gilfoyl, from fox news, may be brought in to replace sean spicer. it s lard hard to say. there s a published account with her sort of knocking that story down. we ve reported a couple of days ago that she s been in the discussion. the other possibility if sean is replaced and again, we don t know that that is definitely going to happen. we don t even know if it will happen at all. but another potential scenario is sarah huckabee-sanders, his deputy, who did a pretty serviceable job at the podium last week. there could be a potential time share. here s the problem with this. it s not like there s some binder with a plan. when i covered the obama administration, pete rouse, one-time chief of staff and long-time staffer for president obama, spent months and months and months concocting plans. in this white house, things are often made spur of the moments
house. pete rouse who was one of his top aides spent 30 years, including as chief of staff to the majority leader in the senate. and throughout the obama white house there were people that had very, very deep experience. it was for that reason that he was able to pass a recovery act, that he was able to pass the affordable care act, and had one of the most productive first two years of any president since lyndon johnson. he would not have been able to do that if he didn t have people around him. but, ultimately, ana, it flows from the top. now, the president has this week on a twitter tirade of sorts, attacking the freedom caucus, the conservative republican group, after what happened with the healthcare bill. what do you make of president trump s strategy there? was that a smart move to go on the offense against a group within his own party? it is never clear to me what is a strategy and what is an impulse on the part of this president. the fact is a couple of weeks earlier he was
reporter: difficult with an uncooperative congress and the president s own pledge not to raise taxes. our meeting starts promptly at 7:45, so i m going to reporter: her first meeting is with the president s chief of staff. we ll be back soon. reporter: she s outlasted four other chiefs of staff, rahm emanuel, pete rouse, bill daily, and jack lew. it has been said that karl rove was george bush s brain and you re barack obama s spine. well, i think the president has a pretty sturdy spine all on his own. reporter: he doesn t need you for that. he does not need me for that one bit. reporter: at 8:45 she sits down with her own senior team. 36 white house staffers work for her. they discuss getting programs out, going around congress straight to the nation s mayors. then it s off to the roosevelt room. good morning, good morning. reporter: and a meeting with small business owners on how to make the workplace more family-friendly.
dime. but if we re serious about negotiations, we ve got to create an atmosphere in which iran is willing to move in ways that are uncomfortable to them in ways that are contrary to their rhetoric and suspicions of us, we don t help get them to a position where we can actually resolve this by engaging in this kind of action. all right? okay. i ll take one question, colleen mckay nelson and that is it. some of the advisers are leaving the white house and others are coming in and taking on new roles in the west wing. as you reshape your team how does it change the dynamic and impact what you think you can accomplish going forward? i just had launch with pete
you know, i just had lunch with pete rouse, who is leaving me. that s tough. he says not right now, at least. you know, i love that guy. and that will be a significant loss, although he ll still be in town and hopefully i ll be able to consult with him on an ongoing basis. i think the fact john podesta is coming in will be terrific. he may deny it, but i have been trying to get him in here for quite some time. he ran my transition office. i asked him with he was running the transition office if he would be willing to join us, and i think at that time he was wanting to develop other organizations, but john is a great strategist. he is as good as anybody on domestic policy. and i think he ll be a huge boost to us and give us more band width to deal with more issues. i suspect that we may have