Resigned secretly yesterday. Blake berman is standing by at the white house. But first lets go to charlie bass a relationship oh. Charlie way heard from my what i heard from my sources in washington was neat was done. I didnt know he already announced his resignation other deed was done then. But it was imminent. Today we knew it would happen or over the weekends. I did find it strange that he was on the plane with scaramucci, his nemesis in the white house. It did pass through my head that it was sadistic and to have a guy fired and on the plane with you have with his nemesis. Its pretty insane. But we dont know exactly how this went down. Did he just quit because he sees the writing on the wall . Did he quit because hes sick of the dysfunction in the white house or did trump ask for his resignation. He saw the writing on the wall, basically you have a Communications Director thats acting as the chief of staff on his first day in the job who is openly calling you out, and your boss is not stopping it. Reporter Anthony Scaramucci said he reports directly to the president. Charlie its not unusual at this white house. You have five or six chiefs of staff. Steve bannon is kind of a chief of staff. Jared kushner, Anthony Scaramucci, it goes on and on and on. Reporter for a Communications Director, dont finds that unusual . Charlie not in this white house its bad management. Will kelly allow this bizarre Management Structure to exist . Will he make it clear to donald trump that all roads lead to him that white house or will he allow scaramucci to freelance some of his messaging thats kind of off message. It wouldnt be so bad if Anthony Scaramucci was getting into arguments with reporters are tax cuts. But what hes arguing about, the stuff hes messaging is trivial insane stuff if you think about it. Reporter we are hearing general kelly will start officially monday. You mention scaramucci being on the plane with priebus. I wonder what the final straw was. Healthcare . With scaramucci coming in . Gas rrp scaramucci coming charlie scaramucci coming in to me, he had some animus with this. And when it came to denying Anthony Scaramucci his job early on it wasnt just priebus, it was bannon. He has some animosity to both of those guys. Priebus is a weaker link than bannon inside the white house. It seems like he pushed the president to make the change. My real question is does the new guy come in and act as a real chief of staff . Because if he doesnt, hes not empowered. This stuff is dysfunction. We are talking about leaks about some incidental white house dinner become the story. If Anthony Scaramucci does not report to general kelly, this a real problem. Reporter i can tell you from my service in the it in, i have worked for people like general kelly. Hes known for being steady, maintaining a healthy chain of command. If he does take over the traditional roam of chief of staff, it will be a change in this white house. Charlie do you know him . Reporter i dont know him. I only know him by reputation. Hes somebody who is focused both in the military charlie i would just say this. I dont know general kelly. When he takes a job where hes been given a neutered would he take a job where hes neutered manager alley . Reporter what i have heard about general kelly, hes a patriot and very loyal to this country. When asked to step up to take a position that would be his first priority. He would work to establish the chain of command hes used to in the military in the white house. But well see where it lows. Lets go to blake berman who is at the white house. Reporter its been a couple unreal fridays. This time last week the white house named Anthony Scaramucci the Communications Director and sean spicer resigned. Today you have the chief of staff tweeting out that he moms longer in that role. I think next friday we may have to duck and take cover. Kelly will officially start in his post monday. After that there will be a full Cabinet Meeting that will take place. According to the reporting of fox news if it was Reince Priebus who resigned yesterday. He was on Board Air Force one for that event in new york. But he returned as no longer the white house chief of staff. They are here at the white house. Positioning general john kelly, now secretary of Homeland Security. Sarah huckabeesanders says general john kelly is one of the true stars of the administration. He helped seal the border and reduce immigration by 70 . Lea, i will life with this. Sanders said the president had been discussing this with Reince Priebus for some two weeks. So it appears it has been in the works for quite some time. Reporter do we know if this was something that was asked for or something that was voluntary . Reporter the big question. Was he fired or told to go . I guess talking about this it appears for some time and he submitted his resignation and was allowed to stay on fan go on Board Air Force one. Lea connell mcshain has the latest details. Reporter its interesting to hear blake say Sarah Huckabeesanders cribbed general kelly as a real star. The president was here to talk about a crackdown on Gang Violence which has become a bigtime problem out here. He made a comment that seemed to be a throwaway comment given the context of the event. It doesnt seem that way now, however. I want to congratulate john kelly who has done an incredible job as Homeland Security. Truly one of our stars. Reporter there you go. One of our stars. Now that star is moving much closer to the president himself. This event was scheduled and was followed through upon to crack down on Gang Violence, particularly this ms13 street gang here. Thats why the president was referencing general kelly. Someone who has helped him with a key issue near and dear to his heart. One of our real stars is what the president called him earlier today. Lea giving us some hints earlier in the day. Former nypd commissioner Bernie Carrick was with President Trump earlier today. What can you tell us about what you saw and heard today on long island . Well, a couple things. First of all, i think the Law Enforcement community on long island definitely knows they have a supporter, they have a friend, they have an advocate in the president of the United States. I think there was no doubt about that. He was extremely well received by all ranges, all departments. Ill tell you personally i was a bit disappointed because some of the elected officials who are under sync, they werent there. When they should be there. They should be absolutely there supporting the president and they should have had the desire. The elected officials werent there. But the cops were and he was extremely well received. I also thought as the other journalist speaker just said, i thought this comment on john kelly, general kelly, i thought his comment at the time was good. It was the right comment. John kelly is in charge of Homeland Security. I. C. E. Reports to Homeland Security. But it was taken a little out of place by some of the people in the audience. They didnt understand it. But now i get it. Knowing what happened. Lea one of the questions i have for you since you were there. Did you see Anthony Scaramucci and Reince Priebus . We know they were on the plane together today. I am wondering