job. >> reporter: president trump turning to john kelly for help rebooting a stalled white house agenda and reigning in a chaotic west wing. >> the president wants to go a different direction, wants a little more discipline, more structure in there. >> it remains unclear how kelly's appointment will impact the chain of command at the white house and if the former homeland security chief will exert any influence over the president's own behavior including his use of twitter. >> you have to let trump be trump. anybody who thinks they're going to change donald trump doesn't know donald trump. >> the president remains at odds with many in his party over his repeated public attacks on attorney general jeff sessions. >> well, it's kind of hurtful, but the president of the united states is a strong leader. >> reporter: the two men are expected to come face-to-face today at the president eats cabinet meeting. trump also turning to health care this weekend, blasting the

senate's failed efforts to dismantle obamacare tweeting, unless the republican senators are total quitters, repeal and replace is not dead, despite the fact it would have had no impact on friday's defeat, the president also urging gop leadership to change the senate's rules so legislation can pass with a simple majority saying that republicans look like fools who are just wasting their time. >> i said from the beginning let obamacare implode and then do it. >> reporter: trump also threatening to end subsidy payments to insurance companies and even eliminate some health benefits for members of congress if the bill is not passed. >> what he's saying is, look, if obamacare is hurting people, and it is, then why shouldn't it hurt insurance companies and more importantly for this discussion members of congress. >> reporter: senator susan collins one of three who voted against repeal says trumps threats wouldn't change her vote. >> we need to go back to the

health committee, the finance committee, identify the problems, carefully evaluate possible solutions through hearings and then produce a series of bills to correct these problems. >> on top of the domestic agenda, john kelly will be here at the white house as they're confronting a number of issues. we're waiting to hear when trump will be signing the russia sanctions bill. back to you. >> sara, thank you for setting that up. let's bring in our political panel, cnn political commentator errol louis, cnn political analysts john avlon and david drucker all in the house. a fun morning for us. let's start with you, errol. general john kelly, what is likely to change with him as chief of staff? >> probably not as much as people would think. the reality is if you already

have general kelly. >> john: mcmaster, general mattis at high levels of the administration, they haven't exercised any restraint people can see. people shouldn't think that having a high ranking general walking into the white house, anything is going to change. he's going to get an education, he general kelly is going to get an education. he's spent the last couple decades stand up and salute him when he walks in the room. that ain't going to happen anymore. he's going to be a little surprised how people are inclined to, from white house parlance leak, from our point of view, conduct a public dialogue, have discussions with the public and the press. i don't think we're going to see as much change as people would like to see. >> i'll push back on my friend a little bit, maybe the triumph of hope over experience. the military members of this administration have been the most effective, in part because

they're trying to contain the president. chief of staff is not going to supplant the president's own chaos and lack of discipline. reince priebus didn't have the confidence of the president. you're not going to have anthony scaramucci reporting to this chief of staff. that seems to be a declaring problem. the president's daughter and son-in-law don't report to the chief of staff. if anybody can make this work coherently, it will be a general who works in concert with other military members. kelly has a good reputation and maybe he can get things going. >> in case people were asleep for the last six years, or just forgotten. >> six days? what about 48 hours. >> let's remind people what happened last week. on monday, the president attacked the attorney general on twitter and went to the boy scouts and gave a speech to the boy scouts later had to apologize for. on tuesday, he said he could be more presidential than any president but lincoln and also attacked jeff sessions to the

"wall street journal" and talked about him in the rose garden. on wednesday he tweeted new military policy without talking to the actual military of the united states of america. that's when the new communications director anthony scaramucci started saying things about reince priebus behind his back. on thursday, this whole west wing war went public with our friend ryan lizza writing about things that humans can't do. on friday health care went down in the senate and his chief of staff got fired. any one of these -- >> monopoly paces. >> or may clue, when someone is about to get whacked because reince priebus did. david drucker, any one of those days, a year's worth of problems in an administration and they happened every day last week. there's a short-term problem for john kelly as chief of staff. he's got to stop any of those things happening. >> like a yellow brick road to hell you just described for this

administration. i think bother roll and john make good points about kelly. two kinds of people the president respects, people who have made a lot of money, a lot of money, and generals. kelly comes in with an opportunity of commanding the president's respect are where reince priebus don't. the problem is it isn't priebus' fault that he couldn't contain ament who wouldn't be contained. twitter, policy at any given time, look at the six sides of the obamacare issue that the president has been on any given day. so i think the question here is not so much can kelly bring order to the white house staff -- i think he can. i know from talking to republicans that the president really likes john kelly. he's been consulting with things

