director resign. john kelly should follow that trend. connell: would you agree on how that situation was handled? with the rob porter situation, first of all, let s not forget that when you have a white house communications director romantically involved with the staff secretary these things have a way of clouding judgment and decision making. the only proper response in this situation is mistakes were made. should kelly resign? no, kelly should not resign. i think kelly has moved very quickly on this. obviously porter has been dismised. he s moving quickly on the interim security clearances. i think trump should continue to give him as much leeway as possible to bring order out of chaos. i see it actually moving in the right direction. mistakes were made. could have been handled better. move on. i think kelly has been a very good thing for this trump white house in bringing order. connell: this whole idea of order out of chaos. the white house pushes back
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