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Candidates for a new white house chief of staff, and trying to turn attention away from all that we've learned from the cohen revelations. >> yes, cnn's sarah westwood is following developments from the white house. >> reporter: president trump spent this weekend railing against the paris climate accord, going after his former fbi director, calling for an end to the russia investigation, and basically talking about anything other than prosecutors linking him directly in court filings submitted friday to illegal payments his former attorney michael cohen made during the presidential race. now, ...

>> i'd like to start with the changing of the guard in the chief of staff. general john kelly on his way out the door, nick ayers says he'll pass on the job. now we're hearing representative mark meadows is reportedly being floated as a possible replacement. but the question here, how difficult will it be for this administration to find anyone to step into a role that, as short history suggests, is a dead end job from the start? >> reporter: well, clearly there will be someone. the question is who, with what credibility will they have externally because it's proven to be a very difficult role ...

Investigators. an extremely secretive individual. in fact, of constantine clem nicker there are only a few public individuals to see what the man even looks like. fred plotkin, cnn, moscow. >> fred, thank you. back here in the united states, president trump says he will pick a new chief of staff very soon. in a tweet, the president says he is in the process of interviewing people for the position. sources tell cnn four people are being considered. >> now, one of those out of the running is nick ayers, the chief of staff of vice-president mike pence. he had been considered a front runner for th...

So you can see why for a lot of very serious people it's not tremendously appealing, but it is an important role. and the turnover in this i think is deeply disturbing. >> the other big story that we're following, the president starting this week under the shadow cast by these court filings from friday on mr. trump's former attorney michael cohen and his former campaign chairman paul manafort. it shows that there is a lot of smoke, and even goes as far as implicating individual number one who we believe individual number one, donald trump, the u.s. president, in two felonies. but the question ...

Investigations. but it's not yet clear what the link is on the question of russia. it's very clear that, that many russians have tried -- that tried to communicate with members of trump's team during the elections, during the campaigns. but what they received back from trump and those around him is certainly lack of clarity on that so far. i think the big question here is how is this being read by the american public. and if you are watching the commentary and listening to people it's still being read very much through partisan lens. the president is directing a lot of that partisanship. so, u...