so, you actually heard the chief of staff give this defense of himself with this timeline. does it add up? >> i have to say it was extraordinary in that room because the timeline doesn't really even comport with what we publicly know. it doesn't comport with what we know over the sources of the last month. john kelly is saying february 6th, the day that the daily mail came to the white house with this story is the first time that he heard that the allegations of domestic abuse against rob porter. and that he blamed a mix-up for a press mix-up for the fact that the following day the white house continued to not only defend porter, they claimed that he would be staying on at the white house for several weeks and then kelly continued to have his name on a statement praising porter. they didn't even try to retract the statements of praise that the white house had collected for members of congress for porter that were out in the public on wednesday, after the photos, one of porter's ex-wives