i am told by a source close to the white house that trump wanted scaramucci on television essentially as a surrogate to the white house. likes the way he performs on television and wanted to give him a more formal title, but according to the source, john, there was simply no understanding by the president that the communications director title comes with lots of responsibilities, not just going on television, and get this -- the president was expecting in all of this as he was topping, tapping scaramucci for this job, expecting sean spicer to stay on as press secretary and essentially as the communications director while scaramucci would play the ceremonial role essentially have the title but go on tv as a surrogate for the white house. i mean, it's very clear, john, that -- and we've been having these battles in the press briefing room for the last several months, that the president just did not have confidence in sean spicer in that sort of tv job as the press secretary, which you know, john, from so many years covering all of this, the white house press secretary is a tv job. if yo

you know, no star shines brighter in this white house than donald trump. >> yeah. eporting. david chalian, the white house press secretary sara huckabee sanders, she says that all staff members in the white house will now report through general kelly to the president. her words, all staff will report to him. this is a major change because a whole bunch of staffers at the white house would go directly to the president when reince priebus was the white house chief of staff. >> right, and now i think we have to wait and see how this works operationally. it is obviously general kelly getting his arms around the west wing, around the white house operation, and instilling some discipline and some order where it is badly needed obviously. so, i would read that as a very good sign if, dot, dot, dot, it stays that way. i mean, here's the deal. you've seen, wolf, how trump organization works. you have seen how this president has operated. he likes a steady stream of information from lots of different information flows, and i don't imagine that ivanka trump is going to think n

be easy to fixate on that treatment but that could ob cure the deeper reasons donald trump is shaking up his white house staff. russia consuming this presidency. congress overriding trump on sanctions. republicans losing that big health care vote early this morning as white house staff spent their time infighting in the lead up to the vote instead of helping out. trump calling john mccain with a last ditch plea and he gave it a thumbs down along with the entire bill. that's part of why trump announced that reince is out and john kelly will take over. he'll have his hands full because this move clearly and publicly reenforces the power of mr. anthony scaramucci who reports directly to the president. think about this here on this blockbuster friday evening. almost everyone across all party lines all over this country this week thought scaramucci had a terrible, even embarrassing t e time, but according to his boss, it was a good time. it was a great week and for now the trump white house that's all that matters. i want to get right to the breaking news. rick, why is reince out and why did it go down like

news, it appears that something is going on among republican members of congress and in the trump white house, and in the conservative media, that they are about to try to land as a counterpunch. as they try to morph the russia scandal involving the trump campaign into something that, instead, is about hillary clinton and the dnc and presumably the obama administration. and we think the fbi, as well. when they try to make that dossier into the basis of the whole case against donald trump and try to link the whole fbi investigation to that dossier, where they are going with that is to try to undermine, to try to cast aspersions on the fbi investigation of the trump/russia affair, which continues to this day, by casting aspersions on its origins. chuck grassley, who is the senator who's the chair of the senate judiciary committee, has been sort of the leader in -- among republican members of congress on that subject. and he's the one who's signaling most strongly that he would like this to be the counternarrative in this story. so, watch for that. watch for that in particular tomorrow, at the c

president trump's new white house chief of staff officially on the job today. hn kelly represent as reset for the trump administration. the president praised kelly for his work as homeland security secretary. >> we just swore in general kelly. he will do a spectacular job. i have no doubt, as chief of staff. what he's done in terms of homeland security is record shattering. you look at the border. you look at the tremendous results we've had. >> observers will be watching to see if kelly, a retired u.s. marine corps general can bring order and discipline to this white house, but this morning president tr

the trump white house reaching for the reset button and hitting it this morning. president trump convened a meeting of his cabinet, including embattled attorney general, jeff sessions. it will be their first face-to-face. new leadership, officially, in the west wing. you are looking at it there. the president's swearing in of general john kelly as the new chief of staff, the retired u.s. marine corps general. let's begin with sarah murray who joins us at the white house and the message from the president was, basically, everything is peachy, things are going great, he will make them better. >> reporter: obviously, if things were going great, you wouldn't fire your chief of staff or accept his resignation and bring in john kelly. a number of staffers mean a fresh start in terms of calming the back biting and infighting and the president's legislative agenda that hit roadblock after roadblock in terms of health care. you can listen to a portion of the president lavishing on him this morning. take a look. >> i think we did very well. very well. lots of records created

