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Of the president's closest confidants. kaitlan collins joining us more on this. what are we hearing about hope hicks this morning? >> reporter: another stunning development as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from this rob porter scandal and that is the president's relationship with one of his top aides, and closest confidantes, because sources are telling cnn that the president is growing increasingly frustrated with hicks and the role she has played in all of this, with rob porter, because of several reasons. one being that he -- the president was not consulted when hope hi...

You kiss the ring and many people have. whether he gives money or not, a lot of people do go through that -- >> that sounds like harvey weinstein. >> it's a similar thing. it goes both sides. you know, follow the money. and the money goes right into steve wynn's office and a lot of people go there asking for that. so i think from a pr standpoint and just from a human decency standpoint, if i had a penny of his money, i would be writing a check tomorrow morning. >> maria, let's turn now to the diplomats. we talked a little bit about it with a different story. cnn has learned today that hillary ...

High profile position with the republican party. anyone who did accept money from him, if i were them, i was referring information to them, i would certainly suggest that they return the money and distance themselves from him. the thing with steve wynn is everyone that runs for president or runs for high office, if you go through las vegas, you go through steve wynn's office and you kiss the ring. many people have. whether he gives money or not, a lot of people do go through that -- >> that sounds like harvey weinstein. >> yeah. >> it's a similar thing. it goes both sides. follow the money. th...

Is can you explain the gap between draining the swamp and spending more than a million dollars on both personal and military travel combined? >> no. i can't explain it except one that either you're a hypocrite or you got so used to the perks of flying commercial. i'm sure it's very nice to be able to have the plane wait on it. i'm sure it's nice to be able not to have a whole bunch of people sitting next to you, strangers sitting next to you. it's very nice. that becomes addictive. it's easy as a member of congress or for anyone to criticize that. but when you get into power and have all of th...

The faa authorization, that goes away, national flood insurance expires, that's a list of everything that happens at the end of september. but they were going to give up part of the recess. instead they didn't get healthcare done and they're leaving anyway. >> they won't get anything done. when they do come back there is this talk maybe they can pivot to tax reform and lower people's taxes and come back to the table on healthcare. as you point out there isn't any time to do any of those things because all of these other authorizations and funding runs out and they have to sort of take care of ...