Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Flash Briefing,

brought to you by Better Medicare Alliance. And I'm Jake Sherman. Welcome to Week 4 of the Trump

administration. There is already public musing about drastic senior staff shakeups. Our colleagues

Josh Dawsey and Alex Eisenstead have a story out this morning,

detailing how Trump is personally unhappy with many members of his senior staff.

National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is in hot water over reports that he had secret discussions with Russian officials and lied about it. But it's not just Flynn who has caught Trump's ire.

He is taking a look at his entire senior staff.

And there has been a growing back and forth over Trump's chief of staff, Reince Prebis.

Trump ally Chris Ruddy, who runs Newsmax, took to CNN Sunday publicly casting doubt on Prebis.

He also talked to the New York Times and Washington Post about how he needed to go.

Ruddy later softened those comments about Prebis on Twitter.

One thing is for sure, staff turmoil like this, is just one of the many hurdles that Trump is

facing when it comes to pushing through the most ambitious agenda to rollback regulations

since Ronald Reagan.

That's absolutely right.

While Trump and Republicans on Capitol

Hill would like you to believe they are pushing through an aggressive agenda, it's important

to view that with a healthy dose of skepticism. While Jared Kushner seems like a smart and capable

guy, he's been tasked with solving massive problems like Middle East Peace and an overhaul of the

tax code. He's never worked in government.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are also beginning to view Trump with distrust. Many lawmakers do not believe he has surrounded himself with AIDS who know how to get things done in Washington.

Running an anti-establishment campaign is smart, but once you're here, you need to play the game.

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