white house, making special recipes for the dogs and other things but there was a time the white housens for the white house cook and this involved a dog named winks. winks was a setter on the scene, according to white house reports on the morning of march 1934, there was a 12 set of fried eggs and ham set out for the resident's staff. the white house cook had made this and stepped away to do something else. when the white house cook returned all of them are gone. they realized this was because winks had helped himself to a nice hearty meal. the press had a lot of fun with this, they staged a photo of winks eating ham and eggs, the white house cook was upset about this, what winks was leaving the white house to spend more time with his family, that paved the way for the more familiar dog. one thing interesting about these cooks is over time, this plays out in the roosevelt administration, send them to three boxes, they were culinary artists who were celebrated in their time. if you know anything about the food reputation of the fdr white house it was not great, people had second though

john roberts of the white house.e's got breaking news. >> just confirming, absolutely that this is all going on now. the president -- i'm told, he wants to make some changes and scaramucci is one of those changes and other people who were involved decided that an order for the president to be able to make changes, then certain people would likely have to get out of the way and one of those people apparently was sean spicer. spicer has indeed tendered his resignation, the scaramucci is going to take over the communications shot. this happened relatively quickly because of the white house, nothing sits and lays around for too long unless it's a piece of legislation, that's a joke. we understand this transition will happen remarkably quickly. we know scaramucci is the one he wanted to put in that job, we knew he was here yesterday. other people who were involved just decided that in order for the president to make the changes, that some of the people who were initially here in this position had to go. this may be the be

and managing the politics within the white house has been a white house chief of staff's primary function. >> yeah. well, you're not getting that with kelly. you know, look, most of the generals of that rank that i've met are sophisticated people, and they're not strangers at least to the hill in terms of national security matters at least. so he's got that. of course, you know, there's no shortage of generals in this administration who are experts on national security. the problem is that there's nobody who can control the administration's approach toward domestic policy. and certainly general kelly would not be expected to step into that role, at least not easily. i mean it would be a steep learning curve. but do we even get there? i mean is he even empowered to do anything or to try to do anything without the president undercutting him with an early-morning tweet? and that's what i just can't see past. >> in the white house that is being driven mad, apparently, by leaks, it has flawlessly leaked tonight to "the washington post" this about the history of this job offer. trump first trie

reporter: the white house shakeup coming at a critical time for the white house.enezuela, rising tensions with russia and north korea. multiple wars and threats of terror worldwide. j.d., i want to talk about venezuela. what's happening this weekend. there will be a vote to establish a constituent assembly that would set up maduro as a dictator. what do you make of this decision for sanctions and how powerful will it be? >> the sanctions are in step in the right direction. they are targeting their state-owned oil company. i think our allies like colombia have to put pressure on venezuela. this referendum is bad news that's going to take place sunday. it will be able to change the constitution. they will be able to keep maduro in power for life. and venezuela will become a cuba-like government. reporter: what are your thoughts on what needs to happen? >> i think it's important that we have the capabilities to use oil as a foreign policy tool. but if you look at it, every time oil prices sung by a dollar, verns was taking a $700 million hit. any effective foreign po

, as well as inside the white house.ou actually have to make sure that the president is served with the challenge in time to meet the challenge so that when a decision is made, it is relevant and not irrelevant. >> charlie, it's also-- it's also tough because one of the chief roles of the chief of staff is to make sure that the president is hearing all the voices that he needs to hear, that he-- that he's getting all the -- >> to be an honest broker. >> to be an honest broker, to be a very honest broker. and also, as part of that role, honestly, to tell the president no when he needs to be told no, and that's not easy. >> rose: that's not easy for anybody, is it? >> for anybody. >> particularly in this white house. ( laughter ) with a president who doesn't like to be told no. >> rose: and a person who didn't come up in the political give-and-cake and compromise of the political world. >> also reince comes out of pol fingz all of us had some experience in doing some policy. but it can be brutal, but it's also a tremendous

