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>> again, well get to the presidents anger about all this in a moment. it includes, we are told, unhappiness with his chief of staff john kelly, unhappiness with his long-time aide hope hicks. why was porter allowed to stay on the job for months when his behavior was released to officials? the judgment of the chief of staff by not bringing this to the president, if he was truly blindsided by this in recent days that, tells you about the operation. this is cnn reporting now, some of it first repo...

Chief of staff at least had an inkling about it in the fall. >> and the white house counsel, top lawyer, he also had been briefed by the fbi. >> and theres more than one woman, two ex-wives, now a girlfriend has contacted. there is a background check process. i think anybody who would look at this would say its appropriate to have a process and a fair process, but thats what the government does in a background check. when you have these kinds of explosion sieve allegations, you need to run them ...

Ongoing background check or security investigation, and therefore, not everything was known or things wouldnt be known to the chief of staff. that just doesnt make sense. >> exactly. and when they received this information months ago, they had a decision to make, anderson, and they chose not to make the decision that rob porter had to go. that his security clearance was not going to happen, raj shah was also making this distinction today that rob porter was continuing to work with an interim sec...

It differently." no accountability. >> perhaps she knew general kelly knew about some of this and then thought, whoa, i may have made a presumption that was wrong. again, i go back to process. if you have a background check process that is holding up his security clearance in a workplace that happens to be the west wing, youre going to have to get to the bottom of this. these are serious allegations. then its complicated by, you know, hope hicks apparently being -- dating him and then being invo...

Released today against rob porter. there is no place for domestic violence in our society." new tonight, kelly sending a letter obtained by fox to white house staff, part of which reads, "while we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former white house staffer, i want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously. domestic violence is important and has no place in our society." some wonder what kelly knew about porters alleged violen...

The kim dynasty to visit the south in 65 years. our vice president mike pence also meeting with world leaders at the olympics. his guest of honor was fred warmbier father of otto warmbier. the american student died after months of imprisonment in north korea. white house defending former aide rob porter. a spokesman saying the administration not fully aware of the extent of those allegations and giving a glimpse into the presidents response. >> in this instance in the case of rob porter we relie...

With the new allegations released today against rob porter. there is no place for domestic violence in our society." new tonight, kelly sending a letter obtained by fox to white house staff, part of which reads, "while we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former white house staffer, i want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously. domestic violence is important and has no place in our society." some wonder what kelly knew abo...

Reportedly working for the trump administration. she hasnt been name publicly but many described her going to white house counsel don mcgahn directly to discuss these concerns about porter, her own concerns about porter and what she knew about porters exwives and their accusations against them. rob porter denies the allegations. he calls them simply not true. this is not just a salacious and dark story about the departure of yet another high level trump white house employee. this is also a secur...

Every person youve lived with and contact and ask you detailed questions going back to my case when i was 18 years old. the notion you would allow someone to work with no security clearance is nuts. if i may, normally you start and its a process. so they assume you can do the job and quick while youre on the job. thats normal. in this case, we know that they knew as early as january 2017 right up front that this guy had issues in his background, wife beating credible allegations that would discr...

Credible allegations of it that would have permanently disqualified him from holding this job. why they even gave him an initial clearance is beyond me because they must have known he would never have cleared the full background check. >> as far as i understand how the security clearance world works, there is the fbi background check process. if you are in the military or in some other part of the national security world you may get your clearance through some other agency. when you are a civili...