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>> jesse: are really high level senior administration official or do you think this is a small ballplayer trying to make himself -- >> dana: great question. one would figure out a way to talk to report on background, i would say deputy level and above, you could claim senior administration official. i did love my friend well, i think he's out there working not in government anymore. he was a press assistant. he was giving a report or information about something happening and they said can i quote you as a senior administration official and he said no. but you can quote me as a junior at admini...

How did this all come about? >> my reporting suggests he did this under the direction of someone. i'm still reporting this out and not comfortable reporting definitively who exactly directed him to do this, but i can say that this was not an issue of a press assistant free lancing, if you will. >> is there any suggestion that all of this is adding to this sort of murmur that scott pruitt has got to go? the "washington post" reported this today -- "pruitt drew up a list of at least a dozen countries he hoped to visit and urged dates to help him find official reasons to travel. he enlisted polit...

Yet another former tv personality joining the trump administration, but this time it's not at all what you'd expect. >> the shake it up chicago local popular television dance program? >> don't let the accent throw you. that's former disney channel star caroline sunshine, hired as team trump's new press assistant. best known for her role as tinka in the show "shake it up," one of romans' favorites. the 22-year-old sunshine most recently served as a white house intern and also interned for house majority leader kevin mccarthy. the california republican party and college republican committee, as ...

Truthful about it, if not you can be prosecuted. there would have been a phone call into the white house council's office. in a normal white house, that would have been it. if he could not give a really good evidence that this was wrong and fabricated, he would have been out the door and it would have been handled quietly and that would have been the end of it. >> you were the communications director for it. >> yes, it happens in every white house, there are infractions that are seemingly minor. a individual who wanted to be hired for a press assistant could not come in for several weeks becau...

You're a press assistant, you have to explain that and get a waiver on it. it's perplexing why this has taken over a year and why this was not known earlier, and i'm not sure they answered those adequately at this time. >> the two ex-wives, as we said, both talked to the fbi and were honest and forthright about the domestic abuse and relationships they had with rob porter. >> right. i think it is still unknown if the fbi found out about those things, if they would have briefed people within the white house prior to completion of investigation into their background, and if they did, at what poi...