the notion that the chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon have mutually agreed today would be steve's last day, john, correct me if i'm wrong. i don't remember a statement from a white house about someone leaving like that. >> they ask, chief of staff, who's your boss next to the president? it says, i think today should be your last day. either you mutually agree or you're fired. >> don't come back. just lost your parking spot. taking away passes. he's a human being. we're making -- we should give him some grace here. this is hard for anybody to go through, but the way politicians and organizations try to spin this, something like this happens, we've decided we're done here and you can agree or either way, you're done. >> there are two critical points to consider. what jim acosta was just reporting, undoubtedly true and important to look at a john kelly-run operation. true. but remember here, this is a key reminder about a critical component of president trump, which is there's only room for one star of this show. so when you are out there in interviews saying, i'm moving people at st

so it shows that trump is giving john kelly enormous latitude. i think trump likes scaramucci. i think they had a real relationship. so i bet this was not an easy decision for trump to do this. but for kelly, it's a pretty important sign that he was able to exercise control, and it's a betrayal of scaramucci, to be honest. trump told him he could report to the president. the new guy comes in and says that's not good and he got rid of the old guy. >> it's going to be interesting to see if scaramucci stays in president trump's orbit or whether he's made himself persona nongrata. the whole notion that it wasn't what he said but he was getting so much attention as we know from the past, you know, when president trump said to comey, you know, you're getting more famous or you're more famous than i am right now. that was not a good sign for the future of jim comey. >> i reported this in a piece tonight in newyorker.com. each before i published my article, i had it on good authority that there was tension between scaramucci and president trump. and he was on a little bit of thin ice ev

so, i hope that john kelly will at least be able to impose that.e thing he said, this week was, any information that gets in front of the president needs to come in front of me first, we don't just want willy-nilly, president looking at different information some of that information may be bad, we need president making good stations based on good, strong accurate information. >> that is john kelly. it is important. the president has to deal with a number of crisis and problems, he has a national security process that involving deputy meeting and principle meeting to move forward on recommendation to president, he should follow that. he should do the same thing with economic policy. and to dom o domestic policy, to create an orderly process where information is provide, option are viewed and then presented to the president, when i was chief of staff to bill clinton before any briefing went to president it had to come to me, in the chief of staff's office at the white house. house. i think that is the right way to do business. maria: that makes sense

so, i hope that john kelly will at least be able to impose that.ia: one thing he said, this week was, any information that gets in front of the president needs to come in front of me first, we don't just want willy-nilly, president looking at different information some of that information may be bad, we need president making good stations based on good, strong accurate information. >> that is john kelly. it is important. the president has to deal with a number of crisis and problems, he has a national security process that involving deputy meeting and principle meeting to move forward on recommendation to president, he should follow that. he should do the same thing with economic policy. and to dom o domestic policy, to create an orderly process where information is provide, option are viewed and then presented to the president, when i was chief of staff to bill clinton before any briefing went to president it had to come to me, in the chief of staff's office at the white house. house. i think that is the right way to do business. maria: that makes

scaramucci felt that he should give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate. but you just said the president has itself made -- that the comments were inappropriate. >> i don't think those things are mutually exclusive. general kelly to build his own team and operate with a full clean slate. the same time, the president thought the comments were inappropriate. >> teleplay looks like for this administration? >> as we have laid out, general kelly, i think will bring new structure to the white house, and discipline and strength. and we are all really excited to work with him. i will keep you guys posted -- >> steve bannon, kelly, everyone reports under him and set of going straight -- does every special assistant go2net john kelly first? >> as i have said, john kelly has the full authority to carry out -- >> sarah, real quick. spicer, will sean he be in the administration in any way now that anthony scaramucci has announced that he will not be a part of the administration? sarah: i am not aware of any changes on that front. days ago, anthony scaramucci was introdu

