you're going to go with david bossie.ould put my very limited funds on him. >> and by the way, he's having lunch with president trump on friday. >> really? >> oh, wow. >> david bossie should be in the white house counsel's office or public affairs communications office. he can fight the democrats. the chief of staff is kind of an important job and there will be a moment in the next year -- >> it used to be. >> no, but there will be a moment next year where there's a crisis with north korea or putin or something and the chief of staff will be in the oval office and jim mattis will be on the phone. and you like a chief of staff who can deal with them somewhat as peers as john kelly could. there were times, i believe, when he and matris and mcmaster before and pompeo probably stopped some things from happening that we should be grateful they stopped or shaped policies in ways that made -- kind of just random thought of trump something that was manageable and responsible or semi responsible for the country. i'm very nervous.

let's start with the david bossie news. of course he wants somebody who knows how to navigate their way through an impeachment hearing. >> somebody who knows washington, somebody he knows. and david bossie was someone who was left behind. he was always on the outside of the white house looking in. still very much in contact with the trump circle, certainly with corey lewandowski who he wrote a book with and someone still in touch with the president as well. you have a feeling this is a president who initially went with establishment picks in a lot of these slots, right? reince priebus at first and then nick ayers. now he's going with someone who he's more in line with. >> wait. wait. wait a second. wait a second. >> if i told -- >> if you said david bossie was being rumored as chief of staff for the white house, what would you have said? >> i would have said that's as likely as donald trump becoming president of the united states. are you crazy? he worked for dan burton, the chairman of the house oversight committee who fam

david bossie, political. he knows how to deal with impeachment proceedings.different skill set than john kelly. smart pick for the president if it is him? >> i think so. because look, the chief of staff moving forward into 2020 needs to be different than the one moving into the white house when the president first got there. he needs to be stratestrategic, political, he needs to handle the investigative side of this, which he has experience to do, and he needs to marry that with strategic communications going into 2020. with his political experience working in the past on various issues and campaigns, i think there's tremendous names on the list for chief of staff, but david bossie checks all those boxes in mew view, of the perfect person not only that can fill the role necessary but someone that gets along with the president as well as the current staff. and he has that built-in relationship. so i think all the great names on the list, i see him as someone right at the top right now. >> patti solis doyle. i wonder if that is an indicator that the focus for t

. >> and then on sunday on after words, citizens unit president david bossy and trump campaign manager corey lewandowski disuses their books, "trump's enemies" they're interviewed by sharyl attkisson. >> i don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but we refer to these people as the november 9th club meaning they became a fan of trump after he got elected. they didn't vote for him but they found an opportunity to join in administration which was young and inexperienced to further their own agendas. >> as part of becoming president he listened a lot to republican leaders in washington and took advice from folks that i don't know that he would do that same thing today. i think during that transition in the first month or two of his administration the learning curve was incredibly steep just like it is for every single president of the united states. there's no classes, there's no degree on being president, and it's a learning curve. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span 2. >> saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern conversations with three retiring members of congress, senator claire mccaskill, and

david bossie, who i've been told did tremendous things to fund the campaign.etary for the former brace present yesterday. he said to me that david bossi so many good leon mark meadows 70 that matt z said he could do the deal. what do you think? >> i'm not sure if either of these men really want the job. i think that nick ayres turning down the president is amazing. to spend more time with his family? >> harris: when women say it, i'm telling you -- i really lean hard on that. every bit has a right to say that. >> i don't believe it when a man or woman says it is in the political game. in the way that nick ayers is. >> chief of staff to an american president. one of the most coveted jobs. >> harris: how hard is this job in general and how hard does it get when you have a divided congress next year? >> it's very hard. that's kind of the point i was making, that david bossie or mark meadows perhaps could handle external affairs but this is the presidency of the united states. you have -- well, you may need to people because he of domestic policy, foreign policy,

now that he's taken himself out of the running, i think that puts david bossy ahead.artisan that is not afraid of fighting and i think in this environment with impeachment on the table, that's going to be very appealing. >> i just want to show this one thing. it is, as we say -- here's a tweet for it. as a civilian in 2012, trump knocked obama on this issue and tweeted, three chief of staffs -- that should be chiefs of staff. but okay, moving on. three chief of staffs in less than three years, part of the reason why president barack obama can't manage to pass his agenda. obviously we're now heading into the third year of the trump presidency and he actually beat obama's record there. >> we'll have more. >> but after eight years. exactly. donald trump, everything that he tweets is not true. and -- you know, there is always a tweet for everything. it's kind of ridiculous. >> and it's just worth mentioning that rahm emanuel left to run for mayor of chicago. jack wright left to become secretary of treasury. it's not like they were pushed out and they were a disaster when

