general kelly apparently has been given full authority. if you believe that to be true? >> i do. if you have a four-star marine general who understands the chain of command and what it's like to be in charge of a chain of command and understands policies and procedures. what that means, i believe, general kelly probably said president, if you want me to come of ranbir chief of staff, i need the full authority of that position to run the office in the white house the way i think will come and with what your wishes are. every senior staff member will be at that staff meeting on monday. i can promise you that and there's also a cabinet meeting where they will formally announce general kelly at the new chief of staff. >> bret: what do you say to people who look and say this president lake's chaos? and that he brings in this communications director who is not even in the job yet and goes on this tirade about others. obviously try to get to the bottom of leaks, then this on the record deal, your thoughts this week and what it tells you about his management style in washington. >> it was

the military and certainly general kelly among them. you see from the people he's appointed. >> a lot of generals in this administration. we can are the debate about success for the country and the well-being of the country, but a practical question, what will general kelly bring to the table with regards to dealing with congress? that the white house, that the chief of staff in so many ways is charged with ushering through, ushering the president's agenda, through the -- where is his experience? >> and that is where he doesn't have the experience. >> he does, actually. he did work with congress when he was a junior officer. >> at this level. >> but not at this level but he was -- first of all, he was representing the defense department's policies as they were trying to get things done in committees and everything else. he's known on the hill. granted it was probably two generations ago when it comes to members of congress, but a lot of the staffers are still there, a lot of the leadership remembers him. he earned high praise for what he

general kelly can help here i think. >> talk about what you -- what you think general kelly is walkingnto. you've worked with many white houses over the years. >> yes. >> you have a sense how it operates how it should operate what an efficient white house feels like, what an inefficient white house feels like. this is utterly chaotic unlike anything we've seen and in walks general kelly monday morning. >> i feel bad for him. he is an honorable man. i'm sure he did in because public service it is in his dna. he's a 45-year marine veteran. he will tell you in his 45 years in the morins he never had a political movement. he is a public servant, very serious person, very disciplined. he is walking into a terrible situation. certainly the most chaotic white house i've heard of and i've served seven presidents, known the white house interior pretty well in three or four administrations. i think he has his job cut out. one thing worth thinking about is i think he and h.r. mcmaster have a natural alliance. to the extent that mcmaster has been trying to bring some traction to this mess in the w

>> general kelly. i mean -- >> other than general kelly? >> well, other than general kelly, yeah. again, rick perry. i was a governor with him. he's got a lot of relationships on capitol hill. i mean, price was a fellow colleague in the house. >> they are both cabinet members. they don't directly work in the white house. i'm talking about the president's immediate staff, the white house staff. >> again, it's an outsider shop and that's been part of the allure. i think that the idea of reince priebus was bringing an insider. it didn't work. they need to try something different. they're doing so. i think that, again, kelly bridges the gap between an outsider element, strong military credential, and a degree of capitol hill experience that could be the formula if they'll let him do his job. >> what is this latest very dramatic move, congressman? tell us about the influence of the new white house communications director anthony scaramucci. >> i think it's been bizarre. i think his wording has been bizarre. i think that the sort of feud you've seen develop in the white house has been d

tonight who is general john kelly?an who had been running homeland security and can he bring an actual chain of command to the wild west of the west wing? as the president shrugs off the most spectacular failure of the gop in years. no repeal, no replace and no way to predict what's next except wing? as the president shrugs off the most spectacular failure of the gop in years. no repeal, no replace and no way to predict what's next except for the 11th hour which begins now. >>> on a friday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 190 of the trump administration. and reince priebus of kenosha, wisconsin will soon be a private citizen again. and tonight he is making plan -- plans to, as they say, spend more time with his family. his replacement is homemade secretary john kelly, a retired four-star u.s. marine general. he starts on monday and in trump white house terms that is ages from now. priebus granted his exit

