>> well, not yet because they haven't decided how many tanks, missiles, weapons, it will be expensive. there is a lot of concern these heavy tanks, and vehicles could rip up city streets in washington. local government is not too happy. they want to know who is going it pay for it. >> barbara star at the pentagon. thanks. that's it for me. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next center behind so-called fbi secret society. should have checked the facts first. resigning physically abusing x wives. when did the white house know and when. why is pence so anxious so meet with him. let's go outfront. and good evening i'm erin burnett. outfront conspiracy craze.

republicans at it again. trump had personal involvement in email scandal. so 25-page report out by the republican ron johnson and in it he sites a text message between two fbi officials yes talking about peter strzok and lisa page. according to johnson's report page texted strzok about preparing talking points because, this is the operative line, pod us, president trump wants to know everything we are doing. okay. that one phrase was enough for senator johnson to make the connection between president trump and the clinton email investigation. and the current president of the united states did not wait for the facts, the context or the details before tweeting about johnson's report to 47.5 million followers in all caps, new fbi texts are bomb shells. and then sarah sanders came out calling for a review.

>> i think it further shows there is reason for all of us to have great cause for concern in this pros stes and we hope it's more thoroughly and fully looked at as we move forward. >> okay. there is though a big problem with this conspiracy theory. it is a very big problem. because it just isn't clear that the text was talking about the clinton email investigation. here's why, because facts and dates matter. okay. the text is dated september 2, 2016. that's the text, right, about pot us wants to know what we are, would go on. keep in mind there are two dates that matter. the fbi closed investigation into the clinton email scandal two months earlier on july 5th. so technically the investigation was closed on the day this text was sent. and an according to another text, cited in johnson's own report the fbi itself was not aware of the emails on anthony whiner computer that caused it to be reopened about april 28th,

there is another text that shows they found that out. that is 26 days after the poe dust text was sent. so if the people sending the text were not aware, they thought it was closed, how could they be talking about briefing the united states on it? the facts simply do not add up to the text having anything to do with the clinton investigation. but what does add up is this time line. three days after that text about praum wanting to know everything was sent, obama was at the 3 g in china february 5th that's when he talked with vladimir putin and meddling in the election. seemed russian interference and u.s. presidential election ahead of that meeting. let's remember that senator johnson is the same man who used text between strzok and fbi lawyer lisa page to allege there was a mass conspiracy at the fbi against trump. a so-called secret society. >> what this is all about is

further evidence of corruption, more than bias, but corruption at the highest levels of the fbi. and secret society, we have an informant talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off-site. >> that was based on this text from lisa page to peter strzok, again, quote, are you going to give out your calendar? seems depressing, maybe it should be the first meeting of the secret society. the text exchange was referencing a private joke between the two. and only after the idea was debunked did johnson back down. >> senator, the text message seems to be common about secret society was in gist. do you agree that it appears to be in it was in gist? >> it's a real possibility. >> lesson here is before you take on the fbi or former president, both of whom are fair targets, but make sure you have your facts straight. evan perez is outfront. and i've laid out the time line

about someone knows. >> that's right. s source of knowledge of the text tells us that the text message actually related to preparations for praesident obama. said he stayed out to avoid any political interference in what is law enforcement matter. so that's why senator johnson's highlighted this message because he says it indicates that president obama was actually keeping tabs of the clinton email investigation. but as you pointed out, you know, this text message is from september 2016, a couple months after the fbi director james comey cleared hillary clinton and said there would not be any charges. so the time line senator johnson put out makes so sense. and as you noted three days after the text message was sent, obama was in china as confronted russian president about what the russians were up to.

so it appears this is yet another one of these text messages that is being misinterpreted, erin. >> misinterpreted of course for political purpose pretty clearly in this case. thank you very much. now let's go to retired fbi special agent, former assistants homeland security under president obama, and john dean. john, let me start with you. in the context of what evan just reported from his source, the time line that we have laid out, i want to read again prauesiden trump's immediate response. new fbi texts are bomb shells. >> certainly not bombshells. and whole thing is based on recycling of old news. effort to make more out of these exchanges and texts than really exist there. and it's pretty pathetic when you dig a little deeper as you all have done and show what the

