Alleged abuse against his first exwife went public. His second exwife and an exgirlfriend have also come forward, accusing him of hurting them physically and emotionally but President Trump made no mention of the women, as he gave his First Response to this growing scandal. We wish him well. He worked very hard. I found out about it recently and i was surprised by it, but we certainly wish him well. Its, obviously, a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house. We hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it and certainly hes also very sad. Now he also, as you probably know, he says hes innocent. I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that hes innocent. So youll have to talk to him about that. But we absolutely wish him well. Lets start there. With me now, cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash and political analyst deplogloria b. You have the president there wishing his form er staff secretary well and made no mention of the women. He portrayed him as a victim here in many ways and said he has proclaimed his innocence. By not mentioning the women, the president seemed to be buying it. And we know that this is a president who, himself, has been accused of being abusive or being a sexual predator and has denied it himself and so i think these words are pretty careful from him. And that is that he generally believes that these men are being framed by the women. And i think you can hear that in the way that he spoke. Look, its clear that he had a great relationship with rob porter. So did a lot of other people in the white house. But the president of the United States came out today and portrayed rob porter as the victim in all of this. Watching the president , dana, reminded me of hearing the whole, he says hes innocent, reminded me of all the times we listened to the president support the accused child molester roy moore. Uhhuh. Speaking up and supporting, i believe him, roger ailes, bill oreilly and now, fill in the blank, rob porter. We rolled that tape, i was on tv as we were watching it and my reaction was just, you know, shock. Your reaction was spot on. Well, because i was reacting like gloria just did and you are, in the world of normalcy and what our expectation the world of expectation, basic expectation. And you are exactly right, brooke, that that speculation should be different at this point based on the history of the way the president deals with allegations against people he knows and also against himself. However, here is why one would thivg this could be different. As great as rob porter was at his job, as close as the president got to rob porter, because he was around him all the time as staff secretary, meaning he was handing him papers all day long, hes not as close to rob porter as we are with hope hicks, who we reported has been in a romantic relationship with rob porter. And one of rob porters exwives was on cnn saying based on her experience and the experience of the other exwife and apparently of the girlfriend that he was most recently with before hope hicks that hope could have been next. If that is not enough to think about the real victor potential victor alleged victim i know. Nobody aside from his own daughters and own flesh and blood that the president reveres and feels as close to professional at this point than hope hicks. That is just im having trouble wrapping my mind around that. And what about a presses of the United States not showing any concern that somebody who was handing him all of these classified documents and perhaps reading some of these classified documents and spent so much time with him, as dana points out, why not some concern that this person should not have been in the job that he was in and why not some sense of outrage that we need to get this system fixed and figure out which people can be around me and not around me because tess a matter of National Security. And i happen to be the president of the United States. And the man who is a gatekeeper, general, National Security 101, all the security clearance issues so many questions. I want to get to another piece of breaking news, staying with you ladies. Speaking to white house chief of staff john kelly. Raising questions within the walls of the white house, according to new reporting, just off the presses of the Washington Post. Josh dosse is with me on that. You talk about this senior staff meeting that the chief of staff had today at the white house saying what to them . In the early parts of the ca. Even tried to convince him to stay on staff. As the fallout has grown, as President Trump has gotten upset, others have gotten upset, he changed his statements. On wednesday night, he said he was shocked by the allegations, even though we and others have reported that he knew about the allegations from us. Then he told us that he moved rob porter out within 40 minutes of finding out that the allegations were credible. It stunned a number of aides in the meeting and people around the president. They were present for all of kellys conversations with porter. They were aware of these statements, knew what he was doin doing. Its in total contrast from what weve been told publicly and by the white house. Now hes saying we take Domestic Abuse seriously, we moved within 40 minutes, he was terminated. The facts do not support that. Public facing statements, the white house has told the American Public do not support that. Revision of history, many in the white house believe. Brooke, i could just say, according to sources who ive talked to, just to kind of bounce off that sentiment, people i talked to are saying theres great, deep frustration. Never mind as a transparency question for the white house and the president and the presidency and people closest to him but just as a place to go to work that theres great frustration that the guy who is in charge in the white house chief of staff may be in this meeting this morning but in a formal way also last night in a memo to all staff has not taken accountability. Just the opposite. Face saving. Im told that he wanted to make sure that people knew that he was misled by rob porter, which might be true. According to our reporting it is true that he was given such a contrast what the court of Public Opinion seem ed to think that john kelly first walked in the white house, career military order, take no bs. Now you have this john kelly lets all remember back. Let me go back. Women on that list. Remember this . When i was a kid growing up, a lot of things were sacred in our country. Women were sacred. You looked upon them with great honor. Thats obviously not the case anymore, as we see from recent cases. Dignity of life was sacred. Thats gone. Religion. That seems to be gone as well. How about women are still sacred . Gloria, its so interesting to hear him say that. Knowing what we know now, his world view of women versus men. Mcgahn and porter had conversations about this, as we know. The question is and dana and i were reporting the day this broke that kelly knew in the fall that there were holdups. The question is, hes telling people he didnt know very much, that he knew there was a holdup. But kelly and mcgahn are close and mcgahn knew. Its incredulous to think that there wasnt a conversation about it and rob porter, who is very slick, could talk himself out of it, why nobody really bothered to take account of what the women were actually saying here. I think thats a big problem for women in this white house. Josh, does john