will not hesitate to tell people the truth. the real test is going to be whether he can develop that kind of relationship with donald trump. secretary panetta, i appreciate your time. thanks. you bet. back with the panel now. phillip r what s so fascinate, it s going to be fascinating to watch what happens. you cannot have more different people than general john kelly, president trump, and a lot of the folks on his on the inner staff of the white house, and to see how these two worlds sort of collide is going to be fascinating. it is. yeah. i mean, the real question is going to be can general kelly get the staff to be like the sorts of people he s used to working with, or are they so spoiled by six months of trumpiness that he s not going to be able to get them to stay on the same page? i think it s true that trump will be responsive to him. we ve seen several times over the course of the campaign, he s responsive to a new person. it doesn t always stick. we ll see. the real
anything. in many cases that shapes his decision making process of major decisions. that s part of the reason that so many staffers stuck so close to this president. they wanted to know who he was talking to and who was shaping his world view, and as we ve seen for a white house where there is so much back biting, they wanted to make sure they were protecting their own identities, their own turf within this white house. in speaking to previous chiefs of staff and people who studied the way a white house would normally operate, they said it was chief to see them together at many times for long stretches when he could have been more productive back here in the west wing. appreciate the update. with me now, our panel. phillip, what do you make of not just this week, but the last couple of hours? i mean, that s always the time. it s fascinating to watch the fact that the senate failed to
what was so interesting about mccain is that and he was one of the heros that helped topple this horrible bill. that when he went over there, his thumbs down was actually a middle finger up to donald trump, and i saw the bubble, the thought bubble saying, hero enough for you now, donald? i mean, that was a beautiful moment. well, with all due respect to my democrat friend, marie, here, this is not good for anyone. it s not good for america. that s right. it s not good for the middle class and families that are worrying about their health care. their insurance premiums going up. where you have a 30 % of counties that will have only one insurer. wait. major companies are health insurance companies are pulling out. so should republicans work with democrats on this to shore up okay. wait. talk. one at a time. the individual mandate. okay. one at a time. phillip. let me intervene here. that s not what this bill did.
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