waded back into it. yeah. i don t get why he raised it again today from a p.r. or political perspective why he would go out of his way to raise this again today. i think you accurately stated that earlier. and i also think it s undisputable there s holes and discrepancies in the story. no question. christine, do you belief the chief of staff has credibility when it comes to what he knew about rob porter and when? there seems like there have been so many different stories from this white house and from kelly. there s no credibility left here. we ve seen everything he s laid out today just be refuted and every time line and day just over and over has proved to be incorrect. i think the question everyone is asking themselves is why did general kelly re-bring this up tonight? and, you know, the only really thing i can think of is that he just doesn t think it s that series. he doesn t think it s a topic that you don t want back in the media. or he wants to prove to the
pictures makes no sense to me at all. daily mail.com is doing the reporting. i didn t tell them about the second story until the following morning. just to be clear, there s no way they could have misunderstood what you were sharing with them? i mean, you mentioned not only the yanking of jenny willoughby out of the shower, but also the fact that there had been an order of protection that had been filed? right. yeah. and sara, you know, to her credit, took notes during the meeting. asked good questions. i think she had a clear idea of what was going on. what s really curious to me is the ef designation of the statements from john kelly. at 7:00 when we were ready to pull the trigger on the story, they sent, you know, me an e-mail and i forwarded it to my editors, and we ran this with john kelly s glowing statement, and sarah huckabee-sanders glowing statement, and a denial from porter. by the next day, after we had run the second story with the black eye photo, sara still read tha
and, you know, general kelly is saying today that porter resigned his job to him that tuesday before our first story ran. but the story that we ran carried a statement from him saying in the present tense that i m proud to work with him. right. i noticed that. it s just more questions than answers. right. implied he was still working there because it was all in the present tense. when chief of staff kelly today said he had been told about so-called emotional abuse. does that make any sense? not unless sarah huckabee-sanders was keeping facts from john kelly, this is career suicide. she s smarter than that. this is a man who worked for john kelly. we know from our reporting and you confirmed it, as well, at cnn. that the fbi gave kelly a deep dive into rob porter in november of last year. we also know, from what chris wray said on the hill, that both of the ex-wives had spoken to the fbi about this earlier in 2017. there s no question to me that general kelly got information fro
tax reform, gays in the military and everything else that the president is tweeting about or driving in terms of what he s doing as the chief of staff. so we can t look at this as a vacuum. it s inexcusable. don t get me wrong. but you can try and explain it by so many things on the plate. i don t understand why he went out today and brought an old story back into the news. that s just not very smart. anderson the president did the right thing here. in putting john kelly in charge. of making determinations on security clearances that have gone on for too long. i think that s worth noting here, the president put him in charge of that, even though security clearances that pertain to his children. the white house is getting on the right track as it pertains to the security clearances and reforming the process going forward. yeah.
incomplete, to say the least, and inaccurate. then the parkland tragedy pushed it out of the headlines until general kelly brought it back today revisiting his handling in the scandal, according to cnn reporting that left white house staffers stunned, puzzled or saying that general kelly was not telling the truth. he said he learned of, quote, a series accusation of porter on february 6th when the daily mail began asking the white house for the reaction to the story they were about to run. he described it as, quote, just the accusation of a messy divorce and maybe emotional abuse. this was early that evening. kelly then says, quote, we put out a statement of for him him and an hour later found out there s a second report, still not in the press, still no pictures, be that says his first wife of 15 years ago said there was physical abuse. the first describes him as being someone of the highest of integrity and exemplary