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New Chief of Staff Kelly Moves Quickly to Tame Trump's Tweets

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New Chief of Staff John Kelly is looking to become a calming influence over Donald Trump's White House with a view towards accomplishing Trump's policy agenda. Bloomberg's Kevin Cirilli reports on 'Bloomberg Surveillance.' (Source: Bloomberg)

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On his fifth day on the job as Donald Trump’s new chief of staff, John Kelly gathered about 200 White House aides for a meeting where he spelled out in blunt terms the way things are going to work in the West Wing he now oversees.

The retired Marine Corps four-star general said he didn’t care whether they had been part of the Trump campaign or had joined the administration from Capitol Hill or a some other corner of the political world, according to people who attended the meeting. They all work for the president now, he told them, and they had to act as one team.