the job based on his past. and now i think you don t delay a confirmation hearing for nothing. johnny isakson seems to be giving him the benefit of the doubt. it is all it sounds like this is really just coming at the senators, they re really just that also leads me to wonder, was did the white house have no inkling about it or they didn t they didn t care about it? the allegations against him, which it is not it has not become clear exactly what all the allegations are. that s a very good question. i ll remind you that we had incidents, johnny mcintee, rob porter, we have had situations where people working in close proximity to the president of the united states seemed to have issues in their background that you would think would have disqualified them on the front end and didn t.
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 have to keep in mind is the context here, this is coming as the president s inner circle here in the west wing has continued to shrink over the recent weeks. only the departure of rob porter, but hope hicks, keith schiller, johnny mcintee, several aides close to the president as well. aides in the white house do not think it is likely that rob porter will return, given the seriousness of the allegations made against him. but it does go to show just how close he and the president were here. kaitlan, thank you. i want to turn to the latest legal maneuver in the stormy daniels saga. the porn star is suing president trump s long time lawyer michael cohen for defamation. cnn s m
on how the two of them disagreed on many areas including the iran deal. what was the most striking was the president asserting that he left rex tillerson out of those diplomatic talks last week with north korea and his decision to meet with the north korean dictator kim jong-un. the president said he made that decision on his own and largely left the secretary of state out of those talks. that is why we saw tillerson last week saying comments like, we re a long ways off from negotiations with north korea. kaitlan, we understand there was another departure from the white house. reporter: rex tillerson was not so surprising. we saw that coming for months. we re now learning the president s personal aide, johnny mcintee has been fired and escorted from the white house grounds yesterday. there s not a lot of clarity on what exactly transpired, but we do know it had something to do with his background check that happened that led to him being fired and escorted out of the
of this man. 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
york times that the president has stayed in touch with him and has even suggested to others that he hopes that porter comes back to work in the white house one day, which is certainly something that would stun other people in the white house. i should note a word of caution that does not seem likely to happen. obviously porter was dismissed because he could not get a security clearance, something required for the job he had, but it goes to speak to the level of closeness that existed between porter and the president because as we reported when he left, porter was actually up for a promotion, he was someone who spent a lot of time with the president, and it goes to show just how close he and the president truly were. and this comes as we were seeing the president s inner circle here in the west wing shrink more and more. porter was part of that. johnny mcintee, the personal aid that was fired and hope hicks who is expected to left white house any day now. the subject of the inner circ