but never anything quite like this. and we've got the breaking news right now. the major shake up that had been rumored sibls the day the president took office actually happened today in the president's inner circle. moments ago the president made this announcement on twitter. i am pleased to inform had you that i have just named general secretary john f kelly as white

house chief of staff. he is a great american and a great leader. john has also done a spectacular job at homeland security. he has been a true star of my administration. so this means that current chief of staff reince priebus is out. whether he was fired or resigned, we'll is to find that out in a few minutes. as breaking news comes the day after white house communications director anthony scaramucci publicly blasted priebus as a paranoid skiz forensicic. we're going to get to the health care collapse in just a minute. but we begin with this breaking news. so let's go over to kelly o'donnell at the white house. so, kelly, secretary kelly, he had been rumored as a potential replacement over the past couple of days. but suddenly it moved fast. and i have to say, apparently the president was tweeting out his new chief of staff while reince priebus was still on air force one potentially. what more can you tell us, kelly? >> our best understanding is that he would still be on air force one, although priebus do have did he plaend from the rear of the aircraft.

with a little bit of a delay he has also tweeted a thank you to renls priebus for his officers to the administration and the country. this is a long time coming and on a rainy friday in washington with the president giving a wave under the umbrella, he is making a charj change in his administration. on that aircraft today air force one were two people who were kind of polar rivals in this trump or bit, renls priebus who came from the rnc who has been with the president as a partner for a year since the president assumed the nomination in july of last year working with him in the white house. much of his portfolio was delivering on big things like health care. last night after multiple attempts, multiple setbacks, it appears that is as dead as it can possibly be at this point. although people in the white house say there might be another way to revive health care. the the fate of reince priebus seems to be at least on a policy, maybe even on a deeper level of a personal level tied

to fate. and what he is also doing is saying that john kelly in his role from general to select has been a stand out in the administration on a lot of issues important to the trump base, to the trump campaign promises, and so he is taking someone who he believes and has seen as being successful in this atmosphere and bringing him right into the white house. >> one quick question, kelly. this is somebody who had a long career in the military. essentially his first job after the military is secretary of homeland security. this is somebody that we have no idea his views on health care. don't know what he has ever done on taxes. probably isn't familiar with the senate map and things like that. he's not a very political guy per se because that's not his career. do we know how big his portfolio as chief of staff will be at this point? >> that is one of the big questions, especially with an anthony scaramucci coming in as a communications director. but acting as a kwas i chief of staff in the way he has talked

about his hiring and firing power and his direct line to the president. perhaps the chain of command experience that john kelly has can try to bring order to an oval office where a number of people seem to have walk in privileges and perhaps that can help streamline some of the operation. but it all starts at the top, not the chief, but the president, in determining what kind of power structure they want to have. kelly certainly does not have political experience. he doesn't have the contacts. he certainly testified before congress during his military career. >> sure. >> but he doesn't have those kinds of skills. does he bring a tactical bunker set of experiences? sure, he does. and maybe that's doing the kind of abrupt change for the president. he took someone from the political establishment and now he's going to a place where he feels a lot of confidence, and that's the united states military. i would also imagine the president will think this will be a well reviewed and perceived move at a time of chaos and that that's important to the president as well. >> and i think one other asset he brings.

he's not somebody who has a lot of relationships in the media. good, bad or indeterminate. >> sadly, that's true. >> and eats r he's not somebody that actually likes to interact with the media which i'm guessing nor this president might be something he appreciates. kelly o'donnell, you've got a lot more to do on this, i know. in fact, go find out what the fate of sep is, if you could, would you. >> working on it. >> all right. just now another tweet by the president on this shakeup, a thank you to reince priebus. quote, i would like to thank reince prescribe for his service and dedication to his country. we plishld a lot together and i am proud of him. >> joined now by michael steele, who was the press secretary for -- who worked as spokesman for bush 43 in that white house and was also communications drek or on the rubio campaign. gentlemen, welcome. i'm going to be full disclosure. you are on here because we were going to talk about your experience in capitol hill, your experience work wg the west wing, all this crazy dysfunction. so you're learning this news as i am. you've worked in a white house,