over the phone about things outside his portfolio at dhs. the real question is will the president empower kelly to bring order and will he participate in that so when kushner or his daughter or scaramucci walks into the oval with a question and he says, hey, did you talk to my chief of staff about it and they'll say no, i'm coming directly to you. will he say, turn around, go talk to the chief, let him bring to to me. >> it will be very interesting to see what happens this morning when they come face-to-face. do you think, errol, this is all one sort of chest game where john kelly has been moved out of dhs, that that's a natural fit for sessions. >> there's interesting commentary, he gets to dhs as a less confrontational way to get him out of the way, all as a

prelude to stop the investigation, fire mueller or some other chaotic possibility. i wouldn't put anything past this president when it comes to the justice department, when it comes to the probe. there's almost nothing, it seems, that sways donald trump, although he goats a lot of different ways on different issues, he's been straight as an arrow, he doesn't want an investigation on this. >> republicans don't want this to happen and think think this is a possibility. >> i talked to them last week about the possibility of sessions being pushed out. it wasn't just kick him around, stick him in a different office. they're worried about pushing sessions out of the ag post could be a preclude to going after mueller. that would force them to get off the sidelines and confront the president. this is what they told me. the signals they're sending is leave sessions alone. that's one of the big reasons they're worried about this. >> this is also like idiot

coming, we'll move him over and not fire him and maybe nobody will notice. everyone will notice because it's transparent what you're trying to do. you're trying to move him so you can fire mueller. in addition to the function that it's a demotion. the senate has been clear from grassley on down, if you move sessions, we won't be around for confirmations. they're setting up a constitutional crisis if they move down this path. >> where are we today with health care, errol? >> if you talk to members of congress, they've moved on. they're in some cases trying to hunker down because some of their adversaries who managed to defeat their repeefl fort have actually mounted a public campaign. even after winning, they're going to hit the road and target some of the marginal members, if think they they can make this stick on. they're going to go and say why did you vote for repeal?

there are a handful of members that will have a problem. the rest of them are more than willing to move on. they're going to have a math problem. it was supposed to be the savings from repeal that was going to fund the tax cuts that are central to their tax plan. they're kind of stuck right now. but they are going to move ahead with tax reform. >> a, there's a real decision that kellyanne conway says the president will make, $7 billion that goes towards helping low income people to help pay for insurance, do you think the president really will take this money away? >> the president's rhetoric were let it fail on its own. if he takes the money away, this is an arsonist complaining about a fire problem. let's not forget this is the existing situation -- a president shouldn't proactively make it worse to score political points. there are 40 centrist members, both parties trying to find a reform package to keep the

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so vice president pence is addressing russia's retaliation over the i'm paneding u.s. sanctions. russian president putin dealing a serious blow to america's diplomatic presence in russia, cutting u.s. staff at diplomatic missions by more than half. cnn's claire sebastian is live from moscow with more. what are the latest developments, claire? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. 755 people is the number the russian president says will get cut from the u.s. diplomatic presence in russia. a couple of key points we got clarified by the kremlin in the last hour, one, that the u.s. gets to decide who this affects and two it will be diplomats, non-diplomats and could include russian staff hired by the u.s. mission here in russia at the moment. the u.s. state department says it's assessing the impact of this and will see how to respond. russia says, if it does respond,

it reserves the right to take countermeasures, something the russian president says he doesn't want to do at this moment. the option is still on the table. potentially inflaming tensions between the two sides this morning. vice president mike pence is estonia right on russia's doorstep reassuring europe and nato that russia stands with them. he says russia is the biggest threat to the baltic nation. he had this to say about relations with russia. >> we hope for better days, for better relations with russia. but recent diplomatic action taken by moscow will not deter the commitment of the united states of america to our security, the security of our allies and the security of freedom loving nations around the world. >> reporter: vice president mike pence also reaffirming that president trump does intend to sign that sanctions bill.