you know how white houses work. and as long as the president is going to call his own shots and bring "the new york times" in for an open ended meeting without a transcript from the press shop, what's going to change, if anything? >> well, i don't think anything is going to change. i think the president -- i think that's a mistake we keep making. we've been making it for two years. it isn't coming. it isn't going to happen. he's now openly talking about asking questions and trying to become better informed about the pardon process. something that presidents don't even consider or contemplate until the end of a presidency. he's six months in yesterday. and trying to understand the pardon process. he's talking about character assassination of his own special counsel bob mueller hired by his deputy attorney general. he smeared his sitting a.g. who recused himself. i think the notion we're talking about when he's going to wake up and act more normal is our own delusion. i mean, this is who he is. there is nothing about

the one that blew up in the face of the white house this week. the meeting laid out in black and white in e-mails released yesterday by the president's own son and namesake, e-mails showing the trump team was ready and willing to work with the russians to hurt hillary clinton and to help donald trump. but the president tried to tell you today, ilts nt's not black white. it's fake news, a witch hunt. so if black and white is not enough, here they are in living color. everyone looks pretty chummy,.nchummy, don't they? here's michael cohen, donald trump's personal attorney who now has a lawyer himself and says he will testify before investigators. wining and dining with this family few of us had ever heard of until now, but the president had. list ton what he said the night after this dinner. >> thigese are the most powerfu people in russia, the richest men in russia. >> not quite the most powerful. case in point. but perhaps the most connected, shall we say. that very night the future president of the united states announced he was bringing an even

no white house chaos!" the press secretary asked about this. >> do you agree with the president? i've said it before. if you want to see chaos, come to my house with three preschoolers. this doesn't hold a candle to that. >> bret: mollie hemingway, a.b. stoddard, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. she is joking of course but ten days ago anthony scaramucci was going to be and announced as the new white house communications director. ten days later, he's gone. >> what a ten days. unbelievable interview he gave where he was so vulgar and had such inappropriate things to say. this was ten days that felt intense. having said that, i think these changes we are seeing might make it true that there is no chaos now, meaning getting rid of scaramucci should help tamp things down. we need c with reince priebus' departure. he was supposed to help with the legislative agenda, best friends with paul ryan, you couldn't get a more establishment republican person. things didn't go so well. trump wants to change direction and you can hope things will go better with someone who is more to h

the white house is under siege.t week, the president -- president trump needs someone running the press office who will put his priorities first. why? because don jr., paul manafort and jared kushner are going to get wrung out. >> how does that play out in real life? for instance this week was in theory made in america week. now and i discuss all the time i'm not sure why they make the weeks because they don't follow-up on it. it doesn't matter that the press office talks about made in america week if we're not focused on it. >> mick mulvaney put an op-ed about magonomics. did you see the president tweet about that? no. the president never wants to get -- >> anthony scaramucci says everything at the white house is going fine. there's no chaos. you heard sarah huckabee sanders aif you want to see chaos, show up at her house when she's getting her kids ready for school. >> that's categorically untrue. >> just a communications issue. >> i heard from a source inside the white house today that to scaramucci that bannon s

that's the barometer at the white house. >> sarah murray reporting from the white house. also breaking right now, a newly published bombshell conversation in which white house communications director launches a profane attack against the white house chief of staff. this is a remarkable development. i want to bring in ryan liz of the new yorker. he had this remarkable conversation with anthony scaramucci. this is astonishing on the record attack. walk us through this amazing conversation you had with anthony scaramucci last night and the fallout, the bitry attack he levelled against reince priebus. >> no secret that anthony scaramucci has been on a campaign against people leaking at the white house. and so last night i reported in frankly a tweet that the president was having dinner with sean hannity and scaramucci and other folks. scaramucci came out of the dinner, saw the report and called me because he wanted to know who told me about the dinner. and he was really upset that the dinner and participants in the dinner leaked. we started with a conversation where he went t

