roger stone, trump s long-time adviser, has a line about how trump views staff. the first question is is, who is he? the second question is, get him. the third is, who was he? staffers for trump are disposable. we learned this with the way he treated jeff sessions, his most loyal supporter. so i think it doesn t really matter what idealogical camp you come from, whether it s rnc or the breitbart wing of the party, these are people who he thinks can help him at that moment, and when they re finished, they get discarded. and i think the important thing is people have been saying trump needs somebody he would regard as a peer. you need a jim baker sort. he didn t regard ryan as a peer for some reason, and perhaps he would regard general kelly that way. we know the respect he has for all the generals.
inter-continental ballistic missile, a deep source of concern for the president, his national security advisors. in the midst of a potential threat like that, congressman, you see this palace intrigue going on at the white house. that s not good. well, that didn t stop them. on the plane, h.r. mcmaster s top assistant, she was in with the president and they were discussing and talking. so, everybody was being, as far as i could tell, everything was being done that had to be done in the midst of all that, this occurred. you re on the homeland security committee. you ve worked with general kelly, the now former secretary of homeland security. can he bring order? he s a retired four-star marine corps general. can he bring order and discipline to the white house? yeah, i wouldn t want to get in frank kelly s way, i ll put it that way. anywhere he goes, he s very
anything like this before in the white house, the back stabbing, the attacks leveled against reince priebus yesterday, steve bannon, chief strategist at the white house. have you ever seen this kind of talk so publicly announced? no, i don t think anybody has. they left it all in the yard. they took it to the lawn and mess it up ed it up in the yard. some people can get things done in those conditions, some can t, so we re going to see. the president is making some changes. he has the right to do that. he needs a comfort level. he has to make sure he believes the person there is serving it the way he wants it served and is representing his administration and his country. i respect that. i always have and always will. so we re going to see what happens, but it s a little bit unusual, unorthodox, if you will. certainly is. joe manchin, the senator from