outrage in many quarters, notjust for the policy itself, but how this is carried out by the trump white housee debatable, but the politics and the process in which it was handled is extraordinary. it looks like another wild and disastrous move from the trump white house, having not thought through what this would do. most immediately, what about all of the trans people, thousands of them, some say 2500, some say 15,000, those on active service, will they be sacked, as you understand it? no one has any idea, to be honest, including i think the white house. they were not able to a nswer white house. they were not able to answer questions about that today after announcing this news. itjust goes to show how this method of leading coming from trump, if you can call it that, is really, he is stumbling from one disaster to the next. it is reminiscent of the immigration ban he did earlier in the year. but mistakes now in some ways are more extraordinary. you are talking about americans serving in the military. one of the most important roles of public service. i think the trump white house signalled

this is what is fundamentally the core problem with the trump white house is donald trump himself. and, boy, if scaramucci had done this in any other white house, he would been out on the curb in no time. >> can i add one other non-negotiable demand that kelly should make, and that is he can say, mr. president, you may tweet all you like, but i'm going to check them out in advance. >> yes. >> he should have control -- >> tweet approval. >> tweet approval should be a non-negotiable. >> every white house chief of staff has had a final say in any white house communication that's going out historically. it's not unusual. chris whipple, who has to add a chapter to his book, "the gatekeepers, how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency" except one. you're going to do an adjustment on the title. eugene robinson, thank you for joining us. peter , stay with us. >>> coming up, the profiles in courage. the real profiles in courage who stopped the trump/mcconnell health care bill, taking health care coverage away from tens of millions of people. the real people who stopped that.

that has clearly been in the works here at the white house for roughly 24 hours or so, and that's why you have the dual announcement from president trump on this day that not only is reince priebus out at the white house chief of staff, but also that he's named an immediate replacement, that being the former head of the department of homeland security general kelly. liz: good stuff, blake burman. thank you so much. we're going to come back to you and stick with you. again, we're in breaking news mode. let's recap for the viewers. reince priebus is out as chief of staff. general john kel auto he is now chief of staff. let's get back to mark and madison here. you know, steve hilton has host of a show on fox news. he has said that it's dangerous to go off the rails with your message because of the dc swamp. and the dc media gotcha politics; right? and he's saying something so -- and you've talked about this, madison. he used the word decadent of the media not talking about policy issues that affect americans. it is so easy for politicians as well to play that game. >> yeah. everybody's into this palace intrigue. and we should remember tha

white house edition. anthony scaramucci out as white house communications director. the latest white house staffer to be voted off the island that is the trump white house and it sounds like i'm joking or being facetious. this is the highest office in the land. we're talking about the white house. scaramucci was ousted moments after john kelly was sworn in as white house chief of staff. here's scaramucci actually standing nearby at that event. officially, we're told, he offered to resign but let's make no mistake about it. he was fired. kelly wanted him out. kelly found scaramucci undisciplined after his profanity-laced tirade to a reporter. it was just ten days ago that trump was praising scaramucci saying that he had, quote, great respect for him and calling him a great supporter and, quote, important addition. but then today, this was all the white house had to say about him. >> he does not have a role at this time in the trump administration. >> well, it's shocking in many ways, especially because sanders added at this time whether scaramucci could return to a job in the administration. now, here's the thing. even after reince priebus re

republican fears mount after trump's white house.cterise? has it really been a week? it feels like a month, a year... evenjust listing the number of things that have happened in the past seven days is astonishing. reince priebus being booted for the general kelly, scaramucci becoming comms director, spicer being, you know, his ragged nation. —— his resignation. it's exhausting just being here, let alone being in rossington. that in washington. what are the republican fears?l sense of meltdown and not actually doing anything, reports this has been the worst week enjoyed by any us president in living memory. this really is the concern of washington, president trump has only been there six months to forget. it feels like longer that there has been so much news in so much happening. yet actually nothing has happened. the president has not passed any major legislation, his operation is in chaos. this week did feel like everything came together in a ball of catastrophe, in a way, with reince priebus going, anthony scaramucci's thai raid, e

