daily mail published the allegations. kelly released a statement calling porter, quote, a man of true integrity. sarah huckabee sanders said porter was not pressured to resign. the next day, the daily mail published an update, this time with a photo of porter s first wife with a black eye. kelly then released a new statement saying he was shocked by the new allegations. porter called those allegations simply false. thursday, february 8th, the white house says trump became aware just two days before and that kelly was not fully aware until the image of the black eye was published. kelly sent his staff an e-mail saying the white house takes domestic violence seriously. friday, february 9th, kelly said porter was gone 40 minutes after he found out wednesday. trump tells reporters that porter did a great job. and then yesterday, sarah huckabee sanders said that porter was gone within 24 hours and that porter was gone as soon as we found out about this. fbi director christopher wray just
the allegations against rob porter by his two ex-wives. what was your reaction when you first haeeard? i was horrified and also very shocked. as many people have noted, jake, this is not the rob porter we worked with in the white house, but once you see the allegations as put forth, and the photographic evidence, and you say speaking to the fbi, it was very clear that rob resigned very swiftly, and was out the very next day. i think people should look to the result. what is the result here? the result is that one week ago, rob porter was a top aide to president trump, and today he is out of the white house. but the initial reaction from the white house was to stand by porter. the chief of staff put out a statement calling porter, quote, a man of true integrity and honor. sarah sanders put out a statement supporting him. sarah sanders originally said, well listen. listen to what john kelly after he announced to porter, what sanders said after porter resigned.
closed and ongoing. i think that s going to be the first question for sarah sanders, that she s going to have to clarify. in addition to that, this white house has indicated that it was somehow up to the fbi to grant security clearance. that s not the case. the fbi does a background check and then they submit information. it is then up to the white house to make a determination about whether a permanent security clearance can be granted. so that is yet another contradiction that we are hearing, katy. and then more broadly, you re right, the story has been shifting ever since this first broke in the news. first, john kelly saying that rob porter is a man of true of integrity. and then pointing out, saying that he was shocked by the new allegations, once that picture was made public. so this is a white house that has been really struggling and twisting to try to explain to people how this all went down and the timeline and who knew what and when. and of course, it all raises even more qu