In re affair. His name is greitens. He admits to the affair but denies blackmailing her. Now the republican governor has a mugshot. And his political future hangs by a thread. His lawyer stay saying the statute greitens was charged with has never been used like this in the history of the state. Were breaking down the story. I want to get straight to the National Political reporter and mg lee. Eric greitens is interesting in that this whole thing about him what do we know about the indictment . Walk us through the scandal. Don,s in a political bomb going off in the state of missouri. This is what we know. We know the governor has been indicted in st. Louis for of an incident going back to march of 2015 involving a photo that he took according to the indictment language involving full or partial nudity without the knowledge or consent of the person that he was taking the photo of. And the indictment says that he then transmitted the nij in a manner that allowed access to the image via a
In the usual cycle of gun massacres in america, we would not be talking about it anymore. A week has passed, the nations attention would have moved on. This is what is cable news looked like today covering a new movement launch bid survivors. High School Students through sheer moral witness are refusing to let thoughts and prayers be the end of the story. These kids dont accept is the tired and worn out excuses for failing to address the exceptionally high levels of gun violence in this country. Today the students stormed the Florida State capitol for the second day in a row rallying supporters to their cause. One week since having to flee their school under a hail of gunfire, students recounted what happened to them on that horrific day. I was scared and i ran to the safest place possible which is the sound booth again. I started to pace back and forward because i did not note what was going on. And the people in the audience saw me. They saw me and they paniced because i was matching
Matthew . Last week raj said the situation could have been handled better. Yesterday you echoed that. Today the chief of staff said it was all done right. Can you explain, does the white house think this rob porter situation could have been handled differently or do you think it was all done right . As i said yesterday every day we come here, we do the very best we can and every day we can do better than we did the day before and were going to continue to strive for that. Were humans, making us imperfect people. I think every day we can learn from the day before and strive to do better. Thats our goal within our team and were going to continue to try to do everything we can to help serve the American People to the best of our ability. Was it important for hope hicks to be drafting some of these statements given her relationship with mr. Porter is this. She was not part of a lot of the conversations that took place. I dont recall any of you being in the room to say specifically what com
Director Christopher Wray contradicted the white houses timeline on when it found out about abuse allegations against a senior aide, rob porter. So was the white house informed that this could affect his security clearance . Thats a yes or no. I cant get into the content of what was briefed to the white house. Were they informed . I can tell you is that the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. And then a completed Background Investigation in late july that soon thereafter, we received requests for followup inquiry. And we did the followup and provided that information in november. And then we add administratively closed the file in january. And then earlier this month, we received some Additional Information and we passed that on, as well. That testimony given under oath is at odds with the white house spin. Heres what raj shah and Sarah Huckabee sanders told reporters in recent days. His Background Investigation was ongoing. He was operating on and
Do it by speaking in contradictions and denying the reality you know to be true. Thats how the white house is gaslighting the American People daily in an effort to cover up how it handled the case of rob porter. Today, the white house changed its story and tried again to shift the blame for how a man who had been accused by Domestic Abuse by at least three women ended up working sidebyside with the president hand at the right hand of the chief of staff. The story, magically, changed hours after the fbi director testified about a timeline that directly contradicted what the white house had said just yesterday. The white house tried to make a case that you shouldnt believe your own eyes and your ears, you should, instead, believe each version of the white houses shifting narrative. And you should believe the white house when it says that the president really cares about victims of Domestic Violence, even though the president has never actually said that publicly. Again, this center s aro