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Realized i was with a man who was capable of something like that. >> jenny willoughby keeping them honest. our reporting is that general kelly and two others were told in november of last year about domestic issues and the fbi background check was completed last july, but that porter never got a permanent clearance. which makes it hard to imagine this came as a total surprise a couple weeks ago. i talked about that with jenny willoughby, as well as the importance of credible allegations being ta...

Ridiculous coming out of my mouth given how i can speak about it and remember things now, but i dont know it was until that moment that i realized i was with a man who was capable of something like that. >> keeping it modest. our reporting is that general kelly and two others were told in november of last year about domestici domestic issues and the fbi background check was last july. porter never got a full clearance. we talked about that with jenny as well as the importance of credible allegat...

Images of colbie bruised and battered to come up with a different statement? >> knowing rob the way i do, he probably is able to even if his clearance hadnt gone through and they knew it was because of problems in his marriage, i think he was probably about to spin it in way it was minimized. i generally believe that chief of staff kelly thought that it was lesser than it was and seeing those photographs, i wish that my interview would have been enough but seeing those photographs sort of solidi...

Closeness to it and the nature of it, but i do feel as though knowing rob the way that i do, he probably is able to even if his clearance hadnt gone through, and they knew it was because of problems in his marriage, i think he was probably able to spin it in such a way that it was minimized, that it was downplayed. and i generally believe that chief of staff kelly thought that it was lesser than it was, and seeing those photographs, i wish that my interview would have been enough, but seeing tho...

Issue. >> its still not clear because the white house wont answer what general kelly knew when he knew it and to what extent he knew about the reports, the allegations that both of you had made. there is this new statement out from general kelly where he said he was shocked by the, quote, new allegations and there is, quote, no place for domestic violence. is it important to you that somebody like general kelly believes your story? >> its important to me in general that anyone who is coming forw...

Any republicans who have been real profiles in courage and willing to take a real party second country first approach to this? >> they have worked tremendously better than adam sclif was when devon nunez conducting his investigation. but the chairman issues subpoenas without working with the democrats that is destructive. despite that, we keep going forward. all of us believe that on the democratic side and two republicans that an independent investigation, like we did after september 11th, bipa...

Now weve got the question of, do the tapes exist or not exist. all of these are really easy answers. yet we get tangled up in it and the president wont answer. these tapes, this has been going on for weeks, do these tapes exist or not? >> 50 shades of gray. it reminds me yesterday i think was the 45th anniversary of the watergate break-in, gretchen. you remember the nixon tapes were ruled to be nixons property even though they were seized after his death. i wonder if thats going through donald t...

Comey has said overly that he orchestrated the appointment of special council. he looked at that and the question is always, you know, how would you define obstruction of justice. when is jollying along someone interpreted as dont go there. and thats a judgment call thats, i think, going to be hard to make. >> lets move then back to the issue of the tapes that president trump has hinted exist of his conversation with former director and we dont know if they do expect. president wont answer, so w...

Will he be put in these situations. >> and if youre in those meetings, whether its health care, fax reform, are they less likely now to trust what the vice president tells them thinking thats the president? that hes speaking for the president? or is he speaking for mike pence? >> hes still got a relationship with a lot of people on capitol hill. i dont think its they dont trust him. the question is is that the conduit to the decision maker and that puts him and the lawmakers in a similar boat . ...

Which as you point out flies in the face of what white house officials said but also -- until they were undercut by the president. then they went back to the memo as rational yesterday. we heard there was frustration on the deputy attorney generals side. but while lawmakers were, on the briefing itself, he was def reshl, this was the key take away that just about everybody coming out pointed to. that he clearly was told that jim comey was going to be fired and then he sat down and wrote the memo...