it's my understanding that president trump is been a long admirer of general kelly. this is something he's had his eye on for the chief of staff position for quite some time. what do you think of all this? >> kelly by all information is the superstar among cabinet officials. in terms of his accomplishments and in charge of homeland security. his skill set in dealing with the media, problems and the white house. there is no doubt the president recognizes that he has a problem inside his white house. the fact that he reached out to a military guy, most military people like kelly, i was chief of staff three times myself, kelly has had all of that experience. we are talking about stuff that really doesn't matter. will ivanka and jared have access to the president? of course they will. the only thing they will tell him is keep me posted. the president as an operating style should never change. he's not going to be a gatekeeper. he wants to be included and what that is and keep him posted so we can make judgments. and execute the policy that comes out of that. that's the di

i think with general kelly, he has selected a leader. that's not to say that reince priebus was not. it was a week ago that reince priebus said that there is a fresh start. i think people will look upon this the same way too. it's a pressure cooker environment. people want us to get it clouded up with the noise and not cover anything. >> martha: sometimes there is so much noise it makes things difficult. so you're saying that all of the difficult things that existed was because of reince priebus? that things will go away under general kelly and what's the advantage on the list? and the scathing comments made by anthony scaramucci. >> the only one to answer those questions are the president. let me repeat again for my third or fourth time for the viewers, i want to thank reince priebus. he also was part of our campaig campaign. just as i thanked spicer. every place of work, has to understand the rules, structure, protocol, pecking order and follow those rules. we all work in an unconventional president. he vanquished 16 opponents who were

the president has given full authority to general kelly. house says mr scaramucci felt it was best to give john kelly a clean state to build his own team but you just said the president felt his comments were inappropriate. i don't see those as being mutually exclusive. anthony once general kelly to be able to operate with a clean slate grabbed the president felt his comments were inappropriate. with the new hierarchy with general kelly, tell us hierarchy with general kelly, tell us what it looks like with this administration. general kelly will bring a new structure to the white house and discipline and strength and we're all excited to work him and we're all excited to work him andi and we're all excited to work him and i will not draw a chart appear but we will keep you guys posted. stephen bannon, everyone reports to him rather than going to the press, does everyone go to general kelly first? general kelly has the full authority to carry out business.” have a real quick one regarding sean spicer, will he be in the administration in anyw

let's look at what he had to say moments after general kelly had been sworn in. >> we just swore in general kelly. he will do a spectacular job, i have no doubt. what he has done in terms of oklahomaland security, record shattering. you look at the border, and the tremendous results we had, and you look at the spirit, and with a very controversial situation, there has been very little controversy which is amazing by itself. i want to congratulate you on having done a fantastic job, general, and we look forward to if it is possible an even better job as chief of staff. >> as you know, as you have been reporting, this is a president that likes military service members. who thinks that people that understand the chain of command brings strength to this type of administration. the big question is can he get the president's legislative agenda to move forward. what happens with health care. all eyes could be on that for a critical first test. >> and the president did go to military school. that is one of the reasons he likes generals. john kelly is coming in and he is facing a lot of hurdles. not

positioning general john kelly, now secretary of homeland security. sarah huckabee-sanders says general john kelly is one of the true stars of the administration. he helped seal the border and reduce immigration by 70%. lea, i will life with this. sanders said the president had been discussing this with reince priebus for some two weeks. so it appears it has been in the works for quite some time. reporter: do we know if this was something that was asked for or something that was voluntary? reporter: the big question. was he fired or told to go? i guess talking about this it appears for some time and he submitted his resignation and was allowed to stay on fan go on board air force one. lea: connell mcshain has the latest details. reporter: it's interesting to hear blake say sarah huckabee-sanders cribbed general kelly as a real star. the president was here to talk about a crackdown on gang violence which has become a big-time problem out here. he made a comment that seemed to be a throwaway comment given the context of the event. it doesn't seem that wa

