after those facts became known, john kelly said this about rob porter.ob porter is a man of true integrity and honor, and i can't say enough good things about him. he is a friend, a confidant and a trusted professional. i am proud to serve alongside him. john kelly said all of that after jenny willoughby told her story of the marriage to rob porter and now a month later, john kelly is insisting that jenny willoughby's story amounts to nothing more than, quote, the accusations of a messy divorce. if it were up to john kelly rob porter would be still working in the white house after everything that jenny willoughby had to say about them. but the black eye photograph of rob porter's first wife was something that john kelly couldn't dismiss as just, quote, some level of emotional abuse. as if emotional abuse isn't abuse. as if a wife living in constant fear is just one of the possible conditions of marriage. it seems john kelly is living in constant fear now of being asked, what did he know about rob porter and exactly when did he know it? that is what congr

not get information from an office called the white house security office about problems with rob porter's file. he says he never learned about any of this stuff until the media came to them. when the media did come to them, porter resigned and accepted that resignation. it's important to read here. mj lee has gotten from one of porter's ex-wives. when he first learned of these allegations he characterized him as emotional abuse. jenny willoughby said they after they thought it was only emotional abuse. that is insulting to anyone in an abusive situation now, emotional and psychological abuse is abuse. meanwhile, both of those ex-wives tell cnn's mj lee today that the white house still has not reached out to them about these allegations, but clearly this telling by john kelly of how this all went down really goes against a lot of what we learned. sources told cnn that people in the white house, including kelly, knew about these allegations long before they came out in february and, you know, perhaps how we square this circle is just the way in which kelly said this to reporters, to us in t

according to the times the president keeps phoning rob porter and asking for his advice.t part of the "new york times" report will probably serve rob porter well as he looks for work as a lobbyist for businesses and countries that are seeking exemptions from the president's new tariffs. the president has speculated about him returning to the white house even though she cannot get a security clearance. so imagine one day to your surprise you have to suddenly deal with questions about the president rehiring the guy who was run out of the white house because of accusations that he abused both of his former wives. republicans are beginning to realize they are always going to have to answer for something new and crazy from the trump white house. here's republican congressman ryan costello with casey hunt last night. >> we're talking about porn stars and the president rather than tax policy and what we need to get done. i'll give you another example, i have a bill to bring back cost sharing reductions and create a plan for two years which will reduce health insurance costs for

allegations against rob porter. the first incident, according to the chief of staff, was february around 5:00 p.m. on february the 6th. it wasn't until a couple hours later that he learned there wasn't just emotional abuse. he learned about the emotional abuse and later in the afternoon, he learned about the physical abuse. the next morning when the reports that rob porter was still at the white house, kelly seemed to be asking about that in the following morning, he said that's when they made sure he was out of the building. at that point, he was just cleaning up his paperwork, quote/unquote, checking out. we're get iting attempt from th chief of staff to clarify what went down in terms of his strong support for kelly after some of these allegations were out there. he's also making clear when he found out there were pictures from the daily mail that allegedly showed rob porter, one of his wives with some bruises on on her face. we seem to be getting a little bit of explanation from kelly on this. it's still, i have

his chief of staff reignited it over rob porter. while kelly said he is not quieting over the controversy, he admitted to reporters that growing statements from the white house praising reporter just z at staff secretary was stepping down were a mistake. he said quote, we didn't cover ourselves in glory in terms of how we handled that. he also tried to clean up the time line. insisting he only learned of the red flags february 6. sources tell cnn a different story. that they were becoming aware of the allegations last november. kelly attempted to explain that saying quote, the first accusation had to do with a messy divorce but no mention of abuse. porter's second wife blasted that saying that is insulting to anyone suffering in an abusive situation. punching in windows and dragging someone out of a shower is physical. president is also facing growing criticism over the tariffs. moves that are almost certain to spark a trade war. his response, trade wars are good and easy to win. we win big. it's easy. "wall street journal" is not b

