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escalation on this scandal. cnn reporting that rob porter was in serious talks, actually, to be promoted at the white house when he abruptly resigned, including a role potentially as deputy white house chief of staff. new warning, america's intelligence chiefs making it crystal clear russia is already meddling in the 2018 midterm elections here in the united states, and this time the attacks will be, they say, even bolder. we start with the white house scandal. seemingly out of control right now. more and more evidence mounting that the white house is not telling the truth on its handling of domestic abuse allegations against rob porter. first, cnn has learned the fbi flagged the white house with serious concerns about porter nearly a year ago. despite this, cnn has also learned that porter was in serious talks about a promotion, possibly the deputy chief of staff to the president, right before the scandal blew up in recent days. on top of all of this, the fbi

director is publicly setting the record straight on when the white house knew they had a serious problem with porter. >> 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 received requests for follow-up inquiry, and we did the follow-up and provided that information in november and that we administratively closed the file in january. earlier this month we received some additional information and we passed that on as well. >> senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is joining us from the white house right now. clearly the white house officials there, they're struggling with this scandal and their response so far. what else are you learning, jeff? >> reporter: they are, indeed, and that testimony there from

the director of the fbi was in response to a question from senator ron widen, and initially the fbi director said, i can't go into specifics. indeed, he did not go into specifics about what was in the background check. but the fact that he pointed out that timeline there simply has contradicted everything the white house has been saying for nearly a week, wolf. by the fbi director saying that in march the partial review was done, by july it was entirely done, saying again more information came in november and then in january was closed. absolutely directly contradicts what the white house spokesman raj shah said from the podium yesterday. rob porter was being eyed for a promotion. he was viewed very fairly and strongly by people here in the west wing, particularly john kelly, and it is really the fallout from that that is now raising questions here at the white house, if the chief of

staff will be able to survive this. we've not yet had a comment from the white house specifically on this contradiction. of course, the white house press briefing is scheduled to happen in the next hour, so this is certainly one of the questions, the central story line that will be reviewed once again. but we do not know exactly what the white house is going to say to try and put this all back in the bottle. we also learned today, wolf, that the white house press secretary sarah sanders invited reporters into her office after that photograph of the black and blue eye was released of porter's first wife. this again complicates the story the white house has been saying. so, wolf, we are a week into this. what should be a resignation and move on, but this white house has struggled every day with new information here in one weekend. and more questions today about what they knew and why nothing was done to bring attention to this, wolf.

>> further, on this issue, the white house chief of staff john kelly told the "wall street journal" yesterday when he was asked about the rob porter situati situation, should the white house have handled this any differently? they said, no, what they did was right. christopher wray publicly outwardly demanded the white house timeline. >> and telling the "wall street journal" it was done right and totally complicates what was said by john kelly. the questions are who here at the white house knew about the fbi background check? was it don mcgahn, the white house counsel? was it the chief of staff? of course, he would not have been in place in march. he certainly would have been by july. wolf, that is one of the questions here. there has been a revolving door inside the west wing of the chief of staff, other advisers

coming and going. that is one of the reasons this man slipped through the cracks somewhat because john kelly was just getting his footing as chief of staff. that does not, however, explain by the end of the year, indeed earlier in the year in january how rob porter could have been considered for a promotion when all of this was well known. wolf? >> good point. thanks very much for that, jeff zeleny at the white house. let's bring in our military diplomatic analyst john kirby, our cheer correspondent dana bash and our chief legal analyst gloria borger. this is a huge embarrassment for the white house today, that the fbi director together with the intelligence community, on this issue the fbi director completely disputed what the white house has been saying over the past week. >> it makes you wonder, what were they thinking? they knew the fbi director was going to come and testify today. i don't think they should have assumed that the fbi director was going to do anything other

than defend his agency and their security clearance process and come with a timeline of his own. the problem now for the white house is compounded here. because his timeline is different from theirs. he makes it very clear that at least by the fall, at least by the fall that there was knowledge in the white house about this. and i think the question that jeff zeleny raises is the right question, which is, who knew what when? when did don mcgahn know? did don mcgahn go to kelly? did don mcgahn keep this to himself? we need to hear a little bit about what the white house counsel knew because, don't forget, he was also the one who got a phone call from the girlfriend of rob porter recently. and where did the information from that phone call go as they were thinking of promoting rob porter. >> that's pretty shocking despite all this information that was coming in from the fbi

to the white house, despite the fact that he wasn't getting full permanent security clearances at the highest level, which you need for their job. they were actually thinking of promoting him, dana, to deputy white house chief of staff. >> we have to remember the context here. by no means i'm making excuses but trying to explain what is going on, which is the way john kelly saw it, there were very few people around him who were competent and capable at doing their jobs to help kelly put out the umpteen fires they had every day. the problem is that it seems as though he took that, and that, frankly, desperation and necessity, and he swept other things under the rug. i think at the end of the day, what we have to remember is that the fbi director, what he testified today completely blows up what many people in the white house, i am told, who worked for john kelly consider a cover-up.

