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Everything you need for the briefing? it was not a situation -- obviously not a situation he was trying to intentionally mislead me. it is one of the chief responsibilities of the white house chief of staff to be in a position to make sure that the white house press secretary has the information he or she needs to go out and tell the truth and make an effective case in support of the president. so in this case it's pretty clear that john kelly is doing the opposite of what he's supposed to be doing. and the reason he's doing it, lawrence, this is important, is not because he's looking out for ...

Was there before, she also knows he doesn't have any good answers to this, and she wants him to step up there. it sounds like sarah sanders is trying to cause problems for john kelly. >> look, what sarah sanders is saying is i lie blatantly and professionally for donald trump i don't lie blatantly and professionally for you, john kelly. so why don't you go up and lie to the american people for yourself directly because the whole story is unraveling. what we're going to find out, lawrence, is this investigation about rob porter was substantially done by july with some augmentations in november....

Yesterday house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy sent a letter to the fbi director demanding to know exactly who was told what about rob porter by the fbi and when they were told it. today trey gowdy sent a letter directly to john kelly requesting a list of all employees in the white house for whom a security clearance was pending or has been adjudicated since the inauguration. politico reports that the white house was, quote, startled by trey gowdy's public criticism of their security clearance process and the handling of the rob porter case. joining us now steve smith and josh earnest...

That come in. he's not going down for any of these people. >> they're both right. but the congress is looking at a different thing than mueller. mueller is looking at what crimes have been committed and by who. congress should be looking at how do we keep the russians from hacking and hurting our elections in 2018. we know they're at it, we know they did it in 2016 and we need to protect our system. so congress ought to be focussing on doing something about that. >> ron, to the rick gates development, again, obviously the special prosecutor really needs to get a conviction, wants to get a conv...

Donald trump can pretend that george papadopoulos was the coffee boy. but as you showed in the tape you ran earlier, rick gates was one of the senior most members of the trump campaign. >> someone who donald trump said was a key part of the thing. i think when you've got this amazing case, the president's senior national security adviser, michael flynn, pleading guilty and we're on the eve of one of the top people in his campaign, rick gates pleading guilty. the noose is tightening and it tightens first on paul manafort, the chairman of the campaign. we haven't seen anything like this since wa...