Immigration. Were going to break down all of that in a moment. First, though, at the white house, questions, incriminations over the top aide who couldnt get a security clearance and finally lost his job over allegations he abused his former wives. One of those exes telling cnn rob porter asked her to take down a blog she posted last april in which she claimed the threats were personal, the terror was real. Another thing he wanted me to say was that i had taken some liberties with this therapeutic post, which it was for me, that i had taken liberties with that therapeutic post. And when i thought about it, i didnt. The things i said were factual statements. He was asking me to downplay it. And he was asking me to emphasize more the relationship that he and i have now as opposed to what i experienced in our marriage. Were hearing those recrimina recriminations could affect one of the president s closest confidants. Kaitlan collins joining us more on this. What are we hearing about hope hicks this morning . Reporter another Stunning Development as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from this rob porter scandal and that is the president s relationship with one of his top aides, and closest confidantes, because sources are telling cnn that the president is growing increasingly frustrated with hicks and the role she has played in all of this, with rob porter, because of several reasons. One being that he the president was not consulted when hope hicks and several other top aides at the white house were drafting that initial statement on behalf of the white house that defended porter. And secondly, because the president feels that hicks has let her relationship with porter cloud her decisionmaking and her judgmentmaking from the white house standpoint. Now, erica, overall, the president feels that hope hicks has put her priorities above his in this situation. Now, rob porters last day was at the white house was wednesday, but we are told he was here yesterday to clean out his desk and on that same day hicks continued to defend porter to her white house colleagues here. Were continuing to see that fallout. Hicks certainly isnt the only aide facing some backlash over this. John kelly and his handling of the situation is as well and heres what one of rob porters exwives had to say about john kellys handling of all of this. Is it important to you that somebody like general kelly believes your story . It is important to me in general that anyone who is coming forward with a story like that is believed up front. That it is not on the burden of proof for me or anyone else to justify those claims. Reporter erica, there is certainly not a sense that john kelly and hope hicks are in jeopardy here in this white house, but it does give you insight into how their relationship with the president has changed amid the fallout from this situation. Kaitlan collins live for us at the white house, thank you. Joining us for more perspective on general kelly and his response to the porter scandal, pentagon correspondent barbara starr. When we look at this, not a lot of people know all that much about general kellys background before he became chief of staff. In terms of his reputation, does he have a reputation for being careful with what he says, how he says it . Reporter you know, erica, like many pentagon journalists, i cover john kelly while he served in the marine corps, while head of southern command, while a top military aide to the secretary of defense. And what you always saw was indeed a four star marine general. As one of his former colleagues said to me yesterday, you know, he always was a very gruff person. That was what this person said, but this person also went on to say, i dont recognize the john kelly i see now. He served very honorably in the marine corps, but many will say it was the death of his son in afghanistan that really changed perhaps quite understandably who john kelly is and was. He went on to head of u. S. Military operations in central and south america and began to take a very hardline on border security, on drugs, on al qaeda and terrorist threats on the southern border, something that would eventually obviously appeal to President Trump, but something inside the military was seen as maybe just a little too hard charging, maybe a little more of his views than backed up by rock solid intelligence at the time. Kelly always wanted to be very relevant in the debate, in the operations on terrorism. He went on, of course, to become secretary of Homeland Security where he could engage in those issues much more significantly than he could in the military. Someone who served very honorably as a marine but has gone on to Something Different in that political atmosphere. It is the skills that work so well in the military dont always translate in the same way politically, barbara. Reporter well, they dont. You know, and we all know that President Trump likes to have generals around him. He talks about it. So hes got kelly, hes got mattis, two former four star marines, very similar in many respects. They speak bluntly in the marine corps as a four star, that is celebrated, not maybe the best route in a political environment. Four star generals are very used to having everybody salute smartly, agree with what they want to do, carry out their orders on a staff level, and in turn up the chain of command, they never tell the boss no. And that may or may not be serving President Trump well at this point in the west wing. One of the key questions, though, if kelly is essentially functioning as a four star, why didnt he know more about rob porter and why did he if he did, didnt he do something about it . And that is an important question many people have this morning, that is for sure. Barbara starr, appreciate it, thank you. Joining me to discuss cnn senior political analyst Rob Brownstein and Scott Jennings and simone sanders. Barbara brought up an interesting point there, you never tell the boss no, ron. We know that it seems to be the president likes to have people around him who are not telling him no. I once did a session with james bakker who i