tucker: the general is regarded as successful and confident, has taken a job with assurances that he could do that, right? yeah, he was in a job that he was succeeding at. he fell on a sword in the beginning when that executive order backfired. he went out in front of the present said i can do better. i do think there was this loyalty factor and i think we ll see what happens. in 1973, president nixon turn it to a new chief of staff after watergate. former general, to star and promoted to four-star took over that white house.
tucker: the general is regarded as successful and confident, has taken a job with assurances that he could do that, right? yeah, he was in a job that he was succeeding at. he fell on a sword in the beginning when that executive order backfired. he went out in front of the present said i can do better. i do think there was this loyalty factor and i think we ll see what happens. in 1973, president nixon turn it to a new chief of staff after watergate. former general, to star and promoted to four-star took over
conversation with our colleague chuck todd and secretary rex tillerson who made his first appearance on meet the press today talking about sort of the fallout of the comey firing and how that affects the rest of the administration. here s an excerpt from their conversation. i am devoted to helping the president achieve his objectives, helping him be success f successf successful and i have to earn his confidence everyday. what s the line between service to the president and it was so the country, sir? i will never compromise my own values, chuck, that s my only line. my values are those of the count country. so the question of where is the loyalty factor, the political factor that might go into a high-profile job. of course, the fbi director has a ten-year term. that was done to try to span more than one presidency to remove some of the politics from the position. at the same time, the president does have the ability at will to
keith kellogg has stepped up. he was the chief of staff to the nsc. he was there. kellogg is a long-time retired military officer, he had 36 years in the military. as we said he s the acting national security adviser currently. he was one of the earliest senior military officials to back trump. there s a loyalty factor as well. some other names we re hearing, general david petraeus, highest amongst them. of course, the former cia director, led military officials in iraq and afghanistan, including the famous surge in 2007. he but he comes with some baggage. he resigned after an extramarital affair. he s currently on probation. we re hearing reports that petraeus could come to the white house as early as this week to