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Abuse. and now we have the white house again trying to sort of explain what's going on. we saw the porter case, the scapegoat versus the fbi. now it is a rather obscure white house personnel security office. when at the end of the day they might need to look inward and realize it is their own processes or their own personnel that are part of the problem. >> jeremy, i want to read you a tweet from the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who was dismissed by donald trump. these days he maintains an active twitter presence and hosts a better than average podcast. preet bhar...

Peter, what have you been led to believe about his shelf life and immediate future. >> in the trump white house you can never tell. people who are supposed to be out tomorrow last six months or a year. people who are supposed to last a year are gone by the end of business. making a prediction is a hazardous affair. it is certainly the case that the president has been unhappy with kelly, not just because of the porter case, for any number of reasons. he feels constrained. he doesn't like general kelly trying to impose a certain discipline on him. he didn't like general kelly said that the presi...

Allegations first were made public. and i think we're seeing there's an effort in there to try to, you know, as much as there's a camp that wants john kelly out, there's certainly others who are trying to protect him and chief of staff, himself, is, of course, seems like he's leading that charge. where he has given a few interviews, on the record interviews in recent days including one today where he was asked if they had any regrets, if they needed to make any changes to how they handled the porter case. he said, no, it was handled the right way. >> matt, let me get you back in on this on the...

Administration forced to deal with a crisis they seem unprepared for and simply did not expect. to have two prominent members of the administration forced to resign in the wake of a sexual -- or i should say domestic violence accusations is something that the white house just did not seem to have the tools to prepare for. and what's being criticized right now is the white house respon response. first of all, in the situation with rob porter, the staff secretary, that perhaps high levels of the administration did not act quickly enough to address this particular situation. in the vetting proces...

Know, they were leaning against not giving him the full clearance because of what he has done in the past. so john kelly needs to step down and -- look, it's good for the white house, if i worked for white house i would advise the president to let john kelly go and move forward. kelly: let me see as we have seen ellison barber's report, she wanted to report that president trump weighed in on the issue with tweet stated, i'm getting beyond the john kelly aspects of it and looking at rob porter and david, this is what the president tweeted, people's lives are being chattered and destroyed by a m...