reassuring trump that he was with him, and also trying to take some air out of the balloon publicly. he helped himself for the time being. >> alice, it is interesting, time and again, over the months we've had people from the white house come out and say, look, the reporting about problems in the white house, with jeff sessions, with anthony scaramucci, sean spicer, it's all incorrect. only then later to have the other shoe drop. >> sure, and that's normal when we're talking about a lot of palace intrigue, kind of news stories. i think a couple things with regard to timing of this, general kelly made it clear, he intended to have -- address the press and attend one of these briefings, once he got his feet on the ground and figured out what base he was on on any given day, that in addition to the president asking him to put out some of these fires is why we have the press conference today. i think that -- you know, the main points with regard to