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Memo claiming the fbi abused its surveillance authority. president trump holding up the release of the memo. i want to talk about this now with chris stewart, a utah republican who is a member of the intel committee. congressman, thank you so much for joining me. >> it's good to be with you. thank you. >> first, i want your reaction to the white house, the way they handled the rob porter allegations. what most people are calling a mess. why can't the white house get the message straight on this, do you think? >> to be honest with you, i haven't followed it very much today. i haven't been able ...

Of controversy around defending somebody who's been alleged of domestic abuse. any other president, don, would not be able to survive one of those attacks. and for donald trump, he seemed to just move on. >> well, michael, you talked about the stories coming left and right. here's another story that we have. it's related to what mark just said about the conversation over possible kelly successor heating up in washington. this is according to our dana bash, gloria borger, jamie gangel, jim acosta, and jeremy diamond. there's been no decision by president trump to replace john kelly, but multipl...

Comments in order top flauns or shape a story without their comments becoming a story. reporters usually want to hear more information than less information. what's interesting about this meeting is that it was really at the nexus of where the white house's story began to turn. it was on -- as of -- it was, what, wednesday morning, as of wednesday morning, the white house was defending the rob porter and not pushing back on our reporting that kelly was trying to save porter's job. by that night, kelly had issued a second statement, saying that he was shocked by these new allegations and in the...

And like mark was mentioning, i think why we're hearing about this is exactly the fact that he -- that this has become a legal issue for him. my colleagues at "the wall street journal" broke this story a couple of months ago. it's hard to keep track of all of these controversies and time. >> you were just reading my mind. i was like, so much for infrastructure week. but go on. >> it is infrastructure week, again. but, you know, michael cohn didn't participate, he wouldn't comment, he wouldn't answer these questions for us. it's only now that he sees some legal issues to do so. and i think that...

Of justice. that's number one. now you have a porn star, as you noted, sounds so glamorous and it's not, who received $130,000 from the lawyer of donald trump, who just decided to do it out of the goodness of his heart. and to add to that, you have a white house right now that is embroiled in unbelievable amount of controversy around defending somebody who's been alleged of domestic abuse. any other president, don, would not be able to survive one of those attacks. and for donald trump, he seemed to just move on. >> el witwell, michael, you tal about the stories coming left and right. here's o...