So upset about this. Especially reportedly saying, giving him advice not to resign, saying that he could weather this. Again, this is an accused Domestic Abuser. Right. You have to question kellys judgment. And, you know, people inside the white house say, look, many of them like kelly, some of them dont like kelly because He Silos Everything and keeps them away from the president. But one thing most people seem to agree on is that he doesnt have any political sense. And, you know, he doesnt understand political . Gloria, listen. No, in terms of i dont want to be insulting. No, but im not saying on the abuse stuff, but im just saying, a priori, this is such a terrible thing, get rid of him. Why is he even still there after all of this time . Thats a good question. I want to get to jim. Chief of staff, john kelly, were talking about him. Forward was pretty glowing. And its sort of odd, a senior white house official told us this evening, don, one of the reasons they were putting out thes
tone deafness, a political malpractice going on with john kelly, to think that he could keep rob porter on despite all of this is kind of mind-boggling. it leaves me with the impression that there are two trumps at the white house, the president himself and the chief of staff, and both of them sometimes don t listen to reason. i have to say this, because there s all this consternation about the memo, the memo, the fbi, the fisa warrants and all this stuff, classified information. rob portman was seeing classified information and didn t have a permanent security clearance. so did jared kushner. so did jared kushner. this is in part because of the allegations of domestic abuse that john kelly knew about. walter shaub tweets tonight, the former head of the office of government ethics, he said john kelly, often touted as the white house s adult, falsely smeared a congresswoman, tells us a
he s refused to issue subpoenas. he s gone along with this gag order. he is not really the only one to blame. none of these things could happen, including this latest escapade with rogue investigations and the memo that came with it. none of these things could happen without the speaker of the house involvement. before we get to a constitutional crisis, i think we re just at constitutional clashes now, he has to step up. the only republicans i ve seen who have spoken out about this memo and what should be done with it on the minority and majority side are members who are planning to leave congress. where are the profiles in courage? you re talking about paul ryan, speaker of the house. can you really count on him? to many people s estimation, so far when it comes to this administration, he has no backbone. he hasn t shown a willingness to step up.
bannon, refusing to appear before your committee. are you going to subpoena them if they continue to refuse? look, there is an existing subpoena on mr. bannon, apparently they don t like him either. he was asked questions, but when he said there was a gag order from the white house, they didn t press him. that remains to be seen. mr. lewandowski simply said he s not going to answer questions with this extraordinary expansion of a privilege that the white house has yet to exert. so we don t have the power to subpoena. this is clearly mr. nunes power. so that s a great concern. it should be noted, when we talk about the midnight ride, there s much more that he s done to suppress the investigation.
they will use their efforts to redact as an excuse to take out the most meaningful parts. it s easy to be suspicious of this white house who has done nothing at this point in time to suppress and make this investigation as difficult as possible. how big an impact will this memo have on countering the nunes memo? i think it effectively counters point by point the nunes memo. i think it will do a lot to restore the integrity of the investigation. i don t know that it can restore the damage that s been done between the relationship between the intelligence community and congress, or to restore the faith that people have in how this process works. i think there s still going to be real damage to how we keep our country safe. congressman, i want to talk to you about the trump campaign chiefs, corey lewandowski, steve