Staff kind of activity. that s trying to swing your weight as chief of staff and doing things that normally a lesser person in the white house would do. so that was the troubling thing for me. it looked way beyond the bounds of a chief of staff s responsibility. well, chris, i mean, you wrote the book, literally, on chiefs of staff. i am curious to see your take on this. most people might have a pop culture reference of what a chevy of staff is supposed to be. west wing wing may come to mind. but they may have some notion of chief of that staff from a chair carized notion or know about the limitations involved. when you look at the role of a chief of staff, first of all, tell everyone what it is supposed to include and at what point does your job description become confined to this small sphere and cannot touch the campaign or the election world? well, the white house chief of staff is many things much he is the president s gatekeeper,