>> john kelly was the one that delivered the news to john kelly, when the white house put out an official statement about this. i think she in charge. this was a john kelly move. he was predisposed to do it. steve bannon felt worried that ban n bannon was leaking information. and the book that came out asserting that steve bannon was the master mind. >> you also had a time, it may have ultimately been a decision that two men came to at the same time. >> whether or not there was some thought, and if there was not consider about making the administration's life and the president's life more difficult, he might have been left it. kelly was said to have delivered the news. it is unclear and unknown, it's a wild card. he goes outside independently. steve bannon is now a household name. there is people that will be upset that he left this white house. i talked to a bannon ally earlier this week. they said we had a sense this is coming and we look at this white house now and we see new york democrats and generals. that is not what we worked for in 2016. steve bannon is the leader of a coalition

presidents daughter tweeting looking forward to serving alongside john kelly as we work for the american people. general kelly is a true american hero. the key word being alongside. let's bring in james oma, national political correspondent for "the washington post" an offer of the daily two oh two. also, kaylee healy burns, national political reporter for real clear politics. caitlin, do we have any indication whether john kelly comes between jared kushner and ivanka trump and her father, the father-in-law when they report for duty in the west wing? >> you certainly heard the president and the last clip setting a pretty high bar for his chief of staff, john kelly. yesterday, sarah huckabee sanders said that the chain of command will start with john kelly, that all white house staff will report directly to him. there is concern that kind of hierarchy won't be tenable in this kind of environment. the keyword that you just mention there from the ivanka trump, alongside, it's kind of important here whereas were leading tea leaves were everything seems in terms of john kelly's management of

so the president is still miffed, but that doesn't matter because john kelly isn't miffed, and john kelly is the boss now, not the president. the information about the call from john kelly to jeff sessions was provided to the associated press by, quote, two people familiar with the call. the people demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about a private conversation, and that is the standard definition of leaking. so two people in the trump administration leaked a call between the new white house chief of staff and the attorney general. those two people could actually be john kelly and jeff sessions, or they could be two people that heard jeff sessions' end of the call or one person on the kelly end of the call, another one on the sessions end of the call. there's a bunch of possibilities and combinations there, but they're all trump administration people, and this is a leaked story from the trump administration about the new white house chief of staff who was brought in to end the leaking in the white house. the leaking will never end. the utterly insane twe

this is john kelly over there on the far left.s is in the old executive office building address and the entire white house staff late this week. telling them their responsibilities, the chain of command and saying, your duties are first to country, second to the president and as far as your own self interest is concerned, that does not count. some trump supporters suggesting this could be a turning point in the trump presidency. is that overly dramatic? >> you know, it depends on which kind of trump supporters you're talking about. some see john kelly as a savior. someone who will stabilize and it will be a turning point. and there are some trump supporters that see this as a betrayal of the true trump. that john kelly is in some way being brought in to blunt the sharp ideological edges of nationalism and so forth. that trump had promised.and look, that white house is a snake pit. you talk about the military bearing of john kelly impressing people. hr mcmaster has i believe three stars on his shoulder and his military bearing has

then the new chief of staff arrived, john kelly, the discipline and button down former four star marine general despite bannon's years in the navy, the two didn't mesh. politico said kelly didn't understand what bannon did and why he had a pr portfolio and why he seemed to cause so much trouble with colleagues and so widely disliked and with then rumors swirling about his position, listen how the president responded when asked about them. >> i like mr. brannon. he is a friend of mine. but he came on very late. you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors and i won all of the primaries. mr. bannon came on very much later than. and i like him, he's a good man. he is not a racist. i can tell you that. he's a good person. he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. >> we all know how that ended up to mr. brannon and in the business of politics where they do eat their young, there is already intense speculation over whether two other kind of bannon-its, sebastian gorka and steven miller will be long for the west wing under general

