there is no chaos. only great energy." ( laughter ) i've got to say, man, if this whole president thing doesn't work out, trump would be dope at writing fortune cookies, huh? ( laughter ) "there is no chaos. only great energy. your lucky number is 69. it's always 69." now, look, trump always says things that are easily disproved, but yesterday was particularly entertaining because at 7:55 a.m., he tweeted "no chaos." and then the rest of the day was nothing but chaos. literally, just a few hours after he declared tuesday no-chaos, great-energy day, news broke that the council to the president, and evil disney stepmom, kellyanne conway, had apparently broken the law. >> we've got this breaking news now, and it has to do with adviser to the president, kellyanne conway. the u.s. office of special counsel, which says that it has looked and found evidence that kellyanne conway violated the hatch act. >> conway broke the law, prohibiting government officials from using their position to influence political ca

and the circle of chaos is complete. as for the calligrapher, not to worry, there are nine others gunning for the job. a big night ahead starting with the gary cohn departure, and cnn's jim acosta at the white house, what are you learning tonight? >> everything is calm here, john, no chaos whatsoever. i haven't seen any in the last 20 seconds. yes, the president was pushing back on this notion that there's chaos inside the white house. and he was doing that as the white house communications team was preparing the announcement that gary cohn is leaving as the president's top economic adviser. it doesn't get more surreal than that. i will tell you from talking to a number of sources this evening, i talked to one senior administration official who really lamented gary cohn's departure, described gary cohn as a moderating influence inside the white house, somebody who could fill up the room with gravitas, that that will be lost as a result of his departure, and essentially he lost the argument on this tariff decision that th

why would anyone think there's chaos, "kay says kachaos"chaos president tweeted, "there is no chaos,departure. economic adviser gary cohn will resign following a fierce disagreement with the president over the decision to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum. >> the top aide who agonized but stayed after the president defended white supremacists in charlottesville. tariffs were the final straw. a senior administration official said cohen had no choice to leave, having lost the internal fight on the tariffs. the congressman from the republican party involved in trade policy says cohn's absence will mean more instability in the west wing. >> the announcement that he's leaving came after the afternoon news conference with the swedish prime minister where cohn failed to fill a seat, empty seat, with his name on it. the president probably knowing his top economic adviser was resigning said this -- >> many, many people want every single job. i read, gee, maybe people don't want to work for trump -- believe me, everybody wants to work in the white house. they all want a piece of that

like chaos and looks like chaos. >> wow!y different interpretation of chaos. >> the chaos i see most this morning. i left 3 pre schoolers and flashlights with the power out at my house. it was far more chaotic than the office. if this is chaos, the american people are glad for it because we just passed the biggest tax cuts in history and isis is on the run and rebuilding the miltary. we call it success and productivi productivity. >> jesse, people like anthony said something. >> this country has always been a chaotic country. we have a football team. they turn the ball over a lot. they give up a bunch of sabs. -- sacks. they always come back in the fourth quarter and put points on the board and win. this is how this white house has been. through all of the chaos, they get a lot of great stuff done with judges, taxes and isis being defeated. but listen, there was no chaos in the hillary clinton campaign and she got globbered. there was no chaos in the obama administration but isis grew. trump drives on chaos. a lot is self-in

chaos. >> yes.rce on a number of issue, and it is a big loss. >> is that a sign that the president is drifting one way or another if he can't keep someone who you clearly respect like gary cohn in the white house? >> well it appears on the trade battle, gary cohn and steve min nuchin lost. i felt the way these tariffs were rolled out was simply terrible and not done properly and took a lot of people by surprise and candidly, we all acknowledge here that the tariff issue is one as it relates to china, we need to deal with china on metals. this proposal went after our allies and i think we should be working together with our allies on trade and the way that was rolled out was terrible and i don't think in the long-term interest in the country. i could go on how this represents crony capitalism of the worst type. >> the president said it could be done in a very loving way. first of all, what is a tender tariff. and do you agree that it can be done in a loving way or agree with the statement that the tr

