he said, i am pleased to inform you that i've just named general/secretary john f. kelly as white house chief of staff. he is a great american and a great leader. john has also done a spectacular job at homeland security. he's been a true star of my administration. wolf, we were hearing last night and this morning the concern around reince priebus is growing. there were some close to the president who really felt he was no longer an effective chief of staff, not only in executing the president's wishes but also keeping things running smoothly in the west wing and ensuring the president's priorities were moving forward on capitol hill. this was a concern that was shared by the president's family members who work in this administration, with jared kushner, with ivanka trump. we were told the president was turning this decision over. this is someone who does not take firing people lightly. he does not take making huge staff changes like this lightly, so it was clearly something he was turning over. when he was in new york earlier today, he lavished a little praise on john ke

that tweet quote saying i am pleased to n that you i have just named general secretary john f kelly as white house chief of staff. the president says that kelly has done a spectacular job at homeland security and is a true star of the administration. kelly scene here being sworn in back in january as homeland security secretary. the president this afternoon saying that kelly is a great american and a great leader. now moving into a new role at the white house. >>> he, of course, replaces reince priebus all of this in the midst of the scathing interview with the new white house communications director ant thee scaramucci saying reince priebus would be asked to resign the president tweeting about an hour ago i would like to thank reince priebus for the service and dedication to the country. we accomplish a lot together and i am proud of him. win the last hour president donald trump making a public comment on the big shape shake up. >> reince is a goodman. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far respected by everybody, a great gre

i'm pleased to inform you that i've just name general secretary john f. kelly as white house chief of staff. is a great american. he went on to say i would like to thank crying previous by his service and dedication to his country. we published a lot together and i'm proud of him. but just a short time ago we had this to say upon returning to washington. and. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelley has been a star. got any credible job does far respected by everybody. a great great. rapists. donald trump that. the soul comes after a very public spat between previous and the new communications director anthony scaramucci. the b. b. c.'s jon sopel joins me now with the latest soap joan cycle this was pretty much a chronicle of a political death foretold wasn't especially. since the new communications director came into office well i was saying this morning that i just couldn't see how they could be this co existence. between scaramucci who is freewheeling swashbuckling. speaks his mind i'm we know boy to be find out how he speaks his mind. that when he

he's the former secretary of homeland security, john f kelly. kelly's predecessor, reince priebus, was sacked or resigned. this follows the apparent failure last night in the senate and republican attempts to reform the health care system. joining me to unpack all this is politico's daniel lippman. good evening, within the last few minutes, cnn reports that reince priebus resigned privately yesterday. what do you know about what has been happening? so, yeah, there are conflicting reports on that. sources close to reince say he resigned, other white house sources said he was fired today. he was seen on air force one travelling with the president today and we do not know what happened. the broader issue is that this underscores that the white house chaos in the west wing is continuing. reince leaving the white house is not going to stop that. he was not the biggest problem in the white house. let's talk about priebus for a minute. he was the republicans' point man. a kind of insider, republican insider, in this slightly strange west wing we have n

. >> i have just named john f. kelli as white house chief of staff. he's a great american. john kelly homeland security secretary of late. let's go to nbc's andrea mitchell in washington who has been watching this power str struggle. not hard to see this coming in some form or fashion. >> absolutely. reince priebus has been on the ropes for months now. certainly after the attack from anthony skar much, the new communications director, a blistering and profane attack, it was clear he was on his way out. could be blamed for legislative strategy. the repeal of o'obamacare. john kelly is the president who says i love my generals. john y, very strong in enforcing his immigration policy. also just on a personal level, this is a man who is a marine. he joined the marines in 1970, served on active duty in three wars and hassen given the ultimate sacrifice of his son. his daughter works for the fbi. this is a family of public service. in an interview with pete williams rotely last week in aspen, colorado, at a security conference, he said retirement was kind dote geting boring. that

it says, "i'm pleased to inform you i have just named general/secretary john f. kelly as the white house chief of staff. he is a great american. we say he has been replaced because we don't know if priebus quit or was fired. but we know he is ano latest in what is a blood letting in the west wing of the white house. president lost his press secretary, fired and replaced. anthony scaramucci came in and immediately started a fight with reince priebus. and today we learned that priebus has been fired. the fifth and the current secretary of homeland security. 67 years old. among the educational degrees one from georgetown university. in 1984. so priebus is out. general kelly is in. a change of chief of staff in the oval office. that is the latest from the "live desk." alison: dave, quite the week it's been. thank you. nancy: some of the rides are back open at a state fair in columbus. a man was killed and seven others injured wednesday as the spin tokers go ride -- inspectors go ride by ride. the sister station in columbus has the latest on the investigation. reporter: the

