the ban also prevents it the to top it all off there s the ousting of sebastian gorca, a deputy advisor to the president who had ties to far right political groups and called islam an inherently violent religion. he says the exit is not a resignation, per se. however, yahoo is reporting white house chief of staff john kelly allegedly revoked his security clearance almost forcing gorca to resign and even doing so while he was on vacation. gorca was set to be back in the white house on monday. nbc news has learned robert mueller has issued grand jury subpoenas to public relations executives who worked with former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. 16 firms received supds. mueller s team is focussing on an international lobbying campaign which ran between 2012 and 2014. the subpoena is the first publication that the investigation into russian interference in the presidential election is beginning to compel witnesses to testify before a grand jury.
that. the president of the united states should do that, so the rule book goes out the window with donald trump. but my co-panelist right now just saying that president trump needs to sack gorca and bannon. i wonder what mr. boot or mr. bardela thinks about jeff sessions? are they saying that with those people need to be cleared out of the administration, jeff sessions needs to be too? a fair point. take gorca out of it. it s an unusual case and i am no fan of jeff sessions but remember, if he is forced out of the attorney general s seat, donald trump has the potential to appoint somebody who will fire bob mueller so all things considered, i think most democrats and most republicans at this point think that sessions needs to stay where he is but i still disagree with his policies. clearly, somebody who s embraced
if his minions continue to vilify his colleagues, how can anybody tell the difference? what is the editorial board saying here plain and simple? they re saying cut it out. this is the same by the way, i m a news side person. i don t speak for them. shepard: i know that. this is the same editorial board that has said that past actions by the white house are political malpractice. they don t get on the same page and really stick to the highest priorities. you saw mr. gorca criticizing mr. tillerson for comments he made about north korea. john kelly came in as chief of staff to kind of set things right. his early focus was on controlling the flow of information to the president and access to the president to make sure the president had good solid information and a set of clear options for which he could use to make decisions. looks like mr. kelly might want to reach beyond the door of the oval office to try tone courage people around the president to