they've already made their move, but it's certainly something they'll be watching closely, alisyn and john. >> thank you very much. want to bring back cnn plit cal analyst david drucker and john avlon. and david sanger with a great piece today in "the new york times." one of the big guess is why is russia doing this now, david? why is vladimir putin kicking out these u.s. personnel now and not last winter when barack obama, then president of the united states, first issue some of these types of sanctions? >> it's a fascinating question. you'll remember last winter he was urged by some in the incoming trump administration not to overreact. instead of throwing out diplomats, he invited the children of diplomats to come to a kremlin christmas party. so what's changed? the main thing that's changed is putin's calculus. i think he now recognizes that he is not going to get out of

president trump the kind of change that mr. trump talked about during the campaign, a better relationship, not because mr. trump doesn't want it, but because congress has now taken control of this with a mix of democrats who are angry about russia's interference in the 2016 election and republicans who i think worry that president trump doesn't fully appreciate who he's dealing with here and who overwhelmingly past these sanctions even though the administration made it clear they believe this tied their hands. >> john avlon, what the real life repercussions of this move by russia to throw out 755 diplomatic staff? >> it's cutting our diplomatic staff in more than half. but i think to david's point, this is russia administration recognizing they're not going to get the free hand that maybe they thought they were with a presidential candidate who

refused to criticize vladimir putin. at the same time, that man is still president. they're not going to the most extreme element they could in terms of pushback. we're going to need to see now that the president announced he'll sign the sanction bills, what happens with the russian properties, what happens on ancillary negotiations. in the meantime, vice president pence is out there sounding like a traditional republican while donald trump is trying to do his best to not really antagonize -- >> he didn't talk a heck of a lot about election meddling. >> fair point. >> he was taking a fair stance on russia. david drucker, there is a third end t entity in this relationship between president trump and president putin and that's congress. congress has made it abundantly clear that the president doesn't have a free hand in terms of russia policy. >> i don't think it's possible to overstate how significant congress's action is. i was talking to david miller, he reminded me not since 1986

has a congress rebuked a president on a matter of foreign policy in this matter. i was talking to tom cole last week for a story i wrote, and he said this bill is a direct shot from vladimir putin to let him know he's not just dealing with president trump when it comes to matters of russia, now dealing with the united states congress. republicans do not trust president trump when it comes to negotiating and dealing with vladimir putin. that's why they passed the sanctions bill that putin is reacting to so strongly. president trump does not have a free hand to negotiate or waive sanctions away without congressional approval. that is a huge deal. ironically this might be the kind of thing that putin actually respects, and over time it might help us get a handle on the u.s.-russia relationship. democrats have also had enough

of it and are sort of born-again russia hawks. this is a very big deal. >> saved sanger, let's talk about north korea. they had yet another ballistic missile test and president trump seems to be quite frustrated, particularly with china. he tweeted this, i am very disappointed in china. our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions a year in trade, yet they do nothing for us with north korea, just talk. we will no longer allow this to continue. china could easily solve this problem. so he has, as you know, had a good relationship with president xi. where are we now? >> alisyn, a few things. first, this missile test was something of a breakthrough. for the first time they demonstrated a range -- this missile went very high up into space and back down. if you flatten it out, it demonstrated a range that could reach los angeles and beyond. that's the point that most american presidents, the past four american presidents have

said the u.s. would not tolerate. secondly, i think president trump himself acknowledged a few months ago it's a lot more complicated than he thought during the company and china's influence over north korea is not quite the on-off switch he might have thought. threatening the chinese on trade basis to do more ignores the fact that the chinese have a lot they can do back to us on a trade basis. the truth of the matter is, china is going to act in china's interests here. their overwhelming interest is still not to see north korea collapse vanned the u.s. and south korea up on its borders. i was talking over the weekend at a conference with henry kissinger, the legendary former secretary of state that makes the point that until we're ready to assure the chinese that they

will get the united states out of the korean peninsula, after a north korean collapse, there will be very little u.s. presence, they're not likely to change their view. something radical is going to have to change here, just announcing new sanctions for the 15th time isn't going to do it. >> one of the radical things that's changed is north korea has the capability. north korea has tested nuclear weapons and now testing ballistic missiles and they seem to be working. to a certain extent, they have succeeded, john avlon, they've gone further than past administrations, the current administration has said they'd allow them to go and they continue to advance. >> this administration deserves some credit for being more proactive than some in the past. we are at a point that's unacceptable. china's largest influence is regional stability. if they need to make assurances to china that if the north korean regime falls, it won't further destabilize, that's

fine. the administration is facing a strong message that they're going to try to international lies the problem, it's not the u.s.'s to deal with alone. >> nikki haley doesn't see the point of bringing it up in with the security council. that's interesting. >> part of the problem is it's not in china's interest to help the united states put to bed a very thorny problem. china obviously see the united states as a competitor for heeg moan any in the united states. any time we're tied down is a good day for them. i think the question here is has the president realized that he is not going to be use xi to stop and fix this problem. >> gentlemen, thank you for laying it out for us. great to talk to you this morning. more international news, venezuelan president nicolas maduro after a bloody and controversial election. critics call the whole process a sham. how will president trump respond to this? that's next.

