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>> i can only give you the best information i have, and that's my understanding. >> sarah huckabee-sanders standing by the white house account that chief of staff john kelly had no knowledge of the accusations against staff secretary rob porter until the story broke. but as we've reported, conflicting time lines reporting to the contrary show that john kelly might be in the hot seat on this one. jonathan swan of axios got our attention today when he reported the kelly cover up is unraveling. quote, john kelly's white house enemies are ready to use fbi director's crist ray's testimony as a weap...

Intelligence dan coates weighed in on this security situation telling the associated press, quote, we have a broken system and i think everybody's come to agree with that now. coates was later asked about the risks of temporary clearances at today's senate intel hearing. >> i think sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot, but i have public lestat publicly stated if that is the case, the access has to be limited with the kind of information they can receive or not receive. the process is broken. it needs to be reformed. >> these latest develo...

That's created this huge problem for john kelly who knew about these allegations ahead of time and you know, in talking to some white house officials today, people a they believe kelly cannot be trusted, that he's lying internally about this. we're going to have more reporting on that tonight at "the washington post," but it's a problem for this white house and puts the chief of staff under siege. >> give us something. >> well, what we have here is the staff inside the white house some of them are turning on john kelly. so he according to sarah sanders has the confidence of the president at th...

His way out and talking about the leading candidate replacement this hour. >> that's exactly right. with all things involving this president the usual caveats apply, which is that until trump makes a decision no decision has been made. but there is a growing sense even from when we wrote that story to when i went home this evening is that there's a sense within the white house that kelly cannot weather this storm. so the question is he out tomorrow, out this week, in a month or two? and that's the open question. but there's a sense he is not going to be able to make it as long as he said he ha...

Indicate that it was stated motive that he had. >> i want to talk about nor report that focuses on the tensions between president trump and his chief of staff john kelly. they point out that mr. kelly cannot stop mr. trump from binge watching fox news, which aides are describes as the president's primary source of information gathering. what more are your colleagues learning about this relationship? >> it's one where general kelly has decided while he's not going to try to control the president, he's going to try to control the information he receives and the people that talk to the president....