Can a general 'unchaos' the White House?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
With the President away, his White House Staff will play — unless former General John Kelly can establish rules of order in his new role as chief of a group he himself has called "dysfunctional." We hear about his challenges and his record.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.9 | White House politics and national security. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello again, I'm Maure and Alney, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:17.2 | President Trump's on a 17-day working vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. |
| 0:22.7 | Back at the White House, Chief of Staff John Kelly, the former general, reportedly is seizing the moment to impose order on factional infighting. |
| 0:30.5 | He's reportedly said he can't control the president, but what about Steve Bannon, the Kushners, and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster. |
| 0:38.3 | All have tribal loyalists. |
| 0:40.9 | Is order possible under shadows, including declining support from Congress, |
| 0:45.3 | North Korea's nuclear challenge, and the Russia investigation? |
| 0:49.2 | That's our main topic today. |
| 0:50.6 | On our talking point later, India is trying to escape the curse of cash. Would that work for America? First, the news. |
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| 1:29.8 | Hello again, we're running on. He back with To The Point. With the president away, his White House staff will play, unless former General John Kelly can establish rules of order in his new role as chief of a staff he himself is called dysfunctional. |
| 1:43.0 | We'll hear about Kelly's challenges and his record. |
| 1:46.1 | Today's talking point, India has suddenly devalued its highest denomination bills targeting |
| 1:50.9 | massive corruption should the U.S. reduce its cash economy. First, this news update. Saturday, |
| 1:56.7 | a unanimous U.N. Security Council sanctioned North Korea for nuclear testing. |
| 2:01.8 | Today, at an international conference in Manila, Secretary of State Tillerson said, |
| 2:05.9 | if the testing stops, the U.S. is ready to talk. |
| 2:09.7 | This is really about the spirit of these talks, |
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