allegations against west wing aide rob porter. but they, including kelly, did nothing. former director of governor ethics walter shaub tweeted, so, john kelly often touted as white house adult, falsely smeared a congress come, tells us a failure to compromise on slavery caused the civil war, called dreamers lazy, and protected a wife beater. tell us again, press secretary, how we re never allowed to criticize a general. joining us now is walter shaub. he is now a cnn contributor. good to see you, sir. good morning. well, let s give clearance on we have cnn reporting that says they did know about these allegations. what is the ethical standard? porter says i didn t do this. there is some legal action that was taken by the women, the ex-wives. what is the standard for you
about the undocumented immigrant kids. look, this is kelly came in, people assumed he had a rather sterling reputation. now he is each of these things he says that does not fit the image of the general who is going to impose law and order in the white house and make everything work smoothly. the fact that he is saying things similar to the morin send ear controversial things the president said. this is not what people expected when kelly came into office. both things can be true. he can be doing a lot to instill discipline. he can be a hard line guy who in his civilian capacity isn t afraid to let his views be known. when you re chief of staff to donald trump, you realize you have room to do that. and he s doing that. there is a bigger picture of him and his effectiveness in the white house. thank you very much. what else is happening in washington, d.c.? it s a big day. congress is set to vote on a spending deal to avoid a
an ex-girlfriend recently contacted don mcgahn to voice her concern after learning that hicks and porter were dating. the scandal another blow for general kelly, who was at odds last month. kelly coming under fire for saying this about undocumented immigrants who did not sign up for the dreamer program. the difference between 690,000 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say they were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses. reporter: since taking the reins, kelly has been criticizing for falsely claiming fredricka wilson took credit for funding for an fbi building. even for someone that is that empty a bell we were stunned. reporter: kelly also sparking outrage saying it was lack of ability to compromise rather than slavery that caused the civil war. chris and alisyn, the white house said rob porter would be transitioning out of his role in the coming week but cnn is
alisyn. absolutely, suzanne. obviously we ll be watching it. thank you very much for that. so the rob poert allegations are raising big questions about the judgment of chief of staff john kelly. do republicans still have faith in him? we ll ask a gop congressman next. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits. .your budget? tripadvisor now searches over. .200 sites to find you the. .hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. what can a president [ do in thirty seconds? he can fire an fbi director who won t pledge his loyalty. he can order the deportation of a million immigrant children.
controversy. i think we probably don t pay as much attention to his statements because of who he is usually protecting, which is the president of the united states and how outrageous he often is. if you think about it, you have this right now. you had where it started with fredricka wilson, where in the moment of that, the widow of one of the men killed in niger. la david johnson. and he got his facts wrong about what happened with her. that s right. dreamers are too lazy. here s the thing. you know what the best test is of this. i can t remember all of these things because so many have happened. it s the same thing we have with trump all the time. we re no longer talking about the fact that they didn t put the sanctions in because there was the next thing, the next thing. and we are dealing with the same thing with kelly, karoun. there are so many incendiary things you can t keep track. especially with the comments