alex, so i'm going to ask you, i think, look, secretary kelly, there's no doubt this will get good reviews. this has been a very professional guy. i've had interactions with him. he's a very impressive individual. but there is a lot of aspects of being chief of staff that he's had no experience doing. what's your quick take on this? >> well, this was not a surprise. i mean, the situation was untenable. there were effectively two chiefs of staff with the mooch -- >> on a good day there were two. >> we woke up this morning and clearly there were two people who thought they were chief of staff to the president. that was untenable. now one of them is out. the big question i think is do does the new chief of staff, does he reorganize the west wing. this is not about reince priebus. this is a recognition that six months into this presidency it is a failed presidency. he has not done any of the big things that he promised he would do. and he doesn't have momentum on any of the big things. so it's a reflection that there needed to be a shake up mt that's what this is about. >> i've got to think capitol

hill is looking at this going oh, okay. this will be okay. >> yeah. i think there's a couple of different layers of that. i mean, reince priebus has a great relationship with speaker ryan. on the other hand, he doesn't have deep legislative experience. he comes from the political side of the operation. obviously general kelly doesn't either. but the big question is whether the president is going to undercut his new chief of staff the way he undercut his old chief of staffment the problem with reince priebus as chief of staff had nothing to do with reince. >> he never had a chance to be chief of staff. >> correct. >> let's be fair here. did he ever have a chance? >> no, this is the problem of this president who can't pick a course, plan and stick with it long enough to achieve a goal. and the question is whether general kelly with his military background with presumably a higher level from the president himself can get the president to focus in a kipt way. >> i find it interesting it does come after basically on the day after the failure of health care. and as you just point out earlier, he doesn't have a legislative -- major legislative accomplishment.

it was teerting toward failure here in general. this is an acknowledgment of that. >> yeah, absolutely. this is an ak nonlment that iks is six months in this presidency is heading on the wrong track. his poll numbers continue to go further and further down. the speech he gave this arch it was about trying to defend his base, protect his base because i think a lot of conservatives are now saying what's the point of having all three branches of government if president trump can't deliver anything. so i think it's a recognition that there needed to be some sort of a reset. hopefully elempower the new chief of staff to make the changes. and that ellisten to this new one unlike he does his last one. >> one other aspect of general kelly here is he does roims across the aisle and the most successful white house chiefs of staff had that. i'm thinking leon pan et at that, andy car, frankly dennis mcdone oh overtime.

jack lieu in many ways. >> yeah. i think first of all far from draining the swamp this is the most washington move you can imagine. big legislative failure, heads will roll. not obviously the president, but we'll make some changes in the staff. bring in the new coach. but one question as you point out is whether this signals that when the president won unexpectedly and we had republican control of the house, the senate and the white house, unexpectedly, they embarked on a very, very aggressive legislative campaign to act with -- using reconciliation, strict party line efforts. >> a partisan legislative campaign. >> health care has wobld it seems to its conclusion. tax reform is next. resumeably if we can get the budget done, also ideally on a partisan basis. is this a signal that the president is seeing the limits of that partisan only strategy and looking for a broader coalition? >> one thing i felt like that

came is that the party still hasn't reconciled what it's for right now. the different faxes in the party, ale, and you went through this the hard way during the campaign, but the different faxes, the president tapped into this populist base, business community in another place, different facto ins. what united them was bifrm simply obama and that came to an end. what role should mcconnell and ryan now play in all this. >> obvious stl they're leaders of the republicans on capitol hill and that's an incredibly important role because the white house -- >> are they weaker today because of what happened in health care? >> i don't think so. i mean, look, health care didn't pass because of president trump. >> really you lay it at the feet of more than -- >> first of all, he's the leader of the republican party but second of all, no congress is going to pass monumental reforms

without presidential leadership. where were the presidential speeches, press conferences. >> where was the event in bang or, maine for instance or charleston west virginia. >> i absolutely put it at the president's feet. >> republicans are always on bad ground on health care. this is not one wing. taxes, the economy these are areas where we're strong. poll sters reported today that white working class voters still say republicans are better on the job and economy. >> well, and you would have assumed maybe you would have started with that. we can talk about that in hindsight. boy, that vision at this point is 2100. michael steele, alex coanyone. thanks for coming in and being flexible. nothing like breaking news. >> always an adventure. >> our political units we musd about the wheel's coming off