surprisingly, on twitter at 4:49, tweeting, i am pleased to inform you that i've named general secretary john f. kelly as white house chief of staff. a short time later, he follows up the tweed and says, and a great leader. john has also done a spectacular security.eland he's been a truce star of my administration. it fits that this is how the news would be announced. he's taken twitter to a whole new level, and white house communication. marty: go ahead. scarlet: i was going to say, it also opens up a new vacancy that needs to be filled. homeland security needs a new head of that department. marty: it does, and that will be subject to senate confirmation. it also -- it will be interesting to see -- typically, when you make an appointment like this, the white house will issue a press release that they distribute to the media. it will be interesting to see how long that takes. this could have happened completely during that plane ride back from rhode island, and nobody -- long island, and nobody in the white house has any knowledge of it. julia: we are showing you pictures of donald trump stepping out

president trump tweeted i am pleased to inform you that i have just named general secretary john f. kelly as white house chief of staff. he's great american. the president followed that up with another tweet. i would like to thank reince priebus for his service and dedication to his country. we accomplished a lot together and i am proud of him. john kelly is a retired marine four star general. he's been serving skaee ining a of homeland security. president trump calls him a true star of my administration. >>> a federal ranger whose gun was used in a highly publicized bay hearing will testify at the trial. he told investigators he found the weapon and did not steal it from the rangers car. his defense team says the gun went off accidental killing kate as he walked along pier 14 in san francisco. they want to question the ranger about the condition of the handgun. they were initially blocked by his superiors who argue that federal agents cannot be subpoenaed to testify in state courts. they say a new agreement will allow the agent to testify at the discretion of the trial judge. >> the tria

tonight president trump tweeting out he's named general secretary john f. kelly as the white house chief of staff. he goes on to tweet that john has also done a spectacular job at homeland security. he's been a true star of my administration. remember some of the this morning looking detailing some of the infighting between priebus. this is quite possibly highlighting that and shedding some more light on the situation there at the white house. >> if president trump has anything else to say, we'll bring that to you as soon as we can. >>> right now at 5:00 a flash flood watch in effect right now as heavy rains overwhelm parts of the area and more rain is on the way. check out this scene. several inches of rain turning a playground into a water park. >> and we're not out of the woods. more heavy rain is coming and expected to last through the night, getting lawrence. >> i'm doreen. wendy and jim are off tonight. we want to begin in the storm center. amelia draper tracking a new ban of downpours. >> seeing very heavy rain the beltway right now. you'll know if you're

i am pleased to inform you that i have just named general secretary john f kelly as chief of staff. president then made this statement. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody, a great, great american. reince priebus, a good man. thank you very much. >> will kelly make an effective chief of staff? everybody's hoping for it. the white house needs that more than anything at the at the moment. the powerful branch seemed to e devolve this week. people need to believe that the world they wake up to tomorrow will bear some resemblance to the world they live in right now. that's the last thing we need here. a political system is fragile enough. bad things could happen. so let's hope the upswing begins with general kelly this afternoon. for more of what's going on, brett joins us. how did this happen? >> i think it happened over a number of days, tucker. to hear reince priebus tell the story, he resigned yesterday, thursday. the tweet obviously took everybody by surprise. but apparentl

president trump wrote i am pleased to inform you i have just name general secretary john f kelly as whitehouse chief of staff. he is a great american. reince priebus secretly resigned thursday after days of inviting with new communication director anthony scaramucci. the drama started with anthony scaramucci insinuating thatnsin reince priebus was a leaker. he then said this to a new yorker magazine reporter, he said he is a paranoidd schizophrenic. a man who has had his own dustup with reince priebus, corey lindow speed joins us. the knock on reince priebus was that he didn't really have a great relationship with donald trump and wasn't a real trump guy. was that you are read corey? >> he wasn't really around for the campaign and he was the chairman of the national committee and there were 16 candidates in that field so hehe obviously devastated and destroyed all of them, we know that, but it wasn't until the very end after the convention where we started to see the help from the rnc. i think there were some people, for better or worse, i never thought that he was on the train from the b