on wednesday that the white house even updated john kelly's statement about rob porter and even then, he said, this isn't the man that i knew him to be whatsoever. it's not as if any where and there. i told him, he has to go. he was fired. they were maintaining he resigned and left on his own terms. >> i want to bring in white house post reporter jennifer ruben. what's going on here? >> you got me. i think john kelly is a lot of trouble and engaged in this death match with jared kushner and ivanka. clearly the president is very upset, so upset he probably started a trade war because he's so upset with john kelly. everyone is just covering their rear ends here and inconceivable, not only he didn't know as francesca said until the 6th but for an entire year, he had no press clearance. john kelly came in the summer. apparently, he was told in the fall somebody was told in the fall he wasn't going to be getting his clearance. so it was john kelly not told about that or not known the details? none of this hangs together. and i think it's really reflective of the fact that john kelly is on

that's seven months before the chief of staff makes this -- or removes rob porter and rob porter leavesite house. the next follow-up is in november. that's three months before early february when the chief of staff makes these decisions. it's not 16 days, i could see confusion over a short period of time, but let's cut to the chase. i don't care what was said today. in all this fog there's two questions you need to ask, when the fbi did the background investigation, did it include the information in july or november about former abuse of a spouse, that's yes or no. i don't care the story, just yes or no. question two, yes or no, if that information was included in the file in july or november, was anybody outside the security staff told, yes or no? i don't care what the story was, the time line was. i want a yes or no to those two questions, that's it, anderson. >> what does this say to you about how the white house is functioning or not functions? >> it's not just how john kelly's white house is functioning, when the fbi conclude what it concluded last july reince priebus was chief of

kelly said to rob porter right then and there you have to resign. m and said you are supposed to leave, what's going on. there was messages of support put out by the white house, including kelly on rob porter, it's because he still believed that these were allegations that fell short of what they were about to learn and then when that photograph came out of black eye, everything changed, harris, that's what they put out a statement about, crying domestic abuse and porter was gone. >> harris: you know, i was pretty particular taking notice of the words that john kelly used, serious allegations against rob porter. he knew there were security clearances way back last september with several people and i would think rob porter would have made that list because those were serious allegations against him then. what is the white house saying about kind of the take on it now with the wording? >> john kelly walked us through the situation with security clearances, not mentioning specifically who has interim now or top security or whatever. you but back in augu

staff john chill meeting with reporters a short time ago and defending himself for his role in the rob porterbby philip, what's kelly saying? >> reporter: defending his reaction to this porter scandal. he is saying, going back over this timeline that he first learned of these

we saw that rob porter's ex-wife jennifer willoghby issued a statement basically criticizing him for that. i think john kelly at the very end, basically, topped off a very interesting week for the white house. >> sean, i want to turn to your colleagues reporting on jared kushner's apparent downfall. here's the headline. jared had faded inside the 28 days that left kushner diminished privately. the president has reiterated his long-standing concerns. concerned that he was in his view being dishonestly maligned. but everything might be better for them if they simply gave up their government jobs and returned to new york. that is according to a white house official. what is it? does he want them to stay or does he want them to go? >> there's this increasing sense not only from the president and from the people around him and the broader community in washington that jared kushner is somebody who came in and had virtually no government political experience and had almost this princely status in trump's washington and that over the past year, you know, he has shown and demonstrated that pe

. >> and rob porter, it's important to note, was central in these internal white house debates over the tariffs donald trump just announced. is that right? >> yes. this whole porter saga is striking for a number of reasons. one is the staying power this has had. here we are in the first month of march. one controversy leads into the next and the next news cycle on a weekly or daily basis and we're still talking about the porter saga. it has led to a rewrite of the security clearance issues. it's intensified the area of disagreement between jared can kushner and john kelly and we reported in "the wall street journal" last night it had a direct correlation to the trade policy yesterday morning that mr. trump announced. rob porter played a role as a gatekeeper of the oval office. one of the jobs there was to run point on trade policy. rob porter, along with gary cohn, using shorthand here called globalists when it comes to trade. they effectively had isolated some of the protectionists like peter navarro. with rob porter out of the building, peter navarro has worked his way back into the o

