the west wing dates back to th century,e early 20 theodore roosevelt was in office.l the west wing itself, not as old as the mansion, which of course 1800. back to host: what is a new president get when they come in in terms redecorating budget? how much change can they make in and in theve mansion white house complex itself? reason, they within can do whatever, once they get a forain budget from congress redecorating. that is usually for the personal family, of the first which is on the second floor of the white house. of money whole lot given the amount of space that we're talking about, but $100,000. what many first families do is themselves, others use private funds there is a famous story, of course, about all of money that nancy reagan spent, for example, she wanted and the story was that taxpayers footed the bill for that. not true, she raised that money rivately, that is to use a current term, that is fake news the taxpayer his to pay for that. also got a certain amount of money, we've not seen their personal quarters, but you can presume they put their own furniture in, own perso

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founder ofed by the west wing report. first, give us an overview of what is being renovated at the white house right now and why it is needed. project,a pretty big probably about $3.5 million that has been budgeted for this. it always wind up costing more than they originally said. it is an encompassing project. wing haveof the west been completely ripped up. seen a picture of the oval office. it has been stripped completely bare down to the floors. carpeting gone, all the furniture gone, and all the relocated to been the eisenhower executive office building. that is the building right next door to the executive mansion. they are working there for the duration of the president's working vacation. although he will be in the white house a little later today, the east wing is also undergoing renovation, as well. it everything from fixing leaks leaks the kind of human we have been hearing about, but literal leaks. the heating and air-conditioning systems are worn out. a long list of things that have to be done and are overdue

that was one thing the president has been telling people around the west wing.econd thing and probably the tipping point was, as you know, this president does not like to be outshone. this president does not like other people crowding his spotlight. the book that came out last month from josh green, the great book, inside this white house on , the cover showing steve bannon and president trump as equals. we know the president saw that book and did not like it. one of the reasons steve bannon got in the doghouse before was when he was on the cover of "time" magazine as the second most powerful man in the world. a dangerous thing to be called around president trump. charlie: i would add to that his conflict with h.r. mcmaster. mike: that's right. that's part of the week. there have been a barrage of negative stories about the president's national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster. the president the other day came out and spoke in public about his national security adviser saying he supported him despite these stories appearing, notably on breitbart news, which is wh

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it was not just the president himself, there is a number of people in the west wing were angry with steve bannon and lost confidence in him. >> stand by, i want it lay out some major resignations in less than a month. sean spicer resigns as press secretary and preibus as chief of of staff and anthony scaramucci as communications director and steve bannon is also out. lets bring in george stephanopoulos. this is a critical time for the res right now, having problem as board and here at home, and now his chief strategist many say the person that shaped his message to help him win that campaign is gone. >> yes, a message hurting the president for the last week in the wake of his remarks over the demonstrations in charlesville, his failure to condemn the kkk and neo nazis early on. it made it impossible for steve bannon to stay and the last straw was the interview he gave to the american prospect where he undermined the president's position and took aim at allies, the white house chief of staff, kelly and mcmaster and rex tillerson. steve bannon was a man with a lot of enemies inside of the w

is he sort of the political guru now in the west wing?well, he is a sophisticated political operator and he has more experience in these things than many of the other people who are now there, but as the vice president's chief of staff, it is enormously difficult to wield that kind of influence. >> but john kelly is not a political guy so it leaves a vacuum. >> i think it's extremely dangerous for the president if nick airs is the political gain. you know what's on his mind right now that his boss might become president. >> so without him who is. >> there really isn't anybody rig right now. >> that's an interesting gap. >> there isn't anybody and that's going to be a problem which is this idea that republicans really want to pivot, they really want to marry the two and say steve bannon is out, that whole chapter about whether or not nazis, we can just turn the page on that and go back to policy. i think that's going to be really hard for them. i think the democrats are going to make it very increasingly difficult. and i have to say i've t

