collar crimes for sure. it happens in those cases as well. but the more important point is the question whether or not manafort flips or not. the same thing with flynn because if you re going to have this reaching donald trump, which is what people are most interested in, you need what prosecutors sometimes call narrators of the case, people to walk you through what happened. and for that you need them to flip. and the way you get them to flip is by convincing them that if they don t flip, they re going it to the big house. and that becomes the core of how you work your way up the chain to get people higher and higher on the totem pole. so, guys, let s look at what politico is reporting today saying the new white house chief of is to have john kelly more staffing changes, even targeting steve ban none. so does the president lose a lot of conservative supporters if that happens? you know, i think ban none is
they execute their job effectively, the white house runs more smoothly. reminder to our viewers, we know all of what ashley s reporting, what the the new york times, what politico is reporting, because of an unprecedented number of leakers inside this still so young west wing. so we ll see what that means as we move forward among other things. ashley parker, it s always a pleasure to have you here on the broadcast. we ll continue looking for your byline every day. coming up after our first break here tonight, a rare source of agreement between republicans and democrats and that is the president s comments on vladimir putin. when the 11th hour continues. jon batiste has mastered new ways to play old classics.
color outside of them. i think after this rocky rollout, one thing that seems to have helped or at least hopefully may help is the president, himself, in a staff meeting kind of turned to people and said, reince is in charge. and so he has done things to streamline the day, as the times reported, he now has a ten-point checklist. as we reported, he s controlling the schedule more. controlling meetings. and in theory, that is the job of a chief of staff and when they execute their job effectively, the white house runs more smoothly. reminder to our viewers, we know all of what ashley s reporting, what the the new york times, what politico is reporting, because of an unprecedented number of leakers inside this still so young west wing. so we ll see what that means as we move forward among other things. ashley parker, it s always a pleasure to have you here on the broadcast. we ll continue looking for your byline every day. coming up after our first break here tonight, a rare sour
word agreement you know, i m not sure what they called it. and yes, that was some sort of settlement or termination and i don t even know what the contents of that was. well, he came out this morning that cain had a pretty good recognition of the settlement from the outset. she was making huge claims about sexual harassment. i do recall she was asking for a lrnlg sum of money. i don t remember what the sum of money was. as the review of this moved forward, that sum of money negotiated my attorney and negotiated with her attorney got less and less and less because her attorney started to figure out, she didn t have a valid claim. she couldn t find people to corroborate these things she was making and so as it got smaller and smaller and smaller it turned out to be from my perspective, which is why i didn t go back and ask to see it, more of a separation agreement rather than some sort of legal settlement. so is this a political pothole, a brick wall or wind fall? we ll l