As well. Work on to americas news hq from washington. And leland vittert. The white house defending chief of staff john kelly today after two former aides resigned this week. Molly henneberg is at the white house with the lot more. Hi, anthony. A lot were out today saying chief of staff john kelly isnt going anyway in President Trump augustana job. White house budget director Mick Mulvaney was one of the names floated as a possible replacement for kelly. Heres what he said about that today. Absolutely not. All the stories are replacing john kelly are being fed by people unhappy that they lost access to the president under general kellys leadership as chief of staff. Im extraordinarily pleased with the job of chief has been doing. Everybody in the western as good a president as well. She departures much ado about nothing. Others are so pleased and they say he should have known that the staff secretary with very close access to the president as the allegations for them to ask his past. F