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Factoring into this. after the president's previous plan to replace john kelly with john ayers over the weekend blew up, perhaps find someone who worked in the 2016 campaign, someone who can help managing that messaging and the political fight that will grow particularly when democrats take kang control of congress. president trump likes to work the phone and the people he calls like to tell a lot of reporters about it, so don't trust anything until the president himself tweet s or sas it. a lot of these names being floated now, like chris christie, steve munchin, mark meadows, could slip into...

Rockin'. it's surprising that ayers turned it down. whether it's a spin or they could not come to a deal, obviously this is a position that has a great deal of prestige and power, but a massive down side with donald trump. anybody that thinks they will come in and thinks they are going to impose new rules on the president, they are apparently having a hard time finding somebody who wants to sign up for this duty. >> i have a list that are supposedly under consideration. congressman mark meadows, that's interesting. would he leave his job as a congressman to be chief of staff? >> sure. >> you d...

John kelly will be leaving -- i don't know if i can say retiring, but he's a great guy. john kelly will be leaving at the end of the year. we'll be announcing who will be taking john's place. it might be on an interim basis. i will announce that over the next day or two. >> and that was president trump saying his chief of staff, john kel kelly is out, and the man who was supposed to take his place, john ayers says no thank you. how unusual is that? >> when the chief of staff job comes knocking, people go a

He'll go from being the majority leader to the minority leader once the democrats assume control. the president is close with mccarthy. there was a bit of an internal shuffle. was there going to be someone rising up and challenging him from the freedom caucus. that really didn't materialize. the president is an ally with kevin mccarthy. certainly one of the many signs of the changing order in washington is kevin mccarthy will be the minority leader, not the majority leader. we are keeping an eye on john kelly, will he stay on? john ayers is being considered for his position. >> jeff, perfect s...

Feel as if everything is happening in slow motion. . what is he like? >> it's a fantastic feature. it gives you a sense of who nick ayers is and how he's perceived in washington right now. he does have a lot of enemies. in a lot of ways it's surprising the president does seem to like him. he's the kind of operator, the type of striver, who you would think based on everything the president has said before he would not like. but apparently he has managed to get close to the president and get close to his daughter and son-in-law and to really make some allies that are very important in this west ...