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kelly because john kelly is hiding. he won't let you hear his voice. john kelly is afraid of stepping up to that microphone. afraid to look into the cameras and answer questions about what he knew and when he knew it and why he continued to fight for rob porter's job even after he saw those black eye photos. joining us is rouis our panel n. >> ruth, i want to get your reaction, because this is a moving story with new elements coming out by the hour, your reaction about where this story stands tonight? >> well, the phrase fully aware is possibly the most maddening phrase i've ever heard here. if general kelly was not fully aware of the allegations against rob porter it's only because he chose not to make himself fully aware. because he heard something and, you know, they're in this tribal mentali mentality, circle the wagons in this white house. they convince themselves this is part of the smear campaign against rob porter by his political enemies. he didn't want to know. so if he didn't see this photo before yesterday i

but you can't do that with john kelly because john kelly is highing. john kelly is afraid of stepping up to the microphone looking into those cameras and answering questions about what he knew and when he knew it and why he continued to fight for rob porter's job even after he saw the black eye photos. >> joining us now ruth marcus, deputy editorial page editor from the "washington post" and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and a professor at the university of alabama school of law, andness price spokesperson for the national security council and a former cia analyst. he's an msnbc national security analyst. ruth, i just want to get your reaction because this is a moving story with new elements coming out by the hour. your reaction about where this story stands tonight. >> well, the phrase fully aware is possibly the most maddening phrase i've ever heard here. if general kelly was not fully aware of the allegations against rob porter, it's only because he chose not to make himself fully aware because he heard somet

but you can't do that with john kelly because john kelly is highing. john kelly is afraid of stepping up to the microphone looking into those cameras and answering questions about what he knew and when he knew it and why he continued to fight for rob porter's job even after he saw the black eye photos. >> joining us now ruth marcus, deputy editorial page editor from the "washington post" and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and a professor at the university of alabama school of law, andness price spokesperson for the national security council and a former cia analyst. he's an msnbc national security analyst. ruth, i just want to get your reaction because this is a moving story with new elements coming out by the hour. your reaction about where this story stands tonight. >> well, the phrase fully aware is possibly the most maddening phrase i've ever heard here. if general kelly was not fully aware of the allegations against rob porter, it's only because he chose not to make himself fully aware because he heard somet

only john kelly did that. no other white house chief of staff in history has ever told such a poisonous lie about a member of congress or about a former president. and so we can no longer be surprised when john kelly opens his mouth and ugly prejudice and poison comes out as it did again today. there is not a shred of evidence now that john kelly has even the slightest bit more sympathy or understanding of the dreamers than donald trump has. there is not the slightest hint now that john kelly's heart is not as full of hatred as donald trump's is for all of the people that donald trump rages against, from mexicans, to muslims, to undocumented immigrants including children. if john kelly is more enlightened than donald trump, if he is more humane than donald trump, if he is a more decent person than donald trump, why has he never said one word while in the service of donald trump to show us in any small way that he is not exactly the same as donald trump? donald trump spews hatred and never apologizes. john kell

john kelly was in the room when the president said that. >> i'm watching john kelly, general john kelly, he's a four-star marine, a tough cookie. if he was a teacher, i wouldn't worry about him having a gun. there's no security guard you're going to hire that can handle a gun better than him. so if he's a teacher or other friends that's a marine or other people teaching like that, i want them to have a gun. >> that's the kind of thing clint eastwood was doing in the movies when he was 67 years old, going up against the bad guy with superior fire power and taking the guy out with his handgun. the president has seen too many clint east wood movies. john kelly is 67 years old. he's never gone into combat only with a handgun, or commanded marines with only a handgun. he's only commanded marines that have the finest weapons of war, like the ar-15. john kelly would never order a marine into combat with a handgun. john kelly was never trained to go into combat in an american high school where the possible collateral damage included high school students, thousands of them, and dozens of america

