that's why it will be such a huge test for john kelley. this is supposed to be somebody who will come in and put discipline into a system that has been very undisciplined but that is a very untrump-like scenario that john kelley is trying to bring to the white house. remember, you know this all too well, donald trump seems to revel in the sort of disorganized chaos having rival factions fighting against one another. he feels it results in better decision making on his part whereas much of the world just sees a white house in chaos and doesn't believe that to be the case at all. the other question is whether or not you know, so much of the problems that are generated by this white house are generated by the president's smartphone when he's tapping out these tweets that sort of send washington into a tail spin from time to time almost on a daily basis and so the question is for john kelley not only can he get the white house under control and bring order to a very disorderly situation, can he get his hands on that phone. that might be anothe

. >> yeah, i know john kelley. that sounds exactly how i would think john kelley would respond to this. now, i don't know any of the fine print. i'm learning about this the same way are you, anderson but it's very consistent with the character of the man that i know. >> the reporting from "the washington post" that was just breaking that president trump actually dictated john junior's misleading statement on his meeting with russian lawyer, i'm wondering if true, this is "the washington post" reporting based on multiple sources, how daping is it for the president? it's certainly something special counsel bob mueller would be looking into. >> sure. a leave your legal experred to comment on that might mean to former director mueller's investigation. i was watching the breaking news and the thought occurred to knee when i was a military attache

know, he's in a -- >> go ahead. >> you know john kelley is in a fetal position right now, right? >> one of the things i think we're seeing hearing is that donald trump knows that his base and his pet media outlets rely on this war with the media he's doing and his sort of, and the ways he is transgressive and breaks the rules, et cetera. because that's all they're about. this is a president who doesn't care about the country. he cares about his image and he cares about this war with the media ha is the central part of his brand now. and the fact of the matter is i think an awful lot of americans are looking at this, outside the republican base and thinking dear god, where is this going to go next. you're right. david, the handlers he's chafing against the adult supervision and the handling of these people. he doesn't want to be hold how to behave even when his behavior is so far out of any presidential norm, and that's not a compliment. that's not praise. that's a warning. but i do think they want the story to be about the media tomorrow. they want to have their ability to beat t

he probe likes that, but you can see from what the new chief of staff is trying to do, john kelley's reaching out to democratic leaders, he's trying to sort of passcy phi, cool tensions and trying to figure out how to stabilize this administration. he realizes you have to do more if you want to be successful than just please your own base than just rile up your base and harden divisions. i don't think steven miller did that. i think he copied to store the of inflame passions, excite the president, excite the base and they got to get beyond just doing that if they're going to be successful in the administration. trying to sort of ease tensions is smart but i think anybody who is sitting there and saying okay, everything's fixed, new sheriff's in town. donald trump is who donald trump is, right? and just because kelly says something to sessions doesn't mean that donald trump won't get agitate and lash out again. just because mike pence is going around europe reassuring allies we stand with them and will defend them against russia. >> looking like a president. >> i don't know how anybod

have you any west wing intel, any intel about what is going on during the command of john kelley? >> well, you know, john kelly is trying to control what he can, which is the process inside the white house. you know, you have a president as we've been talking about who is someone that is not easy to control. you can't really rein him in. he's going to do what he's going to do. he's been doing since he first announced his candidacy for the presidency. and so you have a chief of staff who is trying to work within that system and has tried to institute some sort of structure that wasn't there, to keep people from getting to the president, getting -- whether it's stories that they don't want the president to land on president's desk. he's trying to, you know, put some sort of what you would see in a usual white house in terms of the chief of staff kind of acting as a gatekeeper. whether or not that sticks, you know that, remains to be seen. it's a very different white house than others i covered all years of the obama administration and the way they structure this white house is differ

