Last hour could have breaking news changing everything. What is happening here . Turns out there could be one very simple reason. Lets get to it. Good thursday afternoon from the fox news deck. A live look inside the white house. The brief willing start in 14 minutes. First, theres word some Trump Administration officials did know and knew for many months about accusations that a senior white house aide had physically and emotionally abused two exwives and his boss knew about it for months. We believe since november. Thats what sources are telling multiple correspondents, including john roberts. The mans name is rob porter. He has announced his resignation. He did so yesterday as President Trumps staff secretary. A big job. He denies the accusations or has thus far. He called them outrageous and a smear campaign. Part of porters job was vetting the paperwork that made it to the president s desk. So to get to the president , paperwork had to go through him. He also traveled on air force one, helped write President Trumps state of the union speech. At first, the chief of staff john kelly who is said to have known about the allegations released a statement calling porter a man of true integrity. And then later after some vetting, kelly said he was shocked by what he called the new allegations. But repeated his support for porter. The man now accused of beating his two exwives. Fox news has learned that the White House Communications director hope hicks, who has been dating this man, porter, helped write the first statement. Porters first wife, Colby Holderness tells john roberts this picture was taken during a trip to italy in 2005. She says her husband at the time, porter, punched her in the face during an argument in their hotel room. Its that picture, that picture that has apparently changed things at the white house. They have known about this for months. But the picture made a difference. Porters second wife, Jennifer Willoughby tells the Washington Post newspaper that porter once dragged her from the shower after an argument. He came and grabbed me by the shoulders here and pulled me out of the shower in a rage. Immediately on seeing the terror in my face, retracted and apologized and changed composure immediately. The allegation is years and years of abuse. Both women say they told fbi agents about the abuse during porters security clearance investigation. They go back and check with former wives. They say they told the fbi about all of it. Fox news cannot confirm they got that clearance. Listen to this. Then were told that the fbi went to the white house and said here are the allegations. And that that was some time ago. Months ago. Only once the picture came out did anything change. John roberts is live for us at the white house this afternoon. Quite a web of people close to this president , john. Yeah, theres no question about that. Were talking about the very closest orbit in an around the president. What were trying to do and what were hoping to do at the briefing, which has now been delayed for the second time until 3 15, nail down the time line of who knew what and went. I talked with Colby Holderness. She said she spoke with the fbi on january 25, 2017. That would be a little more than a year ago. This was an interview in regard to rob porters security clearance. He never received his full clearance. He received and interim clearance. These photos on the screen turned the tide of this story. She says that she told the fbi her story providing them with these photos and his second wife, Jennifer Willoughby talked to the fbi and shared her story. That file at some point last year should have come over here to the White House Counsels Office if they were following the protocols in place during the bush administration, and if there were any items in that file that were concerning, they would have been paper clipped and brought to the attention of somebody in the White House Counsels Office who was in charge of clearances. That file also could have gone to the chief of staff as well. Despite Colby Holdernesss assurances to fox news that thats what happened and she got a black eye at the hands of report porter, the white house was denying it, at least porter was. These outrageous allegations are false. I took the photos given to the media 15 years ago and the reality behind them is nowhere clear what is being described. So john kelly, the chief of staff earlier this week, when allegations first surfaced in an article in the daily mail recording Jennifer Willoughby put out the following statement. It said rob porter is a man of integrity. A friend a confident and trusted professional. Im proud to serve alongside him. That statement was matched as others saying porter was a terrific guy. After the photos of the black eye came out late tuesday into wednesday morning, john kelly had a very different take on the whole situation saying in a news Statement Released last night, i was shocked by the new allegations released today against rob porter. Theres no place for Domestic Violence in our society. I stand by my previous comments of the rob porter i have come to know since becoming chief of staff and believes every individual deserves the right to defend their reputation. The real issue at hand here that the first time he takes the podium for the briefing because Sarah Sanders is a way will likely take a lot of questions. Shepard you spoke with one of the exwives. Colby holderness is one of the weiss. This is the first wife. She said she got the black eye when they had a flight in a hotel room in florence, italy. She said and this corroborates the white houses statement that porter took the first photograph. That is the one when her eye was puffy. She took it at her request because she wanted to have evidence of what he did should it happen again. The other photos when the bruising sets in, she said she took herself and she wanted to keep those as well as evidence of what had happened. She also said that the night before she interviewed with the fbi, so that would have been january 24, 2017. She spoke with a woman who we will not name right now out of respect for her. She spoke with a woman that is dating porter at the time. The two of them commiserated about their experience with porter. Colby holderness said the other women dating porter at the time relayed to her some incidents that had happened to her. So theres corroboration now and we havent heard anything from porters side specifically on shooting any of this down. We have corroboration from three women that there did appear to be some sort of pattern of Domestic Abuse here, shep. Shepard john roberts at the white house. Well be back for the briefing shortly. Now, lets go to katelyn owens, a reporter for axios. The main question is, its our understanding that the chief of staff, john kelly, knew about this going back as far as november. We dont know what he did with that information. Is that right . Shep, its really unclear as weve been discussing over the past couple minutes. We dont know who knew exactly what when. We know the allegations of abuse that were discussed at the fbi during rob porters security clearance investigations, but we dont know our reporting is showing that rob porter, there was discussion in the white house but rob porter characterized this as a spear campaign against him. We dont know what kind of definitive information was shared and what kind of communication between the fbi and top officials at the white house. Were waiting to learn more about that. So this open question