a cover-up that he perpetuated that allowed this guy to stay in his job. that was a bad hr move, a bad national security move and a bad political move. now he, again, you were saying that he spoke to the "wall street journal." kelly insisted that he handled it well, but that really flies in the face to what we now have under public testimony from the fbi director. and i would just also add that the next time the white house decides that part of their defense should be throwing the fbi under the bus, which is what they tried to do yesterday, to say it's not the white house that deals with security clearances, it's the fbi, when that is not actually true, they should probably think twice about it. >> when they sent the press secretary out to make a statement that clearly, opposing the fbi director, is not correct. sarah sanders said the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the

completion of that background check. that's what she said yesterday. but christopher wray said last july they completed it, then they sent another completion in january. they had completed their information. the fbi was sending that information to the white house and the white house had to make a decision what to do with rob porter. >> she's not just dancing on the head of a pin, she's just wrong. christopher wray made it clear today they were finished. if you listen to what he said, all this back and forth, this wasn't just "hey, we're done, here you go." over the course of many months, they were going back and forth pho the white house answering many questions or providing additional context. you have to remember, an interim clearance doesn't just mean you have temporary clearance to see some material, it means you do not have the right to have a final clearance. you are not there yet. with all this back and forth, you would think somebody at the white house would say, we need to ratchet back the responsibility this man has at

least a little bit until we get through all these hoops. >> wray pointed out that the fbi received a request for a follow-up. who made that request? i want to know. who made that request which they completed and provided in november. who made that request? because the person who requested a follow-up knew something was cooking. >> and all the while rob porter had access to the country's secrets. he was getting 180-day extension after extension. josh campbell, who used to work at the fbi and is now working here, said i spent my whole life trying to protect american secrets, and here is this guy working in the oval office potentially undermining all of that. >> you were the spokesman at the pentagon, you were the spokesman at the state department, you're a retired career admiral. if they give you information to brief reporters and the american public on what is clearly incorrect, you go out there and brief them, then you discover it's incorrect. sarah sanders said yesterday the

white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of the background check. that was incorrect. she is about to appear in the next hour or so before reporters once again. does she come out -- if it were you and you were given bad information by your bosses and you uttered those words, would you apologize? would you try and correct it? would you say, i made a mistake, they gave me bad information. how do you handle that if you're sara sanders. she was reading it, basically, and she uttered those words. >> i would go to the podium and say, this was incorrect, i have to correct the record. i've done that from time to time. i was never sent to the podium to mislead, but there are times i made mistakes, and as soon as you do, you have the responsibility to go out and say, i messed up, here's the truth. >> not only has the president

not come out and talked about these women, but he hasn't come out and said, i want to get to the bottom of this. i want to know why this person who was going to get no security clearance, who allegedly, you know, abused women, what he was doing in my inner circle and in my oval office every day when he could be subject to blackmail? if i were the president of the united states, i would be pretty upset about this breach, this security breach, inside my oval office, not to mention the fact that people were out there and supporting somebody who had abused his ex-wives. >> you would think the president would order some internal investigation to determine what happened, to learn from it to make sure it doesn't happen again. we still are waiting for the president to say that he expresses his sympathy to these women who made these allegations against rob porter. we'll see if he does that in the

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>> we expect russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false flag personas, sympathetic spokesmen and other means to influence to try to build on its wide range of operations and exacerbate social and political fissures in the united states. there is no doubt that past attempts have been successful and views the 2018 midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations. >> let's go to our senior congressional correspondent manu r raju. he is watching these threats. you heard director coats warning that the risk of global conflict is higher than any time after the end of the cold war. some of the major threats identified from the panel included what? >> reporter: they also raised serious concerns about north korea, the threat it poses to

the united states, and every day the united states, they're raising concerns about north korea's nuclear capability. but one of the big concerns, wolf, coming out of that hearing is whether or not the united states is taking enough steps to deal with the russia activity here in the united states, the russia activity that's already occurring in the 2018 midterm election. members of this panel came out. i talked to them after and said they are clearly not able to deal with cyber security and the russia interference that is already taking place. one area in which this was highlighted during this hearing was the interaction between jack reed, a democrat from rhode island, and the members of the intelligence committee about whether the president has personally directed any of them to take steps to prevent russia from doing in 2018 what they did in 2016.

>> h >> reporter: has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to blunt specific activities that are ongoing? >> we're taking a lot of specific actions to blunt -- >> directed by the president? >> not specifically directed by the president. >> have you received a specific presidential direction to take steps to disrupt these activities? >> i'm not sure how specific. >> reporter: wolf, he went on to say that the president has directed them to be aware of a range of threats, including russia, but not answering that question directly. but wolf, one thing that the senate intelligence committee chairman, richard burg, did make clear, that his committee will issue a report of things that need to be done because there is a concern not enough is being done by the administration right now to protect against russian

interference in this midterm that is identified clearly today, wolf. >> the nation's fbi and intelligence chiefs all agree on this. russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election here in the united states and they're already targeting the 2018 midterm election. senator angus king of maine says the panel needs to convince president trump to accept those findings. >> my problem is i talk to people in maine who say the whole thing is a witch hunt and is it's a hoax because the president told me. i just wish you all could persuade the president as a matter of national security to separate these two issues. the collusion issue is over here unresolved. we'll get to the bottom of that. but there's no doubt, as you all have testified today, and we cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with the whole of government response