that's john kelly's job now. john kelly is now the commander of a ship of fools. the challenge that he faces now is unlike any challenge he has ever faced. tomorrow's challenge and the challenge for the day after that and the day after that will be which fool did he control or get rid of that day. joining us now, chris whipple, the author of the gate keepers. max boot, a former foreign policy adviser to presidential campaigns of john mccain, mitt romney, and marco rubio. also with us, jeremy bash, a former chief of staff at the cia and defense department. jeremy, i want to start with you because you know general kelly, have worked with him, and i want to get your sense of what he's going to be able to accomplish going forward. first of all, in this leak patrol that the president very much wants him to be the leader of. >> i think general kelly sees his primary job not so much as constraining the leaks because i think over time he has seen in the pentagon and other jobs really the only way to combat leaks is loyalty. it's not by investigations and by trying to chas

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than any job john kelly has had before. what i handle my own kelly is going to have the white house staff report to him chris but when you have? the president's door sat in the white house how is that really going to work in practice do you think. well first let's see if that's true. you mean that the deep fundamental most important thing of all is that kelly has to be empowered. as first among equals in the white house and and the staff needs to report through him. now that doesn't apply to family. you know the reagan white house was fractious and it was. complicated and you had family involved and james a baker the third who was ronald reagan's quintessential chief during the first term was savvy enough. to form alliances with nancy reagan. and with michael deaver who a deputy chief who was like a son to reagan. yeah as a result he was able to prevail even when the the hard right ideologues came after him. but you know it's it's it's not at all clear that john kelly is a jim baker. story klee how have generals down and th

scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team." >> sources kay kelly delivered the news -- say kelly delivered the news in a meeting with scaramucci after being sworn in. they say the retired marine journal thought scaramucci lacked discipline and severely damaged his credibility after a profanity-laced tirade in "the new yorker." president trump apparently agreed. >> look, the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. i don't think that it's complicated to understand that the president felt the comments were inappropriate. i can't explain it any further. i'm not sure what's hard. >> sarah huckabee sanders telling reporters that all white house staff will now report to kelly. the president had no official comment on scaramucci's departure. but here's what he tweeted last night -- "a great day at the white house." earlier mr. trump tweeted, "no chaos at the white house." >> no! >> funny. in the morning -- and by the evening, everything had changed. >> smooth sail

john kelly is a breath of fresh air because he does have more of 40. -- authority. i don't think the president grass that the ceo of a country can change the way it corporation is going very quickly. he doesn't have to obey a lot of norms and rules. the president is bound by the cap to share in and tradition and a range of things. the american people voted for somebody who would break from that. the president is constrained. if you were to a point every single person to the federal the only way a president can read that troop of people he did not bring in with them is to inspire them and say we are going in the same direction. talk about what you seen with the president addressing the work of the attorney general. the justice department's handling of the russia thing has raised questions. if frankly, i don't take that's fair. jeff sessions was interviewed by the president for the job. there were scenarios as to what would happen with the russia question. wante president did not jeff sessions to recuse himself, he should have asked him. i think this is a mistake on m

john kelly putting a quick end to a whirlwind 11 days. boy, the new york tabloids are having a field day. "va-mooch" reads the "new york post," "adios mooch-cacho" another. two down. >> i love that. >> what a day it was. it is tuesday, hard to believe. good morning, welcome to "early start" iem'm dave briggs. >> i'm alison kosik in for christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. new reporting suggesting president trump himself personally dictated the initial misleading statement about don jr.'s meeting with a russian lawyer during the campaign. according to the "washington post," the president insisted on a change in strategy after advisers planned to issue a truthful statement to get ahead of the original story before it broke in "the new york times." the "post" citing people with knowledge of the deliberations says the president dictated a statement saying his son and the russian lawyer discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. the statement was worked out on air force one on the flight home from the g20 summit in g