time lines are so amiss and how trump can fire off a bombshell tweet shows how careless he really is. >> james? >> i think we have to be careful. i mean, mr. dean, i don't necessarily disagree with him there. but i think just as much as we need to be careful not to take a term like secret society and run with it, because flat two dimensional text when you do investigations you have to be careful to rocorroborate them b matching updates. but we also couldn't knock down the fact we are dealing with text in vacuum. number of other ones unsettling. i'm confident that the office of the attorney general, it's nonpartisan. i trust he'll get to the bottom of this. >> that of course is where an investigation should be. >> yes. >> not in the partisan sphere where senator johnson and others are trying to put it. juliet, when you look at the time line here, the clinton email investigation closed on july 5, text about briefing the

president obama was sent september 2, and not until october 28 they became of the aware of the emails. strzok text ds page on that date and i quote got called up to andy's earlier hundreds of thousands emails turned over by whiner attorney. this will never end. pretty clear that that's the date that strzok who was leading the clinton investigation became aware of the emails on his computer. so it was twi weeks aftthree we his text. >> that's right. i feel like five days nunes memo came out there is no there there. and senator johnson gets an a for effort to give some story to the trump white house, but a plus for not reading his report. i mean, the report is self contradictory internally and means absolutely nothing. and i just want to get to why

would president obama have insisted on getting to know everything. at this stage the russia investigation is a counterintelligence investigation which is implicating foreign policy but also the homeland. . at this stage president obama is required to begin to notify people within the homeland that their voting boost that state secretaries of state might ensure there is not vulnerabilities. in other words, this is not investigation going to court. it's an investigation to protect us from a threat. and that's why he wanted to know everything. >> now, juliet what do you make of the point that james is making, politicization here, james is saying look noog what happened, these should be looked at in inspector general. instead we have a memo put in politics, which is the president is first one to exploit without knowing the facts himself.

>> i'm not on both sides of this. there is absolutely sort of proof of the last couple months that republican house members and republican senators are using these little pieces to give sort of crumbs to the trump white house that gets amplified on their media platforms which creates a narrative that makes this investigation political. but this isn't an and the democrats are doing it too. in fact, i don't want the democratic memo to come out, counter nunes memo. i think all of this is craziness at this stage. that the systems, whether it's the ig, foreign intelligence surveillance court, or the mueller investigation really should not be played out. but it's not a boat sides the same in this instance. this is senator johnson and nunes. that's just all it is every time. >> senator johnson of course jump frg conspiracy theory to conspiracy theory when he was forced to admit secret society was probably a joke. john, nunes is also now looking

at the state department in his effort to try to discredit the dossier itself. right. he says information was passed to christopher steele, of course who is the author of the trump dossier through the obama state department from obama associate sydney. i know you have known her for a long time. what do you make of that? >> it was trey goudy who suggested this. didn't name sydney as i read the story. and i think it's ludicrous. so what. i'm sure that christopher steele collects information from countless sources. sydney passes and shares information and always has. it's been his style. so i don't see anything there at all. >> because james what matters here again, as we made the point, what matters is what turns out to be true and what doesn't. >> absolutely. >> doesn't matter whether someone with political motive gives you information. if the information is true that's what matters. >> true, motivation is

important. is a source operating because they want money, is it revenge, are they dudley do right awrite want to do the right thing. that's important to disclose. does it discredit anything? no. as far as the memo points out, there were four different judges three kneerenewals. >> to make the point if it was nothing, that wouldn't have continued. and i think we have made that clear. plus of course for any one not fully aware, that initial application did include the fact that the dossier was paid for by a political group. next, breaking news, the white house supporting a trump insider accused of domestic abuse by both of his x wives. hope hicks the woman he's dating helped draft his defense. was there a cover up? plus the spending bill trump backs $300 billion in new spending. rather fitting for a man who calls himself the king of dpebt.

