>> let trump by trump because trump is going to be trump. the more people in the white house who push back against that, the more trump wanted to be himself and would tweet things that just caught the eye and surprise of those on capitol hill. that's not a great position to be in. what general kelly brings, as a chief of staff -- and this is something up on capitol hill that you need in a good chief of staff, somebody who is going to be your gatekeeper. speaker john boehner had a terrific chief of staff. she died tragically right before he took that gavel and some say speaker boehner may have had more success as speaker had she been there. she closed the doors. she let people in. she was the one who saw his book. because when you're in a position like president of the united states and speaker of the house, everybody wants your ear. you have to have somebody who has the strength, the respect, the trust with that person that they are going to let the right people in and take care of the issues with the other people coming to the president. >>

this time last year we said, let trump be trump. let trump be trump. was the advice tv commentators were giving to the campaign. let the campaign boss be who he is. let trump be trump. we'll see scaramucci encourage the president to give more interviews, say whatever you want, don't feel restrained. though his lawyers don't want him talking about the mueller probe, we may see more of that from the president. >> maybe he can, april, and i'm sure people around the country are hoping that he can, help this white house in whatever way he can, at least with the messaging. he can't really help them with the investigations, but spicer was as combative as scaramucci is smooth. i want you to listen to this clip from his press room appearances. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. both in person and around the globe. when we use words like travel ban, that misrepresents what it is. i've said it from the day that i got here until whatever, that there was no connection. you got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressi

be trump. you can't do both. you're going to let trump be trump. ich is the opposite of order and discipline. who's going to win that battle? i don't think anyone can predict. >> we see the president tweet this weekend. it goes back to what you said about trump being trump. leadership starts at the top, and you have said it was a leadership failure by the president because that obama care repeal replace did not happen. he owns this, let me read what you wrote on an op ed. had this been an 77 so he had of the apprentice, he someone would be sitting around the boardroom saying, you're fired. explain why he owns this? >> he made many mistakes, tweets that distracted from the mission. he never really sold the bill himself to the public or explained what it was going to be about. he intimidated members of his own party and threatened them on television, so you could watch senator heller of nevada be threatened face to face. none of that really works. at many moments he didn't understand what was in the bill, and would say contradictory things. a lot of t

corey lewandowski used to say early on in the campaign let trump be trump. it's a little disrespectful now because he's the president, so let's let the president be the president. if he wants to talk about things like that, i'm not going to want to stop him or even be able to the stop him. i want to be able to help aid and abet his agenda. for me, i have a different personality style from the president in some ways, in other ways we're very similar. i just want there to be fairness and objectivity. and so let's see how the whole thing rolls out.

trump. as you know, i've said you have to let trump be trump. that is what has made him be successful the last 30 years. that is what the american people voted for, and anybody who thinks they're going to change donald trump doesn't know donald trump. >> kelly will have the president at his side as the president continu continues to fume over obamacare. still, the question is, what, if any appetite is there to go back to obamacare after majority leader mitch mcconnell significantlenaed hsignaled his desire to move on after the failed vote. >> reporter: let's start with general john kelly. after this morning, a few hours from now, he will be steering that ship from the white house. make no mistake, he is being brought in to clean things up on the inside, to stop the leaks and to make sure that the people working in the west wing are working on behalf of this president and heis agenda, and health care is one of those things, the president tweeting, don't give up, the world is watching, even though mitch mcconnell wants to go on and let this go, the

trump. chuck, as you know i've said you have to let trump be trump. that is what has made him successful the last 30 years, what the american people voted for and anybody who thinks they're going to change donald trump doesn't no donald trump. >> so let trump be trump. what do you think? >> i mean, i think that's the advice coming from a lot of people in the outer circle. can't change a person. only yourself. you can only change the system around him. i feel like trump has been being trump, though to a great extent. i don't think reince priebus was stopping trump from being trump. he was being who he was. to the extent of the orbit around him and bringing control that that chaos is something he could do. if it's a command and control mission. but the chief of staff's role should also be a broader political role. talking about comments earlier about the economy and the stock market. all of those things doing so well. that's because of hope about tax reform. that's because of the message on jobs that he had coming right out the door. if you don't get to

