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To the general as general jackass. he thoroughly enjoys it. >> they love conflict. >> if you study the polling data, they tell you this constant churning, back stabbing, sniping, childish, immature behavior is one of the reasons they think there's a wave coming to blow them out. >> what the president said about conflict, i think, is he likes to get conflicting opinions. now, that's a fine thing in a white house. what the president is presiding over is this turmoil and upheaval and chaos among his staff. people look to the white house for stability. if you're on the hill trying 20 wo -- to work...

The turnover, a brand-new cnn poll found 61% the president has done a poor job of assembling a team of top advisers at the white house and 70% say they are very or somewhat concerned about the number of white house employees that don't have permanent security clearances. for someone who campaigned on the promise that he would hire and have the best people possible around him, what kind of impact does this have? >> well, i think what people either understand the staff level is so important and makes the government go and puts policy into action. and when you have a staff that constantly turns o...

That has been in chaos from day one? clearly, he hasn't been able to. in a lot of ways, the critics lodged reince priebus keeping trump in line could be lodged to kelly. he's brought some order. we have to give him credit for bringing some order to the office. in the meantime, he's med enemies. that's why aides are coming out, trying to stab him in the back. he's in a difficult position. >> you see the back stabbing going on. it's hard to keep track of it. everybody is stabbing everybody else in the back. what are you hearing about john kelly right now, julie? >> reporter: in the aftermath and...

Spent time in the building, that john kelly lost the building. people felt like he was not being forthcoming, he was protecting his own flank and not being honest about what happened, not taking responsibility for what had gone down. that had somewhat faded the last couple weeks. that episode was in the rear-view mirror. for some reason, whatever reason, today, john kelly appears to have reopened that whole issue. now, you have a lot of people in the west wing who feel very distrustful and he does not have their best interest at heart and wonder what it's going to be like in the coming days, e...

What we have is a cheesy president and constant back stabbing and major characters periodically getting booed it out. we welcome our two perfectly normal guests, the host of the slate broadcast. he's a long suffering fan of the jets and white house's reporter for politco who coarthu coarthur -- coauthored the piece. mike, i got to begin with you of what the president said at 5:42 this morning. alec baldwin, this reminds me of the progressive education move 30 years ago, if our kids are trying to spell, however they spell it is just fine.