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Nonetheless, top advisors tell me this exit has nothing to do with yesterday's intelligence testimony and that hicks had recently signaled she would be leaving soon. and then, in fact, what's going on is that chief of staff john kelly is trying a bit behind the scenes to consolidate power. even though kelly did pit out a statement declaring hicks had served her country with, quote, great distinction. this comes amid indications that kelly may trying to ease out senior advisor and presidentialson jared kushner after a series of leaks about his security clearance problems. in fact, bloomberg has...

House russia probe should be shut down. nonetheless, top advisors told me thiso exit has nothing to do with yesterday's intelligence testimony and that hicks had recently signaled should be leaving soon and what is going on is that chief of staff john kelly is trying to consolidate power, even though he put out a statement declaring hicks has it served country with "great distinction." this comes amid indications that kelly may also be trying to ease out senior advisor and presidential son-in-law o jared kushner after a series of leaks about his security clearance problems, in fact, bloomberg ...

Security clearance problems and why he's ineligible and it's tied town -- up to the flynn plea and conversations overseas during the transition. it's no small thing. >> we were discussing during the break, it sounded like a vote of confidence in general kelly from donald trump. >> bret: for all the writing that he's out the door, sounded like he's making some decisions still. ok. rick gates pleading guilty today. and it ties into the manafort situation, the mueller investigation. how significant and what does it tell us? >> this has to do with fraud. it has to do with changing documents in ord...

Capable of this. so a lot of irresponsible actions, not just rob porter, obviously that is abysmal. but beyond that how they are handling has flown in the face and been offensive to advocates. >> i agree. the white house needs to message way better and the president. and i hope and believe that he will. and i hope that we'll get back to the great things that he's doing for this country and get beyond this issue. >> steve and jen thank you for speaking from the hafrmt it'sea. outfront democrats won't be making revisions to their memo in response to republican abuses. will the president block ...

Security clearances, and there's been a question about john kelly's role with respect to security clearances in the first place. i had to ask chris wray, the fbi director, to finally get a straight story about when the white house was informed about rob porter and some of his potential security clearance problems. you have security clearance problems at the white house, and you're potentially compromising sources and methods in what can be very serious intelligence matters. >> this is a president who ran on, a, hiring the best people, and b, going after hillary clinton for not handling classif...