of, you know, where on the scale did this white houses information come from between knowing exactly what was going on at the fbi at that level or just kind of the rumor mill level. Shepard our understanding from sources is it was that he was not dating hope hicks was an open secret and that hope hicks helped draft the first statement. How much was everybody involved . If you knew about this from the beginning, if you knew the fbi came to you in november and said while youre thinking of hiring this person to do this job, heres what his two exwives have said in detail, long statements, years and years of abuse. It seems like that would be a red flag for hiring for someone who is an inch away from the oval office. Right. Keep in mind, rob porter didnt have a permanent security clearance. He was in charge of getting things in front of the president. He saw just top level stuff. So thats another question that raises just beyond hiring. You know, who is allowed access to what. Are there questions being raised about john kelly and his tenure there now . Especially given the other day when talking about dreamers and the hundreds of thousands that never signed up from the program and he said some of them are too lazy to get off their asses and do it. While we know a lot of dreamers, people brought here as children, dont know anything but america, theyre afraid or afraid to go sign up for fear somebody might go knocking at their door and try to toss them out. Its not as if all of them were too lazy to get off their asses as he put it and hes taken heat for that you wonder when the general status goes to the sidelines. Is there talk there . We see this pattern at the white house. Its theres these media controversies and the question of how long will this person last. Is their character tainted, can we trust them. Its story after story, whatever variation you want on it. The thing to keep in mind least about kellys comments about immigration and immigrants, you know, kelly and trump are pretty aligned the same way on immigration our reporting shows. So as has been proven the past year, a lot of these white house officials are talking to an audience of one, the president himself. So you know, i dont know if we have seen anything this week that would risk kellys tenure with the president. Shepard what is the status of portmans employment . Its a gray thing but sounds like they seem to believe he he be gone today. Right. Seems like he resigned yesterday and the resignation has been accepted. I think this White House Briefing that were supposed to start pretty quickly here, theres a lot of questions that were hoping to get answered. Shepard and well be listening in for that. Caitlin, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Shepard from axios. Com. The White House Briefing is set to begin. Were set to begin three minutes from now. Hearing about a major snag in the race to keep the federal government from going dark tomorrow night, you heard the senate had this bipartisan plan and said look, we got it. But now theres word that it may be in trouble. May not pass before the money runs out at midnight. Were live with new details from capitol hill. Watching another tough day on the market. Look at this. Now its down 650. Periods of volatility. We know volatility is in. The question is how worried are investors about not just inflation but about the bond markets. Thats one of the big concerns today. You know that they get concerned about one thing that is legitimate, maybe theres inflation. Money is getting more expensive. No question. 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He just wants a quick vote on budget caps. Its not the first time that senator paul has blocked a deal of this sort. Even aside from senator paul, the bipartisan budget faces opposition from both sides of the aisle in the house of representatives. The house speaker, paul ryan, says that he thinks the house will get this done. Hes got a problem with its he Freedom Caucus. They think theres too much spending here. Theyre wide open about it. They make no bones about it. Were spending too much money. Nancy pelosis people said that maybe we need somebody younger. Yesterday she held the floor for eight hours and talked and talked. She tried to make a compelling argument on immigration. She said shes going to vote no unless theres a rock solid guarantee the house will vote on protection for the same dreamers that i just mentioned. Speaker brian says he will bring an immigration to the floor if the president will sign it. In a recordbreaking eighthour speech yesterday, former speaker now leader pelosi shared personal stories of the dreamers, immigrants whose parents brought to the country without documents. Some republicans have slammed this budget deal. It lifts the debt ceiling. Our debt is going up. Spending is increasing. Our senior producer, chad pergram says it could be a very, very late night for lawmakers tonight. Mike emanuel has the news from capitol hill. What are we hearing from the republican side now, mike . Shep, kentucky senator rand paul is hosting unanimous consent. He wants to vote on maintaining the current spending caps. Not another 165 billion for the military. Meanwhile, a lot of republican colleagues are saying the military needs that money to allow the pentagon to do its planning. General mattis said the combined effect of the crs and the budget cuts have done more damage to the military than any enemy on the battlefield. Theres spending that people dont like. I get that. Republicans are worried about the debt. They feel lawmakers are not control themselves Going Forward. Once you have raised spending limits, you dont get them back down. Now, i love bipartisanship. But not what its bought and paid for with billions of taxpayer dollars. Thats precisely what this measure does. You sprinkle enough money around, you can get bipartisan support. So the military hawks like the budget deal. The fiscal hawks, not so much, shep. Shepard what about democrats in what are they saying . One separate democrat said hes worried about daca but the focus today right now is passing a twoyear budget deal. We cant control the discussion in the house. Im sure there will be a variety of opinions in the house of representatives. Well have a chance to debate an immigration bill next week that hopefully will pass the senate and can pass the house. So well, you know, cross one bridge at a time. This has been awkward for nancy pelosi who is one of the negotiators of the deal. Shes pushing for a deal on daca, the young people brought here by their parents. Paul ryan tried to reassure her hes committed to doing that once the budget is passed knowing that he full well need democrat support. Shepard mike, thank you. Watching to see whether congress can get a deal done and prevent the government shut down. Well speak with a congressional reporter for the associated press. A live look at the dow. Were waiting for the News Press Briefing to begin. Well take that live. The dow jones was just down 700 points about that long ago. Approaching 3 . Correction territory no doubt. Lots of news this afternoon. Were following it closely. Stay with us. This is the story of Green MountainCoffee Roasters dark magic told in the time it takes to brew your cup. First, we head to vermont. And go to our coffee shop. And meet dave. Hey. Why is dark magic so spellbindingly good, he asks . Let me show you. Lets go. So we climb. Hike. See a bear. Woah. Reach the top. 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