campaign in the direction of the president and even if all of it was it s minniscuele in campaign dollars. thank you so much. thanks for having me. kelly: overhauling the way security clearances are handed out in the white house this as kelly comes under fire for his handling of former staff secretary rob port whore is accused of of abusing his two exwives. white house chief of staff john kelly is overhauling thousand white house handles security clearance. kelly outlined the changes to the security process in a memo that begin, quote, the american people deserve a white house staff that meet it is highest standards and has been carefully vetted especially those who work closely with the president or handle sensitive national information. we should and in the future must do better. this after a week of criticism
president trump specifically denounces domestic abuse my amid questions of the white house s handling of allegations against former aide rob porter. i m totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind. everyone knows that. and it almost wouldn t have to be said. so now you hear it but you all know it. jillian: porter served as staff secretary until last week when abuse allegations from two exwives surfaced. the white house has faced questions about when they first learned of those allegations. mitt romney delaying his utah senate announcement today in the wake of yesterday s shooting in florida. the 2008 republican nominee for president tweeting this, quote as a father and grandfather, my heartaches for the victim of today s tragic events. my prayers go out to all of the families and looed ones affected by this senseless act of violence. is he expected to run for the seat being vacated by the retired orrin hatch. the senate could vote on bipartisan immigration deal. the measure woul
rob porter and publicly but privately he says he is guilty. he says the president has told multiple people that he believes the accusations against porter are true and finds him sick. tell him his private comments about the exaid whose two exwives accuse him of violent attacks have been brutal. president is just outraged as many americans about the alleged domestic abuse which looks pretty strong, the evidence strong against porter. why won t he said that publicly or do you think jonathan swan is wrong? well, i don t know if he is going to say that publicly or not. and i have not spoken with the president about this. can i say, you know, we lean on a process here at the white house and quite frankly, as soon as we found out about this on tuesday, by wednesday, rob porter was gone. of the president has been very clear, that all forms of abuse, all forms of battery against women horrible and disgusting. brian: he hasn t said that. right. you haven t talked to him today.
in that sense it is surprising and disconcerting. if you were a chief of staff, or secretary of a department, and you have a very trusted, close, and efficient aide, top aid, who did an excellent job, and in this hypothetical say happens it is a chaotic environment, and it came out of the background check he had two exwives accusing him of domestic abuse, what would you do? i don t know how others describe his strengths. say he is the best of all staff secretaries. you have to assume that sooner or later everything will get out tomorrow or the next year. you have to balance the blow back from something like this that has not come out, that should have come out much earlier, against the strengths of the person in the job. and some sort of calculation was made there and we re seeing the
fbi process, the background check process to proceed as he should. that answers the question of this, that the domestic violence was a disqualifying factor here. rob porter is out of a job and so is the other man under question of domestic allegations. i want to get amy back in. my question is, did general kelly need the fbi to interpret that photo of rob porter s ex-wife s blackened eye for him to do the right thing? that seems like a bit of a cop-out to me? absolutely not. once again, from what i understand, the fbi had sent the information over to the attorneys, the attorneys then told him that the issue might be complicated and that there might be exwives who might come up with a type of scenario wait a minute. so rob porter obviously was very good at being charming, cunning and he was a manipulator. he lied about his background