kelly pap tweet, instagram from yesterday from ivanka trump looking forward to serving alongside john kelly. as we work for the american people, general kelly is a true american hero. nice of her to say that. my question, what happens inside? does this rei li-align factions? against sfooechb b against's steve bannon and what does this do? >> i like the serving alongside line. figure of speech. okay. we're a team. i'm equal to him. is he going to be able to keep the family from running in and out of the oval office? i think that's probably a hard thing to do in any president -- >> is that what the president wants? the president is known to like, not only like people dropping by saying hello but to like tension. call it creative chaos or just chaos depending on your perspective. >> i don't think there's any chance, that general kelly is aiming to keep the family out of the oval office or having dinner with the president or any of the sidebar conversations almost nobody else in the white house really has the ability to do, but the question is, twofold. one, can he diminish the kind of shots ac

we were waiting on a review by chief of staff john kelly. is going to be negative for steve bannon. if that does indeed happen, would it be a surprise to anyone? kevin: no, i've spoken to three political republican consultants who are frequently worked with the white house. all them eagerly anticipating this. one told me that this will hopefully have a "clean slate for this white house. : " another said it will hopefully stop some of the damage but not all of it. a third told me that this has been "imminent" for quite some time. several folks i've spoken within the last 24 hours said that the idea that steve bannon, while the president's chief strategist will be able to rein in president trump from his rhetoric, it's foolish to think that. you can see trump speaking off prompter at a press conference several days ago. vonnie: whether retired or not, will he still have the presence ear?'s there were plant people close to the president who got distant but now again have the ear of the president. kevin: general kelly removing anthony scaramucci

it's a clear victory for john kelly.fortifies and strengthens his control over what has clearly been a wild west end of white house. i would now expect a more sort of military discipline given that he is a general over the white house. there,bannon out of especially after the events of charlottesville and the president's unfortunate reaction to it, i think it would be a serious calming influence. they might actually begin to get onto the agenda that they promised the american people that they would focus on, which has been completely diluted and all this -- and all this that has been going on. vonnie: definitely some insiders agitating for that. stick with us. i want to bring in marty schenker. there are conflicting reports. times"a new york saying that trump is still debating, while abc news saying that steve bannon resigned two weeks ago. what does it mean for the so-called all right movement and that vein of thinking in a macon society? -- in american society? marty: i think is alive and well frankly. with all deferen

>> well, i like john kelly a lot.itary aide for two years when i was secretary at the defense department. and the best thing to know about john kelly is he is first and foremost a marine. he's dedicated his life to public service. committed to whoever is commander-in-chief. and he's somebody who believes deeply in discipline and a strong chain of command and an orderly process for decision making and doesn't tolerate chaos very easily. so i think he's the right guy to be able to try to get the white house back in order. i think the real question is going to be whether or not the president gives him the room to make the changes that are going to be necessary in order to improve the operations of the white house. >> meanwhile the crisis that the administration is dealing with now are these leaks. attorney general jeff sessions on friday came out, gave a press conference, called these leaks incredibly damaging. they are ramping up the attention on leaks, and they are going to prosecute the leakers. what do you think abou

>> she said looking forward to serving alongside john kelly, as we work for the american people. lly is an american hero. >> clearly she has a sense of entitlement that's given to her by her father, as does her husband, the sense of entitlement given to her by the president of the united states. she probably also has a flawed sense of her own importance at this stage, again, entitled by her father. she's going to have a different role, i think, now in the white house. she'll still have access to her father obviously. but, i mean, general kelly comes from the chain of command, 40 years, chain of command. when he was lance corporate, he knew that he was responsible for a private, he knew me was responsible for his weapon and anybody serving under him. that followed him all the way through his career of 40 years. he has a sense of a chain of command, a loyalty to the chain of command but a larger sense of lo loyalty to his country. general kelly will be the guy you want there and if anybody does anything that he thinks harms the country, that's where the rubber hits the road. >> who