john: getting the west wing in line and getting these folks in line are two different things. you still have ivanka trump and her husband, jared kushner, they are one faction of the west wing. you still have stephen miller, who is his own entity now. he was somewhat in line with bannon, they had a lot of the same views and they worked together on a lot of the same things. but yeah, i think general kelly is taking the long view and is playing the long game with personnel. it will take a long time. you also have inner circle folks, the acting committee cases director, even though she is 28 years old and kind of still a newcomer, she could be the permanent vacation director permanentthe communications director and she has a straight line to the president. he thinks highly of her. kellyanne conway is still there. i think kelly is trying to bring in some of his own folks, but it is the boss's cal interestingl. >> interesting timing of this. with john mccain -- the type of event that would be right up steve bannon's ally. ie ley. john: i am sure mr. bannon has been involved in the p

reince priebus and sean spicer still worked in the west wing. and the president was confident republicans would repeal and replace obamacare. here now, a look at some of the most memorable things the president has said in just the intervening 100 days. >> what do you make of the north korean leader? >> at a young age he was able to resume power. a lot of people i'm sure tried to take that power away. obviously he is a pretty smart cookie. we'll be discussing details of what has proven to be a very difficult situation between israel and the palestinians. it is something i think is frankly not as difficult as people have thought over the years. how am i doing? i'm president, right? can you believe it? i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact when i decided to do it i said to myself, i said, you you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. no politician in history, and i say this with great assurely, has been treated worse or more unfairly. and i never asked once what the new nato headquart

john kelly took over his freewheeling west wing one week ago today. he fired his potty mouthed communications director, and has according to west wing sources been doing his best to give hr mcmaster political cover from critics. while kelly has brought new order to the white house staff he hasn't put a dent in the president's penchant for raging against the russia investigation. >> have you seen any russians in west virginia or ohio or pennsylvania? are there any russians here tonight? any russians? the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. >> president trump left it to his top intelligence official and his attorney general and deputy attorney general to crack down on leaks. after that embarrassing transcript of his calls with the president of mexico and the prime minister of australia leaked. showing him to be obsessed with his campaign promises and not particularly well versed in the issues that drive some of america's closest alliances. >> the department

it's going to be fought out in the west wing., you know, on the air waves with bannon being released from the white house. but it is -- these are -- you know, these issues are -- it feels like we never stopped from -- >> but that isn't globalism. those are just the traders. this is the proof that there's wisdom in the market, that captainism has a kind of inherent intelligence. i think it's one of the best signs of -- >> but he's going to say it's globalists -- again, he's a true believer. he's going to use this because this was his moment where he got cheered by the people that he wanted to tell his crowd i stood up to them. see, this could be better for him. >> i think, though, this is rupert murdoch is going to roou his effort to get steve bannon fired because bannon will be a competitor and a serious one to fox. >> all right. we're going to sneak in one more break and we'll be right back. david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your applicat

mcmaster, or just other people who thought he was a destructive, distracting presence in the west wing, and that was another thing that hurt him. at the end of the day, he did not have a ton of allies so when the new chief of staff came in and started asking questions about him, he didn't have as many defend arse he might have needed. >> rose: i guess the ultimate question is whether this will help or hurt the president in a significant way with his base because that seems to be where, at this moment, he is going in moments of crisis. >> yeah, the president is always laser-like focused on his base, even in moments where you think it might make sense for him to move more towards the middle orally the nation to come together, he goes back to his base. it's an interesting question. i don't know how many people in his base will dessert him simply because steve bannon is gone and the same i'm skeptical of how many people vote for a politician because they got an endorsement of someone else. but i will say if bannon's absence allows the president to be drawn further to the left or to further

west wing lightning rod steve bannon is out tonight as president trump's chief strategist. a key architect of donald trump's election victory, he nurtured much of the president's take no prisoners right wing impulses. word of bannon's departure produced sharp reaction. celebrations on the left and worry on the right over the fate of the president's conservative agenda items. and tonight, in an explosive interview, bannon is promising a wide-ranging fight for his nationalist ideas. our hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: promising war, steve bannon's bracing for battle. the now-ousted chief strategist telling bloomberg he's leaving the white house to fight for president trump against his opponents on capitol hill, in the media and in corporate america. bannon now becoming one of the last west wing originals to leave the picture one year and one day after joining team trump. the self-styled protector of the president's nationalist pledges mutually agreeing with chief of staff john kelly that he should leave, according to the white house. the news applauded today literall

