differently behind the scenes. there was this disconnect between what he was saying and what he was doing. they told us that he was he was saying during that time he had access to information that others didn t about porter s marriages and what he was seeing didn t match up with the stories that had come out about rob porter and he really defended him for many hours after the first story published where kelly then went to senior officials and said you can tell everybody that i moved to fire him within an hour which really just took a lot of senior staff by surprise. and courtney, we ve seen a lot of disconnects where kelly doesn t seem to be involved. he wasn t there for the call with vladmir putin. he doesn t seem to have that key, the pivotal role that he
closely to see if there s any potential moves around that time. others say there s no way to know. there s been a lot of speculation surrounding a number of different white house officials. sometimes it s right. sometimes it s wrong. there is broad agreement that his standing has really dimin h diminished. a lot of folks feel it s important to have a strong chief of staff. another part of that is his defense of rob porter and diminishing of women saying porter needed to be restored, rehabilita rehabilitated. what can you tell us about that? there are two things going on here. the president s relationship with the white house staff and kelly s relationship with the white house staffer a and kelly relationship with the president. there were many senior officials in the white house who felt like kelly was saying one thing or putting forward a story publicly in one way and then doing things
the president i wouldn t be surprised if sarah sanders pushes back vigorously from the podium today. we know, based on our conversations with a number of current and former white house officials and administration officials, that in addition to disparaging the president behind his back, john kelly has made some comments that have concerned some of the female staffers, including saying they are more emotional than men can be. this is raised some real concerns. adding to all of that and compoundsing all of this is there s been some real tensions between the chief of staff and the president when it comes to determining staffing decisions, for example. policy choices and messaging. there s been some tensions that are at the backdrop to all of this. is john kelly leavleaving. a number of white house officials say july marks his one year since taking this position. would that be a time for him to go. they are look at that date very