the porter scandal has revealed some serious security issues for the trump administration. according to washington post, white house counsel don mcgahn knew about rob porter s domestic abuse allegations for a year and did nothing. in january 2017 when mcgahn learned of the allegations he wanted porter to stay because he saw the harvard law train add capitol hill veteran as a steadying professional voice in the white house. his view didn t change in june when the fbi flagged some of its findings to the white house nor did he act in september when the he learned the domestic violence claims were delaying his security clearance or in november when porter s former girlfriend contacted him about the allegations according to these people. throughout all that, rob porter was still allowed to keep his position handling some of the most sensitive information that made its way to the president s desk, handling all the papers that made their way to the president s desk and doing this for a ful
any woman who has dealt with a violent unhinged man sees these men for what they are. and part of that is not just the abuse, not just the anger but the gas lighting, the constant kind of lying what s right in fronts of your face, this weird way that they destabilize you by denying reality. donna, do you think that kelly and mcgahn have to go? i think they do. i would have thought that kelly would have to go last week when he disparaged dreamers but apparently that wasn t enough either. it s not really clear to me that the president is willing to let go of people he thinks he thinks are standing out there sort of protecting his white house and pro [ technicpro protecting him. do i think he has to go, yes. will it matter? no, it won t. the president of the united states himself is engaged in this kind of behavior. he s protected this kind of behavior. we have no reason to believe
this entire thing began as a kind of partisan feint by nunes. i guess the question is, does this escalate here? what can the house democrats now do? well, it s definitely going to escalate because now people will wonder, what s in the democratic memo. i want to read it. i wanted to read them both. my feeling is yeah, sure, i would like to read both of them. exactly. it s going to be like what s in the democratic memo that the president doesn t want the public to see, what in it is going to be redacted and why are we prevented from examining that information for ourselves. i think it s worth giving the fbi and doj the benefit of the doubt here. in that letter, don mcgahn did say that the fbi and doj have recommendations to make they will then send back to the committee and democrats will have to review those and essentially compare them with the recommendations that the fbi and doj have already given them. remember the democratic memo was already provided to the doj and fbi to rev
and when we have an emergency situation we are going to be much more skilled and prepared to mitigate that emergency for all concerned. the things we do every single day that puts ourselves in harm s way, and to have a partner that is so skilled at what they do is indispensable, and i couldn t ask for a better partner. yet more big breaking news tonight. the president announcing within the last hour that he will not be declassifying a democratic house intelligence memo that was drafted to rebut a republican memo claiming the fbi improperly obtained an order to wiretap a former trump official. of course, after he left the campaign. white house council don mcgahn writing a letter saying concerns from are the fbi and doj and reads while the president is inclined to declassify the february 5th memorandum, is he unable to do so at this time. with mena tasha, from the atlantic, ned price former
the porter scandal has revealed some serious security issues for the trump administration. according to washington post, white house counsel don mcgahn knew about rob porter s domestic abuse allegations for a year and did nothing. in january 2017 when mcgahn learned of the allegations he wanted porter to stay because he saw the harvard law train add capitol hill veteran as a steadying professional voice in the white house. his view didn t change in june when the fbi flagged some of its findings to the white house nor did he act in september when the he learned the domestic violence claims were delaying his security clearance or in november when porter s former girlfriend contacted him about the allegations according to these people. throughout all that, rob porter was still allowed to keep his position handling some of the most sensitive information that made its way to the president s desk, handling all the papers that made their way to the president s desk and doing this for a ful