bannon now becoming one of the last west wing originals to leave the picture one year and one day after joining team trump. the self-styled protector of the president's nationalist pledges mutually agreeing with chief of staff john kelly that he should leave, according to the white house. the news applauded today literally when it was announced at the stock exchange. >> i'm telling you that -- that bannon is said to have submitted his resignation. >> reporter: cheered by civil rights groups, democrats, even some republicans. >> the president did absolutely the right thing in firing steve bannon. steve bannon was undermining the administration. >> reporter: the chief strategist had been telling people close to him he thought he'd survive, but nbc news has learned bannon talked with kelly about resigning two weeks ago according to multiple sources familiar with the decision. a white house official tells nbc news kelly recommended bannon's removal after a staff review this month at bedminster getting a sign-off from the president. bannon often seen, rarely heard, but influential with far r

but it is a new west wing. literally in some ways that he returns to on monday. >> reporter: yes, the construction project which was quite substantial including refinishing the floors and other decorative things in the oval office and lots of different systems and when we were back for that one afternoon it was surprising how much projects were happening simultaneously at the white house. so again that is the reason for being away from the white house for such a long period of time. this is day 16 of 17. and today the president, given the timing of steve bannon's departure, the chief strategist and counselor to the president, formerly the ceo of the campaign, someone with the president for a full year, today a note worthy approach on twitter from the president toward steve bannon. as you pointed out, steve bannon is now enlarged in popularity in certain ways because of his time with the president. so he has his own distinct following among those on the far right. and now he is back in a place at breitbart news

with us now is a man with experience in running a west wing. he was president bill clinton's first chief of staff. it's great to be with you again. >> it is great to be with you tonight. >> if you were facing six in ten americans thinking the administration was a failure and you came into this job what would the rules of the mclarty rules be? >> let's focus on what people voted for us and get results for the american people, brine. -- brian. they need to get focused and move it forward. they will have to reach out to congress as well. that's where you start making the poll numbers change. when bill clinton was elected, as you recall he got 43% and ross perot got 19%. he was stepping on the world stage his approval was 58%. >> you have a 71-year-old american president who is a fully baked person. what he is is what she going to be. everyone says will trump change? will kelly change trump? what do you do with what doesn't fit any set rule book? the fact that this guy as he proved again today will be this guy. >> well, when someone runs for presid

. >> this is someone making anyone who worked in the west wing cringe. any of the people when you were in the front row covering process would have said you need to build a wall around the president. that's the wall that is needed. for him to be involved and there was a lot of lawyerly language from the counselor there about issued and drafted. but then he says involved. and the president clearly was involved with this. this was one of the changes you'll see under general kelly. brian, our reporting is showing today, day two with a new white house chief of staff, things were much sharper. things are much crisper. meet resolution shorter. they're more organized. and brian i think you're going to start to see more guardrails around this president, trying to keep the investigation elsewhere. and they talked about that. they knew the importance of this. so then for the president to be whatever your verb is with this statement just opens up so many problems, so many threads on the sweater for bob muler to pull as we saw in the story about lawyer number 16 i b

there won't be as much toxicity inside of the west wing. but absolutely. steve bannon gave this quote, i can't remember which publication. i'm going to war for donald trump against the media the corporates and capitol hill. he left out the people in the white house. he's going to war against. i expect breitbart will go even more thermo nuclear against mcmaster, gary cohn and dina powell and jared and ivanka were a third rail and breitbart didn't touch them even though privately they would call them the west wing democrats, they didn't touch them but they started to hit them in the last few weeks and it will only be turned out. and i expect they will engage very quickly in a campaign to remove paul ryan from the speakership. they will go full on against paul ryan. and i expect that there will be a big investment in breitbart, an extra investment there the -- from the mercers. this is all just dialed up and up. >> and philip, back to you, the world is upside down. a., how will the president take those attacks on his remaining people and b., guess who you nee

