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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 ....
This on top of the comments he made earlier in the week criticizing at least some immigrants of being too lazy to go about applying for status, the obama era daca program and raising a lot of questions both inside the white house and outside about john kelly as the chief-of-staff. if he didn t know about one of his top people being compromised in the way that rob porter seems to have been, if he s willing to make the kind of comments he made on capitol hill in the midst of sensitive negotiations, what does that tell us about the way he s leading this white house for president trump? let s bring beth reiner in. you talked to rob porter s ex-wives, the genesis of this story, let me play a clip here from your interview then ask you a question about it. take a listen. 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. ....
Folks around him took a political lesson from that, hey, look, if two, three weeks before the election you can endure that kind of scandal and still win, maybe we don t have to worry about anything we re hit with. even if there is evidence, even if there are photos, if there is a video with audio in which donald trump himself is acknowledging that he likes to or is able to grab women by the genitals, they think they can get away with it. this is an administration that has defended neo-nazi, an accused child molester and now multiple wife beaters. one of the nominees last year for the cabinet for the labor secretary was also accused of abusing a spouse. so this is not some anomaly. this is a pattern for them. all they care about is just circling the wagons and saying we re going to charge forward and we re going to just deny and gas light the american public even when there is photographic evidence or video evidence proving otherwise. okay. peter baker, beth reiner, thanks ....
In this white house, rob porter s probably even more important than the typical staff secretary because john kelly did rely on him so much. porter was seen as one of the few genuinely professional and talented and seasoned people in that white house. i would say if you had to come up with a list of the most important staffers in that west wing he would certainly be on any list like that. for this to happen is a big blow to this white house and you re right. he had been very close to john kelly as an ally and a right arm of his, so you can see that the chief-of-staff clearly, you know, took this in a personal way. you mentioned some of those names from past administrations, people harriet myers, george w. bush tried to put her on the supreme court but there was a pushback to that. beth you were going to say. sorry. i was adding to answer your question about the time line. both of these ex-wives did not ....