president trump's white house. even before this after's news those wheels certainly seemed to believe in the rear view mirror. wegsd it before but this week's turmoil may have been the worst one yet. here is a little time capsule. >> that tweet is essentially the president calling on his own democratic of justice department to investigate his former political opponent. that's what that tweet is and that's what has really raised some eyebrows here in washington. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office. >> i think he's crazy. >> i'm worried. >> i mean, i don't -- >> we have a few of them up here that we feel like we can at least give you an idea of how scaramucci described reince priebus and steve bannon. let's put up a few of these quotes now. what have we got ready on screen here? reince is a exreply active

deleted paranoid skriz fring. what i want to do is i want to exreply active deleted kill all the leakers and i want to get the president's agenda on track so he can succeed for the american people. >> that all happened in this one week. and of course, ends with a new chief of staff. let's bring in tonight's panel. welcome. ramesh, john kelly, problem solved? >> well, i think that it is going to be very hard for anybody to run this white house wp kind of military precision, even somebody who has got a military background. and you've got to wonder, everybody says he's got a great reputation. people say great things about him. you've got to wonder about the judgment of anybody who would take this job, especially under

these circumstances. >> but an, it's probably harder for steve bannon to yell at reince priebus in front of others or a jared kushner to just dismiss a guy who was a four star general. >> yeah. i mean, clearly kelly walks into a room and you know he's there, right. he's a big guy. he has a very direct manner of speaki speaking by all accounts he has a good relationship with trump. they didn't know one another before this. and also, he's developed a good reputation among other people at the white house with mcmaster, with mcmaster's deputy, dina powell. he has a pretty good relationship with rex tillerson. i know nothing of his relationship with steve bannon, but that is definitely one to watch. >> jake, is this a guy who does have bipartisan friends on capitol hill, which is usually most of our good chiefs of staff over the last couple of decades did. >> yeah.

that's a huge plus and the fact that this is somebody who knows how to run an organization. at this point, frankly, with this white house, build an organization. and he knows how to do all that. the question is to what extent is he empowered by the president. will everyone report up through him. >> i was just going to say, anthony scaramucci, who you report to. >> if scaramucci continues to report directly to the president as he claims, although we haven't quite heard that from the president, that would be a problem. now, i think that would be a problem for general kelly and i think -- i'd love to see that encounter. i'd love to see the mooch run into general kelly. >> we're talking about partisan ties. we've got a new communications director who was an obama fund raceser. we've got some high profile people in the white house, jared and ivanka. president trump's relationship with the republican party has been uneven and rocky. where are the actual republicans

in this white house? >> it's interesting, i was thinking about if you're about to head in a direction where the base is going to get nervous because you're going to fire sessions and you're going to get rid of bannon and you're thinking -- kelly does -- the one thing kelly has done for those that cared the most about the issue of immigration he's clearly tightened the borders and that's had an impact. with that trump base they've got to like kelly. >> he got marching orders and went out and did it. in his first trip he and tillerson went to mexico and basically said we're here to tell you that we're going to build the wall and we're sorry you don't like that. which went over great with the base. and presumably he can continue to do exactly that. >> for what it's wot wall street journal and the guardian are both reporting that reince told two reporters that he actually resigned privately yesterday. >> oh. okay. that's interesting. >> and, you know, there had been rumors about that and now we

know that those rumors were true. >> more leaks. >> i think his point is absolutely right, though. where are the republicans? reince priebus, sean spicer, all the people who had connections through the republican national committee to the republican party in general and were in promise nebt positions all of a sudden they're not there. and if sessions, you know, the torture of jeff sessions continues, you know, what are republicans to think? they can't be in a very good mood right now given what happened last night. >> no. that's for sure. >> you still have guys like mick mulvaney. if he was gone you would then say ks bl okay all of them are gone. >> one interesting thing is it's not as though priebus and sessions are from the same wing of the republican party. he's apparently perjuring people from all different sides of the republican party and not in favor of other republicans. it is a really remarkable turn of events for any president.

>> all right, guys. let's take a break here. i had a lot of other things that we were going to touch on. we're going to get to those, i promise, in a few minutes. so stay with us for this breaking news. renls priebus officially out as chief of staff. john kelly the homeland security secretary is officially in. coming up, if this white house can't function on a daily basis what happens if there's a real crisis and who is in charge. maybe we finally got the answer to that question. and if it's sunday, is we're going to take a closer look at what has been a chaotic white house on "meet the press." so check your local listings. we'll be right back.

