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 Andrew HarrerAs Donald Trump prepares to pick his third White House chief of staff in two years, aides and advisers say he is torn between two competing impulses. He understands that the right person for the role is someone who will be subservient to his management style and execute his vision. But his love for the glitzy hire has drawn him towards tapping a big name and alpha personality that he may clash with once again.
The competing interests were supposed to have been a non-issue with the likely ascension of Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Nick Ayers— a young, seasoned and, most importantly, behind-the-scenes political animal—to replace the departing John Kelly.
But Ayers turned down the role, and now the president and his aides are frantically searching for a candidate who can match Trump's difficult, often contrasting demands. On Sunday, the president tweeted that he was still "in the process of interviewing some really great people for the position of White House Chief of Staff," and chided members of the media for portraying Ayers as a lock. One current White House official compared it to tripping and then telling onlookers that you had meant to lose your footing.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner told Fox News' "Hannity" exclusively on Monday that, despite increasingly critical media reports on the Trump administration and his role in it, the White House is humming along effectively as new officials prepare to take over top roles.
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 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyThe FBI scrutinized four Americans with some connection to Donald Trump's campaign starting in the summer of 2016 for potentially helping the Kremlin meddle in the presidential election, former FBI Director James Comey revealed in testimony to Congressional investigators..
The details were made public for the first time on Saturday when the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees released the transcript of Friday's seven-hour, closed-door interview with Comey.
Comey's statements provide new information about the timing of the federal government's probe into the 2016 presidential election between Trump and Democrat Party nominee Hillary Clinton, and could offer new clues about what's coming down the pipeline from the Department of Justice.
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