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Like hes leaving the door open, cracking it a bit to back off from kavanaugh if need be. >> i think thats his fig leaf to the people in his office who are telling him you need to allow for the possibility. if you look at the rest of his rhetor rhetoric, it is very similar in creeping towards what he has said before about rob porter, about himself in the 2016 campaign. this is trending in a very clear direction at this point. >> switching gears here, what are your sources telling you on what youv...

White house? >> i think itll be helpful for the president to say that publicly himself in a more forceful way. he said that as a person with sarah huckabee sanders yesterday but earlier, he had tweeted sort of about rob porter leaving the white house and the possibility that he has been falsely accused. it is important that rob porter, if this were in a court of law would have the opportunity to offer a defense and to defend himself and we shouldnt prejudge. it doesnt look very good for rob port...

These allegations long before the white house insist that they have. >> harris: you know its confusing to me? on the one hand with robert mullers investigation into the trump campaign and russia, we dont know what the fbi has and we cant expect to know. yet with this, we want to know what the fbi has and we expect to know. so im a little confused because the white house may have known some things that potentially they couldnt make public or there may have been some things at the fbi didnt tell t...

>> harris: because i know the answer from you already but remind us how that weakens us. >> judge napolitano: would weakens us because again, it allows the weaker to cherry pick what the leaker wants out there. and then and encourages other leakers to cherry pick some different narrative. and that causes the intelligence community to think twice before complies with the legal obligations because among the array of people in congress who was questioning them for a couple of likely would be leaker...

Porters two ex-wives have accused him of domestic violence and a girlfriend as well. chief white house correspondent john roberts is live with the latest on this. >> we were watching the intelligence committee meeting there in the senate. we saw christopher wray come out but all sort of taken aback because as a single statement really just completely blew up the timeline that the white house has been giving us about this rob porter file on the investigation into his security clearance. the white...

Covering the story. so rob porter is gone, second employee of the white house accused of domestic violence of their staff is gone. and youve got some in discrepancy, some discrepancies between the timeline of the fbi and the white house. what is the take away and all of this? >> i think they were too. the white house quite plainly didnt take seriously credible allegations of domestic abuse leveled against at least one of its very senior officials made that abundantly clear. the white house was t...

On home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >> harris: we are elected now, you testimony from fbi director christopher wray is now raising questions over the white houses version of events leading up to the resignation of former staff secretary rob porter.

That christopher wray just gave under oath and you marry that with the allegations that were made that strike me as incredibly possible by both of his ex-wives and an ex-girlfriend, it suggests to me that there was something wrong here. it suggests to me at least that the white house didnt take seriously these allegations. but thats why it was very careful when i made the point that i made. on the one hand, the white house didnt take this seriously early enough because we now know there was thes...