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his two exhibx- wives. senior white house learning they became aware of the details in early fall of last year. yet applied for and granted porter security clearance. pamela brown outfront. despite these troubling accusations white house says porter is a man of integrity and honor. there is a restraining order in here. there is a lot of evidence. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. and i've spoken to several people today, erin, here at the white house, some who have expressed shock. they viewed rob porter who was seen as arising star in the white house, a staff secretary, somebody who worked closely with chief of staff john kelly and with the president coordinating the flow of paper wrk mild mannered lawyer. others have expressed frustration no one did anything earlier. back in the fall including chief

of staff were made aware of these domestic abuse, physical and verbal abuse from two of his ex-wives spoke to my colleague detailing some of these allegations and told the fbi about this during the course of his background check. now we are told by a white house official that he continued to have his interim clearance despite the allegations coming to the attention of top white house officials. and we are also told there was a mad scramble once it became clear these allegations were going to be made public that white house officials quickly tried to come to the defense of rob porter. in fact, all the statements that have come out, all defending him and there is no mention of the ex-wives or mention of domestic abuse. rob porter has come out strongly to defend himself and to deny these allegations saying my commitment to public service speaks for itself. i have always put duty to

country first and treated others with respect. i'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to have served in the trump administration. and will seek to ensure a small transition when i leave the white house. so he turned in his resignation today, erin but he is going to stay here for a period of time. >> it's pretty incredibleable. by the way the two ex-wives and third woman he dated saying he was also abusing her. we'll get to that in a moment. but one response to the allegations against rob porter is hope hicks. who we found romantic le relationship with porter. >> that's right. and she's actually been involved with the white house response according to one of my colleagues she actually helped draft the statement from the white house yesterday alongside chief of staff john kelly. that statement coming out yesterday. john kelly saying that rob

porter is a man of true integrity and honor. and went on to say very nice things about him. so apparently hope hicks, his girlfriend who he's been involved with was involved with the crafting of the message, she is communications director but interesting to note she didn't recuse herself given the personal relationship she has with him. >> certainly conflict of interest. please stay with me. i want to bring in white house correspondent for urban networks. mj let me start with you. pam reference ds the statement that port teary leased saying these allegations are simply false. i took the photos nearly 15 years ago and reality is no where close to what is being described. hard to describe what it would be. but you had a clans, mj to speak to porter's two ex-wives what did tle tell you. >> to point out the obvious allegations are troubling. first ex wife marched him in 2003 and constant verbal abuse.

and the physical abuse began almost immediately after their wedding during their honeymoon kicked her thigh during a fight. and then for years she said he choked her and would throw her on the bed. put his elbow weight while yelling at her. then in the summer of 2005 says the couple was in floor ens, italy and during that trip porter punched her in the face. she shared photos from that alleged incident with cnn. you can see there the bruises on her face. and now the second ex wife jennifer will abu, she also endured deep mental abuse and some things did get physical in 2010 porter punched a glass pane and eventually the police came and encouraged her to take out a protective order against him. and she did that. and cnn also obtained and reviewed a copy of that protective order.

and also in the december of 2010, she says she and porter had a fight and went to take a shower and she tells me that he grabbed her from the shower by her shoulder making her feel very frightened. >> these are really troubling and upsetting allegations you are sharing, mj. there is also this. both of the women you spoke to, porter's ex-wives told you this he were contacted by a third woman. she reached out to them. what did you learn about that? >> that's right. this is an additional twist in this pretty dramatic story. the ex-wives told me she were each contacted by a woman last year to claimed to be porter girlfriend at the time and this woman reaching 0 utah to his ex-wives for help. this woman shaid she too was abused and didn't know what to

do. currently works in the federal government but cnn is not identifying her and we have not been able to reach her. again, porter has denied all of these allegations. >> april, look, this is pretty upsetting to hear. okay. and the white house chief of staff john kelly did know quite a bit about it. and yet he put out a statement after the story broke. so after the story broke. so he knew some substantial part of it. knows the full amount, but he did know. and he put out a statement which said of porter, quote, he is a man of true integrity. i'm proud to serve alongside him. didn't mention anything about the women. it's pretty hard to understand this, april, if he knew about porter's past, knew about security clear ns issues because he was made aware of it during that time. still cleared him. pushed for him to be cleared. put this statement out. how dam williming is this for k? >> not just damming for kelly,

but also for the strakadministr. think about this, this president received 50% of the white married womens vote. this goes back to the history of women what he thinks about woman and things he said. doesn't really matter. and that's the question. now, looking at what rob porter did for the white house, he was the staff seblgcretary, it's a y important job. it's a job that he basically is the keeper of all things, all the paper, and he's in box for the president. overwhelming. and i guess they are trying to keep him around because there is an issue of who will fill that very important position. this is a man who actually, he doesn't have a national security clearance, security clearance. but he was dealing with issues of top security intelligence, things of that nature as well. so it's one thing to worry about