simply as the mooch forced out after just 11 days on the job, the new white house chief of staff john kelley pushing for his departure. scaramucci a wealthy wall street financier hand picked by the president and his family cast himself from the start as a personal friend of the commander in chief. >> i love the president. i obviously love the country. >> but from day one, there was bad blood between scaramucci and former chief of staff reince priebus. >> we are a little bit like brother whereas we rough each other up once in awhile? it only got worse. >> some brothers are like cain and abal. other brothers can fight and get along. i don't know if this is repairable. that's up to the president. >> reporter: then redefined what it means to go off message calling priebus a paranoid schizophrenic threatening to fire essentially the entire white house communications team over leaks saying they'll all be fired by me and i fired up with guy the other day. i have three to four people i'll fire tomorrow. he also tore into the president's chief strategist steve bannon. i'm not steve bannon, he said la

the education of general john kelley as white house chief of staff. plus, two revealing new interviews tonight with steve bannon in the wake of charlottesville. that's ahead. a whole lot ahead as "the 11th hour" just now getting underway. >>> welcome back to our broadcast. the president's comments in the aftermath of charlottesville have left his aides and allies in a tough spot. and have given comfort and validation to the so-called alt-right, including white nationalists as they heard some of their own wording, imagine that, coming out of the president's mouth in trump tower yesterday. the american prospect tonight has published an interview the first of two interviews we have to tell you about this evening, with steve bannon. this one was conducted by robert cutter in who writes "i asked bannon about the connection between his program of economic nationalism and the ugly white nationalism epitomized by the racist violences in charlottesville and trump's reluctance to condemn it. he dismissed the far right as irrelevant and side stepped his own role

mcmaster or john kelley. i don't know who other than steve bannon might have given the president those words. how do you pull back from that kind of red line? it's really extraordinary. the b-1 bomber has been flying out much guam continuously since that first icbm was launched. north korea wasn't happy about it. there are some statements, but nothing like the threat against guam. i think it's an empty threat, but it's a rhetorical response to president trump tonight. we've got find some way to de-escalate this. >> malcolm, this is why we keep saying credibility matters. let's start with the letter, "a." do you believe the intelligence that kicked this thing off today? >> you know, i have seen several escalations of, you know, rhetoric like this that occurred over the last 25 years. most notably, the run up to the war in iraq. it always starts off with intelligence, and this particular intelligence assessment we have seen in "the post" today is peculiar because six months ago the assessment was that north kor

of course, that picture of general john kelley worth a thousand words. his humiliation, his embarrassment of having to stand there as witness to it as somebody desecrated the values he's defended all his life. >> i was remembering today a former first lady, michelle obama said being president doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are. let me pause our conversation. we'll continue just on the other side of this break. ew just how rich they were. the average american home value has increased $40,000 over the last 5 years. but many don't know you can access that money without refinancing or selling your home. with a home equity loan, you can pull cash out of your house for anything you need- home improvement, college tuition, even finally getting out of credit card debt. come to lendingtree.com to shop and compare home equity loans right now. because at lendingtree, when banks compete, you win. >>> we are back to our conversation with a lot to discuss with steve schmitt and john meacham. john, as a son of the south, you no doubt listened with great

david ignacias, john kelley cost a son and his other son marine heading into afghanistan now. this is something that is so, so deeply personal with the chief of staff, that you can understand why steve bannon is no longer in the white house for one thing. >> general kelly and every family of every soldier who's died in afghanistan wants to believe that the sacrifice was for something, that it was leading to something good, it wasn't leading to just walking away. so i understand that. i think the one important difference that we'll see tonight is that where president obama when he announced that he was adding 30,000 additional troops in a similar decision at the beginning of his presidency, at the end of 2009, made it time based, he said the troops would begin coming out and then he named a date certain. this will be conditions based. and essentially what i think the president backed by kelley, backed by mattis, backed by warriors is going to say to the country is, you just have to be patient, this is our longest war, it's in a stalemate, we're just going to have to hold our gr

