kelly? kelly: on the manner of afghanistan, do we expect a decision on that policy soonsome. >> reporter: the president has indicated that there have been some decisions made, we just don't know what, and we don't know when the white house is going to announce it. the president, convening a meeting of his national security team yesterday at camp david, they discussed south asia policy including afghanistan, also pakistan. the president tweeted earlier today: important day spent at camp david with our very talented generals and military leaders. many decisions made including on afghanistan. the administration is deciding whether to commit more troops and an overall strategy, also where to employ security contractors as a larger role to supplant american military forces. there are also questions about aid to pakistan, there are concerns whether that government is doing enough to address the extremists who may be seeking harbor and actually harboring inside the borders of pakistan, something th

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

i think we were all wondering if admiral kelly, general kelly. general kelly would be the chief of staff or chief of some staff. looks like he's going to be the chief of staff and that's what t the white house needs. >> bret: do you think this white house can get big things done with the current staff and organization it has? >> there is a lot we need to do. the white house has done some good things. neil gorsuch on the supreme court was a great thing. some regulatory reforms have been great. we've got tax reform to go through. that's going to be a big lift. i don't think it's as difficult as health care reform but it's going to be difficult. it's going to require a disciplined administration and congress to get it done. i hope so. >> bret: this is the office of management and budget, mick mulvaney over the weekend. >> i think what you are seeing is the president reflecting the mood of the people. the white house can't move on. in the people's view, they should move on in the senate. they should find a way to solve the problem. >> bret: talking a

-- 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 introduced as the new white house commission director. 10 days later, he is out of the job. the president announced on attter that there's no chaos the white house. how would you describe what is happened over the course of the past 10 days? obviously, you would agree with your boss the president, that there is no chaos. but how do you explain that not to be the case? said that before, if you want to see chaos, you did to come to my house and we -- see the three boys. just to be clear, that is not an open invitation to come to my house. [laughter] >> does the president regret hiring anthony scaramucci? >> i will not get into anything that is beyond that front. theou

everyone reports to kelly? sec. sanders: that includes everybody at the white house. >> and i have a quick question about tax reform. will the administration absolutely support the version of tax overhaul that comes out of the ways and means committee. sec. sanders: we are working hand in glove. we put out a joint statement with the big six. we will continue working with them and announce details as they come forward. >> thank you, sarah. when sean spicer resigned, it wiped the slate clean. now that anthony scaramucci resign, it was also for a clean slate. has the slate been thoroughly cleaned at this point? should we expect my staff shakeups? is everyone else planning to remain? sec. sanders: yes, they are. >> thank you, sarah. two very brief questions. is there any chance you will just leave the job of communications director alone, people whoto -- two held it leave rather abruptly. sec. sanders: we will let you know when we have any personnel announcements on that front. >> the other thing i wanted to ask was one

will everything flowed through kelly? press secretary sanders: the president has given full authority to general kelly. he will make those determinations. >> this statement from the white house says that mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. you just said the president felt 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, while at the same time the president felt his comments were inappropriate. those two things are not mutually exclusive. >> with the new hierarchy, tell us what it looks like in this administration. >> as we have laid out, i think general kelly will bring new structure to the white house and discipline and strength. we are all excited to work with them. in terms of -- i'm not going to draw out an org chart, but we will keep you posted. >> kellyanne and everyone reports to him? does every special assistant go t

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he's clearly i think empowered general kelly or chief kelly, that's what it appears at this point.hink, chris, when you really look at it, what you've got to do first is get a government in place. we were able to get our cabinet confirmed the day after, save one inauguration. two, you've got to step on the world stage, and three, you've got to get some things done for the american people, i.e. your legislative agenda. in our case it was an economic plan, frankly president trump had a big setback with health care. general kelly's got to establish some discipline and order. i think he's well on his way to do that. he's had a distinguished record obviously in service to our country. i think he's likely the right person to try to do this job, chris. >> let's talk about why, jane. people see a general in uniform, military, and they think well, but does he have the political savvy? people don't get how political generals can be, that they have those skills, and in fact, we have seen kelly evidence that sleight of hand that's necessary on the political side. what's your take? >> first of

