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Out of the white house later on. >> there will be? does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> it might. you will have to get it from them. >> haig said your commander in chief has ordered you do this. i don't know what that added to the discussion. he said, well, who else is around? i said bob bork is here. he was the number three guy in the department. bork was the last one that was really eligible to do it. >> the commander in chief found someone willing to carry out his orders. bork fired cox. >> and i have asked all personnel in the department to stay and help keep...

Rattling by tweet, the white supremacy tantrums, the guy who is temperamentally unsuited for office, all of that is donald trump, not steve bannon. kelly has learned in the last two weeks that you can't manage this guy. you can't tell him hard truths because 24 hours later he rips up the script and goes off on to an unhinged tirade. so, you know, i think that kelly among other things needs to take a page from al haig, the last white house chief of staff, who was a general during the final days of the nixon administration when nixon was wandering the halls, drinking heavily, talking to the oil ...

Listen to kelly? or is the president going to be the president in which case, yes, general kelly will have his work cut out for him. >> jon: joe, he is the first general to serve in that role since al haig. during the nixon administration. >> 1973. i went back and watched mr. kelly, general kelly during some of his interviews. and what i see, the exact notes, authentic, sober, no nonsense. he does not sound like a politician. >> joe, you could write for "the new york times" ." >> jon: he was a top aide ted two secretaries of defense, and you have to sort of know the political ways of washingto...

Korea, it's a hotspot world and having a general who has some war experience i think comforts those folks, the defense secretary and the secretary of state. >> shepard: last time something like this -- speaking of kelly -- bret, i think it was al haig, right? >> the last general to be the chief of staff, al haig, 1973. president nixon trying to shore up a very chaotic white house. >> shepard: i remember he was very much in charge. that shore up didn't go well. you wonder about the sort of similarities that people could draw. i mean, everything i read about this particular general, he's a law a...

President nixon fired multiple attorneys general before he could find the one who would fire his special prosecutor. >> on a saturday night in october, 1973, he also ordered his attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. the attorney general was appalled. he said, no, and resigned. then the president told one of his assistants to call the deputy attorney general. >> i picked the phone up. it was al haig saying he wanted me to fire cox. i'm not going to do it. al haig said your commander in chief is ordering you to do this. i don't know what that added to the discussion. he said, well, wh...