trump. i say you have to let trump be trump. ll a general -- a military general be able to let trump be trump? >> i think if you look at corey lewandowski's own experience, he was removed from his job as well. so the strategy of managing the way he would manage doesn't seem appropriate to me and i really suspect that general kelly has a vision for the presidency or an understanding of the presidency that is beyond trump being trump. the president needs to be the president of all the people and even ceremonial obligations with seriousness and a sense of respect and i don't think that someone coming from a military background is going to just say, well, go ahead, be yourself when we can all see that being himself hasn't worked out so well so far. >> thank you both very much. and "outfront" next, the white house says trump was joking when he said police should get rough with suspects. an official from a top police department is "outfront" and he says it is no laughing matter. >>> and jeanne moos on anthony scaramucci's ten memorable

and the philosophy, let trump be trump, that is awesome for a campaign. n there needs to be a little bit more discipline. i think he's phenomenal. he'll be a great supporter of the president, clearly he loves him. that's what donald trump wants. but what we need is an administration a little bit more on message and on offense, not defense. >> listen, he has no experience as a communications director. when you run a press shop and you have this russia thing, that ain't easy. >> but what you do is you put all the information out there to those doing the investigation, let it run its course and you spend your time driving your message, pushing your legislative agenda, going out to this country and repealing and replacing obamacare. and leave on message and take the twitter out of his hands and leave russia alone. >> good luck. so jared kushner and ivanka trump were both in favor of hiring anthony scaramucci. what do you think of that? does it seem like jared is quick to shake things up? >> and i think jared kushner and ivanka trump have no idea what they're d

>> i guess it's supposed to be letting trump be trump which is confusing to me. en seeing some well behaved representative of the president up till now? i mean, what's been happening up until this moment if this is him being himself? i'm very confused by that. what this is is a reflection of what the president himself believes which is that this isn't about policy to him. this is about messaging. which is really consistent with his approach here which is he's not unfortunately, he's really not taking serious the idea of running a country. he's running a television show. so as a result, he's not delivering on anything for the american people. most common thing including trump voters, especially trump voters actually ask me when i talk to them about this, they say do you think he's going to get better? they want to see hip get better? every american wants to see him get better at his job. it doesn't matter whether you're a president or any other job in this country, if you are convinced anytime things don't go well it's somebody else's fault, you'll never get better

be so tired of winning. that's literally out of donald trump -- candidate donald trump's mouth. the stuff there about i can be more presidential than abraham lincoln. he said those exact words during a campaign speech a year ago. it's almost as if we've gone back to the future. i think i had agree with you. let trump be trul. we can't control this ming, so let's just let it go. >> let's just call it a ploon. >> i do hope you're right that congress will start being more assertive in protecting its perg activities but also in protecting the republic because what we've seen with the transgender thing that he did today and some other teets he's done in the last 48 to 72 hours, i'm kind of fearful of who is sitting in the oval office and what trouble he could possibly get -- >> why? why are you afraid. >> just on this point, one trump advisor was quoted i think to politico say this is clever. it will appeal to our mid warn base. let the democrats run trying to defend transgender individuals v. chuck grassley and joni ernst, herself a veteran, married to a veteran, the other senator fr

trump be trump. well, it's working so far. president trump has been tweeting up a storm for days. here to discuss, political commentator alex stewart, communications director for ted cruz, and cnn contributor jason kander. hello, good evening. >> hi, don. >> in the last few days, in just the few days scaramucci has been at the helm of the white house communications shop, the president has shot off a bunch of tweets on everything from his pardoning powers, calling his attorney general beleaguered. he continues to call the russia investigation a witch hunt. the list goes on. does this barrage of tweets seem a new and improved strategy to you? >> i guess it's supposed to be letting trump be trump which is confusing to me. have we instead been seeing some very well-behaved representative of the president up until now? i mean, what's been happening up until this moment if this is him being himself? i'm very confused by that. but what this is, it's just a reflection of what the president himself believes, which is this isn't about policy to him. this is about messaging. which is really