think widely considered the greatest white house chief of staff of modern times and said the single hardest thing was to find people who would go into the office and tell the president he was wrong and chief of staff, you try to recruit the president to tell people they were wrong and usely they chicken out and you have to deal with it yourself. What we have seen from him in public is hes echoing many of the president s views, hardline views and reinforcing that side of him, rather than what many people thought originally that he would be something of a kind of if not moderating force, a constraining force. I think this is this continues a pattern that we have seen with kelly, the idea that he was going to be, quote, at adult in the room, and was going to point trump in a new direction. I dont think thats been born out by the record. It is also interesting to see, we just heard from former Trump Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski saying the buck stops with general kelly. Take a listen. Look, the general is there to put in policies and processes and procedures and in this case, those didnt work and we need to find out why. And so where the buck stops, i guess at the end of the day is what the general so there is sort two of parts there. Number one, always interesting when we see people out speaking, perhaps this is a direct note to the president , scott. But also does the buck really stop with general kelly or does the buck stop with the president . Well, i think mr. Lewandowski is clearly unhappy with general kelly and the processes that according to some reporting have kept him out of the oval office. So you can see him out there using this to his advantage. Ultimately what happened this week was mishandled, both from a procedural standpoint and from a pr standpoint. I mean, they never at any time this week got to a place where they fully went through the timeline of what general kelly knew and what other people knew. We got a lot of reporting on it, but the white house never really took control of that narrative. Thats going to cause more questions to have to be asked next week. And if im the president , look, i dont think the president is involved in the day to day management of background checks on white house staff, but if im the president , im asking this morning who is watching out for me here, you all have let a situation get out of control that is negatively affecting my presidency, this is not a situation of my making and i want to know what happened. When i read the president is upset, i think he ought to be upset. The staff is supposed to protect him. To your point about that timeline, there was no ticktock per se at the briefing yesterday because it would be, quote, too damming. Simone, no matter where you fall on the political spectrum, you dont want Something Like this to be overtaking the white house, because it distracts from Everything Else that needs to be done to lead the country. Im actually more concerned about the fact that in january of 2017, white House Counsel again noted that even after knowing about everything about rob porter, about these allegations, that he thought it was more important to keep a harvard law trained veteran on staff because he was good professionally. Thats what im concerned about. So the white house cant get it together on policy, and working with this with congress, and congress cant get it together on its own efforts, we can have a whole separate conversation about the shutdown, because the white house is not internally on the same page. Why, why was rob porter allowed to operate in the white house at the highest levels with no Real Security clearance . Because the Good Old Boys Club protected him and thats what were not talking about. There is a backdrop to all of this. This reminds me of the white house struggle, the paralysis initially and their imbra exbr embrace of judge roy moore. I think the white house always has a fear that when they act on when they move on to this ground, they are in effect opening themselves to the question, well if this was cause to move against rob porter or judge moore, what about the president . And i think that is that is always ive never been a big believer in the gender gap as a driving force in american politics. I think other things have been more important, class and geography, religion. But when you look at whats been happening over the last year, look at the role of africanamerican women in the alabama and virginia elections, look at the decline that the president is facing and his approval, not only among College Educated white women and now even among the blue collar white women, so important to his victory, this there is something happening, coalescing in the way women are looking at the president across racial and class lines that does have a big potential to be a large factor in both 2018 and certainly 2020. Scott, how much of that message do you think is getting through, not just to the white house, but not just to the white house, but to the president himself in terms of how things are consistently being mishandled and how that is now impacting him. Well, i think the or is it being ignored. The president has been working well with the congress, they got the tax cut, his numbers have gone up on job approval, they have gone up on the economy up until the hiccup with the dow. That had been bumping along. It will rebound and it is today. Things have been moving forward here and there was a real sense that maybe the president and the white house and the republicans in congress had gotten a handle on everything and that the country was responding. You saw it in the polling. But now this comes along and it reminds us that there is still issues at play in how were running the white house and running the government and it has got to be frustrating to the president to see things moving along in a smoother fashion, interrupted this week, and frankly i dont think the president knew about this, i think this all landed on him this week and hes got to be wondering, my goodness, we had everything going right and now this happens and were back to where we were