kelly have a job next week . Our indications are, yes. That could obviously change in a second, as Reince Priebus learned, he was stepping off an airplane and pushed out via twitter. The president is a material man and certainly has been bragging about john kelly. Fundamental question here is with the russia investigation, all these unfolding developments who would the president replace him with . I dont know that there are people begging down the door to get in line to take this job. I think the president is certainly frustrated at times with john kelly. My reporting on it is that he is on the verge of pushing him out. Again, that could change any day of the week. Could i add one thing to that, brooke . Yeah. As josh was saying, he goes off about anybody in his office and he had been doing it more and more about kelly. Remember, he barged into that offtherecord meeting kelly was having. Not by accident, but because he was frustrated by some things kelly was say iing to the press. Having said that, until this exploded, deplora was told, i was told it was unlikely that kelly would be replaced any time soon because of the understanding from the oval office that chaos is not their friend, such swift change for so long. Unclear how much that has changed and will change with every little bit of piece of information that we learn about what john kelly knew and also, as josh reported, how hes handling it right now. He was the omb director. He gets politics. He gets policy. And hes somebody who the president seems to like very much. And here is the other thing. There is no he gets politics, as dana says. One of the knocks against kelly is that he doesnt have a lot of and that theres been a lot inside the chief of staff operation and you dont have someone who was schooled in politics, for example, and how he has handled this. I want to end with so we dont forget who the president forgot in all of this, dana, you mentioned jenny willoughby, porters second exwife. She was on with anderson, incredible interview. She talks about the conversation she had with porter over this blog post. I read it yesterday, why she stayed married, right . And still i stayed. So this is what she said. Can you say what he wanted i dont remember the exact wording but it was something along the lines of the post does not accurately depict my marriage and there were some other things associated with it. That just didnt feel right to me. Because it does accurately depict my marriage. And another thing that he wanted me to say was that i had taken some liberties with this therapeutic post, which it was for me, that i had taken liberties with that therapeutic post. And when i thought about it, i didnt. The things that i said were factual statements. It does sound like he was asking you to deny what you had he was asking me to downplay it. He was asking me to emphasize more the relationship that he and i have now as opposed to what i experienced in our marriag marriage. How does that speak to what was going on the last couple of weeks in the white house . If you take the white house, the place were talking about this out of it, which is not easy to do, everything youve been doing segments on this, so much reporting on this, brooke. This is classic. In this case alleged Domestic Abuse situations because rob porter insists did not do any of this. Classic in that they have rage and allegedly do what they do to the people they love and then they backtrack. Thats exactly what she described and then they try to cover their tracks. That is especially true with somebody who has such goodwill because of his demeanor in the workplace, because of his demeanor with the president in this case, with the people on down, people ive talked to and im sure you both have as well, who really, really liked rob porte porter. Dana and gloria, thank you so much. Josh from the Washington Post thank you. Just ahead here on cnn, it is a stunning image. You have the Vice President of the United States sitting mere feet from the sister of the north korean dictator. Seating snafu or something more . Youre watching cnn. And lasts for up to 12 hours, with zicam extreme Congestion Relief and zicam intense sinus relief. For colds and allergies, get your better back with zicam nasal sprays. You might be missing something. Y healthy. Your eyes. Thats why theres ocuvite. Ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. 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And then this moment here, kim shakes hands with the president of the south korea, despite the onslaught of threats from the north just in the last month. Joining me now, cnn global affairs, gordon chang, author of Nuclear Showdown north korea takes on the world. What do you know about this whole seating situation . They were in the same box, president moons private box. The Vice President knew this was going to happen, as you said. He wanted to sit with president moon and japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe, the three allies together, to show the kind of steadfastness against north korean aggressions. There was a lot of speculation all week about whether Vice President pence would meelt with members of the delegation. He didnt rule it out. He was coy all week. He said well see what happens. He wasnt looking for pleasantries. Thats why he didnt speak to kim jung uns sister or kim yong nam. He said if im going to talk to the North Koreans at all this week im going to deliver a tough message. Lets face it, the opening ceremony, in between the fireworks, dragons and all the dancers is not really the time to do that. They were sitting there. It might be an opportunity tomorrow for them to talk. We really dont know. But, you know, the fact that the North Koreans are there, very significant. But, you know, as far as the Vice President and the Trump Administration is concerned, this is a Charm Offensive thats going to be kind of one and done. This isnt going to further north Koreas Nuclear ambitions. Thats why the Vice President , this week in asia, has really been trying to deny the North Koreans what he calls a propaganda victory. So, he has been going to japan, going to seoul, demonstrating the u. S. Military and economic pressure against north korea today. He met with some north korean defectors, visited a memorial to that ship years ago that was torpedoed by the North Koreans. Really trying to counter that north korean Charm Offensive with what he calls the truth, with what he calls the most tyrranical country on the planet. Elise, stand by me there, seoul, south korea. Gordon, turning to you. Apparently the blue house, south kren president ial residence, an original seating chart, kim sister and exactly behind pence. You see the picture and theyre a little farther away. Would you surprised to see them, though, still so close . No. President moon of south korea wants discussions between the North Koreans and the americans. So, therefore, theres been a lot of seating plans where the two are together. For instance, at the reception before the opening ceremony. Yeah. Kim yong nam, head of nominal state, was seated at the table with pence. Pence blew off dinner. That disrespects the host. Reason thats important, the host in this case is south korea, a staunch and critical american ally. So, that was not good diplomacy on the part of pence. We know that, again, other gestures from the south, president moon having this lunch with the kim sister tomorrow and the kim sister will extend an invitation to pyongyang of