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Just days earlier. theres also those people who have thought been fans of john kelly, west wing aides and outside advisers whose access to the president has been cut off by kelly in his attempts to streamline and better organize the west wing. those people, the knives are out. they see a chief of staff whos vulnerable. theyre ready to pounce. theyre leaking bad information. theyre pushing the president to make a change. >> jeremy, while i stress you are still a young man, youve been around awhil...

Thats whats significant in terms of the numbers, obviously 130 being the highest number. the highest level of officials in this west wing not having this clearance -- now, what we know, there might be any number of issues which might result in somebody being given an interim clearance rather than being granted the full clearance. and that has everything to do with something that might make somebody subject to blackmail. you see a lot of foreign travel, high debts, previous issues of substance ab...

Striking how reluctant a u.s. president is to address something that should be pretty universal. just a denunciation of domestic violence, that youre opposed to it. he said hes opposed to it. nobodys for it, this shouldnt be that hard. but in this case, for this president, it is. >> i hadnt look the at it quite that way. there is not a huge constituency pro-abuse. jonathan lemire, i asked you about the internal knowledge, how bad things look. how about this issue from your reporting? >> certainl...

Sort of championing john kelly, who were very dismayed that on friday he seemed in a closed door white house meeting, seemed to present a different narrative of events that suggested a more -- played up his role in dismissing porter which flew in the face of the time line west wing officials had presented just days earlier. and theres also those people who have not been fans of john kelly, those who west wing aides, out size advisors whose access to the president has been cut off by kelly in his...

To be said. it definitely needed to be said. it needed to be said by the president himself. not through a surrogate like sarah huckabee sanders did earlier this week. but it just shows how -- its striking how reluctant a u.s. president is to address something that should be pretty universal. just a denunciation of domestic violence, that youre opposed to it. he said hes opposed to it. nobodys for it, this shouldnt be that hard. but in this case, for this president, it is. >> i hadnt look the at ...

Entire "me too" movement, suggesting it was scapegoating people, those people could not get their reputation back, those men could never get their reputation back. today under immense pressure he finally does say these words. staffers have told me and my colleagues, morale is as low now as it has been since the weeks after james comey was fired last spring, certainly the other moment was this august after the charlottesville incident when the president said there was responsibility on both sides...

Nothing on the issue to this point. his comments, you know, last week in the oval office were to praise rob porter and to wish him well, without a word for the women who alleged that he abused. on saturday, he doubles down with a tweet sort of questioning the entire me too movement, suggesting it was scapegoating people and that those people could never get their reputation back, those men could never get their reputation back. today under immense pressure he finally does say these words, but th...

Interviewed and he said there is this component. he said a lot of guys like me, veteran republican hands, veteran government types, did not volunteer to serve in this administration and because we werent true believers, we were not called. so a lot of neophytes were given west wing jobs. that accounts for some of the backl backlog. but on these titles, don mcgahn, rob porter. rob porters job, staff secretary, as i dont need to remind you, is the human funnel into and out of the oval office to al...

Most striking part of the comment that suggesting that it didnt have to be said. it definitely needed to be said. it needed to be said by the president himself, not through a surrogate like sarah huckabee sanders did earlier this week. but it shows how it is striking how reluctant a u.s. president is to address something that should be pretty universal, just denunciation of domestic violence, that euyoure opposedo it. he said nobody is for it. it shouldnt be that hard. in this case for this it i...

Interviewed and he said there is this component. he said a lot of guys like me, veteran republican hands, veteran government types, did not volunteer to serve in this administration and because we werent true believers, we were not called. so a lot of neophytes were given west wing jobs. that accounts for some of the backlog. but on these titles, don mcgahn, rob porter. rob porters job, staff secretary, as i dont need to remind you, is the human funnel into and out of the oval office to all bran...