secretary chao: yes. but let me just say i'm not here to defend the airline industry but this whole string of things you mentioned, some of it involves website notice. we think a lot of it is on the website already but clearly some of these areas i disagree -- i agree with you and disagree with others. if you ask me to take a look i will do so. senator hassan: i would very much. secretary acosta, i just want to mention there are three bipartisan bills among health committee members right now that deal with work force training so gateway to careers is one of them. the jobs act is another. the c.t.e. excellence and equity act is another. so i'd love your commitment to looking at those bills to see if there is a way forward on work force training. secretary acosta: thank you. i already jotted a note to do that. senator hassan: secretary perdue, the u.s. department of agriculture plays a role in improving infrastructure. investment in water infrastructure can't be overstated. the american society of civil eng

there is no chaos. only great energy. that tweet after his news conference with the swedish prime minister. your reaction? >> at the very senior level, gary cohn was the last survivor of the beginning of the administration with just two exceptions. ivanka trump and jared kushner. at this point, ivanka trump and and jared kushner are the only survivors of this presidency which is just a little more than a year old. it just underlines how unusual that is and i think at some level, people might say this is all inside baseball. who cares what the white house staff is all about. when you look at the tariffs decision was rolled out and the fact it was rolled out in a way where the facts were not known and the amount of tariffs has not been settled. the countries it covers is not settled. it is that instability that has affected the stock market negatively and roiled our allies. this is not like it is simply one person replacing another. these changes have real affects on the real economy. this departure will as well. >> you he

cretary chao: i am sympathetic. yeah, it will come out before -- a decision will have to come out before march 18. >> thank you, secretary. i did hear from a hauler yesterday. they are very, very concerned about this so thank you for that i would like to also visit with you, secretary, about rural broad band. i was really glad to see that the administration recognizes the importance of rumor broad band deployment and making it eligible for funding in the framework of a rural infrastructure program. the federal broad band lovene and grant programs, such as the f.c.c.'s uniform service fufpbled, high-cost program and the usda rumor utility service is -- they are already in place so what i'm wondering is why then did the administration decide not to do direct funding through the existing programs? not all states are going to have the level of super tease or programs in place to efficiently build out their broad band. i do understand the significance of doing block grants to the states but why are we not utilizing exist

that's the definition of chaos.ially with hope hicks, the communications director, and like the chaos we saw in this turmoil over the security clearances, and his own son-in-law jared kushner having his security clearance bumped down because he couldn't pass the security checks. we did get some statements from the white house. they've obviously confirmed all of this. there's one from the president, from general kelly and also one from gary cohn saying it has been my honor to serve my country and enact policies to benefit american people. particularly the passage the of tax reform. i'm grateful to the president for giving me this opportunity and wish him great success in the future. another thing that's interesting to note. you'll recall that the president said there were very fine people on both sides, with the protesters in charlottesville. we heard then that gary cohn wauthing of resigning over that. and it is now rumors that enough is enough and this is enough on push him over the edge. one other thing should i p

like chaos.ics, perception is as good as reality. >> what's not chaos is 4 million american workers getting bonuses because of the tax cuts, is regulation finally getting under control, optimism out there in the land, growth, opportunity, the diffusion of power away from washington, that's real. this supposed chaos in the washington is not real. i will also say this, he's a disruptive president to be sure. i'm the first to say that. i think that's part of why we elected him, part of why he won, the first ever citizen president, meaning no previous government experience. is it going to be in some senses chaotic? of course, we expect that from a disrupter. >> so there's some chaos -- >> in some sense, fine. is it disruptive, yes. i'll be the first to concede that. by the way, the swamp is powerful and the swamp is cunning. >> the swamp has been getting new population from the people he's brought in there. >> the swamp has been fighting back very hard against trump and at times successfully. >> his