there is a west wing to run. there is a new guy in charge. >> steve, god forbid we wake up tomorrow morning to a national emergency. this is going to start feeling like it needs to be a real presidency there is a political reality. a presidency to run. there is a west wing to run. there is a new guy in charge. he is coming into an existing train. it seems to me he has to play it as it lays. he can't anticipate all the developments coming out. >> you have to think how frightened the australian prime minister must have been listening to that conversation, the total lack of preparation on donald trump's part for it, the weakness that it displays, the self-interest of it, the whineyness of it, over and over again. and there will be an hour where this country is tested. and they're not ready for it. that's a building where life and death decisions are made. and the circus that is -- that is playing out every day on television i fear a tragedy. i think that we will pay a terrible price for this. you cannot comport your

and he himself has talked openly about some of his enemies in the west wing. people like economic adviser gary cohn and national security adviser hr mcmaster and his deputy, dena powell. we know that he has feuded with the president's son-in-law, jared kushner. so the thinking among the president's supporters or the hope among the president's supporters is that the departure of steve bannon could lead to a more effective, more efficient west wing that is better able to help the president get his agenda through. another big question, though, is what impact it will have as he returns to lead breitbart. we know that even just last night, the same day that the news came out that he had been fired, he chaired an editorial meeting at breitbart. bannon has said he does not want to go to war with the president. he wants to go to war for the president, on behalf of the populist and nationalist policies that bannon and candidate trump espoused on the campaign trail. christi? >> and any more, do we -- anticipate that we'll hear from the president regarding boston? anythi

so it's a bipartisan situation. >> i read you and watch you to know what's going on in the west wing.ly never happened before, usually people who had friends working in the west wing would know the true story. sometimes you know the true story by reading these news accounts. >> that's not necessarily the journalists fault, it's the fault of the people inside the government? >> it's the people in the administration that are putting themselves above the president's agenda. >> we saw something this week, but it's a daily occurrence on sean hannity's program, we just looked at one night, and how hannity talked about the so-called deep state. check this out. >> the deep state, the deep state. i have been warning you never night for months, deep state, deep state, deep state. this is the greatest challenge of our time and i don't overstate this. >> hannity says he's not overstating it, trevor, i'm curious what you think the impact of that daily repetition from sean hannity is, knowing the president is an avid viewer of hannity's. >> i think there's two separate issues here, one our intellig

i'm getting the sense that the kelly effect is happening in the west wing. you know, despite trump still -- he's going to be trump on twitter, but it was relatively tame. >> peter, let me come to you on that. is the bar so low that the effect of adding a general as the chief of staff is that you simply attack a sitting senator for his military service instead of a sitting member of your cabinet? >> it is kind of remarkable, right, it did at least for a moment feel like a deja vu all over again to hear the president going after a specific target like that. and the fact that it wasn't jeff sessions i guess is a good thing for the cabinet secretaries who notably were now told some of the senior policymaker, even the vice president will be making stops up at bedminster over the course of the next week. the president will go to new york for some meetings though he didn't say what they are. next week is significant because a lot of the voices in the president's head aren't just the voices that surround him, but the voices that answer the phone call. so if he's in

not quite been in the west wing, but i know the feeling.nd i thought they would iron themselves out over time. i thought these people would come to the agreement that the most important thing to make the donald trump presidency a success. some people decided it wasn't going to be any way but their way. like you say, the more new york centric folks, what we refer to as the west wing democrats decided they will keep litigating this over and over again. i don't blame steve. >> are you angry with the president that he sided with those folks in the end? are you guys mad at president trump because yesterday when we saw that hashtag, #war, it led everybody to believe this means breitbart is going to war against the white house. >> #war is on old breitbart philosophy. we used to have it on our hand-rolled cigars at breitbart parties. it is a funny way of saying we're not going to take any prisoners. at the same time, it is not about the president. the president, i feel, is still on the same page with steve bannon. it is about the people around him.