so i would say, david bossie, jared kushner, and neither one of them should be there, because bossieould attempt to be the campaign manager, and you can't let that happen, and the people around him would have to know that there is a hard-line, and we are guard to chris krchristi and he may be the most eligible chief of staff, because he understand understands the role of political leader, and he understands the role of the executive leader and he understands the role of an attorney, and he understands the role of the prosecutor, and so, maybe he is the best of the bunch that is out there. but i would be careful. this is going to be a challenging time for the white house who is going to be needing a lot of discipline on the staff to do their job rather than preoccupied with trying to address an investigation or remove a cloud or get involved in a campaign stay there. to do their job for the american people to help the president to do his job. >> and this photo from the white house christmas reception that reince priebus tweet ed out whih shows a smiling john kelly and a smiling reince

eastern on word worked citizens unites president, david bossy, and former trump campaign manager, corey lewandoski discuss their book "trumps enemies. how the deep state is undermining the presidency." >> i don't want to be conspiracy theorist but we refer to many of this people as the november 9th club. they became a fan of president trump the day of he got elected. ... i think during the transition within the first month or two, the learning curve was incredibly steep. just like it is every single president of the united states. no classes, no degree on being president, it's a learning curve. >> watch booktv. good evening everyone. on the dean of the library. i'm happy to welcome all of you to this wonderful library. i want to acknowledge the support of the friends of vipers. we have a number of colleagues here tonight. it's an organization that's existed for 19 years now

trump deputy campaign manager corey lewandowski and david bossie are both here. hi, guys.reat to see you. you got a great new book out and i'm not going to talk about it right now. now i feel like i'm part of your club. but what the congressman and i didn't have time to talk about i want to talk to you guys about is the economy. we saw the gdp in 2018 hit record highs. but then it started to father at the end of the year. unemployment is saved, go to the 3.7%. but there was volatility in the stock market in mid-december. what's going on and what can the president do to make sure that he can continue to deliver on the message that apparently the house couldn't deliver on. corey? >> the president has focused on renegotiating bad trade deals. if you look at what he has done between canada and mexico and the united states. and you have to think what he did with president xi in china. he said we'll put a temporary stay on putting mortar rivers on you. for a period the market was up over a three-day period. but it's very fickle. now what we are seeing the last two or three or fo

david bossie was working with the house during the clinton investigation. and one another candidate? mark meadows. he has expertise in how house oversight works. he said he hasn't spoken to the president about the job. >> it sounds if you were offered the job, you would say yes? >> well, you know, listen, there's a lot where you don't answer a question before it is asked. because it is an honor, i'm inclined to have a discussion with the president. >> here is cnn's kaitlan collins with more from the white house. >> reporter: dave and christine, president trump is very much scrambling to replace john kelly as chief of staff now his top contender, nick ayers, has bowed out of the running. he and president trump could not come to agreement on the timing. president trump wanted him to commit to two years. he said he has a desire to move back to his home state and wanted to do the job of a temporary basis. that is leaving president trump to find someone to take his place. unlike what donald trump has done in the past, two people up for consideration for a job, h

let's bring in david bossie, author of, trump's enemies. he is also a fox news contributor. y or whether that is actually a serious list of people the president is considering i have no idea. but the folks on it are all friends of mine. the president is going to do an incredibly methodical job just like he always does figuring out who best serves him and what the next two years looks like. therefore i know that the president is going to pick the right person, no matter who it is. brian: i will say this there is a perfect chief of staff for every president. do you feel as though you have the chemistry with this president, you understand him in times of pressure? you understand the politics of it? do you feel you have that chemistry? >> i have certainly known the president a long, long time. long before he was a candidate. i have had the pleasure of knowing him. i do feel i understand the movement that elected him and having been a conservative leader in this town for a long time i have had my finger on the pulse and donald trump carried the day. he got elected. he understood b