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in fact, here is a clip of the president talking just now. it's in the rain, so it's a little noisy. >> mr. president, why p secretary kelly? why john kelly? >> 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. thank you very much. >> there you had it. the president putting his tweets essentially to camera there for those of us in the media. we'll have a lot more on the impact and the fallout from the president's naming of john kelly as chief of staff in just a minute. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. remote moisture sensors use a reliable network to tell them when and where to water.

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to the white house. i've got two people who know him in different ways. pete williams, of course our chief justice correspondent, just interviewed secretary kelly a few days ago in aspen. i've got jeremy bash, long-time aide to secretary of defense -- former secretary of defense leon pan et at that. in fact, when he was chief of staff, the senior military advisor, general kelly. worked side by side for quite some time. so pete, let me start with you. it was no secret that president trump of all of his cabinet secretaries, secretary kelly is the one he's always felt the best about because it seems that he has been getting the most accomplishments done as far as his agenda is concerned. you just interviewed him. some of this had been percolating about the idea of general kelly going into the white house. what can you tell us about him? >> well, i asked him at the very beginning of this -- this is the

aspen security conference in front of a large crowd i said, you know, how did you end up in this job? weren't you pretty much through with public service? he said he had been out of the military for several months. he was home watching football and he got a phone call from reince priebus. and he said as soon as he convinced himself that it really was reince priebus and not one of his buddies playing a joke, reince priebus asked if he'd be willing to come back into the government. he said he agreed to have an interview with president-elect trump. he said that he did so with some trep addition because the president said i want you for the toughest job in the government, and kelly said i was afraid he was going to ask me to be secretary of state. and then he said when he offered me the job of homeland security secretary, i said i'd think about it. he was in a jovial mood when i talked to him about this, chuck. he said he asked his wife about it. she said well, you know, we're a family of public officers. and besides that, i'm not sure i want you around the house all the time in retirement.

so he said he agreed to take the job. but on a more serious note, i think you're right. kelly has been walking, frankly, a very narrow line between being loyal to the president but not so blindly loyal that he doesn't acknowledge when he thinks the president has been a little bit off the revgs in a very gentle way. but he's led the charge on building the wall, which is one of the president's priorities for controlling the southern border. and by the way, chuck, he comes by this concern about the southern border naturally because he was the head of the southern command, and it was his job to try to oversee the military side of this. so he's seen that through his eyes as a commander and believes very strongly that the president is right about the need to control the flow of goods and people across the southern border. so that's been one of his biggest accomplishments. he's also been the person to push through the enforcement of the president's travel restriction that's been back and forth through the courts.

kelly has made no secret of the fact that he's very frustrated by that. and then as you know, he's led this very aggressive push to try to get foreign airports and airlines to increase their level of security because of the concern about the so-called laptop bomb. and he worked very hard on that to persuade european allies to go along with it and it's now in effect. >> very quickly, pete, what's his reputation on capitol hill? everything i hear is that it's pretty good in both sides of the aisle. >> yes. he's well respected. i think, you know, he's earned the respect from a 45-year career in the military, in the marine corps. and he's been -- he's been pretty blunt with members. he did get off to a kind of rough start when he basically said, you know, i'm just enforcing the law. if you want to change it, that's your job, not mine. not the most con sill to her tone. he actually had the job -- >> though he was right, pete. i remember that yes and answer. he was right.

it's congress's job to write the law. >> that's right. no, he's absolutely right. it may not have been the thing they wanted to hear the most. but, you know, he knows the congress well. people forget he was in charge of congressional liaison at one point in his career for the marine corps. >> how about that. >> so he knows the congress well. he's no political naf. >> well, and in fact that's what i want to talk about next. pete williams, thank you, sir. joining me now is jeremy bash. former chief of staff at both the department of defense and cia. full disclosure, the initial topic you and i were going to talk about today is this concern particularly at the pent dpon how things happened this week in the world of national security from the transgender decision by the president, how that was communicated or frankly not communicated, how the dysfunction had some folks at the pentagon nervous and invoice la pay former general gets named chief of staff and i'm thinking, boy, all these people you were talking to, jeremy, must be breathing a sigh of relief right

now. >> well, first, john kelly is a great american. he's a great man. and i think we should note public service is really the reason he decided to go work for donald trump. he's not a democrat or a republican and he's totally apolitical. and i've had many conversations with him. and as you noted, i worked with him closely at the pent done gon. 's a close personal friend. he and kaish have given every measure for our country. their son robert was of course killed in action in afghanistan. and he has another son, his other son john junior is getting ready to deploy overseas. so this is a man in whom every fiber of his being is about public service. and i think when the president called him and said will you be my chief of staff the only thing he thought about was am i serving the country. now, that's great and we want people like that in government servicement the question is is in a no win situation. >> i want to ask you about because you have worked closely with him. pete williams noted and i didn't realize this about his background that he was congressional relations for the marine corps.