the two help often clashed and tweeted i'm pleased to inform you i have named general secretary john f. kelly. >> and meantime several water rescues took place around the dmv. one caught on camera a driver getting rescued from his car stuck in standing water. kristin is joining us, kristin. >> good evening, sarah, jim, the rain has been on and off in old town. nothing like it was in montgomery county. check out the vedo of drawm attic rescue. emergency management crews pulled out a man from inside his vehicle after he drove into standing water on beach street for this reason emergency management crews really stressed that phrase turn around, don't drown especially in flood like situations. scary situations like this one. we'll keep a close eye on things on our ends and let you know if anything changes in terms of weather. >> d.c. police officer under investigation for wearing a controversial tee shirt. >> more than 1,000 people signed a petition calling for that officer to be fired, too. here is evan lambert with the story. >> d.c. police have taken an officer off the streets after citizens s

john f kelly as white house chief of staff. he's a great american.reince priebus saying, i would like to thank priebus country. we accomplished a lot together and i am proud of him. today, the president made remarks after landing at joint base andrews in maryland a half hour ago. >> reince is a good man, john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a great, great american. reince priebus a good man. thank you very much. >>> the move follows months of speculation that priebus would soon be ousted. >>> we bring you a weather alert and thank you for joining us, i'm taupe >> i'm lauren demarco in for shawn, it has been miserable. we're dealing with flooding concerns. over to gwen with the latest on when we can expect to dry out >> we got ways to go before that happens, but the heaviest rainfall is going to start to move in tonight. and we're going to be dealing with rain showers

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he is naming general secretary john f kelly to that position. just in the last 24/48 hours we have witnessed a lot of infighting at the white house, play out on twitter. and then, of course, that very vul ggar interview wi the new yorker, detailing his thoughts on priebus, on bannon. and then, of course, now he's coming out -- new tweets coming out naming a new white house chief of staff, shedding new light on the situation there at the white house, again, the president just a couple of minutes ago tweeting his thanks to reince priebus for his service and dedication to his country. from the live desk, i'm erica back to you guys. >>> this video looks so bad. a police officer's dash cam is rolling as he slams into a suspect in the middle of a field at prince georges county, but as bad as it looks, it was not enough to send the officer to jail. the bureau chief tracee wilkins explains the reason behind the punishment. >> suspect on the run possibly armed, one officer is running behind him. prce officer juan hernandez follows in his squad car. dash

trump has replaced him with homeland security secretary general john f kelly.ore upheaval of the white house as we head into the weekend. good evening, i am julie haener. >> im frank somerville. at announced the departure of reince priebus reince priebus said he gave his resignation yesterday after six months on the job. all of this comes after some very harsh public attacks for the presidents knook medication director, anthony scaramucci, who called reince priebus paranoid . today, cart thanked reince priebus for his service and dedication. just before the news broke, president donald j. trump had prays for general john kelly, who will take over the job. >> i want to congratulate john kelly, who has been an incredible secretary of homeland security. one of our real stars. truly one of our stars. >> in an interview with cnn in the past hour, reince priebus said he would stay on for a couple of weeks during the transition. he refused to discuss the circumstances of his departure. >> i want to congratulate john kelly, who has done an incredible job as secretary o

removed reince priebus as his chief of staff, replacing him with homeland security secretary, john f. kelly this in a tweet, calling secretary kelly a great american now, obviously, reince priebus has been the source of some blistering criticism over the past 24 hours or so. new white house communications director, anthony scaramucci, had some very choice words to say about reince priebus they had been locked in a power struggle clearly, it seems now that anthony scaramucscaramucci is ts winning that, with reince priebus now being removed from his position he was a longtime lead of the republican national committee, head of the rnc, an establishment figure now on the outs. we are still, obviously, digesting this information and we'll pribring you more as we h it, kelly. >> ylan, thank you very much ylan mui there's the tweet from the president, saying, i'm pleased to inform you that he has named john kelly by the way, the president about to deplane after making that trip up to long island to talk about cracking down on ms-13 he's coming back to washington let's bring in sara fagen, a former