of the list of people you showed moving off the list are david bossy and randy levine.hink at the very top of the list you have mark mad deadows said it would be great honor to serve as chief of staff. >> interesting. interesting. carol lee. people that the president has chosen to be his generals have not faired well. that's the latest headline in an article that you offered today. >> yeah. my colleagues and i wrote a story about and took a look at how president trump's fascination with military generals has kind of faded a little bit. you'll recall he was famous for saying he would pick the best generals. the generals he picked coming into his administration were straight out of central casting and he would cast them to play themselves fin the movie. now we have seen a number of them just not clicked with the over the time whether it's michael flynn to general mcmasters to john kelly to james mattis. his fascination with generals fades once the reality set in that these were not a bunch of people that would do exactly what he said he wanted and weren't going to be yeme

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. >> host: sunday at 9:00 eastern, citizens united president david bossi and former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski discussed the book trump's enemies, how the deep state is undermining the presidency. they are interviewed by cheryl atkinson. >> i don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but we refer to many of these people as the november 9th club. they became a fan of donald trump the day after he got elected. they didn't support him during his campaign and likely didn't vote for him on election day but they found an opportunity to join an administration which was young and inexperienced to further their own agenda. >> part of becoming president, he wasn't a lot to republican leaders in washington and took advice from folks that i don't know that he would do the same thing today. during the transition in the first month or two of his administration the learning curve was incredibly steep just like it is for every single president of the united states. there is no degree on being president. it is a learning curve. >> host: watch booktv on c-span2. tonight at 8:00 eastern conversati

the one person that i would keep in mind that would make sense would be david bossi because he knows president to understand what's going on. he also can take a blistering. >> dana: and he wrote the book "let trump be trump." >> brian: knowing what it's like to be in the investigations, he was on the offensive against hillary clinton needs going to understand what's coming at him. >> juan: if you have meadows or david bossi, forget about any discussions with nancy pelosi, chuck schumer. these guys come in and essentially they're going to reflect the hard right, the freedom caucus way of thinking. i don't think they have the capacity even to calm the waters in the white house and that's a big issue. trump went after obama and said you can't even keep a chief of staff. in less than two years, he's had no three. 62% turnover rate in this white house. >> jesse: whoever becomes chief of staff the media is going to come after so hard and they are going to try to get him fired because they will say this white house is gone through more chiefs of staff than any other white house. they have t

. >> up next on booktv's "after words", citizens united president david bossie anna palmer trump campaign manager corey lewandowski argue the washington bureaucrats are seeking to undermine the presidency of donald trump. they are interviewed by investigator journalist sharyl attkisson, author of "smear." "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant test hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> thank you both for joining us. i thought we begin with the short version, a synopsis if you will of how do you know donald trump? >> i got a chance to meet donald trump in 2010 so i've known the president for quite some time. i got to meet the president because i was trying to raise money for children's hospital in washington, d.c. where my son had one of his major surgeries. we were very blessed to be able to have great medical care for my son, and we wanted to of the family so we wanted to raise money so that others would have that same opportunity. we got a chance to meet mr. trump because we're doing a golf tournament at a golf course in washington that

tv, onup on book afterwards, citizens united president david bossi and former trump campaign manager corey discuss their book, trump's enemies, how the deep state is undermining prompt -- undermining trump's presidency. >> i don't want to be a conspiracy theorist. we refer to many of these people as the november nightclub. they became a fan of president trump the day after he became elected. the likely didn't vote for him on election day. but they found an opportunity to join an administration that was young and inexperienced to further their own agenda. >> as part of becoming president he listened a lot to republican leaders in washington and took advice from folks that i don't know that he would do that same thing today. transition,ng that the learning curve was incredibly steep. just like it is for every single president of the united states. there is no classes, no degree. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span two. >> we are at the watkins history museum, where c-span is learning about the city's history. the painting behind me did takes a central air raid on the town that was