white house and the answer was well, he's in the white house. to which some reporters said i'm in the white house but i don't work in the white house. >> we don't even know -- >> he's been there -- it's been ten days since he took that podium and was named to that role and he said, hey, listen, i'm going to serve the president in any way i can. and he batted around with the press and said he was going to reset things and introduced sarah huckabee sanders as the new press secretary officially. but again, anthony scaramucci, the up official official communications director only in name only in that will role for ten days, that's got to set a record, ali. >> i've got to say, i came into my job a little more softly. the first few days you lerp how the computers work and all that. we are going to go toe our white house crew shortly to get some reporting on what happened here, because the question is anthony scaramucci -- we're not sure. if did he leave? was he dismissed by john kelly? let's get a few more people into this conversation. roland martin

and on the shalom spice that the relationship between the white house press school and the white house has been had been tense. up how do you think things might change now. well that i think remains to be seen or one thing i think we should mention is that the president did not come out and make one of the more historic. kinds of announcements that we've seen presidents do before that is naming sarah huckabee sanders as his press secretary that's the third woman. in the united states have been named a white house press secretary and. it was a little odd the protocol usually a president uses the weight of his office and his voice to tell the world of the american people. this person speaks for me and so one of the things we haven't seen yet is what role sarah huckabee sanders is the new press secretary replacing sean spicer. will have she clearly reports to anthony scaramucci who said he reports to the president and not the white house chief of staff. so some of the protocol and also some of the. organizational chart and who reports to whom who gets to you know argue for transparency or

kristen welker is at the white house. set the scene for us, what is happening in the white house right this moment? >> well, it is certainly been a frantic morning, cakatie as allf this unfolded. our reporters were waiting outside of the press office waiting to get clarification on

of the white house. which as we know, and as you've been discussing, everything is blown out about the way white house's are organized with donald trump in the oval office and this is part of that. it's hard to plan communications strategy with donald trump as president because he'll say something or do something that changes in 15 minutes. so that's why the notion of a traditional communications director is different in this case, and then the last thing that this person said is, to get a sense of how important the -- anthony scaramucci will be to the president is, see where his office is. real estate is everything in any white house nap is one area where this is similar to others. >> key point. real estate matters inside the west wing at the white house. look at the pictures. there will be an on-camera briefing at 2:00 p.m. say with cnn. we'll bring you thrive. the question, who will be at the podium? sarah huckabee sanders or an her to -- anthony scaramucci? and jeff zeleny, often compared to shakespe

white house communications director anthony scaramucci is out on john kelly's first day as white house chief of staff. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. >> and general chaos. >> i predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff one of the great ever. >> we have got an inside look at how president trump operates and how a white house should operate. >> the thing that general kelly do is not try to change donald trump. >> plus, senate republicans health care effort crashed and burned. can a bipartisan solution rise from the ashes. >> i don't think it's ever until we fix health care. there's also a possibility for a bipartisan traditional kmujts over the next six months to do something. >> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm katy terr in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." general kelly meet general chaos and general dysfunction. after gist six days on the job white house communications director anthony scaramucci resigned today. he was

david, you in a republican white house, josh, a democratic white house.ant you to talk for a moment about the honor of serving in a white house, what it feels like, and what it feels like to see a presidency come along and hire -- try to hire someone like anthony scaramucci. >> well, one of the ways that white houses work is not just with loyalty to the president, but with loyalty among the various staffers. when i worked in the bush white house, ryan lizza was then not the international celebrity that he has become tonight. he would sometimes call me and we had a pre-existing friendship. in the six months after 9/11 when there was an absolute edict against anyone talking to the press for any reason, whether they were your old friend or not, we would talk about family, and that would be the end of the conversation. i wouldn't talk to him. i did that not because i had anything so interesting to share. i truly did not. but because i had loyalty to my colleagues. i cared about them, and i felt that they cared about me. >> and, josh, i assume you echo that fe

