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The trumps organization extended well beyond the soho deal. Yet in sworn testimonies in a 2013 deposition, trump insisted that he barely knew sader. About how many times have uco you conversed with mr. Sader . Over the years . Not many. If he was sitting in the room right now, i would not know what he looked like. It is absolutely untrue that donald trump does not know felix sader. At one point, sader worked at an office at trump tower. He was also the go between for trumps most recent and perhaps most controversial attempt of building trump tower moscow. Sader urged trump to come to moscow and tour the proposal and suggested to him that he could help him win the presidency. There is no question during the campaign that trump was trying to get close to russia and repair relations with russia. 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They were required to watch house of cards to better understand american politics. In two weeks time, you will be heading to the ballot box to decide what kind of country you want to live in. The idea is you want to masscarade themselves. They understood that guy rights was a big issue and gun rights were a big issue. Some people may have seen these videos. Clinton is not our candidate, posted to pages now identified as apart of moscows influenced campaign. This is really a thoughtful, detailed process, how do i make this look legitimate . Legitimacy boosted when influential people amplify the message, this russian running account was retweeted by donald trump jr. , Kellyanne Conway and michael flynn. In sharing this content, Trumps Campaign knowingly or unknowingly help spread this russian information. I doubt that i would be here if it was not were social media to be honest with you. 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The president elect trump and the out going president have been briefed on the most sensational charges on the dossier. Personal information and finance information of mr. Trump. U. S. Officials of direct knowledge told cnn that trump has been warned. Thats the damaging information opting gathered through surveillance that Vladimir Putin is believed to collect unpowerful people. Was it your concern that the president could have leverage over the president of the United States. Former intelligence, jamesgan compromise anybody, tlas tehere term for it. It was our strong sense that the nations senior most intelligence official would not waste the time of the president elect trump if it was easy to dismiss information. Cnn did not reveal the content of the dossier because it has not been verified. Shortly cnn broke the story, buzzfeed posted the entire thing on the internet. Portions of the dossier have been in the fbis hands for months. Throughout august or september of 2016, chris steele, the former officer compiles the dossier and puts it in the bloodstream of the fbi. Chris fear steele was a veteran british spy worked for the intelligence service, he was a russia expert. Steele had compiled of the dossier. He was americas closest intelligence partner who was based in the country involved in this dossier, russia and since his time of british intelligence, he had worked for u. S. Law enforcement. Through the fbi and investigation and extensive reporting, we know parts of the dossier are true. U. S. Government intercepts picked up conversations between russians that corresponded to conversations detailed in the dossier. Meetings and conversations that were contained in the dossiers did not taken place between the people thats involved as described in the dossier. The report that made up the document alleged extensive interference of the election. Information that u. S. Officials later confirmed to be true. The russians were responsible for hacking the dnc, the intelligence that i have seen gives me great confidence in their assessment that this happens at the highest levels of the russians government. It was designed to help donald trump and hurt Hillary Clinton. Those claims and the dossier have been pretty much verified by the u. S. Beintelligence community. Even as aspect of the dossier has been Christopher Steele has under gone a lot of criticism. This is so much bigger than watergate. I want to know whether the agency relied on the document. That at the center of the dossier, fire storm is devin nunes who wrote a controversial memo alleging the justice departments abuses. The fbi injustice did cite the dossier but they they had other ampeled evidence. Still, the dossier remains a controversial that the russians had compromising materials on donald trump. There is not yet been any proofs on that charge. A station chief atm moscow says russia has a file on the president. 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There is a word of what the white house engaged in when first confronted with this of what they did the following week and what they are doing again today. The word is gaslighting, it is someone trying to make you question your own insanity and reality. Well, today, porters former boss, john kelly, revisited his handling of the scandal. Left white house staffers stunned and general kelly is not telling the truth, again. I say again because when the story first broke when general kelly told people at the white house of his version of the events, they were stunned that general kelly was not telling the truth. That was the reporting at the time and here we are again. Here is what general kelly said that reignited the scandal. He said it unprompted responding to a reporter of security clearances. No one forced him to say it, he volunteered it. I have absolutely nothing to even consider resigning over. He put forward a new time line that neither fits our extensive reporting