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They had discussions with him about whether he would be interested. cohn had threatened to resign in the wake of the presidents comments about charlottesville, but remained and went on to shepherd the tax cut legislation. his resignation comes almost one week after hope hicks resigns. this is make no mistake an all time record in the modern era for turnover in the key positions around the president. put another way, this is a picture of the swearing-in at the white house back on january 22nd of ...

Chief economic adviser. many people wanting the job, will choose wisely. gary kohns resignation reported by the times this afternoon, foreshadowed by this image of his empty chair. the news of kohns decision broke shortly after this remark. >> the white house has tremendous energy. it has tremendous spirit. it is a great place to be working. many, many people want every single job. i read where, oh, gee, maybe people dont want to work for trump. believe me, everybody wants to work in the white...

Leave by the end of the month, also learning that ivanka trump is under international scrutiny for one of her international deals as part of a background check. >> lets bring in chris cillizza and a.b. stoddard to talk about all this. a.b., obviously personnel affects policy. so when we hear that h.r. mcmaster might be leaving and senior economic adviser gary kohn, maggie haberman reporting that he threatened to resign over the presidents tariff announcement. whats your sense of whats happening ...

The news of cohns decision broke shortly after this remark. >> the white house has tremendous energy. it has tremendous spirit. it is a great place to be working. many, many people want every single job. i read where, oh, gee, maybe people dont want to work for trump. believe me, everybody wants to work in the white house. yeah, there will be people, im not going to be specific, there will be people that change, they always change. sometimes they want to go out and do something else. >> as is th...

And an adult film star is now suing donald trump. more on all of that ahead, but we begin with a major departure, another departure from this white house, gary kohn, a wall street heavyweight, who is the presidents chief economic adviser, has resigned. cohn, a new yorker like the president, former president of goldman sachs, he served for 14 months as head of the national economic council. his decision to leave appears to have been triggered by donald trumps plan to impose stiff tariffs on impor...

Foreign policy guided by mainstream advisers like gary kohn and jim mattis. we could be entertained by the circus. we should be appalled by the demagogue but we have to be encouraged by trump the republican. thats not because i agree with the ideas hes put forth in the agenda. i continue to think the tax cut is fiscally irresponsible blowing a huge hole in the deficit that will starve public investment and effectively transfer government funds from the poor to the rich. on the other hand, his pu...

About the possibility of replacing john f. kelly as chief of staff. the president never formally offered mr. cohn the job, those people insisted. they had discussions with him about whether he would be interested. cohn had threatened to resign in the wake of the presidents comments about charlottesville, but remained and went on to shepherd the tax cut legislation. his resignation comes almost one week after hope hicks resigns. this is make no mistake an all time record in the modern era for tur...

Surrogates believe you to be disloyal, they are more than happy to cast you out. even some of his admirers i spoke to were frustrated with him, look, if he believes that tariffs are wrong or anything, really, he disagrees with the president, he should stay and fight, the minute you leave this white house, the minute youre not in these meetings and in front of the president, your beliefs do not have an advocate, they didnt say take his rattle and go, but they said, his beliefs and policies are go...

>> the markets are dropping. the president is being pushed by republicans, by business leaders, not in the steel industry, to do something doifrt change his mind. here he is saying basically heck no to everybody who wants him to reconsider this. >> if this is chaos, i think the american people are glad for it because we just passed the biggest tax cuts in history. >> the president now saying that he plans to impose tariffs on steel and alumni and took to twitter to say he would be fine with a tr...

Time. >> the white house continued to be in blame bannon mode for all of this. one official said that bannon was responsible for clearing wolff into the white house for most of the visits but when you read what wolff is saying, basically all he had to do was call somebody over here and invited in, does appear he had extraordinary access to officials over here anderson. kind of access weve never seen anybody have over here before for the production of a book. at least during this administration. ...