he did it for rob porter. he did it for corey lewandowski on the campaign trail when he grabbed a reporter. he does not mind about violence against women. it is something that really just, it doesn't matter to donald trump, and he just is showing us that this is something that is not going to stop him. he's going to staff his white house with whoever he wants, wherever he whatnots, and flaunt this behavior. >> he can't get a security clearance for him, we should note that. "the times" also reports that what donald trump misses about rob porter is his organization, is his ability to keep things in check and in line within the white house. in what universe does rob porter, even with that, look like a good option to bring back into the white house? >> he doesn't. donald trump likes to bring back or have around him anyone who reflects the donald trump he wants to see, right? so he calls up rob porter and he's like, hey, am i model? he's like, yeah, i'm a model. and he's like, great, you can come back. but there is

the take away as it related to rob porter, after he first learned about accusations about rob porter, initially that they were only allegations of verbal abuse, no physical abuse, that rob porter was gone. that he was -- that he had resigned. effectively, what john kelly said was when it went from being something that was physical abuse, he immediately said this is done. you are resigning. but that timeline doesn't match up with what the dailey mail initially broke the story. they say the white house was alerted out of the gates that the allegation wasn't just a verbal abuse by one of porter's ex-wives but also of physical abuse, including one scene where jennifer willow by, one of the ex-wives says porter yanked her, physically out of the shower in one of the fights the two had. in an effort to in some ways put the story to bed, they have only revisited some of the questions that made it so hard to believe in the first place. >> ashley, i am wondering, i want to read you something else that you guys reported today about the president reiterating his long-standing concerns. he was ang

some say rob porter. he made the trains run on time and you've had a succession of cases now where -- and guns and tariff this week are both really very strong examples where the president seems to be talking before policy has been firmly made and all the is have been dotted and the ts have been crossed. i mean, for instance, in that listening session on wednesday, you had the president mocking some republicans saying you guys are scared of the nra. you shouldn't be so scared of them. then he has a meeting last night with the nra and then afterwards he's pull back for some of the things he's talking about. seems to be that he gets fed up with his staff managing him and control him and he acts out. when he does, hold on to your hats. >> shepard: it's not as if that gun example that the president gave is within bounds of the constitution. it's not. so i just wonder, is there someone giving him bad advice or are these just his thoughts? >> i think in that particular case, that seems to have been his thought.

second wife, shortly after rob porter stepped down. out a statement late today responding to general kelly, saying, quote, my sadness i feel is when kelly defended his first statement of rob saying thsa. she went on to say he changed the statement after realizing it was physical abuse. emotional and psychological abuse is abuse. in the last hour i spoke with dailymail.com editor whose website broke the story in the first place and deconstructed the new kelly time line today. what did you tell sara sanders and raj shaw when you met with them on february 6th about what was going to be in the story. >> i spent 20 minutes with them in sara's office. daily mail.com had been doing a lot of reporting on this. working with both of porter's ex-wives. i gave them a very complete read on what was going to be in that first story. i actually, just before that broadcast brought up my notes from that meeting, i read for myself what i read to them. i told them that dailymail.com determined that porter had grabbed his wife by the shoulders and yanked h

jared kushner and ivanka trump and rob porter and hope hicks. they enjoyed rarified access to the president and special privileges in the west wing. glamorous and well connected, they had an air of power and invincibility. they even double dated once. but an unlikely cascade of events set in motion by paparazzi photos of porter and hicks published february 1st in a british tabloid crashed down on kushner this week that many inside and outside the white house could mark the fall of the house of kushner. all this chaos and the hours of executive time to soak it all in, making for a very grumpy donald trump. nbc news is also reporting this afternoon that donald trump was angry and unglued when he started yesterday's trade war. for that nbc scoop, a trifecta of events had set him off in a way that two officials said they had not seen before. hope hicks' testimony before lawmakers investigating russia's interference in the 2016 election, conduct by his embattled attorney general, and the treatment of his son-in-law by his own chief of staff. to help