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chaos? what chaos? former goldman sachs head gary cohn is leaving. and he announced that decision after markets closed yesterday. we can see why. dow futures are down on news of his departure. the business community and his allies inside and outside the white house are now worried that economic nationalists could be on the rise. >> reporter: president trump top economic adviser gary cohn becoming the latest in a string of white house advisers to abandon ship after butting heads with the president over imposing stiff tariffs on steel and aluminum. news of his departure coming hours after the president insisted there is no chaos in his administration. >> gee, maybe people don't want to work for trump. believe me, even wants to work in the white house. they all want a piece of the oval office, the west wing. i can take any position in the white house and i'll have the ten top people having to do with that position. >> reporter: the president reiterating that on twitter. sources say the president is consider tapping trade adviser peter novarro. and consi

he has been the chaos president, and it depends on what you think about chaos. you know, the rule on reality television, unscripted television where he got his start in tv on the apprentice, but also on cable news is, you're playing yourself and it's up to you to create drama. literally, drama that would have been scripted by someone else, but your job is to surprise people and create drama, and he sees this as a reality television program, creating drama is creating chaos. he feels he's doing his job. >> you talked to 20-plus people, including friends of the president. he goes down to mar-a-lago on friday, dinner with head of blackstone, among others, talking about this new trade policy he unveiled. what's the role of donald trump's friends at this point now? how much counsel is he getting from them? we heard how john kelly came in and quickly put control over the phone line, making it harder for folks to call him directly. what's the version of events they are telling him? >> he relies on friends a lot. kelly has put controls over who can enter the oval office

the chaos, he doesn't mind the chaos. >> dana: we are going to talk about that. white house. president's former chief of staff says don't be distracted by the talk. next. hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer. you've probably seen me running all over the country in search of our big idaho potato truck. but not any more. i am done with that. ooh, ooh hot - just gonna stay home on the farm, eat a beautiful idaho potato, and watch tv with my dog... tv anncr: the big idaho potato truck pulled into town today and it's really a sight to see. oh man...let's go.... (distant) you comin', boy? sfx: (dog) gulp! woof. 's ♪ >> kimberly: chaos, turmoil, madness. no, not "the five." all kinds of boards being thrown around to describe the trump white house. someone who once had a front seat to it all says ignore the talk. the presidents process might be different but it's getting great results. here is reince priebus. >> you can't look at the distractions. what the staff has to do is focus on the results. what the president dies and he writes about it even in his own books. he puts

he is by going out too far on chaos. that is true and he's denying, misstating the daca deal and underplaying north korea. he's relying on us to pump up what the administration just did and that's his job. >> let's talk about daca for a second. these young people are still at risk. that's a very important point to make. there was a march 5th deadline that the president himself created. it's worth remembering that the president created the whole daca crisis in the first place. if he hadn't overturned president obama's executive order, the daca people would be at rest. however, the courts have now said it is not clear that the president withdrew daca correctly, but there is no doubt the president has the right at some point to get rid of daca. so daca is on borrowed time. we don't know exactly how much time they have left, but the daca issue is not settled in the courts by any means. daca is still going to be withdrawn at some point, and the question now is does anything replace it. that's really on the president and the m

but he says there's no chaos. there's chaos there.ng said, the average person across america, i know republican voters. i've spoken to them across the country. they don't care about the palace intrigue. they don't care with the drama. they care about tax cuts. they care about jobs. they care about making sure they can put food on the table. they really don't care -- >> you want to see chaos, go to the veterans administration. there's a really problem there. >> it is something that republicans should care about, and many republican strategists are caring about it going into the midterm elections because while you might say that, his approval ratings are on the floor. and midterm elections are up for grabs. >> one thing that hasn't been mentioned tonight, and i do think she deserves credit for being there is kellyanne conway. she was the campaign manager at the end when president trump -- she's the senior adviser inside the white house who has survived. >> and the one who violated the hatch act. >> let's talk -- >> i actually have a gre

chaos. what chaos? nothing to see here. let's bring in sara sidner. cnn's sara sidner on the stormy daniels lawsuit. so, sara, where do we start? there's breaking news tonight on this adult film star, suing the president. what is she alleging? >> reporter: oh, so much. that she was paid $130,000 in hush money and that donald trump knew all about it. that's the first time we have evidence in a public court that alleges that. she also says in the lawsuit that she signed a nondisclosure disagreement, but that it is invalid and that's what she's suing over, because she says that donald trump never signed it, though he did know it. and she also says she was pressured and coerced into signing a false statement by donald trump and his attorney michael cohen. this is all happening, by the way, after the infamous "access hollywood" take place where donald trump is heard saying women, that he can grab them in the most private of parts. that's where this all came out where she said, look, i would like to tell my story. and mr. trump and the campaign got wind of

