valerie jarrett joins me now. >> how are you? >> i'm going well. great to see you.with head-on of course when you were in the obama administration. the sandy hook elementary school shooting was one of the most awful chapters. >> worst day in eight years. >> and in our history, that stands out. >> and i was reflecting this morning on all the people who have picked up the baton to perfect our union and the young people in parkland have excited something across our country that i think creates this tipping point and i'm convinced that we will see change. and in fact we already have. states like florida and vermont who have a decisionly hatraditi laws have stepping up, the governors are signed bills that tighten our gun laws. and we know already that two-thirds of americans say we want stricter gun law, we want background checks, we want to keep guns out of the hands ever people who are either a danger to themselves or someone else. >> i want to read what i think is the procevocative part of your p op-ed. you say that those twhoos lives have been scarred by gun violence

>> i heard most of it with valerie jarrett who was an important advisor who had the president's ear on a lot of strategy in terms of how he shouldar position himself and what issues to move on first or to wait and simply the broader political strategy he didn't win because of her and her money that isn't the case he won in large part because of the sheer frustration built with theau gop with the status quo toward the end of the bush presidency and the excitement he generated from democrats and independents saw him as a new voice a different kind of voice in american politics to raise a lot of money like all candidates it didn't come from her. and i think that is the reason his presidency took place but what all presidents bring to the white house and people who try to guide them from washington. >> now the democratic line from new york. >> caller: i am confused i vote democrat but i'm confused on this district 18 in pennsylvania where to me and i may be wrong but the fellow who basically is a republican but only has a d next to his name i understand they want to fill seats in congress

missing valerie jarrett. she was president for a while. >> greg: oh! it's time for this.le diet news. as you know, i'm an expert on terrible diets. there is nothing worse than stuffed animals. let's take a look at this dog. a st. bernard. he had to go in for what they thought was cancer surgery. his name is mazie. 8 years old. they found it wasn't cancer. he'd been eating teddy bears. we all know teddy bears have lots of carbohydrates. they don't digest easily. i would say do not eat teddy bears, dog! >> jesse: that's how you lost weight. >> greg: i did. i stopped eating stuffed animals. i would just gorge. >> jesse: moving on. greg knows what it's like to make a joke people don't really like. an accent i felt kicker posed for a prom picture with his daughter and said this. wishing my beautiful daughter and her date at beautiful time. people got mad saying it was inappropriate. he had to apologize. the daughter and the date were in on the joke. if you believe you have to apologize. >> greg: you have to apologize for everything. sorry about that. >> katie: i went to arizon

you look at the last three presidents, obama had good structure but he also had comfort with valerie jarrett. george bush can good structure but he can good relationships. i think this structurally was the wrong process. i think he should have gone with comfort and then surround himself with those key advisors as opposed to putting someone he doesn't virtually know. if you notice, he does better with people that he's most comfortable with. he's able to be candid and speak, frankly, honestly with them. then they're able to carry out his mission. i just think structurally this was never going to work. now you have a guy like john kelly who was a fabulous american who served us, is now looking how to exit this way in a graceful manner, unlike what happened to mcmaster. >> you will the only person who's come on my broadcast -- i understand your logic here, big picture -- but saying that jared kushner should serve as his chief of staff. >> this is, of course, hindsight. this is talking at the beginning of the process. now obviously jared is much damaged so it is not necessarily jibing. but struct

yawn, because what's her name, valerie jarrett was sort of calling the shots. is this about degradation of his influence is this about deterioration of his relationship with the president or both the president and the staff? what is it about here? >> i think the answer is both. but you really only get these sorts of pieces. in this nbc report is the latest of a number of them. when staff morale has declined and the chief of staff has lost the support of his team largely, that's what is striking. a number of people made the point to me, when kelly came in, he came in to impose order and discipline. and the leaks really did stop for a why while. it was totally dissimilar to the previous chief of staff reince priebus who never had the respect of his team. then as his relationship with the president became more fraught and did a number of things that frustrated the staff, including some of them said felt about lying about incidents or spinning them to look better for himself, you start to see leaks. so the fact that a piece like this could exist with eight people t

i think she's referring to valerie jarrett. host: i'm not sure of her living situation at the moment. caller: well, she did move in with him right afterwards so they could carry on their destruction of the united states of america. but i just wanted to say why is there no interest in what john kennedy did 10 years before he became president or barack obama's promiscuous behavior before he became president? the was no interest in that at all. and all of a sudden, we're comparing trump with clinton. donald trump did not have any . pe of sex in the oval office that was a desecration of our house. and the should be no comparison. donald trump is trying to straighten this country out from the democrats who are trying to make this a liberal progressive socialistic country and it's the wrong direction. and i think it's pathetic that c-span chose this particular topic for the first thing on easter morning. thank you for listening to me. have a great day. host: a comment from twitter from robert this morning. morals didn't matter when b