a big event for the trump family business while the trump white house is in the rough over the russia investigation. political pressure turned up. >> this has got another disturbing turn of events. >> it's been one week since the revelation that donald trump jr. met with a russian lawyer at trump tower during the campaign. he tried to control the damage himself. >> so as far as you know, as far as this incident is concerned, this is all of it. >> this is everything. this is everything. >> but that wasn't everything. the 2016 meeting brought donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort face-to-face with a former sergeant the in a soviet military counter intelligence unit. rinat akhmetshin is now a d.c. lobbyist and russian-american known to work on soviet issues. some suspect he may have russian intelligence ties. he denies that. also there, natalia veselnitskaya, a russian lawyer. and there was an interpreter. trump junior says nothing came of the meeting. friday on capitol hill, former trump campaign operative michael caputo met with the house intelligence committee blind closed

midlake white house will do. the trump white house is not like that. the trump white house is much more run by donald trump on a daily basis. it doesn't have a discipline in that structure, and never has. >> meghan: i would debate the people they have surrounding them from the get-go are not taking care of the principal and their family. that's my biggest concern with all of this. anyone who has an precursor interesting of politics knows that they're going to try to approach you as a filling number of the candidate, they're going to try to manipulate use, use you, send you emails that could be in some way compromising in the future and affect that paul manafort didn't say, maybe the president's son in law and son should not be present at this meeting, i think it's deeply incompetent. right now, donald trump, jr., is being put in a very, very precarious position. >> sandra: what happens now? this statement from donald trump, jr., was just released, emails were just released. we have yet to hear the president respond to the release of information. what do

he's out of the white house but he did not say anything critical of president trump or the white house when he spoke with cnn yesterday in his first interview since the news broke that he had resigned. now, as you know the new communications director, anthony scaramucci, made the striking allegations against priebus this week saying that he was a leaker and that he was giving white house information to reporters that they did not want out. now, priebus was asked about the allegations during his interview with wolf blitzer last night. let's listen to what he had to say. >> what's your biggest disappointment? >> well, look, i mean, i wish health care would have passed but i don't think it's over yet, wolf. i think we can still get there. >> talk about that. how do you get there because you don't have the votes. that's a 52-48 majority the republicans have in the senate, clearly not enough. >> well, they have to keep working, wolf. i mean, they have to roll up their sleeves and keep working. they have to come up with another amendment. i think lindsey graham has an amendment. i think they

focus of this investigation like carter paige, who have only a little relationship with the trump white house. this is not michael flynn. this is not someone who was high ranking within the trump administration and on the trump campaign, but someone excised a long time ago, and so even though there's been no evidence to sub stannuate evidence against him if something emerges, those are the questions debated in washington whether president trump bears responsibility for someone who he did not hire in any capacity in his whauou white house. >> jew eugene, to you, sources tell cnn that the president is not exactly accepting of the idea he meddled in the election, and sources say they are frustrated because he just do you want actually believe it, but it -- it has to be hard for him on some level to accept that russia meddled without then giving into the idea that presidency is illegitimate not winning on his own. >> that's a pushback, and he's had trouble accepting the fact that he did not win the popular vote. i think what's been true of importance to communicate that no conclusions have been m

>>> making news in america this monday morning, new challenges for president trump and his new white house chief of staff. john kelly moves into the west wing today as the trump administration deals with new provocations from russia and north korea. we are live in washington. >>> new details this morning about an alleged terror plot in australia. hear the latest on how the suspects allegedly planned to use poisonous gas, and steps being taken to keep flights here in the u.s. safe. >>> breaking overnight, a massive manhunt after a jail break in alabama. authorities working hard through the night to recapture them. >>> and an epic comeback by the u.s. women's soccer team facing s they shot, they scored, they won. >>> we do say good morning, everybody, on this monday. big changes and new challenges for the trump white house this morning. >> retired general john kelly is officially taking over as white house chief of staff today as president trump tries to hit the reset button going into another busy week. abc news kenneth moton has the latest from washington. kenneth, good morning. >> reporte

