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Say is done by president trump. w i think what we see and is happening with kelly raises the question, can anybody restore a traditional whose really only the white house can know. >> julia, why do you think john kelly is still there? he's lasted longer than reince priebus who had less trials but still was fired in ten months. >> obviously, there are times when the president consults with john immigration, he

People who were upset about things like unauthorized pay raises. security details being asked to use lights and sirens. expensive air charters that he wanted hiring. a $70,000 bullet proof desk that they considered buying. and as people began to push back, career staff and political staff within the epa, a rift began to emerge among those senior staff members. some of them saying they were demoted or iced out because they raised concerns or refused to cooperate with these requests. >> at least for now the president says he's doing a fantastic job. he's on the job. we'll see how long that lasts...

Shimon, how critical is this? >> very critical. deripaska, based on some state department information, is one of these wealthy oligarchs who consults with putin regularly. and it's been reported, this is the connection to manafort, one of the connections, anyhow, that before trump was nominated, manafort had offered to brief deripaska privately on how the campaign was going, and deripaska was also in business which both failed with manafort and gates. so critical connections to two high-level people in the trump campaign. the two others you mentioned, viktor vekselborg has ties to

Haley, have been. >> he hasn't tweeted about it, or spoken about it, even though secretary of defense, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. have been very, very outspoken. this decision is a significant decision to expel 60 russian diplomats. you would think the president would at least tweet about it and say something. >> that's just it. when you compare how he deals with other countries, countries he is upset about, mexico, canada, in terms of trade, european union countries, who are very close allies of the united states, he's very happy to be critical of in public and on twitter and is reluctant to...

Senator tom cotton who the president consults closely with as with general kelly on his national security apparatus. he's a huge fan of mike pompeo at the cia and you'll remember cotton was rumored to take the job himself and told he removed himself after the alabama election and figured the president doesn't need another red seat so it's all come together for the president. this is the kind of team you need going forward. >> bill: richard, do you approve of mike pompeo, let's start there. >> i think his confirmation hearing will be more interesting than most secretary of state confirmation he...