the calls. she was right outside the oval office. so he doesn t want to make an enemy of her who would want to cash out and say even more revealing stuff in a best its selling book. there is also the option a s. she s been with him a while. she had a document of drinks and went had a couple of drinks and went too far. he can still feel for her plight. any word on who s up next for the job? there s another executive assistant, molly michael, who i m sure her phone is being blizzarded with text about trying to get drinks with her. she ll be the conduit for trump world. but the white house is pretty short staffed these days, soap it s unclear who would take that slot that westerhout had. someone the president called the key now out of the west wing. daniel lippman, thank you so much. thanks. the justice department says they re opening a criminal investigation into a series of suspects deaths at a v.a.
you re talking about a confidentiality agreement for a job in public service at the white house? good morning, fred, i think it s unusual for a white house aide, it s not unusual in the trump era in any trump organization including the trump white house. you have a couple of things going on here. the new york times yesterday reported that it was not thought that madeline westerhout had a confidential agreement and that she may be in talks to write a book. i m sure that is part of what prompted the president to come out and tweet that perhaps she did have a confidentiality agreement. it is sort of a shot across the bow, and as you say, it s not that thinly veiled, certainly suggesting to his former personal aide that, look, you know, we re going to come after you legally, if you talk if you write a book, if you go on camera. on the other hand, this is the kind of role where you would think that the president or any elected official could expect
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dorian. all of this coming amid other turbulence in the west wing. after one of trump s most trusted aides madeline wester hout was forced out after she revealed, quote, intimate details about the white house during an off the record dinner with reporters. her abrupt departure while she was on a summer vacation stunned her colleagues who described her as a loyal aide with a lot of power. dana, those aides were surprised to learn the news that madelieie westerhout would be pushed out of her role. she was a gate keeper to the president who came to trust this aide after it was reported that she had been in tears after he won on election night. but in the end it was something she said that got her pushed out of this job. kaitlan, thank you for that reporting. and we re with our panel which is a perfect split. we have reporters on one side and former white house officials on another. so we could really break down what happened. bill crystal, i ll start with
a category three storm already potentially category four is on its way. updates as they come in. meantime, president trump s long-time personal assistant resigning and leaving the white house. politco and several other outlets are reporting officials found out madeline westerhout had shared details about the president s life and family at an off-the-report dinner with reporters. the 28-year-old apparently had a pretty powerful role at the white house. the new york times reports her office set in front of the oval office and served as the president s gate keeper since day one of his administration. let s bring in melanie, the congressional reporter for politco. melanie, the whole thing here is before she started talking out of school about the president s family, these intimate details, some word that she wasn t liked in the white house because she was pushing her limits? that s right. my colleague, nancy cook at politco just reported that in a recent week, she was trying to expand