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With security clearance, it's being -- >> but ali -- >> -- for someone to say, hey, what's the nature of the problem? >> go through the timeline. "washington post" on thursday, kelly learned in 2017. raj shah on thursday, he became aware yesterday. kelly on friday, 40 minutes later he was gone. sanders on monday, within 24 hours of resignation, had been accepted. it's lie on top of lies and it's the lies the that are causing the problem. >> i partly disagree with you guys. you are too focused -- you keep saying it's an unforced error. why is he lying? well, people lie for a reason. why is john...

>> but he stayed in the corner of rob porter. >> this is a brilliant point. for sarah sanders to say that the president has dictated his support for the president. the president says whatever the heck he wants and says it on twitter. >> he has no need to go through sarah huckabee sanders on most thing. >> he says it on twitter 24/7 and he certainly hasn't done it here, bill. why do you think that's the case? good point. >> because we know what he thinks. he thinks these charges could well be false. didn't he say that in a tweet? he didn't reference porter's name, but he said, you know, a lot o...

Like that. >> so the concept that someone pays someone nuisance money. that happens all the time. the act of the payment doesn't imply necessarily that there was wrongdoing. but the concept of a third party paying it, without any notion of reimbursement, the reason michael cohen has come forward with this is because somebody went to the elections commission and said, is this a campaign contribution? and he was saying, no, it wasn't, it was just me making the payment. >> that's right. and the law says that a payment that is meant to influence an election, and this occurred right before the elec...

About. >> let's talk about involvement in this issue. one might argue this might get done faster if the president didn't keep on moving the goal post on what he thinks is acceptable. >> i'm not sure is president is moving the goal post. i think there's just a communications problem and we've seen that in other things coming out of white house on this. i mean communication as far as to the legislators about what exactly they're willing to negotiate on. it's been pretty clear since that meeting that the president televised last month with all the legislators that he and, as you reported a little...

White house is cracking and why there's leaks everywhere, it's because john kelly -- and i learned this -- on a weekly basis says in staff meetings how lucky the staff is to have a leader like him who is supposed to bring order. so what a disservice he did to the president. remember, it was andy card who said he's there to serve at the pleasure of the president. john kelly didn't need to make this a massive issue for the president. he did. he made the decision that rob porter was more important than his credibility. and so it's stunning that this is happening now. we're going around saying, is...