against the republicans and so the president went i think from a victory that night to now coming to the realization that the house is not where it wanted to be did he really believe republicans were going to hold the house? did he believe it? i think he believed it would be closer than it was and we see a number of these close races within 1,000 votes that the republicans are losing and we didn t see as many gains in the senate. he s looked at his staff and going in his first and re-election campaign, do i have the right team and that s where the rumors are coming from. the person who is rumored to replace john kelly, nick ayers, somebody with a lot more campaign chomps that john kelly. its a very different mold than what john kelly has. he s a process guy, policy person. wants to make sure it s done properly. nick ayers is a political animal. i mean that in the positive sense. if the president wants to make a change so what happened to some
to go public with the with what s going on in the white house? is the president not listening? i look back at nancy reagan and how hillary clinton was very much involved in the day-to-day operations of the white house. this is not uncommon. melania trump is a private person and when she she s something when she wants to weigh in on, she s done it. she s done two separate interviews now when she said there are people in the white house that don t belong and that s going to come to a change pretty soon. john kelly going to be chief-of-staff by the end of the year? i have no idea. the nancy pelosi fight. lots of democrats claim they want her out and they want a new speaker, but who? as ruth marcus said earlier, you can t be somebody with nobody. stay with us. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest. i had a pe blood clot in my lung. i was scared. i had a dvt blood clot. having one really puts you in danger of having another.
he remains a close ally to the president and currently serves to the senior adviser to the vice president. welcome back to the show. thanks for having me. i feel like we ve been down this road before. the president s furious at john kelly, his days are numbered. you said that six months ago and 12 months ago. are things different this time or not? what s your sense? i think what this president is now seeing a week after the election results were on election night as the number started to roll in, it looked by and large it was going to be a very good run for republicans. andy s seat in kentucky, he held on. so there was a bit of maybe overjoy that things were going to go better than they were. now, we re still in this process of determining who has won some of these races. we got eight or nine congressional seats that haven t been decided. most of those are breaking
she has self-awareness that he does not have. president trump has offered her an escape hatch that maybe we republicans should give her a few votes to put her in the speakership and actually, there have been some discussions among some republicans about the idea of getting some reforms and in return helping her. i think that would be enormously difficult in both parties explain that. explain it to either base, right? how do you pull that one off? it would make for an interesting situation. house republicans went ahead and went mccarthy instead of jordan, went with the guy that knows how to talk to trump without being overly trumpy. however, if you re kevin mccarthy, what are you selling? look what i did in california? this is a tough its a tough assignment. i understand why he won, because the alternative was jim jordan and i don t think that party s ready to go down full trump but that s a tough sell. he s got a tough job. he s got to manage an unhappy
having to be out in south dakota campaigning for the republican governor the day before should be a wake up call to the republican party. i also look at the states like new mexico and arizona and nevada. places where the state party needs to do a better job of recruiting good candidates, making sure there s not a competitive primary process for those candidates and having the resources necessary in states where the demographics are changing considerably to make sure they re reaching out for those new demographics. making it harder to find a latino candidate that feels comfortable in the president s party. in arizona, the senator elect said i supported putting military troops on the border. the state of the arizona is the front line of the issue of immigration. there is a reason where she said that. doug doocy the governor of arizona won by a wide margin. republicans have to dissect that and see why. why did the first lady have