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>> dana: john kelly said he's not there to baby-sit the president when it comes to twitter. do you think it should be? >> that just betrays a misunderstanding of the job of white house chief of staff. it's many things. his own narrow definition was making the trains run on time in the west wing. that's the easy part. the hard part is telling the president hard truths. you know, ronald reagan wanted to -- on his very first item in office, he wanted to tackle social security reform. james baker iii sat him down and explained that was the third rail of american politics. you touch it, you'll get ...

>> so, matt miller, the question is, is that ignorance of how the levers of government and the presidency are to be pulled? >> i think you could describe it as ignorance the first couple of months in office, but by that point he had been through a series of events in the justice department. you would think somebody would have sat him down and said, look, there is supposed to be a wall between the justice department and the white house and you have to respect that wall. it's clear that he doesn't not just understand that need for independence but he's hostile to it. mentioned comey and sessions...

In the justice department. you would think somebody would have sat him down and said, look, there is supposed to be a wall between the justice department and the white house and you have to respect that wall. it's clear that he doesn't not just understand that need for independence but he's hostile to it. we see it affect his relationship with all kinds of senior leaders at the justice department. he, of course, asked andrew mccabe, the interim director of the fbi who he voted for, he met with preet when he was there. he tried to make preet loyal to him. he worked with the district of columbia...

Years. >> a franchise player, still a good quarterback. not at the peak of his powers anymore. still a solid performer. >> the idea that he's the problem with the team. outrageous. >> the general manager was jerry reese, that his name? a series of terrible drafts, coach clearly effective in pulling that team together. this is akin to maybe in the last year or two of darius jeter's career if someone completely dissed him. sat him down. >> and blamed him for the yankees not making the playoffs. coming up next, we have eugene robinson with us, why he says the whole country will end up paying th...

To this position. and you saw the president just continually returning to the phrase, he denies it, he totally denies it. and then that combined with his sort of wait and see attitude about will he campaign with roy moore really sets up a potentially interesting last few weeks of this already very interesting election. on the other side, you have senator mitch mcconnell who said hey, if this guy gets elected, we're going to start to -- the proceedings to eject him right away. >> shepard: that's another matter. the door is now left open for the following based on the president's statement today...