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According to reports, is now dating rob porter, and kelly himself went to bat for him and made a real push to say we should defend him, he urged porter not to resign, to see this through. things changed the next day when the photos came out. kelly himself still went to porter and said i think you can survive this but others in the white house gave up, porter lost support internally when those graphic pictures emerged and porter himself deciding even though he challenged some of the g allegations...

In this white house, rob porters probably even more important than the typical staff secretary because john kelly did rely on him so much. porter was seen as one of the few genuinely professional and talented and seasoned people in that white house. i would say if you had to come up with a list of the most important staffers in that west wing he would certainly be on any list like that. for this to happen is a big blow to this white house and youre right. he had been very close to john kelly as ...

The sell-off was sparked by a couple of things. rumblings in the bond market, concerns about wage inflation, whether that will force the federal reserve to raise interest rates sooner or more aggressively than planned. posing a risk to a bull market thats nearly nine years old. but as stocks turn volatile, the markets cheerleader-in-chief, president trump, has kept quiet. testifying yesterday, the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin, says the economics are quite strong. when asked if trump would a...

Them by the federal government. they learned in news accounts. now they have been pulling them out learning more from the i.g. investigation. the inspector general. so i think were going to see more of those -- more of that information but it does fill out the picture and it naturally leads to where this really hasnt gone to this point. there hasnt been a whole lot of discussion about whether the president signed off on whether it was the russia collusion stuff or the clinton email thing. but yo...

Be held accountable and the matter was closed but it wasnt closed because we had the office of special councils investigation on director comey. the office of the inspector general doj also conduct its own investigation which resulted in the texts between peter strzok and lisa page. and that has raised -- those texts totally candid, unvar nished, just raised a lot of questions. again theyre cryptic. theyre not come complete. there are redactions but it requires our committee who has jurisdiction...

One in the legislative branch can put anyone in jail for anything. you could admit to a crime in this hearing room, and there is nothing a member of the legislative branch can do about it. that was my old job. the executive branch gets to charge and prosecute and gain a conviction. >> martha: but they are not following through on that then, according to people who are disturbed by what they see. >> and in the past, we could say, got to talk to the obama justice department. we cant say that anymo...

>> that is shocking. i mean, i dont know what im supposed to read next. we now cant protect ourselves from russia, frank? >> so, the theory that were hearing here, since theyre going to keep doing it anyway, why should we booth tore tther stop t. weve had previous administrations that indicted chinese liberation army hackers. we know who these hackers are by name and they need to be -- >> okay, so, let me put some more information out there for our viewers. new hashtags trending, these are all r...

>> do you -- the fear thing, the reason that there was fear and you just encouraged folks to sign up was that the daca registration would then be changing administrations and used essentially as a deportation list. how can you tell people as they watch whats happening in washington, the showdown that that fear is not justified? >> john kelly today did say that even if there was no immigration deal, that folks who are dag ca eligible would not be at the top of the deportation list. they will only...

Were started by immigrants and their children. those are the facts. >> do you -- the fear thing, the reason that there was fear and you just encouraged folks to sign up was that the daca registration would then be changing administrations and used essentially as a deportation list. how can you tell people as they watch whats happening in washington, the showdown that that fear is not justified? >> john kelly today did say that even if there was no immigration deal, that folks who are dag ca elig...

Resources necessary to fight the scourge. >> why put a priority in an area that had been deprioritized and not had been considered nearly the threat that this kind of violence youre talking about is? >> were dealing with multiple priorities any day at the department of justice, of allocating resources. there will be sufficient resources targeting ms-13 and well continue to devote those resources to that threat. >> john, people in this community have been reading about ms-13 since 2006. is it you...