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Now. >> well, first, john kelly is a great american. he's a great man. and i think we should note public service is really the reason he decided to go work for donald trump. he's not a democrat or a republican and he's totally apolitical. and i've had many conversations with him. and as you noted, i worked with him closely at the pent done gon. 's a close personal friend. he and kaish have given every measure for our country. their son robert was of course killed in action in afghanistan. and he has another son, his other son john junior is getting ready to deploy overseas. so this is a man in...

To the white house. i've got two people who know him in different ways. pete williams, of course our chief justice correspondent, just interviewed secretary kelly a few days ago in aspen. i've got jeremy bash, long-time aide to secretary of defense -- former secretary of defense leon pan et at that. in fact, when he was chief of staff, the senior military advisor, general kelly. worked side by side for quite some time. so pete, let me start with you. it was no secret that president trump of all of his cabinet secretaries, secretary kelly is the one he's always felt the best about because it se...

Hyped sight, always twept twept, but it was pretty clear that the writing was on the wall for chief of staff reince priebus. yesterday at the white house press briefing press secretary sarah huckabee sanders would not definitively say if the president had confidence in his chief of staff. >> sarah, does the president have confidence in his chief of staff? >> look, i think i've addressed this question when it comes to staffing and personnel many times, that if the president doesn't, then he'll make that decision. we all serve at the pleasure of the president, and if it gets to a place where tha...

Take that. we can't take that approach. and i know he's upset. but we want to work. no one won last night. there was no winners and losers. if anything, if we don't fix something, we're all losers. and that's what need to be done. we've got a chance now to repair. our republican friends and colleagues have tried everything possible they could to fulfill their promise of repealing. it's so entwined now that's not going to happen. and john mccain, chuck, you know john mccain as well as i know him. john mccain made a vote basically because this process p isn't working. if i was on armed services ...

Isn't enough republicans? >> i think there are a number of concerns here. the chief of staff has been somebody who either as ann was saying had close ties to the president or had some legislative or political experience, had good ties with members on capitol hill. this is the second chief of staff in a row who doesn't have any one of those characteristics, any of those traditional qualifications. then there's the question of what's the management flow. what is the structure of command in this white house. does scaramucci still report directly to the president or is he going to report through t...