he was sending a message to john kelly but john kelly has laid down the law here. >> and we need underline, john kelly is not the one who decides the status. the fbi decides whether or not you get clearance level that you want. >> the fbi is giving information with the background information i'm not saying this happened. let's say he had a shop the living incident when he was 17. i presume john kelly would say, by the way, when i went through my security clearance, and i still have a top secret clearance, i had shoplifting when i was 13. i stole a football. they said that's fine. the significance here, and this is why john kelly had no option, is that the deputy attorney general said we cannot certify we closed the investigation. that's code for after 13 months of investigation into jared kushner's background, there's something really significant the fbi can't reveal. john kelly has the option to reveal but he said i can't do that. i can't give him top secret clearance of the until and this comes with the report that cnn broke a few days ago, one of the things bob mueller's team is looking

he was with john kelly. so that means something. >> thank you both very much. >>> joining us now to talk about all of this ademocratic congressman alex wallwell of california. good morning. >> good morning. >> i know you've been listening to our conversation. do you still have faith in chief of staff john kelly. >> there are a number of individuals who have come into the white house or who are still at this white house that have issues. jared kushner for example, failure to disclose multiple contacts with foreign governments. i don't think he should have a security clearance, prior to john kelly was the hiring of michael flynn with prior undisclosed con acts to russia. and so this is a pattern that goes beyond john kelly. it is the practice of this president. >> but listen, you know the reputation and the word on the street about john kelly was that he would be this moderating agent on the president. but then there have been a series of controversies that he seems to not have quelled but rather created. and

i support john kelly. i think he's doing a remarkable job, and it's a very tough job. i have great empathy for him. it's not just sympathy. it's not theory. i have great empathy for the job that the chief of staff has to do. and i think he's doing it pretty well. his job is to make sure that the president stays focused and addresses the realish us america has to face. and we've got some real challenges. obviously, domestic abuse is never good. it's not right. and we shouldn't call it out. and, you know, rob porter is a very able person, but he evidently was involved in something that was outrageous and not justified. and it was appropriate for him to leave the white house. with john kelly, he serves at the discretion of the president. they call it the pleasure of the president, as everyone does in the white house. so ultimately, it's the president has to decide whether or not john kelly stays or doesn't stay, and as long as he's there, i want to support him and help him do the job he's got to do. because h

i don't know the details of what john kelly knew. i learned on some of these stories right when they come out, you don't have all the facts. there's no doubt in the business we work in in government service there's no room for anybody that is involved in spousal abuse. this should have been dealt with or at least was dealt with now. >> our reporting is that john kelly, the chief of staff, has known about this since last fall. in fact, rob porter couldn't get a full security clearance. >> yeah. >> if the chief of staff john kelly haslett rob porter continue to work with this access to the president, he cooperate get a security clearance with this account from the ex-wives, does that cause you to lose faith in john kelly? >> no. look, john kelly, in terms of a personnel question, again, a lot of details to come on out. i think if this was fully known, if in fact, that was the case, they should have moved on this a lot earlier. yesterday we bombed and destroyed 100 pro regime forces in syria taking a stand against then roachment of bash

what about john kelly? the white house insisting the president still has confidence in kelly despite reports of a replacement list being built. >>> on alert. america's top intel leaders laying out ongoing threats including one from a very familiar foe. >> russia perceived its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 u.s. midterm elections as a potential target. >> that's right, you heard him correctly. that is the fbi director saying the president has not asked them directly to stop russia's actions. weird, huh? no. >> not specifically directed by the president. >>> she's back. the stormy daniels story returns on valentine's day, what better holiday? i can't think of one. trump's personal lawyer says he paid a porn star 130 grand without trump or the campaign knowing. michael cohen, what did you pay her the 130 large for? raising many questions. why exactly is he paying her 130 grand? strange, isn't it? >>> all right. we're going to begin today at the white house where the trump administration may be r

but in his mind this is john kelly's fault. i'm not sure -- those names you pointed out, cohen, mulvaney, mccarthy, these are people that at the moment have their stars risen in donald trump's universe. john kelly was one of those people once, too. i think mike touched on it earlier. the most important thing to remember here is that donald trump is extremely difficult to work for. it doesn't matter who the chief of staff is. anyone who believed that john kelly was fundamentally going to alter donald trump after reince priebus couldn't, is probably going to believe, if we just got mull vane any in there, everything would be okay. the spoint the principle, not the chief of staff. could he make a change? sure. but don't expect him fundamentally to change. >> change doesn't create change. 34% of their staff has turned over, mostly not for good reason. >> including a lot of senior staff in that, it's not junior people. it's senior level people. >> chris cillizza, mike bender, thank you very much. >>> we have breaking news to report.