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we need to tell you about the story out of venezuela. president nicolas maduro declaring victory. cnn's laila santiago is live in caracas with the latest. what's happening there? >> reporter: venezuela is waking up to what is sure to be a day of uncertainty given the last 24 hours, the last week, the last few months as violence has taken over on the streets from protests from the opposition. yesterday at the election polls, a lot of voters, mostly government supporters came out and moved forward with this new assembly that could rewrite the constitution and could give

president nicolas maduro more power. that is something that protesters and demonstrators are speaking out against. as we were on the streets yesterday and saw the violence unfold, these were young children protesting. i talked to a 12-year-old as he was putting together a molotov cocktail speak out against the government and its current state of being. talking about food shortage, medical shortages and a generation of venezuelans that hasn't experienced the venezuela that once was. a country once considered one of the wealthiest countries in latin america. you're seeing a mounting frustration and really desperation as we've seen people digging through trash to find anything they can just to eat. in the meantime, the government is calling this a victory and saying it will not bow down to pressure, but today we expect the opposition to take to the

streets yet again. they're really hoping this international pressure including possible sanctions from the united states helps them bring this government down, alisyn and john. >> leyla santiago in venezuela. thank you for that report. president trump threatening to slash health care benefits for lawmakers and insurance companies if congress does not dismantle obamacare. will republicans try one more time to repeal the affordable care act? that's next. shawn evans: it's 6 am.

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health care still very much on president trump's mind. he tweeted about it a lot this weekend, threatening to cut subsidies to congress and insurance companies saying, quote, if a new health care bill is not approved quickly, bail

ourts for insurance companies and bailouts for members of congress will end soon. joining us is republican congresswoman marsha blackburn of tennessee. are you getting a bailout from the federal government? >> no. all members of congress are on the affordable care act, on the d.c. small business exchange. as the federal government has done, they provide a portion of insurance as a benefit to employees. >> the president doesn't like those for members of congress. >> that's right. so many of our employees, even those that are in our districts, alisyn, are on the d.c. exchange. and one of the things we tell people all the time, we know firsthand the problems with health care, and we think the senate needs to get to worked and send the house the bill so we can get this fixed. >> just one last thing, because the president seems fixated on this, what if those subsidies

went away. he's threatening to cut the subsidies, the cost sharing with insurance companies that go to low income american. that's one of the threats. the other threat is the subsidies that congress get. >> the subsidies that go to the insurance companies, they're called the risk corridors. this is one of the reasons that we have to fix this. i hear from people all the time about the cost of insurance. when you look at the $9 million in, the affordable care act -- that is why the president keeps saying, you know, we need to look at those subsidies. it's why we keep saying this has to be fixed, the insurance is too expensive to afford. when you're talking about only

1.6 million americans buying a product without a subsidy -- >> my question is what if he takes what -- >> if he takes it away, congress will be forced to take an action. >> meaning to restore this? >> -- to clean this up. i don't know what it would be. there would be an action necessary to clean it up. you cannot afford this insurance. 19 million americans opted themselves out of the system. 6.5 million chose to pay the penalty, and then you had another 12 that went in there and said, look, i'm going to seek an kpems for this. so you've already got that, 19 million that opted out. >> do you get the impression that president trump is looking to speed the demise of the affordable care act. >> president trump i believe is looking to solve the problem. the problem is we've got the senate who cannot seem to -- they like to work in gangs.