this white house. if you want a candid, clear look at the white house, come inside. a two-way street. we don't see that. i'm a very accessible person you'll find with anthony scaramucci and others in humble. we don't get the calls to come in. we turn on the tv and one-way, nonconversation using words that are meant to deny the president his do. i'm here to ask you -- >> you're welcome here any time presidency. >> thank you for the platform. i want america to hear what has been done for them. the forgotten man and woman are not forgotten to us. >> it's not your -- i was just going to say, not our job to do your pr. it's your job. the white house has admitted there was a lot of failures because the press secretary resigned and left his job. >> that's sean's decision. and sean was up against incredible odds. as the president said in a tweet about sean, he thanks him for his service and he thinks he took a lot of unnecessary abuse. let me get back to whether we're attacking or not attacking cnn. i don't fe

no white house chaos.st moments ago he tweeted this, a great day at the white house. >> it's clearly all sunshine and rain bows at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, wolf. i think it's clear that there is some level, at least in terms of staffing, of chaos at the white house right now. but i think the president is clearly optimistic that kelly is going to change that as chief of staff. you can see in these tweets that the president wants the results of the administration to speak for themselves. he wants the focus to be on oh, kay, what is this administration doing, what is happening on a macro level, not these daily sort of fights that transpire in the white house. the problem is we might be focusing on those things if it weren't for these daily fights, this chaos coming out of the white house. and, so, this really is important for kelly to get things under control so that, you know, we can focus on what the white house is supposed to be doing. >> you know, gloria, take a look at the number of resignations, forced

what is your reaction to the news, the new white house chief of staff, now a former white house chief of staff, congressman, what do you think? >> as has been mentioned, the capstone to an incredible week, i don't know. we don't know yet. i think in terms of a great leadership component, the white house needs general kelly represents it. the question, though, is the wild card, which is you still have this sort of strange nepotism thing in the white house. and you have conflicting power centers. i think what he'll bring to bear is the chain of command that you see in the military and in well-run organizations. if he can do that, he's going to be successful. if you have these competing power centers allowed to play out, i think we still have problems ahead of us. >> what do you mean by strange nepotism? >> i guess not since bobby kennedy have one seen it. i mean, the idea of -- i mean, i was once a governor. the idea of having cousins or daughters or sons in the governorship or in the white house i think is a bit odd. i think that the saying is there's nothing stronger than blood. blood

a change in the white house. at the question will be what kind of authority has general kelly been given? my suspicion is he did not take that job without an understanding of what kind of authority he would have. the west wing is a very hard-working, fast-moving place. complicated in the best of times and can't be run without having a chief of staff who's got hiring and firing in the west wing and control over direct reports. the president should have people who can walk in and out of the oval but average of work for the chief of staff and a process that best serves the president. my sense is we are able to see that happen here with general kelly. >> bret: what about reince priebus and how this transpired? obviously, an amazing run with helping the campaign and then talk about his service as chief of staff. >> look, this has been a chaotic white house. white house is are an expression of the personality and the methods and leadership style of the president. you don't have a white house that's run distinctly diffe

and eli stoke him, white house reporter for the white house journal and with us from phone republican party michael steele defeated by reince priebus. i will start with you first, eli, the timing, obviously, is very convenient with that big failure of the health care bill. it's easy for the white house to shaq up reince' ultimate career demise, what scaramucci has been beating him up over name in some cases is over this question of leaks. if you had to guess which of those two things was a bigger factor if reince being pushed out? >> i think there were so many things over time, the president never found reince, he wasn't a rich guy or a military general, the things trump tends to like and respect. a lot of people impressed upon him reince was responsible for the communications department that reince ran, that was responsible for a lot of these leaks. so when scaramucci came in, that was pretty much the beginning of theened for him. we we heard today when scaramucci gave an interview to the new yorker and came after reince so strong, that didn't bother the pot and he didn't fight back

