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He learned the domestic violence claims were delaying his security clearance or in november when porter's former girlfriend contacted him about the allegations according to these people. throughout all that, rob porter was still allowed to keep his position handling some of the most sensitive information that made its way to the president's desk, handling all the papers that made their way to the president's desk and doing this for a full year without being grant aid permanent security clearance. that's just the half of it. "washington post" reported last night that dozens of white house emplo...

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 surprised if there were more because it's a pattern of abusive behavior that is learned behavior. and he picks and chooses his victims. clearly he didn't go to the white house and beat up everybody there. he beat up women that he -- that he knew and that he had a relationship with. and so you know, i guess i'm not surprised anymore by the white house's response. i mean, the president's response to me was reminiscent, of course, of roy moore, but also of charl...

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 reasons that people have uncovered as to why these women could be lying about this. so this is a president who is clearly not ready to accept both privately and publicly his former staff secretary could be capable capable of these credible allegations leveled against him. >> or he's an individual who doesn't believe, he believes that women are liars. >> well, that was certainly the case -- look, it's the standard operating procedure of n...

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 square that claim with a report fr...

40 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 out the accusations were true, he p...