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general kelly is not that. so god speed, but we need -- >> maybe he can get the white house staff on one page, because if he can do that and get them all on one page, there will be less leaking, more organization, and i think the president will be a lot happier. >> jeffrey, don't you think a well oiled, well run west wing is better prepared to deal with north korea and other challenges? >> sure, sure. all i'm trying to say, jeack colocole for the -- one week and he was out. [ overlapping speakers ] >> you can punt to one or two people here -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> that's not part of the legacy. >> this is a lot of people who have been filtering through. we've got to take a quick break. we have to remind you of what the white house said about scaramucci's profane phone calls last week versus today. and later, new reporting about new chief of staff john kelly's reaction to the firing of james comey. details on that ahead. each year sarah climbs 58,007 steps. that's the height of mount everest. because each

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kelly: i'm kelly write. -- kelly wright. this despite the president warning mueller to focus on election melding and not finance finances of his associates. in bedminster, new jersey, the president is on a working vacation. reporter: the white house said the president was meeting with his new chief of staff general john kelly during this roughly two week long working vacation, working being the key word here in bed minister, new jersey. he arrived right around the same time the special counsel's investigation seemed to be heating up. special counsel robert mueller convened a grand jury and is issuing subpoenas. and witnesses were questioned about whether michael flynn was secretly paid by the turkish government during the final months of the campaign. and it's a big deal. because it's the first known instance of the special counsel requesting documents from the white house. you have several bipartisan members of congress taking steps to make sure that the president does not fire mueller and to protect mueller's job. senator

everyone reports to kelly?everybody at the white house. >> that was white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders earlier today outlining the white house chain of command, now that the new chief of staff, retired general john kelly has been sworn in and anthony scaramucci has left his post. but might that new flow chart be easier said than done? will the president's son-in-law and chief campaign now white house strategist really relegate themselves to talking to kelly instead of to the president? will they take what is essentially a demotion? new jersey governor chris christie, a friend and confidante of the president told cnn about the scaramucci ousting. quote, the actions taken today by the president and general kelly will professionalize the operation in a way that will serve the president and the nation very well. i spoke with governor christie a short while ago about the white house tumult. so you're confident that general kelly can turn things around? >> well, listen, i think if the president approp

what karoun said is 100% right about john kelly.e does have relative full authority at the moment. the issue is that the one person who is his boss, the one person that he reports to is named donald trump, and if past is prologue, donald trump will go along, listen to his advice, might be a week, a month, might be six months but donald trump will return to being donald trump. he's a 71-year-old man. he's had a lot of success in his life. he is into chaos. he is into the infighting. he is into managing his own message and his own brand. if someone exists, if john kelly can manage donald trump, that would make the first person in donald trump's entire life, who has been able to do that. it is possible. >> 25 minutes into the show, no tweets from the president and maybe that's an early indication that the general made a suggestion and it's being upheld thus far. >> chris, i remember when the president was on his european trip that this last one, and he was relatively calm twitter wise, basically tweeting out hey, i gave the speech toda

he said general kelly is in charge.e and the president enforces that with the rest of the people that general kelly is in charge, he has a much better chance of success. >> so you fault the structure, the wall street journal editorial board has a different take. they wrote, after general kelly was selected and reince priebus was deposed, quote, the shuffling of the staff furniture won't matter unless mr. trump accepts that the white house problem isn't mr. priebus, it's him. do you agree that president trump in how disciplined he's been or not been is part of the problem? >> i think that's part of who he is, so i think if you're the chief of staff you need to understand the style of the principal, the approach of the principal, and you have to make a structure that works for that. what i said before was the three-person structure doesn't work. and that's not just an aside, that's the key to it. now you have one person the president has said who is in charge from a staff perspective, and i think the big key for general k

john kelly hopes that he can work with democrats. a year ago, he gave an interview, he did endorse either candidate and that he would work for a president trump or president hillary clinton. that he is not ideological. he is very different in that way then the reince priebus, who very much was sort of born and bred of the republican party. think because he is gone, we are going to see is mike pence more and more take on that role as the administration's conduit to republican members of congress at least until kelly is able to build some of those relationships. >> jon: james homan and caitlin healy burns, thank you very much. we will found out in the coming days whether ivanka trump is working alongside general kelly or somewhere a little further down the white house hierarchy. also waiting for the white house briefing set to start at the top of the hour. we will take you there live when that begins. molly? >> causing some damage in the sunshine state. as the worst of it over? more where that storm is heading next. plus lots of pressu

general john kelly showing his muscle on day one. sarah huckabee sanders said all white house staffers will now report to general kelly, no exceptions. >> as we've made clear a few times over the course of the last couple of days, general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to hi him. reform act does not include jared kushner, stephen bannon, and everyone else? >> that includes every one of the white house. >> harris: mark warner of virginia says while he welcomes the action taken by general kelly, the buck will ultimately have to stop at the president. >> i hope this is a sign that his new chief of staff, general kelly will try to bring a little more order to the white house and maybe try to restore a little bit of respect to the office of the president. at the end of the day, it's not going to be the chief of staff, and has to be whether this president himself will change his behavior. >> harris: he tweeted, a great day at the white house. i read your article this morning and you

