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John kellys arrival in august a positive he was going to put the place in a better shape. they lost that optimism, partly over the porter thing, partly the issues hes been involved with. >> and i guess just to jump off what peters reported, its gone in the other direction. so, they had high hopes, and part of this maybe is just a disappointment that not even a general can straighten out donald trump. its now gone so far as they feel reserntment. he walked in there streemtly judgmental of the reg...

And this idea of does he survive, right. i mean kauushner, he obviously blocked him in terms of the downgrading of security clearance. and jared kushner has always sort of been the crown prince of this white house. and what happens? i dont think anybody knows how this plays out. kelly seemed to be on thin ice in the wake of the porter thing. whether or not he is on thinner ice at this point, who knows. >> olivia, you did a very good profile on hope hicks in 2016, right? for gq magazine. youve co...

Here, the worst part of the porter thing is this is a guy with top secret foerlds on the desk and a burn bag under the desk because you incinerate the material he reads every day. people dont understand everything goes to the president through the staff secretary. national security adviser gives his memo to the staff secretary. when you know that this guy can never be cleared, then it is grossly incompetent and it is negligent to allow him to stay in the job. others can take some time. others ma...

South american field office over to the small peruvian village where i worked as a volunteer with the jess youities in law school to interview the villagers. it was done fast and it was done with exacting precision. here, the worst part of the porter thing is this is a guy with top secret foerlds on the desk and a burn bag under the desk because you incinerate the material he reads every day. people dont understand everything goes to the president through the staff secretary. national security a...

Reached out and said this is bad and this is not how it works and the way he described this was the white house was in a political situation where they couldnt fire rob porter because they needed rob porter and so they essentially ignored it. thats the way he framed it to me. and that is the broad concern that people should have. >> and it should be noted real quickly that they once again blame career officials when confronted the facts they have laid out. >> there is a -- yes, that is a reflexi...

Getting exhausted by the hostility, division and how people are running to their aisle -- to their corners here in the city. its -- people outside of washington are really -- i call it chaos exhaustion. they are just exhausted by the chaos. they want it to stop. and current -- this porter thing is more of the chaos, more of something not going right. >> steve, what do you think, this is someone who really -- trey gowdy hasnt had a difficult time at all operating in the interest of his party. he ...

Stuff. it becomes a field of confusing white to everyone. >> you think -- you think the porter thing will go away. maybe youre right. >> only because the next scandal will be here in three days. the next after that in four days a and incidental stuff in four days. multiple people in the white house including first and foremost john kelly knew about this stuff. this they stuff stared at the details of this if they didnt. and they decide to do didnt sound like much, didnt matter to them, or decide...