that's an interesting and a very helpful, actually, part of his resume being a white house chief of staff. but how familiar is he with tax policy? you know, is he going to be a guy that's when -- that's going to be able to strike the balance between politics and policy when frankly a chief of staff does have to do stuff like that. the president needs to be campaigning over here because it will help us with this effort over there? is that him? i'm guessing it's not. but can he get up to speed? >> i think he'd be the first person to admit that, no, those domestic policy issues have not been in his wheelhouse. and, you know, he's close to the president. the president calls him often. in fact, the president earlier in this presidency asked him whether he'd consider being chief of staff. he'd asked him whether he'd consider being fbi director and he's also called him to talk about things like tax reform. do you know who you're talking to? you're talking to your homeland security chief. but the president said to him, yeah, but john, you think like

average americans, you're salt of the earth you reflect the way americans think and i want your views. that's the way the president thinks about john kelly, but these are very technical issues. these are politically laden issues and i think kelly is going to call upon a lot of support from the white house team to get through them. >> i guess what's interesting here is and i think going back to the issue we were describing, you know, the president's been dealing with an afghanistan review that frankly i know some people have been troubled by in the military community, the way the transgender decision was rolled out is go that troubled the pentagon. how much will just kelly's presence there ease a general mcmaster at the nsc and ease the mind of general mattis over at the democratic of defense. >> i think there will be some comfort taken from our national security appear practices that they have someone who understands the issues and more importantly the process in the west wing with the president. this week there were a lot of concerns as you noted. i talked to folks in the

pentagon, in the intelligence community. not simply about the content of the transgender decision. that's a other other issue but really about the process, the way it was announced. and what they're concerned about is in a true crisis, the chain of command is the thing that ensures american security is protected. and when the chain of command is confused or whether communications go here and the chairman of the joint chiefs says go there, people can get killed, chuck. this isn't just a matter of policy this is life and death. >> i'm going to lee you with this last question. some americans are going to be troubled by so many generals making decisions, in charge of so many key aspects of policy that there's less civilians involved, particularly in some national security affairs. should that be a concern? >> no, i don't think so. but what i do think that people have to come concerned about is whether the president empowers his chief of staff to impose order and discipline on the white house, to get the chain of command back to regular order, to use a phrase we heard many times this week in another

context. that discipline, that order is absolutely critical to protect our country. >> hate to say, general kelly, anthony scaramucci. they're going to have to work side by side. >> i'd bet on john kelly. >> it's an interesting odd couple there. jeremy, thank you, sir. appreciate it. we'll have more about the latest change at the white house. we'll talk to a democratic senator in just a moment if he's ready to work with some republicans on health care. stay with us. it's time for a getaway. the lincoln summer invitation is on. now get our best offers of the season. on the agile mkc. on the versatile midsize lincoln mkx. or go where summer takes you in the exhilarating mkz. the lincoln summer invitation sales event. ask about complimentary pick up & delivery servicing. right now get zero percent apr plus 1,000 dollars summer savings on the lincoln mkx, mkc and mkz ♪ backpack, check.

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hyped sight, always twept twept, but it was pretty clear that the writing was on the wall for chief of staff reince priebus. yesterday at the white house press briefing press secretary sarah huckabee sanders would not definitively say if the president had confidence in his chief of staff. >> sarah, does the president have confidence in his chief of staff? >> look, i think i've addressed this question when it comes to staffing and personnel many times, that if the president doesn't, then he'll make that decision. we all serve at the pleasure of the president, and if it gets to a place where that isn't the case, he'll let you know. >> so you can't say right now if the president has full confidence in chief of staff reince priebus? >> i think i just answered that. >> although to be fair, you've got to take all this stuff with a grain of salt. back in february we saw the white house say the president had full confidence in his national security advisor michael flynn. the president fired him hours later. we have a new chief of staff, national security advisor,