from what we have seen, he doesn't have the let trump be trump mantra from early in the campaign. trump being trump is not a military regiment approach that we think john kelly seeks time port here. >> he doesn't have a regimented approach certainly not but it is differential when it comes to generals. that's why you have seen himself surround himself with different attorney generals within this administration. that being said, getting a 71-year-old man to stop doing what he does everyday will be a task even for the most disciplined of generals. to see donald trump not tweet, you might go foreign a little while where he gets off the phone or only tweets things on message with the white house. but every time we have seen this happen and it happened a few times he reverted back when he felt like he is under siege. wait for another story about russia to drop. wait for a negative story about jared kushner or don junior or more information that is not flattering about this president and el pick up his phone. >> it is 10:00 at night upstairs at the white house. there's no general kelly around

he is in this let trump be trump camp. and he channels trump himself. what did everyone comment when they first saw him in the briefing room, they said, wow, he's just like the president. what did he do last night? he publicly berated his chief of staff on twitter and in on-the-record conversation with me. that's something trump would do, right? he sort of crossed those lines. so i do think that the people in the white house who think that their job is to contain trump is to make sure that he doesn't blow up their message every day. they see scaramucci as not the right person for the communications job. you know, i've talked to him quite a bit in a number of interviews over this year. i've never heard him say anything bad about trump. i've heard him have some tough words for people in the white house, but despite the fact he was a trump critic previously, he has this -- he really believes in president trump and he really believes that he's on this mission to fix the white house and get people to see what he sees in trump. and the most charitable explana

but people voted for trump because they supported his agenda and let trump be trump. oted for trump because he wasn't hillary for many reasons. but the shakeup is coming early. reince priebus failed at his job because trump didn't empower him to do it. if he was interested in enacting trump's agenda, he would have quit on the second day when he was undermined and incapable of doing it. general kelly, i think, hopefully will be empowered to do the job. he didn't tow the line in the obama administration, he spoke out against the policies at guantanamo. i think for that reason there's some hope that he will quit if he's not empowered to do his job, but those are the sorts of people i think this president should be hiring and who the country should be looking at, people who are going to speak out and quit their jobs if the president doesn't empower them to do them. >> you know, there was -- at the pentagon when it was announced on friday that general kelly was going to be the next chief of staff, several people said, well, you need this sort of four-star general. these are

scaramucci, the new communications director you just showed, he said that the trick is to let trump be trumpn effect, so that seems like the new strategy will be even more of the same, not less. >> it means we'll have a lot to talk about, peter baker, as always. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> well, the latest from the heart of texas with some sobering new information on how eight people have died and dozens of others were found near death, all crammed into a truck. we'll have more on what happened in a live report, next. managing blood sugar is a series of smart choices. and when you replace one meal... ...or snack a day with glucerna... ...made with carbsteady... ...to help minimize blood sugar spikes... ...you can really feel it. now with 30% less carbs and sugars. glucerna. atmore than one flavor, oruch texture, or color.ing. a good clean salad is so much more than green. and with panera catering, more for your event. panera. food as it should be. when this bell rings... ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security h

trump. let trump be trump. that is what has made him self over the last 30 years. e voted for. anybody who thinks they are going to change donald trump doesn't know donald trump. part of it, obviously, is that the president wants to bring a new direction and what that means is making sure his legislative agenda gets done. and what's very important to the president is fulfilling the campaign promises which he outlined and we saw this week legislative defeat in congress for the repeal and replace of obamacare. that's something that he campaigned on and reince was brought, in as you know, as someone who could work with the members of the house and the senate to get that legislative agenda done. and with that not being accomplished, the president made a decision to move in a new direction. heather: president trump calling on the senate meantime to go nuclear and repeal and replace obamacare. todd: but could a bipartisan solution be on the way? kelly wright joins us now with the very latest. >> todd, that is the question of the day. for president trump failure is not an

scaramucci was suggesting he would let trump be trump. is kelly going to let trump be trump or does he have no choice but to do so? >> right, that's a great question, alex. this is a white house that's really been characterized by chaos. we saw over the course of the campaign, for example, multiple types of sakeps. but one thing that remained constant was then candidate trump and his rhetoric. so i don't expect john kelly to change that of the president. the question is whether he will be able to impose some kind of discipline on this white house in terms of the staff level. what's interesting about john kelly, though, compared to reince priebus is that reince priebus has never really had the respect of the president. their history, of course, is fraught and tense. with john kelly, this is someone that the president does have a lot of respect for. he talks very faupd of generals. and he has seen john kelly as quote, a star in his administration given his burke at dhs. so they certainly will embark on this relationship with much more of rap