she was known to the press as rob porter's ex-wife. now jennie willoughby will be here to talk about a scandal she never sought. the president's lawyer is being accused of trying to vo: gopi's found a way to keep her receipts tidy, even when nothing else is. brand vo: snap and sort your expenses with quickbooks and find, on average, $4,340 in tax savings. quickbooks. backing you. howie: i spoke to the president's lawyer about stormy daniels trying to overturn a non-disclosure agreement. cohen was the one who had her sign the agreement. >> the idea an attorney would go off on his own without his client's lawyer and engage in this agreement is ludicrous. >> the story line is a porn star was paid $130,000 by the president's personal lawyer to keep her mouth shut about an affair that took place around the time his son was being born. this is not a good story line for the president. howie howie: cohen told me i committed no crime. the sole purpose of these negative attacks is an attempt to malign our president and distract from his historic

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on wednesday that the white house even updated john kelly's statement about rob porter and even then,e said, this isn't the man that i knew him to be whatsoever. it's not as if any where and there. i told him, he has to go. he was fired. they were maintaining he resigned and left on his own terms. >> i want to bring in white house post reporter jennifer ruben. what's going on here? >> you got me. i think john kelly is a lot of trouble and engaged in this death match with jared kushner and ivanka. clearly the president is very upset, so upset he probably started a trade war because he's so upset with john kelly. everyone is just covering their rear ends here and inconceivable, not only he didn't know as francesca said until the 6th but for an entire year, he had no press clearance. john kelly came in the summer. apparently, he was told in the fall somebody was told in the fall he wasn't going to be getting his clearance. so was john kelly not told about that or not known the details? none of this hangs together. and i think it's really reflective of the fact that john kelly is on thin

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, donald trump, john kelly did not care about the ex-wives of rob porter, and hope hicks helped direct that to the country. no white house director has had a worse episode in the job than that. that came after the lack of judgment after she got caught publically engaged with n a romantic affair with a married man who had the title campaign manager, corey lewandowski. she got caught by reporters on the streets of manhattan having a quarrel with the married man she was having an affair with. donald trump had the good sense to fire corey lewandowski but never had the good sense to fire hope hicks. part of why hope hicks survived as long as he did as the most incompetent white house director in history, is that most of the white house press corp. fell for her and fell for her in a way they have not fallen for members of the white house press team. here's a moment from the first week of the trump administration. you will not see this kind of moment with sarah huckabee-sanders. in my years of working in government and washington, i never saw members of the press corp., socially kissing membe

the knock john kelly in addition to how he handled the rob porter issue. the things he can control is staffing. and there are a number of people he has kept in their positions. people like peter who was promoted and now involved in the trade policy has become very controversial. a trade possible policy talked about in terms of tariffs. there are a lot of people who thought the jobs would be imperiled. he decided to take his time and he's been rocked by one controversy to another and has 97 really had time to go back at it. so you have this untenable situation. >> all right. thank you for your insight. always great to have you on. on what chief of staff john kelly said to reporters today, creating more of a controversy. that's next. psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no

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>> what's the situation with rob porter? the staff secretary pushed out of the white house after reports of domestic abuse? >> reporter: this is extraordinary. the president, after firing rob porter for these reports that he domestically abused two of his ex-wives, the president has been calling porter, sources tell cnn, phoning him in the last several weeks and reportedly wants him to come back to the white house. that's in spite of all the things that have happened as a result of that incident, changes to the security clearance process and several other white house aides leaving as a result of that. the president seems to think that porter should be back here in the white house. remember, president trump actually defended rob porter on multiple occasions in the days after he left this white house. a source tells us despite the president's desire to bring him back in here, the issues that underlie this, the security clearance processes, the fact he couldn't get one, has not been resolved. it's really unlikely that he will e