i am pleased to inform you i have named john f. kelly as white house chief of staff. t american. john kelly will be moving over to the white housa chief of staff. very interesting development, and no word about reince priebus. one can only assume there can be one chief of staff at a time. melissa: what does that say to put a general in as chief of staff? here now is jordan sekulow, law and justice executive director. you want to react to the news we're just hearing? >> absolutely, this is likely a result of two things. one thing anthony scaramucci, a good friend of mine moving into the white house communications director role, and two, the failure of the health care bill, which people like reince priebus who worked hard on it with vice president pence were not able to get that over a major hurtle. the president was ready to make a position change at chief of staff level, more like a general, to keep things in line there, with his schedule, with who he's meeting with, in a bit more serious way. a lot of this has to do with the leaks out of the white house and the -- jus

tweeting just seconds ago, i am pleased to inform you that i have just named general/secretary john f. kelly department of homeland security -- as white house chief of staff. he is a great american, dot, dot, dot. presumably more is coming in this announcement, but three minutes ago that is what he tweeted. we're waiting for more information about what this means. obviously reince priebus was, until three minutes ago as far as we knew, the white house chief of staff. let us go to sara murray at the white house who can tell us more on this breaking story. sara, so much is announced via tweet these days, one wonders what kind of preparation anybody inside the white house knew about this. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, look, we have been hearing from people last night as well as this morning that the president was not happy with his chief of staff, that he is being encouraged by people around him, including members of his family, who are his senior advisers jared kushner and ivanka trump, that it was time to make a change. they didn't feel reince priebus was up to the job of chief of

i am pleased to inform you that i have just named general/secretary john f. kelly as the new white house chief of staff. he is a great american and a great leader. he has done a spectacular job. after touching down on air force one moments ago, trump offered these words of praise for his outgoing and incoming chiefs of staff. ? why john kelly? >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star. done an incredible job thus far. respected by everybody. and great, great american. reince priebus, a good man. thank you very much. >> the question is, did reince jump or way pushed? sources close to priebus tell nbc news, the embattled top aide had had enough and turned in his private resignation last night. others say it was the failure of the republican health care bill, although the person running point on that bill was mike pence. we know for sure this came after the losing battle with anthony scaramucci who was named communications director last week. on his first official day on the job, scaramucci said, vinls an expletive para

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

president trump treated, i'm pleased to informed you that i named general secretary john f. kellye house chief of staff. we're not going to bret baier in washington with more. bret, your take. >> we saw some of this in the cards as we saw the back and forth with anthony scaramucci and reince priebus and privately senior officials are

was late this afternoon, he said, i am pleased to inform you that i just named general secretary john f. kellywhite house chief of staff. he's a great american and great leader. he also said john has ton a spectacular job at homeland security. he's been a true star at my administration. and finally, said i would like to thank reince priebus for his dedication and service to his country. we have accomplished a lot together and i'm proud of him. but i guess it didn't work out. >> it was a sudden change, judy, but a change in the works for months. the president brought on reince priebus because he saw him as a whisperer to house speaker paul ryan, a close friend of priebus from wisconsin and thought he could get his agenda through. but as that agenda stalled, he began to muse with friends about making a change at the top of the white house. kelly has been at the forefront of his mind because he's not a dramatic future and has executed for the president on immigration policy. >> woodruff: there have been so many ups and downs for this white house. how tid the president see reince priebus as connec

general john f kelly secretary of homeland security.ef of staff reince preibus and new white house communications director anthony scaramucci.e ur an expletive laden interslew and other top aides. abc tracking the fallout of this sudden announcement. more on world news tonight with david muir coming up right after "action news" at 6:00. >>> let's talk weather. looking live at double sca right now we are under an accuweather alert with the potential for heavy rain and storms for parts of our viewing area. flash flood watch is now in effect for parts of the delaware valley. >> let's head right over to meteorologist cecily tynan who is timing out the system tonight. cecily. >> hi, rick and double scan live showing the system is beginning to push some light rain into parts of our viewing area. the actual center of the storm is over west virginia and the latest computer models are trending it farther down to the south. the focus of the heaviest rain is even shifting a little bit farther down to the south right now. so, we do have a flash flo