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. more now on tonight's breaking news. reince priebus has resigned as white house chief of staff. he actually did so privately yesterday. and now the president has a new chief of staff, homeland security secretary john kelly. the senate's going to have to name a new homeland secretary, that's for sure. but now we'll see, there's also got to be some bipartisanship that perhaps has to break out in the senate if we're going to solve the health care problem. senator man chin, how are you sir? good to see you. >> good, chuck. how are you doing? >> i'm okay. let me just get your first reaction to the news. general kelly as chief of staff. i know you know him a little bit. i know you've known reince priebus a little bit. you've worked with both of them somewhat. >> yeah. >> your reaction? >> well, they're both good people. i wish reince the best.

and john -- general john kelly, you can't find a finer human being and a more committed american, a patriot than john kelly. i think he's just a great human being, good man. >> give him some advice. look, we use the word dysfunctional around this town a lot, and i say that -- and look, let's be realistic. the senate is a mess. the white house feels lining it's been a mess, both for very different reasons. what's your advice to general kelly in helping to functional eyes this dysfunctional town? >> well, they need -- we just -- you know, general kelly has gone up through the ranks, so he understands how to basically direct the functions of jobs by jobs, categorize them and know who is in charge and who has to be responsible for each other and who is going to answer to who. he can but that function together. he can put that structure

together and he can hold them accountable for that. and then i think he came into this with his eyes wide open. he's been around this long enough. and the president has a comfort level with and has confidence in general kelly, and he has to have a person around him that he has that type of confidence in. so that's the president's discretion there. he has to have these people around him. and these are to be expected when you have will and pleasure jobs. he's well thought of, high regards, dmgs and republicans and he's just a good man. >> you know, senator, you made it very clear right after the election, right after the inauguration you were willing to wrk with this president where you felt like that there was if it could help in west virginia, no doubt. he did well in west virginia. you made that clear. and yet, he's lost you so far. why is that? what has the president done to lose you? you were willing to work with him on some of she's things.

>> i still am. i still am. the bottom line is i've said from day one you shouldn't repeal it. i didn't think the health care should be repealed. chuck, if you go back to 2009, they had an open process. it went through a process. i wasn't there. i wasn't there when obamacare passed in 20 ten. i thought there was a lot much mistakes made. if they were going to do repeal repeal repreel. they should have done it in 2012. they could have had pay clearer pathway for it. that didn't happen. well, they should have switched gears at that time and says okay, how do we repair this and make it the best we can. but if they thought they were having success because of allig cry about just the affordable care act, guess what, it entangled itself into one-sixth of the united states economy. and that's what we're dealing with now, an awful lot of peoples' lives are at stake. we can do it better.

i'm still reaching out. i still want to work with the white house. but i have to be an honest broker. i was up front. the president called me a month or so ago. i said mr. president, i can't go down the repeal path. if you could consider repairing it, you're the mr. fix it president. you didn't come through the normal channels. let's fix what's wrong. and that's where i am on this, chuck, and i've not changed. >> we've got some reporting that there's a group of six or seven of you that have been secret talks and not telling your own staff that you guys were talking. i hear you, but you were keeping it even from your staff a little bit. >> how do you -- you you've got -- >> too many leaks in this town. that's what i'm told. >> i've got to check -- i'm going to check it out. >> what does the most likely first repair, the fact of the matter is rural america needs some help here in propping up the insurance exchange and the insurance markets there. that is clearly a problem you guys have to solve. what does that repair look like and how likely is it to be, say,

before the end of the year? >> it's got to happen very quickly. we can't wait until the first -- or the end of the year here, chuck of the it's got to be done in the next week or two. we've got to send a strong message to the csr's, the insurance communities that the cost sharing revenue is going to be there. and it needs to be a 24-month guarantee. we just can't play games every month do they know they're going to get it or not. these prices are probably going to spike probably 20% increases just based on the uncertainty are the insurance companies going to go et the back stop they need in order to make sure we have the exchange working. that can be done, and we all, democrats and republicans, have said that's the first and for most thing we've got to get done. >> what if the president said let obamacare implode then the democrats had come. he said that today in a tweet. what do you say about that? >> i just say, mr. president, you know, this country, we can't