reagan era we had a saying in the staff, let reaganen reagan and that donald trump's best success lies in let trump be trumput i mean, aren't we seeing trump? has anyone held him back? in other words? >> i think there was a lot of in-fighting you know, out of range here we weren't seeing from people who don't like that. and they were undercutting him. so the thing to do is to understand how the president works, and make his -- get his best foot forward letting him be himself. the minute you try and have a president become not himself, is the moment the world sees that person as a phony and that's not a good thing. >> hmm. all right. >> dana? you want to -- the real trump 2.0 a coming? because we haven't seen him. >> i think we've seen a whole lot of the real donald trump and i urge general kelly to please stop letting trump be trump. >> we shall see. day one for john kelly tomorrow. thank you both. good to see you. >> thanks. >> we'll be right back. why? terrible toilet paper! i'll never get clean! way ahead of you. charmin ultra strong. it cleans better. it's four times stronger and... ...you can use less.

trump. chuck, as you know, i've said you have to let trump be trump. that is what has made him successful over the last 30 years. that is what the american people voted for. anybody who thinks they're going to change donald trump doesn't know donald trump. >> reporter: so, that's advice we'll see if john kelly will heed it and how quickly we'll learn if there is a new structure here. among the big questions, will every one of the big name, big personality senior type advisers from steve bannon, jared kushner, kellyanne conway, and anthony scaramucci. will they all report to the new chief or have direct lines to the president? that's part of the discipline that people talk about wanting to see this white house embrace more carefully. i have reached out to officials here to see if there is initial reaction to the new move by vladimir putin announced just a short time ago, where he is going to tell the united states 755 american diplomats will no longer be welcome in moscow. this comes at a time when vice president mike pence is in estonia today on a tour

trump be trump thing, i would say one thing. general kelly does not strike me as a let trump be trump kind of guy. i do think that there will be some pushback there. whether it's successful as a whole other question. this is very much base first, raw meat that bannon loves and does nothing to reach out to the 54% or whatever it is that pence -- >> having -- go on. >> it's similar to the rhetoric that he used during the campaign at rallies when there were protesters. he would encourage his supporters to rough them up. he would say get them out even. at one point, a couple of points, offered to pay the legal bills of supporters and i would point out that there are pieces right now working their way through federal courts in kentucky and alabama, i believe, from protesters who were roughed up, who were suing not just the supporters who were the ones sort of laying hands on them, but also donald trump and donald trump's campaign, and there was a real possibility in one of these cases that he could end or certainly people around him maybe even president trump could end up having to answer questions for

trump presidency, the american people wanted it. they voted for it. they're getting it. let trump be trump. >> dean? i use all of jeffrey's time, he barely uses his time. jeffrey is right. 3 million less american wanted donald trump than wanted hillary clinton on that fact there. this is donald trump. donald trump's not going to change. he's 71 years old. he's had success in his life being this guy. unfortunately for the rest of us in this country who would like to a thoughtful, informed president who makes us proud we won't have it. we'll have donald trump the reality show host who is literally running the white house and the administration like a reality show. i had leeza gibbens on my show, he'd pit them against each other and throw a grenade in the room and let them fight. he's running the government like a reality show. >> speaking of reality shows, we still don't know what outgoing press secretary sean spicer will do, but look at this courtesy of page 6. "dancing with the stars," sean spicer. what do you think any chance that could happen? >> in this -- yes. in the world we live in today, anyth

trump? >> it helps with the people who love him but not with the more than half the country that don't love him or much stronger than that, despise him. as far as let trump be trump, general kelly does not strike me as a let trump be trump guy. i think there will be some pushback. whether it is successful is a whole other question. this is a waist first, raw meat, does nothing to reach out to the 54% or whatever it is that are not supporting him. >> hold on. >> it is similar to the rhetoric that he used during the campaign at rallies when there were protesters. he would encourage his supporters to rough them up. he would say get them out. a couple points, offered to pay the legal bills of supporters and i would point out, there are cases working through federal courts in kentucky and alabama, i believe, from protesters who were roughed up. not just the ones laying hands on it but also, donald trump and his campaign. there's a real possibility that co-end it. certain people around him, maybe even donald trump, could end up answering questions. it is not a harmless thing. >> thank you very much. thank you all for sticking around. "all in" with chris hayes is up now

