it s me and it s you. don t stop now, it s easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing. in addition to steve bannon leaving today as white house chief strategist, special assistant to the president julia hahn also hit the exits and left the white house. also out today, the white house director of publicly ace son, which is a tight tal that sounds like nothing but it was a position held by valerie jarrett. that guy left today. and then today carl icahn left today as well. he will no longer serve as a special adviser to the president on regulatory reform, though this blistering long piece in the new yorker today suggests that carl icahn may have some criminal legal concerns that followed him home from that job
of dollars for his own compan s companies. moments before that was published, carl icahn resigned. is that resignation by carl icahn a stand-alone carl icahn potential corruption story, or is his resignation tonight tied in any way to the steve bannon departure earlier today? also, who else is leaving the administration right away? either just to take advantage of the smoke screen created by steve bannon s departure, or because they were tied to bannon and now that bannon is gone, they don t have any political means of staying. number three, eric prince, the brother of betsy devoss and the founder of blackwater. politico.com reports that that big meeting on afghanistan today, which was the supposed reason mike pence had to fly home early from his overseas trip, politico reports now that eric prince, the blackwater guy, was due to be at that
director of public liaison, which is a title that sounds like nothing but it was a position held by valerie jarrett. in the obama white house. that guy left today. and then today carl icahn left today as well. carl e he will no longer serve as a special adviser to the president on regulatory reform, though this blistering long piece in the new yorker today suggests that carl icahn may have some criminal legal concerns that followed him home from that job that he quit tonight. okay. so that s this evening whose left the trump administration. anybody else? where s my phone? before tonight, in addition to losing his national security adviser and his chief of staff and his press secretary and press secretary and chief strategist, the president also saw the departure of not one but two communications directors and his deputy white house chief of staff and his
obviously this is another landmark moment in the disillusion of the trump administration, but we ll be talking about that over the course of the next hour, and i just want to focus on a few things that we re chewing on right now and trying to answer. stuff that hasn t been answered yet that i m hoping we might get answered over the course of this evening. number one, when do we get normal sleepy fridays back? when can we have a slow news day, particularly on a friday? never? ever. okay. that s fine. two, carl icahn just left the administration tonight as well. he left the administration, quit his job literally moments before the new yorker magazine published this piece about billionaire carl icahn using his position in the trump administration to make potentially hundreds of millions
stuff that hasn t been answered yet that i m hoping that we might get answered over the course of this evening. number one, when do we get normal sleepy fridays back? when can we have a slow news day, particularly on a friday? never? ever? okay. so that s why. two, carl icahn just left the administration tonight as well. he left the administration, quit his job, literally moments before the new yorker magazine published this piece about billionaire carl icahn using his position in the trump administration to potentially make hundreds of millions of dollars for his own companies. moments before that was published tonight at the new yorker s website, carl icahn resigned. is that resignation by carl icahn is standalone carl icahn corruption story or is his resignation tonight tied in any way to the steve bannon departure today? also, who else is leaving the