the white house has confirmed that president trump held a second meeting with russia's president putin during the 620 summit earlier this month in germany. the white house says the meeting, barely publicised up until now, happened hours after the formal bi—lateral talks between the two leaders. it's believed mr trump spoke to mr putin at the second meeting for around an hour. the only other person present was a russian translator, so there is no us government record of their conversation and what they discussed has not been disclosed. and donald trump's eldest son is going to have to do some more explaining about his own meeting with a russian. the leading democrat on the senate judiciary committee says she's received approval to invite donald trumer to testify about his meeting with a russian lawyer during the presidential campaign. dianne feinstein said the special counsel overseeing the russia investigation, robert mueller, had raised no objection. former trump campaign manager paul manafort will also be invited. the senate intelligence committee is also keen to hear from them. it's

there are holdovers in the trump white house and found 150 people and decided the best way to tell the story was to create different categories of these cooks and tell those stories. i start with the ingredients, all the things that create interplay and started out with they used to be called the presidential steward, they were in charge of all the method operations, they are the chief usher but the earliest day they were the steward, they would do the shopping and plan menus and oversee operations, then i move to the enslaved people who cook in the white house because a lot of our presidents have been placeholders and i talk about free cooks from the beginning all the way to the present who were part of the white house culture and the cook when the president is traveling. what happens when the president is on a train or boat or air force one or stale period of time and entire chapter on drinks. one of the longest cat and mouse games is whether or not our president drinks which if i was a press secretary this is the strategy, deny that you drink, then when someone proves that you drink

white house in crisis. breaking tonight. president trumpht now leaving behind a white house rocked by bomb shell revelations on russia's election medaling. >> the president has finally spoken out about his son's embrace of a russian offer to provide negative information on hillary clinton. here's what we know at this

but in the trump white house, it looks like loyalty is much more expensive. the vulgarity and the most substantive of anthony scaramucci's interview was his boast that he reported directly to president trump. but the news this evening is that trump's new chief of staff

the meeting took place in june on june 9th according to trump, jr., 2016. the white house is also told us that president trump did not know about this meeting yesterday during an off-camera press gaggle, sarah huckabee sanders maintains that there was no collusion between the campaign and russia. >> julie: thank you. >> eric: meanwhile, that russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya says she has no information on hillary clinton and she was not sent by the kremlin. she spoke to nbc news. >> i never knew who else would be attending the meeting. all i knew was that mr. donald trump, jr., was willing to meet with me. i spoke with a young gentleman for probably the first 7-10 minutes, and then he stood up and left the room. it was mr. jared kushner and he never came back. the other individual who was at the meeting was always looking at his phone. he never took any active part in the conversation. that was mr. paul manafort. >> have you ever worked for the russian government? do you have connections to the russian government? >> no. >> eric: the emails that led to that meeting call

but in the trump white house, it looks like loyalty is much more expensive. put aside the vulgarity and the most substantive of anthony scaramucci's interview was his boast that he reported directly to president trump. but the news this evening is that trump's new chief of staff has decided scaramucci actually reports to no one. an ousting on the first work day of this kelly era trump supporters cheering a new order while critics offer a simple rebuttal. how can any staffer end the chaos, if the chaos comes from the top. language also comes from the top, so there was plenty of irony in this new white house message today that scaramucci is out because of inappropriate language. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. and he didn't want to burden general kelly. general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house. and all staff will report to him. >> kelly is cleaning up a string of personnel changes that were linked, of course, to scaramucci. sean spicer resigned in protest of s

white house? because you've got to look -- donald trump, the white house is run like a circle -- like a spoke with donald trump here and different people all reporting to the president, and nobody going through a gatekeeper. and i think that kelly is going to demand to be the gatekeeper and real chief of staff. so, the big thing is going to be did he set conditions before taking that position? >> well, that's a good question. because one of the issues with his predecessor is number one he clearly didn't have the respect of the president but he also was defied by the incoming communications director anthony scaramucci said i'm not going to report to you. he managed to get himself to report directly not president. do you anticipate that general kelly is going to submit to that kind of arrange.? >> nothing's going to change, joy. to the point he could very well be a great gatekeeper, bring order to the white house, what good is a gatekeeper when the lion is already out of the gate. the president of the united states, not his staff, is the problem and unless and until the president gives up twitter, s

