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Until this story broke? >> i can only give you the best information i have, and thats my understanding. >> sarah huckabee-sanders standing by the white house account that chief of staff john kelly had no knowledge of the accusations against staff secretary rob porter until the story broke. but as weve reported, conflicting time lines reporting to the contrary show that john kelly might be in the hot seat on this one. jonathan swan of axios got our attention today when he reported the kelly cover...

Is the white house still maintaining that john kelly really had no idea about these allegations of domestic abuse until this story broke? >> i can only give you the best information i have, and thats my understanding. >> sarah huckabee-sanders standing by the white house account that chief of staff john kelly had no knowledge of the accusations against staff secretary rob porter until the story broke. but as weve reported, conflicting time lines reporting to the contrary show that john kelly mig...

We know what weve reported, which is that the president is not high on john kelly, has lost a lot of confidence in him, and that he has mused about different people including nic mulvaney, including kevin mccarthy, to others. there are a lot of people pushing gary cohn to the president. but i dont know directly that id be able to kwaucorroborate the president himself feels to that idea. >> what hes talking about is the trump caveat, that affects everything until decisions are done, dusted and si...

Thinks and, you know, bob has covered the president for longer than i have, and he knows this even more than i do. the president creates his own reality. he draws his own reality and encourages others to see his own reality. in some ways sometimes the president, that reality becomes real. he is the president of the united states now. he was just a fantasizing real estate celebrity tv mogul. but sometimes the reality is just fiction. and when you are sort of exposed to that every day, and you are...

Fundamental competence. its one thing -- not to say, by the way, a white house lacking in integrity can be excused if its competent, but here you have a white house thats wanting on both scores. >> to our viewers read the work just posted by our friend by ashley parker, and to our guests our thanks for starting off our tuesday conversation. bob bower, frank montoya, and ashley parker of "the washington post." coming up two who have covered trump since his campaign shedding light on this chaos ...

>> i can only give you the best information i have, and thats my understanding. >> sarah huckabee-sanders standing by the white house account that chief of staff john kelly had no knowledge of the accusations against staff secretary rob porter until the story broke. but as weve reported, conflicting time lines reporting to the contrary show that john kelly might be in the hot seat on this one. jonathan swan of axios got our attention today when he reported the kelly cover up is unraveling. quote...

Intelligence dan coates weighed in on this security situation telling the associated press, quote, we have a broken system and i think everybodys come to agree with that now. coates was later asked about the risks of temporary clearances at todays senate intel hearing. >> i think sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot, but i have public lestat publicly stated if that is the case, the access has to be limited with the kind of information they ...

Thats created this huge problem for john kelly who knew about these allegations ahead of time and you know, in talking to some white house officials today, people a they believe kelly cannot be trusted, that hes lying internally about this. were going to have more reporting on that tonight at "the washington post," but its a problem for this white house and puts the chief of staff under siege. >> give us something. >> well, what we have here is the staff inside the white house some of them are t...

His way out and talking about the leading candidate replacement this hour. >> thats exactly right. with all things involving this president the usual caveats apply, which is that until trump makes a decision no decision has been made. but there is a growing sense even from when we wrote that story to when i went home this evening is that theres a sense within the white house that kelly cannot weather this storm. so the question is he out tomorrow, out this week, in a month or two? and thats the ...

Indicate that it was stated motive that he had. >> i want to talk about nor report that focuses on the tensions between president trump and his chief of staff john kelly. they point out that mr. kelly cannot stop mr. trump from binge watching fox news, which aides are describes as the presidents primary source of information gathering. what more are your colleagues learning about this relationship? >> its one where general kelly has decided while hes not going to try to control the president, he...