the job, but another thing to worry about the american public, people, women, who support this president. >> april, to the point, juliet was telling me that the fbi would have done everything possible to clear porter for a full security clearance because of what you say. he is such a senior member of the president's team. look at pictures. maybe you didn't know who rob porter is. you know who he is now. he's at the president's side constantly. they are together one on one. but the fbi was not able to make the interim security clearance. there they are together. permanent. because there were series issues. but sarah sanders acted like the president of the united states who is with him all the time was not in the loop. >> does the president have any concerns about these domestic violence allegations raised against rob porter? >> i haven't spoken to him. >> you haven't talked to him? >> about whether he has special concerns, i haven't asked him.

>> has he seen the photographs with the black eye? >> i don't know. >> april? >> let me say this, my sources say that everyone knew. that he made it clear what had happened. and they were okay with it. but sarah of course is going to defend the president because it does not body well for someone who stands so close to the president to be involved for these things to be alleged about him. so what sarah did today is not say yes or no president's understanding about this. giving him wiggle room to figure this out. it's buying time. but this is a major issue. this man who allegedly physically abused two wives and possibly a girlfriend, and then had police involvement and the fbi could not say yes give him a security clearance, and he's dealing with top in titelligenc paperwork and also a manager of other people in the white house

as well. deals with records. anything paper. this is huge. this is big. >> can i jump in? >> sorry i thought you were done, april. i want to say i found the statement interesting from sarah sanders where basically she said we cannot comment on security clearance. i think that was sending a message look we knew about that and let it be investigated in the proper channels. what i think is interesting and what we need to get down to is what did the fbi tell the white house exactly about these allegations? because we flow the fbi knew from the ex wives what would happen is the fbi would turn over the findings to the white house and then the white house would decide whether to give that security clearance the permanent one to robert porter or not sochlt my outstanding question is, we haven't been able to get an answer to, whether that actually happened. whether those findings were communicated. >> and pam quickly before we go, sarah sanders refused to say when he's going to leave. said he's going to leave but not immediate. so a guy still out there working

with the president and highly classified stuff. being paid for by taxpayers. i mean, seriously? not leaving immediately. >> yeah, i think that raise the some eyebrows when sarah sanders said at the podium. he turned in his resignation but not leaving immediately ensure a smooth transition. these are serious allegations physical and verbal abuse. and i think it is shock toga lot of people. i know we've spoken today in the white house that he isn't leaving immediately. >> tlauhank you all three. and next republicans slamming president trump for the debt and now chump change. and what about the parade, people are calling it, quote, cheesy. n place. the ibm cloud. the cloud for smarter business. ♪

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gearing up to vote on bipartisan budget deal keep the government from shutting down. it could face problems in the thousand r house, not a done done deal. house minority leader nancy pelosi speaking against the bill eight hours, longest speech on the house floor today. pretty stunning. sunlen is out front. why is pelosi and other democrats coming out against the deal? >> well, they wanted to see a daca fix in there. and they are unhappy that it's not. and many democrats will have a hard time coming around to supporting this budget deal on the table from this senate

because they want more assurances from speaker of the house paul ryan. they want assurances and a commitment from him that he will put a debate on the floor and hold a vote on immigration legislation similarly to how we saw senate majority leader mitch mcconnell commit to. so they are trying to use this time to pressure him to make commitments to do that house side. now, that said, it's not only house democrats that are unhappy about this budget deal. there are many fiscal conservatives in the house, house conservatives who have been very unhappy in the last 24 hours about this bill, what it adds to the deficit, using some pretty fierce rhetoric, describing it as fiscal insanity one member put it today. the senate will tomorrow send the bill, pass it and send it over to the house, then it's up to speaker of the house paul ryan. of course facing some republican defections means that he could only get it passed through if he

has democrat support. aids i've spoken to today, erin say there is a sense this shutdown can be avoided when the clock strikes midnight tomorrow night. but how they cobble together the votes how it plays out in the next 24 hours. >> thank you, very much sunlen. have 28 hours or so left on the clock. you know, as sunlen said the deal involves borrowing money in the first fiscal year trump administration is up 84% of last year of obama administration. and borrowing, borrowing, borrowing is something that trump knows something about. >> i'm king of debt. >> i am the king of debt. i do love debt. i love playing with it. >> trump of course does not debt. declared bankruptcy four times. now trump and republicans are borrowing $1.5 trillion for the

