Employees from pervasive Sexual Harassment, intimidation, and discrimination. These allegations against Harvey Weinstein marked the unofficial start of the me too movement, a movement the president has challenged this week. And now separately, we are also learning more from one woman tonight. The exwife of a disgraced former white house staffer, taking on the president of the United States. She says donald trump is calling her a liar and shes not standing for it. Im talking about jennie will pu by. She was married to rob porter who quit his job in the white house this past week, chased out by allegations that he violently abused her and another exwife. Again, willoughby and another woman. After porters resignation, the president praised him, wished him well, and took to twitter, quote, peoples lives are being chattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. And thats the part that has Jennie Willoughby, porters exwife, enable to stay quiet. The president saying that her story is not true.
Said . Om omarosas fallout after comments about trump on her reality show. New reaction to President Trumps refusal to release the democrats memo which sought to refute last weeks gop memo alleging fbi wrongdoing in the russia probe. Here is adam schiff last night. The white house apparently has a newfound administration for the fbi. We wouldnt want to release anything that the fbi might be concerned about. They are sending the memo back to the committee, the same committee whose majority crafted the false memo to begin with, because they know the chairman has the president s back. Thats the white house strategy. House intel chair devin nunes released this statement i can warned that the democratic memo contains many sources and methods and its no surprise that these agencies recommended against publishing this memo without redactions. Rachel brand announced shes stepping down. Meanwhile, increased speculation over chief of staff jon kelleys future in the white house. The New York Time
Is the mid summary of where we are on the russia investigation where we have been teaching us every night and leading us. Watching you lead the discussion with david and Michael Isikoff about their new book. This was a, lets stop, collect our thoughts and catch up to where we are, it summarized everything powerfully. Thanks. Im just reporting on whats in their book. I think there is something useful, because this scandal has been going on for more than a year now. The investigations have been going on for a year now. And the intensive pace of reporting on the stuff has been going on for so long that its changed our feelings about what counts as a scoop anymore and how frequently we expect them that one of the things theyve done, thats going to make the book successful, they have sint sized a ton of information, terms putting it in importance, what were the important moments when did people come along that the important. Connecting the dots is more valuable than almost any individual pi
February 6th. Thats the day that reporters from the daily mail came to the white house with these allegations of physical and Emotional Abuse against porter by two of his exwives. He said, quote, i have absolutely nothing to even consider resigning over. He did add that the white house did not cover itself hin glory f how it handled the situation. Why they sent out statements praising porter even after photos of his battered exwives had been released into the public. Meanwhile, kelly is also going over this timeline and insisting he did not get information from an office called the White House Security office about problems with rob porters file. He says he never learned about any of this stuff until the media came to them. When the media did come to them, porter resigned and accepted that resignation. Its important to read here. Mj lee has gotten from one of porters exwives. When he first learned of these allegations he characterized him as Emotional Abuse. Jenny willoughby said they
Where we are, it summarized everything powerfully. Thanks. Im just reporting on whats in their book. I think there is something useful, because this scandal has been going on for more than a year now. The investigations have been going on for a year now. And the intensive pace of reporting on the stuff has been going on for so long that its changed our feelings about what counts as a scoop anymore and how frequently we expect them that one of the things theyve done, thats going to make the book successful, they have sint sized a ton of information, terms putting it in importance, what were the important moments when did people come along that the important. Connecting the dots is more valuable than almost any individual piece of information at this point. Its hard to do on a daily basis, but i think theyve done the first book that takes a crack at it. We have the 2018 cast of characters, 2017 cast of characters, but there was a 2016 cast thats fascinating, which is the Obama Administra