this is people who work for john kelly and john kelly's boss at various moments undermining him, which is a hard way to run a railroad. to your point about people getting the attention here, here's a republican chairman of a republican committee in congress, the house oversight committee, saying i need to investigate the republican president's white house. i want to know who knew what, when. >> who knew what, when, and to what extent, and if you knew it in 2017 and the bureau briefed them three times, then how in the hell was he still employed? >> will the oversight committee be launching an investigation into this? >> we did last night. >> amen in the sense that democrat or republican, congress should conduct vigorous oversight of the executive branch, especially when you have a person allowed to stay on the job for months and months and months, credibly accused of horrible actions. this is not running a red light or not paying your taxes. the white house in the conflicting and shifting answers of the last week now is of the idea that this didn't get to us, it might have been in the w

john kelly fought for rob porter's job. reports indicate that john kelly was actively fighting to save rob porter's job after all of these accusations became public, including the one punch black eye. because for john kelly, apparently, one punch isn't enough. one black eye photograph of one former wife of a white house official, was not enough for john kelly. that's why he fought today to save rob porter's job. wasn't enough. yesterday rob porter said -- he said this in response to the daily mail's first story, i will not comment about these matters beyond stating that many of these allegations are sand rous and simply false. that was yesterday. today, in announcing that he will give up that job and as the "new york times" is reporting, give up that job tomorrow, at the white house, after maybe a full day at the white house. rob porter issued this new statement saying this, these outrageous allegations are simply false. i took the photos given to the media nearly 15 years ago, and the reality behind them is nowhere close t

why is john kelly lying? because john kelly knew a long time ago about the credible allegation s against porter. why could kelly not clean that up? because donald trump knew, i believe. i think it goes to trump. it doesn't go doto kelly. you're being too nice to trump. kelly made this horrible mistake. trump didn't know anything -- how do we know trump didn't know anything? i don't believe for a minute the way donald trump runs his organizations and his white house, he's not interested in policy, he's interested in personnel. he was very close to porter. mcgahn knew and told him. trump knew and trump decided, let's put it the nicest way, you know, there are no legal charges, no criminal charges, no civil actions, i guess, a roadw restraining order, i'm going to let porter stay there. >> but trump has no decision -- >> that was trump's decision. and the reason they lied is because they're covering up the fact that it didn't matter to donald trump that a wife abuser was in a senior staff position in the white h

hope hicks and john kelly. he did not issue a statement like that for john kelly but for hope hicks, he did. white house staffers are saying the president loves hope hicks but they weren't calling around saying that about john kelly. john kelly has been his most trusted confidant in the white house. and she was reportedly dating rob porter, so she was very upset at these reports of porter's firing, so you could surmise in part the president's defense of porter comes from hope hicks being upset about the entire affair, much like he protected corey lewandowski during the campaign, hope hicks was also reportedly dating corey lewandowski during the campaign and was upset at those accusations against corey lewandowski. >> palace intrigue at a romantic level, i guess. stay right there, we'll be assessing what former white house aide omarosa said. >>> but up next, i'll speak with congressman g muman gallego. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to b

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john kelly has failed at his job. if his number one job is control any crisis, advance the president's agenda and stay out of the spotlight, he has failed on all three measures. it is he who, from the reporting i've done, helped derail the president's own daca deal. so that right there is insubordination i would say. >> thank you both for joining us, really appreciate it. >>> coming up, why president trump says, and he really does say this, he said it today, you'll hear him say it, infrastructure is sexy. that was his word, sexy. we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. we also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual check-up. so go, know, and take control of your health. it could save your life. cigna. together, all the way. stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com i thought i was manag