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>> so i will do whatever the president and our new chief of staff general kelly ask me to do. >> how'scaramucci, or have you been told you report to john kelly? >> i will speak with general kelly and the president about that, as i'm sure anthony scaramucci will. >> up in the air, we don't know what's coming out of this cabinet meeting which was under way as we took air. and that's the question now, who reports to john kelly or do they all wanter in and out of the oval office? >> kelly has been told that people report through him, whether or not he can force that, though, is a different matter. because everybody in the west wing, including some fairly junior level staffers seem to have walk in privileges with the president, and if you're someone like jared kushner or ivanka trump and you're used to being able to walk in and speak to the president, you'll have general kelly granting permission for things you didn't used to have to have permission. >> obviously his daughter and son-in-law spend time with him that is outside the structure of the white house. even if the idea that everyone

in about 90 minutes, his new chief of staff general kelly will be sworn in. this comes as the president will be face-to-face also this morning with jeff sessions for the first time since the president launched repeated attacks on his attorney general. >>> vladimir putin ordering the u.s. to cut its diplomatic staff in his country by more than h f half, in retaliation for new sanctions. while the president is slamming china for not doing enough about north korea. we're covering all of this for you this morning. let's get to sara murray at the white house. good morning, sara. >> reporter: good morning, john. john kelly is being sworn in here at the white house, followed by a cabinet meeting. the question on the top of everyone's minds is does kelly have what it takes to bring order to what has become a very wild west wing. >> john kelly will do a fantastic job. >> reporter: president trump turning to retired four-star general john kelly for help rebooting a stalled white house agenda and reining in a chaotic west wing after reince priebus became one of the numbe

we are awaiting a statement from the white house on the appointment of general john kelly. unclear whether or not -- moments away we're waiting for that statement it's moments away. it's unclear whether at this point we will hear the president's choice for the replacement of general john kelly at the department of homeland security. usually, we -- takes some days for that to come forth. ed rollins, you know, general john kelly now having to do one-on-one more closely, rather, in the quarters of the white house with the president. a president driven to distraction by the russian probe, which is really bearing down on him. go ahead, ed. >> in spite of the comments made earlier, the russia probe is not going away and sessions' situation is not going away. the senators serve with sessions made it very, very clear that if you want to fire jeff sessions, it's certainly your prerogative, but chairman of the judiciary committee said i'm not going to put another attorney general up there. i have 100 judgeships that i have to basically have hearings on, other appointment -- so my sens

apparently jared kushner said they look forward to following general kelly's lead. when it comes to people who has access to the president, will that conduit be narrowed down now? will everyone report to kelly or will some things fall from the chief of staff. >> the president is having people report to general kelly and he'll make those determinations. >> the statement you released from the white house said scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team, but you just said the president felt that his comments were inappropriate. >> i don't see those as being mutually exclusive. i think anthony wants general kelly to be able to operate fully with a clean slate, build his own team, while at the same time the president felt his comments were inappropriate. those two things aren't mutually exclusive. >> with the new hire of general kelly, tell us what it looks like in this administration. >> as we've laid out, general kelly, i think, will bring new structure to the white house and discipline and strength,

>> president given full authority to general kelly. he will make the determinations. april. >> this statement released by the white house says mr. scaramucci felt that it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and ability to build his own team but you just said the president felt that his comments were inappropriate. >> i don't see those being mutually exclusive. i think anthony wants general kelly to be able to operate fully with clean slate, build his own team while at the same time the president felt his comment were inappropriate. those two things are not mutually exclusive. >> follow with the new hierarchy with general kelly. tell us what it looks like in the administration? >> as we laid out, general kelly i think will bring new structure to the white house and discipline and strength and we're all really excited to work with him. in terms of i will not draw a chart up here but we'll keep you guys posted. >> will steve bannon, kellyanne, everyone reporting to him, going straight to the president with issues? does every special assistant goes to

you've worked with general kelly, the now former secretary of homeland security. can he bring order? he's a retired four-star marine corps general. can he bring order and discipline to the white house? >> yeah, i wouldn't want to get in frank kelly's way, i'll put it that way. anywhere he goes, he's very strong, very quiet, quiet strength he has, determination. certainly he's a great leader. everyone i've spoken to at hhs has a great regard for him. >> do you expect more shoes to drop? >> i have no idea. i'm trying to catch the 6:00 train here at union station. anyway, i'll let you know if i hear of any more shoes drop. >> you have a lot going on. congressman peter king as usual, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks, wochllf. >> thank you. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." we're following breaking news tonight. the biggest shake up yet in the tumultuous trump white house. the white house chief of staff, reince priebus, forced out and replaced now by the current homeland security secretary retired marine corp