president trump tweeted 13 times yesterday, prolific even by his standards. is this because he's operating under the let trump be trump scaramucci rule? >> to take the second question, first i don't think there's any really realistic chance of this changing. president trump has noted he thinks his use of social media is a good thing. as far as just what he's trying to achieve, that's always a more difficult question to answer. he has lam basted republicans in congress, as well as china and various other people and forces even within the past 24 hours. i'm not sure honestly what he believes is accomplished by that, but he's clearly tethered to that as a mode of communication. >> one tweet included a threat most notably saying bailouts for members of congress will end soon. what does he mean by that? >> it's hard to know exactly what president trump means by his tweets. it's certainly not a good way to get people on his side. the bigger problem with the health care bill is that republicans are seeking to take health insurance away from millions of americans and some of the prices for premiums would spike considerably in

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manafort trying to downplay who trump is and then kellyanne conway said, let trump be trump and suddenlyency. how do you think it's going to go to anthony scaramucci? >> well it appeared to be a different strategy. but the stakes for the president is different now. he's nation this special council investigation into russia. where he's even under the microscope for possible obstruction of justice. so the president's words matter more than ever. so, i think that's why a lot of people are concerned if the collar is off, one might say, that he's able to say and do whatever he pleases on russia and other matters. >> jordan, great to have you with us this morning. >>> and republican senator susan collins of maine was caught on a microphone making fun of a member of house of representatives who had earlier challenged her to a duel. a microphone that was left on picked up a conversation between collins and democratic senator jack reed of ready. collins can be heard asking did you see the one who challengeded me to a duel. collins added i don't mean to be unkind but he's so unattractive, collins

i'm not really, really rich. >> he may be trump's -- he let trump be trump. sident said if he didn't have social media, he didn't know what to do with himself, what anthony scaramucci said. he believes this is an effective communicating tool for the president, but knows it is something the president needs as a release. >> shelby, one thing i heard from trump voters, i did about a dozen pieces with trump democrats that voted for the president, arguably the softer part of the coalition, first to go if there was trouble, but they loved his agenda, hated his tweeting. do you think, to me, it seems like they solve the wrong problem. the problem wasn't that trump wasn't uninhibited enough on twitter, problem is they couldn't drive a message that -- >> in their miensnds, voters sa wish he would put down the phone. like his policies, hate that he communicates this way. i think that scaramucci thinks he is a good translator. he seems to soften what trump is saying, package it up, make it sound pretty. but he could run into issues he may not foresee with the number of p

. >> i'm always going to be a trump fan, i'm on team trump and i look forward to helping him achieve his goals and his agenda for the american people. >> so there you heard him say he's going to be a trump team player and help him achieve his goals and his agenda and that is the big question going forward. this could be an opportunity for the white house to right the ship and to end all of this talk of chaos and turmoil within the white house, but there are a lot of big questions about general john kelly and how empowered he will be. reince priebus was never empo r empowered to be the sort of traditional chief of staff to be the gate keeper, the controlled access to the president. will that change with general kelly? will he be empowered to keep the various people reporting directly to the president, will he change that? will he be the person that people will have to go through? that's one of the many surrounding questions for incoming chief of staff kelly. >>> john kelly served as a marine for many years and said that joining the government was the last thing he ever wanted to do. no

trump no ounce of respect even as their president and commander-in-chief. >> mr. trump's abrasiveness may be wearing thin and even interim country. a recent poll found 24% of people and counties mr. trumpican in the election support his use of twitter to express his feelings while 62% are opposed. >> bret: thank you. what do you think? do you think the speech was oka okay? let me know on twitter at @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport. or on facebook at facebook.com/bretbaiersr. president trump rallies his supporters in ohio but does not mention his attorney general who he has called beleaguered and weak. our all-star panel breaks down the event and deals with tomorrow's headlines tonight. >> we will never be beholden to the lobbyists or special interests. we will never be silenced by the media. i want to protect america and i want to protect the citizens of america. >> i am here this evening to cut through the fake news filter and speak straight to the american people. it's much easier, by the way, to act presidential then what we are doing here tonight. believe me. we are going to get criminals off our streets. we are not doing it in a politically correct fashion. we are now on