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, chief of staff kelly, in iraq, who said to me this evening, "i don't recognize this john kelly." >> that was my question. who is this john kelly? is this the person we thought he was? >> exactly. and that is what i think a lot of people are saying right now. they thought john kelly was going to be the adult in the room over here in the white house and they didn't expect this. just yesterday he was in hot water for saying that some dreamers were too lazy to get off their asses to sign up for protections under the daca order. >> i do have to say, gloria, just talking about, yes, you shouldn't have to have a picture. but the picture i think made all the difference when it came to al franken, right? it was right there in our faces. >> yes. yes. >> and now we're looking at this rob porter story, it's right there in our faces for us to see. i think that makes a huge difference, especially in the court of public opinion. thank you all, i appreciate it. >>> ahead, our sources telling cnn a white house official, even chief of staff john kelly knew about domestic abuse allegations against top

, who worked very closely with john kelly. the resignation followed news reports that made public the reason why mr. porter had been unable to obtain a permanent security clearance during his 13 months in the white house handling all papers that crossed the president's desk. domestic violence allegations against porter by his two ex wives, allegations he denies, the allegations were conveyed to the fbi as part of the background check procedure for the security clearance application along with corroborating evidence from porter's ex-wives that included an emergency protective order taken out against him in virginia by his second wife and photograph evidence of injuries he says were inflicted on her by her then husband. that is is exactly the kind of thing that can keep you from getting a permanent security clearance. not having a permanent security clearance is the reason you shouldn't be able to have that particular job of being white house staff secretary handling classified information as routine matter every day in close co

what's next for john kelly? >> that is really probably up to donald trump who as much as he said it a lot on tv doesn't really like to say you're fired directly to his staff and there's not a ton of obvious candidates to take general kelly's place. the real irony is if this domestic abuse rob porter scandal ends up with departure of john kelly is that it would be ousted for sort of the weirdest of reasons. i wrote over the weekend about john kelly as a kind of mini me of donald trump, the second worst person in the white house really. because as much as he was supposed to bring them all order, he's just really mirrored and exemplified some of donald trump's own worst instaincts an this last episode is just an example of that. we'll see what happens to him. i think one thing we know is it's going to be a white house in chaos whether he's there or not. >> no doubt about that. and of course we're going to see what happens this week. it's supposed to be infrastructure week at the trump white house. i suspect it's go

he traveled with the president to davos instead of john kelly. according to reports in both the intercept and "the daily mail," both of his former wives told the fbi of their allegations of abuse. his first wife colby holden provided this photo to both "the daily mail" and the interat the present time of a bruised eye she said occurred when porter punched her during a vacation to florence, italy in 2005. porter responded in a statement which reads in part, "these outrageous allegations are simply false. i took the photos given to the media nearly 15 years ago and the reality behind them is nowhere close to what is being described. i have been transparent and truthful about these vial claims but i will not further engage publicly with a coordinated smear complain." porter's statement did not appear to specifically address allegations made by his second wife jennifer willoughby. in 2010, she filed for a protective order claiming porter was violating a separation agreement by his continued presence at her house. her handwritten request under oath re

it could john kelly make the argument i want involved. maybe. but somebody had to go around that decision by the fbi not to grant a clearance based on these particular problems in his background and say we're going to waive it and give him a clearance any way. >> the obvious -- why do these accusations matter when it comes to security clearance. >> any time you have -- first of all there were police reports filed. and so if you have things that aren't fully disclosed, number one, or two, represent behavior that is inconsistent, so he had one persona in the office and another persona at home, clearly. and that is the kind of wedge that foreign intelligence serve i -- services love. you look like the guy that everybody could trust at work and at home you are beating your wife. those are weaknesses and those are profiles that they would do to be able to say, i'm going to go try to recruit that guy because i know trouble he's not sharing at work. >> serious compromising information on the guy who puts the papers on the president's desk and that is w

