any day now. but, our reporting indicates that the president is content to sort of let this ride out for a little bit. he feels like kelly can be a useful functionary at sort of a staff level in running the paper flow and the operation of the white house, even as he s lost influence in actually advising the president and doing the sorts of things that a chief of staff ordinarily would do. so, phil, in your post piece, it would after reading it, it would give you the sense that general kelly, given who he is and who he has been his entire life, he s not going to quit, it would seem. but what does he do all day, everyday now that he has a president of the united states who i don t know the last time that he released a public schedule with something on it? well, you know, i think he spends everyday trying to get through to the next day. it s a genuine crisis in that white house and has been some time now, a rather chaotic atmosphere. i think kelly is sort of spending his time puttin
sudden dismissal of johnny mcentee, the president s personal aide. he threatened to reside on multiple occasions, quote, it s sort of a weekly event said one senior white house official. kelly agrejedly grew so frustrated the day that trump fired david shulkin that homeland secretary nielson and mattis both reached out to calm him down. with us now, the author of that piece, white house bureau chief of the washington post and political analyst for msnbc and nbc news philip rucker and also joining the table msnbc contributor mike barnacle. mike, i begin with you with the most difficult, most important question, how is xander bogaerts doing? we ll find out later. the red sox for those of you at home who aren t keeping up with this the red sox are 8-1 and the new york team is doing
just as well, the mets, just absolutely tearing it up. 7-1. richard haass new york yankees not doing quite so well, but at least you have stanton. how about the masters, joe. let s talk about golf. philip rucker, now, to the other news, how long will this continue? does donald trump feel like he has to keep general kelly on for the foreseeable future? is he keeping him on because general mattis wants him on? what s going on here. why hasn t he been fired already? well, joe, our reporting indicates that things are sort of a status quo lull for a little while. kelly has a very clear decline in his power and influence and credibility inside the white house, but there s no indication that he s actually going to resign and certainly no indication that trump is going to fire him. that could, of course, change