. >> up next on booktv's "after words", citizens united president david bossie anna palmer trump campaign manager corey lewandowski argue the washington bureaucrats are seeking to undermine the presidency of donald trump. they are interviewed by investigator journalist sharyl attkisson, author of "smear." "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant test hosts interviewing

citizens president david bossy discuss their book "trump's enemies" how the deep state is undermining the presidency. they're interviewed by journalist cheryl atkinson. >> i don't want to be b a conspearicist, but we call these people the november 9th club. they didn't support him during the campaign or vote for him but they found an opportunity to join in administration which was young and inexperienced, to further their own agendas. >> as part of becoming president he listened a lot to republican leaders in washington and took advice from folks that i don't know that he would do that same thing today. i think during that transition in the first month of his administration the learning curve was steep just like it is for every single president of the united states. there's no classes or degree on being president, and it's a learning curve. >> watch book tv this weekend on

citizens united president david bossy, and cory lieuen douseky discuss their books "trump's enemies."y're interviewed by cheryl at cuson. >> we refer to many of these people as the november 9th club. meaning they became a president trump the day after he got elected. they didn't support him during his campaign, they likely didn't vote for him on election day but they found an opportunity to join in administration which was young and inexperienced to further their own agendas. >> as part of becoming president he listened a lot to republican leaders in washington and took advice from folks that i don't know that he would do that same thing today. i think during that transaction in the first month of two of his administration the learning curve was incredibly steep just like it is for every single president of the united states. there's no classes or degree on being president, and it's a learning curve. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span 2. >> 50 years ago apollo 8 became the first manned spacecraft to successfully orbit the moon. this weekend american history tv marks the milestone

eastern on afterwards, citizens united president david bossi and former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski discuss their book trump's enemies, how the deep state is undermining the enemy. >> i don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but we refer to these people as the november nightclub, meaning they became a fan of president trump the day after he got elected. they didn't support him during the campaign and likely didn't found anhim, but they opportunity to join an administration that was young and inexperienced to further their own agenda. >> as part of becoming president, he listened a lot to republican leaders in washington and took advice from folks that i don't know he would do that same thing today. i think during that transition likencredibly steep just it is for every single president of the united states. there is no degree on being president and it is a learning curve. >> watch book tv on c-span this weekend. foundationonal press hosted a series of discussions with congressional and white house correspondent about which stories are likely to dominate the coverage of

david bossy's name has come up and mark meadows and republican congressman said absolutely not. there is a certain amount of people saying no, no, i don't want the job. in order that they don't stick their heads up too high because it's a bad thing to do to get too much media coverage in the trump administration. i think several people would do the job out of duty and wanting the job, but will this president empower his next chief of staff to run the white house and give them power to hire and fire people and make them the ultimate authority. we already know the answer to that. i think that explains the red t reluctance. >> you will be mocked on twitter and spend monolegal fees. they will start with legal power. the timing here would make anybody, even a highly qualified candidate, would give you pause. >> he wanted to stay a shorter period of time than donald trump wanted him to stay. there are other factors here including would he be empowered to hire and fire. that's always in question. would he have the running room to make should have these decision that is the president se

and david bossie, he would love to have an opportunity like this. then there is andy levine.ontacted about a chief of staff job and he's happy with the job he has. but there is a concern that his departure could impact the holdland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. now, back to you. great to see you. let's bring in "the weekly standard" executive editor, fred barnes. who will be the best person to replace kelly? too none of those. kelly has been under rated. he's a pretty good guy. but you need another dimension from what he has. he's been a military guy who has gotten rid of all the chaos at the trump white house, but he's not a political strategist. and you need one in that job. the best one i have seen in the years i have been writing about this stuff is jim baker under the first president bush, then he was secretary of state. but he was a great chief of staff because he had both those traits. he could run the place, he was tough, and he was a good political strategist. liz: who is that guy now? mark meadows is known to be a skilled brawler. what about jim jordan? who i

don't rush the decision whether it's mark meadows, david bossie, chris christie, many people. kennedy: this is someone that is chief of staff for the attorney general, interim attorney general, his name has been thrown around a little bit but remains on the periphery but he seems like the kind of person who at least has the personality for the job. you have to talk to a lot of people. i don't think steve mnuchin wants to rub elbows with the gp. >> look, i don't know whitaker but i do know this. i'm not sure what his experience is in the legislative side of things or the political side of things. and going into a 2020 reelection effort, you need to have a chief of staff like an rahm emanuel or karl rove who understand what was at stake in the reelection effort. is that has to be a focus of inside of the building. kennedy: would you do it? >> i would do whatever the president asked me. but there are much better people than me. i'm a good advocate on the outside and i love supporting him on your show, kennedy. kennedy: thank you very much. >>> the battle over border wall funding