instead, we saw white house cursing, white house infighting, presidential attacks on the attorney generalpeech to the boy scouts. the week that was. watch. >> who the hell wants to speak about politics when i'm in front of the boy scouts? >> let me be very clear. i did not collude with russia. >> a scout is trustworthy, loyal -- we could use some more loyalty. >> you've seen the president's criticism of you. do you think it's fair? >> well, it's kind of hurtful. >> reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that. let me tell you something about myself. i am a straight shooter. >> with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. >> breaking overnight, the thumb heard around the world. >> senator john mccain gave this skinny repeal the thumbs down. >> so now, mr. president, it's time to move on. >> and that was just this week. gloria borger is with me from washington, in the thick of things. our chief political analyst here. and gloria, my goodness, where to begin? how about just looking at the

even getting a job in the white house? you saw how bitter he was, how angry he was at you in that ininterview. >> i'm not getting into that, wolf. look, it's over. i'm moving on. i support the president and i support john kelly and the president's agenda. so tatsz hat's all you're going get from me on that to. i'm not going to get into the individual personal stuff. >> he was also very angry that white house chief strategist. i can't even lead to words he uttered about steve bannon but you think he could stay in the white house with scaramucci now? >> that's going to be up to john kelly but i will say steve's doing a great job. he is a brilliant guy who only cares about the president's agenda. he thinks about it 24 hours a day. never quits. he's a great asset to this president and so and a dear friend. my hats off to steve bannon. >> can you clear up the other charge. it was a bitter charge that scaramucci levelled against you that you're a leaker and you're not that loyal to the president. you've got your own agenda. he m

so the white house is offering its perspective on we'll call it a chat. officials acknowledge it lasted almost an hour, 55 minutes, even though the white house statement calls it brief. but it was 55 minutes. first lady melania trump was seated next to putin at the dinner and near the dinner's end, trump got up from his seat, went over to his wife and began speaking with putin in full view of other leaders. >> and the white house statement concludes that the insinuation that the white house is trying to had anything is false and absurd,s if not merely perfectly normal and is a part of president's duties to interact with world leader. president trump has demonstrated american leadership by representing our interests and values on the world stage. >> so that is the view from the white house. robert mueller jew-area xl jew-area committee the all clear to interview donald trump jr. and paul manafort. and we're learning the identity of the eighth person in the trump tower meeting. he is the senior white house of a company founded by a russian oligar oligarch.

white house communications director anthony scaramucci is out on john kelly's first day as white househief of staff. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person

you know, in a normal white house, all of that flows from an empowered white house chief of staff whoident's agenda. that definitely was not reince priebus and as for kelly, by the way, contrary to what somebody said on your program a minute ago, generals have generally not done well in this position. the only chief -- modern chief who was a general lasted more than a month under ford. >>> why is that? >> it's an extraordinarily difficult task. you have to be somebody who is grounded. you have to be somebody who is -- leon was described as a an iron fist in a velvet glove and at the end of the day, the most important thing a chief must do is walk into the ooval office, the door and tell the president what we does not want to do. can anybody imagine donald trump welcoming that kind of chief? >> the washington post talks about why priebus may have felt defined because he said at one point he felt demeaned by the president and the woashington post said this. as the fly continued to circle, trump summoned his chief of staff and tasked him with killing the insect. how does the president's

white house is can't operate that way. this staff structure in the white house traditionally which was developed over many years and many administrations is tha way for a reason. the question is that with the john kelly is the ability to be an effective chief of staff, i think he manifested does. the question is whether donald trump will permit back, whether he will allow that. the first words out of his mout will be know you are here. i think that is in doubt. so what happened when they had date that the defense and so foh certain tweets a lot blows it u the middle of the night with some lamp on twitter. what h kelly has some say over that? those are all the unanswered questions. >> when you assume thathe would've gotten at least assurances? he was asked about this as far back as may and he was assisted. >> i suspect does have verbal, mintz to the president to that effect. the question is will the president stick to them. not will kelly, will the president. >> senator john mccain after hi diagnosis of brain cancer came ba

