Reporter weve learned a lot of details in the past 24 hours. The resignation has been long coming and rumored for months but it came to a fever pitch this week with the new Communications Director making pretty serious allegation against Reince Priebus saying he was leaking information to reporters. And Reince Priebus was actually asked about this during his interview with wolf blitzer last night. It was his first interview since he resigned. So lets take a listen to what Reince Priebus had to say to wolf. Are you the leaker in the white house . Thats ridiculous. Wolf, come on. Give me a break. Im not going to get into his accusations. Why not respond to because im not going to. Because it doesnt honor the president. Im going to honor the president every day. Im going to honor his agenda. And im going to honor our country. And im not going to get into all of this personal stuff. So is there a leaking problem in the white house based on wa youve seen . Yeah. I think that general kel hi should see if he can get to the bottom of it and figure it out. As you can see there, fred, Reince Priebus was downplaying these tensions between him and scaramucci and between him and the president. But clearly things were on everyones mind this week. What will be the focus next week when john kelly takes the Corner Office in the west wing on monday and gets sworn in . Theres going to be a Cabinet Meeting immediately after. People are going to be questioning if the order and the hierarchy in this west wing is really going to change. Most white house staffers report to the chief of staff who then is in charge of determining what information gets to the president and who sees him and who talks to him. But in this white house many people report directly to donald trump. That includes jared kushner, his daughter, ivanka trump, steve bannon, even the newly minted Communications DirectorAnthony Scaramucci. So people are expecting that john kelly will come in and really be able to instill a sense of order in this west wing, but thats still to be determined because nothing else is changing beside john kelly. Its still the same white house and still the same donald trump. All right. Good points. Kaitlan collins, thanks so much from the white house. Priebus is widely respected in the Republican Party and has many connections within the washington establishment. Cnn correspondent Boris Sanchez joining me now for more on how the rest of washington is reacting to all of this. Boris . Reporter hey, there, fred. Yeah, certainly the most heart felt statement coming about the resignation of Reince Priebus is from also someone from wisconsin, House Speaker paul ryan. Someone whos a very close friend of Reince Priebus. The two men go back very many years and ryan writes, Reince Priebus has left it all out on the field for our party and country. Heres a guy from kenosha, wisconsin, who revitalized the Republican National committee and became white house chief of staff. He served the president and the American People capably and passiona passionately. Hes achieved so much and done it all with class. I could not be more proud to call reince a dear friend. He congratulations secretary john kelly on his appointment saying that he looks forward to working with him to advance the agenda. Heres an important point, fred. Democrats are pouncing on this in part because theres now a vacancy at the department of Homeland Security with john kelly moving to the white house. One of them, representative Bennie Thompson of the state of mississippi, the Ranking Member of the committee on Homeland Security, writes, unfortunately, as with most major decisions in this administration, it is clear that this was rushed and not well thought out. The president and republicans insisted the dhs secretary be confirmed on day one, but now the president leaves this Critical National security cabinet post vacant. The timing could not be worse. Thompson went on to say that the new head of dhs likely to be elaine duke, kellys current deputy, probably wont be confirmed until at least the fall, fred. All right. Boris sanchez, thanks. So while john kelly faces a number of challenges if his new role as chief of staff, a source close to kelly se the veteran marine general will help bring order to the white house. Heres cnns Dianne Gallagher. Reporter it was another major announcement made over twitter. Were following breaking news. President trump just announcing a new white house chief of staff. Reporter the president tapping Homeland Security secretarygeneral jon kelly to replace Reince Priebus as his new chief of staff. Hes a good man. Reporter kelly, a retired marine corps general with nearly five decades of military service, has served many roles. The latest, Homeland Security chief. Where hes earned high marks from the president for defending and enforcing the white house immigration policy. Earlier in his career, kelly served tours in iraq and afghanistan. His son, Robert Michael kelly, was killed during combat in afghanistan in 2010. President trump and general klly visited his sons grave on memorial day earlier this year. Starting monday, general kelly enters a new arena white house politics. What i never saw on the military side was the level of toxic kind of politics that are associated with what i do now. Reporter the question now is can general kelly unite the west wing . Where sharp elbow, staff ip fighting and loose lips have distracted from the president s agenda. Our thanks to cnns Dianne Gallagher for that. Lets kis cudiscuss the white h shakeup with Julian Zeller is, paige pate, and salina. Good to see all of you. Salina, priebus is a washington insider. Hes out, retired general kelly is in. 45 years as a marine. So how is it this military leader can help end the chaos an the drama in this white house . Well, i think we have to look at it from sort of different angles. So if we look at it through the eyes of the prism of people that support donald trump, that, you know, thought he was the guy that should be president , theyre going to like this. You know, i find it interesting always that they look at priebus as someone who is establishment and not part of their sort of populist bent, but priebus was very instrument nal in putting the republicans in the office down ballot since 2012 or 2011, you know, sort of switching over 1,100 seats underneath the presidency from democrat to republican. Theyre going to look at kelly as something of strength and someone who will not take a load of guf. And probably that was priebus fault line with the president. The president values two things loyalty and strength. And i think there was no doubt that there was loyalty from prieb priebus, but from the president s point of view he probably didnt think he was strong enough, and thats based on the amount of leaks that came out. Not saying its priebus fault, but its sort of the illusion that, you know, the schchief of staff is not able to keep things in check. One ha to wonder if the measurements of strength and weakness will be different for kelly versus priebus because the president considered priebus weak because he couldnt rangel more support on capitol hill. But thats not likely to be the strength of say a kelly. I want you to listen to what cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd had to say about bringing in another general to the white house. We bring in jep mcmaster. Hes sidelined at the National Security council. We bring in general mattis on the transgender issue over the past 48 to 72 hours, you know what the pentagon told the president . Gives us aen Implementation