in john kelly. >> the president is furious with john kelly and hope hicks. there's no doubt about it. >> but he's not actively searching for another chief of staff. >> you have to imagine somebody is called for this chief of staff job, what do they say to the president? what do they demand? how could he induce them to take it? >> as david said, the problem is the president. you want to say to these people are you willing to degrade your humanity and integrity and what you want to leave as a legacy. it's about what they want to project. if that's what gary cohn or somebody else -- >> there's always someone willing to say i owe it to my country, maybe i can have the impact others haven't. >> that's true in the job of chief of staff. you were getting to this point. john kelly has perhaps revealed himself. there's no question a dozen times a day over the last six months he's prevented a disaster. >> his hair is on fire and he's probably done a better job than we think. let's also all remember that despite all the outrage and moral concern about this white house,

we know that john kelly learned of these allegations months ago and we know that not only did john kelly issue that statement on tuesday night but after wednesday and after porter reported his resignation, sarah sanders was still issuing statements that the president and chief of staff john kelly had full confidence in rob porter's ability. so the idea that, you know, he swiftly terminated this man is wildly implausible given what he was saying in public later that night and then into the next day. i think this is -- this is sort of a trump saga where kelly is making claims that are obviously untrue. so we're dealing with a trump saga from the man who was supposed to straighten out the trump white house. >> who in the white house is buying that? >> i don't know. as a canadian outsider i don't have the great sources that you at nbc have. but it doesn't seem internally they're taking the claims seriously. >> jonathan what does it say about the white house that the kinds of people that are hired are folks that we learn later to have been accused of pretty violent actions towards their ex-wi

this is a black mark on john kelly. he put a domestic abuser above what our country needs. >> i want to put this picture up. from july of 2017 from the new yorker. corrie lewandowski fired june 2016. filed july 2010 sebastian gork '2017. rob porter resigned today they're all in that picture. so much for the hiring the best people. thank you both. when we come back, the president -- the vice president disputing a story that he is in a feud with an openly guy olympic skater but the reporter stands by her story. she will join me next and i will speak with the olympic gold medallist to get his take. somehow we always leave packing to the last minute. guys, i have a couple of things to wash we got this. even on quick cycle, tide pods cleans great 6x the cleaning power, even in the quick cycle it's got to be tide >>> vice president mike pence leading the u.s. delegation at the opening ceremonies at the winter games in south korea and pushing back on a report he was snubbed by a member of the u.s. olympic team. i want to bring

la casa blanca asegura que john kelly no ha ofrecido su renuncia. el presidente elogiÓ al acusado, pero no mencionÓ a sus presuntas vÍctimas. >> el presidente no hablÓ de las vÍctimas qque acusaron a rob porter de violencia domÉstica, pero sÍ le deseo lo mejor y prÓspera carrera al ex secretario de gabinete, quiÉnes acusado de maltratar fÍsicamente a sus dos ex esposas. " Él ha dicho que es inocente y hay que tener eso en cuenta". dice que se sorprendiÓ al enterarse de las alegaciones. el presidente nunca hablÓ de las vÍctimas, ni expresÓ simpatÍa hacia ellas. la segunda ex esposa de porter pidiÓ que no fuera honesta con el fbi sobre su relaciÓn y lo que viviÓ durante el matrimonio. la pregunta de muchos es por quÉ se le permitiÓ mantener su trabajo a pesar de que el jefe de gabinete, john kelly y el abogado de la casa blanca sabÍan que el fbi investigaba su pasado. >> el hecho de que Él sabiendo eso y el abogado de casablanca querÍa que se quedara dentro del staff es muy preocupante. la violencia domÉstica no se puede admit

john kelly is in on it. the white house chief of staff has chosen sides in the daily battle between trump and the truth. john kelly has chosen trump. you learn a lot by watching a person lie. you can see how comfortable or uncomfortable they are with lying. you can see how easy it is for them. everyone can see that lying is part of donald trump's nature. some people wonder if donald trump actually believes what he says when he is lying. and if he does convince himself to believe his own lies, that is truly pathological lying. it's the most dangerous kind of lying. it means the liar has lost touch with reality. now watch what john kelly had to say when he was asked about the democratic members of congress who boycotted the state of the union speech tuesday night. >> it breaks my heart because as i say, i don't think anyone should hate someone else or show them disrespect just because they disagree on anything. >> he sure looked like he believed that when he was saying it, which makes it all the more deeply di

