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Secretary sarah sanders says it is highly inappropriate to question john kelly, a four star general, but facts are facts. and here is one. in this country it is entirely appropriate to question our leaders. remember, they're civil servants. they work for us of the and here is another. what general kelly said about congresswoman wilson was wrong of the so let's discuss now. thank you all for joining us. anna, you first. we now know that the chief of staff john kelly seriously mischaracterized the congresswoman's 2015 speech. i want your perspective because you have a unique one. you are friends...

As a retired marine general who is also a gold star father, he's the perfect person to speak on this. he did err in his evaluation of wilson. i think if the white house took a step back. if they admitted that in their attack on representative, that they erred in this area, that would lend decent credibility. but they see that general kelly has gotten them out of a tight spot. i think the tendency here from the white house is not to want to give an inch at all. >> but doesn't that just keep the furor going? >> absolutely. this morning with the tweet you were talking about just a second ago, thi...

Bad because of this? >> it is important to not let the inflation that we saw of release of hucklebsanders stand. >> everyone was moved by that. people are pushing back on the story that he told about representative wilson that had absolutely nothing to do with niger that ended up being inaccurate. we saw a couple weeks ago that general kelly came out to say it was not his job to control the chaos and the white house. to some people this week, looks like he's apart of the chaos. that's perhaps of why he cannot control it. >> kelly and eugene scott, thank you both for joining us this morning. ...

There's no recording of this conversation for him to actually say or the theory that he said that he knew he was getting into just doesn't seem to add up compared what all the other grieving families who have come forward have said after having spoken to the president. >> well, if you take a look at what general kelly said, he said that he had helped counsel the president. he had helped the president reach a message. it sounds like a lot of this comes down to tone and a question of how the president's sort of tone was perceived. no doubt that congresswoman wilson is saying it and of course som...

$400,000 of his own money to pay for some of his staff's and former campaign acquaintances pay for some of their legal bills. these are mounting legal bills as part of this ongoing russia probe. there's a lot of questions. you know, who decides which staffers get the money? could it possibly include paul manafort and michael flynn? the president meanwhile he's continuing to dismiss these investigations as a hoax and a witch hunt, but make no mistake, the legal bills are very real and wracking up at a rapid rate, so by offering $430,000 of his own money, he's hoping to offset some of those lega...