when we started. It has got to be enormously frustrating. Is it an opportunity . Like ron said, how this affects the way they view him. But, scott, to your point, the president consistently complains he doesnt think his victories, what he sees as his successes are covered well enough. Not to his liking. We dont talk about the economy, which we talk about a lot. Were hearing this from the president , if all of this is overshadowing, all of those positive notes that you just laid out, why isnt the president then stepping in and doing something about it . Why isnt he working on the messaging there . Why isnt he talking to his chief of staff, to his white house and saying, fix this, and do it properly. My suspicion is the president over the last couple of days had some pretty stern conversations with people at the top of his white house about we have got to get this under control because, look, were doing the things we said we wanted to do. Were funding the military. Were moving on to deal with immigration. Were taking care of money for the opioid crisis. Were doing all the things we said, but youre making it hard for that to breakthrough with this staff problem. And so my suspicion is it has been a long couple of days for the white house staff and they have to get this timeline right if they ever hope to move on from it. There is the timeline issue there is also the question of the fbi. The fact that somebody was working without this clearance for so long, had access to classified materials that they were sharing with the president , look, were also wondering about Jared Kushners clearance. And it brings up a further question of perhaps how this administration and this white house is viewing the fbi, just given the Public Statement that we heard from the president about the fbi. How much do you think we will start to see now perhaps pressure from lawmakers to double down on background checks, on security clearances. Is there concern there . You know, i do believe that there is bipartisan concern there. I would at least hope because a lot of these lawmakers, republican lawmakers, especially, are some of the same folks that put Hillary Clinton on the barbecue for perceived security risks with her email and handling of classified information. So but i am not encouraged by this republican congress. Look, congress is a coequal branch of government. But they have yet to stand up forcefully to this president. Congress is supposed to work with the president , where appropriate and check him where appropriate as well. We have yet to see the latter happen. So, no, i dont think lawmakers and congress are going to stand up to the president , and demand that background checks be taken seriously. Security clearances be taken seriously. Unfortunately, until something far more egregious happens, we know that rob porter is not the only person operating in this white house without actual security clearance. There are 12 other people according to reporting from the Washington Post and other outlets that do not have actual security clearances. Come on. Ron, just to bring this to bring this back to general kelly for a moment here, the big question is does he survive this. But perhaps the question should be is there anybody else to take his place . Well, the president already floated the idea with friends of mick mulvaney, who already has two jobs. Why not a third . The white house chief of staff is a fruit fly job. It is a short life span for anyone. Under donald trump, it is fruit fly on accelerated fruit fly, very hard to imagine anybody staying in this job very long for donald trump, who has shown that his view of loyalty is a one way street. He expects constant deference and praise, but if you cause him any trouble, hes very quick, as Corey Lewandowski knows, to cut ties himself. So i do not expect that general kelly will be in this job indefinitely. I suspect well have three or four white house chief of staff, even first term of the donald trump presidency. Well be watching it all. Ron, scott, simone, appreciate it. Stay with me here. President trump signing a major bipartisan budget deal, already celebrating what he calls a big victory. Dozens of republicans, though, voted against that bill. 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The president signing hr1892 officially before the 9 00 hour ending this ninehour essential government shutdown. And already trashing, if you will, and taunting democrats and ignoring the bipartisan nature of this legislation. It was early in the morning, 5 30, when the house voted 240186 to push this forward. It was also very bipartisan in the senate, but the president this morning ignoring that, and putting out this tweet, saying that Military Lines will never come down if we dont elect more republicans in 2018 and beyond. Bill is a big victory for our military. But much more waste in order to get dem votes. There was no tie to the fate of dreamers and real reluctant, real suspicion of House Speaker paul ryan if he was serious about committing to putting legislation on the house floor for those dreamers. It was early in the morning, erica, that we saw this drama unfold. On the house side, the House Democrats slow walking their support for this legislation to try to maximize their leverage. And on the senate side, it was Senate Kentucky senator rand paul who refused to actually vote early before that midnight deadline, along with his colleagues. Instead taking to the senate floor, making speeches, berating republicans, calling them hypocrites for spending this much on this bipartisan bill. When they come back, the house and the senate next week, there is a lot to discuss and a lot to mull over. Essentially what is the commitment to the dreamers on the senate side, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell saying yes, monday, they will open it up for debate to take a look at potential legislation for those dreamers. Not quite sure what that means on the house side, what kind of commitment paul ryan is going to make. And, of course, the big question that many lawmakers have is how theyre going to pay for this staggering