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Long string of staff resignations and the last 48 hours of bombshells. >> the president then retweeted witch hunt. >> asked about the downgrade late this afternoon, president trump wouldnt answer. >> officials in at least four countries have private discussed ways they could manipulate jared kushner. >> these are all the fruits of nepotism. >> hes undermined attorney general sessions in a lot of different ways. >> the white house staff dynamic resembles the montagues and the capulets. >> was the...

And again, i put it to all of you, is it a question about naivete, is it a question about a culture of corruption? is it a question about the violent and ugly collision of both? >> hope had one of the hardest jobs working for president trump and candidate trump and before that real estate developer, self-promoter donald trump. i first met her when she was working for the trump organization as a spokeswoman for his properties. this is back in 2014. and she tried to convince me, no, no, no, donald...

Decisions on security clearance. its the counsel to the chief of staff to the president. so, the bad process they have in this white house has led to a disastrous outcome. they can short term fix this problem, but the bigger problem here is actually the fact that they thought it was okay to have this person in an extremely sensitive job that sees every document that goes to the president. the gate keeper. >> so mark, that leads to your issue, which is how can this guy be functioning without full...

>> is this congress acting? >> congress. >> its not acting. >> even if congress does nothing, me too is here to stay. revealing talk with supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. good morning. welcome to "early start." im christine romans. >> im dave briggs. we will go to pyeongchang in a moment. we start off with the white house scandal. the white house is trying to move beyond the rob porter scandal. porter was urged not to quit after the domestic violence allegations. axios telling reporter...

The key gate keeper to president trump. porter claiming he never misrepresented anything to chief of staff john kelly. >> thats is not sitting well with john kelly. that storyed up by an unnamed member of congress. after days of speculation of kellys future, kellyanne conway said this to jake tapper. >> i spoke to the president last night. i told him i would be with you today. he said please tell jake i have full faith in chief of staff john kelly and i am not actively searching for replacements...

Allegations of abuse from his wife. quote corbett first contacted the post a week before porters case became public. she said that during her marriage to sorensen, he ran a car over her foot, put out a cigarette on her hand, threw her into a wall and grasped her by her hair. joining us now jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst, christopher whipple, author of "gate keeper" and daniel dale correspondent for the toronto star. what do you make of john kelly trying to rewrite history? trying to rew...

Though hes answered questions about rob porter he has to keep dealing with the fallout. now there are more questions, questions about the resignation of david sorenson and the allegations of abuse from his wife. quote corbett first contacted the post a week before porters case became public. she said that during her marriage to sorensen, he ran a car over her foot, put out a cigarette on her hand, threw her into a wall and grasped her by her hair. joining us now jonathan alter, msnbc political a...

Important behind the scenes members of the administration. he had hand in running the state of the union. in large part the gate keeper in terms of flow of information to the president. we can put out as many statements as we want. lets look at the actions. the actions are extremely troubling. >> to pick up with what she said. again, you hear the chief of staff say its abhorrent. were totally opposed to it. but the actions dont marry up with the words. and his his stock was rising. and many peop...

Both ex-wives. but the white house tried to muddy the time line today. >> there has been reports about the chief of staff. he became fully aware about these allegations yesterday. >> fully aware. strange term if you already knew about allegations of domestic abuse. i mean what john kelly learned yesterday about what he knew months ago is not at all clear right now. heres the things, you may not have heard of rob porter before the story before the abuse charges exploded but he was arising star in...

Here, a fundamental security issue. the gate keeper of paper to the president could have been compromised. >> we talk about security clearances as if it is some sort of box just to check. there is a reason people have to get security clearances, especially if you have access to such incredibly important classified information which is can you be blackmailed. and domestic violence is exactly the kind of thing you could be blackmailed. if someone said to porter, look, we are going to expose that y...