trump versus governor christie. being blunt, i'm going to tell it how it is. plu president trump, similar, the whole let trumpe trump worked for him. why do you think it didn't work for chris christie? >> because when he started started running for president, u he was out of the state a lot. that's one of the things that irked people. the other thing that happened was bridge gate. there are a lot of people who believe that if he had gone for the nomination in '12, he might have gotten it. but he wanted to have a little more experience, he wanted to hang on a little longer. and then bridgegate happened and it was all downhill from there. >> bob, he's out of the governor's seat in a couple of months. what do you think he does next? >> i think that he would love to work for the trump administration, except he's got one problem. he put jared kushner's daddy in prison. so, that's -- >> right, that. >> can you imagine thanksgiving at the kushner house if trump had hired christie on for something? the other thing he likes to do is get together with one of my former radio colleagues in new york, craig carton, he does

trump and the administration, corey lewandowski. >> the thing that general kelly do is not try to change donald trump. as you know, i say you have to let trump be trump. that is what has made him successful the last 30 years. that's what the american people voted for. anybody who thinks they're going to change donald trump, doesn't know donald trump. >> howard, we know that corey lewandowski ran afoul of the family, the children, and they were pretty much the catalyst to get him removed from the campaign. we're getting reporting now that the family was pretty influential in getting reince priebus out. do you think general kelly has what it takes to shape up a west wing already in motion that's kind of out of control? >> well, i think can corey lewandowski said right there that the answer to that is no. that you better let donald trump be donald trump. it was sort of a warning from corey lewandowski, who is on the outs but not quite on the outs. he's part of the entourage again. he's there. and he has donald trump's direct ear when he wants it. and so do a lot of other people. whether it's anthony scaramucci, whether it's members of the family,

trump no ounce of respect even as their president and commander-in-chief. >> mr. trump's abrasiveness may be wearing thin and even interim country. a recent poll found 24% of people and counties mr. trumppped to republican in the election support his use of twitter to express his feelings while 62% are opposed. >> bret: thank you. what do you think? do you think the speech was oka okay? let me know on twitter at @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport. or on facebook at facebook.com/bretbaiersr. president trump rallies his supporters in ohio but does not mention his attorney general who he has called beleaguered and weak. our all-star panel breaks down the event and deals with tomorrow's headlines tonight. >> we will never be beholden to the lobbyists or special interests. we will never be silenced by the media. i want to protect america and i want to protect the citizens of america. i make it easy to save $600 on car insurance, so being cool comes naturally. hmm. i can't decide if this place is swag or bling. it's pretzels. word. ladies, you know when you switch, you get my bomb-diggity discounts automatically. ♪ no duh, right? [ chuckles ] sir, you forgot -- keep it. you're gonna

. >> you have to let trump be trump, and anybody who thinks they're going to change donald trump doesn't know donald trump. >> reporter: corey lewandowski there. david wright joins us from the white house. david, what are the chances the pres the obamacare repeal? >> frankly, tom, the choices are slim. the house adjourned. the senate still technically in session. they're trying to get through some of the backlog they have built up. they will face mounting pressure from the president to revisit obamacare, though. tom? >> david wright for us at the white house. thanks. >>> now to venezuela. an explosive new clash today during the vote on a constitutional assembly. backed by the country's president that has enraged the opposition. take a look at this. a massive blast caught on camera in caracas. several police officers injured, and at least three dead, across the country in voting today. one candidate for the assembly was fatally shot by a group of people who burst into his home. two teenagers also killed. president nicholas maduro voting for the special assembly of delegates to rewrite the

so i signed what i had -- when we talk about twitter, we stay sometimes this is a shrug and trump being trump but it's turned into a political atmosphere where people do not trust him which means it's a calculation people realize is a wildcard. >> he has limited influence on these senators because they now believe he'll tell them one week to vote for this bill, they have to do it for the sake of the party and the next week he'll say, it was a terrible bill and leave them hanging. and then beyond that, he's been the perfect example that you don't always have to toe the party line, that you can go out on your own and you don't have to sacrifice for the party to get ahead. he's in the white house. robert: they see him really as the living embodiment of the republican base but they're weighing the political cost, as well, what happens if millions lose insurance? >> if you're dean heller from nevada, you're more worried about what your own constituents face under this new bill than worried about the fact that mitch mcconnell's going to be angry with you if you don't side with him. michael: and eve