or the story he told west wing staffers at the time. He learns a series of accusation on the evening of february 6th. He described it as just an sack sanitati accusation of a messy divorce and maybe an Emotional Abuse. An hour later, we found out a second report still not in the record and hey, his first wife of 15 years ago said there was physical abuse. That describes porter of an exemplary character. Then he spoke to porter who he says had already resigned. Had porter already quit and why did the state defended him and praising him. Allowing some confusion there in general kelly is part. Knowing what he knew on the night of the 6th, did the white house continue to defend porter on the 7th. Why did they standby that and letting porter defending himself to the press that morning. Kelly today says they knew so there is that which is hard enough to explain. What makes general kellys time line so bizarre is that suggest true and he knows it better than we do. The editor saw it coming. He says the paper told him everything they had in both exwives including the physical abuse allegations. Unless the press did not mention it and quoting porter, he already knew it. Cnn reported a source inside the white house says that kelly and two others were also made aware of what the source called quote, a domestic issue. Was it emotional or physical . We dont know but only that it raised suspicion. He after an argument where we were both yelling in each others faces become a norm in our marriage and i removed myself to cool down. He came to the shower and opened the door and pulled me out to continue to yelling at me. He put his handson you and pulled you out. Yes. Was that a starting moment for you . I think up until that moment i did not realize that i was in an abusive marriage, that sounds ridiculous coming out of my mouth given how i can speak about it and remember things now. I dont know until that moment that i realized that i was with a man who was capable of Something Like that. That was willoughby. Shortly after, willowughby puts out a statement. He changes the statement after realizing it was physical abuse and insulting anyone suffering in an abusive situation right now, emotional and psychological abuse is abuse. General kelly at least had reasons of suspicion before the 6th of february. Wil willoughby and busby told the fbi last year. That we dont know . What we do know is that he certainly knew something was amiss amiss and something bad enough which was hold off for a background check for a harvard educated person like porter. If he knew nothing until the night of the 6th, he maintained his defense of porter until the photo of Colbie Holderness have been widely viewed. Obviously, tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house. And, we hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully hell have a great career ahead of him but it was very sad when we heard about it and hes also a vevery sad as you probably know, hes innocent. You have to remember that, he said strongly yesterday that hes innocent. So, you will have to talk to him about that but we absolutely wish him well. Chief of staff, kelly, four star general could not stop the president of the United States from saying that and it did not stop him from tweeting this. Quote, people lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation, some are true and some are false. Is there no such thing any longer such as due process. It is false when a chief of staff purview to stop the secretary a week later from trying to gaslight the press house core. Are you saying the white House Counsel never learned until last tuesday of any allegations of any sorts that was ever levelled against rob porter. I can say we learned of the extent of the situation whos we . The white house generally. I cannot get into the specifics, i can tell you that we were in the process of the background is ongoing and the white house have not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. Keep in mind, thats one of the strand of misleading statements have gone out over this. A lot of complicated and the white houses first instinct is to lie about it. For more now on todays time line and the action to it that i alluded a minute ago is jim acosta, do we know why general kelly would choose to rehash this today several weeks after the reaction from the white house . Reporter anderson, he wanted to put the matter to rest, this was sort of a fourstar follow up on the part of the general, he brought reporters back into his office to go over the details of the time line. He said he did not become aware of these red flags of rob porters background. The fbi director Christopher Wray testified recently that they delivered a completed fbi background checks to the White House Security office in july of last year, our own sources tell us, white house officials including chief of staff, kelly, were made aware of this in november. Nobody is lying here. There are lies being told and we are not getting a straight sto r a story from the general when hes saying i thought this is a messy divorce and clearly there is more going on. What did general kelly say about this clearance issue . That was the eye opening part of the day . He said to reporters flat out and this part did sound candid, he said when he came on board, there was an eye opening experience back in september when he learned how many people were working here at the white house with interim security clearances, as you know more than 100 people here at the white house were working with security clearances. Anderson, at the same time, he admitted to reporters that the handling of classified materials when he came on board was not up to the standards he was accustomed to. This was somebody working for President Trump out in 