kelly. government has certainly stepped up security in barcelona as well as we hear around spain itself and that's because the new information has come out that the driver of that white van that killed 13 people here in las ramblas on thursday is still at large. police thought they killed him in a shoot-out but that turned out to be another terrorist. now they named the driver, 22-year-old moroccan, thought to be the potential ring leader of this cell and manhunt underway for him. came from a small village outside of barcelona and that's become a focus of this investigation and believed maybe in the epicenter of the plot itself where the plot was forged. they fear he may be the man who radicalized the people and they also think that the imam they have died in the explosion which took place on wednesday. meanwhile new footages came out of the attack hits here -- itself here from las ramblas. it's a reminder of how indiscriminate the attack really was and reminds us of victims and we are learn

to kelly. david: thank you. president trump insisting that the north korea will be handled. with displays of our military, but is it enough? fox news senior foreign affairs correspondent has our report. >> the pentagon is now calling north korea's latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile its longest test yet. and thaticity it is prompting a u.s. military response. two new capable b-1 bombers escorted by japanese and south korean fighter jets flew from a u.s. base in guam over the weekend to just south of the dmz from north korea. and successfully tested from a u.s. based in alaska, the antiballistic missile system set to be deployed in south korea. short of launching a war, important moves to move against north korea threatening the u.s. >> we have got to focus on defense. >> the actions of kim jong-un also triggering a global war of words during his current european trip, vice president pence let go of this, though. >> the president of the united states is leading a coalition of

i'm told that kelly had enough and it was his decision for it to play out this week. >> kelly o, pull back the lens for us. when i think of the bannon/trump relationship, i mean, i laid it out at the beginning that he was sort of the devil on the shoulder, do it, do it, inflame racial tension, do it, undermine the general, do it, do it, talk about pulling out of nafta and the tpp even though it goes against long standing commitments. do it, do it, trash article 5 of our agreements and commitments to our european allies. and now that he's gone, do you think there's any sort of false optimism that those instincts that already exist in donald trump will be less sort of visible to the outsider? >> well, he was also a person who would tell the president he was right when he acted on those things instead of being someone in the inner circle who was trying to be a moderating force to urge the president to tack toward the center or consider an opposing view from those outside the white house who might not have been supporters of president trump during the campaign and in the early days. so ba

general kelly. what else? and we know -- donald trump has been a democrat, a republican now, independent. not clear he has a firm set of views. i was listening to the conversation on john's show just before we came on and i think the mike pence circle is important to look at. look, mike pence has a set of beliefs and now has political people around him in a way that donald trump -- just doesn't. >> juana, show viewers a picture. a picture that we just came up with. you see the president over there with his former senior advisors. take a look at that. juana, you see reince priebus, no longer there. you see steve bannon, in the middle there. sean spicer. is that michael flynn? over there? all sitting in the oval office. the only two remaining, the president and vice president in this picture right there. this picture was taken january 28th in the oval office. >> really, really stark image to think about. how replaceable some of these people are for the president. i've been thinking about a lot, a pres

scaramucci was direct report to kelly. kelly took care of that.e other forkes are direct reports to mcmaster. the sense i get from people who know kelly he's not a micromanager and will give people the room to work or the rope to hang themselves. one of the two. more of a -- on kelly than mcmast e er. >> keep an eye on that, next, scaramucci had a plan for the white house communications office. if only he had followed it. step: point decisively with the arm of your glasses. abracadabra. the stage is yours. step two: choose la quinta. the only hotel where you can redeem loyalty points for a free night-instantly and win at business. theso when i need to book tant to mea hotel room,tion. i want someone that makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time. visit booking.com. booking.yeah! allergytry new xyzal®.ou have symptoms like these for relief is as effective at hour 24 as hour one. so be wise all take new xyzal®. >>> the mooch lasts t s as communications director only ten days. not eve