i think general kelly is a brilliant pick. we'll be working on a transition here for a couple of weeks together with general kelly starting on monday morning. so this is not like a situation where there is a bunch of ill will feelings. this is, i think, good for the president. i think it's smart for him to pick general kelly, and i think that things are going to be run very well. >> you say you resigned yesterday. tell us why. why did you make that important decision to resign? >> well, it wasn't -- it was something that i have always talked to the president about, which is -- and i have always said to him, and he always agreed with me. any time either one of us think that we need to make a change or move in a different direction, let's just talk about it and get it done. and, so, i think the president thought about that and we talked about it yesterday. and i resigned and he accepted my resignation. but this is about the president. it is about moving his agenda forward. i think he made a smart decision with general kelly, and

>> the president has given full authority to general kelly. he'll make those determinations. april? >> sarah, this statement that was released by the white house says mr. scaramucci felt that it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate. but you said that the president felt that his comments were inappropriate. >> i don't see those as being mutually exclusive. i think the president wants him to build his own team and he felt that the comments were inappropriate. >> a follow-up. tell us what its looks like in this administration. >> you know, as we have laid out general kelly i think will bring new structure to the white house. and discipline and strength. and we're all really excited to work with him and i won't draw out a chart up here but we'll keep you posted -- >> steve bannon, kelly ann will report under him instead of going straight to the president? does everyone go to general kelly first? >> i think i have been clear that general kelly has the full authority to carry out businesses he sees fit. john decker? >> real quick one first. real quick regards sean spice

we are told he was escorted off the white house grounds. >>> retired general kelly clearly is trying to take charge of the turbulent trump white house, but tonight we have exclusive new reporting suggesting that kelly recently had his own doubts about his future in the administration. sources telling cnn that kelly was angry about the way the president fired james comey as fbi director, so angry that he called comey afterward to tell him he was thinking of resigning as homeland security secretary. >>> also breaking, the white house says mr. trump is reviewing his options after vladimir putin ordered the u.s. to dramatically cut its diplomatic staff in russia. the kremlin leader hitting back at new u.s. sanctions that the president is expected to sign, but still hasn't. the president declining to speak publicly about the new slap by putin while vice-president pence had tough words for russia during a trip to eastern europe. >>> this hour, i'll talk about those stories and more with the top democrat on the senate armed services committee, jack reid. and our correspondents and specialist

general kelly is not here. he will officially start next week on a monday and he is going to start getting his hands around the organizational structures here. i think a question here tonight is we know that reince priebus will be taking his leave. he is vowing to work with general kelly as well, but how many more people from the rnc will be going with him? i think that is something that this is about, clearing house. robert: you mentioned the rnc wing and the other wings of the white house, steve bannon, jared kushner, more established republican wing. how is general kelly going to fit into that order? jeff: that is a great question. i think we will have to see how it works before we know the answer completely. there are so many wings, more wings that always here in the west wing. i think one thing that general kelly brings in, one thing the president trusts about him is his organizational structure and his strength. one thing the president likes is wealth and like strength. he found reince priebus as weak. th

that was settled with general kelly settling that. now as the chief of staff, everyone goes through him. so the unwritten story on this day is that john kelly is the sort of the central focus here. everything goes through him. he has complete control in this. it was john kelly who accepted anthony scaramucci's resignation. all right. john roberts back with us. john, your take away from this is what? >> i think it's pretty clear that anthony scaramucci sort of cooked his goose, his own goose last week with that interview with the new yorker, that profanity-laced interview in which he thought he was off the record but hadn't laid down any ground rules with the reporter to whom he was speaking. and knowing john kelly as i do and the type of people that kelly has around him and has hired at dhs, that is something that doesn't fly with him. the other issue is this idea that scaramucci was proud to say when he was hired by the president a week ago last friday that he had a district line of communication that there was no one going to stand b