2016, slamming Hillary Clinton time and again accusing her of mishandling classified information. One thing that was jaw dropping that general kelly said was when he came on board, he thought there were two many staffers had properly security clearances and he bumped down those staffs. How white house staffers react to the conversation that he had with reporters . Reporter we heard from ta number of reporters today who said they were puzzled as to why kelly wants to rehash this. The timing is odd. And the whole departure and the Jared KushnersSecurity Status being downgraded and this mess over gun control and tariffs. This official is essentially saying it is friday, lets go home. And yet, just to be inaccurate information and again leaves us questions out there, why did john kelly not handled this the way you would expect chief of staff happenndling it and facin somebody with important decisions. Jim acosta is joining us the u. S. Political. What did you tell when met with them on february 6th of what was going in our story . I spent 26 minutes in sarahs office. I gave them a really a complete read on what was going to be the first story. I actually just before this broadcast brought up my notes from that meeting. I read to myself from what i read to them exactly. I told them dailymail. Com determined that porter grabbed his wife and yanked her out and he punched a window out when she threatened to call the police. We told them all about the temporary restraining order that he filed. He called her an fing b on their honeymoon. The idea of Emotional Abuse does not track. There was physical abuse there. One other correction, anderson, we did not tell the white house about the first wife holderness until the next morning. The idea that john kelly heard an hour after i came into sarahs office that there would be a second story of the black eye picture, that makes no sense to me at all. Dailymail. Com is doing all the reporting and i did not tell them the second story until the next day following. And you mentioned the yanking of willoughby out of the shower and there is also a protection thats filed. I think she had a clear idea of what was going on. Whats curious to me is the evolution of statements from john kellys. At 7 00 when we are ready to pull the trigger on this story, they sent me an email and i forwarded to my editor. We ran this with john kellys glowing statements and Sarah Hucklebee sanders statements and a denial from porter. By the second day after we ran the story of holdernesss photo, sarah still read that statement. All of this is very coo you aur. Now, porter resigned his job to him that tuesday before our first story ran. But, the story that we ran in the present tense that i am proud to work with him. I noticed that. It was implied that he was still working there because it is all in the present tense. He originally only been told of the socalled Emotional Abuse, does that make any sense . If sanders keeping facts from general kelly. We know from our reporting and uco you confirmed this as well that the fbi gave john kelly a detailed brief of november of last year. We know from what chris wray said on the hill that both of the exwives spoke to the fbi there is no question that general kelly got nfginformatio from the fbi, they should have raise flags by a bucket hole. The other thing i dont get is why general kelly would not only try to relitigate this today but also give himself a pat on the back at the same time . Yeah, it was really was, it was unforced error. We can speculate whether hes worried about his job being on the line and trying to explain and demonstrate to the president that hes got this under control, we simply dont know. What i can tell you from talking to officials at the white house is that porter was entrusted deputy of kelly. I think it is likely that the general is willing to sweep some things under the rug because he needed him. We told him everything and if general kelly says he does not know about the physical abuse, that does not make sense. If dailymail. Com, if they had not done this reporting, would the actions be taken . All we do know is that by the next day, they were still supporting him from the podium. It took general kelly 14 hours after we ran the story of miss holdernesss gruesome black eyed photo. The president said in the office that rob porter was the one that was sad. Stay with us, david, i want to continue the conversation after a short break and later tonight, a new reporting, the Mission Helping his daughter and soninlaw. We got that scoop. Theres one. Manatees in novelty ts . Surprising. Whats come at me bro . Its something you say to a friend. Whats not surprising . How much money matt saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. From maybelline new york. Temptation mascara our most addictive volume. Creamy formula infused with coconut extract. Lashes so soft. So dense. So tempting. New temptation mascara. Only from maybelline new york. The roasted core wrap. 