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Reporting, a news story about sort of inside this response. can you talk about whether there were any discussions, whether the staff knew he was going to go after schumer last night on this morning went after schumer but last night started politicizing a terror attack, something he'd done many times before. i think after san bernardino, after orlando. he was on twitter almost immediately. but obviously, he's the country's commander in chief now. are you aware of any conversations at a staff level with him or about his actions? >> i'm not. not before he began tweeting. he said he was watching "...

Tell them that sooner? >> i assume they did. >> that's my issue now. and jeff, i understand what you're saying about how this goes to the heart of how did the white house not understand this when you have the president himself tweeting saying it's going to come out tomorrow. was there some disconnect there? they should have dialed it back from a strategic -- >> this is the most awkward, i think, for the cia, maybe the fbi that it was only today in a desperate move they came to the white house and said don't release these documents, very, very sensitive documents. we need more time to go throug...

Elise labott and kaitlan collins thank you both. let's bring in national security analyst john kirby retired rear admiral and pentagon and state spokesman. i would like to get your reaction that tillerson is widely seen as on his way out? >> yeah. very, very interesting. and if it's true boy, you can see that ball must have rolled really fast this week in light of the moron comments because before that, while it was widely known that tillerson had had some frustrations work with the white house it was largely over policy resourcing issues and they were working it out at a staff level and sort ...

Assistant, but he was nonetheless a lightning rod. he is out tonight, again on this friday night of a category 4 hurricane making landfall in the lower 48. fair to say that he could not have worked in any other white house but this one? >> oh, more than fair to say. you know, i don't know that he could have been associated with any other moment in politics than this one. i think this is -- i think that john kelly's tenure as white house chief of staff, why it has coincided with really some of the most controversial moments of donald trump's presidency, those are all because of donald trump. bu...

Republicans on the hill. >> does he fully understand that mitch mcconnell is the one who really controls washington and not the president of the united states? mitch mcconnell is the one who can either stop his agenda or help him promote his agenda? >> his staff are trying to impress that upon him, and at the staff level, they are working together, the white house and the leadership teams on congress, but, look, the president wants to make this personal. we saw all through the campaign that he thrived when he had a personal villian. he could run against any number of the primary challengers. h...