cost of this and the long run and the national debt. Absolutely, Suzanne Malveaux with the latest for us there from capitol hill. Thank you. Could investors be breathing a sigh of relief. U. S. Stocks rebounding after yesterdays big plunge. Joining me now alison kosik, cnn correspondent, at the New York Stock Exchange and our chief Business Correspondent christine romans. Alison, first to you, almost an hour into trading at this point. Nice to see the green there obviously on the big board. What is the mood on the floor at this point . Certainly much calmer right now than it was at yesterdays close. We are seeing those green arrows, but everybody here knows the kind of Witching Hour that really happens here is around 3 00, an hour before the market closed at 4 00. We saw that tsunami of a selloff yesterday, literally happen from 3 00 to 4 00 yesterday where we saw the dow drop hundreds of points to fall 1,035 points or so. So that was a second biggest drop of the week, historically, the second biggest drop as well. And that put the dow into correction mode and also put the s p into correction mode as well. A correction is a 10 drop from a recent high. The levels have certainly moved up. The indices no longer in that correction mode, but all eyes are on those numbers because it could easily happen because volatility really is the norm these days. Because there say lot of uncertainty. There is uncertainty after that jobs report that came out on friday showing that jump in wage growth, that stoked fears about inflation and that in turn stoked fears about the fed being more aggressive in raising rates. That is why investors not only had their eye on stocks, they got their eyes on the bond market as well. Yields, yields have been rising. Today settling down a bit. Thats probably part of the reason youre seeing green arrows for stocks. Erica . We look at those green arrows before the bell, christine, we were talking about this being the worst week in a decade. Still is. So even though we see this green, we should not be lulled into this false sense of all is roses again. No, no. It could take you have a correction, which is what were in the midst of, it can take days, it can take weeks, a couple of months. No way to really tell. You look at a a. 6 move, 162 points, thats not a big move. Big moves are 4 , 5 moves and thats what we saw yesterday and almost 5 move on the Dow Jones Industrial average. The s p 500 lower today than it was when the tax bill passed, december 20th. Think about that. Part of that reason is because that tax bill is a stimulus, but also adds to the deficit. We have this spending bill, the past overnight, this morning, really, the president signing this morning, that adds to the deficit and thats another reason why Interest Rates rise. Worried about inflation. The economy is strong, though. We talk about a decade ago, people get nervous talking about 2008, this isnt like 2008, 2008 was a financial crisis and the economy cratered. The economy is good here. Youre going to see probably a jobless rate that goes below 4 , maybe by the summer many economists say. You have companies that are having trouble hiring people. You have a Strong Economy overall. Corporate profits are very, very good. Keep that in mind. The fundamentals here are strong. So strong with this added stimulus, right, of tax cuts that essentially there is worry about overheating and the fed will have to start raising Interest Rates. The era of super low Interest Rates is over. There is a decade of artificially low Interest Rates to protect the economy from that financial crisis. That is over. And so now Interest Rates are rising. That being said, even though theyre rising, they are still i mean, pretty manageable. Look at where Interest Rates are. Most people feel an Interest Rate, the Interest Rate has gone up every week. Youre noticing it. But still it is way below the average of 6. 5 . Keep that in mind. I think you are if youre trying to lock in a mortgage, rates are probably going to keep rising. I would say thats the best piece of advice for somebody doing that. Higher rates make it more expensive to borrow money for the government, which is going to have to borrow a trillion dollars over the next year for you and me and businesses. Higher rates become at some point become more attractive, people say, hey. Im not going to put my money in the stock market. And then thats where you start to see money moving out of the stock market into the bond market. Will keep us going for a little bit. Volatility is here for a bit. We have no idea how it will close. I want to be careful, you have no idea how this thing is going to end up very early in the day. Were not even officially an hour into the the trading day. Ill leave it at that. Thank you. Frigid temperatures outside at the winter olympics. Possibly the coldest place in pyeongchang could be that vip box at the opening ceremonies. Highlighted there, Vice President mike pence, you may have also noticed another bubble we showed you. Kim jonguns sister sitting feet away, not much said between these two. If you wear a denture, you not only want a clean feeling every day, you want your denture to be stain free. Did you know theres a specialty cleanser thats gentle enough for everyday use and cleans better than regular toothpaste . Try polident cleanser. 