What Trump's choice to replace Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller means
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[0:01] Welcome back to the Takeout, back at the
[0:03] original Takeout Tavern, not the
[0:05] makeshift one we had to create in New
[0:06] York. Great food that was. Panel time.
[0:09] Mark Caputo, CBS News contributor, White
[0:12] House reporter for Axios, Mark Short.
[0:14] Also Mark with a C, Republican
[0:16] strategist, former chief of staff to
[0:17] Vice President Mike Pence. All right,
[0:19] the Stephen Miller news, the Susie Wiles
[0:21] news out. You cover the White House,
[0:22] you're very
[0:24] locked into all these people. A, did you
[0:26] see it coming? What does it mean?
[0:28] >> Uh A, yes, because Donald Trump doesn't
[0:31] want to take responsibility for the loss
[0:33] on Tuesday.
[0:34] >> has to be the fall person.
[0:35] >> Yeah, and the fall guy was a fall gal,
[0:38] and it was Susie Wiles.
[0:39] >> And we've been reporting this afternoon
[0:40] that she wanted to stay through the lame
[0:42] duck, and the president accelerated her
[0:44] departure time.
[0:45] >> She had, given my understanding, the
[0:48] president two options. Here's my
[0:50] resignation letter, if you want me to
[0:51] stay for six more months, I'll stay for
[0:53] six more months. But it was essentially,
[0:55] I'll stay for six more months if there's
[0:56] not a sort of Damocles hanging over me.
[0:59] Uh Trump wanted the sort of Damocles,
[1:01] and it fell. It did.
[1:02] >> What does Stephen Miller's