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. >> order out of chaos, initially. i think john kelly is the right guy to continue helping the president. >>> hello, again, everyone, and thanks so much for joining me this sunday. i'm fredricka whitfield. after a chaotic week in the west wing, a close ally of the president describe ing it as pu madness, this week the president is said to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum. the closest allies may soon feel a concern of a trade war and anti-global meat market. >> your solution hazlet china off the hook. if there's more conservatives than allies, please reconsider you're solution. we may more tires than anywhere. this tariff on steel is going to hurt our allies. >> how determined is the president to go ahead with these tariffs, with all this pushback? >> it appears he's ready to go the distance, fred. we should know, whether it's on the horny rock or just. -- to the 1980s. you had senators like lindsey graham, ben sass and others who said that tariffs are a bad idea. or other allies abroad like south korea, china a

no chaos. try telling that to wall street.t resignation of president trump's top economic adviser and rattled investors worried the impending departure of gary cohn removes one more moderating influence in the inner circle, a st. abbi phillip has more on this. cohn staunchly opposed new tariffs that the president is putting in place or steel an aluminum but the white house is pushing ahead even so. >> that's right. we spoke to sarah

you can have energy and chaos. often you do. i would say it is hard for the president to sell the no chaos idea when in the tweet where he's selling it, he says and there is still a few people i would like to get rid of on my staff. >> more great energy to come. >> right. i don't think any neutral observer would look at -- let's say the last week of this white house, ben carson, hope hicks, sam nunberg there are more, and say that this is all energy and positive direction. there is chaos. and i think some of that is self-created. donald trump exists in a world in which he thinks chaos is helpful. he said on saturday night he thinks chaos is a good thing. but it seems to me that particularly in the last week you've seen it hugely distracting, many of the principal players in his white house. >> in jessica's report there, michael, you heard what sam nunberg is saying at least opining about, right? he says mueller has something on trump, and he claims that the president knew or would have known about the trump tower meeting with do

if chaos is the rule for the trump presidency, then what can chaos accomplish? let's get right to it with a team of reporters. peter alexander is at the white house. philip rucker social security white house bureau chief for "the washington post," and betsy wood rough is a politics report for the daily beast. and former deputy chief of staff and lecturer at berkeley law. let's start with peter alexander. the news of the hour is that surprise believing for the white house chief of staff john kelly again questions about rob porter. what did he learn from john kelly. >> as we heard from john kelly and his largely off-the-record meeting, some of much was allowed for release, he detailed what is a new timeline about exactly what he knew and when regarding rob porter. he says on that day he was a man of true integrity, but he only knew the allegations of emotional abuse from one of the former ex-wives of porter, that he had no knowledge about any physical abuse allegations from rob porter's ex-wives before he made that public statement praising porter. he said porter

that is leading to a lot of the chaos. but chaos has been, you know, an element of this presidency from day one. so, to the extent that we believe this idea that john kelly and hope hicks and others around him have been able to restrain this president at all, which the evidence that we see is that they're very limited in being able to do that. if they have been able to do that, these people leaving, hope hicks leaving the white house, you can only assume things may get even more chaotic and that the president may have fewer restraints, people capable of restraining some of his impulses. >> let's spend time talking about jared kushner. he has had his security clearance, high-level security clearance that's now stripped away. he seemed to have fallen out of favor. what's your sense of the position he occupies now as to where he was before? >> it would be surprising if he and ivanka did not just kind of pack and up move back to new york. he lost his top secret security clearance which really limits what he can and cannot view