i mean, look at this white house, this west wing. this is not a diverse group of individuals ethnically or in terms of their backgrounds. but this is also an administration that's advertised that they would be. they're not trying to grow the tents. this is not a version of the republican party like the part of the party that i claimed the party of lincoln and wishes it was the party of lincoln. that's not who donald trump is or who he's trying to be. rex tillerson made some very interesting and very welcome comments about the need for the state department to reach out to represent the american populous in its work abroad to have new policies that will explicitly court african americans for foreign service positions in the state departments and the state department abroad represents the diversity in the united states and that against a back drop of this conversation is starkly in contrast to the photo you just showed. >> he talked about civil rights today, which was encouraging. but michael, earlier this week the president gave bannon

it down with five officials who have resigned or found themselves outside of the west wing and out ofa job since he took office. how exactly did we get here? let's rewind. >> each flag is one month. flynn was in his role for 24 days, less than a month. no flights for him, out of a job after lying with his contact with russia to the vice president. james comey gone after 3.5 months, so he gets three flags. next we have sean spicer and reince priebus, both who served but leave-- left the west wing with an days of each other and they get six flags the. anthony scaramucci gets no flags because he was in for 10.5 days so for that reason, his column is empty. at the white house, wusa9 scaramucci was not shy about telling you he was a graduate of harvard tonight the school is saying it is sorry. it mistakenly listed him as dead . >>> it brings in all sorts of fears about will i be discriminated against, will i be judged? and you can't underestimate how difficult this is for the children involved. >> children don't often know how to describe being abused. now, children pre-k through high scho

now he's starting to page some changes to how the west wing runs.this point, the president ran the west wing like his business, he liked people coming and going. it was very common to be in the hallway, an an aide would try to convince him to change his mind on one topic or another. that is not how a west wing usually works, and that general kelly is trying to limit some of that. he's trying to reduce some of the walk-in access into the oval office and keep the president on a more regimented schedule in terms of what he's doing and who he's talking to. he is not, of course, cut back on twitter. one could read that tweet as a direction at general kelly saying i'm not giving up my twitter. >> contrary to some reporting, ivanka and jared are perfectly willing to allow kelly -- >> people get confused on two things. they say the chief of staff is a gate keeper. if the right people in the oval office can give the president a couple of different options and he has to make a decision on what's leading up to north korea. but there's been all this desire to m

joining us is someone whose got literally decade after decade of west wing experience.ior political analyst david gergen. it is a blessing to have you tonight. >> thank you, chris. it's a blessing to have you here. thank you. >> so let me engage one curiosity that i have on this. the timing, david. >> sure. >> the timing, it just seems too convenient to just be a coincidence. i've heard all these competing narratives. i'm sure you've heard as many and more. when you look at the timing of this, why this happened now, what are your suspicions? >> oh, i think it's obvious that he -- they're trying to veer away from the charlottesville story to a new story. and get us all the whole question of, you know, racial hatred and division that tuesday was such a disaster for the president, and they want to change us. i do find it strange, bizarre, even, that we have not heard a single word from donald trump today. how can a man -- how can a president who has had someone at his side, who helped him win election, upset victory as le did, he has been with him for a year, not each have

i mean, look at this white house, this west wing. this is not a diverse group of individuals ethnically or in terms of their backgrounds. but this is also an administration that's advertised that they would be. they're not trying to grow the tents. this is not a version of the republican party like the part of the party that i claimed the party of lincoln and wishes it was the party of lincoln. rex tillerson made some very interesting and very welcome comments about the need for the state department to reach out to represent the american populous in its work abroad to have new policies that will explicitly court african americans for foreign service positions in the state departments and the state department abroad represents the diversity in the united states and that against a back drop of this conversation is starkly in contrast to the photo you just showed. >> he talked about civil rights today, which was encouraging. but michael, earlier this week the president gave bannon what people call a cis of death like he has done so many

