Outfront breaking news, a new culprit and time line, white house is now blaming bureaucrats in own personal office to failing to act on Domestic Abuse against rob porter this as the white house is contradicting administration account on what they knew and when they knew it. Lets go to the time line. Today the fbi director Christopher Wray made clear the bureau informed white house against allegations bins porter months 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 requested requests for followup inquiry and we did the follow up and provided that information in november. And then we administratively closed the file in january. So to be clear, the fbi first submitted a partial report to the white house in march last year. They submitted the final report in late july. And in november the bureau submitted even more information to answer follow up requests. The fbi closed the
Every senator knew this was a phony stunt but rand paul especially his republican colleagues knew it. And rand paul of course, went ahead and did it. Republican senator john cornyn said correctly that there was absolutely no reason for what rand paul was doing. So the senator from kentucky by objecting to the unanimous consent request will effectively shut down the federal government. For no real reason. I know he wants to make a point. He has that right. I agree with many of his concerns about deficits and debt but we are in an emergency situation. When this bill passes the senate and it will, it will go to the house of representatives where it might face a bit more of a challenge. Joining us now from capitol hill is garrett haake, an msnbc correspondent, also with us former deputy chief of staff to senator harry reid and the director of Public Affairs for democracy forward. Also david jolly, former republican congressman from florida and jose barro with us in new york a Senior Editor
Election. Nbc is also reporting while kushner and his business dealings have long been a focus of the investigation, this line of questioning suggests mueller could be building a case that directly links action he took after the election to his conduct as a Senior Advisor in the white house. Kushners attorney responded saying, quote, time and time again, unnamed sources seeking only mischief have misled the media about what the special counsel is doing. But its been a pretcipitous fal from grace. The Washington Post painting a particularly vivid picture with this reporting. They were the ascend ant young couples of the trump white house. Jared kushner and ivanka trump and rob porter and hope hicks. They enjoyed rarified access to the president and special privileges in the west wing. Glamorous and well connected, they had an air of power and invincibility. They even double dated once. But an unlikely cascade of events set in motion by paparazzi photos of porter and hicks published febr