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Yeah, look, this was a person that was marginalized from the day she got to the white house. Then she was fired. So i dont know exactly why were taking, you know, seriously her ominous whispering today. Frankly im a little dismayed that she is taking advantage of donald trump the way she is. This persons entire career has been made over donald trump. He put her on tv, put her in the white house and now this act of disloyalty is stunning. I wouldnt worry too much, american people, about the whispering, you know, ominous whispering of omarosa. She didnt know much when she was there, and she certainly doesnt know much now. Since we are here, i would like to know that, look, omarosa is not the only person fired from this white house and has went on to continue to talk about her experience. And we can Corey Lewandowski, were talking about what he said today and he too was fired. I would venture to say this, i have no cookies, cupcakes or pats on the back for anyone that comes out of this white house who is so ferociously and vehemently defended donald trump without criticism while in the white house. Omarosa is in the same bucket as sean spicer in this moment. You know, ominous warnings mean nothing to me now because while you were in the building, you did not do much. She talked a little bit about some of that time in the building and how she was haunted by the president s tweets now. Listen to this moment. I was haunted by tweets every single day, like, what is he going to tweet next . Does anybody say to him, what are you doing . I tried to be that person. And then all of the people around him attacked me. It was like keep her away from him. Dont give her access to. Dont let her talk to him. Ivanka is there, jared is there. Do either of you think she was in fact, if given the chance, she could have been some sort of moderating force around the president . Maybe. Look, i dont know omarosa personally. So perhaps. Omarosa will tell you she knows the president is her friend. And that is why she went to go support him on the campaign trail, why she was in the white house. If she saw her friend saying or doing something she thought was inappropriate, perhaps she would have said something. But every single time omarosa or anyone else from this white house was in a visible role, had an opportunity, they defended the president without question. Even when he was wrong. So, again, i dont have any cookies, cupcakes or pats on the back today. What is sort of remarkable here is that we know how much the president praise and prizes loyalty. And the minute he feels crossed, he makes it very clear, even if hes not speaking directly to that person, whether it is in a tweet, through someone else, he makes it very clear how he feels about someone. We have not really heard a bad word about omarosa from the president since she left. And it was sort of downplayed even when it was asked about yesterday at the briefing. Raj shah saying there was no contact, limited contact when she was here, shes gone. You were outraged by what shes saying but it doesnt sound like the white house is. I think raj shah told us all we need to know yesterday. This has not been elevated to a president ial statement. It is being handled at the staff level. He denigrated the access she had while she was there. He made clear shes not talking to the president. And he even made a joke and said shes been fired three times from the apprentice and now let go once by a white house. I think he made it pretty clear about how they feel about her tenure and im frankly really dismayed at the disloyalty shes showing. I understand her career and she thinks this is what is best for her. But you take the jobs in public service, is it is not about you, it is about the country, the president you serve and i dont feel like shes taking that very seriously today. Do you think sean spicer has been disloyal . He went on another network, not a couple of days ago, noting that, he wish he would have done things differently, hes kind of sorry about this and about that. So is that an effort im no omarosa fan, clearly, but i am also not here for the double standard when it comes to people coming out of this white house. I think omarosas entire tenure was a joke. We have read she spent most of the time planning her wedding and having the Wedding Party come into the white house and she had to run over to the residence and try to save her job and now claiming she was the one trying to stop everything from happening, she didnt like. It is a complete and total joke. I dont think we should treat her as anything other than that. This is a simone, real quickly. I have a question for scott on that point. The last thing i want to say is this, look, i want us to be really careful about the double standards that we apply to folks coming out of this white house, particularly when people for people of color, particularly for black women. It is not just scott. It is everyone that wants to speak one way about omarosa and another way about everyone else. Omarosa is a professional person who did amass a certain level of access and not just because she was cute, because she was in some way, shape or form qualified for whatever she was doing. And the president wanted her there. To that point. What does it say about the standards of the people being hired in the white house, scott, as youre railing on omarosa, if she shouldnt have been there in the first place, why was she there . Thats a good question. A lot of the people that came in at the beginning of this administration have been washed out. Omarosa came in with Sebastian Gorka who was washed out, scaramucci was in and out in a short period of time. They had people early on that came in and now washed out. They replaced them in many cases with professional people. I dont know omarosa will be replaced because i think the job they gave her was one that was created. I dont recall the office of public liaison ever needing its own separate Communications Person back when i was in the bush white house, or even in the obama white house. I think this whole thing is kind of were going to we ought to take her words for what it is. Somebody who is trying to be famous, trying to play on we are going to have to shes making it about herself. Scott, simone, have to leave it there. Happy black history month, erica. Thank you, both. They are miles away on policy. Just feet apart in the vip box, though at the opening ceremonies for the winter olympics. 