through kelly.es, of course, you're going to have your dinner time conversations and what not. when it comes to white house business and policy matters, and policy matters is key here. those will go through kelly. and at the really is very important for this chain of command. >> as we know, though, often times, it's those dinner conversations, as we have seen with president trump, that a lot of things do get talked about. we'll have to see how that goes, as well. >>> matt drudge has been in the president's corner mostly. but the man behind the website seems to be a bit frustrated. he tweeted this 1990 "daily news" cover. trump in a slump with the caption life is a circle. despite failing to get much of his agenda legislated, he ticked off a series of accomplishments. in the morning, he tweeted highest stock market ever. best economic numbers in years. unemployment lowest in 17 years. wajs raising. border secure. supreme court. no white house chaos. there was this claim he made about the southern bor

but he has general kelly.e has john kelly sitting there, basically right outside of his office all day. the white house chief of staff, who is a general. at some point, if not already, he's turning to him and saying, what do we do in afghanistan? and if general kelly is saying the same thing he's hearing from the other generals, how long does donald trump rely on general kelly? >> i think it will be very interesting to see how long general kelly lasts. let's keep in mind, lawrence, those are our generals. they're not donald's generals. and donald is our employee, who we put in there through the electoral college. donald continues in all of this to act like he's this dictator, and if you're not doing what he wants, off with your head. >> and, tim, talk about where donald trump had to get in his fear of what was coming to the point where he gets rid of reince priebus, he brings in a new white house chief of staff, who he doesn't know, who he never knew during the campaign. this is not anything like what we've se

this is maybe part of the new john kelly era., you do note that generals, military officials in the past, it doesn't always necessarily work as a perfect fit for the political chief of staff role. why? >> no. the in fact the only press accidedent we have the last one was alexander hague. he lasted a little bit more than a month. so the press i -- kelly to do that would serve donald trump, serve the country, and serve his place in history. the and it would be very simple thing to do, perhaps. and that is to tell the staff, look, we are going to aggressively defend the president's agenda, advance it, but do something else too. we're going to tell the truth. i think that would be an enormous step in not only advancing the trump cause, and the cause of the country, but it would also, you know i think help the morale within the white house. >> truth is a powerful thing. chris, you've also said that this is mission impossible. right? for kelly? i mean why? >> look, it's the most dysfunctional white house in modern history. it's a white

reince priebus ousted by scaramucci then ousted by kelly.e news and preyed on the rivalry between scaramucci and priebus to get scaramucci to play along. >> to all of this, i guess scaramucci doesn't -- the real scaramucci doesn't work for the white house anymore but -- >> neither does real or fake reince priebus. they have all been let go. >> is the white house issuing a statement? >> sarah huckabee said we take all cyber related issues seriously and are looking into the incidents further. the real question is, how did this happen? i think the most worrisome won is tom bosser, the cyber security expert respondsed with his personal e-mail. it shows how easy it is for pranksters to get details. imagine if it was a hacker. >> do we know it's not? do we know it's not? >> we were told this person is a prankster who has done it to other high profile banking officials. he's on twitter and tweeted the exchanges. he said it was all for levity, not for anything. >> meanwhile, trying to line up fake reince priebus. dan, thanks so much. >>> clear your

i can understand the whole gait keeping function that general kelly has. it sounds like he's trying to impose a little structure to the president's day . so i think it's actually a good move. i think it's a good

o'donne john kelly or kelly will be able to navigate that in a way that brings some order? >> how is john kelly going to stop. ivanka trump and jared kushner from giving their opinion to donald trump over dinner at bed minister. they spend more time with him. i think what capitol hill is hoping to do is jared kushner doesn't walk into the oval office and hand him a cell phone for trump to talk to a foreign leader or make side arrangement that ventures much more into the policy arena. i of been told, my sources say to me that while jared and ivanka wanted dina powell, they acquiesced when it was apparent that their father wanted kelly, and they gave assurances internally that they were going to follow the rules. whether or not they're going do that, you know, i don't know, but i will say this about kelly. kelly has a historical sense of what this office is supposed to the. i've covered a couple presidencies here. the office of chief of staff was actually modeled on beetle smith, who was dwight david eisenhower's adjutant during world war ii, set up as the chief aid to camp j

kelly could move bannon out the door, that would be a good day's work for kelly and people like him whohink the white house has grown too chaotic. i want to caution. there is danger of over reading this. donald trump thinks we should have a trade war with china, a wall at the mexico border, whether we should pull troops out of afghanistan at camp david. those are all views that steve bannon might have but donald trump has them to. before steve bannon was fired today. we have to be careful that we will see a major course correction and policy. thea lot of folks in grown-up wing of the white house, they are hoping by removing steve bannon, a troublemaker, maybe they can get back to work a passing tax reform and obamacare repeal and the other things donald trump is trying to accomplish. david: gina, i want to come back to the equity markets that you study so well. it is not clear why the markets moved up after having been down for a while. what do the markets want to see out of this white house? or have they just given up? >> i think there is evidence they have given up on the white house.

