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Nine months away. There is a lot to talk about. Lets begin at the white house. Kelly odonnell, we are learning that rob porter, the Staff Secretary, accused of Domestic Violence by his exwives that he could be out as early as today, is that correct . Reporter thats our reporting and the issue is that rob porter offered his resignation and Sarah Huckabee sanders said there would be an extended time of transition, where he would be able to help facilitate a successor. That has changed in the sense...

Endure. i want to read you a little bit more about the porter situation, since that was such a flash point. white house staff pointed to the incident with porter as the frustrations that the aides have had with kelly were made worse. kelly initially defended porter publicly, but was even more emphatic in private four current and former officials said, kelly who had access to fbi files suggested to aides that he had information different from news reports and he urged porter for 18 hours not to r...

Things in terms of political dynamics. you were here a few weeks ago. you said, man, its rough in that white house. i dont care what anyone tells you. john kelly has problems in that white house. is since then, it seems to have only gotten worse. they tried to close ranks. porter situation was one thing. we still dont know what went wrong there. and now theres more and more fallout. it looks like shulkin will be gone. why is this happening? >> i want to state for the record, i dont want bad thin...

Year on the vob hjob has been operating there and was being considered for a promotion, potentially deputy chief of staff. at the same time, he had those domestic abuse allegations and he did not have full security clearance. all right, joining me right now, political commentators scott jennings and sally cohen. scott, you first, it was just, you know, wednesday that there were loud calls for kelly to step down, lose his job and now kelly is saying hes implementing these new changes which means ...

Security office, who is the one that makes the recommendation for adjudication had not finished their process and, therefore, not made a recommendation to the white house. there is multiple groups here. the white house personal security office which is staffed by career officials would have -- may have received information, but they had not completed their process. >> harris: house speaker paul ryan weighed in on the situation earlier saying there was some sort of failure. >> clearly, we should ...

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....

Contemporary news reports. his between was more generic yesterday. he is saying some are old, some are new. some a it is different from what we see in the porter situation, and that is different from the entire me too movement. and i see these democrats out there criticizing and preening. the president is responsible for 800,000 women getting new work. getting bonuses, raises, and making capital investments. they are repatriating. >> unemployment has gone down for women, african-americans,

Not been full security clearances reportedly of a number of people, whether it including rob porter, everybody now reportedly jared kushner on the job for a long period of time before the security clearances have been completed, and then there are reports that say president trump is very upset at how the chief of staff john kelly handled the rob porter case as a whole. but then, of course, when we heard from the president for the first time yesterday, he, you know, lodged real praise on porter, ...

The mechl hmos. thanks so much for being with us. so cnn contributor is with us. and we want to bring this back and put it to the porter situation. especially in light of the fact that we now have david sorenson who has also now resigned himself, that happening overnight, first of all, your reaction to it seems like this swinging door policy of people coming and going and they have this domestic violence background. it seems to be that the white house is ignoring it. >> well, you know, i think...

Who cleared this young man to see all this stuff that you need a top secret security clearance to see. who cleared him to do it? fbi did not grant him a clearance. did not provide information to the white house that said edeserves a clearance. who cleared him to see all this stuff? it is disturbing unprecedented enough this president decided to have blind faith in his son-in-law and give him access toes secured information. with this porter situation, this is a problem in the white house for the...