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Political analyst. joining us, chris whipple, the author of the gatekeepers, how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency. eugene, the presidency you described today so fully and eloquently in "the washington post" seems to be one that no white house chief of staff can control. >> well, not without the authority to control it. that's what reince priebus always lacked. he was never given anywhere near the authority that a chief of staff usually has. now, there was no organization chart. everybody just sort of reported directly to the president. he couldn't be a gatekeeper. he cou...

Can report directly to donald trump, or this will be -- this will fail. >> look, gene, i think we have a test for general kelly on day one, and that is exactly how many minutes does it take him to yank those white house credentials off the neck of anthony scaramucci because if scaramucci works in that white house, by definition general kelly has failed to control that white house. >> i actually believe that's true. certainly he can't report directly to the president. if scaramucci is around, he's going to push it. he's going to take liberties. even if on an organization chart he's below genera...

Communications and it has to -- those part s have to coordinate and work together in some fashion. a military man like general kelly will have some ideas how to do that. he'll have to in so far there are boxes in an organization chart, he'll have to have the power to rearrange them. >> it seems we're learning this, this is where the anthony scaramucci broadside sells us about where powers are. the kids are on the dump priebus and bannon band wagon. where are all the republicans. looks like gary cohen is in charge of policy. this may empower mcmaster more. i think general kelly has a deep respe...

Reduce the role of the intelligence director of the joint chiefs chairman. "in crafting their organization order, trump's aides essentially cut and pasted language from an old organization chart. the trump team did not realize" who they were cutting out of the nsc by doing it that way. "as a practical matter, mr. trump's aides may not have intended a substantive change." so turning the national security council inside out, throwing out the military and the intelligence community in favor of steve bannon, that could be quite nefarious or might be they accidentally tied one shoe lace from the ri...

Leading the nsc. peter baker reports the very, very controversial decision by the trump white house to reorganize the nsc, to take out the chairman of the inr and the director of national intelligence, to take them all off the principals committee at the national security council and instead to put steve bannon on the principals committee, peter baker reports today that reorganization is something they might have kind of oopsed their way into. they may not have fully understood it when they did it. the president may not have understood it when he signed the order to make the change. "president...