On the recordNovember 7, 2019
The Chief of Staff is not going to make a decision, absent presidential direction of such weight and so controversial without taking it to the boss to start with.
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transcripts.cnn.comDavid Gergen: “The Chief of Staff is not going to make a decision, absent presidential direction of such weight and so controversial…”
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David Gergen asserts that a Chief of Staff, including Mick Mulvaney, would not act independently without direction from the President.
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