tax cut alone. it is about face for republican leaders so deeply worried about government spend tg out of control back when obama was president. >> our debt is threat to this country. we are on the verge of a debt crisis. our debt already bigger than our economy. our debt is sign of overreach. sign that the federal government is doing too much. >> the national debt threatens our way of life. the democrat spending spree has brought us to the brink of economical amity. who supports spending as debt crisis? >> you do, senator. the republicans have been doing that now. it's funny how hip okpocracy is. budget deal includes $300 billion in new spending in the next twou years alone. let's be clear, democrats are guilty too. they like it. democratic majority leader chuck

schumer says something. does get rid of the sequester that does limit spending on military t also removes all spending checks. a blank check republicans and democrats can agree on when someone down the line can pay the bill. there are a few holding firm. republican congressman mel brooks is a member of the house caucus. thank you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure. >> do you support this bill? >> no chance. >> no chance. you don't like this fiscal irresponsibility in it? >> i don't like the idea of the united states going into debilitating in solvency and bankruptcy there by destroying a country that took our ancestors centuries to bill. and this is a major bill toward that. and bankruptcy if the numbers we are getting is accurate looking at roughly two to three hundred

billion increase in deficit. we'll blow through the trillion dollar mark this fiscal year with every subsequent year having trillion dollars more in debt. the only one is debt june keys. and i'm not. it doesn't matter if it's president obama or trump or mitch mcconnell. debt is bad for america. works against you 24 hours a day. $20 trillion right now and going up and we are being warned that we are facing a fiscal crisis by sharp people ha we pay a lot of money to to give us that kind of intel. >> look, as i pointed out mitch mcconnell paul ryan leaders on capitol hill, they sang a different tune when obama was in office. trump is borrowing moran they are pushing the drug. the president himself has to sign off on this.

he seems very happy with all of this spending. and i want to play for you again the comments he has made about debt. >> i'm the king of debt. i'm great of debt. nobody knows debt better than me. >> i am the king of debt. i love debt and playing with it. >> that's the president obviously congressman. and trump owned companies filed for bankruptcy protection four times. do you trust the president's instinct on running up debt? >> well, there is a different situation between an individual and business that is borrowing money for operational purposes that's their poen. it's another situation when you are talking about in solvency of a nation. look at venezuela by way of an example. they will have irresponsible leaders for many years now and paying the price. last year inflation rate was roughly 800%. you've got a lot of other factors. another indication of damage. 75% of their population over

recent 12-month period had average weight loss of 19 pounds. their economy has collapsed. 22 to 23 million have lost weight. but that's not where america wants to g it's not where america should go. but it's where this debt crazy spending bill takes us. >> so amidst all this, the president wants military parade. parade that could cost $20 plus million or more depends on what he gets. general mattis as you know didn't answer questions about the parade's cost. but the head of your caucus, freedom, representative mark meadows said this. >> i think that that's around $17 million effort. parade or two is not an issue.

>> if he cares about money, if you care about money, congressman, is anything a rounding error, $20 million, who cares we are already running up the debt so much? >> when you have the kind of insolvency risk america faces, everything is important, and you have to prioritize, would you rather spend that on ammunition or weapons for soldiers risking their eyes or rather spend it on parade. personally i would rather spend it on the things that help train our soldiers, make them better war fighters and empower them to win with minimal loss of life when we ask them to go foo combat. these my preference. >> instead of a parade. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> next, stand off in korea, refusing to meet with u.s. olympic delegation none other than vice president mike pence. >> and not backing down on claims that the memo vindicates

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new tonight the vice president snubbed by openly gay u.s. olympian figure skater rejecting a meeting with mike pence criticized the vice president you mean mike pence that fundsed gay conversion therapy. skater appears to be referencing

a statement from pence 2,000 campaign website that reads resources should be directed towards those institutions. outfront now reporting this story. looks like a beautiful morning where you are christine. so tell me what happened. >> reporter: well, back on january 16th i spoke with adam ra upon he is openly gay and at the time openly gay figure skater to make the u.s. olympic team. and i asked him about a lot of things and asked him about mike pence leading the delegation which are tomorrow here and he did not mince words and said what you said mike fepence who funded open gay therapy. already said as has lindsey

