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John kelly's arrival in august a positive he was going to put the place in a better shape. they lost that optimism, partly over the porter thing, partly the issues he's been involved with. >> and i guess just to jump off what peter's reported, it's gone in the other direction. so, they had high hopes, and part of this maybe is just a disappointment that not even a general can straighten out donald trump. it's now gone so far as they feel reserntment. he walked in there streemtly judgmental of the regime that had come before him, reince priebus and others, and that in many ways the white house ...

And this idea of does he survive, right. i mean kauushner, he obviously blocked him in terms of the downgrading of security clearance. and jared kushner has always sort of been the crown prince of this white house. and what happens? i don't think anybody knows how this plays out. kelly seemed to be on thin ice in the wake of the porter thing. whether or not he is on thinner ice at this point, who knows. >> olivia, you did a very good profile on hope hicks in 2016, right? for gq magazine. you've continued to report on her. when you look at her departure, i mean there has been a question of the ...

Here, the worst part of the porter thing is this is a guy with top secret foerlds on the desk and a burn bag under the desk because you incinerate the material he reads every day. people don't understand everything goes to the president through the staff secretary. national security adviser gives his memo to the staff secretary. when you know that this guy can never be cleared, then it is grossly incompetent and it is negligent to allow him to stay in the job. others can take some time. others may be a lower level or they see a different level of classified information. the white house counsel...

South american field office over to the small peruvian village where i worked as a volunteer with the jess youities in law school to interview the villagers. it was done fast and it was done with exacting precision. here, the worst part of the porter thing is this is a guy with top secret foerlds on the desk and a burn bag under the desk because you incinerate the material he reads every day. people don't understand everything goes to the president through the staff secretary. national security adviser gives his memo to the staff secretary. when you know that this guy can never be cleared, the...

Reached out and said this is bad and this is not how it works and the way he described this was the white house was in a political situation where they couldn't fire rob porter because they needed rob porter and so they essentially ignored it. that's the way he framed it to me. and that is the broad concern that people should have. >> and it should be noted real quickly that they once again blame career officials when confronted the facts they have laid out. >> there is a -- yes, that is a reflexive thing they tend to do. but this is -- this is just a unmitigated -- there is a r-- a lot of lie...