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Aide has resigned because of allegations of domestic abuse which he denies. late tonight, a breaking report the president is privately questioning the credibility of rob porter's accusers. i'm joined by one of the authors of this report. tell me what you found in your reporting today? >> what my and my colleagues have found is that over the past couple of days, the president of the united states has been privately raising questions to both aides and long-time friends and con if i dans about the credibility of the allegations against mr. porter. he has been repeatedly asking if there are any re...

A shell of a person. and a muted version of the woman that i had been when i met rob. >> the president of the united states couldn't even bring himself to go through the motions of condemning domestic violence in the abstract. as we saw with the white nationalist murder in charlottesville, this president cannot bring himself to denounce an obvious and flagrant evil standing in front of his eyes when to do so would defy his own interests and inclinations. the more we learn what his staff knew about porter and when they found out, the clearer it becomes they take this issue just as seriously as ...

Clearance. that's just the half of it. "washington post" reported last night that dozens of white house employees are awaiting permanent security clearances while cnn says that 30 to 40 white house officials in the administration political appointees are still operating without full security clearances. one of those aides according to both reports is the president's son-in-law jared kushner. politico reports john kelly was told several weeks ago that the fbi would recommend denying full security clearances to multiple white house aides who had been working in the west wing on interim security ...

Side and understand the plight of women who are trying to survive domestic violence. and the white house is filled with them. and so it actually wasn't a sock to me to hear the story. what's shocking is don mcgahn and chief of staff kelly sat on this information clearly for months and months and months. and allowed porter to have access to our most secret documents and to continue to work in the white house. and frankly, had he not been found out, he would still be there. >> 100% is clear. in kelly's case, this nugget i thought was interesting he appeared as a character witness in 2016 court-m...

Some things that needed to be looked into. literally, that was it. >> it's a little hard to square that claim with a report from politico that kelly was told several weeks ago that the fbi would recommend denying full security clearances to multiple white house aides including porter. at that senior staff meeting this morning, according to "post," the chief of staff told subordinates to convey to other white house aides he cares about domestic violence and moments ago, moments ago, washington "washington post" break the story that a second white house aide has resigned because of allegations o...