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On a busy day, well get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then well go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we dont read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection, we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. were looking for gang affiliations, signs, markers on the envelopes. searching for contraband, of course. >> ...

Department and not the state department, of course theres a loss of trust. they dont trust the president. >> well, its an extremely unsettling situation. the president is impulsive. he does not have a staff process yet. general kelly has been incapable of really pulling that together. we ought to thank god we have mattis. hes been able to recruit sensible people to work with him. one of the most humiliating photos ive seen was jared kushner head of delegation to the iraqi government on one side ...

>> the most overwhelming aspect is not the mail itself, its the volume of the mail. on a busy day, well get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then well go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we dont read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection, we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. were looking for gang aff...

He listens in on conversations between cabinet secretaries and the president. he has booted lingering staff members out of high level meetings and ordered the doors of the oval office closed to discourage strays. tim is joining me, cnn presidential historian and general mark hurtling, who served more than 15 months in iraq with general kelly, did multiple operations together, and so general, just beginning with you, just more great detail out of this piece too, how the times is saying general ke...

He knows how to work with bosses. hes worked with defense secretaries and diplomats so he knows these kind of things but he can only do so much. he can only provide that discipline and rigor to the staff process and getting the information to his boss. what his boss does with it, he cant control. >> right. tim, i was quoting james baker earlier this week and he was saying, and im paraphrasing, the best chief of staffs are those who focuses on the of staff part of the title and not the chiefs pie...

>> i dont think thats going to -- i dont think donald trump would let that happen. thats his one outlet. it was reported this week that the only app on his phone is twitter. he is not going to let that go. he wont have a lir standing over his shoulder telling him what to do and what not to do. he doesnt let ---thats not the way he runs his white house. i dont think he -- >> the white house officials are calling that part of the wall street journal about lawyers vetting tweets bs. >> this is his ...

On a busy day, well get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then well go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we dont read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection, we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. were looking for gang affiliations, signs, markers on the envelopes. searching for contraband, of course. >> ...

Reformatting the thing. >> you saw from the white house, where were they from from the associated press? >> they werent from the media. they were -- it was far back from the inner agency. >> do you have any sort of advanced working making these drafts, and a draft is made. it was presented to you. >> presented to me. this is a staff primarily a staff process, right? policy and the white house are working with inner agency people. not a large number, i wouldnt expect, of interagency people. i saw...

So i dont know if that answers your question. >> what was the draft that you saw were they from the white house or were they from the associated press? >> no, they were from the media. although i will give you credit, you had it, but no, they were just the drafts that were coming back and forth within the interagency. >> a little clarification pleas please. you had no personal input or any sort of advanced working with making the drafts? in other words, the draft is made, its presented to you, a...

On a busy day, well get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then well go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we dont read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection, we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. were looking for gang affiliations, signs, markers on the envelopes. searching for contraband, of course. >> ...