them next week? part of the more chaotic than usual goings on at the white house may have to do what s with what s happen nth upper echelon s staff. departure of the white house staffer who was reportedly closest to the president without being related to him. there was some conflicting follow-up reports today about the circumstances of the departure of white house communications director hope hicks. but last night s news that she is out, that news still holds. she has resigned. in terms of staffers who are related to the president we appear to be hitting a little bit of a crisis for them right now. new york times broke the news that jared kushner s family real estate company received two gigantic loans, two truly huge loans, totaling a half billion dollars from two companies whose executives met with jared kushner as part of his white house responsibilities. in the fallout from that bombshell report we saw denials from the company side and