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he is no longer encumbered by the west wing in the jared kushner -- >> exactly. he's in the white house and saw how the sausage was made. and now he is on the outside and has access to the center of trump's base that voted for him in the election. >> it will be interesting to see what he does. he's a very intelligent smart guy, and very powerful and that power will continue albeit from outside the white house. we'll see how he does over there. >>> everybody stand by. i want to bring in democratic congressman ruben gallego, member of the services committee. let me get your reaction. steve bannon will once again take charge over at breitbart. >> well, i mean, i think it's not necessarily good for anybody that steve bannon is involved in any type of policy whether it's inside the white house or outside the white house. doesn't really change much. you still have a lot of avowed white nationalists, alt-left -- alt-right members in the white house, like miller and gorka, including the president himself who espouses a lot of these views with or without bannon. it's chan

the brash new york financier and president trump's new communications director was shown to the west wing exit door on the same day retired general john kelly took over as white house chief of staff from reince priebus. kelly's first order of business apparently fixing what many insiders saw as a big mistake by the president in his hiring of scaramucci. our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: today, the retired general reorganizing his ranks, with new chief of staff john kelly pushing out controversial communications director anthony scaramucci, according to sources familiar with the move. it comes not long after scaramucci, originally praised by the president, targeted white house staff with a profanity-laced rant in "the new yorker," one so vulgar it's not repeatable here. >> 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 also with that line of succession. >> reporter: the white house publicly says scaramucci, spotted in the oval office just this mornin

, that at least it was being talked about right inside the west wing.say the president knew nothing about it and had no involvement in the story but we'll see how -- if this lawsuit progresses, if we learn more about what happened. >> you've read through the details of the story. >> i've looked at the details on this, and this is a key piece of what amounts to this russian collusion with the trump campaign. it actually goes back to the e-mails that were released on june 4 and about the donald trump jr. meeting on june 9 because if you recall, on that june 4 meeting, there was a promise of a whole bunch of russian documents that would be compromising on hillary clinton. for some reason, the press has seemed to drop this one and people have forgotten about it. but it's absolutely critical, because this came at a time two months after we know that the dnc was hacked and that documents were taken out by the russians from the democratic national committee. i would bet, if i were a prosecutor, my money would be that the documents that were going to be produce

this whole mess here, this alt right business, i think, is really going to cause this west wing more problems if they don't figure out how to put more distance here, and changes this week in the west wing. >> a lot of people think his top advisers have some connection and that's where you have to kind of get. >> a lot of u.s. senators and members of the republican party want to get this out of the party, and it starts with the president. >> i'm in. you have this and north korea and a lot to talk about. >> yeah, a lot to talk about, and only one hour and we could have used two. >> chuck, thank you so much for stopping by. a reminder you can see "meet the press" every sunday. it's coming in about ten minutes after "news4 today." >>> we want to get to the weather because finally all the rain stopped. we want to give you credit because there was a nice big break of sunshine in the middle of the day. >> yeah, i was at the pool yesterday. >> yeah, i saw your tweet. >> yeah, the kids were playing. >> it was hot. i did not went to sleep. one thing that is different today, we don't have the h

this will lead to a better functioning west wing. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> well, hundreds of neo nazis expected to rally in berlin, germany today. they'll be met by hundreds of counter protesters who are also planning to demonstrate. >> the rally is marking the anniversary of the death of rudolph hess, adolph hitler's deputy who killed himself 30 years ago. you're looking at live pictures of some of the people involved in that rally. we'll continue to watch it for you. >> and so was the interview even a factor considering that the reporting is this has been in the works for some time? reaction for the man who spoke with bannon days before he was out of the white house. >> and what's happening in boston this morning. they're getting ready for a free speech rally today. hundreds of extra police are out trying to make sure that what happens in boston is very different than what happened last week in charlottesville. for your retirement plan? s start here. or here. even here. and definitely here. at fidelity, we're available 24/7 to make r

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if this is not chaos in the west wing, what is? >> it is, it's chaos. >> i'm wondering if it may not feel like chaos for president trump. i think this is how he operates. he's used to it. i'm sure for everybody else around, he's like the eye of the hurricane. >> to general kelly it, probably felt like chaos. i'd like to have been privy to the conversation that the general had with the president before he decided to take this job because when you wear four stars on your shoulder, you're used to chain of command. and i think that kelly saw what scaramucci, let's put the vol garrett and all that aside. let's talk about what he said. he threatened to fire people and talked about a direct line to the president and i think that was pretty much untenable. i was told by a source today who spoke with the president that he believed scaramucci was grandstanding. that was the word used to me. remember, trump called comey a show boat. he doesn't like that. he doesn't like that. this source said to me who spoke with the president with this presi