fully aware of the allegations the day before, despite kelly first leparning of the issue three months earlier. and l then we re off to friday. kelly said he took action to dismiss porter within 40 minutes of learning about the images, instructing staff to say the same. he maintained the final decision to resign was actually porter s. but on monday, sarah huckabee sanders said a conversation regarding the allegations took place within those 40 minutes, saying his resignation was accepted, vaguely, within 24 hours. that s an apparent contradiction to kelly s statement on porter s ouster. we re not done yet. yesterday, at the hearing, under oath, fbi director chris wray told senators the fbi closed the file on porter s background in january. remember, that s after completing the investigation in july of 2017, without issuing porter a security clearance. sarah huckabee sanders told reporters later yesterday afternoon that it was the get this the white house personnel security office s
received some additional information and we passed that on, as well. so in the face of those facts, that the fbi repeatedly briefed the white house on its investigation beginning months earlier than the white house admitted, sarah sanders changed her story today, claiming that even though the fbi s investigation was, in fact, complete, the white house personnel security office hasn t made a final recommendation. but when it came to answering questions about what john kelly knew and when he knew it, even she seemed to be running out of road, resorting four times to some version of i can only give you the best information i have. is the white house still maintaining that john kelly really had no idea about these allegations of domestic abuse until this story broke? i can only give you the best information that i have, and that s my understanding. we re simply stating that we re giving you the best information that we re going to have. obviously, the press team is not going to be
requests for follow up inquiry. and we did the follow up and provided that information in november. and then we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed that on, as well. so in the face of those facts, that the fbi repeatedly briefed the white house on its investigation beginning months earlier than the white house admitted, sarah sanders changed her story today, claiming that even though the fbi s investigation was, in fact, complete, the white house personnel security office hasn t made a final recommendation. but when it came to answering questions about what john kelly knew and when he knew it, even she seemed to be running out of road, resorting four times to some version of i can only give you the best information i have. is the white house still maintaining that john kelly really had no idea about these allegations of domestic abuse