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To say it's not settled means it's not nothing, there's really just a practical issue that's been raised, that if a president were under indictment, it would be very hard for a president to carry out his duties because he would have to worry about defending his case, he may have to spend six to eight weeks for a trial. there's a prabctical concern that's out there. richard nixon was not indicted because they didn't have evidence. they did have evidence. he was named as an unindicted co-c co-c co-conspirator, bufo but ford pardoned nixon. >> i don't think jeb would have been cheering on the rus...

Out there. >> stephanie, thank you very much, my friend. speaking of friday, happy friday to you. with the government open right now after an overnight shutdown you probably slept through. but let's talk first about what might be a bigger issue for this white house, the credibility of the chief of staff. the administration is refusing to say right now what john kelly knew when about those domestic violence allegations. but this morning word more senior staffers knew about rob porter's past. why the white house wanted to keep him on despite all of that as one of porter's ex-wives talks to the "...

Always been a scary guy. he got past a lot of red flags. i just would emphasize, the president's twitter feed, his tweet storm, very unfortunate. just wrote in "the washington post" today, he's got not to do that in the aftermath of one of these searing events. what he could do is use that amazing platform, it's vast, it has extraordinary reach, to focus people on moving towards comprehensive solutions regarding unstable ideologues and unstable almost insane people who can get access to guns under the legal regime. he could do that. i hope he does. >> congressman, is there any need for a perso...

Inactions, they're calling for hearings to address the meddling. it appears the republicans are going to take little if any action to secure or election systems. we ask in the news, is this another partisan fight, is it dems against trump, republicans for trump and is that what this story is? the answer is not really. he said this is a problem, the issue is trump administration followthrough, the issue, according to people across the spectrum is whether this administration is going to do anything about russian meddling, and here is another top republican making news tonight by rebutting donald...

Of clearance. that made them encounter the ex-wives of rob porter, the now departed from the white house staff secretary. why this matters is that the white house is saying that they only fully knew the issue once the story became public through a publication with a photo showing black eyes on porter's first wife who said that he caused that injury and that that made them fully aware. but new reporting says that they had big signals along the way. let me read you just a clip from "the washington post" here that expounds on this. white house counsel donald mcgahn knew one year ago that staff se...