y tres semanas despuÉs de que john kelly tomar el puesto como jefe de gabinete.iÉn saliÓ hace dÍas scaramucci. javier:fÍjate la lista de personas, scaramucci, spicer, flyn, james comey, entre tantos otros. y las personas que han entrado y se han ido. caro: bueno, se dice que donald trump es el hombre mÁs poderoso en estados unidos y del mundo. hablando del presidente, les cuento que publicÓ su cuenta oficial de instagram eel momento que llamÓ el presidente del gobierno espaÑol, mariano, y la imagen de la conversaciÓn fue junto a su jefe de gabinete john kelly. y tambiÉn activan su cuenta de instagram. javier: sigamos en espaÑa. ahÍ, en donde parecía que habÍa un rÍo humano de personas, hicieron un homenaje a las 14 vÍctimas. y digo 14 porque subiÓ el nÚmero de personas fallecidas. una de ellas estaba hospitalizada. y pasÓ ahÍ, en barcelona con un sentido minuto de silencio que asistieron diferentes personalidades, y que terminan una gran ovaciÓn a la playa --plaza de catÁlogo ya. >> no tengo miedo, fue la consigna. tras el rastro de sangre del ataque con una furg

so you do know what john kelly is going through.ven obviously, there's some differences between perhaps the public discipline of donald trump and bill clinton. but let's focus on the similarities. explain what you think john kelly is going through right now that you remember. >> well, i think the big challenge is to walk into the white house and really be able to get your arms around the operations within the white house. it's really critical that he establish relationships first and foremost, obviously with the president. there has to be a relationship of trust between the president and the chief of staff. now, in addition to that, he's got to be able to establish a relationship with the staff that's there, and make them understand that he's going to be chief of staff, and that they're going to have to go through him. so i think the real challenge for john right now is to be able to put in place elements of discipline, a strong chain of command, the ability to develop some kind of orderly process or policy. those are the big challe

so, we know that the president's staff and family, with the new chief of staff, general john kelly. resident's twitter account report to him as well? we are at the white house with the story of presidential dictation. very significant. >> reporter: yes, it is, john. "the washington post" reporting donald trump personally dictated this statement first given to "the new york times" about donald trump jr. meeting at trump tower with that russian lawyer. now, the word is they drafted the statement as they were flying back on air force one from the g-20 summit in germany. it was the president's idea to say the meeting was

chief of staff john kelly. and john kelly has gone to bat for the president publicly. via on the wiretapping issue. be it on the travel ban. so he has sort of earned the president's trust at this point. now, the longevity of that, we'll have to see. another thing about the tweets that was interesting, kind of old favorites. it was the media. it was democrats. he could have, with this pence story gone after ben sasse and some of the republicans that were named as sort of -- sort of seeing theirs blood in the water. he didn't. he didn't. >> could have gone after his vice president. >> could have done that, too. >> instead went after the "new york times." look at one of the tweets in this morning. the fails "new york times" made every wrong prediction about me including my big election win apologized is totally inept. never mind he talks to the "new york times" more than anyone else. leave that aside. >> and apologized. >> yeah. but this is also following on something really extraordinary yesterday. the vice president of the united states releasing a formal statement sayi

one, you write "earth to john kelly, what are you there for if not preventing half baked presidential tantrums like the arpaio pardon?" do you think kelly is responsible? >> i do. this is his watch. on friday maggie haberman wrote in the "new york times" that kelly was taking control of the west wing, he was streamlining it, closing the door to the oval office. streamlining the flow of information. none of that matters if the chief of staff can't do his most important duty which is to walk into the oval office, close the door and tell the president what he doesn't want to hear. either kelly hasn't done that or donald trump has ignored him and either way he's failing. >> but, chris, prior to john kelly asending to that position and the immediate days after that everybody was saying this is donald trump's last best hope, this is the guy who can get it done donald trump respects the military -- >> that was naive. the chief of staff cannot change who donald trump is, but i said when he took over as chief of staff that the first thing kelly should do is draw redlines for donald trump and t