that is what general kelly has clearly. this president really, really likes him. >> thanks, bret baier. we'll be back with you shortly. let's now meet today's specialist. the managing partner for the logan circle group and the democrats for trump and on the advisory board of donald j. trump for president. he specializes in all things politics. harlan hill is here. and he's been in iraq, afghanistan and gitmo and the author of "the arena" and special ideas in fidget spinning. pete is here. we'll get to that later. i'll start with this, pete. with the ouster now of reince priebus, this almost seems to be the end of anybody in dinner circle from the gop establishment. >> these are gop people going out and trump loyalists going in. they're sick of the leaks of the self-promotion and self-preservation of the agendas of others. they want people supportive of this president and what he needs to get done. if you can't close ranks, you keep beat the swamp and the fake news media. in this particular case, general kelly strikes me as

anthony scaramucci and general john kelly could not be more different. could you rationalize the president's decision to bring them both on board. >> i think trump is someone who has always been fond of generals. he talked about kelly just said in long island saying he's one of our stars. you have to watch what he's done at the department of homeland security. he's done a good job of enacting the president's agenda there. so i think it works when you think about the way trump has talked about him in the past. but then you contrast him with someone like anthony scaramucci who as you mentioned just now in that expletive-laden rant to "the new yorker" raised some eyebrows. folks in the white house told me there were people really taken aback by that kind of language. but the thing i would caution here, as much as they're different, when you look at anthony scaramucci, one source said you have to look at what he's trying to prosecute and that's leaks. that's something that the president has been outspoken about throughout his time in office saying we have to

things still flow around the chief of staff office >> the president has given full authority to general kellyll make those determinations. >> april. >> sarah this, statement that you -- that was released by the white house says mr. scaramucci felt that it was best to give the chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team you just said the president felt that his comments were inappropriate. >> i don't see those as being mutually exclusive i think anthony wants general kelly to be able to operate fully with a clean slate, build his own team while at the same time the president felt his comments were appropriate. those two things aren't mutually exclusive. >> and a follow-up, with the new hierarchy with general kelly, tell us what it looks like in this administration? >> you know, as we've laid out general kelly i think will bring a new structure to the white house and discipline and strength, and we're all really excited to work with him and in terms of it, i'm not going to draw out an org chart up here. >> steve bannon, kellyiane, everyone reports under him ins

and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. >> scaramucci's removal sharp indicator of how much power john kelly will have. president trump lavishing praise on him after his swearing in this morning. >> i predict general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> as the senior military assistant to robert gates and leon panetta, kelly is well versed in the ways of washingto washington. president trump is banking that kelly's military discipline can bring some order to a west wing riven by competing power centers. >> what he's done in terms of homeland security's record-shattering. the border, the results we've had, and the spirit. a very controversial situation, there's been very little controversy. stick with the president dismissed the idea of a west wing in crisis, saying: "the -- there is no white house chaos." >> companies are doing tremendously well. >> kelly joins the team in the midst of domestic setbacks and foreign policy challenges. among them north korea's latest show of defiance, firing off an

the president's swearing in of general john kelly as the new chief of staff, the retired u.s. marine corps general. let's begin with sarah murray who joins us at the white house and the message from the president was, basically, everything is peachy, things are going great, he will make them better. >> reporter: obviously, if things were going great, you wouldn't fire your chief of staff or accept his resignation and bring in john kelly. a number of staffers mean a fresh start in terms of calming the back biting and infighting and the president's legislative agenda that hit roadblock after roadblock in terms of health care. you can listen to a portion of the president lavishing on him this morning. take a look. >> i think we did very well. very well. lots of records created, john. look at stock markets, the highest it's ever been. unemployment the lowest in 17 years. companies are doing tremendously well. business spirit is the highest its ever been according to polls, if you look at the polls. the highest its ever been in the history of these polls. we have a tremendous base,

