we ve got the wall street journal saying that the white house is having having problems finding good people to fill these positions. almost like kelly s better than what they may find after kelly. yeah. this is not a job that requires senate confirmation. it s only a job you have to get somebody to agree to do. i m not sure would you want to be the white house chief of staff right now? it would you would feel like the waulls were coming in on yo, and you d be starting day one. cnn also reported that his close friend, he talked to him about taking the job, but tom barrack said, no, i m more valuable to the business community. things like this. it seems like it would be a tough job to take. plus, if you have somebody like kelly who goes in, a respected cabinet secretary, you know, secretary of the department of homeland security, he s going to leave the white house with with his standing sort of imperilled. imagine if gary cohn, global gary cohn, becomes the chief of
abuse scandal. multiple sources telling the president has made no decision to push kelly out, but they say names being floated if he does include chief economic adviser gary cohn, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, and budget director mick mulvaney. mulvaney has already denied he is under consideration. and press secretary sarah sanders said yesterday the president has confidence in kelly. this comes as the white house struggles to control fallout over allegations that rob porter physically abused his two ex-wives. porter denies the accusations. chief of staff kelly defending his handling of the situation telling the wall street journal, it was all done right. the scrutiny only intensified on tuesday after the director of the fbi offended up-ended the white house timeline of events. a quick recap. monday the white house said top the allegations last tuesday.of and that porter s background check was still ongoing.
the first thing i wanted to ask out of the gate is john kelly, chief of staff john kelly. do you think he s going to survive this? do you think he wants to survive this? you know, he told the wall street journal that all was done right, and then there s an op-ed in the wall street journal basically saying maybe not so fast that he should be out. it was it was kelly who sort of brought order to the white house. got rid of steve bannon, got rid of omarosa, controlled the flow of investigation t white house, was in charge of a success investigation at the white house, was in charge of a tax, talking tax reform. should he stay, should he go? does he even want to stay? i will say i am 100% out of the predictions business when it comes to what s going to happen with the staffing decisions in this white house. and you know, just look at one of the people who they say could be a replacement for john kelly, gary cohn. it was a couple of months ago people were talking about how he migh
election. what they said about the president s willingness to fight back. redemption for shaun white in south korea, winning gold in the men s halfpipe. a live report with all the olympic headlines that you may have missed overnight. good morning, and welcome to early start. i m alison kosik. happy valentine s day. happy galentine s day, too, for you single ladies. ash wednesday. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we start with day eight of a story that could be a 24-hour mess. conversations over who could replace embattled white house chief of staff john kelly heating up this morning. cnn reporting that president trump called associates in recent days discussing possible replacements for kelly in the wake of the rob porter spousal abuse scandal. multiple sources tell us the president has made no decision to push kelly out, but they say names being floated if he does include chief economic adviser global gary cohn, house majority leader kevin mccarty, and budget