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 first day on the job put a stamp on his reign at the white house and he is someone who is coming in with a strong po

david duke need some help. >> kelly wants to ask a quick question. >> kelly: is good to talk to.s thing that we've seen from david duke in the white nationalist, do you think this was done by design to incite other groups to reset their arms? >> absolutely. this isn't just a one gone. this is something they want to stimulate everybody of like mind, other thugs to do what they're doing. excellent question great observation. >> kelly: how do we prevent that group from doing it as well as other groups on the opposite side? >> that is the magic question. there is no basic uniform answer. you have to address it as things come up. makes it very hard on law-enforcement, particularly law-enforcement in areas that don't have the practice and exposure to incidents like this. >> the small town and all that being at a place they can operate. thank you. we'll keep our eyes out on both groups and see how law-enforcement response. >> thank you. also, were hearing the driver is in custody. the suspect involved in that intentional we have confirmed, intentional attack with a white nationalist, wi

this is going to continue on, chief kelly is going to be very disappointed. i think we have a president who is as some say off the rails. >> jon: off the rails? >> if you continue to tweet the things you should not be tweeting, he needs to listen to his staff. if he's going to control what happens and what is said about him in the press, listen to your staff, listen to the people who have been around a longer time then you have. he's a businessman, listen to what they have to say and don't go message off rails, don't go off message, don't tweet, just listen to what they have to say and that is how he is going to get positive press. >> jon: there did seem to be sort of two different points of view regarding what happened in charlottesville and that's what's so many in the media found disturbing. >> obviously president trump for a strong condemnation, not only from congressional democrats but from republicans and members of republican leadership as well, saying he needs to come out and announce specifically the white nationalist protest in charlottesville. he o

>> 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

or john kelly was chief of staff.o think you're pointing out something interesting, though. when you unceremoniously fire and get rid of your chief of staff, there is the possibility they might come around and bite you. i'm not saying they're responsible for "the washington post" story but you have to wonder what kind of stuff they can tell the press. i'm also struck by what willie said, which is there's sort of like this ham fistedness to all of this, this utter lack of discretion from the trump team about how they're handling all of this that is just puzzling to me. the cover-up is just so poorly executed that it's just raising all these suspicions. why is he in there crafting that statement? why is he talking to putin so much in why is he firing comey? i mean, everything he's doing leads a casual observer to say what's going on here? something must be happening. i'm wondering why they're so bad at being discrete. >> it raises the question again and again, to elise's point, whenever it comes to russia, there's alway

kelly: yeah. let's bring in steve harrigan right now live on the streets in boston with those counter-protesters who marched through the downtown area earlier and joins us by phone. steve, as melissa was pointing out, we're seeing a peaceful demonstration here today, and our colleague, molly line, also stating the same thing. what are you hearing from the counter-protesters, what they're speaking out against? >> reporter: the numbers were huge. i'm standing right mow in boston guard withen, and you get the sense that those counter-protesters are starting to break up now. in the past half hour, we have seen some scuffles, and what you were saying about boston police, we've seen it really with our own eyes. people with trump hats on, trump supporters or to others were briefly surrounded, and some fights broke out inside the park. i'm talking about small numbers, individuals versus a few dozen people. we saw immediately riot police step in with pepper spray, first police and then riot police. so 99%

kelly's authority. sources tell nbc news, sources familiar with all of this that steve bannon, jared kushner, they do plan to defer more to kelly which is not something we always saw with the last chief of staff. back to you. >>> the u.s. has put new sanctions on nicolas maduro. freezing the venezuelan's president's assets and prohibiting any americans from dealing with him. this comes a day after a government-supported election spurred deadly violence. u.s. officials called the election a sham and said that maduro is now a dictator. maduro responded aggressively saying the threats and sanctions of the empire don't intimidate me for a moment. i don't listen to orders from the empire not now or ever. bring on more sanctions. >>> south carolina police are calling one 20-year-old woman james bond. she was robbed at gun point. forced into her car by three male suspects. at that point, jordan made the decision to flick. off her seat belt and dive out of her car at 35 miles per hour. luckily she escaped with