. >>> a source tells cnn that the president has spoken with rob porter multiple times, essentially using him as a sounding board. porter, who never obtained his full security clearance when he was working at the white house, was pushed out a couple of months ago after reports of domestic abuse involving not just one but both of his ex-wives. but, according to some reports, the president may want him back. >>> and growing questions today around the president's tweets. ridiculing his critics, typically a mainstay of his feed. noticeably absent, any mention whatsoever of this woman, stormy daniels. cnn has new reporting that the president knows he must handle the topic with more care than he does other matters and he, quote, unquote, knows the stakes. let's start with senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny, waiting for that to begin. first on this thanks but no thanks from more lawyers to join team trump. >> you certainly teed up many of the topics on the agenda, the topics likely to come up here. this is a recurring story. yet again, a major high-profile and powerful lawyers are sayi

i want to ask you about something else that is rob porter, the president's former aide, who left theng accused of abusing both physicallymotionally his first wife as well as his second wife, we saw the alarming photos. apparently he's in touch with rob porter. >> reporter: that's right, the new york times is reporting the president has not only stayed in touch with rob porter, asking his advice on some issues, but floated the idea of having him return to the west wing. now, it is not that surprising that the president kept in touch with porter. it is a little bit stunning given the allegations made against porter and the nasty departure that he had here from the white house, very frustrating not only because of those very serious allegations but also because the president believed that that departure was botched here by aides in the white house including the chief of staff john kelly. but the president has stayed in touch with him. he does this with people who leave the west wing or his orbit, don't often leave for very long and we're seeing that here with rob porter. the thing you h

i know we focus with rob porter, the now former white house staff secretary. we focus the allegations of domestic abuse and rightly so. but there's another giant story there. which is this is the person who is literally, here you go, mr. president. he was handling top secret classified information on an interim security clearance. and they knew there were issues. not because of the issues. you have it with jared kushner. if you ask who he is closest t., >> the former director of the national security agency, he said, jared kushner dealing with these sensitive issues in the middle east or china or mexico, he has no business if he can't get top secret security clearance. just secret isn't going to do it. >> i cannot remember a single national security meeting at that level. we have jared kushner handling highly classified portfolios, like israel. the israelis are coming into town this weekend. when he is going in with information at a secret level, meaning he dth doesn't have the whole picture or he is going on abuse the system. and he has bias. there are major

i don't think anybody would say john kelly needs to go because of rob porter. i think the fact he came clean and said, screwed it up, won't happen again, that was sufficient. >> kelly jane, i want to ask about hope hicks. i was listening to "new york times" haberman talking about how she was like family to this president. she was somebody he trusted. she was a filter for him. she took a lot of the brunt from him but was able to direct him to some degree. with her leaving, is there any sense of who can fill that void in the white house? >> great question. does go to show jared and ivanka rumors may just be rumors. if trump is willing to let go or to be fine with seeing someone who is like family going, then what about actual family? we constantly heard this, we need people in the white house like john kelly, like general mattis, like rex tillerson to keep trump strong, tame that chaos. nobody has been able to do that. even hope hicks, who was close to the president and seems to have been a consummate pr professional as young as she was couldn't do it. why would

rob porter. and a lot of people are wondering, why would he even -- why would he even bring that back under the spotlight? it seemed to be over to some degree. >> well, you know, may or may not be punishing john kelly by making him trump's white house chief of staff. he failed at almost every level as trump's white house chief. he has been unable to tell donald trump hard truths and at the end of the day he has failed by his own narrow definition of the job which is to be the hone honest broker of information to the president. stormy daniels changing timelines have been part of that. look, the reality is i heard somebody say the other day that this white house is guilty of spinning. spinning is not what this white house does. lying is what this white house does. and has done from day one. truth was the first casualty when sean spicer stepped up to the podium on day one. a story that i tell in the new chapter of my book. and, sadly, john kelly has enabled that. he's participated in that. and, you

former ex-wives of porter, that he had no knowledge about any physical abuse allegations from rob porter's ex-wives before he made that public statement praising porter. he said porter at the time resigned and then a couple hours later when kelly learned about these physical abuse allegations, that's when he confirmed as he told us in no uncertain terms that porter would be departing. i was struck by one of the quotes. he said we didn't cover ourselves in glory in how we handled that on that day. he said it was confusing. in effect, john kelly says -- because one of the questions was why the white house was still standing by porter for 24 hours after the photo of a black eye came out. kelly saying he should have donna better job communicating it to the staff. the white house has become aware this allegations existed. others within the west wing, john kelly effectively said that christopher wray the white house had been communicated this information months ago, but that kelly said it was not information that he had ever received. again, this is reigniting new questions about the internal pr