trump saying he is being picked on. racist, dishonest. one gentleman said, "trump being trump." one lady said, with you like him or not, his twitter have it has been brash -- have it has been brash. larry: thanks for that. gridlock on the hill. the vote of the gop health care reform bill postponed indefinitely. right now, one of the key players expected to vote in favor of the legislation is missing. senator john mccain is in arizona recovering from surgery. autria: a twitter battlst conservative commentator ann coulter and delta airlines. adrianna hopkins has more on the bitter back-and-forth. adrianna: social media has declared delta the winner in this one. it started yesterday when delta gave away ann coulter's preferred seat. she tweeted this. this is just a few of her dozen tweets. delta eventually fired back. they tweeted this. sorry youter, we are preferredceive the see you pay for and we will refund your $30." social media saying delta came out on top of this one, kind of bash ann coulter for her tirade. larry: in pennsylvania, 1500 people gathering for a vigil to rememb

trump. donald trump's closest supporters, rudy giuliani among them, have said yes, it absolutely was the right thing for sessions to recuse himself from an investigation that he was going to be a subject of. so if trump were to fire him, this would not only create, you know, a big problem with trump voters who saw sessions as kind of the conscience of this administration, the conservative conscience of this administration but also cause a huge problem on capitol hill and potentially open the floodgates for republicans to start breaking with the president in a way they have so far been very reluctant to do, brian. >> andrea. >> the irony here is of all the cabinet members so far, perhaps also including the epa. >> he's been getting the job done. >> the way donald trump wants him to get it done. he's been tough on immigration. he's been tough on sanctuary cities. he's been tough on voting rights. he has cut back all kinds of issues that are near and dear to the heart of donald trump and to the conservative base. he's been a very effective operator here. >> i have to ask you about the tweets on transgender service in the military. buzzfeed had a piece tonight that said for someone at the pentagon, that

from people close to trump whether it was trump the candidate, the nominee or the president, let him be himself. >> the thing that general kelly should do is not try to change donald trump. chuck, as you know, i said you have to let trump be trump. that is what has made him successful over the last 30 years. that is what the american people voted for. and anybody that thinks they're going to change donald trump doesn't know donald trump. >> the president himself is always going to be the president. i was in the oval office with him earlier today and we were talking about letting him be himself, letting him express his full identity. i think he's got some of the bs political instincts in the world and perhaps in history. >> we're going to make sure donald trump is comfortable about being in his own skin, that he doesn't lose that authenticity that you simply can't buy and a pollster can't give you. >> why would i change? if you have a football team and you're wing, and you get to the super bowl, you don't change your quarterback, right? i'm not changing. >> an advisor to the campaign. he's also few people who knows what it's like to be hired and i'm sorry, sam, fired by

it has been a very successful life experience for president trump to be president trump. and so let's let him do that. and let me just finish. and let's see where the chips fall. and then when something happens that you don't like or you like, you'll talk to me or sarah and we'll address it. >> do you plan to meet with him every day and do you have oval office privileges? >> do i plan to meet with him every day and do i have oval office privileges? listen, hiem not one of these people that need to have unnecessary face time with the president, okay, but i do have oval office privileges if that's what you're talking employ and i do have the opportunity to meet with him because i'm going

he wants to let trump be trump.to him previously and talked to folks over at the white house. that's probably what we are going to see more. if i had to make a guess you will probably see more those youngstown, ohio type rallies trying to influence from the outside in rather than trying to influence lawmakers inside washington on capitol hill. kennedy: when the president goes overseas and has foreign policy trips the news shifts and tends to follow him. it seems like the same thing about these big rallies. what is the connection there? bret: he controls the message. it's the biggest megaphone we have in our country. this president in particular has generated a lot of controversy and is always on the front page one way or another. but when he goes overseas he represents the country. when he's in the middle of the country he's connecting with people and you seat outpouring of support he has at some of these events. kennedy: it seems like the president with this administrationl there is subtext and there is a story ben