he sent ago similar one to chief of staff john kelly. that's the one to kelly right there asking for, among other things, answers to policies, practices and procedures at the white house for interim security clearances whether porter's clearances, interim and final were consistent with those procedures. the date when the white house became aware of the allegations against porter, and the dates of porter's security clearance adjudication. trey gowdy this morning suggesting that he is very hot about getting some answers. listen here. >> clearly we should all be condemning domestic violence. and if a personal who commits domestic violence gets in government, then there is a breakdown in the system. there's a breakdown in the vetting system. that breakdown needs to be addressed. >> i'm sorry, that was speaker of the house paul ryan there. voicing a very public and personal condemnation of domestic violence, something that we, harris, have so far not heard from the president. any statement about domestic violence the president has been making

he likes john kelly and has faith in john kelly. that is the message coming out of the white house today. it certainly has been amid all of the speculation from the rob porter fallout that the president could replace john kelly with someone like his chief economic adviser gary cohn, the director of the office management mick mul vanny. there is a role the president plays, periodically from time to time, the president will question people what they think of someone for that position as chief of staff. it's certainly something the president contributes to as well. right now the white house is saying john kelly's job is safe for the time being, for this wednesday. we can say that right now. the president does have confidence in him, brianna. >> for this wednesday, maybe. we shall see. kaitlan, you talked about the the rumors and there's a lot of leaks coming from the white house on the story. how is john kelly himself responding to it? >> that's right. if you remember when john kelly was brought into the west wing that was one of the m

as long as the president continues to have confidence in john kelly, john kelly will remain in that position. howie: the daily beast is reporting that some white house staffers blame you for spreading this story. corey: i don't work in the building or for the "daily mail." i don't know rob's ex-wiefts. these women relayed the information to the fbi. the fbi said or claimed to have said they notified the people in the white house. rob was working under an interim security clearance. what hat has to do with corey lewandowski who doesn't work for the white house. howie: media criticism that the president and his public comments to reports and also his tweet has expressed some sympathy for rob port and concerns about false allegations. but not any sympathy for the two women making these allegations. >> the president was very upset when the pictures came out and very disappointed. what the white house said the individuals who worked with rob did not see this side of him. once the allegations and the pictures were brought forth. they worked quickly to take rob out of the building. as soon as the p

so on this is a tough time for john kelly. and a tough week for him. >> and obviously we don't know what donald trump will do until he does it with that giant disclaimer, peter, you also have reporting about security clearances and who else doesn't have a full security clearance in the white house. that includes jared kushner, correct? >> yes, it does. and there are apparently dozens of people who don't. kushner's is the most notable because he is so senior in the white house. i mean, with some of these, there are probably understandable reasons, maybe people with extensive foreign contacts or business contacts that just have to be sorted through. maybe they are a little lower level. but with kushner, there is hardly anyone more senior. you would think by now he would have a full security clearance. he is also getting access to some of the most sensitive information. so it is a real mystery. theories, but real mystery as to why he of all these people doesn't have security. >> so what is the status at the white house? what are

and it is john kelly who needs to face questions about that. what role did chief of staff john kelly play, especially in covering up for rob porter? what did he know? and when did he know it? multiple sources sell cnn that senior aides to the president including kelly knew for months that porter's ex-wives claimed he abused them. that porter was interesting trouble getting a security clearance because of the allegations. one of the ex-wives is colby holderness. she says that she informed the fbi back in january of last year of 2017 a full 13 months ago that porter punched her and that she shared photos with the fbi during an interview about porter's clearance. are we to believe that the chief of staff was not aware of this? spokesman saying today that public release of the photos yesterday was a game changer for kelly. really? first of all, why would it take a photo to be a game changer? kelly's first statement, draft it with the help of communications director hope hicks who has been romantically involved with porter was full of praise. here's