. >> chief of staff held a briefing with the reporters on friday talked about the rob porter scandal. he tried to clarify the time line between statements and clarify when he knew the extent of the domestic abuse allegations against porter. he didn't clear up a whole lot but in regards whether or not he planned to quit over it, kelly said quote i have absolutely nothing to even consider resigning over. president trump is set to attend the gridiron dinner in d.c. the gridiron club is one of the oldest journalism clubs in the city. every year when they have their annual dinners, they typically invite the president. last year president trump did not go. he sent vice president mike pence instead. this year he is set to attend that dinner. in west palm beach, florida, i'm ellison barber, fox news. julie: thank you. connell: on top of everything ellison talked about it was a turbulent week as well for jared kushner. not only did the senior advisor and son-in-law lose his top-secret security clearance but reports claim that federal investigators are now trying to determine whether he used hi

this is not rob porter. rob porter was the white house staff secretary, he was the guy pushed out a month ago because of serious domestic violence charges against him. this is not rob porter. this is johnny mcintee on the left and rob porter on the right. they look so much alike they have been mistaken for one another in national newspaper captions and on television more than once but rob porter was the staff secretary on the right and johnny mcintee is on the left, he was personal assistant to the president until last night for some reason he was hustled out of the white house. look how much they look like each other. the "wall street journal" was first to break the news mr. mcinte, was out. quote donald trump's personal assistant john mcentee was fired. mr. mcentee had been a constant presence at mr. trump eastside f side for three years and over the weekend, ensurped that the clocks in the white house were adjusted for daylight savings time and then poof. he was removed from the white house grounds monday

accused spouse abuser rob porter. quote, the first i heard of a serious accusation against him was on the sixth of february. the accusation was late in the afternoon, and it was simply one of his two former wives that

the the white house scandal on rob porter has almost entirely been self-inflicted. the white house time after time changed its story, defended rob porter at probably inappropriate times. now, john kelly faced a lot of criticism for the way he handled it. i think he wanted to loop around and ride to fix it. as someone who is a former military officer, he felt that he had some level of accountability to put forward. >> how about the hope hicks departure, kate? how big a deal is that? >> well, she seems to be incredibly close to the president. somebody who was with him from before the campaign actually launched. seems to be sort of a confidante of president trump. so, you know, it sounds like this is a big deal. you know, what we're hearing is that this is somebody that the president relied on and sort of looked at as an adviser on all things. maybe not policy necessarily, but somebody who is a sounding board, somebody who maybe had a grounding influence on the president. so this is certainly -- it lends itself to increased chaos. >> yeah. so picking up on what kate sa

the "new york times" reports rob porter told mr. mcgahn that the president wanted him to release a statement saying that the story was not true. mr. porter who resigned last month amid a domestic abuse scandal told mr. mcgahn that the president suggested that he might get rid of mr. mcgahn if he chose not to challenge the article the people briefed on the conversation said. mr. mcgahn did not publicly deny the article and the president later confronted him in the white house office, in front of the chief of staff, john kelly, according to the people, the president said he never ordered mr. mcgahn to fire the special counsel, mr. mcgahn replied that the president was wrong and he had, in fact, asked him in june to call the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, to tell him that the special counsel had a series of conflicts that disqualified him from overseeing the investigation and he had to be dismissed. the president told mr. mcgahn that he did not remember the discussion that way. so there you have the president of the united sta

