Wondering why the attorney general has yet to resign? There may be two voices in the White House encouraging him to stay strong against the tide of scandals.

A New York Times article Sunday suggested that Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama have been Holder’s cheerleaders all along, helping to keep him in good standing with the president. From Operation Fast and Furious to the current perjury allegations, these two have promoted Holder’s cause:

His saving grace through years of controversies has been the friendship of two women close to Mr. Obama. Valerie Jarrett, the president’s senior adviser, grew close to Mr. Holder during the 2008 campaign and, as one former Obama adviser put it, “was always his protector” inside the White House. Michelle Obama has become good friends with Mr. Holder’s wife, Sharon Malone, and the two couples go out to dinner from time to time.

Before her commencement address at Wellesley College on Friday, Jarrett commented that “we have every confidence that people within the White House have behaved appropriately.” She explained that “people all around the country are counting on us not to get distracted or bogged down” by the Benghazi, IRS, or Holder scandals.

With an administration dedicated to not letting these controversies become a distraction, the attorney general may believe that the case against him will be buried or dropped in the coming weeks.

Holder’s friendship with Jarrett and the first lady is beginning to garner more attention. These women have “sustained him,” Laura Ingraham remarked on her radio program Monday morning, and if people are questioning why the attorney general still thinks he has a chance of holding on to his position in the Justice Department, “all roads lead back to Valerie Jarrett” and Michelle Obama, she said.