i'm not sure that change mize view that this is john kelly. let's accept this is who he is so he can make evaluations what he's doing. >> joy and barbara boxer, thank you bowing. still to come, louise gutierrez on the fate of daca negotiations if and that is looking like an if, congress passes a budget deal tonight. he joins me ahead. with the chase mobile app, michaela deprince could pay practically anyone, at any bank, all while performing a grand jetÉ between two grand pianos. she could... in a commercial. in real life she uses it to pay her sister, from her couch, for that sweater she stained. what sweater? (phone buzzes) life, lived michaela's way. chase. make more of what's yours. ♪ cleaning floors with a mop and bucket is a hassle. swiffer wetjet makes cleaning easy. it's safe to use on all finished surfaces. trapping dirt and liquid inside the pad. plus, it prevents streaks better than a micro fiber strip mop. for a convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet. with its historical ance records...test ...you could learn you're from ireland..

and then introduce john kelly at a press conference or have him do it on his own and john kelly has to say, the back stops with me, i'll take the hit and i apologize. i will explain to you what happened and i will tell you what the solution is what the fix is so it will never happen again and then we'll move on. you say that with such a kind gentle voice. i will note that what you're suggesting is the exact opposite of what has happened to date. the president hasn't said it in his own words. john kelly has certainly not said the buck stops here. he said everything is perfect. scott jennings, your turn. to john kelly, the chief of staff, what should he do today? >> i agree with a lot of what congressman kingston laid out. i have the utmost respect for general kelly. he's a patriot, served our country, his family offered the ultimate sacrifice to our country. i think he deserves the chance to come out and explain what happened. to say, look, i'm the chief of staff. these personnel issues do stop with me. the white house needs to construct a timeline. the failure to construct a timeline a

but john kelly has not offered his resignation. john kelly has done an outstanding job. in the last four months we've seen 1.24 million americans get bonus or wage increase. we've seen isis flee over 100% of its territory that it had between iraq and syria is gone. general kelly is doing a great job. >> let me ask you about the memo and the decision by the white house to delay the release of the democratic memo or essentially not release this version of it. this is what you said before the release of the republican memo, you and a bunch of your colleagues. take a look. >> i do think that we typically prefer transparency. >> we want full transparency. it's what we've said all along. >> this president has said from the beginning and certainly since i've been the chief of staff of six months now, i want everything out. i want this thing -- i want the american people, a, to know the truth. >> this president is for transparency and accountability in the main. >> that was the message before the release of the republican memo. >> yeah. >> democrats write a memo. nope. no transp

i spoke to john kelly. he told me he learned the nature and the extent and he acted quickly to say that porter could no longer remain sheer. joining me now aliza collins. ladies, a big welcome to you. i'll start with you here, erin. conway has been trying to shut down the rumors. is he safe at least for now? >> he might be. he is buying some time right now. even if president trump isn't actively searching he is certainly auditioning them. the other one i would say is mark short. he has been on meet the press quite a bit as he was this morning. he is talking about a lot more things than the legislative process. he clearly has a much bigger portfolio. i think he is somebody that will be up for that job as well. mark short is very well liked for white house staff. he could be a good figure for that. so i think when a kelly replacement is named right now they are auditioning in the trump reality show. >> kellyanne add drressed the reaction as well about the due process not being there anymore. here is what she

all of this has put john kelly president trump hot seat. and rumors are that he might be replaced soon. the trump administration changing its story again about the white house's hamming of domestic abuse allegations against former top aide rob porter. hours after fbi director chris wray offered a timeline about when porter's security clearance investigation was completed that directly contradicted the white house's accounts. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july that soon therefore we received asks for follow-up inquiry. and we did the follow-up and provided that information in november and that we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month we received some additional information and passed that on as well. >> reporter: prior to wray's testimony, the white house had been telling a different story. >> what we know about rob porter specifically, and that's the incident everybody is talking about, his background c