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Very hard for a communications person whose job is to deal with the media to be saying, well, yeah, i mean, i tell some things that aren't true. it's nothing substantive. >> how do we know what to believe? >> credibilitywise, you're left in a lurch. >> trump himself adheres to the roy kohn standard of always attack, never admit any wrongdoing. trump himself will never admit he's lied, never apologized, and he expects that from his staff too. >> april, this is your beat, what are you hearing? >> i'm hearing she was forced to resign, that she and general kelly -- yeah, i mean, no surprise. that ...

Guns, a bipartisan meeting in the white house that probably surprised a lot of people, pushing against republicans, saying to their face they're afraid of the nra and they've got to push back, talking about comprehensive gun reform. and then not an hour later or so, this announcement from hope hicks overshadowing the meeting they just had. >> it's like example a of bad communication strategy. there is no logical reason that this should have come out today because that is not in anybody's communications plan would be for that to happen. so it raises the question of, well, just how much, then? e...

Communication strategy. there is no logical reason that this should have come out today because that is not in anybody's communications plan would be for that to happen. so it raises the question of, well, just how much, then? even if this was in the works, how much did yesterday's testimony before the house intelligence committee and the headlines about white lies- and we know from our reporting that the president was none too pleased about that. how much did that play into any acceleration of this announcement today, even if it was in the works? >> well, and don't forget hope hicks has just ...

This is like finding a guy who failed medical school, letting him perform surgery on you without a scalpel. having him in there. he has no function. i'm glad you raised the question about ivanka. they're married. if it was a financial entanglement that caused this, that probably affects ivanka. the thing boggles my mind, we probably would not be drawing close scrutiny to these issues had it not been for the rob porter issue. this is what opened it all up. so everyone probably knew that he had issues with the clearance. but there wasn't a reason to push it until others did. >> so as a former ci...

We still have going back to john kelly and the whole rob porter issue and going through the mueller indictments. and i think it behooves the white house to stand there and answer these questions and in the have an abbreviated ten-minute session. >> which is looking like what it will be. my eyes are on the clock. >> unless it gets bumped again. >> unless it does. i want to get to breaking news while we await sarah sanders. this lawyer for rick gates is in court right now, expected to plead guilty to lying to investigators in mueller's russia probe. his name is alex van der zwaan, attorney of a ...