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Posted by the "daily mail" that night. within two hours, tuesday night, the white house released statements, strong statements, in defense of rob porter. communications director hope hicks reportedly helped craft the statement. why is that interesting? she is the white house communications director, after all. well, she was reported to be in a relationship with rob porter. overnight, now were into wednesday, a photo showing porters first ex-wife with a black eye was released. white house officia...

Including kelly, and did nothing about them for months until they became public. you have worked with general kelly. you said he is a man of character, and integrity. are you surprised by how kelly has handled this situation? >> youre correct that john is a friend of mine. we got to know each over at the pentagon when he was the military aide to the secretary defense, and i was the departments general counsel. he was commander of u.s. southern command. we have both been to roberts grave site tog...

And he is measured and he is certainly someone that i would trust in that professional position and in his personal life he is also abusive and angry. >> an official said porter misled west wing staff and kelly by accusing his ex-wives trying to smear him. kelly was shocked by the new allegatio allegations. he also believes every individual deserves the right to defend their reputation. >> politico reports an ex-girlfriend of porters contacted the white house counsel. she was concerned about a r...

Willing to defend him despite -- to juanas point would have to be concerns based on what you know. either hes the least curious person on earth about this or didnt care to pay attention. >> seems obvious he would have been fired about this yet hes sort of pushing it off on the personnel office. >> absolutely. thats the point here, this is something that came to him -- we found out that people in the white house, including kelly, knew about this. chris is absolutely right. they made a value judgm...

Mj lee has gotten from one of porters ex-wives. when he first learned of these allegations he characterized him as emotional abuse. jenny willoughby said they after they thought it was only emotional abuse. that is insulting to anyone in an abusive situation now, emotional and psychological abuse is abuse. meanwhile, both of those ex-wives tell cnns mj lee today that the white house still has not reached out to them about these allegations, but clearly this telling by john kelly of how this all ...

Shocked by the allegations. allegations it turned out he first heard about last november. do not mcgahn has known about problems with porter and his exwise longer than that, for more than a year. to be clear, senior white house officials but this these accusations and they protected porter and promoted porter. but the media coverage this week proved too much and he resigned, over the objections of many in the white house, including kelly, we were told. the way the white house has dwelt this scan...

Security clearance. one ex-wife told "the washington post" why she thinks more people did not know. >> im not at all surprised that people who work with him in a professional capacity see him as a model of discretion and integrity and character. like i mentioned, i believe he is and i think professionally he is intelligent and he is measured and he is certainly someone that i would trust in that professional position and in his personal life he is also abusive and angry. >> an official says port...

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