followed. despite days of reporting kelly had known about the allegations against rob porter for months. this morning chief of staff held a meeting at the white house quoting the washington post he instructed senior white house staff to communicate a version of events about the departure of porter and said he took action to remove porter within 40 minutes of learning abuse allegations from two exwives were credible. white house senior staff are telling the washington post that john kelly at a staff meeting told him to say things that aren t true about how he handled this thing about rob porter and domestic violence. adding insult to injury, that morning meeting with the stop the leaks john kelly by lunchtime was in print in the washington post. joining us now is reporter with the post, really appreciate your
down. i do think of fleet week that goes on in the new york city area, and how great of an event that is for all of the sailors and whoever participates in that event. i don t think we should have tanks and nuclear weapons going down pennsylvania avenue. allegations of domestic abuse surfaced on wednesday when it was claimed that rob porter verbally and physically harmed his exwives. and they essentially doubled down on their defense of porter. on thursday it was revealed that top officials including don mcgann knew about the allegations against porter for at least a year.
what chief of staff should do. for him to say that these are mere allegations, again, we are talking about two ex-wifes, photographic evidence and temporary restraining order that one of the exwives placed on porter, there s evidence here. we want to talk about due process, that s a legal term, we want to make sure but when you re talking about the appearance and credible allegations and this is very bad for the administration for them to fake blame on this. a lot of people who support the president are with him 100% regardless even with this particular situation but one has to wonder if they re responding in such a way, mr. president, you talked about rob porter and david of being people of character and due process, but you didn t say anything about the women who made the allegations, you didn t say anything to them, how do you think the american public is
blood in the waters. i think there were more focused now on general kelly, reports about whether president trump is not happy with him. i don t know whether that s true or not. he is in the spotlight. whenever you have a series of explanations and have a contrast with the awful accounts by these two exwives, it s going to be a pretty big story. martha: howie, thank you. good to see you tonight. you as well. martha: coming up for decades we have defended south korea belligerent neighbor to the north. why would they allow this to happen at the opening night of the olympics? our vice president with kim jong un s sister literally over his shoulder? plus congress passing its budget but have republicans forgotten who they are? rand paul says absolutely. i can t, in all good honesty and all good faith just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficit.
child and his wife who is due with their second child any day. oh my goodness. what a tragedy. second white house official resigning after being accused of domestic violence. speech writer david sorensen s ex-wife claims he was physically and emotional live abusive during their two and a half year marriage. sorensen denies the accusations. white house official says he was confronted as soon as they were made aware. comes two days after staff secretary rob porter stepping down following abuse allegations from two exwives. porter also denying the claims. another trump administration official is leaving the justice department after nine months on the job. the doj saying that rachel brand is stepping down as associate attorney general to take a job with walmart as executive vice president. brand was next in line to take over supervision of robert mueller s special counsel investigation if deputy attorney general rod roach stein quits or is fired.