this health care bill passed through the senate. of course, that bill met its fate at 2:30 in the morning. so this means he resigned before he knew the outcome. it would make more sense to me that health care failing made reince decide okay, my big project failed, the president needs someone else. so i feel like we don t have the full story about the final events here. i was just going to say, i don t understand why there s all this sort of bewilderment as to why priebus resigned. you read that story that ryan wrote, and you hear that interview that scaramucci did with chris cuomo, and they might have as well just rolled up hand carts and the acme movers to reince priebus office. you don t have to be a genius to read the hand writing on the wall. when the health care bill went down, that certainly sealed his
set his administration straight, the father, the son and the holy ghost. i admire general kelly, our president is autocratic, narcissistic, general kelly can t fix that with a better organizational chart. no matter how much organization to paul s point, and i m not going to use the words he used, but no matter how well he organizes things, the president is still the president, and he s not going to change tweeting at 6:00 a.m. in the morning, surprises that kelly probably doesn t know about. right. i think that will be the big unknown moving forward. what we have seen is there s positive energy coming from those in the white house. they re encouraged by the changes with regard to the general coming in. they say he ll bring about respectability and discipline in the white house and create unity.
sometimes. and i just can t answer whether the president will or won t do that. i would imagine, anderson, that the president feels less restrained than he ever has now with this move as well. remember, this was such an awkward marriage between donald trump and reince priebus. two years ago reince priebus came up as rnc chair with a loyalty ledge, all to try to box donald trump in from not running as an independent. and they went through that drama. then the whole issue during the general election, and telling him maybe he should drop out after the access hollywood tape. this is exactly the kind of person that president trump believes his candidacy was about rejeking. this was the jeb bush wing of the party. now being free, no spicer, no priebus, no people that the party put on me, that does not suggest that president trump may be heading down a road of a more disciplined approach. more on the relationship
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.
of hypotheticals, but is it a way of getting rid of sessions from the doj without having to fire him? i do think that one of the reasons this week was so significant, anderson, is because i do think it was the first time we really saw some significant cracks emerge between the president and some of his base, some of his cohorts, some of the base of support. i don t mean necessarily in polling but the way that conservative media and conservatives on the hill pushed back on what he was doing with jeff sessions, in the way we saw some republicans break with him on health care. there were moments throughout this week where it was emerging that way. so to get rid of bannon in a time like that would be tough. and perhaps the opening at dhs, he can may a little chess game there, to me that seems almost too cute. we ll see if donald trump avails himself. there s going to be a cabinet meeting on monday. it will be interesting to see if