chaos or not. kristin, the fact that they had had the empty chair today, this to come out after the president said everybody wants to work here, you know, everybody loves raymond kind of thing and then have the guy walk out the two. i know the two people who don't want to work there, hope hicks and this guy left today. not of's clamoring to be there. he calls it the fake news narrative that of's leaving even though everybody is leaving. your thoughts. >> it was like a prebuttle this astounding visual. you have the ominous sign of the empty chair and the president talking about in his words, everyone wants a piece of oval office. he was essentially foreshadowing what would become true in a few hours. the timing also interesting, chris, because it happened after the markets closed. it was clear the white house wanted to stave off any type of market reaction today. we'll be watching very closely overnight, asian markets and the u.s. markets as they open up tomorrow morning. the stature of gary cohn in

call 1-800-501-6000. >>> the white house insists, chaos, no chaos inside the wing.hner's security top clearance stripped and fighting back reports that h.r. mcmaster is leaving soon and maybe his economic adviser as well. so how bad are things inside the white house? let's get a fresh take from former trump campaign manager corey lewandowsky, chief strategist for america first action. thank you for taking the opportunity to come on the show. >> good morning, chris. >> good to have you. before with get to the political intrigue, this axios report, they looked at a subpoena given to a witness who was going before mueller. it was asking people to preserve all of their electronic communications from about 2015 with this long list of trump people. you are on that list in terms of people they want captured with. what do you make of that subpoena? >> well, i think it's probably standard protocol for the mueller investigation to see if there was any collusion or cooperation or coordination, which we know there wasn't. but what they want to do is they want to look and see an

watch this. >> i turn on the tv, open the newspapers and i see stories of chaos, chaos.he exact opposite. this administration is running like a fine-tuned machine. >> okay. so, that's a fine-tuned machine, but then that was, you know, a month into his presidency and he was disputing reports of chaos then. this is a year later. and i just want to say that, you snow, hearing the president wanted to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum, maggie haberman is confirming the previous chief economic cohen warned the chief of staff john f. kelly he might resign if the president went ahead with the plan according to people briefed on the discussion. a former goldman sachs president had lobbied fiercely against the measures. what do you say to that, kiersten powers? >> i mean, wasn't this one of the main things that the president -- that donald trump ran on to become president, was his anti-trade position? it's a little strange to me someone will come into this administration and be shocked that he would do something that's anti-trade. >> uh-huh. listen, the president was also repor

he's a chaos candidate. he'd be a chaos president.e would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. >> reporter: even when the president tries substance, he raises eyebrows like advocating the death penalty for drug dealers, the punishment handed out in less democratic countries. >> the drug dealers, drug pushers, they are really doing damage. they are really doing damage. some countries have a very, very tough penalty, the ultimate penalty. >> reporter: conservatives are still cringing after the president's comments on gun control saying firearms should be taken from mentally ill people before there's due process. >> take guns first, due process second. >> reporter: nra did not like the sound of that. >> among the things nra leadership stressed to the president sunday is due process has been to be respected. >> reporter: now, the white house has yet to offer any clarification of the president's comment it would be okay for people to have their firearms taken from them if they are mentally ill before due process,

administration is in a state of chaos e specially when it comes to personnel. this tweet says the new fake news narrative is that there is chaos in the white house. wrong. people will always come and go and i want strong dialogue before making a final decision. i still have some people that i want to change, always seeking

it is a chaos presidency but the rate of chaos continues to expand.hear now robert mueller's investigation is going to be moving on and indicting more russians but this time it will be the russians that were involved in the hacking and dissemination of the dnc e-mails and now asking -- trying to tile -- draw a line between those russians and the trump campaign. what's next and what can this republican party do as they move towards elections in the fall that could spell doom for their party. >> those were big questions but joe i think it's obviously right that we have been saying for a year at various times that it looked like the white house and the administration were on the brink of unraveling. i think one of the most important things that's different now is that the president seems to feel that, too, and he is kind of lashing out and trying to basically -- he's like there's a little "home alone" quality here. he has wanted to do all this stuff that he's now doing for a long time. there's -- there's not much restraint on the president over the cours

