the department of homeland security but operates independently from the white house although the secret service staff that are assigned to protecting the president are here at the white house. there s a little bit of separation but still part of the white house operation. shepard: before the photo came out, before that photo came out because the reporting of the dailymail.com last wednesday, before that, we ve learned the white house was had put him up for a promotion, porter. yeah. there s no question that before all of this came out, rob porter was seen as a rock star here at the white house. definitely a rising star that was on an upward career trajectory. jim carroll, one of the deputy chiefs of staff here had just been nominated by the president to become the drug czar. we are told by sources inside the white house, shep, that conversations were being held amonday the senior staff as to whether or not rob porter s position and his responsibilities should be expanded and taki
administration take domestic violence very seriously and believe all allegations need to be thoroughly investigated and above all, the president supports the victims of domestic violence and believes everyone should be treated fairly and with due process. that doesn t answer the question. as i just said, i m not going beyond that. that s where we are right now. shepard: holderness has responded to that comment saying while i cannot say i m surprised, i expected a woman to do better. holderness taking aim at president trump saying he seemed to be questioning the abuse claims. porter has denied the allegations. trace gallagher has more. it s important to have context in this. a large part of the colbie holderness op-ed deals with kellyanne conway s response to the allegation. holderness said she appreciated kellyanne conway saying this on cnn. watch. you have police reports, you
the fbi when the white house knew about porter. director wray said the white house submitted the first report on porter s security clearance investigation last spring. almost a year ago. the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july. soon thereafter we received requests for follow up inquiry and we did the follow up and provided that information in november. we administratively closed the file in january and then earlier this month, we received additional information and we passed that along. shepard: completed their investigation in july, passed it all along and then did follow up work. we know the two former wives had told the fbi that porter abused
an attempt to explain. the fbi would not give a background check investigation directly to senior white house officials. it goes to a security office and relayed maybe up the chain, maybe not. the fbi gave the background check to the white house last july. that doesn t mean senior people in the white house new. it got into a bottle neck at the personnel security office. that s the new story. part of the job of this man, porter, was vetting the paperwork that made it to the president s desk. he saw everything. he traveled on air force one, helped write the president s state of the union speech. porter s second wife says she told the agents her ex-husband could be vulnerable to blackmail. porter never got a permanent security clearance and based on all that we now know about him, the experts say he never would have. the white house has not yet copped to it, the timeline is
the office of personnel security? yeah, it was clear that they thought that perhaps they could ride this out, get their story out and explain circumstances. there was a period that porter s future it was not certain that porter was on his way out. so there were efforts made to communicate their position. so this has been an evolving story for the white house and frustrating for reporters to try to lock down their position. shepard: and that s the reason that this continues even today. where does kelly stand at this moment? he said the white house handled this just fine and he wouldn t do anything different. that s what he told my colleague, michael bander. he said it s been handled fine. that s not what raj shah said last week. there were mistakes made and things could have been done better. again, we re hearing different stories. we have chris wray that laid out