associate attorney general, the number three person of the justice department. all of whom announced their own departures of the last four or five days. everybody, michael flynn, was first. look at everybody that has comes since then. today, it continues to be in focus. all of washington right thousand is on the edge of their seats with the expectations that president trump is about to lose another chief of staff. john kelly is taking the blame for the white house s handling of rob porter after serving more than a year without a permanent clearance because of domestic violence. allegations that were confirmed by his ex-wives.
the reason it feels loo i cike kelly may have to go in this particular scandal because of the repeated and increasing reports that white house staff, the people who report to him in the white house are turning against him wi. in the la times looked like this. over and over again in the past several days, various white house aids have button holed reporters to tell them anonymously, that they think he knew but when. kirsten neilson was not a fan of porter. neilson left the white house. neilson frequently blocked and
countdo councils and the chief of staff are responsible to flag these things to whoever that was making the decision on the political end of the white house. the fbi vets and reports. when they give an interim security clearance, that means a denial of security, you should not shovelled out of the white house. the fact that it is not a ba backlog and it was not the fact of 700,000 people backed up. the top assistance to the president are the first people done within a month or two. the fact that there was a problem with rob porter was reported in realtime in a timely fashion and christopher wray made that clear. today sarah sanders tried to blame this saying that nobody was lying, kristen welker, says well, who s lying? and is it the chief of staff or the fbi, christopher wray, well,
what s truly unsettling a year after mike flynn left, exactly one year after michael flynn is fired is that this white house has had a 34% turnover and a chaos in the white house and the lack of institutional knowledge, the fact that they for days have been trying to blame the fbi for the failure to properly vet rob porter, they should not have done it. that was a mistake. christopher wray was not going to lie under oath. he was going to defend his agency but explain the facts of life to this white house. it is not up to the fbi to make these decisions. they were not made within the last weeks or months or even a year ago, they had already told the white house there was a problem. all of the past white houses that i have covered, the general
resignation a year ago and onto the firing of james comey and all the rest of it. that makes it hard to see why this particular bad scandal may be worse. he s in the middle of every scandal in the white house includes some of the ones that may results in serious legal troubles himself. he remains. he s politically bullet proof. we don t know what that is. since they re both responsible for white house personnels and things like security issues. we expect the director and the white house s spokesperson may have to go because of their roles and plainly contradictory and how this all went down. so the porter s scandal continues to bang around