"washington post" white house burrow -- bureau chief, white house reporter for politico. you reported what you saw contemporaneously, it speaks to the kind of continuing diminishing of reince priebus, but tell us what you saw when they landed. >> well, they were quite delayed in landing, about an extra half hour in the air coming down from new york. i think they were circling for sometime due to bad weather. when they finally landed and pulled up at the parking place there we saw a bunch of staffers come out of the back of the plane and we saw the senior staffers, reince priebus, and steven miller and the director there at the white house all go into a vehicle together. and this was just at the time that the tweet was coming out from the president that john kelly would be the new chief of staff. and then just moments after loading up in that car, the aide, miller and scevino stepped out and got back into the motorcade. and that was pretty much it for reince priebus, who headed off in his own car for his own security protection, but basically was dropped off on his own. >>

>> look, there's nothing wrong with having ideological battles and robust debate in a white house. i mean as rahm emanuel told me in my book, "the gate keepers," he said look, you've got white hats, black hats, a battle for the soul for the presidency, you want that kind of creative tension in the white house. but at the end of the day when the president makes a decision, everybody's has to fall in line behind the white house chief of staff to execute that agenda. and we're just not seeing that in this white house. this has been amateur hour from day one. >> i'm curious, you've got general john kelly. he's inheriting this white house which operates in a very nontraditional way to put it nicely. you now have scaramucci joining jared kushner, steve bannon, kellyanne conway who have been reporting to the president. do you think general kelly can establish some sort of rank and order here? that's what he reflects with his military background. or is he going to be blocked from doing that at the start. scaramucci says he's not budging from reporting straight to the president, as you were

kaitlan, you're a white house reporter. you're getting more information from your sources right now. what are you learning? >> sarah huckabee sanders who started last friday after sean spicer quit just told reporters that john kelly will start monday morning and there will be a cabinet meeting right after he's sworn in. these conversations between kelly and the president started about two weeks ago. she said it predated the scaramucci drama. >> okay, it started two weeks ago, so we got very strong pushback. it's very hard to sort of understand what was going on where we were not being told the truth. i agree with jamie, and i was told last night, that jared also would like to see bannon gone. and i'm not sure where that will stand. i mean, one of my questions is, does the sessions imbroglio sort of give sessions a little bit of padding here because conservatives on the far right would not want to see bannon gone, and they're already upset with the president because of what's going on with jeff sessions. the other way to loo

we've seen in this white house white house tremendous shifting alliances. in the beginning, priebus and stephen bannon weren't getting along and it was a tremendous kind of were vying for power between the two of them. there may be some scar tissue. it doesn't mean they can't put it aside. if he feels their divided feelings are getting in the way, he did this with bannon and priebus. he will take them to the woods woodshed and say you have to get along with each other. >> heather: apparently stephen bannon was taken by surprise as well. >> that's what some of the reports are saying, i didn't know that. >> heather: in terms of the timing, i asked someone about this earlier. this comes on the heels of the new york times interview with the three reporters that everyone was talking about, how it was so unprecedented and now you have these major changes within the communications department and the press secretary position. do you think the timing has anything to do with the other? >> the answer is i don't know. it's been a really tough week for the president, wh

named white house communications director.arah huckabee sanders taking on the role of white house press secretary. the shocking shakeup coming after spicer gave the president an ultimatum saying it's scaramucci or him. steve bannon said scaramucci would only get the job over their dead bodies. as for scaramucci himself, he seemed to be more interested in sarah sanders job. scaramucci seemingly reluctant to let go of the microphones and cameras at one point. john roberts with our report. >> it's been no secret the president has been looking to shake up his communications team. but what happened today was more like an earthquake. the speed and tumult that marked this transition was a surprise. former helping fund manager and fox business network director resigning. >> after reflection my decision was to recommend to the president that i give anthony and sarah a clean slate to start from. reporter: the transition happened in less than 24 hours. scaramucci talked to the president yesterday who who said he wanted him to take over w

