Yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. We begin with a white house aide resigning amid domestic abuse. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker has more on this. Reporter shock waves at the white house after a two exwives accuse verbal and physical abuse. In a statement, porter called the claims outrageous and simply false. And a coordinated smear campaign. The president and chief of staff have had full confidence and trust in his abilities and his performance. Overnight, chief of staff john kelly called porter a man of integrity even as reports of abuse first appeared in the the daily mail including this picture of porters first exwife who told the paper porter punched her, giving her this black eye soon after their 2003 marriage. She alleges porter choked her and emotionally abused her. Porter fired back, i took the photos given to the media nearly 15 years ago and the reality behind them is nowhere close to what is being described. Porters second exwife Jennifer Willoughby told
Ahead with the meeting with russians. I must note that Michael Cohen does not have audio to corroborate his claim. A source familiar said he did not testify that trump had advance knowledge. Michael cohen claims were not mentioned as well in separate reports in reports democrats and on the house intelligence committee. Going back through the transcript did they even ask him about it. So now there is a different state of play. Lets bring in carl. Timing why now . Because Michael Cohen is going around saying he has information that shows that the president had foreknowledge of this event as well as foreknowledge of other things. That cohen now is it aware of. And we know cohen is quote flipping, attempting to flip on the United States of the United States. Hes also shopping for a get out of jail card. If this information is true and accurate, and if it can be nailed down in testimony by others, its very, very significant. Because the president has denied any foreknowledge of this event.
the fbi. they re cal calling it the polie state in this country. people get this for what it is on the you know, they ve removed the wool from people s eyeses and people know exactlyal what s going on . they re targeting donald trump. they re targeting hisd family.i they re targeting everybody around him. they re targeting his lawyersm. anybody that s close to donald trump, anybody who s effective, they re targeting right now.ex and people understand thisac for exactly what it s worth. all of the names of all the people that signed the fisa warrant. i read i the text of peter struk and lisa page. i readeter a list of everyry conservative associated with your dad and predawn raids ,guns drawn in some cases, the media tipped off so they can capture it all on camera at five forty five in the morning. how convenient. enient. and now you re on your own father s home. has been raided and they just started taking boxes out randomly and going through melania s wardrobe apparently as well a. an
of president trump tainted the fbi investigation. this continues to raise questions about the appearance of bias on page s behalf. after two years, lisa page says she s done being quiet. the former fbi lawyer says president trump s lewd imitation of her text with former fbi agent, peter struk, with whom she had an affair. i love you peter. i love you,ly sa. god, i love you, lisa. if she doesn t win, lisa, we have an insurance policy. we ll get that son of a bitch. she said president trump is demeaning me and my career. it s sickening. like being punched in the gut. my heart drops in my stomach whenever trump tweets about me. like when he 27ed today, when lisa page, the lover of peter
attempt to invade him. i get it. with all this craziness, $20 million worth of an investigation, all this obstruction nonsense that only comes out of the the fact that you have this investigation that started with peter struk running it for eight months, that is a hoax. he s right. that is a hoax. first of tall, we do know know that he is right about it being a hoax. it s certainly a legitimate investigation. pompeo says it. coats says it. members of congress say it. legitimate investigation of the russians. it is hardly a legitimate investigation of him. this is a political investigation. started by the people who helped hillary out of her jam. republicans. not republicans. pet pet peter struk. republicans. not a single republican. he has republicans on his