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Somehow mean for this guy. ed: couldn't get talking points straight. let's call it the friday night massacre. let's call it the friday night slaughter. they couldn't get the talking points straight. rachel: get the headlines and get back to the massacre. engineer reported cracks in the bridge at florida international university two days before its deadly collapse. >> i was calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and cracking that's been observed on the north end of the span. we have looked at it and obviously repairs or whatever will have to be done but from ...

The standards were not in place when this new administration came into being. they didn't have the standards and as a result, you have dozens and dozens of officials who couldn't get top secret clearances. this was an incoming feel didn't have a great deal of regard for norms. there are norms, through lessons lermd, if you don't do it that way you're really increasing the odds things will happen. in case of mr. kushner. we jumped over norms with regard to nepotism torsion divestment of interest. we jumped over norms with regard to his security clearance and look where we are now.

Word. should kushner receive a pdb? >> no one who doesn't have high level security clearance should have access to that information gs investment. what we don't know is whether his failure to get this clearance triggered this downstream of people who also couldn't get clearances. that is an unknown, but it's dangerous in any government office, particularly in the white house. >> peter baker, ashley parker and joyce vance, thank you so much for starting us off. we're grateful. whether we come back, the memo donald trump and devin nunes never wanted you to see. we'll explain it to you and how it...

The biggest question is, you know, what is the president feeling about this. in public he's defended rob porter and defended men that have been accused of abuse by women, in private there's reports saying the president was disgusted and was unhappy with rob porter's behavior. the president has not come out and said that publicly. so all of us are looking for clarity on what does the president think about this and what does he do about it once he learned about it. >> shepard: if they didn't know, they could come out and explain, we didn't know. here's why. when we know, even when we got the pic...

They are the big leakers and what we hear in the press over and over again is trump is not happy with general kelly's performance. this was before rob porter. we also heard in the papers being leaked, remember jared owned "the observer," has vast connections within the media, we keep hearing jared and ivanka aren't happy and are looking for replacements. those are stories planted and leaked and testing the waters. >> why, in fact, would the president not be happy with john kelly, when he himself is doubling down or was doubling down on his support up until porter's resignation, then you have t...