chaos.ou mean what we saw for the eight years of the obama administration when barack obama didn't fire anyone over benghazi, the irs targeting of conservatives, or the fast and furious scandal? or was it the chaos we saw when obama pushed out qaddafi and mubarak sparking the rise of isis in iraq and in syria? now, what about the chaos of doubling our debt and exploding the trade deficit. is china,. >> , grew bolder and more powerful, did any of that count as chaos? well, trump, by contrast, has been very clear that we want to have better relationships with more nations, if possible. and we're not going to be anyone's pushover. look, the fact is tillerson should have tendered his resignation a long time ago. he disagreed with the president on major issues. he was opposed to the talks with the north korea. he supported the paris climate accords. he questioned the president's charlesville response. he was at odds at moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and was a fan of the iran nuclear deal. t

if it's the chaos machine. i'm doing good chaos right now so this is all working for me, that's what that's all about. having ruddy come out and say what he says that's the trump whisper. that has been approved by trump otherwise he wouldn't be out saying that. this is laying down the tracks for what will come, and we all know what will come, shulkin is going to go, let's start the clock counting down now. they're trying to figure out what to do with carson and there's others out there as well. you have the president's team coming into shape the way the president wants it. that's fine nobody's begrudging that. just go ahead and pull the trigger and move on. >> can i play devil's advocate for a second, let's say david shulkin is going to go, let's say shulkin is going to go, let's say the president hasn't picked a replacement yet. what should you say to these questions? >> waver the president tells you to say that's what you're going to say. they're the white house spokespersons they don't have an independent th

>> adding to the chaos sources tell cnn h.r. mcmaster to lecou leave the white house. >> if this is chaos i think the american people r glad for it. if they want to call it chaos, fine. >> not to mention the president' ever position on gun control. after indicating he would back self gun measures, the president met with the nra and tweeted good, great meeting in the oval office tonight with the nra. raising questions about whether the president still supports confiscating guns from the mentally ill without due process as he said earlier in the week. >> he is looking for ways we can improve the mental health system, so that we can take guns away from people that shouldn't have them. >> but the president still made time for 6:00 a.m. to take on actor alec baldwin who recently said he was unhappy playing mr. trump on "saturday night live." >> and he has the nerve to call me a moron. >> alec baldwin who's dying meadmea mediocre career was saved by that. it was agony for those who were forced to watch. there were, however, no tweets

why would anyone think there's chaos in the white house? what chaos?after president trump tweeted out this claim, "there is no chaos, only great energy," there was word of another crucial departure. the top economic adviser, gary cohn, will resign in the coming weeks following a fierce disagreement with this president over his decision to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum. >> so for the top aide who agonized but stayed after the president defended white supremacists in charlottesville, tariffs were indeed the final straw. a senior administration official says cohn had no choice but to leave, having lost the internal fight on tariffs. a republican congressman involved in trade policy said cohn's absence will mean "more instability in the west wing." >> the announcement that cohn is leaving came shortly after an afternoon news conference with the swedish prime minister where cohn failed to fill a seat with his name on it. the independent gary cohn chair, and the president presumably knowing his top economic adviser was resigning, said this -- >

and chaos by surprise. so we know that there are all these staff moves, we see them every day, we read about them, we talk about them every day. but the fact that the president is catching his own white house staff by surprise, congressional leaders by surprise, is one of the things that is really troubling to so many republicans on capitol hill. they may not be saying it publicly, but they're sure saying it privately. and errol knows and certainly simone knows there are a lot of politicians who like to be their own communications director and the press secretary and even the communications director will say publicly that that is a good and fine and proper thing, privately they'll always say something differently because it creates a lot of headache for the staff that is trying to implement those priorities that the administration has in place or a campaign or congressional office. >> it is interesting, democrats have been highly interested bystanders this week. during that gun meeting, the president said a