washington dc, donald trump naming two candidates, congressman mark meadows and former campaign advisor david bossiill be stepping down's or around the end of the year. jillian: honoring the following. and indiana sheriff's office cigarettes a christmas tree with 137 ornaments, one for every american law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty this year, each has an officer's name on it, the ornaments into the department where the officers worked after christmas. rob: let's talk some weather. we are in a position to discuss whether anybody is getting a white christmas? >> news of an earthquake. >> an earthquake just happened in the last hour. an earthquake in eastern tennessee, 4.4 magnitude earthquake, still very early but no reports of injuries or damage but folks as far south of atlanta were woken up by the shaking. we will get more information on this. the other story is it is winter across the country, freezing in atlanta, 26 ° in raleigh, 46 in mexico, cold snap across the country, drive for the eastern half of the united states. a system moving out west will sweep across the country b

i do not think a lot of the peoples' names that were being dandy about, chris christie and david bossily in serious consideration. >> the president goes into the weekend with a little bit of news. that story, we are going to take it off the page. >> i... i'm not interested in staffing changes as much as i get, i'm supposed to be. people i won't mention, santorum, claiming they are out and not out. >> like loading their names? >> come on. >> mle? >> to point out for our viewers, the role of an acting position, there are limits to that. the fact that the president appointed him, chief of staff -- >> you can be there in a long time. >> it could be a week and a month. it can be longer than that. >> after he found out he was chief of staff... [laughter] >> mick mulvaney had said that he was not interested in that position. that he liked the job he had or even consider a cabinet position, but a chief of staff role, i think he'd make a good chief of staff. maybe he'll get in there and the site is pretty good. you are the gatekeeper for the president. >> the most interesting possibility had be

he is said to have lunch today with another candidate for the job, david bossi. efforts to trade -- these trade tensions -- to ease trade tensions. the next move may come from the white house. the trump administration is expected to announce it is delaying tariffs do on bloomberg day. the chinese will resume buying u.s. corn and agreed to once again by american soybeans -- buy american soybeans. thousands of police officers take to the streets of paris ahead of what they expect will be a fifth straight week of violent protests. a police arresting more than 1000 people in a french capital last weekend along with 130 who were injured. emmanuel macron admitting he is partially to blame behind the protests. global news 24 hours a day, on air and tictoc at twitter, powered by more 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. tom: the house voted -- jason: the house voted on a farm bill. -- calling the legislation a "critical step toward providing relief and certainty farmers need." that is coming a lot of -- amid a lot of trade volatility. we welcome cong

the possible names being mentioned as permanent replacements, one-time deputy campaign manager david bossy and white house adviser kellyanne conway. >>> the trump administration is deciding whether to are place restrictions on fetal tissue and government-backed research. it stopped procuring human fetal tissue for some research projects while they look at the role it plays. it's likely to spark a fierce debate between anti-abortion advocates and those in favor of it. >>> the ohio house passed hb258, 53-32 was the vote after debating past midnight. this bill bans an abortion as soon as a heart beet could be detected by ultrasound, which can happen in aid to ten weeks of pregnancy. republican governor elect mike dewine said he would sign such a bill if it crosses his desk. >>> police canceled classeses at sandhya hook elementary school on the sixth anniversary of the massacre that killed six educators and 20 kindergartners. someone phoned in a bomb threat around 9:00 this morning. it came just before a planned memorial to honor the victims. out of an abandon of caution, a sweep was made and

former trump campaign manager cory and contributor david bossi. let's start with immigration. i want to play something for all of you that i thought today that actually really annoyed me. i want to explain why in a second period let's hear from steven muller, the top policy advisor on immigration. >> this is a very fundamental issue. at stake is the question of whether or not the united states remains a sovereign country, whether we can establish and enforce rules. the democrat party is a simple choice. they can either choose to fight for america's working class or to promote illegal immigration. you can't do both. >> it's fine, you can agree or disagree but i think it's a little late for these high-minded generous statements when what we actually got was a very specific promise. we all know it from steven miller's boss. listen. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. >> so steve muller, it seems to me instead of wandering around the studio going on about the general principle, two years into the admin