every white house leaks. the problem is when the obama white house leaks, when the clinton white house was leaking, when the george bush white house was leaking, the minor leaks like who had dinner with whom, no one cared about that. no one went nuts. no one said they were going to stick the fbi after the leakers. that's -- you know, there's wheat and then there's substance that's leaked. you don't want national security stuff leaked, i get that. that's a crime. and as a journalist, i wouldn't want to publish something of an american soldier or spy. i get that. but these sort of insignificant leaks that people go nuts over really shows a degree of intempence that i can't describe here. so getting back to kelly, he needs to be empowered where he basically puts all of the children in the room and say listen to me. here's the way it goes. and you only do that if the president empowers you to do that. liz: uncle? >> i don't know. he has a very linearly -- remember the first thing anthony scaramucci said when he g

there are plenty of stories out there, literally, white house in chaos. >> a lot of white houses have been in chaos. >> right. it can be there eve a lot of pressure, a lot of things going on. you've got new personalities, et cetera. >> but if the national security adviser has been let go, the press spokesman has been let go, you have a new communications director who's now at war with the chief of staff who may be fired, mcmaster being isolated to some reports. and jeff sessions, the president going after the attorney general. >> each president has to get to their own center of gravity with this. it does take a while to do. they're all different. so it works differently. one quick thing, anderson. the very first column i wrote on donald trump running for president was in 2013. i specifically said in the reagan white house we used to say let reagan be reagan. i said in there the way that donald trump could win is to let trump be trump. now he's there. that's the -- >> it's clear the amount of turnover in this white house is unusual. the amount of public acrimony in the white house is u

that's what the white house is telling us. like from everything that's been reported, that general kelly wants to run the white house like a grown-up operation. where kind of the fiefdoms and the power centers, we know they're going to exist. the online twitter hostilities are receding or coming to a close. so the degree to which the real question is, has president trump sort of fully empowered general kelly to kind of ride herd on folks? and then is president trump himself going to you know sort of basically let him do that? and not undermine him. not interfere, not be sending out tweets in the morning, that general kelly doesn't know about. which was the situation with reince priebus. and sean spicer and others, where oftentimes their whole day, what they had thought was going to be their game plan was thrown off by a president who is calling his own shots. >> so chris, another power center, steve bannon. i want to you listen to something reince priebus said yesterday, to our wolf blitzer. >> i will say that steve is doing a

he gave that up to dom over to the white house which is a little nutty right now. ge responsibility? >> i honestly think he is the man for the job. he is consummate professional. as you see today he is cleaning house. melissa: yeah. >> needs to be done. melissa: there you go. guys, thanks to both of you. appreciate your time. glad we cleared that up. david: that is from a democrat too. giving the general some credit. >>> moment of gratitude for heroes who serve this country and how in my humble opinion their ranks are being improved. ♪ uses unique mistpro technology and helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pills only block one. and 6 is greater than one. rethink your allergy relief. flonase sensimist. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ excuse me, are you aware of what's happening right now? we're facing 20 billion security events every day. ddos campaigns, ransomware, malware attacks... actually, we just handled all the priority threats. you did that? we did that. really. we analyzed millions of articles and reports. we can identify threats 50% faster.

white house. white house, baby.s andrew burnstein from wnyc, reminded everybody today, after the bridgegate trials, bill stepien became the white house national political director. the person in the white house who has been designated as the national political director is the guy who chris christie fired for his behavior during the bridgegate scandal. i was reminded of these turn of events all over today, when the alaska dispatch news this morning, quote, trump administration threatens retribution against alaska over murkowski's health votes. republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska, one of the holdouts from the republican party on the health care bill. her and senator susan collins of maine haven't been joining their part to repeal the obamacare. now in response, the trump administration is threatening alaska. quote, early wednesday, trump took to twitter to express displeasure with murkowski's votes. the two alaska senators had received a phone call from interior secretary ryan zinke letting them know that the

