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Out of the white house later on. >> there will be? does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> it might. you will have to get it from them. >> haig said your commander in chief has ordered you do this. i dont know what that added to the discussion. he said, well, who else is around? i said bob bork is here. he was the number three guy in the department. bork was the last one that was really eligible to do it. >> the commander in chief found someone willing to carry out hi...

Rattling by tweet, the white supremacy tantrums, the guy who is temperamentally unsuited for office, all of that is donald trump, not steve bannon. kelly has learned in the last two weeks that you cant manage this guy. you cant tell him hard truths because 24 hours later he rips up the script and goes off on to an unhinged tirade. so, you know, i think that kelly among other things needs to take a page from al haig, the last white house chief of staff, who was a general during the final days of ...

Listen to kelly? or is the president going to be the president in which case, yes, general kelly will have his work cut out for him. >> jon: joe, he is the first general to serve in that role since al haig. during the nixon administration. >> 1973. i went back and watched mr. kelly, general kelly during some of his interviews. and what i see, the exact notes, authentic, sober, no nonsense. he does not sound like a politician. >> joe, you could write for "the new york times" ." >> jon: he was a t...

Korea, its a hotspot world and having a general who has some war experience i think comforts those folks, the defense secretary and the secretary of state. >> shepard: last time something like this -- speaking of kelly -- bret, i think it was al haig, right? >> the last general to be the chief of staff, al haig, 1973. president nixon trying to shore up a very chaotic white house. >> shepard: i remember he was very much in charge. that shore up didnt go well. you wonder about the sort of similari...

President nixon fired multiple attorneys general before he could find the one who would fire his special prosecutor. >> on a saturday night in october, 1973, he also ordered his attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. the attorney general was appalled. he said, no, and resigned. then the president told one of his assistants to call the deputy attorney general. >> i picked the phone up. it was al haig saying he wanted me to fire cox. im not going to do it. al haig said your commander in ...

In "politico" about the fact that donald trump didnt give the speech that his advisers thought he was going to give. during watergate, henry kissenger and al haig felt they were keeping things steady although as you rightly say, nixon was drinking to some extent. he was not in a great mental state. and kissinger later said, al haig saved the country and i saved the world. with donald trump, you and i have both heard people say donald trump may be unpredictable and mercurial may be in a scary way...

Talk about reince priebus and his lack of influence. typically to chiefs of staff are they drawn from a pool of people who are dependent on the president or that independents to be able to tell the president hard truths? is he unusual? >> he is. youre absolutely right. you want a chief of staff with the stature to be able to say to the president heres something youre not going to want to hear, and if youre angry at me and fire me, thats fine. jim baker had that under ronald reagan. al haig had t...

More money for the investigation. is the fbi going to get that money? is somebody going to try to change whats going on by the probes at the fbi? thats what we have to watch for, and if that happens this is a direct parallel. right now what we see is terrible optics and a man, president trump, who is acting nixonian and acting as if he were guilty but theres no evidence that hes guilty of anything. >> in 1973, ultimately cox was fired and then give me the tapes, give me the tapes and then the ag...

Is what the president says the law is. >> that was only after defrost. >> so he wasnt even president th then. can you think of a time when any person on national television has claimed that sort of power for the president? >> no. al haig tried to do it for himse himself. ive been reminded of rabbi korff. >> i woke up at 4:00 for a valentines day lesson on them. >> thats why children hate you. >> many reasons. kellyanne conway is sort of becoming that. rabbi korff was the last

A lot of thought had actually gone into that and that wasnt just him doing an al haig taking over the microphone. the same with nikki haley yesterday. that wasnt just her scribbling notes down. you can tell that went through state, that went through the interagency process. yesterday seemed to be the first day on foreign policy, maybe its because tillerson is at state now and everybody is finally in place, but some order seemed to be coming to our foreign policy team. >> some normalcy, perhaps, ...