john kelly taking business at dhs has meant immigration arrests are up 40%.being one of the branches of government that have been willing and able to execute trump's policy principles. now that he's in the oval office, the only questions that matter are whether kelly can prevent trump from moving against special counsel robert mueller and whether he'll resign if he can't. joining us is brian broiler. thank you for being here. have you been able to determine whether or not general kelly, who has been a loyalist up to now, has any intention whatsoever of reining trump in. >> it's clear 24 hours in that's fixed everything, that there's nothing wrong at the trump white house anymore and that all of the problems there are solved. even if you set aside everything that you said in your lead-up which creates a damning portrait of kelly as more of a loyalist than a truth teller. if john kelly could be the most effective chief of staff in history, more effective than panetta and james baker and could lock down the oval office so people weren't coming in and out getting

tonight general john kelly showed him who is in charge. >> just swore in general john kelly. >> reporter: general john kelly in, anthony scaramucci out. days after his profanity-laced tirade in the new yorker against former chief of staff reince priebus. >> the president felt that his comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. >> disappointed that he didn't do as well. >> reporter: he knows anthony scaramucci. >> when you have defeat you could have upheaval in the white house and this is a chance for the white house to do a recelt. refocus on their agenda -- reset. refocus on the agenda. >> reporter: the third time it started over in 10 days. >> the president has a right to hit a reset button. >> reporter: he has had enough. >> this is disgraceful. the petty dramas. the chaos that has come to dominate the news is standing in the way of us getting things done for the american people. >> our president, our commander in chief. >> reporter: general john kelly is expected to impose discipline on competing power factions in the white house. one formerly led by reince priebus, s

abca27 john kelly taking over and donald trump seems to be willing to give somebody the ability to control the show. the only person kelly needs to respond to is the president, kelly is in charge of everything else, we will see if that writes the ship. the administration is doing some amazing things but gets rid of this turmoil that clearly even if you are trump supporters. ibly20 the good things that are happening, here is what the president had to tweet yesterday, highest stock market ever, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border security, south carolina, no white house chaos. border secure. obviously now the movement to talk about things that are working moving forward with abca27 so many things this it ministration can point to. referencing supreme court, neil gore such, if you only focus on the changes in the administration, who was hired and who is fired you lose sight of all the good that is being done. next step is the infrastructure and we talked about this, interesting comments. >> there is a new sheriff in town. general kelly's firs

but we did see him praise john kelly there. have really seen john kelly create a sobering mood here in this very divided west wing of the white house. we found out from the "new york times" yesterday that john kelly is going to great lengths to streamline information that is getting to the president. he even cuts off rambling advisers in the middle of their sentences, listens in on phone calls with cabinet secretaries and the president, and is booting staffers from high level meetings if they don't need to be there. we saw him make changes right away when he ousted the ten day old communications director anthony scaramucci because he didn't think he was disciplined enough. we are seeing him really create a sense of order. even the president's children, ivanka trump and his son-in-law jared kushner go through kelly before getting to the president. we have seen all of that happen. we will see if he's still able to keep a tight leash on the president this week while he's here on vacation. the white house is billing this as a worki

then the new chief of staff arrived, john kelly, the discipline fo discipline four star marine general, the two men did not match. political reports quote, "kelly did not understand what bannon did and why he had a pr portfolio and why he seemed to cause so much trouble with colleague and why he was so widely disliked." early this week of rumors of bannon's future and listen to how the president answers when asked about him. >> i like mr. bannon. he came on very much later than that. i like him and he's a good man. he's not a racist, i can tell you that -- he's a good person. he gets a unfair presence. we'll see what happens if mr. buchan bann bannon. we know how that ended up for mr. bannon. there is intense speculations over whether two other kind of bannon knights, sebastian gorka or steven jennings. bannon who did not suffer from low self esteem told reporter, quote, "i feel jacked up and now i am free, i am definitely going to crush the opposition, there is no doubt i built an f-ing machine at breitbart, knowing what i know and rev that machine up. the trump presidency that we fou

