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Press secretary sarah sanders called to her office four top print report heres had questions about porter. there was rob porter. he spoke with them off the record sharing his side of the stories involving his two ex-wives and their very disturbing charges. this was after the daily mail published two reports detailing the accusations and after that black eye photograph of porters first ex-wife was published by the intercept. one source says the white house saw this off the record discussion first...

Americas top law enforcement officer, a man nominated for the job, contradicted the white house over rob porters security clearance. christopher wray testified the fbi completed the back ground check in july 2017. the fbi did complete a follow-up inquiry and then closed porters file in january. this seemed to contradict what the white house press secretary said yesterday. joining me now, mike rogers who is an fbi agent, did back ground checks for the george h.w. bush administration. help us unde...

How could it change from how you get around to what your kids are watching on tv. good afternoon. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. one full week into the scandal involving rob porter and yet the american people do not know who knew what and when and why. why the white house staff kept someone around who had been accused of domestic abuse by two ex-wives and an ex-girlfriend. questions that the white house refuse to answer. what we do know, it seems the explanation is not really holding up....

Yesterday, sarah sanders painted rosie picture of a white house motivated by a clear sense of right and wrong someone who had been removed because of abhorrent behavior. >> we learned of the extent of the situation involving rob porter last tuesday evening. within 24 hours, his resignation had been accepted and announced. we announced a transition would happen and within hours did it. >> what that narrative does not acknowledge is that the initial response from the white house was to prop up por...

Morally and do the right thing. >> one of the most bizarre things was that rob porter thought co-work at the white house and this would never come out. i had ex-wives saying this about him and would it never come out. then people at the white house who also learned about it. who also seemed to think it wouldnt come out or believed his denials. >> it is not crazy for me to think he could get away with it. there were people in the trump orbit including steve bannon who had previous accusations. i ...

More which is that wednesday, after the story broke, the black eye was out there. they brought in the four reporters, they went in there. rob porter is there. he gives off the record his basic version of events. how can this be interpreted as anything with you the white house facilitating for an alleged domestic abuser to call his ex-wives liars? >> thats exactly what happened and they got caught. you see them going back and forth, were almost a week into there and we still dont have the story s...

How is the white house explaining what appear to be clear inconsistencies in the time line today? >> reporter: well, sarah sanders tried to explain in one word when she was asked who is telling the truth, who is giving version of the events, the fbi or the white house, she said both are. todays version had the press secretary essentially trying to say that it was this office of white house personnel security that was essentially to blame for this. that they were still working this. she did say f...

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