. >> martha kumar who keeps close track of the briefings, she pointed out your briefings average about 15 to 18 minutes, far shorter than your predecessors. why? sarah sanders: i do not take as long to get to the point, i answer almost as many questions as my predecessors, and we engage with the press in a lot of different ways. the press briefing has changed a lot even since the president has , come into office. before president trump, you often did not see the press briefing taken in its entirety on all of the cable networks. now that is a pretty common thing. being able to consolidate that out is important. but also, we have a president that is extremely accessible and i always feel like people would rather hear from the president than from me. as much as we can highlight what he is doing throughout the day, whether he is giving a speech are doing a roundtable bringing , the press into those events is far more important to see than see me. we respond to a number of reporters' questions and do a lot on camera interviews with the team. as well as back and forth with the ability to ema

the thing that's amazing, our friend martha kumar, nicolle, you know martha quite well, scholar studies these things. 61% of the people closest around the president have left since he took office. the same figure, your administration, george w. bush administration, 5%. this is a white house that has been, you know, just bleeding people because of all sorts of reasons. ethical things like this. conflicts, tribal rivalries, volatile president, what have you. and it's a remarkable thing to think about how administration does business with that kind of constant churn, constant, you know, dysfunction. >> peter, let me get you on the record with the other headline coming out of the white house today about bill shine joining the senior staff. i was told by a senior white house official that the president used him as a pieer. this title deputy chief of staff was given to him because the president views him as hans reported, as one of the key members of his team now. and that it is a job much bigger than the one i held. it is bigger than overseeing communications in press. it is to be one of the

martha kumar has been collecting this over six presidencies. level of the white house as assistants to the president and above, 61% so far. that's not even 18 months into the trump presidency. the comparable figures for george h. w. bush and barack obama, 5%, 14%. basically the second and third generation of aides are now turning over. yesterday they announced that bill shine the former fox news executive will come in to oversee communications. he's the sixth person assigned responsibility for that function in just under a year and a half. so turmoil, chaos and a permanent insecurity of people like the chief of staff, is he going s-he staying, that's become the dominant narrative as opposed to any consistent agenda or policy program of the president. i think trump has created a white house in his own image. these people are self-obsessed and terrified over their jobs. how can they get any work done? of course not. they are thinking of their own fate and people surrounding them. >> michael warren, you wrote yesterday about the departure of scott