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This alleged abuse against his first wife went public. porter denies all of the abuse allegations against him. so, let's start this hour with a woman who has been breaking news on this one, left and right, mj lee, our cnn national politics reporter. talking about the timeline, mj, the chief of staff knew about some of this as early as last fall i understand you have a new timeline that dates even farther back than that. >> i have to say my colleagues at the white house have been doing some terrific reporting on sort of who knew what and when, because that's really important. what we're learnin...

Porter's decision to resign. >> can i first say about the second statement that john kelly released, it wast started off by saying he was shocked by these revelations. he also said the words i stand by. he said he stands by the previous statements he had made about rob porter's character, even after the photos surfaced, even after these details came out. he said that he stood by the characterizations that he had given of porter and the man that he had known prior to these allegations. the other thing john kelly said in that statement is that he believes everyone has the right to defend their r...

The fact that we're reporting she has been romantically linked with rob porter, crafting that message, how far fetch would that be? >> i don't know how much we can speculate about that. we don't have a lot of answers. it began with the daily mail of the british tabloid. that seemed to lead quickly to this story. trump's white house and political career in a nutshell, a silly little story ends up leading to something very serious and very important. that is the second time we

Porter could have kept his job at the white house, often right by the president's side. what's more, the accusations of beating his two ex-wives keeping porter from getting this full security clearance, a fact known since last fall by senior white house officials, including chief of staff john kelly, according to our sources. in a just released statement the chief of staff said he was, quote, shocked by the new allegations against porter. porter's star was on the rise in the administration until he announced his resignation just wednesday. he helped draft the president's state of the union, at...

Where were we this fall? we were in the middle of me too. if nothing else would have raised a flag, that should have raised the flag as well. so, i think looking back, whatever rob porter may have said to him, john kelly should have known better. i will say this. people who have known rob porter for 20, 30 years, and they cannot reconcile this with the person they know. but as his wife said, it was never in public. >> maybe that is the case, mj, to you, that rob porter said to his chief of staff the entire time, this isn't me. this never happened, which would perhaps begin to explain then. tha...