saying that kelly and his assistant now secretary of the department of homeland security were sanctimonious upon arrival. they forced a lot of people, some of them trump favorites out of the orbit. they broke some glassware in kind of bringing their regime and discipline to the west wing. and as i mentioned in our first segment, when the long knives come out in washington, it is a sight to behold. they are sharp, and it can be gruesome. and some of those people wielding those knives tonight are some former trump advisers, the friends of president trump who have felt their access to this president limited in the past six to ten months since general kelly took over. and they re unhappy with his management of the white house. and they re fueling a lot of the speculation about movement within the white house. and as jonathan ably reported, there is a lot of movement tonight. you have people who are close to the president saying he is speculating about general kelly s future, he has not m
until this story broke? i can only give you the best information i have, and that s my understanding. sarah huckabee-sanders standing by the white house account that chief of staff john kelly had no knowledge of the accusations against staff secretary rob porter until the story broke. but as we ve reported, conflicting time lines reporting to the contrary show that john kelly might be in the hot seat on this one. jonathan swan of axios got our attention today when he reported the kelly cover up is unraveling. quote, john kelly s white house enemies are ready to use fbi director s crist ray s testimony as a weapon. the time line makes one thing clear, the kelly cover up is unraveling right before our eyes, a white house official says. with us tonight robert costa, a national political reporter for the washington post, moderator of washington week on pbs, and aforementioned jonathan swan, national political reporter for
is the white house still maintaining that john kelly really had no idea about these allegations of domestic abuse until this story broke? i can only give you the best information i have, and that s my understanding. sarah huckabee-sanders standing by the white house account that chief of staff john kelly had no knowledge of the accusations against staff secretary rob porter until the story broke. but as we ve reported, conflicting time lines reporting to the contrary show that john kelly might be in the hot seat on this one. jonathan swan of axios got our attention today when he reported the kelly cover up is unraveling. quote, john kelly s white house enemies are ready to use fbi director chris wray s testimony as a weapon. wray s fbi timeline makes one thing clear, the kelly cover-up is unraveling right before our eyes, a white house official says. with us tonight, robert costa,
we know what we ve reported, which is that the president is not high on john kelly, has lost a lot of confidence in him, and that he has mused about different people including nic mulvaney, including kevin mccarthy, to others. there are a lot of people pushing gary cohn to the president. but i don t know directly that i d be able to kwaucorroborate the president himself feels to that idea. what he s talking about is the trump caveat, that affects everything until decisions are done, dusted and signed onto. so robert, having said that, we heard nicolle wallace quoting a source familiar with the president s thinking and familiar with the west wing, saying that kelly and his assistant now secretary of the department of homeland security were sanctimonious upon arrival. they forced a lot of people,
thinks and, you know, bob has covered the president for longer than i have, and he knows this even more than i do. the president creates his own reality. he draws his own reality and encourages others to see his own reality. in some ways sometimes the president, that reality becomes real. he is the president of the united states now. he was just a fantasizing real estate celebrity tv mogul. but sometimes the reality is just fiction. and when you are sort of exposed to that every day, and you are encouraged to never back down, to never apologize, to never admit defeat, the worst thing that raj shah said at the podium when he took over last week for sarah one day was that we could have done this better. in trump s mind you never say anything like that. that s not the trump white house. you say everything s perfect, everything s great, we re the best. you see that with kelly now. he is now, when it s playing to