a meeting that has now blown up into a major problem for the trump white house. to donald trump jr. on june 3rd of lats year. they are acquaintances. rob goldstone sends this first e-mail to donald j. trump jr. to start that chain of correspondence that leads to the meeting. the e-mail says good morning. amman just called to contact you. the crown prosecutor of russia, that's what it says in the e-mail. now, everybody believes that to be a mistaken title. maybe he is getting confused because he is british. they don't have a crown prosecutor. instead they have a prosecutor general who is yuri. in their meeting the prosecutor decided to provide the trurp campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary. it's obviously very high level and sensitive information. it's part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. that is the meeting that led to the subject of so much focus this week and so much freak-out at the white house. initial reports were that. >> we got a statement from donald trump jr. saying, yes, he did take a meeting at trump towe

back to the white house now where president trump is struggling under a string of bad headlines on russia care and his own poll numbers out just today. so the white house is going to try to turn the page kicking off made in america week today. kristen welker is back with us from the white house. kristen, the white house has obviously pushed this made in america theme a couple of times before, but often the family's own businesses get in the way. tell us about it. >> reporter: well, that's right. obviously the trump organization, ivanka trump's business outsourced a lot of the products that they made, so this made in america week is getting some scrutiny. but this is the white house's attempt, chris, as you say to try to put the focus back on the president's agenda and to try to turn the page from the russia controversy. so today the president will be featuring made in america product showcase. there are going to be crafts and other items that were made in america from all 50 states. now, the president's going to use this to talk about tax reform and also his broader agenda to try to scale

lost an important ally when sean spicer resigned and now, just days later he too is out of the trump white house new york. >>> well, plea dus ariebus and join a growing list of those exiting the white house. >>> so president trump fired salary yates for refusing to defend the president's immigration ban. flynn was forced to resign a few weeks later for misleading the vice president for his leadings over the russian am because corps. jeff sessions asked dozens of u.s. attorneys to resign. a few weeks later deputy chief of staff katy walsh left the white house for another job and fast forward to may, he fired james comey and just this month the department of government ethics designed. the spokesman for the legal team, he stepped down. white house secretary sean spicer quit followed by assistant secretary and now reince priebus has left. >> still to come, president trump under fire for telling police officers not to worry about injuring suspects during arrest. >> when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a patty wagon, you see them thrown in rough, i said, please don't be too nice. >>

. >>> first, more signs of chaos in the trump administration. today white houseress secretary sean spicer resigned saying he strongly disagreed with president trump's pick for a communications director. meanwhile the senate debate over health care continues. on tuesday the gop bill looked all but dead when several republican lawmakers refused to repeal obamacare without a plan to replace it. but after president trump met with wavering republicans on wednesday the senate gop leader said he would now try to open debate on the legislation next week. >>> and in sacramento, the state's cap and trade program to lower greenhouse gas emissions was extended to 2030. it is a victory for governor jerry browne who lobbied hard to win bipartisan support for the program. >> climate change is real. it is a threat to organized human existence. maybe not in my life. i'll be dead. what am i? 79? do i have five years more, ten years more, 15? i don't know. 20? i don't know. i don't think i want that long. but most of you people when i look ought hert here, a lot of going to be aliv

a big event for the trump family business, while the trump white house is in the rough over the russia investigation. political pressure turned up. >> this has got another disturbing turn of events. >> reporter: it's been one week since the revelation that donald trump jr. met with a russian lawyer at trump tower during the campaign. he tried to control the damage himself. >> so as far as you know, as far as this incident is concerned, this is all of it? >> this is everything. this is everything. >> reporter: but that wasn't everything. the 2016 meeting brought donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort face to face with a former sergeant in a soviet military counterintelligence unit. rinet akmetshin is now a d.c. lobbyist known to work on russia-related issues. some u.s. officials suspect he may still have russian intelligence ties. he denies that. also there, lawyer natalia veselnitskaya. trump jr.'s attorney said there was also a translator present and they're looking for any documentation to determine who entered trump tower that day. trump junior says nothing came of the me

