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🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Chris Whipple, author of "The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency" joins Chuck to talk about his interviews with 18 former Presidential Chiefs of Staff, and why John Kelly might be in trouble.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:04.4	Meet the press.
0:05.4	Meet the press.
0:06.4	Meet the press.
0:08.4	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:11.0	My guest today is Chris Whipple.
0:13.2	He's a writer, a documentary filmmaker,
0:15.0	and the author of the book The Gate Keepers.
0:18.0	How the White House Chiefs of Staff
0:20.6	define every presidency, or at least every presidency,
0:24.2	until this one.
0:25.4	The book just came out in paperback
0:26.8	and it included a chapter on the Trump presidency.
0:29.2	For the new chapter, Chris interviewed Ryan's Pribus
0:31.6	about the chaotic first months of the Trump White House
0:34.9	Chris.
0:35.8	Welcome to 1947.
0:37.5	Thanks for having me, Chuck.
0:39.0	So when thinking about your book and thinking
0:42.7	about the Trump West Wing as it runs now,
0:47.7	there's part of me that views your book as a necessity
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