Release. The president tweeting this morning, quote, the democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew because of sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted whereupon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency, told them to redo and send back in proper form. Remember, this mem sew the democrats version of why the secret fisa Court Allowed to spy on carter page. Republicans say the bulk of the evidence use today convince the fisa court was Political Opposition Research ultimately funded by the Democrat National committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Top Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee congressman adam schiff who wrote the question today long disputed that the Obama Justice department and the fbi try today conceal or minimize the role of the Opposition Research and has pressed for the democrats memo to be released. As the republicans memo was. Congressman schiff said in statement, quote, after promise to g
As well. Work on to americas news hq from washington. And leland vittert. The white house defending chief of staff john kelly today after two former aides resigned this week. Molly henneberg is at the white house with the lot more. Hi, anthony. A lot were out today saying chief of staff john kelly isnt going anyway in President Trump augustana job. White house budget director Mick Mulvaney was one of the names floated as a possible replacement for kelly. Heres what he said about that today. Absolutely not. All the stories are replacing john kelly are being fed by people unhappy that they lost access to the president under general kellys leadership as chief of staff. Im extraordinarily pleased with the job of chief has been doing. Everybody in the western as good a president as well. She departures much ado about nothing. Others are so pleased and they say he should have known that the staff secretary with very close access to the president as the allegations for them to ask his past. F
Congress. Its not acting. Even if congress does nothing, me too is here to stay. A chat with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is monday, february 12th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. The white house is trying to move beyond the rob porter scandal. Porter was urged not to quit after the Domestic Violence allegations. Axios telling reporters that some senior white house officials strongly encouraged him to quote stay and fight to keep his job as staff secretary. A key gate keeper for President Trump. Porter said he never misrepresented anything to chief of staff john kelly. This doesnt square with kellys version of events. He says porter misled him. That story backed up by an unnamed member of congress who told achxios reporter. After the special legislationf speculation of kellys future, Kellyanne Conway said this. He said please tell jake i have full faith in chief of staff john kelly and im not searching for replacemen
The president s tweet yesterday saying that peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation put people on a rant. I was horrified but i was also very shocked. As many people have noted, jake, this is not the rob porter we worked with in the white house. People should look at the result of how this was handled. What is the result . The result is one week ago rob porter was a top aide to the president of the United States and today hes out of the white house. I think there was probably a lack of communication of different elements in the white house. But the fbi runs this clearance process. And when they provide somebody an interim clearance, that means theyve done an initial vet and say this person is okay. I dont know, to be honest. I dont know who knew what when. He said, please tell jake that i have full confidence and faith in john kelly. They are mostly being fed by people that are unhappy they have lost access to the president under john kellys leadership as c
Democrats saying they intentionally included the information. Molly is live from the white house with details. The president is saying the democrats should have known this was coming. In that, the president said the democrats wrote the memo in such a way that it could not be released. He tweeted this my democrats is a very political and long response memo which they knew because of sources and methods and more. Would have to be heavily redacted. Whereupon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. Told him to redo and sent back in proper form. Republicans had the same memo led by devin nunes that we could go. And they did so by the secret fisa court allow the ff to sign former Trump Campaign advisor carter page. Republicans say the bulk of the evidence used was political opposition research. Ultimately hunted by the Democratic National committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. Democrats dispute that and the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, congressman