take that. we can't take that approach. and i know he's upset. but we want to work. no one won last night. there was no winners and losers. if anything, if we don't fix something, we're all losers. and that's what need to be done. we've got a chance now to repair. our republican friends and colleagues have tried everything possible they could to fulfill their promise of repealing. it's so entwined now that's not going to happen. and john mccain, chuck, you know john mccain as well as i know him. john mccain made a vote basically because this process p isn't working. if i was on armed services for six years and you know what, when we did the ndaa, the national defense authorization, john put everybody in pay room we stayed there for two and three more days. everybody got a shot, an amendment and john argued with you up and down, get your shot and move on. that's the process. that's what he respects. that's what he's defended, and that's the way he voted last night. >> right.

john mccain, institutionalist before a member of any political party any way. joe manchin, democrat from west virginia. appreciate you coming on on a friday night. thank you, is ir. >> thanks, chuck. >> you got it. we'll be back. a lot more "mtp daily" right after this. at blue apron, we're building a better food system. where instead of paying for middlemen,

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welcome back. time for the lid. eugene robinson. a little graphic time here. this is day 189 of the trump presiden presidency. ut up a graphic here. barack obama first chief of staff was ram emmanuel. his last day was on 619. andy card was on 1,084. it shows you here we are on day 189. it's not just this. we've had now we're this the six month. day 189. we're on the second chief of staff. the second commune kags director. the second press secretary. the second national security

advisor. that's something else. >> it's not all that surprising when you consider president trump was elected as a disrupter. he's a non-politician. you'd expect things to take a little time to get working. i do think this is also showing some problems in what might call the management style of this administration. it's just chaos all the time. it's like a reality show. >> in fairness, 189 days for the trump administration feel like 1890 days. >> dog years. >> the chief of staff traditionally, well often is someone from a loyalist from the new president's previous life, whatever that is as a senator, as a candidate, whatever. that person comes with a whole set of tools that priebus didn't have and so far we don't know whether kelly has either. time and grade with the new

president. an ability to marshal loyalty among others and punish if that loyalty isn't granted trump does all that himself. that doesn't leave an enormous amount of room for the chief of staff. it was clear that priebus' days were going to be numbered. 189 might be longer than some people would have given him. >> he had reince priebus shake up before he was chief of staff. >> it's like is he on his way out. >> and he hasn't been named yet. >> we were talking about the deficits. the question i wonder is what about staffing control. >> it's huge. the white house has to be a machine. it has to be a machine that can do policy, politics,

communications and it has to -- those part s have to coordinate and work together in some fashion. a military man like general kelly will have some ideas how to do that. he'll have to in so far there are boxes in an organization chart, he'll have to have the power to rearrange them. >> it seems we're learning this, this is where the anthony scaramucci broadside sells us about where powers are. the kids are on the dump priebus and bannon band wagon. where are all the republicans. looks like gary cohen is in charge of policy. this may empower mcmaster more. i think general kelly has a deep respect for general mcmaster. are you concerned that there

isn't enough republicans? >> i think there are a number of concerns here. the chief of staff has been somebody who either as ann was saying had close ties to the president or had some legislative or political experience, had good ties with members on capitol hill. this is the second chief of staff in a row who doesn't have any one of those characteristics, any of those traditional qualifications. then there's the question of what's the management flow. what is the structure of command in this white house. does scaramucci still report directly to the president or is he going to report through the chief of staff. >> how about jared kushner? it's trickier than scaramuccsca. >> everyone in the white house has that problem. who are you to kushner? who is kushner to you? that isn't going to be different for kelly. their portfolios might overlap

less in some ways than before. >> quite a -- just another friday in washington. this is one where he abided by the rules of washington. the friday 5:00 p.m. news dump. get you a new chief of staff. thank you. a little more of mtp daily right after this. whoooo.

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as white house chief of staff, al heg. he held the job from may 4th, 1973 to september 21st, 1974. that's all we have for tonight. we'll have more on the white house shake up on meet the press. check out our 1947 meet the press podcast. ari picks things up right now on the beat. good evening. i hope we have enough news for you to cover. >> i think we have a lot of news. i enjoyed the podcast. thanks again. a big show here this round goes to anthony scaramucci. he reports directly to the president and reince priebus does not. trump removing priebus and naming a new chief of staff. today, friday, july 28th, 2017 is