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Staff john kelly. this wasn't just under the first chief of staff reince priebus. listen to this. this is from the book. he's an idiot. the president's unhinged. mattis quoted as saying, the president has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. rex tillerson, a bleeping moron. this is on the president speaking at a white house staff meeting, according to this book. he's an idiot. it's pointless to try to convince him of anything. he's gone off the rails. we're in crazy town. i don't know why any of us are here. this is the worst job i've ever had. michael, you've covered the white house ...

That if you removed kelly, removed mattis, and tillerson, who's no longer there, from this administration, this country could devolve into chaos. this suggests that in a lot of ways that those people and others in the administration took these steps to prevent the president from acting because they thought it would be a significant threat to this country, to the world. this is the president of the united states we're talking about and his most senior trusted aides and advisers. it's a remarkable thing. >> and just for context, a dangerous thing in today's world but a lot of this reporting is a...

To support what the president wants to do. there are well-established -- for example, the national security process. barack obama when he was thinking about what to do in afghanistan, it was a month's long review that involved a whole host of people across the go government to try to help the president decide. in this administration, what we see again and again, and this is probably the most vivid portrait, is the president at war with that process. the president who wants to do whatever he wants to do and the process struggling to figure out how to keep him from doing it. that's just not how ...