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We're back with analysts folgts t following the breaking news out of the white house former aide being accused of domestic violence. his ex-wife says she gave the fbi the photo of the black eye back in january of 2017 during the interview process. the background checks. if the fbi knew these details, would they share it with the white house, with the chief of staff, the white house counsel, someone there is a problem. >> absolutely, wolf. if this individual, if rob porter already had access to classified information and during the investigation process there was red flag that indicated he migh...

Yesterday, but when he was pressed on that he said that was in preference to photographs of a black eye on the face of one of porter's ex-wives that surfaced yesterday. and that was all raj shah would say about that. he was pressed repeatedly, wolf, as to what kelly knew months ago when our sources tell us that kelly and other top white house officials over here at the west wing were aware there were problems in rob porter's past. we should also point out other questions were asked about the future of the dmuxs director over here, hope hicks, who had a hand in writing these statements yesterda...

The black eyes. okay the photos of the black eyes were tweeted around roughly 2:00 a.m. from another reporter. it was roughly 12 hours later in the white house issued that first glowing statement from john kelly that he stood by until many hours later and said he was shocked about the allegations made against him. so what we are looking about now is cover up in the white house who knew what when about these allegations because clearly know it was very high up, very high level of people who knew about it in the fall, and they could not have handled this in a worst manner. >> this former staff s...

Someone on that investigative team would go to the white house, inform him that they have this information, and then the white house should have made a decision to revoke his classified information. it appears that did not happen in this case. >> sam, according to politico, i want to be precise, one of porter's ex girl friends went to the white house counsel, don mcgahn and spoke about the alleged abuse. what should he have done with that information? because he continued for more than a year in this really significant role in the white house. >> he should have restricted porter's access to cl...

House made mistakes over the last 24 to 48 hours in dealing with this rob porter matter. at one point he said to me in the briefing room that they could have done better, that they did not do as well as they could have in responding to all of this, and what he was talking about was essentially how they put out these glowing statements about rob porter as porter was essentially acknowledging to some extent that there was some abuse in his past marriages. now, we should also point out the white house spokesman raj shah was not very forthcoming when it came to the white house chief of staff john ...