almost wouldn t even have to be said. now you hear it, but you all know it. thank you all very much. i appreciate it. the president breaking his long silence on domestic violence did abuabuse. that is after his top aide, rob porter, accused of abusing his two ex-wives. the president has struggled to respond to the outcry of the mistreatment of women. vice president pence admitting the porter debacle was fumbled. as i said and the white house has said, i think the white house could have handled this better. i still feel that way. cnn has learned exclusively there were more than 100 staffers in the office of the president working with interim security clearances a year after the election. that includes ivanka trump and jared kushner. it can hamper the ability to
where are they? that you are on fox. they think it is a safe haven. ask them the questions that matter. because that s why they re there. they re hiding. don t let them hide. now, on the president, he s got more on his plate, as you indicated. the porter debacle is not going away for several reasons. one, it was handled lousy and lied about. two, it matters because of the intelligence and classified information and who can see it and who can t. third, about domestic violence. he didn t say anything about porter s ex-wives because he needs to because he disrespected them initially. what s going on there? i think it is everything you just described is what s going on. with this particular issue encapsulates all the negative aspects of this white house. the abuse. a bullying.
staff, quite frankly. what the men and women in the military see and what we see now is woefully lacking. having said that, i think he s brought a modicum of calm to the white house. it s relative in terms of what we consider calm and i think the president will hold on to him as long as he can. do you think that s a good idea? i don t think so. i think what s happened in the porter debacle shows not only the insensitivity but the deafness to what s happening throughout our company when it comes to the me too movement and women primarily. to ignore the fact that these individuals a woman with a black eye over the weekend constantly and yet to have that dismissed by the president and john kelly is disturbing i think to americans. congressman, katty kay here in washington. you ve been traveling around the country talking to democrats, trying to help them raise money. to what extent are you hearing
accusations against rob porter, the staff secretary who stepped down. on sunday, legislative affairs director mark short made clear that the white house staff didn t even try to nail down the facts of the porter debacle before they fanned out for their sunday show appearances. it s a fair question, chuck. i don t know who knew what when. why don t you know? why does everyone in the white house speaking in the room, get with don mcgahn, white house communication director hope hicks and former staff secretary rob porter? sarah huckabee sanders today defending the white house response to the allegations, and relaying what she describes as the president s words and the president s condemnation of domestic violence. the president and the entire administration take domestic violence very seriously and believe all allegations need to be investigated thoroughly. above all, the president supports the victims of domestic violence and believes everyone
phones friends and including reince priebus. he got differing opinions on the way forward. on thursday, raj shah was asked about the response to the porter debacle. i think it is fair to say that we all could have done better in the last few hours or last few days. could they have done worse? sources tell cnn shah s admission of error did not sit well with the boss. kelly became fully aware of the allegations this week, but cnn s reporting shows kelly has known about the accusations for months. now white house counsel was told last january. porter s ex-wives were prepared to make damning accusations. the white house counsel did not ask what the allegations were because porter denied them. one of the ex-wives said her ex-husband asked her to take down a blog post last year.