>> well, what we just said, i'm in drastic agreement with, that general kelly has character, and he has a presence. but he also have an enteinterla. i would suggest that kelly is being brought in because he is a mere peer of the president. i'm not sure that mr. scaramucci has the same as we say in iraq waspa. he's kicking a little tail, finding a leaker. kelly's got to run the ship. and we see him as a strong guy, immense presence and high intellect where he can corral some of these free-floating electrons and cause them to go in the right direction. and at least i home that's where he's going to bring discipline to the west wing. >> adam, finally to you the man brought in an announced at the same time as steve bannon, to reassure the republican party, i'm talking about reince priebus, of course is now gone, bannon's still there. what's the bhmessage to washington? >> you know, i'm not sure, it's clear the president is tapping someone in kelly to bring discipline to a very disorganized white house. i'm not sure where bannon fits in. obviously, he's survived through to this point. you kn

there has been speculation that general kelly was tried to tighten -- trying to tighten that up. press secretary sanders: the president felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. burden generalto kelly with that line of succession. i think we made clear over the course of the last couple of days -- general kelly had the full authority to operate within the white house. >> when you said you don't want to burden him with that line of succession -- the chain of command? press secretary sanders: correct. when it comes to the people who have access to the president, will that conduit be narrowed down? will ever think low through kelly?- flow through press secretary sanders: the president has given full authority to general kelly. the white house said that mr. scaramucci wanted to give john kelly a clean slate. press secretary sanders: i think anthony wants general kelly to be able to operate fully with a clean slate while at the same time, the president felt his comments were inappropriate. they're not mutually exquisite. -- exclusive. out, generalid

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

we were talking about the reporting on how general kelly felt when trump fired comey, and i had to cutforgive me. i understand you've been listening to this whole conversation and this news, general, and you have been smiling in bewilderment, why? >> what was the question you asked me again? brooke, this fits in with what i was going to say. general kelly respects people, he has a code of ethics from his 45 years in the marine corps. i didn't know he was going to bring a flame flower into the west wing, but it seems like that's what he's done potential. if this has with him laying down the law, a lot of us we spend the weekend going, hmm, how will they address this first thing monday morning, if i know him, he was all weekend setting down the markers, this is how we're going to run the staff, and i think he talked to the president saying let's stop the clown show and scaramucci was right in the middle of the clown car with the comments he made last week. e. >> general, stand by. brian stelter, this is all happening. look at our full table. all the news happening here. the wall is gone.

the marines who were running the operations in iraq, it was then -- now secretary of defense and general kellywas working for then general mattis as one of his principle generals in running all of marine operations in iraq. so there is going to be an excellent rapport, maybe even more excellent rapport between the white house staff and the defense department because those two are tighter than ticks. so that's going to be really good because you have a lot of problems sometimes between -- especially we saw this in the obama administration. between the national security counsel staff and the pentagon. and i think this problems are going to be eradicated very quickly. liz: captain chuck gnash, thank you very much. and one thing, though, that general kelly may not be able to control is president trump and his tweets. and come back after the break, christie and kevin, we'll get your thoughts on that. in the meantime, what a market day we're having as well. we're up 90 points. dow about six minutes after the open hit a brand-new record. and, of course, now it's shooting for its fourth straight recor

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want sessions to continue as attorney general or as suggesting considering moving over to replace general kelly as secretary of homeland security? >> again, that's a personnel question that only the president can answer. so just on friday you had thursday and friday you had attorney general sessions in el salvador and you hat president trump in long island both working toward the same goal which is to stop the viled groups, ms13 gang who is are murdering innocent americans and bringing drugs and violence into our community. chris: i understand that. does that mean -- >> well, he's working. chris: i understand he's working. the question is he considering moving over if the immigration part of this is so important to be the secretary of homeland security? >> i won't comment on that but i will tell you that the president has expressed frustration about the recusal so much has flowed from that recusal and so much of president trump's agenda flows from department of justice. many of the primary issues he won successfully on go to homeland security. look what happens with the ridiculous russian collu

here you come in third, generally kelly, to find out what is going on. an interesting job description being general to this guy who has never been in the military. thank you katy tur. thank you ken. thank you paul. very competitive rival washington post. >>> coming up, john kelly afirst day as chief of staff. and ousting scaramucci. kelly stopped the chaos that engulfed the white house. will he save president trump? what do you think? as trump pans his party for refailing to save the aca. we will see how that going tonight. >>> and reality bites. list of american organizations pushing back against the president is growing. the boy scouts, apologizing themselves for his inappropriate speech. the military rejecting his transgender ban and now the president's call to, this is disgra disgraceful, rough up. this is hard ball, where the action is. stay with me, mr. parker. when a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. stay with me, mr. parker. the at&t network is helping first responders connect with medical teams in n