. >> i think you're seeing -- i think you're seeing much more the influence of john kelley and much less the influence of the steve bannon isolationist alt-right types. >> you can see it because the president on the campaign trail said different things about afghanistan wanting to get out and he said it was a war that wasn't worth fighting or that we had been in it for too long. thank you, panel. great conversation. i want to get back to senior political analyst, mark preston. mark, as we have been discussing in addition to charlottesville and the town hall, the president gave a significant speech on afghanistan. why did they choose to do this speech today? >> well, a couple things. this has been in the works since president trump got into office. he said he wanted a plan put in place but wanted it well thought out. there was one interesting thing he an did say during his speech. when you become president, you look at things differently. clearly, when he was running for president and even before that, he was very much against staying in afghanistan. however, now we know that he is in it

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saw inside trump tower was there for trump tower earlier today, you could see his chief of staff john kelley waiting off to the side with his arms folded looking down at the floor. there were no attaboys. there was no black slapping and high fives after this performance from the president inside trump tower. and just to give you an indication how republicans are feeling about this tonight, anderson, i talked to a top republican congressional source who said tonight that the president's ability to effectively govern this country is "dwindling by the hour." clearly the republican party is losing patience with the president tonight. but if they don't really do anything about it, anderson, this is really becoming the party of trump, not the party of lincoln. >> jim, thanks. i want to bring in three people with decades of white house experience. van jones, david axelrod and host of the ax files on cnn and david gergen who worked closely with republican and democratic presidents dating back to the reagan administration. david, how do you view what the president said today reversing what he said ye

anthony scaramucci was out the door on the very same day that john kelly started his job as chief of staff. so what tools will general kelley nate to do his job effectively. also chris whipple a spoken to every living chief of staff for his book the gatekeepers and i spoke to him a short while ago from new york. except chris we can see john kelly already moving that to impose his authority on the white house. board is the single most important tool that he needs to do his job effectively. for you know interestingly all morning i was saying that the first thing. telly needs to do is make sure that he has scaramucci is white house credentials yanked from his neck by friday. eye he moved a little faster than i thought and deserves credit for tha. but that's the easy part now comes the hard part this is a broken white house in almost every way. it's a white house that it can't get anything done. it can't issue executive orders that are enforceable it can't pass legislation that can't. prioritize the president's agenda. it can't get anybody on the same page. so this is exponentially more difficul. than any job john kelly has had

with steve bannon gone, reince priebus gone, is this a general john kelly operation or all the sames this morning in spite of general kelley? >> i know you asked me not to give the obvious answer, but that is -- naet the only answer here. we've just seen this with trump for too long. to -- too much weight in any particular policy statement. any sort of particular promise, any specific promise or any personnel. you mentioned bannon being jettisoned last week. the that wasn't a week where he doubled down on his defense of confederate symbols. he launched his first trade action against china. i mean these are -- he started renegotiations on nafta. that is the nationalist agenda and he fired the guy most aligned with that. the general kelly is trying to bring a change of tone within the west wing, talking to staff over there, white house aides. he's been largely successful in bringing more -- a more command of control into the west wing. this is the president. the general kelly was chief of staff when the president gave that impromptu tuesday news conference. when it comes down to it, it's on donald trump. it's on the presiden

john kelly started cleaning house. carolyn shively has the story from washington. >> we just swore in -- >> reporter: president trump described jon kelley's first day is a great day at the white house. what does he do for day to? >> i think you need to sit down with the legislative liaisons in the white house and put a strategy together. >> reporter: like the retired marine is, kelly has established a chain of command. even ivanka trump and jared kushner must go through him to get to the president. medications director anthony scaramucci will report to no one. his first move was to recommend firing scaramucci after his expletive filled grant to ever porter dominated headlines. the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. and he did not want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. >> reporter: kelly's biggest fan appears to be the man who hired him. >> i predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> reporter: supporters are hoping kelly can also improve relations with congress. most recently marked by