other classic republican support i think it s clear absent there being some real criminal misdoing or something that looks so bad it will retard his efforts, he s going to take his chances and be unconventional. it is interesting how it seemed that how important loyalty is to donald trump. yes. we ve seen this time and time again. we learned this on the campaign trail. we re seeing it. rudy giuliani was an early backer of donald trump. and part of any transition is rewarding those people who have been loyal, whether it s that s right. good or not. there is nothing unusual here about what s going on. donald trump is in the moment of putting his stamp on the government of the united states. it s going to be a trump government. that s the way it works. the old saying from the andrew jackson days goes, to the winner goes the spoils. this is how it works. kuchner at the center of this in fighting, that people describe things as a knife fight, clearly a purging of chris chr
platform and saying, i m going to give the alt right a voice in this country. anderson, i would never do that. you would never do that. cnn would never do that. we would never do that ever. no responsible person would. donald trump has said, look, on the campaign trail, his daughter is jewish, converted to judaism when she married jared kushner, his grandchildren are jewish, the idea being he would not support somebody who has anti-semitic beliefs. i don t make that claim on bannon. let me give you a scenario. i don t know what it is. i really don t. i know that he has said he has made it into a platform for the alt right and it has become that. so under his watch now what he believes, i don t know. he may just think this is a way to appeal who is easy to appeal to, traditionalism,
i never met jared kuchner. i hate going after family. i don t. kids are impressive. i m sure the son-in-law is impressive. they re not children but adult children who are now assuming real power and influence. i suppose that makes him a target. i m not ready to cast stones at him. this is clearly coming from inside trump land. people are attacking the president-elect s son-in-law. how common is that in a transition at this stage? never happened. nobody was attacking bobby kennedy when jfk was bringing him into the government. that was a different era. he has two jobs as president-elect, he has to unite our country, staff his government and can do both with some of the standings. that s why colin powell is the gold standard. can i respond to something jeffrey said? to the winner goes the spoils. that s not the way our political system works. these positions have to be confirmed by the senate. three branches of government and what we have to hope and pray, given the republicans c
very publicly, prior to this, the shake-up of the chief of staff level that he reports directly to the president. you have jared kuchner, senior advisers who obviously could bypass anyone to get to the president. so these are big challenges with big agenda attemitems. the president dined with john kelly and two his cabinet secretaries last night here in d.c. they re spending time together. perhaps mapping out what this new week will look like. alex. okay, lots to look forward to. kelly o donnell from the white house. joining me, the political reporter for the los angeles times. and aarerin mcpike, for the independent journal. good to see you both. simone, you first, take a listen to trump s former campaign manager corey lewandowski who hadded this to say on meet the press regarding the white house shake-up.
latest on that. what are you learning, phil? reporter: this really all goes back to jared kuchner, the husband of ivanka trump, crucial component of donald trump s inner circle. if you want a sense of why or how, take a look at this. he was meeting one on one with president obama, chief of staff dennichlt s mcdonough was walking one on one with jared kushner. sources are telling cnn he has been at the center of this infighting, described as overbearing and played a key role in something jim just laid out, the decision to purge chris christie as the transition chairman but also several of chris christie s top advisers and allies along with him. that has rubbed staffers the wrong way, people who are cognizant of the fact that they need to move quickly and throwing up roadblocks because of perhaps personal issues is only moving to set the trump transition back. why would he be intent on