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Not telling the truth either to each other in the west wing or to reporters about what happened, not taking the role of service particularly seriously. and initial instinct to hunker down and say we're under attack, we need to defend ourselves, which is what they did tuesday night. the president was aware last tuesday night there had been this issue with rob porter. sit not clear how many details he was aware of. but you are correct. again, the same issue as with a shooting. there is a leadership point to this job that is the major one. >> pence is even saying in reaction to porter, the reacti...

Wednesday morning, the white house was defending the rob porter and not pushing back on our reporting that kelly was trying to save porter's job. by that night, kelly had issued a second statement, saying that he was shocked by these new allegations and in the days since then, the white house has really struggled to say what changed during that time. initially, they were saying that kelly and other senior staff at the white house weren't aware of the depth of these allegations and that they hadn't received a final report from the fbi. we heard from chris wray today, under oath, in front of a s...

They allege porter abused them. the scandal and how the white house has mishandled it with conflicting explanations has some staffers facing some awkward changes. take a look at this exchange today. it was between my colleague, jeff zeleny, and press secretary, sarah sanders. >> in an op-ed this morning in "the washington post," the first wife of rob porter said specifically of you, i expected a woman to do better. based on what you know, do you believe you were personally misled and do you have any regret for how you have explained this to the american people? >> look, as i said, we do the ve...

Comments in order top flauns or shape a story without their comments becoming a story. reporters usually want to hear more information than less information. what's interesting about this meeting is that it was really at the nexus of where the white house's story began to turn. it was on -- as of -- it was, what, wednesday morning, as of wednesday morning, the white house was defending the rob porter and not pushing back on our reporting that kelly was trying to save porter's job. by that night, kelly had issued a second statement, saying that he was shocked by these new allegations and in the...

Ex-wives could have damaging information on him. a white house official telling "cnn tonight," the chief of staff was reluctant to dig into what white house counsel don mcgahn knew about porter. so this white house is doing what it always does. it's stonewalling, changing their story, flat-out lying. even though fbi director christopher wray blew all of that right out of the water today by simply stating the facts. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july that soon thereafter we received requests...