just as a a new chief of staff, john kelly is taking over. >>> and we're left with tropical storm emily, now a tropical depression dumping lots of rain overnight. thousands are without power. >>> then the olympic games are returning to the united states, los angeles, as it's been picked to host for the third time. now the countdown gets under way. you >>> and all you really need is two pieces of bread and something to put in between them, right? pretty simple. not so much. we're checking out some of the greatest sandwich-making fails as we take part in a challenge. we'll no doubt fail ourselves. national sandwich month. i failed at saying the word sandwich. the month begins on this tuesday, august 1st. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> yeah. >> sandwiches are delicious. >> yes, they are. >>> it's a great month of celebrating. we have, august is here. do you believe it? august 1st? basically, we're like one tenth of the way through the scaramucci communications dir t director career at the white house. >> let's start off with that, should we? a new head-spinning day as the

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 another intercom -- intercontinental ballistic

also the issue of good chief of staff john kelly wanting mr.mucci out and the president not been happy with scaramucci's choice of words in an interview last week. here's what white house press secretary terry sanders had to say about it. >> the president certainly felt the comments were not appropriate for a person in that position and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession as they think we've made clear a few times over the course of the last couple days. general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house. reporter: when asked if scaramouche you would advise the president or have any role, and the answer was essentially no. that view. lauren: and schapiro commit thank you. today president trump is scheduled to meet with small business leaders at the white house as they continue to get the economic agenda on track. cheryl: overseas who got some breaking news to bring to you this morning. the wife of venezuelan opposition leader leopold lopez says he's been taken from his home by authorities

we've got scaramucci who is out, john kelly is in. priebus is out.do you think this is the trump administration finally getting its footing after six months. i don't think we can get a dismantling l of administration as getting his footing. our military is here to protect all americans regard less of race, creed, sexual orientation and so should our president. that's not just what had discussed before is what our querns here in the media and it may jive with what voters are worried about, the pocketbook kitchen table issues. what are the issues in people in prince george's county, what are they concerned about? are they keeping one eye on this and just looking at other issues. >> there's a lot of issues, work ing families particularly. but healthcare is important to uses in prince george's county, particularly when we talk about the medical center that is coming down to largo. that directly impacts people in my community in landover and upper marlboro and across prince george's county. this healthcare thing is very serious to us. >> yes, it is and ce

john kelly seems to be in conversation with people about what he said. and so it seems like we haven't seen mass defections yet. but we have seen in congress. mainstream republicans on good terms with the president bob corker from tennessee questioning president trump's competence and stability and we have to take note of that. corker is not a bomb threer. he's flown on the president's plane and considered secretary of state and if he is and asking those questions. that is happening in the white house and elsewhere in congress. >> shepard: you described the statements as a tipping point? >> yes, i do think that we saw in tim scott, the senator from scouting carolina and bob corker that what the president said in his equating counter protestors with white national demonstrators that that is not okay and crossed a line of convention and discourse in american politics. and the question is, so it looks like a tipping point where more people reach the conclusion and announce they will not be aligned with president trump and that could create problems. he need

they mean nothing. >> if you're john kelly do you say maybe don't send that tweet on that micro of a level. >> yeah. it could have been worse. great day at the white house. maybe kelly saw that as we're turning the page otherrer. >> ultimately it is the president that we remember. >> yeah. >> chief and staff come and go. >> yeah -- chiefs in staff come and go. >> will he be checking the tweets early in the morning. >> he has to be the last read. however he does t i don't know the logistics of him sitting outside of the president's door or on his laptop. >> he tweeted out today, it is the only way to get the truth out. >> he shouldn't stop. maybe just tone it down. >>> we are getting a look at surveillance video of a smash and grab robbery at a costco in novato. we will show you exactly what happened before the robbers managed to escape. >>> a recently released audit is recommending some changes to san francisco's cable cars. up next, why some people believe it is time to go cashless. breyers natural vanilla. milk and fresh cream, and only sustainably farmed vanilla. what is this? a va