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His exit. >> reporter: well, there their refusal to clear up a lot of the uncertainties is in part whats fuelling this controversy into a second week. remember that the white house originally tried to treat this story as tabloid gossip before they were forced to take a harsher stance against rob porter once pictures emerged of one of porters ex-wives that made their original praise of him untenable and now you still have the white house refusing to answer questions about why porters lack of a se...

With the guy and they worry about him. >> it takes the women to make the call. trump administration officials continue to offer different explanations about the departure of a high-level aide who was accused of two former ex-wives of domestic abuse. >> reporter: why would the president accept his resignation if the president thinks he did nothing wrong? >> i think that was a personal decision that rob made and one he was not pressured to do but one he made on his own. >> reporter: would rob po...

Story the white house itself arranged for a briefing with four reporters in d.c. with rob porter himself so that he could walk through his own version and timeline of the events. that completely undercuts the idea that they were so disgusted and repulsed by what they read in these stories that 40 minutes later he was gone. >> so they let him brief reporters -- >> this is according to politico and i have not talked to any of the reporters here. i trust politicos work but if in fact its true, hour...

Good morning, everyone its tuesday, february 13th. we begin with the trump administration where officials continued to offer tangled explanations about the departure of a high level aide accused by two former ex-wives of domestic abuse. to the white house chief of staff calling the allegations true without a definitive statement on who knew what when, heres a brief recap for you. >> why would the president accept his resignation if the president thinks he did nothing wrong. >> i think that was a...

Clearances, and when they dont, what does the white house do they blame the fbi. >> sarah huckabee sanders was adamant that they arent the ones compromising the nations secrets. its us. >> can you guarantee that you are protecting classified information if you have someone like rob porter who didnt have a permanent security clearance -- >> i think were doing and taking every step we can to protect classified information. if you have such concerned with classified information theres plenty of it ...

Now, its important to note that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is getting behind this plan because it is considered maybe a little bit more hard line conservative than you would think would be able to pass the senate but mcconnell mentioned crucially that this bill has to work its way through the house where it will need to be a little bit more conservative to gain traction and it has to be something president trump has a chance of signing and hes already said he wont sign a bill that do...

>> good afternoon. >> how was your weekend? >> good. its great to be back with you guys. >> why does he have to speak through you? >> the president has been clear multiple times through myself and others within the administration that we condemn domestic violence in all forms. >> he has not said it. >> im the spokes person for the white house and the president and im saying it right now. >> why didnt he say it? >> im not sure how i can be any more clear. i think the president has expressed his v...

For his part president trump tried to put the focus on his new infrastructure plan, a $1.5 trillion package. >> all right. thanks for that report. so the trump administration said that don mcgahn is still on the job but would not unveil any more about what he knew about the accusations against rob porter. he first learned of them more than a year ago and was contacted by porters ex- girlfriend back in november. >> can you explain why no action was taken by don mcgahn? >> those allegations that...

Were certainly in our right to protest. >> now, kobe is up for an academy award next month with his short animated film. >> rob porter scandal continues to raise questions about the white house. >> whats taking jared kushner so long to get clear?

>> heres the exchange with chip reid that joe was talking about. >> why does he have to speak through you? >> the president has been clear multiple times through myself and others within the administration that we condemned domestic violence in all forms. >> he has not said it. why has he not said it? >> im the spokesperson for the white house and for the president im saying it to you right now. >> why didnt he say it? >> im not sure how i can be any more clear. i think the president has espouse...