Jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, his Senior Adviser got big loans for his Family Business after he met with top wall street executives at the white house. Thats according to the New York Times. Kushner also described as acting paranoid. A cnn source says he feels everyone is out to get him after losing his top secret security clearance. And in the middle of his pitch battle with chief of staff john kelly. A white house insider saying the president is increasingly frustrated with all the enemies general kelly is making. And also the latest crisis of the president s own making. The president s public shaming of his own handpicked attorney general. The president tweeting today, why is ag Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive fisa abuse, will take forever. Has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on comey, et cetera. Isnt the i. G. An obama guy . Why not use Justice Department lawyers . Disgraceful. To answer questions, Michael Horowitz is investigating because thats his job, and none of this is really what the president is steamed about. Thats not what hes steamed about. He continues to blame Jeff Sessions for the Mueller Investigation. And now tonight we have learned mueller is looking into exactly why trump wanted to oust sessions last summer. And here we go again. News that on any other night would be our top story. President trump holds a live televised meeting and ends up sounding an awful lot like a democrat. Calling for a ban on bump stocks, strengthening background checks and raising the age of gun purchases from 18 to 21. Remember when gun advocates loved to say, obama wants to take away your guns. Now trump actually does. Listen. Take the firearms first, and then go to court. A lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures, i like taking the guns early. So a recap just on the open of this show, bombshell resignations, white house infighting, guns, all of that and its only wednesday. Lets bring in senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, where do we start . The white house under a barrage of bad headlines tonight. Whats the latest . Don, certainly a busy day on a variety of fronts here at the white house, as you covered there. There was this dramatic session in the cabinet room of the white house this afternoon that seemed to really be the driving story of the day here, if you will, with the president having this session with democrats and republicans sitting down trying to broker a deal on guns. He said, do not be petrified by the nra, he said now is the time to do something. Literally minutes after that meeting broke up, news came from the white house that hope hicks, the Communications Director, one of the closest advisers to the president , said she was resigning, so, of course, that in some ways overshadowed that entire nra meeting, again, this morning, the president going after his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, once again. Which has become this repeated series of events here, always going after Jeff Sessions, who was, of course, an early supporter, early adviser on the campaign, so, don, as we end a busy wednesday here, the white house still pushing guns, but there is this staff shakeup, this resignation that is different than all the others, weve been through this before, weve been here before saying this person resigned, that person resigned, hope hicks is different, don. Who has five Communications Directors in just over a year. I mean, i hate to laugh. Its not its laughable. I just cannot who could believe this . Its even more than that, yesterday the title of Communications Director, but it is much more than that. Hope hicks was more than a Communications Director. She was the trump whisperer, she understood him, and she in many respects, her voice was not known outside. We see a lot of people on sunday talk shows, we see them advising president s and sort of out here on the lawn giving interviews, this was not hope hicks. But her voice inside was very loud and very clear. She was involved in virtually every big story the president was involved in, every big speech. She traveled with him. And im remembering tonight, thinking back to a trip last july when the president was flying back from hamburg, germany, the g20 back here to washington, hope hicks was on that plane, i was on that plane as a Pool Reporter after this long foreign trip. That was the time we didnt know it at the moment, where they were devising the Communications Strategy for that trump tower meeting from 2016. Hope hicks was in the room as they were talking about, wait, this wasnt about adoptions for russia, it was about dirt on Hillary Clinton. So that i was thinking about that again today, hope hicks was present for every station of this situation, which is one of the reasons she spent eight hours yesterday before the house intelligence committee. She spent two days before bob muellers team at the end of last year, so all that builds up to is it why she resigned today . We dont know. She said she wanted to pursue other opportunities, but, don, i can tell you, there was a Ripple Effect that was felt here. I was told that people were crying when she was saying she was leaving. She is a force here in the white house that will be leaving in the coming weeks, and my question, how will the president deal without this aide next to him being caught this was a bigger deal than without a lot of these other resignations. Without his trump whisperer as she is called. I want to bring in chris alizza. Joshua green, cnn political analyst and cnn political analyst april ryan and ryan lizza. So, chris, you know, its interesting when he talks about her being the trump whisperer. And shes been will for him. She was very low key. I remember inauguration night was the first time i ever met her and heard her name besides reading it on a statement from the white house. She was not very visible. You dont know hope hicks . I said, no, i dont know hope hicks. But youre not buying her resignation, are you . First, to your first point about her low profile, to go from Anthony Scaramucci to hope hicks, literally the biggest contrast in profile you could ever have. No, jeff touched on this, she said she told Maggie Haberman or aides told maggie that she left because this was the perfect time to leave. Its the opposite of the perfect time to leave. You just went through the number of stories, don. Thats just today. And really thats just this afternoon. Yeah. Because yesterday a similar open to the show, there was so much news, four or five stories, either of which could have been the big story or the only other story. And would have been in any other administration. So to me her leaving now, a day after the testimony in the house intelligence committee, a few weeks after the whole security clearance issue with rob porter who she was romantically linked. Shes leaving at a time when donald trump is increasingly isolated, has fewer and fewer of that core group that he started with. Let me ask you this, then why would he berate her after her testimony, because she said she told white lies. I want to say that was trending because they do matter. If you lie about little things, you know how that ends. Yes. My guess is, because he was upset at her because he is smart enough to understand that it is very hard for a Communications Person whose job is to deal with the media to be saying, well, yeah, i mean, i tell some things that arent true. Its nothing substantive. How do we know what to believe . Credibilitywise, youre left in a lurch. Trump himself adheres to the roy kohn standard of always attack, never admit any wrongdoing. Trump himself will never admit hes lied, never apologized, and he expects that from his staff too. April, this is your beat, what are you hearing . Im