but some senior white house officials urged him to stay and fight. the new york times reports, when kelly told staffers friday morning he removed porter less than an hour after learning about porter s true situation, quote, most of the staff appeared incredulous. one person said several people in the room knew that time line kelly had p kelly had presented was false. absorb that for a second. people who report day in, day out lead to he was lying about the time line. the white house is insisting trump has full confidence in kelly, despite reports trump is looking to replace him. so i want to pick up on what you just said about the president not being clear in his support of women. in fact, i think the opposite is true. i think he s been clear on the other side. the white house an invitation is open for him to be clear. just think about it. rob porter, while he said good things about him, he hasn t even acknowledged those two ex wives. let s talk about this. the white house is
procedure other administrations have followed? absolutely not. every administration until this immediately was informed by the fbi. they couldn t get security clearances. and they got rid of those staff. andrea, here s the problem. let s be very honest. the white house counsel is a career party hack whose only experience was being the counsel to the federal elections commission. he d never run a process like this. he never dealt with the fbi. he d never done any of this stuff. so it s not surprising that he s not running a process that is serving the administration or the country very well. jim, thank you so very much. and meanwhile, top secret, more on this. jared kushner doesn t have full security clearance, but he does have information to the most sensitive intelligence, the president s daily brief more on that coming un. you re watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. i m your phone, stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hide-n-seek.
during president obama s first term, campaign manager for his successful 2012 re-election campaign. jim, thanks for your patience with us while we get everything straightened out. let s talk about the chief of staff and the way they ve handled the messaging with the president and john kelly at first coming fully to defend rob porter. now we re told that the president privately has been expressing misgivings about rob porter and what he allegedly did. but how do you square this circle, and can john kelly be an effective chief of staff? andrea, it s a complete mess that is pretty much unprecedented. if you look at the various statements out of the white house, they first came out and said, well, we didn t have the full report. as you and i know, because i helped run this process in the white house, the fbi calls the white house counsel s office the moment they hear anything that could endanger a security clearance. it does not take a year to complete security clearances on senior white
on something they want to talk about. again, jeremy peters, every time they try to do something like this it s been overwhelmed by negative stories. this time they want to talk about infrastructure but most of the media are talking about what happened with rob porter, whether or not john kelly will stay as chief of staff, and why there are so many people headlined who don t have full security clearances more than a year in. that s exactly right, all those things you ticked off are happening and let s not forget about the russia investigation and the kind of news on that within the coming days. then on the senate floor you have a debate over immigration that is really going to lay bear, andrea, the tensions and divisions in the republican party. this is going to be a really heavy news week and almost all of it will somehow be unflattering to this president. when you look at immigration, this is a real moment of truth for the president. he has on the one hand his right
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