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Candidates for a new white house chief of staff, and trying to turn attention away from all that weve learned from the cohen revelations. >> yes, cnns sarah westwood is following developments from the white house. >> reporter: president trump spent this weekend railing against the paris climate accord, going after his former fbi director, calling for an end to the russia investigation, and basically talking about anything other than prosecutors linking him directly in court filings submitted fri...

>> id like to start with the changing of the guard in the chief of staff. general john kelly on his way out the door, nick ayers says hell pass on the job. now were hearing representative mark meadows is reportedly being floated as a possible replacement. but the question here, how difficult will it be for this administration to find anyone to step into a role that, as short history suggests, is a dead end job from the start? >> reporter: well, clearly there will be someone. the question is who,...

Investigators. an extremely secretive individual. in fact, of constantine clem nicker there are only a few public individuals to see what the man even looks like. fred plotkin, cnn, moscow. >> fred, thank you. back here in the united states, president trump says he will pick a new chief of staff very soon. in a tweet, the president says he is in the process of interviewing people for the position. sources tell cnn four people are being considered. >> now, one of those out of the running is nick ...

So you can see why for a lot of very serious people its not tremendously appealing, but it is an important role. and the turnover in this i think is deeply disturbing. >> the other big story that were following, the president starting this week under the shadow cast by these court filings from friday on mr. trumps former attorney michael cohen and his former campaign chairman paul manafort. it shows that there is a lot of smoke, and even goes as far as implicating individual number one who we be...

Investigations. but its not yet clear what the link is on the question of russia. its very clear that, that many russians have tried -- that tried to communicate with members of trumps team during the elections, during the campaigns. but what they received back from trump and those around him is certainly lack of clarity on that so far. i think the big question here is how is this being read by the american public. and if you are watching the commentary and listening to people its still being re...

Kellys future. and the presidents top choice for that job, nick ayers, chief of staff to vice-president mike pence, will also be leaving the administration. after discussing seriously with trump the prospect of replacing kelly. now, ayers and trump disagreed on the time frame for ayers holding that job. our colleague caitlyn collins reports that ayers wanted to shoeld t hold the job on a temporary basis till the spring till the president could find a replacement for kelly, and the trump wanted a...

Enough to justify an impeachment is a different question, but certainly they would be impeachable offenses because even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office. that would be the, the -- that would be an impeachable offense. >> if someone has violated the law, the application of the law should be applied to them like it would any other citizen in this country. obviously if youre in a position of gre...