we have been talking about a few different names that include a former campaign official david bossy,rade representative robert lighthouser. this job requires someone that can handle all the staff issues and also handle interactions with the president at a time when there will be democrats in charge of the house and subpoenas coming and lots of political and legal issues in the mix. >> also when we're probably likely to get robert mueller's report. he will likely come out with something and they will be involved with that in donald trump. i felt the interview was compelling. michael cohen placed himself in a convincing way. he came out trying to lay as many cards on the table as it seemed like he could. how much of a problem is michael cohen for donald trump? >> it seems to me that some of the things that michael cohen said indicate how much of a problem this entire investigation might be for the president. specifically in that interview cohen talked about how a lot of things that he was asked about and a lot of things he told them they had evidence of. i think that's really significa

other contenders still are david bossie, someone who has the pit bull-like mentality the president is looking for. but some of his other earlier selections like treasury secretary steven mnuchin and nick mulvaney have signaled they're not interested. he searches for someone to replace kelly when he did not have a backup plan. >> so is john kelly going to have to stick around a little bit longer? sara, we know you're staying up on the twists and turns on this front. a lot more to come this hour after major bomb shells all week. mueller is about to issue a new court filing pertaining to michael flynn. just what it will say, a team of reporters and producers are standing by ready to dig in to all the new details. and the death of a 7-year-old on the border is raising a lot of questions. did she get the medical attention she needed when the u.s. took her into custody? and sorry, president trump, collusion is a crime. ♪ ♪ the new capital one savor card. earn 4% cash back on dining and 4% on entertainment. now when you go out, you cash in. what's in your wallet? so many interesting details.

david bossy. he was the 2016 deputy campaign manager for donald trump. there's steve mnuchin who will be out of a job and randy he ve -- levine. he's the president of the new york yankees and a trump backer. as one source close to the president put it, part of the problem with having to fill this position is history has already predetermi pre-determined the next guy's fate. john kelly and reince prebus saw their reputations diminished after served this president. >> joining me former chief of staff for clinton and white house correspondent for the pbs news hour. answer the million dollar yes which is who cares? the president wants to be his own chief of staff. de facto is his own chief of staff. explain why this is important for him. >> the white house needs to function well and it needs to govern to get be people's done. it's not unusual to have changes in chief of staffs. we had four in the clinton administration. >> president obama had five. >> most of those periods and those two administrations. in the clinton administration, the people were well sui

called north carolina congressman mark moe meadows a great guy and referred to form campaign adviser david bossy as a friend but did not say which he might be leaning. according to kellyanne conway, john kelly will remain at least through january 2nd to ensure a peaceful and pragmatic transition. >> got that? there's a lot going on. >> quite a day in d.c. >> it all leads back to the president of the united states. okay. >>> things just got a whole lot worse for british prime minister theresa may, the parliament triggering a no-confidence vote this morning. nic robertson next. and vaporize it with an intense rush of vicks vapors. [a capella] ahhhhhhhhhh! new dayquil severe with vicks vapocool. >>> breaking news. the brexit process in the uk plurchlging to chaos with conservative -- plunging to chaos with conservative members triggering a vote of no confidence in theresa may. we bring in nic robertson. where are we now on this? this has been such a painful process, this divorce from the eu. and now the politics for theresa may get even more difficult. >> reporter: yeah, the process is only going t

matt whitaker and then you have david bossi, not on this list, chris christie as well. >> with meadowser, whether he stays in the house or whether he is in the white house and takes the job, he is going to be one of his most prominent defenders over the next two years. it is giving some people pause about this job is that you are going to be a facilitator for a president who is highly resistant to structures and who is not going to being controlled by other people. you think of the previous chief of staff's, they had a lot of power and they set up structures that the president and others followed. people have emerged diminished from that job, the former chief of staff, rex tillerson company secretary of state. jeff sessions. these are the kinds of things that any potential candidates will be thinking about. >> bret: complete chris, does he need ace chief of staff? >> no. jfk did not have a chief of staff. it is not necessary. he has a secretary, a personal secretary that he could use to reach out to people. he can find anywhere, anybody in the world. this is a guy who handles his own b

