interns because a source provided a copy of his notes to the publication foreign policy. he failed to report more than 100 instances of travel and contacts with foreign officials on his security clearance forms which he had to update twice to include meetings with russian officials. kushner claims he didn t track the meetings because he didn t expect to get into politics. the days of tolerating b.s. in this white house are over, end quote. that from a source close to the trump white house. if you don t believe it, just ask anthony scaramucci. his tenure as communications director ending before it really began. technically his start day was august 15th. scaramucci lasting exactly 11 days. a white house statement saying, mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and ability to build his own time. kelly delivered the news to anthony scaramucci after being sworn in. the retired marine general thought he lacked discipline and
different power centers, there s the family power center, there s the new york power center, there s the nationalist power center, and then there s the establishment power center. it looks like the establishment, the rnc folks, are really on their way out. it seems to be that way. you know, it s tough to do the kremlinology on this. the very fact we re i don t know if they would appreciate that term. but pun totally intended. but that s the smaller issue. the bigger issue is will it change, will we get out of the business of trying to decide which faction is killing another faction in something that s supposed to operate vep efficiently? now we have a new chief of staff and that s going to be the question. will anything change and particularly will the commitments that i think general kelly probably got from the president that you will really be in charge mean anything. congressman, we heard mick mulvaney saying today earlier in the show that he hopes that this retired mari
other. this is how he has run his business, his campaign. that s how he wants to run the white house. fine. if you are traditionally a white house chief of staff, you re not in that job for tuckly long amount of time anyway. this might be the kind of presidency where we see him burn quickly through a number of staffers. but, no, this is not the end of him being angry at jeff sessions. it s not the end of him pitting aides against each other. the question i come back to is management style issue. can a new chief of staff change him? retired marine general will be the chief of staff. active duty generals were annoyed beyond belief because on twitter he announced the change of transgender members in the military. no heads up to the joint chiefs. the president tweeted it out in a series of chiefs to which the chairman of the joint chiefs issued a statement saying there will be no modifications to the current policy until the president s direction has been received by the secretary of def
on long island. i want to congratulate john kelly, who has done an incredible job of secretary of state of homeland security. incredible. one of our real stars. truly one of our stars. [ applause ] john kelly is one of our great stars. that was before it was announced that priebus was out. in fact, john kelly is a four star retired marine general. barbara starr has more on him. you reported on the pentagon for years and have a lot of experience with general kelly. explain his background. reporter: four-star marine, anderson. close for decades to defense secretary james mattis, and general doneford. so kelly knows national security, even before he went to homeland security. this is a guy who knows how to run a large organization. he served in iraq in combat out in western iraq in anbar, in
it was appearances. trump refused to step down. despite that, the two men seemed to find a way to mend fences. ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the united states, donald trump. reince is a star, and he s the hardest working guy. reporter: for months priebus had the president s back, like when questions were asked about a potential conflict of interest between president trump and his businesses. i can assure you and everyone else all these things will be followed and done properly. reporter: also fending off questions regularly about why the president still hadn t released his tax returns. president trump, the only people asking me this question are people like you. reporter: but trump s victory didn t end the drama. soon after taking office, priebus found himself unable to contain a laundry list of controversies. like the immigration ban rollout, the russia investigation, and the failure of the senate s plan to repeal and replace obamacare.