were holding up porter s security clearance, according to the washington post. and in late november, an ex-girlfriend of porter s disturbed by porter s relationship with white house communications director hope hicks called mcgahn directly to warn him. mcgahn reportedly relaid this to other white house officials. okay. so that s what the white house knew. what about what the fbi knew? here is sarah sanders on that yesterday. the process for the background was on going. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. papers. again, that s a cover term. and again, not true. while there s no way to know what sanders means by specific papers, in early 2017, porter s exs supplied the fbi with descriptions of their alleged abuse, including pictures. remember, one wife got punched
then again in june when the fbi flagged them to the white house and september when he learned the allegations specifically were holding up porter security clearance and again in november when an ex-girlfriend contacted about these allegations. four times mcgahn heard about these allegations against rob porter and did nothing for a full year while porter stayed on in the oval office but at least mcgahn didn t have the same day john kelly had. if there was a potential legal problem, about not getting a security clearance because of the violence allegations, that s a systems problem for the white house. that problem goes right to chief of staff john kelly. it s his job to fix that kind of problem before it blows up john kelly was brought in in july to stop the leaks, stop the chaos, make sure protocol gets
specifically were holding up porter s security clearance and again in november when an ex-girlfriend contacted about these allegations. four times mcgahn heard about these allegations against rob porter and did nothing for a full year while porter stayed on in the oval office, but at least don mcgahn didn t have the kind of day john kelly had. if there was a potential story about not getting a security clearance because of the violence allegations, that s a systems problem for the white house. that problem goes right to chief of staff john kelly. it s his job to fix that kind of problem before it blows up. white house chief of staff john kelly was brought in in july to make sure some kind of protocol gets followed. despite days of reporting kelly had known about the allegations
against top white house staffer rob porter. he was first told a year ago last january and did nothing and then again in june and september when he learned the allegations specifically were holding up porter security clearance and again in november when an ex-girlfriend contacted about these allegations. four times mcgahn heard about these allegations against rob porter and did nothing for a full year while porter stayed on in the oval office but at least mcgahn didn t have the same day john kelly had. if there was a potential story about not getting a security clearance because of the violence allegations, that s a systems problem for the white house. that problem goes right to chief of staff john kelly. it s his job to fix that kind of problem before it blows up john