Plan op limiting transgenders in the military. You know what that message is from general mattis . We aint doing it. What happened with general flynn . A few weeks in after we said he can bring discipline to the white house, hes a general, he was with the president during campaign, hes bounced because he lied to the vice president. Who are we trying to fool . The president runs an oval office and a white house that is unimaginable. Another fourstar general aint going to change it. So julian, why will President Trump listen to this general . Well, i dont think he will. The source of disorder is the president. An so given he is still the president , im not sure kelly will be able to rein him in. And so the metric for success in this case cant be does the base like the appointment, it has to be will it make this a more effective oval office. And i think kelly within a few weeks if not a few 30s is going to be just as frustrated as everyone else is right now. And at the same time, hes going to undermine President Trumps ability to really massage relations with members of congress. Republicans were very upset with whats happening and so on both fronts i think he has a really difficult task ahead. Many republicans who really like Reince Priebus. After all, he was the hed of the rnc. Page, let me ask you about Jeff Sessions, because the president spent the week publicly criticizing him for recusing himself from investigations as it relates to russia. And so this sends a very potentially powerful message to the ongoing investigation. I mean, the demise of Jeff Sessions or perhaps even it sends a resonating message to the department of justice too. I think so. I mean, you could have i guess in the white house a situation where you hit the reset button, you play musical chairs, have all this chaos. That does not work at the department of justice. We have prosecutors across the country who are trying to implement the very policies that the attorney general has put into place, but theyre not sure if the attorney general is going to be there next week so, that causes a lot of uncertainty and confusion. Certainly with the special counsels investigation, if theres the possibility that the president can appoint an attorney general, remove Jeff Sessions, put somebody else in there whos going to cut this will investigation, obviously that affects their job as well. Julian, that new potential a. G. Would also have to win the approval of the senate, and if the senate feels like, you know, the removal of one is to impact that white house russia investigation, wouldnt that make confirmation very difficult . It would be extraordinarily difficult and it would have to be a pretty rshg raable person who would be able to win that confirmation. If the president took this step you would hear a lot of yelling and screaming not from the democrats but also from the republicans as well. Especially coming after the health care depack l. So i think the president needs to be very careful not to essentially recreate the saturday night massacre but in fact the to start to alleviate the concerns that exist on the hill about how hes handling the investigation. Sea loo thaena, it seems lik president can do no wrong in the eyes of hi base. At what point does the president have to appeal to more than . That . I think its really important to broaden his support. He won it, won narrowly, and all president s should work on expanding their base, right . And, you know, its going to take as you said a while to dislodge his voters from supporting him. But, you know, that doesnt mean its not without frustration. I was in youngstown last week with, you know, 20,000 very excited people to see him. But, you know, i had one voter say to me, im a little bit exhausted by the drama. Ill like the see, you know, like a general patton come in there and, you know, herd all the cats and make things a little more organized, a little more professional. So, you know, he has to expand his base, yes, but he also has to be mindful of what hi voters want from him, which is results. Page, this kind of unrest in the white house, you knw, fuel the ongoing investigations, mueller, special counsel investigation . Does it start to raise the eyebrow like really what is going on if you have all this chaos, does it, you know, spur new questions about the investigation and direction . Well, it can. I mean, obviously, these people that are leaving the white house, theyll be interviewed by bob muellers office, theyll talk about whats going on in the white house. As i tell every client whos a target or potential suspect in the criminal investigation, what you do during the investigation can become critically important. You can commit a crime by obstructing the investigation, destroying documents, telling people what to say so how the white house conducts itself during the investigation is almost as important as what they did before the investigation started. It changes the freedom of what can be said too. It could. If youre leaving the white house and no longer sworn a swornin member, if thats what your position was, you might have a greater willingness to say or reveal what you learned while working . You certainly could. Presumably you no longer have that same fear of losing your job, youve already lost your job. You may have less loyalty to the president at that point. More importantly, youll have to go hire your own lawyer now, become possibly a witness in a criminal case. So just move thing chairs around, moving people around within the white house has a lot of consequences for investigation and for other departments in our government. Interesting. Page, thank you so much. Julian, selena, thank you so much. See you very soon. Well talk later in the hour. Coming um, President Trump under fire for telling Police Officers not to worry about injuring suspects during arrest. When you see thesing throughs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, thrown in, rough, i said please dont be too nice. Why some are concerned about what this means for future of policing, next. Have evolved, but their nutritional needs remain instinctual. Thats why theres purina one true instinct. Nutrientdense, proteinrich, real meat number one. This is a different breed of nutrition. Purina one, true instinct. Duncan just protected his family with a 500,000 Life Insurance policy. How much do you think it cost him . 100 a month . 75 . 50 . 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Like when you guys put somebody in the car and youre protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand like dont hit their head and theyve just killed somebody. Dont hit their head. I said you can take the hand away, okay . So these remarks come at a time when police face intense scrutiny over the use of excessive force. Cnn correspondent Polo Sandoval is joining me from new york. There was seemingly applause, even laughter. What has been the reaction now officially from some Police Agencies about this . Suffolk county, new york, too, fred. We were there yesterday and not long after the president wrapped up those remarks, the Police Department there issuing a statement that essentially distances itself from some of those remarks made by the commander in chief. I want to read you that specific statement that was released by the Suffolk CountyPolice Department. If we can put that up. The Police Department saying it has strict rules and procedures relating to the handling of prisoners and violations of those rules and procedures are treated extremely seriously. As a department, we do not and will not tolerate roughin