>> let me say couple things about kelly saddler. a very hard workingperson. she was extremely loyal to the president. there are factions inside the communication team that have been pea shooting at each other since the day they joined thete knit that team together. and to think about the way a corporate merger would go since that did not happen, faction on the right. faction on the left were shooting at each other. and some one had it out for kelly saddler. because that was a sorry joke. it is unforg statement. not here, suggesting the statement was okay. but i am suggesting as somebody that run a pretty decent corporation. that when you are sitting inside the inner sanctum, somebodyg li outside the sanctum and rat on the person terrible thing to do. >> only difference. not a private concern. white house. they work for the people. america's dard. hold on a second. yes. but somebody could have said, bad thing to say. let's drop it right here. but they had it out for her. so they got to outside. cell ph. and anonymously rat her out. why not do what i do. say, h

kelly saddler refused to apologize in the wake of that. we are told by by senior administration officials that kelly saddler is no longer with the white house. >> bret: interesting. john roberts live on the north lawn. what you think? do you think the president right call about the philadelphia eagles? drop me a line on twitter @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport or on facebook at facebook.com/bretbaiersr. paul manafort is awaiting trial on serious criminal charges. now he's being accused of trying to influence potential witn this happens as lawmakers learn more about two of the biggest topics in washington these days. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the report. >> the fbi's espionage chief with direct knowledge of the clinton email and russian investigations testified for the first time behind closed doors for house investigators. former number two fbi agent peter strzok was a central player in the clinton email probe and later removed from the russia case for anti-trump bias. based on testimony and document

and kelly saddler has stayed on working at the communications ofnhete houn very senior job all of this time ever since it was reported and not denied that's how she talked about john mccain. i say this is a senior job because this is a senior job. ssistant to the ld a president which means she's a high-ranking white house staffer. today with no further explanation, the deputy press secretary e-mailed out a statement that said simply, quote, kelly sadler is no longer employed within the executive office of the president. was going to happen, no elaboration. she is no longer employed within the executive office of the president. that leaves open the possibility that kelly sadler left the executive office of the president to instead go work somewhere else in the white house or somewhere else in the administration. wh the guy arrested on attempted murder charges when he rned up at the white house. the white house is making no explanatory comments as t this personnel chge, why it happened or what happens next. presumably we will find out more about both of these dramatic developments, but i

i know this, i know kelly saddler, a good person, very good person who said a very bad thing. let go when the mccain comment came out. because the it was a, extremely hurtful and, disparaging to some one, a he reto the country. they made the decision to keep her. stand by her. as we have seen time and time again. this, this, white house, , is super concerned about leaks as they should be. there are a lot of them. but they seem to be concerned about that then the content which comes out of this. quite disturbing. >> think we should go through memory lane here. always a videotape. sarah sanders dodging questions omment about whether ly the white house would take any action. here it is. >> does she still have a job? >> i will not comment on an internal staff meeting. >> the white house -- >> i am not going to validate a leak. one way or the other. out of an internal staff meeting. >> are you sag she didn't say this? >> i am not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting. >> does kelly saddler still work at this white house? >>yes, she does. >> convenient after a mo

kelly saddler has been told that there are other jobs that fit with her experience.g here, he is dying here. the arizona republican is battling brain cancer. all of which brings me to mark salter an associate of senator mccain. mark, thanks for being with us. i am wondering what you make of the fact that despite this horrible comment that she made about senator mccain that she is still welcome in the administration. >> i will leave the administration to explain it. she wouldn't be welcome in any administration of mine but i am not the president. >> does stuff like this bother him? >> no, not really, just like when then candidate trump made that crack about his pow time, it didn't bother him. it upset him a little for other p o pows. but it doesn't -- he is a tough guy and has been around a long time. >> i have heard you say that not personal attacks bother him but what did bother him are moral equivalencies that the president draws. >> when the president sort of, in that line of his where he said well, you think we are so innocent and compared us to putin's russia, h