the president is the king of chaos. this is causing problems not only for his communications with the country but also with his colleagues, also with the people on capitol hill and most importantly with our allies who have no idea where the united states stand on any important issue. >> let me hone in on hearing you moving back to ma maeve, sam nunberg to defy the counsel in a special way says quote according to our reporting i'm going to cooperate with whatever they want. is that -- is that the last chapter in this whole thing? >>. >> how do you explain that marathon of media interviews yesterday? there is no other way to describe it as you know other than slightly unhinged. so for him to come completely full circle after completely distract, by the way, from what the trump administration wanted to be talking about yesterday and bringing the whole russia issue into the floor, leaking do you means to the post, clearly, that was another situation where the white house just had absolutely no control over someone who used

so it's chaos and the president, according to numerous sources enjoys this chaos and creating chaos and being in the middle of it. >> nbc news can confirm that president trump will be signing the $1.3 trillion spending bill when he takes to the podium. we're expecting some sort of statement from the president. it remains unclear whether the president is going to call on reporters after that statement but again, nbc news can report that president trump, despite a veto threat made via social media just a few hours ago, will be signing the omnibus bill. let's talk about the backdrop elise jordan because it's difficult to keep up with the speed with which things are changing inside the white house. never mind the staffing changes at the senior level. this "60 minutes" interview set to air on sunday. stormy daniels. no one really knows what she is going to say, but most people suspect it is not going to be good for the president. and then, of course, there's this other woman who sat down with cnn yesterday. and then, of course, there's the russia investigation. there's a lot happening at the

white house chaos reaching levels and it's not over yet.r white house aide rob porter who eventually resigned. it comes in the same week the president sent shock waves by announcing steep metal tariffs, giving conflicting stances on gun control, had more departures from senior staffers at the white house. the situation so turbulent, his allies are worried about him. they say he's becoming increasingly isolated and angry. joining me now to discuss this is a maven who knows all about life inside the white house. david axlerod is a former adviser to president obama. david you look at -- gloria borger had an excellent column today where she's talking to people who want donald trump really to succeed. they support him. they support his agenda. yet they look at just, as she put it, the malocity of all the chaos and they're worried about his stability. should they be concerned. >> yeah. >> should we be concerned? >> they should be concern ed. i'm familiar with white houses, you say. no one is familiar with this kind of white house this as you know

jeb bush said if he makes this guy president, the chaos president, he said chaos candidate, a chaos presidentrnor bush was right. but i think alice makes a great point, the american people knew that when they voted for him. 62 million people voted for trump, want a wrecking ball, got a wrecking ball. here is the problem with wrecking balls. sometimes they hit your house. even the policy stuff that alice talks about, the president's position on guns is now he's going to confiscate them without due process. that's beyond any left winger. that's way past nancy pelosi's position. but nobody takes it seriously because it is only the president. on live tv meeting with members of congress. analogous situation with steel and aluminum, which seems to come out of not a disciplined policy process, but just a sort of presidential fit of peak. the problem with that, is tying it back to barbara starr's report from the pentagon. america has adversaries around the world and those sense chaos, weakness, disorder, and they're going to move whether it is north korea, whether it is iran, whether it is china, whe

i've never seen such chaos. >> if they want to call it chaos, fine. we call it success. >> the president is also facing growing criticism over sudden announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminum come into the u.s. >> on an average car, the actual impact will be a fraction of 1%. >> you're going to see a lot of good things happen. >> so glad to have your company as always. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. top story violent winds ripping through the northeast after a bomb cyclone tore through the area causing widespread damage. as you can see, trees toppled right over destroying homes. >> listen to that wind. at least five people are now reported dead as a result of this storm and the worst isn't over yet. the torrential rains causing widespread flooding. another major concern violent winds tearing down power lines. more than a million people without power from virginia to new england. >> massachusetts seeing the worst of it with more than 400,000 without power. there are states of emergencies in virginia and maryland as

