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Gatekeeper to the oval office and the person responsible for leading a white house in carrying out a president's plan. one who served george w. bush assessed emanuel's performance in this way. >> i disagree with the philosophy to of the president, the politics of the president, the policies of the president but i want his chief of staff to serve him well. and rahm emanuel did a good job at that. >> reporter: mr. obama announced his senior aid visor pete rouse who served as chief of staff to then senator obama and worked on capitol hill for many years is assuming the role. >> pete, who has more...

Look, seeing this east room event and watching cabinet secretaries walk in. if you doubted rahm emanuel's influence and power inside this administration before today, when you see cabinet secretaries being brought in as the audience for his departure and, of course, also the entrance of pete rouse, it really sort of underscores the power that rahm emanuel had inside this administration that really he was more chief than he was staff. that this was a guy that, you know, was as in charge of the cabinet as he was somebody who just simply interacted with cabinet secretary. so, i just think truly t...

>>reporter: the frontrunner to replace him is peter rouse who takes over as interim chief and for a number of reasons the president might not be in a real hurry to replace him. the two go way back, the president hired rouse to be his senate chief of staff in 2004 and rouse is part of the inner circle that planned mr. obama's run for the white house. and he also has a history of working with members of congress. he was daschle's chief of stamp for -- staff for 20 years. >>shepard: great to see you. and we will talk about rahm emanuel's expected departure and what it meepz for the white house wi...

News necessarily, who is going to tow the line, who is going to get things done. i think there are aspects of the job that i would do very, very well. but there are aspects of the job i wouldn't do so hot at. >> what happened back in pennsylvania in 2008 when you were fighting against, in the primary against barack obama, present tense -- >> i think that's not a problem. look, barack picked hillary clinton to be his most important cabinet officer. >> good point. >> hillary and barack have developed a great relationship. hillary has been a loyal soldier. if i went to washington, and it's not go...

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