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The face is what i want to say to people that work in this field, to survivors of this and to 40 years of work to say that this kind of thing isn't just some private matter that you just scoff off. >> this is exactly why it is so difficult for women to come forward because they know that they will be met with this kind of denial propping up the abuser, describing him as nice to them so therefore, it means that he could not possibly have committed violence. and you know, i mean when you look at porter's behavior it's one woman and then another woman and apparently a girlfriend. i wouldn't be su...

The face is what i want to say to people that work in this field, to survivors of this and to 40 years of work to say that this kind of thing isn't just some private matter that you just scoff off. >> this is exactly why it is so difficult for women to come forward because they know that they will be met with this kind of denial propping up the abuser, disdescribing him as nice to them so therefore, it means that he could not possibly have committed violence. and you know, i mean when you look at porter's behavior it's one woman and then another woman and apparently a girlfriend. i wouldn't be...

>> that the accusations were true. 20 minutes later he was gone. >> 40 minutes later he was gone. that echoes the story that kelly directed senior staff to adopt in a meeting this morning according to "the washington post." telling those in attendance to say he took action to remove porter within 40 minutes of learning the abuse allegations were credible. but with hour of that meeting, staff were already leaking to "the post" that his account was false which is plainly and painfully obvious from the public record that anyone can examine. because on tuesday night when kelly says he first found ...

The porter scandal has revealed some serious security issues for the trump administration. according to "washington post," white house counsel don mcgahn knew about rob porter's domestic abuse allegations for a year and did nothing. "in january 2017 when mcgahn learned of the allegations he wanted porter to stay because he saw the harvard law train add capitol hill veteran as a steadying professional voice in the white house. his view didn't change in june when the fbi flagged some of its findings to the white house nor did he act in september when the he learned the domestic violence claims w...

We also know every reports that senior trump aides have known for months about the allegations against porter including white house counsel don mcgahn who was first alerted over a year ago and kelly himself who learned last fall of the allegations were holding up porters area security clearance. today kelly explained he wasn't told the details. >> you had some indication, right? last year about the nature of -- >> in november i did an update on some of the investigations. and the uptake was there was some things that needed to be looked into. literally, that was it. >> it's a little hard to sq...