Abuser Rob Porter News Today

This alleged abuse against his first wife went public. porter denies all of the abuse allegations against him. so, lets start this hour with a woman who has been breaking news on this one, left and right, mj lee, our cnn national politics reporter. talking about the timeline, mj, the chief of staff knew about some of this as early as last fall i understand you have a new timeline that dates even farther back than that. >> i have to say my colleagues at the white house have been doing some terrif...

Porters decision to resign. >> can i first say about the second statement that john kelly released, it wast started off by saying he was shocked by these revelations. he also said the words i stand by. he said he stands by the previous statements he had made about rob porters character, even after the photos surfaced, even after these details came out. he said that he stood by the characterizations that he had given of porter and the man that he had known prior to these allegations. the other th...

The fact that were reporting she has been romantically linked with rob porter, crafting that message, how far fetch would that be? >> i dont know how much we can speculate about that. we dont have a lot of answers. it began with the daily mail of the british tabloid. that seemed to lead quickly to this story. trumps white house and political career in a nutshell, a silly little story ends up leading to something very serious and very important. that is the second time we

Porter could have kept his job at the white house, often right by the presidents side. whats more, the accusations of beating his two ex-wives keeping porter from getting this full security clearance, a fact known since last fall by senior white house officials, including chief of staff john kelly, according to our sources. in a just released statement the chief of staff said he was, quote, shocked by the new allegations against porter. porters star was on the rise in the administration until he...

Where were we this fall? we were in the middle of me too. if nothing else would have raised a flag, that should have raised the flag as well. so, i think looking back, whatever rob porter may have said to him, john kelly should have known better. i will say this. people who have known rob porter for 20, 30 years, and they cannot reconcile this with the person they know. but as his wife said, it was never in public. >> maybe that is the case, mj, to you, that rob porter said to his chief of staff...

Briefing will begin in minutes. officials there, will, no doubt, be confronted with tough questions, necessary questions about how accused abuser, rob porter, could have kept his job at the white house, often times right by, there he is, with the paper there, often times right by the presidents side. whats more, the accusations of beating not just one, but two of his ex-wives, kept porter from getting his full security clearance. a fact known since last fall, including chief of staff john kelly,...

Statement defending rob porter. he is being accused of beating two of his ex-wives. we have also learned that hicks is romantically linked with porter. she has been somewhat of an enigma even though she was part of both the trump campaign and the trump white house. joining me to talk much more, olivia nutzie. you wrote about hope hicks in 2016. you called her mystifying, major operative and accidental press secretary. who is she and why dont we actually hear from her very much? >> its pretty rem...

These allegations involve staff secretary rob porter. it is going to be raj shah briefing reporters, sarah sanders number two. also hear why the white how, which has blasted the iran nuclear deal, tried to create dialogue with tehran. stand by. dont we need that cable box to watch tv? nope. dont we need to run? nope. it just explodes in a high pitched yeahhh. yeahhh! try directv now for $10 a month for 3 months. no satellite needed.

Important to talk about why this may have become a bigger issue at the white house and gotten peoples attention, is the issue of the security clearance. i know base d on talking to the two ex-wives yesterday that they were interviewed by the fbi regarding, too, porters security clearance. they interviewed them as people who were obviously married to him. and they told me that they were, frankly, very honest with the fbi about detailing to them the troubles that they had in their marriages, the a...

>> someone who was clearly viewed as being talented, having a lot of potential and was even sort of being groomed by the chief of staff to sort of be the next big guy. the fact that a lot of white house folks knew about these allegations but nonetheless continued to sort of have this political rise, thats potentially very problematic. >> indeed. hang with me, mj. the second ex-wife of rob porter explained why she stayed with him in a blog post from april of last year. little bit of the back stor...