replacement on twitter, quote, i am pleased to inform you that i have just named general/secretary john f. kelly as a knew chief of staff. he's a great leader. john has done a spectacular job at homeland security, a true star of my administration, after touching down on air force one trump offered these words of praise for his out going and incoming chief of staff. >> why senator kelly? >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody, a great, great american, reince priebus a food man, thank you very much. >> the question is, did reince jump or was he pushed? a source close to priebus tells nbc news the embattled top aides to the president had enough and turned in his resignation, claim, it was a failure of the health care bill, the person 1 running that point on that pill was vice president mike pence, we know for sure after priebus engaged in a losing battle with anthony scaramucci, named director last week, his infamous conversation on the new yorker on his first official day on the job, he sai

president trump treated, i'm pleased to informed you that i named general secretary john f. kelly as the white house chief of staff. we're not going to bret baier in washington with more. bret, your take. >> we saw some of this in the cards as we saw the back and forth with anthony scaramucci and reince priebus and privately senior officials are saying priebus' days have been numbered and they have been numbered to 1. you have general john kelly, the secretary of homeland security and will leave that post at dhs and will take on perhaps a more tumultuous job at the moment, chief of staff at the white house, trying to steer the white house in a way that the president wants. obviously president trump has been a proponent of pulling in generals and using former military men as key figures in his administration. kelly is top on the list. the former commander of u.s. southern command and then a secretary of homeland security who is not shied away from using blunt language in pursuing immigration policies that president trump has wanted along the border. it will be interested to see wha

he >> out, white house chief of staff reince priebus is out with a tweet, in his place general john f. kellywants to make cigarettes less addictive, and that burned a hole in a handful of tobacco stocks. those stories and more tonight on "nightly business report" for . july 28th. >> good evening, everyone and welcome. developments out of washington late thi president trump's chief of staff, reince priebus, is out.

he said, i am pleased to inform you that i have just named general -- secretary john f. kelly as the white house chief of staff. he is a great american and a great leader. he goes on to say john has also done a spectacular job at homeland security. hayes been a true star of my administration. and then he went on a short time later, wolf, to thank reince priebus. he said, i would like to thank reince priebus for his service and dedication to the country. we accomplished a lot and i am proud of him exclamation point. at that point the president and his outgoing chief of staff parted ways and reince priebus did not come back here to the white house, at least not directly. the president did come back here and with that a new era, a new moment that actually starts monday in this white house, wolf, with general john kelly, a four-star general now tasked with, a, getting this administration's agenda back on track, and b, guiding this administration through what is still a cloud consuming this white house that expanding investigation in the russian election meddling, wolf. >> and inte

this as a general john f. kellyuse chief of staff, good morning to you on this monday. i am jon scott. >> i am molly line, sworn in and attending his first meeting as chief of staff. expressing confidence in him, but the direction that the cotr

along with members of his cabinet and tomorrow an official changing o f the guards coming to the white house. >> as far as john kelly, he's going to be great. keeping things organized and keeping everyone in their lane and controlling a flow of information and in and out of the oval office. contr control, eluded reince priebus of six months of his job. sth the president is ready to turn the parchge. >> i believe that general kelly represents somebody that's patience and strategic. >> the breath of kelly's new authority remains to be seen. can the marine general over force full personality pulled over. kelly's mission is less drama and more discipline inside the inner circle. >> i can just speak for myself even if that means that there is more protocol or pecking order and that there is less regular access in and out of the oval office. the generals biggest management challenge maybe the president's impulsive streak. more than a dozen tweets on saturday. understand the republican senators are total quitters, repeal and replace is not dead. demanding another vote before voting on another bill. the president already co

f. kennedy. he could instil discipline in a tumultuous white house staff. but he has —— john discipline in a tumultuous white house staff. but he has ——john —— generaljohn kellyworking. he has to get his own house in order in order to deal with bigger problems. the family of rashan charles, who died in hackney in east london after police apprehended him last weekend, have appealed for calm after a night of violence there. bottles and fireworks were thrown at police following a demonstration. the independent police complaints commission is investigating the death of mr charles, who was 20 years old. richard lister reports. the tension had been building all afternoon. a peaceful protest about the death of a young man in police custody in east london beginning to turn into something else. the police were out in force trying to maintain calm, but it didn't last. by ten o'clock, a fleet of police vans was facing a burning barricade and an angry crowd. fireworks and bottles were thrown. hundreds of officers trying to keep people back. move away, the dogs are coming out. police in full riot gear repeatedly tried to clear the street. mounted officers were brought in