again, kelly, nonpartisan, kelly is the organizationman.ot running to make a successful republican president. he is in this job to make a successful president. >> yes, well, you know, i think one thing that reince learned was that the loyalty with donald trump is a one-way street and the relationship with trump once he views you as someone who is not 100% loyal you never fully recover from that. they had a rocky relationship during the campaign. there were several points at which reince behind the scenes tried to rein in trump and said you may need to think about dropping out of the race after the "access hollywood" tape and reince was never actually in practice the chief of staff. he did not have executive authority. people didn't believe he spoke for the president when he made decisions or he had executive authority within the white house. kelly is coming in with a very different reputation and mandate. he has received assurances from the president. the departure of scaramucci is a direct result of the deal kelly extracted from president

but i think kelly can recruit that. i think kelly brings organization and discipline if they can recruit policy chops and the organizational holds meaning the president listens to kelly. >> a leading republican says congress is too divided to keep working on likely to raise premiums. >>> video appears to show security officials detaining the men overnight during raids at their homes. both denounced sunday's election and called for new protests. the vote could grant the president nearly unchecked power. the escalating political crisis in venezuela. >> reporter: little else is known right now about the where abouts of both men jailed for speaking out against the regime. their arrests do confirm the fears of the opposition here and many in the international community who believe that the president would use this weekend's vote to rewrite the constitution as a pretext to jails and to otherwise silence the opposition. this is certainly only to inflame tensions in the streets where clashes have happened almost daily between a

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. >> we just swore in john kelly. he will do a spectacular job, i have no doubt, as chief of staff. what he has done in terms of homeland security is record shattering. if you look at the border, you look at the tremendous results we have had, and you look at the spirit. >> kimberly: but not everyone is pleased at the president's pick. when the news of kelly's new role broke on friday, democratic congresswoman slammed the new choice. saying, by putting john kelly in charge, president trump is militarizing the white house and putting the executive branch in the hands of an extremist. and yesterday, the defendant had a remark. >> i've been talking about it, his tenure as homeland security secretary. and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, breaking up families, promoting a muslim man, promoting a wall between the united states and mexico, those are extreme policies. >> kimberly: all right, dana, is this a fair criticism? >> dana: i thought that she was going to talk about his long 45 year career as

internally give kelly a clear mission. >> general kelly is going to bring the type of discipline. >> he will bring some order and discipline. >> protocol, pecking order, order, discipline. >> reporter: andy card served as chief of staff under president george w. bush. >> removing anthony scaramucci i think demonstrates candidly and forcefully to everyone that the chief of staff means business in terms of trying to bring discipline to the white house to help the president accomplish the agenda. >> and hallie joins us now. we heard the word "discipline" a lot there. this is more turnover in an administration that's already seen a lot. so is the expectation that things are going to start to settle down now? >> reporter: it might be the hope, lester, but we've heard this before. for an administration that's already on its second chief of staff, second national security adviser and now searching for its third communications director. there may be a difference this time. that is kelly's authority internally. sources in the white house tell nbc news steve bannon, jared kushner and ivanka tr

internally give kelly a clear mission. >> general kelly is going to bring the type of discipline. >> he will bring some order and discipline >> protocol, pecking order, order, discipline. >> reporter: andy card served as chief of staff under president george w. bush. >> removing anthony scaramucci i think demonstrates candidly and forcefully to everyone that the chief of staff means business in terms of trying to bring discipline to the white house to help the president accomplish the agenda. >> that was hallie jackson reporting. the "washington post" reports president trump personally dictated a misleading statement on behalf of donald trump jr the statement claimed trump jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer focused on an adoption program. but later disclosures revealed trump jr. expected to get damaging information about hillary clinton. a trump attorney told the post the report was inaccurate and of no consequence e-mail the show, streetsignseurope@cnbc.com love reading your e-mails, even if they're two weeks old just got back from holiday yesterday. and you can follow us on twit

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 sailing. >>> new chief of staff john kelly so upset with how president trump handled the firing of fbi direc

but i think kelly can recruit that. i think kelly brings organization and discipline if they can recruit policy chops and the organizational holds meaning the president listens to kelly. >> a leading republican says congress is too divided to keep working on health care legislation. utah senator told the news agency the senate remains far apart and he and other senior gop leaders will take that message to the president. but senate democratic leader chuck schumer says ten republican colleagues have told him they want to push forward with a bipartisan solution. on twitter president trump seemed to target an obamacare measure that keeps low deductibles and copays. he tweeted why shouldn't it hurt the insurance companies? analysts say if insureds lose low income subsidies they're likely to raise premiums. >>> video appears to show security officials detaining the men overnight during raids at their homes. both denounced sunday's election and called for new protests. the vote could grant the president nearly unchecked power.