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On a busy day, we'll get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then we'll go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we don't read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection, we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. we're looking for gang affiliations, signs, markers on the envelopes. searching for contraband, of course. >> most of the mail corporal johnson and his staff process are letters written from one inmate to a...

Department and not the state department, of course there's a loss of trust. they don't trust the president. >> well, it's an extremely unsettling situation. the president is impulsive. he does not have a staff process yet. general kelly has been incapable of really pulling that together. we ought to thank god we have mattis. he's been able to recruit sensible people to work with him. one of the most humiliating photos i've seen was jared kushner head of delegation to the iraqi government on one side was the former bodyguard and on the other side, the chairman of the jcs. a 37 year old in charg...

>> the most overwhelming aspect is not the mail itself, it's the volume of the mail. on a busy day, we'll get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then we'll go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we don't read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection, we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. we're looking for gang affiliations, signs, markers on the envelopes. searching for contraband, of course. >> most of the...

He listens in on conversations between cabinet secretaries and the president. he has booted lingering staff members out of high level meetings and ordered the doors of the oval office closed to discourage strays. tim is joining me, cnn presidential historian and general mark hurtling, who served more than 15 months in iraq with general kelly, did multiple operations together, and so general, just beginning with you, just more great detail out of this piece too, how the times is saying general kelly had told his new employees that he was hired to moong manaanage staff, not the president. you kn...

He knows how to work with bosses. he's worked with defense secretaries and diplomats so he knows these kind of things but he can only do so much. he can only provide that discipline and rigor to the staff process and getting the information to his boss. what his boss does with it, he can't control. >> right. tim, i was quoting james baker earlier this week and he was saying, and i'm paraphrasing, the best chief of staffs are those who focuses on the of staff part of the title and not the chiefs piece. you tell me, you look at presidential history. what is truly the role of the chief of staff a...