showing right now, that s no longer in the doctor s office. they took that too. they took it off the wall. jonathan, to go back to the west wing for just a moment, it was just yesterday the kelly story was broken by nbc news. the quotes attributed to him about the president, and a lot of us thought in the moment, to quote a great film, pauly, won t be seeing him no more. we didn t think john kelly would last long. do you have any updated reporting on the relationship between these two men? some. we at the a.p. have matched some of the reporting in terms of what some of the derogatory terms chief of staff kelly has used to describe president trump to others in the west wing. we know that the president has floated the idea to people around him perhaps of moving kelly to the veterans affairs department. the position is now vacated because dr. ronny jackson won t be getting that post. his nomination is withdrawn. people close to kelly have said he won t accept that. sarah sanders from th
raided, takes the records, all of that. i think if michael cohen is watching this, he should be aware that donald trump, while he demands extreme loyalty from everyone around him, is not showing that in return. jonathan lemire, a couple points here. a sort with intimate knowledge of the president tells me he has extolled the virtues of propecia to friends for years. so it s not the taking of the medication he objects to apparently. keith schiller went into that office with the title head of oval office operations, something we were unfamiliar with, we watchers of the presidency. he s retired navy, retired nypd, and the body man, the bodyguard for donald trump, who made the move to washington, has since retired in florida. talk about the optics of any and all of this. that s right.
you know that. yeah. he wrote it himself. and me, from where i come from, the end of it was just black humor. it wasn t meant to be a serious comment. i guess people don t have that sense of humor. yeah. but i get that sense of humor. make no mistake, this is a man s life work and practice. this is a drama, not the comedy it appears to be to so many people. for more, we re joined tonight by matthew nussbaum, white house reporter for politico and jonathan lemi re, white house reporter for the associated press and an msnbc political analyst. man, matt, i just need to hear you out on this. what strikes you about this story and the white house saying that, you know, standard operating procedure? it can t be to enter an office like this and seize records. right.
without following through. kelly still has a position in the white house tonight. people around him have suggested that there is still a relationship there, that it s perhaps not irrevocably broken. there s no question the president s frustration with kelly has grown considerably in recent weeks and months from his handling of the rob porter affair to kelly s suggestion on fox news that trump was going to flip-flop on the wall, something that still bothers the president nearly four months after he said it. this chief of staff s influence in the west wing has diminished considerably. the reporting the last day or two probably will only shrink it further. as one person in the west wing has told me in the last 24 hours, kelly s days are numbered. it s not a question of if. it s a question of when. two guys who do a great job of covering this white house, matthew nussbaum and jonathan lemire, thanks. coming up, is donald trump right to be as optimistic as he is about gop chances come