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It soothes, moisturizes, and creates an spf 30 barrier, to protect against flareups caused by the sun. Herpecin l. Vice president pence this morning just feet away from kim jonguns sister. You see them both highlighted in that photograph. Theyre sharing a vip box there at the opening ceremonies at the winter olympics. Joining me now from pyeongchang, cnn correspondent will ripley who has the very latest on that. Interesting seating chart. Reporter and believe it or not, erica, they would have actually been sitting even closer but Vice President pence switched seats that he could be farther away from the north korean delegation because the official seating chart had actually had the North Koreans sitting directly behind him. So that was actually they were trying to avoid the kind of optics we saw, that would have been literally one seat, one row behind each other, instead, one row and four seats is how they were able to work it out. We know there was no interaction between the North Koreans and the Vice President. And it would be a very awkward interaction if that were to take place given the fact that Vice President pence was speaking out against what he called a tr tyrannical regime, about north Korean People desiring freedom, he met with north korean defectors in pyeongchang as the north korean delegation and kim yojong is shaking hands with south koreas Vice President and sent here on a mission to try to warm up relations between the two countries. A lot of observers think she was sent here to drive a wedge between washington and seoul. There are questions in terms of driving that wedge and warming relations what will happen at the luncheon . President moon inviting the north korean delegation and kim jonguns sister, of course, to this lunch tomorrow. What do we expect to come out of that . Reporter so thats going to be happening at the blue house in seoul. And this is very significant because by holding an informal lunch it allows for the casual conversations, perhaps a message from kim jongun could be passed along to president moon. Several diplomatic sources are telling me that it is a good possibility that kim yojong, the sister of kim jongun, will actually invite president moon of south korea to visit north korea at some point later this year. That would be a major development. President moon has indicated he might be willing to visit north korea under the right conditions, what is unclear is what north korea would want in exchange, would they want the United States and south korea to continue to postpone their joint military drills, economic sanctions lifted, but clearly it is a diplomatic effort on the part of the North Koreans, even as the United States has been calling on south korea to disengage after the olympics and join the United States in this campaign of maximum pressure. Will ripley live for us in pyeongchang, thank you. 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Reporter aly raisman says shell be cheering on team usa at the opening ceremonies tomorrow, but she said the officials at the u. S. Olympic committee have betrayed the athletes. I was abused at the olympics. Larry nassar was the olympic doctor. They are very, very much responsible for this. Reporter days ago, the Olympic Committee hired a law firm to conduct what they call an independent investigation into who knew what about nassars abuse. And when. But raisman is skeptical that this investigation will go far enough. This should have never, ever happened. If one adult listened or had the character to act, you know, we would have never met him. Reporter and now raisman is revealing for the first time that the man who coached the 2012 Gold Medal Olympic Team known as the fierce five might have known about the abuse years before it was reported to usa gymnastics, the Olympic Committee, or the fbi. We would talk about it among ourselves and one of my teammates describing in graphic detail what nassar had gone to her the night before and john was in the car with us and didnt say anything. I dont know what he did or didnt do from there. I know he doesnt ask us any questions. But that just is why we need the full independent investigation to really get to the bottom of who knew about this. Reporter that coach, john getter, has since retired. Law enforcement in michigan say theyre investigating complaints against him but refuse to describe the nature of the complaints to cnn. Getters lawyer did not respond to cnns request for comment. So who did know about nassar and when . New reporting from the wall street journal says the ceo of the Olympic Committee, Scott Blackman, was alerted in july 2015 to reports that an olympic gymnast alleged abuse by a team doctor. The u. S. Olympic committee tells cnn, we learned in 2015 of a doctor potentially having abused an athlete and that was reported to the fbi. Thats what is supposed to happen, unquote. Olympic ceo Scott Blackman refused to talk to us amid congressional calls for his resignation. Do you have confidence in Scott Blackman . I think to be a good leader you have to have character. And you have to be a good person and do the right thing and i dont think he is any of those things. Reporter how are you doing . I think every day i cope differently with it. I feel i would say im very tired a lot. Im just really trying to listen to my body, you know. Some days i feel good and ill do a workout. Other days i wake up and i cant even get through a ten minute walk and im thats crazy for me to say being an olympic athlete, but i just think people need to understand that the stress and trauma, it is so exhausting. I would love for usa gymnastics and usoc to hear this loud and clear, that since they only care about medals, reputation and money, if we were that successful, while we were being molested, wouldnt we have been more successful if we had the right doctor that actually helped heal our injuries, that didnt traumatize us and if we had people around us that generally wanted to help us and werent doing well out of fear. Reporter jake tapper, cnn, newton, massachusetts. Strong words from aly raisman. A white house now in crisis control mode, what were learning about the rob porter scandal. If yor crohns symptoms are holding you back, and your Current Treatment hasnt worked well enough, it may be time for a change. Ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohns. Entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. 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