Fox News co-host Juan Williams called his network's green room "a staging area" for future Trump administration nominees during a conversation on "The Five" on Thursday.



The discussion comes after the president chose longtime CNBC senior contributor Larry Kudlow as his next senior economic adviser, succeeding Garry Cohn who abruptly resigned over a split with Trump on tariffs on steel and aluminum. Trump is also reportedly considering "Fox and Friends" co-host Pete Hegseth to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.



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Co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle kicked off the segment by comparing turnover in the Trump administration to "a Broadway play" with "a cast of characters that keeps developing in terms of who might be leaving in what order and who the possible candidates and replacements are."Williams weighed, saying the administration was more like reality television."You said this is like a Broadway play," he began. "To me it’s not the Broadway play so much. It’s reality TV. If you want to get in, you need to get in the Fox green room. Apparently that’s the staging area.""Slow down on the hate," Guilfoyle said."It’s not hate. It’s a fact. You journalists, 'fake news,' 'no chaos here.' [Chaos] obvious to everybody if you open your eyes and take a look," Williams replied."Three times the amount of change in Obama’s first year, two times the amount of change and let's say Ronald’s Ronald Reagan’s first year. People come and go in a way that I think is a little unsettling," he concluded."I heard ["Fox & Friends" weekday co-host] Brian Kilmeade is going to be on the Supreme Court," co-host Greg Gutfeld joked.Fox News contributor John Bolton is also reportedly being considered to succeed national security adviser H.R. McMaster.Bolton was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during President George W. Bush's second term and signed with Fox News after his tenure.