general mattis, general mcmaster will speak truth to power. kelly is seen as more of a political general. i don't always agree with phil but i do tonight. the president himself. the president whose he tweeting things without telling his staff, he is publicly humiliating jeff sessions to try to force him to quit. you don't treat people that way. everyone knows that and he didn't and i love april, he didn't run an empire. he ran a very small real estate development firm that struggled and he had a thousand employees total. there's many much larger organizations in the united states, businesses and it was a private company. >> you're absolutely right but he is branded his name. he's branded this company into the highest office in the land. so i understand what you're saying, but he is not only a business mogul, he is also an entertainment personality, he is branded in all of the ball cap, snow baug upward to the highest office in the land. >> we shouldn't say he's so great as running this great business organization and frankly -- >> i didn't say he wa

it was evident donald trump, in giving this position to general kelly, general kelly has said these are the terms. president trump brought into it. anyone will tell you when you take over, there's going to be one person that tries to bite it and says i'm going to go around it. one thing i believe his anthony scaramucci believed he had a better relationship with president trump and i will continue to go go to u.n. genel kelly kelly says everyone goes through me. that's how things are going to be. >> eric: i get that but i have to wonder why wouldn't scaramucci say got you, mr. president. i didn't love reince priebus in this spot but i respect general kelly, so i will go through general kelly. with that have salvaged his job? >> ann: i would think so. not disputing anything the colonel is saying. i hope it was because of the interview. from the moment the interview broke, i was checking my twitter account all night. has he been fired yet? he was very smooth and charming in its first press conference i thought it was great but come o on. i don't believe he thought it was off the record. it

but you have to assume that general kelly would have asked about it. and would have asked about who reports to whom because after all he is a general. and if we've learned anything about donald trump, we've learned he doesn't like people he considers to be weak. and he thought reince priebus is weak. one of the reasons he's been so angry at jeff sessions is that he recused himself. and he thought that recusal was weak. so he's looking at the general as a strong person and perhaps someone he regards as peer and somebody he might be able to go to for advice and take that advice, which perhaps he doesn't feel like he has had in this white house. will he listen to him? wloo knows. >> david, axelrod, the definition of strength and weakness in this white house is so fascinating. the idea that being bombastic is strength but a guy like reince priebus who's offered multiple opportunities to bad mouth too, respond with fire or harsh words for anthony scaramucci chooses not to do that and tries to lead in an elegant way. that's viewed as weakness. one wonders if

>> general kelly's. to keep track of the president's schedule and keep it on message. and if ivanka or you just waltz in there, you're going to make his life difficult, right? >> i think that's why i keep going back to i'm going to allow him to create a policy that i'm going to respect. and others across, you know, the spectrum that come in from outside the white house, those inside the white house including his family members, there needs to be a professionalism of the white house staff, and i think general kelly will bring that. look, we've -- reince was, reince was in a very difficult position because of all of the power centers within the white house. neil: right. >> i hope that with this change this will allow general kelly to really consolidate that and really run this through him. neil: all right. well, he does have an affinity, that is the president, of what i would say for millionaires and military. and then the military, i mean, if you think of john kelly and james mattis in defense and h.r. mc

so you how will the west wing operate with a general and general cannily specifically in charge? -- kelly we have kristin and michael with me. this isn't just any general,ç kirsten. this is, he did three tours of duty overseas. a four-star general. he is respected by the president, by others in the white house. do you think he can change things? >> i think anyone who is watching here who had someone who has been a member of the military in their family knows these guys know how to run a ship and a tight ship. general kelly is not involved in politics. he is not highly idealogical. that could be good. he doesn't have a link to the gop establishment which many of the president's aides chafed at with reince priebus. if he gives the power he didn't give to priebus, swatting flies in the white house, if he gives him more than that, i think he will do a great job. lauren: simple question, very hard question to answer, michael, is this one. what chaos is there in the white house when you have the market at record levels, when you have unemployment at 1-year low. when you have the -- 17-year low