good. >> high integrity. >> what about the rob porter situation? she should be involved is. >> i hold the white house chief of staff for that. >> kelly, you hold accountable? >> he had the information related to porter. i don't know why he would allow hope to date porter. >> how can they keep her from dating him? >> he had the information. he tried to cover up the information. tried to get other people inside the boughs to cover it up for him. >> you believe kelly covered up the information? >> i do. >> that's not what the white house said. he said as soon as he found out, he acted on it. is that another white lie? >> you have to have him sit in the chair is and ask if it's a white lie. you will figure it on out quickly. but the rob porter situation for me, i like rob. i was asked if i had seen any information about rob, and i didn't. there was a dossier on rob. >> how does kelly survive then? why did he get the berate something. >> it will be up to the president to decide. i guess he is an honorable marine. he has to look at himself in the mirror a

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rob porter was someone he was comfortable with. he takes emotional comfort from him so he reaches out to him. that's been consistent in trump over time, since he's been in the white house. he wants and needs to be comfortable. we've constantly heard he met with someone he was considering for the job, he didn't have personal chemistry, he didn't feel the right way about them. that was a drag on it. he prizes and values his own comfort. if it's going to make him feel more comfortable to talk to rob porter, even though he left the white house, donald trump will call rob porter. >> thank you. stormy daniels fighting backs, suing the president's attorney and so-called fixer. does she have a case? and what about her friend who tells me she wants to sue michael cohen, too? racing isn't the only and with godaddy, i'm making my ideas real. with godaddy you can get a website to sell online. and it will look good. i made my own way. now it's time to make yours. ♪ everything is working just like it should ♪ (i've done every night isince i was

but it is that rob porter resignation questioning her judgment for one time. we don't know if that's related to that she says she does want to pursue other opportunities. but the question is how will the president get along without her? calls out the name, hope, hope, for so many things. voice quiet on the outside. never saw her on sunday shows. but inside this white house it was loud and clear. in the coming weeks, erin, in a few weeks when she leaves that voice will no longer be here. >> thank you, very much jeff zeleny, and it's a big loss for this president, person who relies on this individual, and this individual perhaps any other, whatever her role is, helping with a tweet, being there when he needs someone to talk to, she was a person. and that will be avoid. and now our panel here, and tim n with me in new york. she was there since the beginning. she was always there. any meeting he would have with the press, she was always there. any time in the office she was always there. as this source told me she was his last emotional crutch. how big is this? >>

hope hicks replaced the moocht and was dating rob porter, she's left for reasons unclear. on top of reporting h.r. mcmaster could be leaving by the end of the month. he replaced michael flynn, who made a plea deal and is cooperating with the special counsel. are you keeping this straight? it's a bit chaotic, isn't it? the president sees it differently. he says there are ten people, the ten best people in any field, lining up to work for him. he set the stage for that bold claim with this early morning tweet. the new fake news narrative is that there is chaos, all caps, in the white house, wrong, exclamation point. people will always come and go. and i want strong dialogue before making a final decision. i still have some people that i want to change, always seeking perfection, there is no chaos, only great energy. leaving aside for a moment the chill that remark about personnel changes might be causing, listen to what the president said this afternoon at a joint news conference with sweden's prime minister. >> i just said that the white house has tremendous energy. it has

the second though just to return to the rob porter thing, i'm unclear whether they're still dating orwas part of essentially an effort to cover-up and protect a senior white house aide whose background check had come back red flagged four different times because both of his etch wives accused him of violence against them. she was part of that effort. >> yeah, look, hope hicks since 2015, the winter of 2015, she's repeatedly found herself in very difficult positions in this job with donald trump. and surrounded by very difficult men who i think she often finds herself defending or taking -- putting out statements on behalf of. it makes her look bad, right? and i think in a lot of ways it's just the nature of this job. i find it very difficult to conceive of anybody having this job as the white house communications director or donald trump's campaign spokesperson and not finding themselves in similarly precarious positions. on the rob porter thing, there's some conflicting reports about her role in the drafting that have statement and how much discussion there was between her and john k