White house staff secretary rob porter. The white house chief of staff john kelly became fully aware of the abuse allegations wednesday. But cbs has learned the fbi told the white house about the allegations against porter back in november. The white house including kelly essentially defended porter. He was working without security clearance because of the abuse allegations. The fact that this has been operating for a year without security clearance i didnt understand that and still dont. Reporter porter has been dating White House Communications director hope hicks who helped in his defense. The white house said it could have done a better job in dealing with the situation. This morning the upper midwest is getting pounded by a major winter storm. For some areas like chicago, it looks to be the biggest snow event of the season. Winter storm warnings and advisories are posted from montana to chicago. Public schools in chicago are canceled for today as are the courts. The snow started l
Plus, a mysterious dell luge of amazon deliveries that wont stop. Youll meet one family that keeps getting packages it didnt order. How it could be part of an online scam to get positive product reviews. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. A late night, isnt it, guys . It was important that we got our work done. Congress votes to end an overnight shutdown. A night and an Early Morning drama. The massive budget deal went to the president s desk and he signed it. We all could have done better. The white house struggling to explain why a top aide rob porter was allowed to stay on the job despite Domestic Violence allegations. Should chief of staff john kelly keep his job . Absolutely not, absolutely not. Investors are bracing for another possible rocky day on wall street following the dows 1,000point plunge. A fierce snowstorm blew into the upper midwest. Chicago and detroit are expected to be the hardest hit. I was haunted by tweets every
Plus a mysterious deluge of amazon deliveries that wont stop. Youll meet one family who keeps getting packages they didnt order. How it could be an online scam to get positive reviews. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The ayes are 240, the nays, 186. Congress votes to end an overnight shutdown. Its kind of late, isnt it, guys . The fact is we have a lot of work to do. The white house struggles to explain how rob porter got to stay on the job despite allegations. Should he be able to keep his job . Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Investors are bracing for another shaky day on wall street following another dow plunge. Chicago and detroit are expected to be the hardest hit. I was haunted by tweets every single day. Surprising revelations by omarosa on Celebrity Big Brother. A fire rips through a multimilliondollar mansion in one of los angeless most exclusive neighborhoods. Oh, my god. Oh, thats so rich. And all that matters hundreds of thousands
Headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The federal government is shut down for the second time this year. Though the senate voted early this morning to pass a budget deal, congress missed a moinlts deadline when one republican senator refused to back down. Hena doba is here in new york with the latest. Good morning, hena. Good morning, annemarie. That one was Kentucky Republican rand paul. That is until about two hours ago when the Senate Passed a bipartisan bill that is now in the house. The ayes are 71, the nays are 28. At about 2 00 a. M. The Senate Approved a budget deal but it was not enough time to avoid a second Government Shutdown. That was midnight. Rand paul repeatedly rejected calls for a vote before 1 00 a. M. He did it to protest run away government spending. The hypocrisy is astounding. Every one of these republicans complained about obamas deficits and now theyre out there bragging and pushing everything they can to get their deficit thro
Pressure mounting on white house chief of staff john kelly over his defense of rob porter, accused of Domestic Violence. I think its fair to say that we all could have done better over the last few hours, last new days in dealing with this situation. This morning porters former wife joins us live in studio 1a. The massive snowstorm racing across the country, canceling more than a thousand flights. One step closer to an arrest. The move by the lapd against Harvey Weinstein that could lead to capitol hill charges. And twinning, the recordbreaking high school that has people seeing double today. Friday, february 9th, 2018. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on a friday morning. Opening ceremony tonight. It is all happening. We have an interesting interview coming up in our next half hour. A woman who was married to rob porter. He is the white ho