unequipped for. he doesn t have political experience. the white house is still firmly defending general kelly as you know. you ve got a top white house official telling axios that kelly made himself the moral core of the trump administration. do you agree with that assessment? that remains to be seen. i think another thing we learned about john kelly this week is a lot of people thought he was the nonideological grown-up in the room who would take the edge off of donald trump s excesses. well, maybe not so much. i think in that tirade that he went on against representative wilson, we got a sense that he may share more of donald trump s view s than we realized up to this point. it may not be a safe bet that he s always going to be the grown-up in the room here, taking the edge off of trump. okay, chris, thank you very much. we ll see you again no doubt. it has been 32 days since puerto rico s been without power and a majority of the island,
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for whether how much influence he has on donald trump, i talked to denis mcdonough, president obama s last chief of staff, who told me that he s been on the business end of some phone calls from general kelly and there is never any doubt that in his mind that he speaks hard truths. another former republican chief of staff told me, okay, if that s the case, how did rocket man get on to the teleprompter of the speech before the u.n. general assembly? that s malpractice by the white house chief of staff or evidence that donald trump isn t listening to kelly. so, the comments by frederica wilson, the ones which john kelly has gone after, they have been proven to be inaccurate. he didn t speak the truth about what she said, whether intentionally or not. is it in his makeup as a four star marine general or as a chief of staff in a white house to issue an apology or do you think that is something that just is part of the either
the heart out of the affordable health care act, does it collapse? i think it probably does under its own weight if in fact the president is successful. all right, well, thank you so much for weighing in on all of the topics. see you both again. word of another huge settlement involving sexual harassment allegations against bill o reilly. a new york times report not verified by nbc news goes into detail about the $32 million settlement with a long time fox analyst. nbc s morgan radford has details. cautioun, you are about to n enter the no spin zone. reporter: according to a new york times report, o reilly paid a $32 million settlement to lis wiehl, often seen on his top rated primetime show. the report alleges o reilly had a nonconsensual sexual
within this white house, the fact that everyone says this president is incapable of issuing apologies. well, it is certainly part of the ether. i think we learned a number of things about john kelly this week. one thing we have learned is that he s out of his depth politically. the jim bakers, the leon panettas, the denis mcdonoughs, the really good white house chiefs of staff understood when you stand in front of a camera, you re not speaking as a marine, you re speaking as the white house chief of staff. you have to stay above the fray. even dick cheney, when he was gerald ford s 34-year-old white house chief of staff, his views were described as being to the right of ghengis khan and yet cheney was able to stay above the fray. he was always an honest broker, never would have known what his politics were, he never got into the trenches to fight the partisan battles. and that s a lesson that kelly, you know he, is apparently