for people who actually saw them, what did you notice today . As far as i know they werent at the theater. I was at the theater in the audience. I was up front by the president and i saw the president afterward. I did not see them. I saw a number of people from the president s staff. But i didnt see them. So i dont know if they waited in the theater or on the plane or in the motorcade. Lea he has h. R. Mcmaster as his National Security advisor. He has general kelly who will be a chief of staff, secretary of defense. General mattis. But one thing that does come to mind is Homeland Security is so important to this president. And this means he will have to find somebody new. These things happen. The First Six Months to a year of every administration no matter hot president is, you go through these things where you whittle down to the best people you think you can come up with. Im sure general kelly will are recommendations about who should replace him. For general kelly, some of the people in Homeland Security and the department of justice, and the president will make the best possible choice. Lea Homeland Security will be led by the deputy for now. President trump tweet being his new chief staff. Here is what he said. Im pleased to inform you i just named general kelly as white house chief of staff. He is a great american. He is a true tar of my administration. I would like to thank Reince Priebus for his dedication and service to our country. He has accomplished a lot and i am proud of him. Gina, i want to start with you. The president did Say Something nice about Reince Priebus in his tweets. They accomplished a lot together. Many republicans would say priebus helped bring many members of the gop along election. One of the impressive things about this president is his raw gutterral instinct. His ability to know what needs to be done and do it at the perfect time. Reince was probably the right one for that time. But now he needed to change that. Thats what leadership is. I think most of of america is applauding this nonpolitical choice which i find fascinating for an administration at this juncture. 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Lea blake berman reporting that a source told him among the Reince Priebus future is if healthcare didnt pass, there would be a likely shakeup. Anna, the americans for prosperity director. Nice to see you both. See, chris, big news. What do you think. I think it American People arent focused on the inside the beltway parlor games of Musical Chairs and staffing. We need to get back to repealing and replacing obamacare. Premiums are going through the roof. Premiums more than doubled since obamacare went into effect in 2014. We need to get back on that and not worry about whose on first in terms of staffing. Lea we had a major shakeup at the white house and President Trump did mention in next midst of all that. They should have approved healthcare last night. But you cant have everything. Boy, oh, boy, they have been working on that one for 7 years. Can you believe that . The swamp. But well get it done. Lea is there a path forward at this point . There absolutely is. Its encouraging to see the president remains committed to repealing obamacare. The path forward doesnt have to start with legislation. Speaker ryan laid out a threephase plan. There are a lot of regulatory changes he can make to loosen up obamacares coverage mandates and give state more flexibility. So there is a lot of things that both branches of the federal government can get done to make healthcare more affordable Going Forward and live up to that promise they have been working on in the last four election cycles. Lea chris, you were highly critical in a piece you wrote about the way republicans in the senate were going about this. The process with this skinny bill that nobody wanted to vote for but most of republicans did end up voting for was the typical inside baseball washington swamp of insider deals and back room deals. We need to focus on making healthcare and Health Insurance more affordable. That means loosening up the regulatory structure. Lea ream yum premiums are something people are concerned about. Insurers have to file their rates by the end of august. Americans for prosperity has been educating the grassroots on this. Insurers will continue to drop out and continue to raise rates until we do something to address costs. We cannot continue to play ball on the lefts rhetorical playing field. They have given up control and costs. Lea well see what happens. Thanks so much. Well be right back. Lee a Reince Priebus just releasing this statement its been one of the honors of my life to serve this president and our country. I cant think of a better person than general john kelly to succeed me and i wish him gods blessing and a great success. This white house shakeup coming a day after white house Communications Director with a shocking tirade on Reince Priebus and scott bannon. One white house staffer said they were worried for their safety. Lawrence jones of blaze tv is also a radio host. Gillian . This is shock. Priebus was already in trouble. I think its a lack of class to kick a man when hes down. During the campaign there was a tolerance for trumps rhetoric on the promise that he would bring in the best people and get things done. What we are seeing is if you work for him you cant expect loyalty. Lea if you listen to what Anthony Scaramucci is saying, it sounds like he thought Reince Priebus was the source of the leaks. Im not going to speak to the leaks. But our colleague steve hicks said its interesting that this happened last night and there were no leaks by the to the press. Ill let people take it as that. The white house has been dysfunctional as far as the message, as far as Reince Priebus position and the Communications Direct year. These were people who werent doing their job to make the president more mainstream and get legislation passed. Thats not happening. Now, you see the president shifting to his old guard. Scaramucci was on the campaign from the beginning. Corey lewandowski was on. These are people who are close with the president and he feels like they can get his message out there. Lea if you havent seen the front cover of the new york post. It was basically survivor island. You see President Trump, you see Reince Priebus. You see Kellyanne Conway and steve bannon and Anthony Scaramucci. You have to wonder whose face would be xd off of that front cover. Now we know its Reince Priebus. How much of an effect do you think Anthony Scaramucci had on Reince Priebus resignation . We have seen signs of this for quite some time. But since it happened right after the rift, it sends a message that its okay to talk about your colleagues like this. I dont think priebus deserves this. He was very successful at the rnc. He was instrumental in getting the party to rally after trump after the bruising primaries. Im so sorry. But the notion that Reince Priebus is responsible for the republican victory is absurd. I didnt say that. These were the Tea Party Wave that got republicans in. Priebus has always been part of the establishment it was Donald Trumps message that got him elected. It wasnt like he was in line with the republican party. Priebus is par