hearing she was forced to resign, that she and general kelly yeah, i mean, no surprise. That she and general kelly have not been seeing eye to eye particularly since this rob porter issue. When she wrote that statement about rob porter and his leaving and what was going on, and my sources are telling me that she had she delivered a tentative resignation at that time, but they said, stay, you have some more things you have to do, youve got these hearings, so stay. Yesterday was the nail in the coffin, that white lie was the nail in the coffin for the president and the administration. So whats next, we dont know, but we do know that this white house is trying to act like everything is okay. We know that everything is not okay because they knew this was coming, they purposefully strategically cancelled a briefing today, because they were fearful we would get information about this and Start Talking about it to overshadow the gun issue, the other story. Well, one of the other stories of the day. So this has been a very interesting day, we have to see how it plays out. But hope hicks is leaving. But the president has other people in the administration that he can definitely have as a whisperer. I said it before, kellyanne, when the president gets in hot water on the twitter, kellyanne says, sir, how can i help you meaning, how can i help you fix this . The president , he likes people one minute, but once they do something, hell throw them away for a minute. Then they start calling him on his cell phone and theyre friends again. Well see what happens. How do you fix this was a hard blow. How do you fix that, because one of the people you mentioned, there are others, theyre so gaffe prone, how do you fix something . Sometimes they try to fix it, and they end up making it worse, at least hope hicks was not enamored by cameras and fame. She was the Perfect Communications director. Everyone else who seems to be in those roles want to be they never met a green room they didnt like. They never the roughest place, the most dangerous place to be was between them and a camera. Even still. I dont know how theyre going to fix it, because they often end up shes now sick of washington. Shes now sick of washington, because shes been the eye of the storm at least three times. And so young, this is not what she signed up for. She signed up originally to work with ivanka trump and her fashion line. Let me bring in ryan. Remember when President Trump lashed out at john kelly, and kelly told other white house staff that in his 35 years of military service, he had never been spoken to like that, and we have seen this story before, this time it looks like its a dramatic consequence. Well, i mean, sometimes it feels like half of white house reporting is just about who trump is mad at that day. Right . Every senior white house official goes through some cycle of, you know, trump venting at them, so that was kellys time in the barrel. This job of White House Communications director, its sort of become like the drummer in spinal tap, if you guys remember that movie. People just sort of leave in unusual circumstances, some more spectacularly than others. Scaramuccis was probably the most spectacular, he was the shortest and maybe like that sort of like the drummer who selfcombusted in the movie. Hope lasted a long time, i mean, she was doing this job even when other people had the title. But at the end of the day, trump is his own Communications Director. And thats why this job is so impossible to fill in the way that previous president s have had Communications Directors because he is very difficult to work for in any capacity but especially when it comes to press and communications, which he thinks hes a master of. Yeah, i want you to look at this graphic. This is the president s original inner circle that went with him from the early days of the campaign to the white house. Actually, theres just a couple from the early days, some of those people are not early. I mean anyway, how many are left here . The president is increasingly isolated. If you take away family members, theres not a lot left. The real shock with hope hicks leaving, i was speaking with a former white house official today just after the news broke. He was really stunned. As tough as that job is on people, you know, i expected hope to be the one to turn out the lights on the trump administration, that she would be there for the full four or eight years. I dont know if that was realistic but i think it speaks to how jarring it was for people who work with her to see her arbitrarily decide to leave, especially in the middle of all the crises that are ongoing. The other issue that came up in my reporting was, look, shes spoken to mueller, maybe thats a reason shes left. If she has reason to believe that perhaps she is a target of this investigation, maybe now is the time to leave and get some distance from the white house if things are going to go in a bad direction. Chris, i have to take a break. Quickly, how much of this i was sitting in my office and watching all the news channels, right trump tv or state run tv, theyre not even reporting this. So trump supporters, they dont even know about these stories, it doesnt register, thats the amazing thing. We cover all of these things every day. The white house imploding behind him, and hes standing there going, nothing to see here. His supporters probably dont even realize the extent. Yes, theres no question, particularly when he tweets about, why dont we Pay Attention to hillarys crimes. Number one. Number two, though, i actually think for people who are just consuming news generally, the top of the show, don, i would think theres an episode of the simpsons where mr. Burns, the old decrepit guy stay with me, he goes to the doctor and he has a checkup, the doctor comes in and says, youre perfectly fine. He said, i knew it, i was healthy. He said, no, its not that, you have every disease known to man, but theyre all blocking one another from attacking your body. I sometimes think about that with the news cycle. I wonder if hes doing it on purpose. People say, yes, he is. 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Our breaking news tonight, the bombshell resignation of hope hicks just one day after we learned Jared Kushners security clearance has been downgraded. Thats not the only bombshell coming out of the Trump White House. Theres news on Robert Muellers investigation. And questions about President Trumps feud with attorney general Jeff Sessions. Back with me now, chris cilzza. Joshua green, april ryan and ryan lizza. Because chris read ahead in the notebook, im going to give this to ryan. As were dissecting all the news about hope hicks and really everything thats come out in the Washington Post reporting that mueller is examining trumps apparent efforts to oust sessions in july, and whether this is a pattern of obstruction of justice. What do you make of it . I think its entirely predictable. As predictable as the earlier story this week that foreigners were trying to gain an advantage over kushner by figuring out what kind of what his weaknesses are with respect to his financial dealings. Just as that is entirely predictable, it is predictable that given his financial endanglements and given the nature of his job, he was inevitably going to meet with officials who then had some business relationship, right . So sometimes these things are totally innocent. Maybe he met with this guy from citigroup and then the company got the loan as the post is reporting and one had nothing to do with the other. But that is the problem when you dont divest. That is the problem when you have these kinds of financial entanglements. It is the appearance of frankly corruption. And thats why we have previous administrations who have been very, very stringent abou