This culture is very educational for people. But i think we need to stop believing victims, we need to start believing the women. And i think those are strong words that the white house would probably take issue with. So that is why you are here. Thank you all. That does it for us. Mtp daily starts right now. Hi, chuck. Thank you for all of that. If it is tuesday, russia could be meddling right now. Is anybody in the u. S. Government watching . Tonight the nations intelligence chiefs say russia is targeting the midterm elections. And the white house isnt trying to stop it. Has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian influence activities . Not as specifically drektsed by t directed by the plus. Plus the fbi director con are
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Now, Jenny Willowby did speak to the Washington Post about some of the episodes of her marriage to porter. During one of these fights, we were both yelling at each other. I disengaged and removed myself from the fight to go take a shower. And rob wasnt finished fighting i suppose. At that point he was still angry. And so he came and grabbed me by the shoulders here and pulled me out of the shower in a rage. That is her account of what happened as recorded by the Washington Post. As you pointed out, rob porter has said these have been smears and allegations that he denies. This is one of those deeply painful issues in someones personal life that has now spilled out into public view and at the highest level also of the white house. Kelly odonnell at the white house. Thank you. Two republican senators speaking out today about Rob Porter Including the man who helped get
who has gone through fbi background checks, its absolutely inconceivable that what these women told the fbi agents didnt
Phil mattingly, thank you so much. Dana bash who used to run up and down those halls for years and years and years. Phil has talked to folks on both sides of the aisle. Confident that the house will get to this and nancy pelosi was so key in brokering this deal why is she standing there now for fourplus hours and saying no . I saw you write that down and because youre you, is why you picked up what you did about nancy pelosi. To people at home, it makes no sense. Not at all. Because shes getting attention for the issue shes upset is not in there. She understood because she is as sort of seasoned and tough as a legislator as they come, that at the end of the day, we saw what happened in the senate a few weeks ago. They tried to use the Immigration Issue as leverage for keeping the government open and it didnt work. Shut the government down. It didnt work out so politically, at least in the short term, for democrats. Nancy pelosi is making using the megaphone that she has by saying, you
Exwives and exgirlfriend. How does the fbi fit into that. We just learned some very interesting if not completely clear information from the head of the fbi director. I want to bring in chris cillizza, who is here with me to discuss this. There is a lot to unpack here from Russian Meddling in the election and how that feaffects the midterms coming up. The timeline had it comes to rob porter, you know what, pause for a moment, chris, lets return to the testimony at the Senate Intelligence committee. Theyre out in the community, and i can tell you the Community Values what they do on the island. Thank you. And an oped by a number of former intelligence analysts call the nunes memo and the release, quote, one of the worst cases of politization of intelligence in modern american history, unquote. You said you had concerns about that memo. I know you cant get into the
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Nine months away. There is a lot to talk about. Lets begin at the white house. Kelly odonnell, we are learning that rob porter, the Staff Secretary, accused of Domestic Violence by his exwives that he could be out as early as today, is that correct . Reporter thats our reporting and the issue is that rob porter offered his resignation and Sarah Huckabee sanders said there would be an extended time of transition, where he would be able to help facilitate a successor. That has changed in the sense that there has been a lot of controversy around this, a lot of attention drawn to the two former wives of rob porter. The statements they have made publicly alleging verbal abuse, physical abuse and Emotional Abuse and porter has said that these are smears. He has said that these are baseless allegations and a coordinated campaign against him. We saw a shift, in fact, that at first, members of the white house senior Team Including chiefofstaff john kelly were very supportive of porter and he
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