not clear why. the administration now on defense. i think that was a personal decision that rob made and one that she was not pressured to do but one he made on his own. and last night chief of staff john kelly released a second statement. his updated response reads in part i was shocked by the new allegations released today against rob porter. there is no place for domestic violence in our society. i stand by my previous comments of the rob porter that i ve come to know since becoming chief of staff and believe every individual deserves the right to defend their reputation. joe, this week and i ve raised it a few times begrudgingly because we obviously have such tremendous respect for john kelly but what s going on in there? that s a great question and that s a question to ask bob costa. bob, obviously general kelly coming under pressure from donald trump apparently, i think
are struggling to understand the rationale in terms of the timing of these tax cuts in a time when we re almost near full employment where we should be using the money to plug that deficit gap but there is one explanation that some democrats provide and that is that you want to actually force these cuts to touching that third rail to put us in a situation where we have to make these drastic cuts to these entitlement programs. can you please speak to that question? look, that is extreme hyperbole. basically they re assigning extremely terrible motives to us. i know the people i serve with out here. i don t think my friends in the democratic party have bad intentions. we don t have bad intentions. we don t do tax cuts so we create a terrible deficit and are forced to deal with entitlements, we do want to balance the budget but in our view and it s a different political opinion than the other side of the aisle we believe just like a business in debt that decides to expand to get
exercises until march. so you have the appearance of some outreach and some diplomacy from north korea, but also the rapid development of a nuclear program and showing that off in a parade today. and of course i may have confused some viewers, but midnight run was starring charles groden, midnight express is what we modeled our life after. that s right. mika, next question. willie, i m just wondering at this point when you re going to come back. because we miss you here. and i miss you guys too. what if you came here? it s a long flight, i ll say that. no. willie, where are you actually? it looks like the secaucus mall behind you. and tell us about the events already happening. yeah, the garden state plaza. you can see the spaghetti factory right over my shoulder. a lovely shot, isn t it?
communications director? i think she worked on ivanka s fashion line? i m not sure what anyone expects at this point. but bad judgment. the chairman of the senate homeland security republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin yesterday issue as new report that insinuates that the president obama was personally keeping tabs on the fbi s investigation into hillary clinton s emails. the allegation stems from newly released text messages between former fbi agent peter strzok, who was previously involved in special counsel robert mueller s investigation and fbi lawyer lisa page. in one specific text from september 2nd, 2016, page writes that she was preparing talking points for former fbi director james comey. quote because potus wants to know everything we re doing. the exchange does not specify the topic in question. at the time the fbi did not have an active investigation open
they re all unqualified. and there s another question out here and this was kind of skipped over yesterday but sarah sanders was asked what trump himself knew and that is an open question which she kind of shirked. this is the first time if you want to call it part of the me too wave has touched the white house. it s touched congress, hollywood, industry and this is the start of also a discussion about culture and the question is whether it also kind of brings up trump s own past and issues with women. right. white house officials are anxious about this conversation that, you know, there was that moment where a lot of the president s accusers who said he had sexually harassed them came forward and the white house simply stuck to the party line of like deny, deny, deny, this never happened, this never happened but there was a sense of sensitivity that like we know this is an issue we re vulnerable on. and then to have these porter allegations come up, that s part of the reason why