asked about that in the past, said he isn't ruling it out. 2016 campaign, deputy campaign manager, david bossyne of trump's fiercest allies. treasury secretary steve mnuchin. the acting ag, matthew whitaker, one of the names that's getting some buzz. he's someone who's been critical of the mueller probe in the past. then perhaps one of the more interesting names on the list, new york yankees president lavigne, he's a long-time backer. this is what he tweeted back in 2012 when former president obama was undergoing some staff changes. three chiefs of staff in less than three years of being president. part of the reason why obama can't pass his agenda. there you go. the clock is ticking. >> thank you, kristen. thoroughly modern administration. white house chief of staff position. and the six front-runners, all white guys. >> what else would they be? >> you know what, i'm not judging it, i'm just pointing it out. there's not a corporation -- there's not a public company right now that if they had an open position, that senior, there's no scenario where the top six candidates would be all white men

that said, talk at this point surround david bossy, the trump campaign manager. also, jared kushner, the president's senior adviser and son-in-law. being in that role is about speaking on the president's behalf and pushing his agenda then jared has done that and helped negotiate the revised nafta deal and also pushed for this criminal justice reform bill that the senate is about to take up. so at this point, it appears that the new talk and attention is surrounding the two men and again we have really at this point no idea. frankly, neither does the white house who will be the president's top pick. >> i have a dumb smirk on my face every time someone says jared kushner in the running for -- >> never. >> i don't know how to -- as a journalist, what expression should i have? jared kushner could be the chief of staff of the white house. jeff, thank you for your reporting on that. >> reporter: sure. >> let's go back to elliott and tom. tom, talk about this inaugural committee possible investigation or whatever it is. i was watching stephanie this morning having a con

david bossie, the former deputy campaign manager, has experienced an impeachment and the president has there are other members of the cabinet, mulvaney, lighthizer, who said they would not be interested in the job, so the president is back to the drawing board with just a few weeks to make the decision. >> so true. great to see you. thank you so much. >> joining me now, scott jennings, cnn political commentator, former special assistant to george w. bush. josh is here, former communications outreach director, and chris cillizza, politics reporter and editor at large. jess, do you think the president is right to want someone for his next chief of staff to be more politics than policy right now? >> i think that's probably what he's going to have to deal with coming in january given the news of the last week where we learned he directed the commission of multiple felonies during the campaign. it seems unlikely that the white house isn't going to be taking up with those kinds of questions going forward. that's probably also why nick ayers was seemingly the guy for the job, and then very su

another contender, david bossi was on the ground yesterday. >> but the kushner thing is a big thing.erybody has to go through kushner and ivanka in order to get the chief of staff job. christie doesn't have a clean resume. >> going to say. imagine that. >> send dad to jail, it always makes things awkward. >>> why could this year's enrollment numbers be the worst in aca history? >> tomorrow is the deadline for open enrollment, for the affordable care act. and the enrollment has been trending downward off 12% from this time last year. .that was off from the year before. a couple interesting factors here. one, it's still relatively expensive for people who are having trouble getting coverage. but because of our lowest jobless rate, arguably, the best since 1969, there's less people who need it. >> mike allen, thank you very much. happy weekend. we're going to be reading axios a.m. in a little bit. signup. signup.axios.com. >> "morning joe" starts right now. >>> to loosely quote hamilton, he was in the room where it happened. >> uh-oh. >> the latest reporting on the "national enquirer" h

congressman mark meadows, mulvaney, david bossie, steve mnuchin, matt whitaker and new york yankee'sresident. a report that mulvaney and mnuchin are sending signals they're not interested, and we know one man who is definitely not taking the job, the chief of staff to vice president pence says he's headed back to georgia with his family to advance the make america great agenda instead. jeff bennett joining me now. what's the back story on all of this? >> reporter: well, first a bit of news. mark meadows is sending signals he's not at all interested. and mulvaney and mnuchin are also signaling they might have a hard time getting to yes if asked. to your question about the back story on airs, sources say the talks between them broke down over the time frame. the president wanted airs to commit to a two-year deal to fill out of the rest of the president's first term. ayers already promised his wife they would take their family back to georgia at the end of the year. the talks broke down over that issue. there's a lack of clarity over whether or not he would have hiring and firing author

