accused of hitting her in the stoma stomach and he vehemently denies. it is unfortunate that a painful and deeply personal family situation from long ago is being drugged up and painted in an incomplete and therefore misleading way. shanahan's son called his father a source of stab ibt and his daughter said she never saw him raise a hand to his mother and you talked about the incident and another act of family violence in 2007 when his 17-year-old son beat his own mother. his now ex-wife. he wrote a defense of his son, quote, use of a baseball bat in self-defense will be used as imbalance of force but his mother harassed him for three hours before the incident. it is a statement that shanahan today disavows. needless to say this news is sending shock waves throughout the trump administration on capitol hill and beyond. cnn barbara starr is at the