solacious coverage on an issue that s been front and center. i think that makes him tremendously angry. i would say he also doesn t like to take blame, and he is now outwardly looking at who can he blame for that bad press and has isolated hicks s has isolated kelly as the people to do that. this president is reaching to outside advisers who helped him when he took office. there might be rivals on the inside he s asking, hey, should i get rid of my chief of staff? he might be considering firing someone when that s not the case. again, this is part of the constant some people call it chaos, some call it his behavior, but it s constant in the trump administration. he s calling outside asking people to rate and score his inside team, among them, his foreign campaign manager corwin lewandowski who was fired from the campaign. still talks to the president
his resume pete is going to tell you. pete: retired four star general marine. four tours in iraq including one during the surge. coming from the department of homeland security. he was at southern command. that s why they put him in homeland security to begin with he understands the borders. he was involved in d.c. legislative marine corps for the house and senate. worked for secretaries of states gates and panetta. more nuanced than people think. guys been in the field, is he used to coming in to call it chaos, call it disruptive, call it a new situation. get the facts, take control, and focus on the things that truly matter. he is the chief of staff inside this white house. as corey lewandowski said he is not the chief of the president. he is the chief of staff. is he not going to try to change him. i think he can bring a lot of great things. ainsley: highly disciplined military background. highly respected from both sides of the aisle. if you want to get rid of the leakers put a gen
that s how much tom brady s missing super bowl jersey is worth. houston police say whoever stole it faces a first degree felony charge. wow. it s worth half a million dollars, brian. brian: all right. i have it. not the shirt but i have the money. i will get it to you, ainsley. meanwhile, you like to think the white house is on fire now, right, with all this coverage? presidency. an administration careening out of control. plagued with personnel problems and then drowning in damaging leaks to the press. it s an arcky. critics call it chaos. the rhetoric loud, aggressive, chaotic, as many in the media forgotten donald trump s white house is a total snooze fest compared to what happened, for example, inside the clinton administration which many people thought was successful. here with a reminder is josh king he served in the clinton administration as white house production for presidential events. is he also author of this book offscript. advanced guide campaign spectacle an
gig. the idea it s off the rails, right. here you have what s happening on the same day we find out via reporting that michael flynn, the outgoing national security advisor perhaps commit aid felony in term of his interviews with the fbi, the same day the labor secretary hnominee has to pull out, he has to nominate someone else. the trump administration insisting, no, things aren t chaotic and most of the available evidence suggesting that, in fact, they re chaotic. is there a different view as we know in washington that he s not getting credit for all the other stuff that he s moving on? tell us where you stand. well, i think, it is chaos. the question is it chaos that serves him or chaos that does not. i think there is a fine line there, he operates in chaos pretty well and has done so throughout his entire career. i think we can misunderstand that easily. yesterday during the press conference he was fighting on turf that he wanted to fight on. he was fighting with the media, he
the newspapers and i see stories of chaos yet it is the exact opposite this administration is running like a fine tuned machine despite the fact i can t get my cabinet approved. during the press conference he intensified his attacks on the media sparring with reporters for 77 minutes. let s bring back our panel to discuss this. frank, let me start with you. he doesn t see it as chaos. people watching or the media might call it a spectacle. they might call it chaos but i think that was sort of insightful. this is his style. he is enjoying it, he said a couple of times. this isn t to him chaos. what did you hear? well, i think the president needs to be very careful here because first of all what he says needs to conform with what other people see or he ll have a credibility problem when he