Page 2 - Rob Porter Issue News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Tired of being reined in, that he's frustrated at them telling him what to do. isn't that their job, though, to a certain extent, especially chief of staff john kelly? >> so trump won because he was trump, and he knew his biggest asset was to be trump. i think in terms of kelly, if the reports are true, and we don't know the full details, but if kelly is on the way out, he did show a tremendous lack of judgment as it relates to the rob porter issue which had nothing to do with the president. it might make sense if he is out the door, that means he's made some changes as it relates to security ...

Get done, if only because republicans need to vote for something. >> well, that's right. i think the republicans are under a lot of pressure, and whether he's breaking the gridlock or not, i mean, let's say no one would ever mistake donald trump with lyndon johnson in terms of being a political animal, you just cannot wave your hand and change the politics of an entire country. and bill just described some of the political pressures that weigh in against merely transforming the gun control debate. so i think it's possible that yeah, he's broken the gridlock, and i think that the public pressur...

Week, he will change his mind. kind of like a prison warden saying i will withdraw rations and then saying a day later no no it's okay guys and it creates this chaos. this issue involves the entire international trading block of nations. paul: right. >> i think the damage it's done here no matter what he does next week is that his credibility is going to be eroded in the future on any trade agreements that he tries to cut with anybody. i think in particular of the idea that we're going to have a bilateral trade agreement with the u.k. and teresa may i think would be very difficult for her to g...

Yeah. >> it was that bad and so, yes, there is an issue here obviously john kelly took some fire over his handling of the rob porter issue. he's now been taking more internal fire over this decision to change the security clearance question, which has robbed jared kushner of classified clearance and there are discussions about whether he's going to go. look, i think kelly is continuing to try to impose order there, consistent rules. that's why he came out with the new security rules. there are probably going to be some people who are upset about that, you are hearing them speak anonymously to ...

Source saying quote something is very wrong at the white house. is that consistent with the sense you are getting at the white house. this is unique even by the standards of the trump white house? >> absolutely. i thought gloria's piece was spot on. everyone sounds very alarmed. people who know the president well and people who have come to work for him recently. something has changed. they can't quite put their finger on what it is. people in the white house feel a lot like the early weeks of the trump administration when there was total chaos. one side of the white house didn't know what the...