there's exactly one government office that would employ this raving lunatic and that's donald trump's white house. >> great to see you. that is all in for this evening. >>> the breaking news tonight, reince priebus is in the history books. the shortest serving of any white house chief of staff. he is out after being under heavy fire and a former four-star marine general is in. tonight who is general john kelly? the man who had been running homeland security and can he bring an actual chain of command to the wild west of the west wing? as the president shrugs off the most spectacular failure of the gop in years. no repeal, no replace and no way to predict what's next except for the 11th hour which begins now. >>> on a friday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 190 of the trump administration. and reince priebus of kenosha, wisconsin will soon be a private citizen again. and tonight he is making plan -- plans to, as they say, spend more time with his family. his replacement is homemade secretary john kelly, a retired four-star u.s. marine general. he s

the white house, a case study in crisis mismanagement, according to your reporting, ashley and michael, we see a big picture here, after months and months of denials on the russia story from the trump white house. finally has this episode cracked open the whole controversy? michael: the message the defense that president trump has used for months now is that this is all fake news, this is all bogus, there's no substance to it at all. what we have here is not only evidence that there was an intent to work with russia to get information during the campaign, we don't know whether that actual actually happened yet but also evidence that knowing this email existed, this white house, these senior officials, didn't put it out for weeks after they knew they had it. jared kushner didn't disclose it initially. he had two times he had a chance to disclose on his security clearance application this meeting. he failed the first two times. they say he did it the third time. and even this week when they were asked about the "new york times" about this, they kept changing their story, even after don jr. says on hannity, that's everything, we learn today it wasn't everything. there were other peopl

while the trump white house is in the rough over the russia investigation. lkts political pressure turned occupy. >> this is yet another disturbing turn much events. >> it's been one week since the revels that donald trump jr. met with a russian lawyer at trump tower during the campaign. he tried to control the damage himself. >> so as far as you know as far as in incident is concerned this is all of it this is everything this is everything. >> but that wasn't everything. the 2016 meeting brought donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort face-to-face with a former sergeant in a soviet military centre intelligence unit. rinat akmetshin is now a naturalized american citizen and d.c. lobbyist known to work on russia related issues. some u.s. officials suspect he may still have russian intelligence ties. he deny that is also lawyer veselnitskaya. the and there was a translateser present and also look for dums to determine who entered the tower that day. trump jr. says nothing came from the meeting. >> former campaign praetive michael caputo met with the i

that headline from mcclatchy today is presumably harrowing to the trump white house, trump-russia investigators investigators probe jared kushner-run digital operation. even after that, late this evening, that particular story became even worse news for the trump white house. because later this evening, charlie savage from the new york times reported on a new lawsuit that has just been filed, down to the wire, just inside the statute of limitations. it's a lawsuit filed by donors to the democratic party and one dnc staffer. what they're doing is they're suing the trump campaign. this is a lawsuit that is has been filed by an organization that was formed very recently by former obama administration lawyers, called protect democracy. sort of watching them to see what they would do. now they have filed this lawsuit against the trump campaign alleging that while it might have been russian government hackers that broke into the dnc and stole dnc information in the first place, this lawsuit alleges that it was actually the trump campaign that conspired to release the information back to the american

and now just days later, he, too, is out of the trump white house. randy kaye, cnn new york. >> let's talk more about this incredible white house shake-upcoming six months into trump's presidency. joining us cnn politics reporter chris cillizza and cnn contributor michael d antonio. he's the author behind the book "the truth about trump." in one week we lose sean spicer and reince priebus. they are both forced out, and that is them specifically. what does it mean for the direction of this white house? >> well, part of this is a prungs of how donald trump operates. he likes this tension. he likes the combativeness. he thinks he can debate it, but he thinks this is how the best work gets done. i would argue this past week would suggest that theory is not right, but that's what he believes. what does it mean to your specific question that reince priebus and sean spicer are the two that are now out and we have john kelly in and anthony scaramucci in. i think donald trump view it is six month experiment of embracing washington and the washington political

it's a big event for the trump family business while the trump white house is in the cough over the russia investigation. political pressure turned up. >> this has had nor disturbing turn of events. >> it's been one week since the revelation that donald trump jr. met with a russian lawyer during the campaign. he tried to contain it himself. >> this is everything, this is everything. >> reporter: but that wasn't everything. it brought donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort face to face with rina rinat akhmetshin. he may still have russian intelligence ties. he denies that. also there, attorney natalia veselnitskaya. they're looking for any documentation of who entered that day. >> i had no contact with russians and i never heard of anyone in the trump cam pan talking with russians. >> with growing demands for information, the trump white house is expanding its inner leader team with lawyer ty cobb. of course with so much of this centered around the president's namesake, donald trump jr., he was the person who organized the meeting but democrats have also really focused on the one