they've been the gang of seven and eight. i want the gang of 51. i want the senate to show some spine and fix this problem. >> that seems to be impossible. what you're calling for -- they are not all of one mind. >> 51 of them need to make a decision that they're going to fulfill a promise to the american people and send the house a bill so we can get this issue resolved. it's not fair to anybody, alisyn. i had a telephone town hall last week. 80% of the people on that town hall regardless of what side of the issue they were on with the affordable care act -- >> their seven-year effort of trying to repeal and replace came to an end last week. there was no consensus. you can't get all 51 that you're calling for to all agree on what the way forward is. so now what? >> they're going to have to just

do a process of sitting down, working through where they can get this gang of 51 to agree on something, send it to the house so we can fulfill a promise and be fair to the american people that are stuck in the affordable care act system or who have insurance that is too specific to use and deductibles to high to seek access to care. >> very quickly about russia. how would you like president trump respond to putin now that putin is cutting u.s. diplomatic staff? >> i want him to continue to be firm with russia. sending in the 59 tomahawk missiles in that syrian attack was the appropriate thing to do. doing the sanctions bill was an appropriate move for congress and president trump needs to basically have congress's back, if you will, on the sanctions

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park for new jersey's outgoing governor chris christie. it happened again. coy wire has the video on "the bleacher report." >> good morning, john. last month christie was booed at catching a foul ball at the mets game in the wake of the 4th of july incident, when he was spotted at a beach with his family that was closed to the public. on sunday he went nose to nose with a cubs fan at a game in milwaukee. here it is. >> appreciate that. >> what did he say to you? >> oh, you want to act like a big shot. >> christie with nachos in hand, called the heckler a big shot, then walked away, the fan named brad joseph says he yelled at christie calling him a hypocrite. his son works for the brewers. he was cheering them on. in this clip, as christie is

having words, the cubs hit the go-ahead home run and end upbeating the brewers 4-2. >> i like with nachos in hand. >> talk about spot shadowing it, it was a bit much. it was part of the deal there. >> that is awesome. thank you very much for that. you can't get into a big fight when you have nachos waiting for you. >> it's a buffer which is why i always carry nachos with me. not sure there are any heroes. chris christie should be able to go to a baseball game somewhere in the kun country without being heckled. also, at this point in his career he should be able to take it. >> again, i think nachos solve problems. >> you seem fixated on the nachos. i applaud you for that. >> the president getting heat after telling police officers not to be, quote, too nice to

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hear what is raising eyebrows. >> when you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a patty wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough. i said please don't be too nice, like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, the way you put your hand -- don't hit their head and they just killed somebody, don't hit their head. i said, you can take the hand away, okay? >> was the president encouraging police to be rough with suspects? joins us, cnn law enforcement analysts, harry haut and former philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey. commissioner, i want to read you a statement from the current new york city police commissioner, to suggest any police apply any standard is irresponsible, unprofessional and sends the wrong message to law enforcement as well as the public.

your response, commissioner? >> well, i would agree with commissioner o'neill. i was very concerned when i first heard those remarks bcause i believe it reenforces a very negative stereotype of police that we've been trying to overcome, and that is that police use excessive force on a regular basis, we violate people's constitutional rights and nothing can be further from the truth. police are out there every day operating in a very professional manner, taking very dangerous people off the streets and doing so without using excessive force or violating people's rights. i think that gave an impression that we just do not need. >> hairy how the, did it send the wrong message? >> what's really key here is, when he made that comment, you heard everybody laugh in the audience. they took it all as a joke, and so did i. i didn't think he was serious. i don't think any police officer out there in the right frame of mind would take that as a way of condoning that kind of activity.

so i don't think it's really that big a deal. i think it was just playing to the police officers, trying to get a laugh there. he's very pro police officer. we're very happy to have a president like that. >> there's three things you said there and i want to talk to each one of those. i'll talk about the laughing in a moment and we'll talk about the attitude toward the police in general in a second. from your point of view, is it okay to condone rough treatment from police officers. >> oh, no. >> it's not okay. >> listen, a police officer knows the rules, knows how to act out there. there isn't any police officers listening to that statement saying, okay, i'm going to rough somebody up out there because the president said i could. >> what if there's one? >> what can you do if there's ones? there are people out there who are crazy. look when obama said -- >> you're saying those statements, if it's not a joke, are inappropriate, correct? >> right, exactly.

