trying to suppress one side of the debate. the truth is some interest the in whole memo battle has been overshadowed now by the rob porter mess at the white house. gyrations in the stock market and although i think the g.o.p. memo had important information about the arch of this investigation, for a lot of people who don t follow this the way we do carter page fisa warrant process is a little bit down in the weeds. martha: i m glad you brought it up. we will dig into the rob porter situation and the way it was handled at the white house in another segment that s coming up. since you mentioned it, what do you think about the way this looks about general john kelly and for others in the white house tonight? it doesn t take a great political analyst to know it doesn t look good there are questions about how rob porter was able to continue to work there despite not getting fbi clearance. despite these accounts we have now seen one of them on television from two exwives alleging physi
that she described his behavior. the white house officials said they learned of it thursday night when they were called for comment. i should say, you can check out that washington postarticle. there are different circumstances here, i believe two exwives, one vouches for him. said she didn t experience abuse. sorensen said it was both ways, which in abuse circles you have heard before. a cigarette burn, and text miami, set the table there. your reaction to watching the last few days of this white house? it is amazing. what is most amazing about that is that you have a chief of
to the courts in alexandria, virginia, and find this restraining order. any research guy could have found this out. here s the problem. this white house was so consumed with the notion this concern had such an impeccable pedigree with an ivy league education and also covering their you know whats. certainly. and he had the work performance they felt was of such integrity. but they let that shadow their judgment that on this day and age, specifically in this #metoo day and age, they should have said, we don t care how impeccable you are, but the personal short comings, domestic abuse is abhorrent. they can t get people to work in this white house. that s why they value him so much. you mentioned #metoo, this is the narrative of donald trump ignoring women. this will haunt him at the polls. i want to hear from one of the exwives.
reporting. the president is not dismayed at the scandal. the president is not dismayed that his staff secretary is accused of abuse and the white house looked away. the president is dismayed at what it makes him look like. the president is dismayed on how it was handled. that right there underscores the complete, not just crisis of competency, which is what we ve seen and how the whole security clearance issue was handled. and frankly, how the talking points issue was handled. i m sorry, to have hope hicks who is romantically involved with this guy who was accused of sexually assaulting his ex-wives and he s the one that puts together the statement for the white house. and general kelly actually accepts it. it wasn t sexual assault, it was domestic abuse. domestic abuse.
this. they want border security. they want some work done on the broken parts of our immigration system. and it s going to start next week. okay. i got to get to the break. i have to get to the break. the folks on this side of this table, talk amongst yourselves. i am ready to jump in. up next, the rob port ee ee scandal at the white house. and one of his ex-wives, speaking out to cnn tonight.