donald trump ended one of the presidencies putting new man in charge of his white house staff. the secretary of homeland security john kelly, with open this disarray in the administration, republicans kee one of their biggest campaign promises to repeal obama care, is another staff shakeup enough. we will talk to kelly and conway , but first let's bring in the white house with the latest. >> the elevation and appointmen of general kelly is attempted t calm the season at the white house. it has been rocked by turbulent seas throughout the trumpet ministration, especially when -- we tell fox news that the new chief -- chief of staff will help full control over the oval office an schedule, though we have also learned that some key staffers for the time being will continu to have casual access to the president with -- being among the names most ofte mentioned. he is a ministration is marked by unrest including the loss of mike flynn, the firing of jim comey and key white house figures spacer. he will need control over competing factions and a president who has a lack of message dis

think about this from the perspective 6 the trump white house. think about the perspective from their lawyers, their legal team, the people who are trying to defend the president, and defend trump campaign people on the trump-russia affair just on that issue. they're now dealing with the special counsel robert mueller investigation. at the senate judiciary committee. they're looking at the senate intelligence committee and house intelligence committee, broadly looking at the russian attack and potential trump campaign collusion in that attack. in addition to that, they're looking at what may be a very high powered offensive of the court system through the federal courts. all tied to that second prong of the russian attack, that hack of the dnc where they stole that information. and turned it back on the american people. imagine trying to manage the defense on all of those fronts. the guy who is supposedly the captain of that team, managing the defense, is mark kasowitz who is the new york lawyer who had previously represented donald trump and his

what would you like to ask the panel about the state of the trump white house bid just go t facebook or twitter and we may use your question on the air i think it could be one of the most personal changes the president trump has made, assuming that he is willing to accept the discipline and a stronger chain of command. >> that is leon panetta talking about the new white house chief of staff, who was his senior mili is time for the sunday group, fox news senior analyst rick you . former democratic congressman one in woman jane harman and go strategist karl rove. how much trouble is this president in and is general kelly the man to get them out o it? >> he's in a lot of trouble thi week. it was the most tumultuous week. he faces for challenge. for some of the decision-making process is broken. he was one of the first victims of it when he braced objections which were not taken into account with the first travel ban. he's got this issue of access. this president is that going to end the practice of allowing people to flow in and out of th white house. most presidents allow that. the ques

when we come back and we will discuss the trump white house. what are democrats willing to give. nancy pelosi j it's now back to the drawing board after republican plan to repeal in place implode on the senate floor. joining me now is house democratic leader nancy pelosi. welcome back to fox news sunday. you think that putting general kelly and there will make a difference? >> if you take a second part, i hope so. i look forward to working with general kelly. of work with secretary kelly at the department of homeland security. so i will be speaking with him today and look forward to working with him. it is of a very important position. that has to be recognized that he is the chief of staff. >> you've been in washington an see a lot of white house is the way that they operate, does thi white house need more discipline ? >> just working with the bush one white house, and the car ha a great rapport. everybody knew he was the chief of staff and that was recognize on capitol hill, that he really was the chief of staff in with josh bolten, we also work closely with him but nonetheles r

but more importantly, the indig nance of the trump white house knowing some of them had to have known that this meeting took place. some of them had to have known that these e-mails existed, of a confidant of the trump's says -- if you would ask me -- you know, a week ago, do you think that we're going to have an example of an e-mail sent by a confidant of the trumps, contacts with people who were supposedly close with the kremlin, saying -- saying, the crouse prosecutor of russia met with this other intermediary, and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate hillary in her dealings with russia and be very useful to your father. i would have said, you were crazy. that nobody would put something like that in print and somebody nobody associated with this campaign would then respond, "i love it". >> crazy to think, then, that don jr. would be forced to release it. the chain of events that's happened in the past hour have been truly -- i think, amazing. >> it's incredible. it does get at what i think, you know, e