>> if he wasn't joking -- how do you know he's joking? >> how do you know he's not. >> i don't. but i will say this, if the hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers out there who didn't take it as a joke, took it as a green light to behave differently. >> then you shouldn't be a police officer. i'm sure the commissioner will agree with me here. if you're a police officer and you take that comment as an okay to commit any kind of physical force against somebody that's not justified, that's a bad thing. >> all right, commissioner. what if he's just joking. was it just a joke? >> first of all, i agree with the last statement that he just made. this is the president of the united states. he's commander-in-chief, not a stand-up comic. words matter. there's responsibility that goes along with leadership. your words can actually influence behavior. it can shape public opinion. you have to be very, very

careful and measure your words very carefully whenever you're in a setting like that. whether it was a joke or not, it was inappropriate. i think those officers -- i don't know if they were star struck because they're standing behind a president which doesn't happen every day, and he made a comment and they thought they needed to laugh or applaud, i don't know. if they truly believe that, they ought to be ashamed. that's not what policing is all about. >> they should not have been laughing or applauding you're saying? >> no. >> these things happen spontaneously. it doesn't mean that everyone who applauded or laughed actually believes what it is he said, but it gave the wrong impression. that's what i'm trying to get at. we've got a lot to overcome. it's been a rough three years. in fact, the only reason the police have not been front and center on news stories around the country is because of president trump. he took us off the front page. that doesn't mean the issues and problems have gone away. >> something harry said is

something i've heard from officers since friday here, both of you suggested maybe they laughed because they were uncomfortab uncomfortable, not necessarily laughing because they're supporting him in that statement. however, commissioner, most officers i have heard from say they do feel this president has their back, and those are the exact words they use, has their back in a way they did not feel from the last administration, commissioner. >> i don't even know what that means. policing is local, at least on our level. we're not under the direct command of the president. we operate based on local state laws, consistent with the constitution and so forth. if you engage in misconduct. if you think the president of the united states is going to come and save you, then you're mistaken. it's just not how it operates. as far as the previous president goes, yeah -- as far as the previous president goes, i know there was some criticism around president obama, but he saw a

legitimate problem, and that was the trust had been eroded in many of our communities or didn't even exist in many of our communities, and that's why he formed the task force on 21st century policing which i honor co-chairing. the very first issue we dealt with was billing trust and legitimacy in our communities which is important. >> that is very important. there's a false narrative about police. we've seen many instances where police get the finger pointed out them that were totally justified by police officers. we've had a couple incidents, and just a couple, where the officers didn't act correctly and they might be prosecuted. for the millions of times police officers deal with people every day out there, 99.999%, the police are exactly right in what they do. this narrative feeds into this and that's why we have this issue. >> should police ever take their hand away when putting somebody in the car? >> i always do it. you have to act properly.

when you put a suspect in the car and put your hand on top of their head and help them inside the vehicle. >> thank you to all our international viewers. for you cnn "newsroom" is next. for u.s. viewers, president trump hoping for a reboot after this big shakeup on his team. "new day" continues right now. >> smart for him to pick general kelly. i think things are going to be run very well. >> the white house hoping for a fresh start after the senate health care collapse. >> the president will not accept those who said it's, quote, time to move on. >> we've seen the limits of what party could do. >> senate, do your job, congress, do your job. >> stop asking the leaders for permission. you're not in the fifth grade. have some guts! >> continue to believe if russia will change its behavior, our relationship can change for the good. >> russian president vladimir putin retaliating over new looming u.s. sanctions. >> if the u.s. side decides to move towards further

deterioration, we will answer, we will retaliate. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning everyone. welcome to your "new day." chris is off. john berman joins me in studio. glat to have you here. president trump hitting the reset button after one of the most chaotic weeks in his presidency. in just a few hours general john kelly will be sworn in. the standoff between president trump and his embattled attorney general will meet face-to-face at a cabinet meeting. >> as far as we know, the first time they spoke since the president started to say out loud he wished he was gone. russia's vladimir putin has ordered the u.s. to cut diplomatic staff by more than half in retaliation for new sanctions, and north korea's latest missile test has president trump intensifying pressure on china to do more to stop that country's nuclear ambitions. want to get with cnn's sara

murray live at the white house. >> good morning. it is john kelly's first day in a very big job. he'll be sworn in later this morning followed by a cabinet meeting. the question on top of everyone's minds, can kelly bring order to this wild west wing. >> reporter: president trump turning to retired four star general john kelly, for help rebooting a stalled white house agenda and reigning in a chaoticest west wing, that after reince priebus was pushed out. >> the president wants to go in a different direction, wants more discipline, more structure in there. >> it remains unclear how kelly's appointment will impact chain of command at the white house and if the former homeland security chief will exert any influence over the president's own behavior, including his use of twitter. >> you have to let trump be