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Sunday, michael bender of the wall street journal, michael warren of the weekly standard and cnn's sarah murray. word there would be a new sheriff in town came friday evening after a bloody and public week of west wing warfare. retired general john kelly, can current homeland security secretary, starts tomorrow as chief of staff. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a great, great american. reince priebus, a good man. >> you heard the president calling reince priebus a good man. he i...

Cabinet officials come in periodically for updates to the president, one of -- john kelly has always stood head and shoulders above almost all the rest of the cabinet, has results all the time for the president. the president respects his record. and something that priebus struggled with from the start. the president viewed him as weak from basically day one. >> i think the question is, how long does the president respect john kelly? right now he does have him at a distance coming in for updates as a cabinet member, not somebody in the west wing. there is tension there between the president an...

Could be the beginning of the end of the presidency unless mueller did something wrong. >> it wasn't just ken starr. a lot of people say don't make us choose between and you jeff sessions because we will choose jeff sessions. in congress, lindsey graham one of many voices, just one of the more colorful ones. don't force him out. if you do, you won't get a replacement. john kelly moving over from homeland security to the white house, will he just try to move him over to homeland security? is that a feasible option? >> i don't think it's over. i think trump is still upset about the recusal that ...

I think he was right to hit the reset button and i think it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it's healthy. >> okay. he thinks it's healthy. he's gone. that's what you say. the question is, what next? what changes? can general kelly, the anti-trump in many ways -- believes in order, discipline. he thinks before he speaks. can he change the behavior of the president's inner circle and, more importantly, can he change the behavior of the president? >> yeah. i think two things we need to see, precisely that, how will he impose order on both the senior level staff, the fami...

Well, that's a relationship that could sour. i find it hard to believe that john kelly can change that. >> who just hired a communications director in a way that john kelly found distasteful. anthony scaramucci came out and said reince is a bleeping paranoid schizophrenic. i'm trying to figure out john kelly's first, second, third day in the white house. he wakes up and is watching the news and sees something like this from anthony scaramucci. >> as you know, from the italian phrase, the fish stinks from the head down. i don't like the activity what's