vaughn they will not attend the ceremony after the games. i reported it. within an hour of it being posted online u.s. aa today we heard from the president's office which really was surprising. and basically understood they were really upset with what he had said. which lead to a statement from them. and then i have new reporting that i've been working on for several weeks and frankly had quite a few people wanting to talk about this, that the vice president was stunned by his comments that he wanted to have a conversation with him. that was january 17th. and add am declined the request to have that conversation. >> so as you mention, the vice president's office obviously has been responding immediately to your story. they are obviously aware of the import that it carries. they just sent me an email with the statement, christine, saying the u.s. aa today is false and should be corrected. vice president office did not try to arrange a meeting with him at the olympics. so what's your response to that?

what are your sources say, christine? >> reporter: well, sas adjournal list, i've been doing this for quite a while, erin, and i'm very comfortable with my sources. two sources i refer to in my piece usaa online and in the paper tomorrow. and other sources so off the record they did not want to be revealed as sources. but nonetheless, you can rest assured that these people know exactly what they are talking about. there is no doubt in my mind that mike pence requested to have that conversation with adam and add am said that he did not want to talk to the vice president. >> all right. thank you very much. obviously, significant report there. christine. thank you. >> thank you. >> enjoy your day in pyeongchang. and next memo, be loved in his hometown. does a democrat stand a chance of beating him? especially with this message? >> he's really nothing more than a donald trump stooge.

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new tonight, the white house tripling down over the nunes memo. the memo proofs the russian investigation is politically motivated. for congressman devin nunes that

memo made him a national name. >> i think congressman nunes is a great congressman. everything he has done i agree with. >> reporter: congressman devin nunes is a hero. >> i think he is a great man and did great work. >> reporter: nunes won this district easily in the last election. his supporters -- >> we like his aggressiveness to do things right and get justice. >> reporter: -- remain loyal. a mexican immigrant, she is completely behind both men. >> he is the only one that had guts enough to put out a memo that brings out the whole truth.

nobody wanted to do that. >> reporter: supporters say good luck if democrats think they can oust him. >> from his perspective, i don't think that is going to hurt him at all. >> reporter: these nunes opponents beg to differ. every tuesday for about a year, they have been protesting outside his district office. among those in attendance is a local prosecutor who is a democrat running against nunes for his seat. >> nothing more than a donald trump stooge. >> reporter: saying he has received big money. the campaign also gaining attention after putting up this, a billboard showing nunes and president trump as toddlers. it is an aggressiveness jan believes will be an aggressive

one. >> what do you say to the nay sayers who say there is no way you can beat devin nunes. >> i am going to be out there every day talking to the voters. and my opponent is a poster boy for what is wrong in washington. >> reporter: here in central california, the nunes supporters are not budging. president trump said he should be a great american hero. do you agree with that? >> yeah, i do. >> reporter: despite volunteers flocking to help andrew janz, it appears that nunes has a safe seat. and if things got close, he could call on his good friend

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tonight a republican senator says putting on a parade to show military might is quote kind of cheesy. but trump wants it. here is jeanne moos. >> reporter: the forecast is for continued rain on his parade. >> fantastic waste of money to amuse the president. >> we have a napoleon in the making here. >> reporter: president trump saying i want what they are having after attending france's bastille day parade. the idea has faced whithering fire. the president has been photo shopped playing with toy soldiers. milledtary parade is for insquare countries. they're the national equivalent in the mid liech crisis sports

car. even those on the right seem torn. >> this is going to be a blast. >> seems like a waste of money. >> reporter: the parade idea has spurred -- pinned on the president for getting draft deferments. >> and i have a message for cadet bone spurs. >> reporter: new rule don't get to throw grand military parades. the president is depicted with a bone spur badge. on the late show, they introduced gi joe buddy. >> cadet bone spurs. avoiding playing soldier to date models. >> reporter: barbra streisand may have sung. >> ♪ don't rain on my parade

>> reporter: critics have not just a bone, but a bone spur to pick with the president's parade. let's hope it is not on a windy day. jeanne moos cnn, new york. thank you for joining us. >> new details in the abrupt departure of white house staff ron porter. chief of staff john kelly's right hand man. now if the white house hopes this story would disappear quickly with his departure, it has not. questions are being raised about who in the white house knew about the allegations and when did they know. also questions about how porter got accessed to classified material. we begin coverage