the president has been forward about finding the leakers. did he lose trust in reince priebus? i would say it appears his troops lost trust in him. i read this one in politico story where he mentioned that he had chief of staff meetings and half the staff would show up. that s not important. the thing is we have a fresh start with john kelly. i thank reince priebus for his service. but at the end of the day, the presidency is bigger than one staffer and bigger than the president and everybody needs to be working in the same direction to push forward the mandate given to the president by the electoral majority in november and it wasn t happening and the president made a quick decision to turn the page and he s chosen somebody who has served this country for decades and we re honored to have his service again. dan, i am going to guess you might have a different view of how this went down and what this means for the administration. i think by all standards, reince priebus had a te
thank you. outfront now with more, april ryan. she s cnn political analyst and white house correspondent. former communications director for president trump s transition team and former deputy communications director for the trump campaign and dan phieffer. i want to play for you, april, again how reince priebus answered wolf blitzer s question why did he resign and just see if you buy it. have a listen. did the president formaly ask you to resign? no. i resigned and he accepted it. and that conversation was just simply like that? he didn t try to talk you out of it? no. we talked about it. you re confusing something. we talk all the time about this subject. so, april, putting something of a brave face on it, but we know that there have been some the knives have been out
him. but reince priebus tried to keep order in a chaotic place where people felt they could run in at any time. and dan will tell you that when you have a chief of staff everyone all the senior officials come in under that chief of staff and have their back and forth, if you will, and then work it out before it goes to the president and instead reince priebus was trying to keep order, but those people who had the issues kept going to the president keeping the chaos going. so reince priebus did as much as he could do in this administration, but he s trying to save face. he was a big man in washington who had a big job. now he still stands behind this president and is trying to save face. i know you have been speaking to people in the white house. you know them well. you have been working with them as this has been unfolding. what do you think is behind this. we saw this in scaramucci s tweet yesterday that reince priebus might be the leaker.