fired from the white house, pretty soon afterwards, they got fired from the white house. >> well, in fact, mark short, the legislative aide in the trump white house was on "meet the press" with chuck todd. chuck pressed him on whether or not the white house counsel should be responsible for setting up alarm bells if somebody close to the president does not have full clearance. >> is don mcgahn not informing the chief of staff, or is somebody not wanting to hear bad news? >> it's a fair question, chuck. i don't know, to be honest. i don't know who knew what, when at this point. >> let me pause you there. why? why come on here and not know? if we don't know the tick-tock, how can you defend any of it? >> general kelly learned the full information tuesday, and by wednesday, rob porter was out. >> should he have known earlier? >> i think the following the same process. the fbi does the investigation, and they come back. >> are they following the same