president, david bossie and former campaign manager, cory lewandowski argued that bureaucrats are seeking to undermine the presidency of donald trump. the two are interviewed by investigative journalist, sharyl attkisson of "smear". afterwards is a weekly interview interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> thank you for turning us. i thought we'd begin with the short version, a synopsis if you will -- >> i got a chance to meet donald trump. i've known the president for quite some time. i got to meet the president because i was trying to raise money for children's hospital in washington d.c. when my son had one of his major surgeries. we were very blessed to be able to have great medical care for my son. he wanted to help other families. we wanted to raise money. i got a chance to meet mister trump because we were being at a golf at a golf course in washington but he ended up buying. we were able to, i got a chance to know him because he wanted to help me with that mission of helping children. was something i didn't forget or take lightly. he understood that i was a p

new jersey governor chris christie also in the running along with former deputy campaign manager david bossielified right now? and do they have a chance? >> well, i'm sure out of that list there's a couple people who could do a good job. probably steve mnuchin could do a good job, though i don't think he has the kind of knowledge about washington that you typically would want for a chief of staff. but he's somebody who has the president's confidence and he's obviously competent. but why would you want to go from treasury secretary into that viper's nest basically, where you're overrunning your own organization, a very high status position and now you're suddenly all in the middle of just in the middle of complete chaos and backbiting and you're going to fail probably. right? there's very few people who go into that white house and are able to survive if without being absolute sycophants. and then when they leave their reputations are destroyed. i just don't know why anybody would take the job. >> i want you to respond to it. think about it. you've got to be a pretty skilled person if you thin

mick mill veiny, robert lighthizer, chris christie -- i wouldn't bet on that -- matt whitaker and david bossyin white water and whatnot. look, we don't know who it's going to be. david, we talk about the nation's business, coming up later today there is a key moment in the nation's business which is that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi who will be we think the house speaker coming in are going to meet with the president to discuss this budgets deal or vote, i say deal, there is no deal, about what might happen. how do you see this playing out. >> we're getting to the point where the rubber will hit the road on how much money the president is asking for his border wall in exchange for funding the rest of the government, getting his signature on a bill there and the democratic leaders are going to go in and say you're only getting this much money for its border wall and we need to -- you need our votes to pass a spending bill. we will learn what that magic number will be. what i find so interesting about this dynamic right now, chuck schumer is in the same job he's going to be in next year, but

current candidates include mark meadows, white house budget director mick mulvaney, david bossy, stevenuchin, matthew whittaker and new york yankees president randy levine. >> interesting. >> joining us from washington, white house reporter for politico gabby orr. good to see you. >> i think we're beginning to see a clearer picture about what happened during the 2016 campaign of donald trump. and that is that there were several overtures made from russian officials, people with close ties to russian intelligence to members of president trump's campaign, oftentimes top aides and senior advisors on the campaign and those that are really in that inner circle and that very few of these overtures were ever rebuffed by the president's aides and advisors. we learned this in the filing on friday of michael cohen. in november of 2015 he said he was approached by somebody with ties to russia and he continued to have discussions with this perso person. that seems to be the case with others as well. paul manafort is one of them. michael flynn. so many trump campaign advisors have been in touch wit

fox news host tucker carlson, and citizens united's david bossie and former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski argued that washington bureaucrats are seeking to undermine the presidency of donald trump. in the coming weeks on "after words," stephen moore will discuss the economic policies of the trump administration. louise shirley with the emergence of new technologies, and this weekend activist derayy mckessen reflects on his work with black lives matter. >> you know, when king says of the more occupants toward justice, i think when we say the arc bends gauze people bend it, that's a hope. we believe our tomorrows can be better than our todays. so i think everybody who came on the streets in those early days was deeply rooted in the belief that this can't be the best version we've got. ..

david bossie, a 2016 deputy campaign manager, he is also a fox news contributor and co-wrote a book about trump. steve mnuchin, sources said he feels best served as head of treasury. matt whitaker, the acting attorney general, the future is uncertain with trump's nomination friday of william barr to be ag and randy levine, president of the new york yankees and trump supporter, he spent part of the career in president ragan's justice department and an aide to rudy giuliani who i heard is a supporter of levine getting this gig. >> not quite sure i understand why levine's in that mix but jeff can tell us. joining us now -- >> an aide to rudy giuliani in city hall, a supporter of the president and rudy giuliani has the president's ear. >> there's mulvaney, used to be a member of congress. meadows is a current member of congress. so that's interesting. there are a lot of presidents that think that's interesting. what's your take on this? >> it surprised me of steve mnuchin telling other people he pretty much just works four days a week and as treasury secretary one thing. i'm sure the chief of