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>> again, we'll get to the president's anger about all this in a moment. it includes, we are told, unhappiness with his chief of staff john kelly, unhappiness with his long-time aide hope hicks. why was porter allowed to stay on the job for months when his behavior was released to officials? the judgment of the chief of staff by not bringing this to the president, if he was truly blindsided by this in recent days that, tells you about the operation. this is cnn reporting now, some of it first reported by the "washington post" and confirmed by cnn. january 17, 2016, the earliest days of the adm...

Chief of staff at least had an inkling about it in the fall. >> and the white house counsel, top lawyer, he also had been briefed by the fbi. >> and there's more than one woman, two ex-wives, now a girlfriend has contacted. there is a background check process. i think anybody who would look at this would say it's appropriate to have a process and a fair process, but that's what the government does in a background check. when you have these kinds of explosion sieve allegations, you need to run them down. the times has reported on the fact that. maybe he's got his job. he's got a lot of his plat...

Ongoing background check or security investigation, and therefore, not everything was known or things wouldn't be known to the chief of staff. that just doesn't make sense. >> exactly. and when they received this information months ago, they had a decision to make, anderson, and they chose not to make the decision that rob porter had to go. that his security clearance was not going to happen, raj shah was also making this distinction today that rob porter was continuing to work with an interim security clearance. while he's working with an interim security clearance because the background chec...

It differently." no accountability. >> perhaps she knew general kelly knew about some of this and then thought, whoa, i may have made a presumption that was wrong. again, i go back to process. if you have a background check process that is holding up his security clearance in a workplace that happens to be the west wing, you're going to have to get to the bottom of this. these are serious allegations. then it's complicated by, you know, hope hicks apparently being -- dating him and then being involved, in deliberations about whether he should be fired. that is so inappropriate. again, it's jus...

Released today against rob porter. there is no place for domestic violence in our society." new tonight, kelly sending a letter obtained by fox to white house staff, part of which reads, "while we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former white house staffer, i want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously. domestic violence is important and has no place in our society." some wonder what kelly knew about porter's alleged violent past before the story went public. >> this is part of an ongoing investigation, we trust the back...