>> yes. >> can you clarify one thing, apparently jared kushner said they were following general kelly sleep, what comes to the people have access to the president, with a conduit being narrowed down now? will everything flow-through kelly or will something still flow around the staff? >> the president has given full authority to general kelly and he will make those determinations. >> the statement that you release by the white house that anthony scaramucci felt it was best to give the chief of staff, john kelly is clean slate. please said the president himself that his comments were inappropriate. >> i don't see those as being mutually exclusive. i think anthony was general kelly to be able to operate fully with a clean slate, built his own team. while the same time the president thought his comments were inappropriate. >> as we have laid out, general kelly will bring the structure to the white house and discipline and strength. we are really excited to work with him. in terms of -- i'm not going to draw an organization chart. >> steve bannon, kelly and everybody reports under him ins

one of general kelly's first tests, dealing with north korea. defense analysts say that kim jong-un could reach east coast cities with his missiles. president trump calling out china not doing enough to diffuse the situation. china is not having it. the president about to honor an american hero. a former army medic that risks his life and ignored his own wounds to save his fellow soldiers in vietnam. nearly a half a censutury from e battlefield, a medal of honor for a man that represents the best. that didn't take long! word that anthony scaramucci has just left his job as white house communications director just after a week in the job. an outside adviser to trump says the move came at the request of the new white house chief of staff, general john kelly. a bit of irony as scaramucci got credit for former out the former chief of staff, reince priebus calling him a effing schizophrenic. so this news most feel like karma to him. so what next for the communications team? one thing we know there's no chaos at the white house. we got that assurance

bit -- a lot of political know-how, and there i think we could see some issues coming up with general kelly. as a four-star general, he knows how to talk to congress, he knows how to appear on capitol hill and he knows how to schmooze, but there's a lot more to that to this job. this is a job that is so down and dirty in the roman coliseum with gladiators from all different sides and trying to get all these egos in line. i'm just a little bit -- i love to see general kelly and scaramucci in their first meeting. i can't believe you haven't brought this up yet. >> i think we're all trying to figure out scaramucci and kelly. >> it's so easy to be a partisan hack here. look, the power of the white house matters, right, and when you look at what's happening in the white house, when does chaos become dangerous, right? you know, when is the white house becoming a locker room become problematic, right? we need people around the globe to respect the white house and the white house is shrinking and being diminished. that is a problem for us around the globe when our -- when our allies don't think tha

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general kelly is a true american hero.and have had unfettered access in and out of the white house. you wonder could everything change with a new sheriff in town? >> there is a weird split, right? they have been getting in their own way for a lot of the personnel discussions. jared was one of the people encouraging the department that he should fire scare mu which i. they have talks about how much they can achieve there. but trump has not really done anything on that and the transgender ban goes against the image they were trying to present for lbgt rights. they can say we didn't have anything to do with this, but they do seem to have control over the personnel agenda. >> what's your sense of where iv iv ivanka trump is. a lot of people were looking at her and jared kushner saying they can be a moderating force, remind the president of his middle of the road positions on things like lbgt rights on women in the workplace, all of the issues that ivan ka hka has tal about. >> it was a really interesting example ivan ka didn't

general john kelly is in. before we get into the details of how this all happened, let's just take a look at all the frankly bizarre things that have gone on this week. monday, jared kushner appeared before the senate intense committee admitting he had four meetings with russians. on the same day, the president gave a speech in front of thousands of cheering boy scouts, a speech the boy scouts later had to apologize for. in the same vein, the suffolk county police department distanced itself from a speech the president gave. back to the timeline, tuesday the president said that he was disappointed in attorney general jeff sessions for recusing himself for the russian investigation. the president followed that up bright and early wednesday, announcing on twitter that transgender people are banned from serving in the military. and yesterday, we heard more than we ever thought we would hear about white house dysfunction from the white house of anthony scaramucci, which brings us to today. reince priebus out. it t