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He definitely helped move out some people who had been most involved in the feuding within the white house. but in the last few weeks you heard more and more complaining about john kelly even before the rob porter incident that things were not going the way they thought that they should be, that he in fact, you know, in their view, peremptory or not listening to them. you know, no question kristin neil son was a player, did blocking and tackling, shes not there any more. while we had the impress...

Look at every single instance and every single thing we do, how we can do better than the day before. >> tuesday night when the initial story came out, the white house praised rob porter. wednesday morning photos come out, they stand by the statement. wednesday afternoon, continue to praise porter. john kelly said he acted 45 minutes of the allegation. can you explain that? >> as i said, and im going to repeat what i said earlier, that we learned of the situation involving rob porter last tuesda...

I appreciate it. >> mr. president, why are high levels staffer with sensitive information without security clearance? >> mr. president, do you have a vetting problem? >> that was nbcs kristen welker shouting the questions on many peoples minds this afternoon. after revelations rob porter never received a full security clearance and white house senior staffers had known never would, in a post handling more classified information than any other position in the west wing. the washington post report...

Attacks al franken. so, there is never a single standard. >> let me put up for you, donnie, all the men, all the accused men president trump has defended. rob porter, roy moore, bill oreilly, roger moore. he didnt defend al franken. >> he spoke up about steve wynn. lets frame this in the me too movement. it had to happen. i dont know if it would have happened if he didnt get elected president. i think a big part of the me too movement, women saw, that guy got elected. why does he continually dou...

Huckabee sanders talks about the information. most people we talk to in the west wing assume that its the pictures that were provided by rob porters former wives about the alleged abuse. but that doesnt also pertain to the information more broadly about rob porters problems with past relationships that may have been mentioned to the white house, much further back than last week. there still needs to be a completed time line about what was told to the white house in specificity in terms of photos...

Accusations against rob porter, the staff secretary who stepped down. on sunday, legislative affairs director mark short made clear that the white house staff didnt even try to nail down the facts of the porter debacle before they fanned out for their sunday show appearances. >> its a fair question, chuck. i dont know who knew what when. >> why dont you know? why does everyone in the white house speaking in the room, get with don mcgahn, white house communication director hope hicks and former s...

Make that determination. thats not something thats decided by the white house. its the same way that it has been -- >> classified information, when you have someone like -- >> im sorry? >> can you guarantee classified information when you have someone like rob porter who didnt have a permanent security clearance -- >> i think we are taking every step we can to protect classified information. i mean, frankly, if you guys have such concern with classified information, theres plenty of it thats lea...

>> natasha bertrand add today our merry gang. she coffers national skpurt and russia investigation for the atlantic. obviously he doesnt know the difference between any of those classifications, but to hear him read them from what i understood to be his own notes is pretty entertaining in light of the fact that hes now the president and his white house is full of people without full security clearances. >> yeah, one of the most alarming things that i read this weekend came out of politico, which...

Of "fire and fury" are released. donald trump excommunicates steve bannon. january 11 s-hole country. january 12, report of payment to stormy daniels. i get flustered reading that. january 19, government shuts down. january 25, first report trump tried to fire mueller. february 2nd, trump releases gop memo, devin nunes memo. february 8 rob porter resigns, domestic abuse. february 9 government briefly shuts down again. february 9 rebuttal memo. second white house official resigns amid allegations...

Should be treated fairly and with due process. we have addressed this situation extensively and we have nothing more to add. >> why havent we heard the president say exactly what you said right there, he takes domestic violence very seriously? a >> i spoke with the president directly. those are the words he gave me. >> why hasnt he said that? he had the opportunity -- >> it is my job to speak on behalf of the president. he relayed that message directly to me and im relaying it directly to you. >...