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They ve not got a lot. it is not sarah sanders job to be able to read the background checks or that kind of information. so, i guess my point is that when you talk about kelly and whether or not he s going to be and can be an effective chief of staff from now on, the decider, as i said, is the president. but whether or not people who work for him have confidence in him will help determine whether he can really be successful. right. and credible in his job. right now the feeling is he is not. we ve got to go, brian. i know you want to jump back in. we ll look for you at the briefing. we need to get to stormy daniels in a second. dana bash, we ll see you back here. let me move on to this other story today. while the white house is still in the rollout of the porter scandal, trump s personal lawyer says he wrote the check. ....
Answer the questions. right, and i think, to your point, brian, i mean, the reason that the behavior of sanders and spicer isn t normal for a press secretary is because this president isn t normal for a president and they reflect him. and there s very much a sense, you know, sarah sanders doesn t actually work for donald trump, she works for the american people. we pay her salary and it is her job to give information to us, the american people, not us, the press corps, even, to the american people, so they can know what is happening in their government. but trump, as we know, has the sense that everyone from the fbi to the entire white house staff exists to serve him and to make him feel good. the people that end up in those jobs are the people who are willing to go along with that. molly, brian, thank you. up next, president trump seeking advice how to handle the fallout of the porter scandal, according to sources. who the president is call, and the two main questions he s askin ....
Finished their process and had not therefore made a recommendation to the white house. reporter: but on monday sanders said the white house was not involved with security clearances. this is a process that doesn t operate within the white house. it is handled by our law enforcement and intelligence community. reporter: the administration s in ability to get their story straight again raising questions about chief of staff john kelly who learned about the allegations months ago. multiple sources tell cnn the president has not yet made a decision to replace kelly but that conversations about a possible successor are heating up. kelly telling the wall street journal his handling of the porter scandal was all done right . even after sarah sanders admitted otherwise. we are looking at that internally and agree there are things we could have done better. reporter: cnn learned not only was the white house willing to overlook red flags in porter s back ground, they were in serious ....
President his credibility. well, right, his credibility. especially given who he comes from, what we ve been told over the past six months is, you know, lauding his military experience and of course his sacrifices to the country, which are immense. of course, to be admired but are not relevant here, this is about his credibility as chief of staff doing a very difficult job and who did what, when and what did they know when. you re right, this is a guy who comes from a tradition of accountability. let s see it. retired four-star marine corps general. it s not going away. you heard on cnn s new day earlier trey gowdy, they want to have hearings. they want to investigate who knew what and when. they want specifics. right. there is, in fact, a broken system here. cnn has reported rooecently tha 30 to 40 white house staffers don t have full security clearances. that s a huge problem. the porter scandal is one element of that. ....
The fallout from the porter scandal has stretched into a new week. and president trump is looking for advice on how to stop the negative coverage. calling his allies and sources. he had two key questions when does it end and what do we do. the answer seems obvious yet the president is looking for help. joining me now. is this something that donald trump has always done even as a private citizen reach out to friends. when he was a busy man he would ask anyone he ran into for advice. asking for the guys running the elevator what do you think of ....