workings of the power couple. she has defended her father after trump made the remarks following the deadly charlottesville protest. i think there s blame on both sides. my dad is not a racist. he didn t mean any of it telling then white house economic adviser who was rocked by trump s remarks and surprised by ivanka s response. the new york times in a story about the book also saying trump at one point want his daughter and son-in-law out of washington demanding then chief of staff john kelly get rid of my kids, get them back to new york. the white house today pushing back sanders saying it is sad but not surprising the media would spend time promoting a book and false information instead of all of the incredible work jared and ivanka are doing
he stretched himself thin bailing out his former son-in-law jeffery, now he has flipped on manafort. take us through the legal drama and the family drama. yeah, there s a little bit of insult to injury here for paul manafort. yes. he was in sort of financial dire straits because he had gone in on a number of these real estate deals in california and new york with jeffrey yohai at the time his son-in-law, and these deals were distressed, they were in trouble and he continued to invest in them to try to bail his son-in-law out and himself to some extent. then his son-in-law and his daughter get divorced and he s still in this financial trouble, which sort of sets the stage at the time this was during the campaign. at the time you remember, now we see from these e-mails, that he is trying to get made whole from some of his former clients in
international backlash on a trade deal to changing stances on gun control. and now chief of staff john kelly is facing blowback after he tried to defend how he handled domestic abuse scandal. we re also learning the president may be ready to get his daughter and son-in-law out of the west wing. cnn s boris sanchez traveling with the president and joins us live now from florida. good morning, boris. we want to find out the latest on, you know, this john kelly story. it just all seems to be piling up in a very chaotic way. that s right, martin. good morning to you and christi. it comes at the end of an already tumultouous week. he spent the week lashing out at staff and saw the departure of some key figures in the administration and now getting this news about john kelly and
more acting out, unless kelly and he have formed some kind of bond, which most interesting here is he s allowed kelly to push his son-in-law out. we ll see though. right. and april what is the reaction inside the white house? you know, white house which let s be honest, leaks like a sieve and almost negatively. but hope hicks was someone there hadn t been leaked. seemed to be well-liked by a lot of people. what s the reaction inside the white house and perception of the boss when he is losing someone as important as she was to him? well, there are people who can step into that role. and one person that we haven t talked about, kellyanne conway. i know when the president has gotten in trouble on dwtwitter, she s gone to him and said sir, how hcan i help you, talk to hi that way. and he liens on her somewhat.
it was almost theatrically awkward. even more chilling was his conversation about the february 14th when this was i thought his most powerful point. the supposed conversation where the president asked him to let the flynn matter go. he talked in great detail about the fact that the president ordered the attorney general, the vice president and the chief of staff and jared kushner, his senior adviser and son-in-law out of the oval office when he resisted to meet alone with comey. comey said why would he do that if it was innocent. shepard: he seemed to be saying, donald trump is a man that lies, you can t trust him working at the matter of credibility. with a he said he said, it comes down to that. yeah, that s part of it. also, you have the memos. at some point we ll look at it. i don t expect they ll be anything very different than what he s told us and what he said in his opening statement.