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Welcome back, everyone. i'm alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters. a new development in the resignation of former white house secretary rob porter. ax yos is reporting that senior white house officials told him to stay and fight. he also says he never misrepresented anything to chief of staff john kelly. joining me now chief white house correspondent for the times, peter baker. big welcome to you, peter. i know that you've been doing your own reporting on this. how does this axios report square request w anything that you've heard. >> they told him when the allegations came up that he sho...

But on obstruction of justice, today may end up going down as a landmark day in this scandal. because today is the day of the president's lawyers effectively stopped arguing against the allegation that the president obstructed justice and instead they pivoted today and started making a public case that it's okay if the president obstructed justice because he's the president and he can do that. as president he's immune from any accountability for that particular crime. the president's lawyer john dowd telling axios.com today, "the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law en...

Hit on couple of times, other ways this could continue outside of d.c. while i have you as adviser in administrations in crisis, jeff sessions according to ax yos wants to put the national security counsel staff through lie detector test to root out leakers. unbelief if happen. floated to more than one person. >> and really go right for the thumb screws. my favorite is the rack and why not waterboard. i've been through lie detector test as experiment. not 100% reliable. create contaminated environment where you're get, there's no way around it. >> investigationitis. good or bad idea? >> bad. i...

Chief of staff. that's something we've been watching. >> you've been watching a lot for us for which we thank you. in terms of the rob porter situation, ax yos is report something senior white house officials told him to stay and fight. mike los angeles len is joining me right now on the phone. good day to you. what all have you learned? >> alex, good day to you too. rob porter is telling his associates a very different story than we're hearing out of white house. we're told that rob porter's telling associates that senior officials told him to stay and he said he never misrepresented anythi...