people will say it's out of control chaos.ll use controlled, won't use the word chaos and he's doing it for a reason. >> chris ruddy says no chaos. >> he may love it and the country doesn't. >> the staff is confused at times as well. more "roundtable" still to come. >>> up next we'll talk to former joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen and bush national security adviser stephen hadley about what the hawks in trump's new foreign policy team mean for u.s. national security. >> announcer: "this week with george stephanopoulos" is brought to you by verizon. is brought to you by verizon. (nadia white) the moment a fish is pulled out from the water, it's a race against time. and keeping it in the right conditions is the best way to get that fish to your plate safely. (dane chauvel) sometimes the product arrives, and the cold chain has been interrupted, and we need to be able to identify where in the cold chain that occurred. (tom villa) we took our world class network, and we developed devices to track environmental conditions.

the obsession process, if this is chaos, sean, give me more chaos. give all americans more chaos, because it's bringing the results. and at the end of the day -- >>but isn't chaos -- america elected a disrupter. i don't think most americans are going to vote that they don't like donald trump's tweets if they have $3,000 in their pocket a year. >> let's just say one thing. we lived it. sean and i lived it inside the building. the more they attacked us and the president, the more we knew we were doing what the people elected the president to do. >> the one thing that's interesting is that the american people are onto this. look at the programs where american people are tuning into. they're tuning out the mainstream news and tuning in to shows like yours and tucker's and laura's and other shows on fox because they're tired of not being told what's going on. the american people understand what's happening and changing their viewing habits to match what's being fed to them because they don't want to see the other stations that overlook this and focus on t

but the other is the chaos. the chaotic way which it all tumbled out and no one in the white house was planning to do it that way. coupled with the chaos of the churning of personnel, hope hicks's departure, now national security advisor seems to be on his way out. >> the president likes surprising but there will be nothing less surprising than the outcome of what he's done. the last time the united states experimented with steel tariffs in 2002, they lasted 30 months. the best estimate of the impact of those tariffs on americans was a loss of 200,000 jobs which was greater than the total employment in the steel industry at this time. at this point steel employs fewer people. the aluminum, it hits beverages, cars and construction, too. the consequences of this inside the united states are going to be tough. the consequences for the world are going to be the tougher. the president, i think, imagines that he's hitting china. but china exports relatively little steel to the united states. the biggest exporter of st

chaos donald trump says he enjoys. this is at interior at each department. we are going to talk about this throughout the show. but, significantly, at the national security council, when you are planning the first u.s.-north korean summit, you have trade wars brewing on all sides and russian hackers going into your infrastructure. >> it doesn't function well at all. the role of the national security adviser, this is true of president obama's white house, to serve as a coordinating function and make sure all the elements are bringing, you know, essentially have done their homework and the president is getting the best possible advice and that is being heard so decision makers can make the best decision. it's hard to imagine, given the turmoil at these agencies, that that work is being done efficiently and hard to imagine h.r. mcmaster is good doing that when the president isn't interested in listening to him and lost confidence in his ability to do his job. i don't think there's evidence to indicate it's functioning wel

there's the chaos of what's happening in the white house as it relates to the staff but the chaos of what's happening with a president who espouses one policy and a week later has another policy and the fact that all of those policies have real-world implications. look what we hid it daca, comes out and said we're going to protect these dreamers, gets a deal, back tracks on it. there are 800,000 young people whose lives hang in the balance. it's one thing to talk about chaos behind the doors of the whou white house, what's happening there, another thing to talk about the fact there are real people hurting because of this chaos. >> to underscore that, there are real people behind all -- that's my point on russia. there are real people who work for him who testified under oath in front of congress. christopher wray told he's never been directed by the president to do dmanything. admiral rogers testified last week. i'd say claire mccaskill are even more agitated than me, who couldn't believe he hadn't been given any extra authority to be on offense when it comes to russia and cyber. the

i'm very pleased that secretary chao and assistant secretary james have come to our committee first to discuss the infrastructure principled shared by president trump on february 12th. our infrastructure drives the health, well-being economy and prosperity of the nation. we depend upon it to