the west wing, to your previous point, has been always full of people, both genders, sharp elbows, hard noses, people don t suffer fools, people don t scare easily. but you ve written that this departure of a bolton deputy may have more weight than a departure of, say, a chief of staff. walk us through that flowchart and the reasoning. well, i just think the point i made earlier is just we have known that kelly has been on his way out for a long time. you know, his frustration level with both the white house and with president trump has been well known. i thought that the news today about mira ricardel and this clash she d had with the first lady and the first lady s public statement which was so extraordinary really said so much more because it really means that this is one of the first potential missteps for john bolton as national security adviser. he s going to lose basically his attack dog in the white house.
people, both genders, sharp elbows, hard noses, people don t suffer fools, people don t scare easily. but you ve written that this departure of a bolton deputy may have more weight than a departure of, say, a chief of staff. walk us through that flowchart and the reasoning. well, i just think the point i made earlier is just we have known that kelly has been on his way out for a long time. you know, his frustration level with both the white house and with president trump has been well known. i thought that the news today about mira ricardel and this clash she d had with the first lady and the first lady s public statement which was so extraordinary really said so