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Being the chairman of breitbart news, that was as eager and in some cases more eager to attack republicans than it was democrats. and if you were a politician that had come under the crosshairs of breitbart, you probably didn't have a good feeling about steve bannon. so there was a sense that bannon would burn it all down in trying to plop up his nationalist ideas. and in the end he became white house strategist. and one of the interesting things to me is watching bannon be forced to make alliances with the likes of paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, and people he had slandered in his past role. a...

If there was so much success, he wouldn't have brought in a new white house communications director. it defies the facts as we saw them throughout the week how challenging it was. yes, that is classic donald trump. he wants to put his own brand on it. he's talking up the economy. we are coming up on the one year anniversary of his speech where he said 4% growth as a goal. that's the measure. that's how we are going to measure him, 2.6%, obviously short of that. again, he takes back and puts a spin on it. this is what he did in business and everything, that don't quite match up to the facts as ...

Those are things to watch for. so monday is the official start date for john kelly in this new role. there will be an acting secretary at dhs. and reince priebus has said he will be here for a couple of weeks to assist with the transition. just adds sean spicer, the outgoing press secretary, is still here working for a few more weeks with sarah huckabee sanders in that role. so the shake-ups are here with some of those figures still around the white house as a new chapter seems to be beginning. alex. >> all right, it's transition time certainly. thank you so much. kelly o'donnell from the whit...

Omb, office of management and budget, to become the white house chief of staff. and there was a bunch of other shake ups at the time. david gergen, a former republican advisor at the white house, now a cnn contributor, cnn analyst. he was brought in. i remember at the time to bring some adult supervision into that staff. >> yeah. >> it's not necessarily the first time we've seen a shake up among senior staff at the white house. >> absolutely. for a chief of staff, this is short. the average chief of staff i think is about 18 months to two years is the average chief of staff's tenure. so, this ...

Air force one with the presses on a day when all of this is churning, almost adds to the unceremonial end to this. i took bit of time between tweets where the president announced john kelly before the thank you to priebus came about. we're told there will be a cabinet meeting on monday. they're trying to turn the page and this is one of those changes, one of those shake-ups that none of us are surprised by. but when it rattles, it really rattles this place. >> i want to bring in jonathan swan, ken vogel, a reporter for the new york times, curtis lee with the national times, and ely stokel with...