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Posted by the "daily mail" that night. within two hours, tuesday night, the white house released statements, strong statements, in defense of rob porter. communications director hope hicks reportedly helped craft the statement. why is that interesting? she is the white house communications director, after all. well, she was reported to be in a relationship with rob porter. overnight, now we're into wednesday, a photo showing porter's first ex-wife with a black eye was released. white house officials tell axios several people in the white house, including kelly, tried to convince porter to stay...

Including kelly, and did nothing about them for months until they became public. you have worked with general kelly. you said he is a man of character, and integrity. are you surprised by how kelly has handled this situation? >> you're correct that john is a friend of mine. we got to know each over at the pentagon when he was the military aide to the secretary defense, and i was the department's general counsel. he was commander of u.s. southern command. we have both been to robert's grave site together at arlington. >> his son who died in afghanistan? >> yes. i hope john continues to be a fri...

And he is measured and he is certainly someone that i would trust in that professional position and in his personal life he is also abusive and angry. >> an official said porter misled west wing staff and kelly by accusing his ex-wives trying to smear him. kelly was shocked by the new allegatio allegations. he also believes every individual deserves the right to defend their reputation. >> politico reports an ex-girlfriend of porter's contacted the white house counsel. she was concerned about a romantic relationship between porter and the white house communications director hope hicks. she hel...

Willing to defend him despite -- to juana's point would have to be concerns based on what you know. either he's the least curious person on earth about this or didn't care to pay attention. >> seems obvious he would have been fired about this yet he's sort of pushing it off on the personnel office. >> absolutely. that's the point here, this is something that came to him -- we found out that people in the white house, including kelly, knew about this. chris is absolutely right. they made a value judgment, decided not to look into this because porter was valuable, because he was someone that kel...

Mj lee has gotten from one of porter's ex-wives. when he first learned of these allegations he characterized him as emotional abuse. jenny willoughby said they after they thought it was only emotional abuse. that is insulting to anyone in an abusive situation now, emotional and psychological abuse is abuse. meanwhile, both of those ex-wives tell cnn's mj lee today that the white house still has not reached out to them about these allegations, but clearly this telling by john kelly of how this all went down really goes against a lot of what we learned. sources told cnn that people in the white ...