was just released. certainly. the first reaction to some extent is a surprise, because we had been led to believe that the body camera video wouldn t show us anything revelatory. now that we ve seen this video almost two years after the shooting, we see all types of new details that would have helped us interpret the shooting back in july 2016. what we see is the immediate escalation of the interaction by officer blane salamoni. we see alton sterling being stunned with a taser even as he was at least partially complying. in that moment when the officer tackles him to the ground leading to the shooting, it appears from this video that alton sterling was standing with his hands up. it raises questions about the police tactics even if this new video doesn t raise to the level of prompting legal charges. page, on one hand it s hard to watch the video. on the other hand, it s hard not to watch it, it is disturbing on so many levels. we know sterling did have a gun, that s important here
from the president as she left her job as communications director this week. sources say top aides are worried that the president will, quote, unravel without his so-called trump whisperer. at the same time, cnn is learning other trump allies are telling the president he doesn t need to replace her or even to have a chief of staff, for that matter. joining us is david axelrod. david, the president defies precedent, he tweets what he wants to tweet, he makes policy and personnel decisions on the fly. without about this idea of going without a communications director or chief of staff? could it work? no, i don t think in the long term it could work for him or the country. but that s not his orientation. he looks at his own experience, and he says, look, i defied all the conventional rules to get here, i went by the light of my own instincts, and that s why i m here, and if i had listened to all these geniuses, i wouldn t be here, so i m just going to run the government that