coming up tuesday morning national journal staff correspondent daniel newhouser and christina petersoniscuss the legislate deadlines facing congress in the 2018 midterm learning. anthony will be on to talk about foreign policy challenges facing the u.s. in 2018. be sure to watch c-span "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. >> joining us from new york city this morning is chris whipple who is documentary filmmaker journalist and writer who has written this book, titled "the gatekeepers" how white house chief of staff define every president. start us off with this term gatekeepers. put this in context as we talk about white house chiefs of staff both present and former. guest: sure. the modern empowered chief of staff is first famously the gatekeeper. which means giving the president time and space to think. he's honest broker of information. making sure every decision is teed up with information. he is the heat shield as don rumsfeld called him. taking all the incoming artillery of the president. getting all of the blame. at the end of the day t

coming up tuesday morning, journal staff newhauserent daniel and christina peterson discuss key fiscal legislative down congress.ng the and anthony will be on to talk policy challenges facing the u.s. in 2018. to watch c-span "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. discussion. susan: our guest on "newsmakers" this week is tom steyer, the businessman, philanthropist, environmental activist has been spending much of his own money over the past year and a campaign to impeach president trump. we will talk about that effort organizationally and politically. we have two reporters here to ask questions, niall stanage and darren samuelsohn. thank you for being with us. as we get started, two questions on the mechanics. what are the numbers on your website so far? how many people have you enlisted in your campaign to impeach the president? tom: i think we are somewhere over 3.6 million people. i have not looked at it in the past couple of days. i'm sure it is over 3.6. susan: you are running ads in markets. have any stations refused to run your ad? tom: fox's refused to run o

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