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This white house. but we want to know the details of -- i want to know the details of the last two weeks. was he pushed out, was he fired, did he resign, when did it happen, how did the health care debacle affect this, how did the scaramucci attacks affect this, when did his relationship with president trump start to deteriorate if thats indeed what happened, and will the new chief of staff have more power than he did. >> and you have to imagine with reince priebus right now, there must be a sor...

The, you know, just how quick things have moved here. how many changes have been made, et cetera. so reince priebus simply could not hold on that long. and the president didnt want him to hold on that long. but i think reince priebus is trying to put a very positive face on this, jim. but i think one thing that was very telling when wolf asked him what his favorite moment was, he said it was the first day when he walked into the oval office. i think from that moment, from january 20th, it got mo...

One, he has to be the chief of staff. reince priebus was in i think title only chief of staff. he needs to control all of the in and out activity in the oval office. he needs to control all of the decision making in the west wing. without that, you could bring in general macarthur, it wont be successful. secondly, hes going to need a good deputy, or someone that reports to him that understands and gets washington, d.c. on the legislative side. they have real challenges in their legislative agend...

Wolf. the people i was talking to earlier today did not know what was going to happen with steve bannon, but they were saying, watch, it will be a sign. see what happens next. its interesting for a couple of reasons. first of all, for quite sometime there have been people who wanted steve bannon out of the white house. so, there was some speculation, maybe this would be the opportunity to do that. the fact, as sara reported, that steve bannon has had a good relationship with general kelly, worki...

>> so far, the senate, theyve rejected the house pass obama carrey peel and replace, so far, theyve decisively rejected the simple repeal. now theyve got one last chance to at least keep this ball rolling. thats what you heard lindsey graham and the others talk about. >> two things, to your point, wolf, this is -- to call it the skinny repeal, repeal is really pushing it label tha little bit. yes, it would take away the individual mandate, it would do many things that are in obamacare, but this ...

Welcome back. live pictures of once again from the white house. h huckabee sanders, white house press secretary, will start taking questions from reporters very soon. well provide live coverage of that as soon as the briefing begins. as we await that, other important news -- russian president vladimir putin is warning the united states today saying he will be forced to retaliate defense new sanctions that could soon be approved by the u.s. senate. joining us from capitol hill, massachusetts sena...

>> mr. secretary, let me get your reaction to this dramatic report we just got. how dangerous is it for the presidents national security adviser to feel undermined by his own colleagues in the white house? >> wolf, right now all i see in the white house is chaos. you have everybody shooting at each other. i think i remember moudall once saying the worse thing you can do with a firing squad is put them in a circle. everybody is shooting at one another. it is creating tremendous chaos. it is under...

If they dont get 50, its all over, at least from now, do you think they have 50, especially now that were hearing these five republican senators, including lindsey graham, john mccain, sunny perdue, ron johnson, mike lee, that they are going to basically, david perdue, david perdue, theyre going to hold their nose and go ahead and vote for the skinny repeal legislation? >> well, to danas point, wolf, we have the five senators that are going to make this bold statement that they cant support the ...

Example that they are opposed. theyre not going to vote for the skinny repeal legislation. what happens then? that seems to be the last hope that the republican leadership and the president, at least right now have. >> reporter: thats absolutely right, wolf. if those five senators will not vote, theres no way itll pass. itll likely mean that once again mitch mcconnell is going to have to go back to the drawing board and come up with another plan. there could be a curve ball thrown here, wolf. th...

Others to look into that meeting. >> yes indeed. and what did the senate chairman tell you. >> reporter: i talked to jeff sessions and the attorney general and about concerns on capitol hill trudhat trump may e jeff sessions. in charge of any nomination hearing for attorney general said he agenda is "full" for the year. meaning he is not ready to move forward at any successor to jeff sessions. a very stark warning to the white house that if president trump were indeed to fire sessions, that he w...