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It even had a name. it was spokes of the wheel. each person was a spoke going in to the president. everyone since then has abandoned it because it created a factionalized white house that was more like lord of the flies. >> dan, i talked to a number of former chiefs of staffs, republicans and democrats, from recent administrations who have all said, you need to kind of -- everybody needs to know what their leans aanes are, what the portfolios are. you can't have various people who have the president's ear. everybody needs to stay in their lane. >> certainly there are management techniques of h...

That varied businesses they had and however many people they employed, the organization was small. it does seem like it was a very top down, from the personality of donald trump. >> one of the things that dan's piece points out that i think is unique about the trump white house is he has ditched the model that presidents have used really since carter, which is a very strong chief of staff and nobody -- few people on the same level as that chief of staff and not a super top heavy white house. trump is very top heavy. he has about six people who have close to the same authority as the chief of s...

The trump administration is halfway through its 11th week with a good chunk behind it. a messy transition led to a chaotic presidency. the paper has been tracking more than 500 administration positions that require confirmation. 21 nominees have been confirmed and 20 others nominated. the upshot of the article is that the trump administration is anything but a finally tuned machine. the white house does not see it that way. they point to executive action on the keystone pipeline, defense spending and improving consumer confidence. more now from dan balls who wrote the piece on the trump transl...

It's unfortunate. it suggests a credence to conspiracy theories being lent by the president of the united states. i would echo what my "washington post" colleague, dan balls wrote earlier this week. he's the most respected journalist in washington and he wrote, paraphrasing, that the plausible explanations for president trump giving credence to this theory are either that he wants to encourage distrust in our system or he wants to lay a predicate for potential future voter suppression laws or he simply is someone who is willing to, without evidence, engage in speculation about voter fraud. >> ...

Overseas. but what james clapper was saying is this was one of the most aggressive campaigns that he has ever seen, and he also described multiple motivations which is a very key part of this, john, because the president-elect thinks that what the intelligence community is doing is undermining his election. that's not what james clapper is trying to do, as you heard from him. he's saying, we can't tell what caused people to pull the numbers on november 8th, but we do know what the motivation was of the russians. >> evan perez, phil mattingly on capitol hill, thank you. a fascinating conversati...