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

kaitlan collins at the white house. thanks so much. >> reporter: thank you. >> important to put into context here the role reince priebus played during trump's campaign. and in the republican party as a whole. many saw him as an intermediary between the white house and moderate republicans valued for his connections in the washington establishment. cnn correspondent boris sanchez joining me now with more on this. so, boris, any more reaction coming from washington insiders? >> reporter: yeah, fred, republican lawmakers especially have come out to thank reince priebus for his service. perhaps no more heartfelt statement upon his departure from the white house than from his close friend house speaker paul ryan. both men have worked together closely for some time. both of them from wisconsin. paul ryan writes, quote, reince has left it all out on the field for our party and our country. here's a guy from kenosha, wisconsin, who revitalized the republican national committee and became white house chief of staff. he has serv

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 d

chief of staff expects po sake some pretty amatterive steps and discipline and process no this white house for how they house the form that they have in inspire country are. the kwekd thing is go to have an inform that they will finish >> no agenda completely unthibl do that an i would say that that stem al lone indicates that we should be confidence about that. >> let's bank in sayral faguer, what you mick first fwlfrm and what happens now >> i think this was a strong move by general kelly. he asserted himself. you know, one of the things that i think is so important for a chief of staff to be successful is that you have to have hiring and firing authority and he made very clear today he has firing authority, and i think, you know, anthony anthony scaramucci for all his strengths was probably the wrong person for that job, demonstrated that last week certainly, and -- and putting somebody in there who knows the press works can build bridges with the press and who can put out the president's message is really the direction this white house needs to go in. >> sara, sean spicer, reince prieb

a major white house shake-up today. the white house press secretary sean spicer has resigned. the move included a bottleneck of reporters and moves inside the briefing room. it left many white house staffers shocked. a short time ago we heard from sean spicer on twitter saying, it's been an honor and a privilege to serve potus and this amazing country. i will continue my service through august. this comes as president trump announces he hired anthony scaramucci who made his debut from the podium as white house communications director. >> ic think there's been at tims a disconnect between how we see the president and love the president, and how you see the president. >> times have changed since the days when donald trump railed against scaramucci's old job and he came back with words of his own for his future boss. take a look at this. >> another hack politician. >> you called him a hack politician? >> another hack politician. he's got a big mouth and he's afraid he'll light them up on fox news and other places. but i'm not a politician. your inherited money due from queens cou

the white house, along with senate and house republicans have released a joint statement on plans toduce new tax legislation this fall. chief congressional correspondent mike e manuel is live for us on capitol hill. mike, this has to go differently and better than healthcare reform. democrats would be disingenuous if they don't want to help out the middle class. >> reporter: that will be the case. it will be different than healthcare reform. they must get it done. for one, they say everyone understands the issue of taxes and, therefore, is easier to explain. >> in tax form, i don't care who you are, too costly. too many special breaks. we know our businesses aren't competing. the white house and house senate are unified on this approach and the key principle. >> reporter: some have suggested lawmakers should stay here in august and hammer out tax reform. chairman brady makes the case that lawmakers need to go home to have a give and take of ideas with their constituents. >> harris: i'm sure they will be hering a lot. democrats say they have ideas that are pivotal to tax. what are the

reporter: a major shakeup at the white house. general john kelly, the homeland security secretary is his replacement. he will officially start monday. two white house sources telling fox that priebus secretly resigned yesterday. the president tweeted i am pleads into form you i just named general john kelly as white house chief of staff. he is a grate american. i would like to thank reince priebus for his service and dedication to his country. we accomplished a lot together, and i am proud of him. when asked about the move, the president praised both men. >> general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, and respending by everybody. a great american. reince priebus a good man. thank you very much. reporter: priebus issuing this statement, saying it' it's beene of the greatest honors of my life to serve the president and this country. i will continue to serve as a strong supporter of the president's agenda and policies. i can't think of a better person than general john kelly to succeed me. i wish him god's blessi

former white house chief of staff. thanks so much for joining us. you're always welcome to join us here in the situation room. >> thank you. >> thanks very much.