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Were talking tonight about white house chief of staff john kellys knew and inaccurate time line of the rob porter affair, what he knew about the abuse allegations from two exwives and when he knew them. David is back, and joining us is phil mudd and kersten powers. Does it make any sense that hes patting himself on the back and seems to be creating a new narrative . It doesnt add up at all. And david in the previous segment outlined what he was told so he was told about physical abuse unless he believes dragging your wife naked out of the shower isnt physical abuse. So it doesnt make sense. I also think if we look at the way they he let his statement stand about rob porter, having exemplary character and didnt revoke that, hes now said we didnt cover ourselves in glory but it raises questions about once the information was out why were you standing by him, and they were. Thats the thing we have to remember without going into the inner workings of the white house, we know what was publically made public and we know how they reacted to that public information. It and took them a really long time to come around and ultimately it was because a picture came out and they acted like now we think something happened when, in fact, what the daily mail had published was clear there was serious abuse allegations going on and you shouldnt be required to have a picture to prove it. Phil, just from a background security standpoint as someone who worked at the fbi and cia, if the fbi gives the information to the Security Office at the white house, is it at all possible that they dont disseminate it further down the chain . Weather john kelly, Sarah Sanders or somebody . Thats hard to imagine. Its not hard to imagine for 15 days or 30 days. But remember, as we discussed, the investigation into rob porter initially closes in july. Thats seven months before the chief of staff makes this or removes rob porter and rob porter leaves the white house. The next followup is in november. Thats three months before early february when the chief of staff makes these decisions. Its not 16 days, i could see confusion over a short period of time, but lets cut to the chase. I dont care what was said today. In all this fog theres two questions you need to ask, when the fbi did the background investigation, did it include the information in july or november about former abuse of a spouse, thats yes or no. I dont care the story, just yes or no. Question two, yes or no, if that information was included in the file in july or november, was anybody outside the security staff told, yes or no . I dont care what the story was, the time line was. I want a yes or no to those two questions, thats it, anderson. What does this say to you about how the white house is functioning or not functions . Its not just how john kellys white house is functioning, when the fbi conclude what it concluded last July Reince Priebus was chief of staff. Its possible Reince Priebus didnt pass on everything to john kelly he was expected to pass on. But clearly in november they knew it was in the fbis files but they considered it a blackmail risk. Theres some dysfunction there clearly. The central message of this entire story, if theres a moral in it. People of low moral characters shouldnt be near the levers of power and what im hearing from white house officials this evening is theres some concern that john kelly may have some problems tracking with reality when it comes time to tell facts about what he knew and when he knew it. I think on further reflection, his entire m. O. Was why he didnt resign but very few people remember the history. This goes back months if not more than a year, appointment not just about what happened in february when dailymail. Com ran these stories. It brings up kellys response with congresswoman wilson and the gold star widow where he refused to admit he made a mistake. It seems in some ways kellys mirroring his bosss inability to admit any mistakes. He should not have reopened this. Theres no reason to reopen it. And what hes saying is just adding more questions, i think, than answering anything. So even the way hes talking about it. He said when he met with reporters he had never seen rob porter be abusive in any way, he was always a total gentleman, that was beside the point. Unbelievable after everything weve been through with the me too movement he would say Something Like that. The idea because this person wasnt abusive to his boss, you know, doesnt mean that hes not abusive in his private life and theyve been presented with very credible information. So what it says is that he really wanted to just ignore these women and believe what the man said. It really did take having a photo and this public shaming in order for him to believe it. But i think the message hes still sending and also talking about i thought it was only Emotional Abuse. Emotional is actually really serious and can be as bad as physical abuse. Kelly was parsing his words saying the White House Security office didnt tell him about issues with porters file before the reports were published in february. But he didnt say if someone else flagged it earlier but they did. Kelly was made aware of the the domestic issues in november. You raise the critical point and that is somebody here has something to answer for. General kelly has a storied career, he lost his son in battle, i want to give him the benefit of the doubt. Lets assume he didnt know till the end of the process. If the fbi initially closed in july, did the Security Office feel so intimidated by the chief of staff they didnt feel it necessary to tell them this guy is accused of physical abuse against several people . How did that happen . Who made that decision . Was somebody else informed and they chose not to act . If general kelly didnt know the question, the secondary question is who knew it and why didnt they act . And how the heck didnt you find out he was accused of abusing two women . Thats not the answer. The answer is somebody in the white house is not giving up what happened in the time line. That seems apparent. Thanks everyone. Its been a week for President Trump and given recent history that is saying something. When we continue a conversation with a New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman about the president , his daughter, ivanka and soninlaw jared kushner. Hes cowritten a piece that says President Trump has asked john kelly to move them out of the white house. 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