when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists. >> let's bring back in our panel for some perspective. gloria, why are they so silent on this? the chiefs agreed they meddled, they're still meddling. he didn't address it at all in the state of the union address. they basically said what james clapper said before he left intelligence, what steve brannon said before he retired. they all said they're meddling in the united states. one person who doesn't say it? the president. >> the president still believes this is a way to delegitimize his election. you can't get past that speed bump there with the president because he sees the russians influencing the election meaning that he shouldn't have been elected. there is no way to get around

that. even if you give him that premise and say, let's assume you would have been elected, anyway, and that's probably the case, let's just get over that and talk about this. he won't go there. the other point which has been told to me over this past year by source after source is that the president believes that this is just the way states conduct business and that we spy on them and they spy on us. we try to influence them and they try to influence us. so he believes that this is nothing new under the sun, this is according to people who speak with him. those are the two simplest reasons i can come up with. neither of them are good, by the way. >> no question. i think that, you know, we've done a lot of reporting on this, and you in particular, the first part of what you just described. the fact that any talk of russian interference -- not collusion -- russian interference questions the legitimacy of his presidency.

but can we just take a step back for a second and look at the fact that an independent senator had to sit at an open intelligence committee and plead with the leaders of the intelligence community to do something to convince the president of the united states that russian interference in 2016 was real, and more importantly, they're at it and they're going to do it in this election, in 2018 and beyond. and at the end of the day, if the president doesn't believe it, if the president doesn't direct a policy to deal with it, it's not going to be done in an aggressive and legitimate way. >> christopher wray, the fbi director, the new fbi director, relatively speaking, mike pompeo, the cia director, guess

who named them to those positions? donald trump. >> just as critically, the president can't say these things and believe them, the people who vote for him, his followers, his base, will not. that means they're just as susceptible to russian influence and interference and operations as they were in 2016. they'll be just as vulnerable. not everything russia is doing is in cyberspace. some of it is right under your nose in the media and even conventional media. it really is important that the president sees it, blooelieves and that his base believes it. >> he thinks this whole issue of russian spying is about him and him election rather than taking the wider view, which one would assume a president would take, about how they're trying to undermine democracy, period. >> he said in that clip -- i don't have it right now, but remember the famous clip where he said, putin denied it.

he was pretty serious when he repeatedly denied it to me. >> the happiest person on a day-to-day basis on this planet is vladimir putin. watching every single day but particularly a hearing like this where they say, well, the president didn't believe it. >> and they were not instructed by the president to do anything about it. that's pretty damaging. everybody stand by. there's more breaking news. we're following the scandal. the fbi disputing the timeline on porter. they denied allegations for nearly a year. starting a debate to the fate of dreamers but republicans suddenly shrinking the timeline. bob menendez is standing by live. we'll discuss. there he is. it releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat.

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happening right now, the senate behind closed doors taking up an open-ended debate on the fate of the dreamers. this is an unusual move, by the way, by the u.s. senate because there is no actual bill on the floor right now, just the debate. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he wants it all wrapped up by thursday and that's a much shorter timeline than republicans have earlier indicated. mcconnell saying anyone who comes up with a deal with 60 votes, quote, wins. sources are telling cnn, by the way, that president trump has also been making calls to some of his conservative allies in the senate just ahead of this fall-scale debate. let's bring in senator bob menendez. he's a democrat from new jersey. he's the ranking democrat on the senator floor relations committee on capitol hill. senator, thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> before we get to a discussion, i want to get your

thoughts on the breaking news, the scandal developing in the white house right now over rob porter. the fbi apparently advised the white house last year about the accusations against porter. despite all of that, efhe was n anl ab only able to stay on the job and review classified information, he was actually under consideration for a promotion at the white house, the deputy chief of staff. does the president need to speak out about this and explain to the american public what's going on and to condemn publicly domestic violence? >> i think he has a moral obligation to do so, and as a leader of our country, needs to speak out strongly against domestic violence. at the state of the union, my guest was a leader in our state in work against domestic violence and sexual abuse. it's pretty outrageous we keep getting different stories about what really happened here in the white house. and today's statement by the fbi director that, in fact, they had

the information and gave it to the white house speaks volumes about the president's lack of concern on this issue. so he needs to speak up. he's past the time he should have spoken up, and he needs to do it vigorously. >> despite the fact the white house was presenting information about the failure to give a permanent security clearance back in march, later in november and then january. now we're told just before the scandal erupted he was about to be promoted, potentially. that's pretty shocking. anthony scaramucci who was, for a few days, the white house communications director, just tweeted this. based on fbi testimony, white house chief of staff john kelly almost certainly knew about credible allegations of domestic abuse against rob porter at least six months ago, then recently forced others to lie about that timeline. inexcusable. kelly must resign. do you agree? >> if that is all the case, then

i don't see how the chief of staff can actually continue to serve in a position in which he stonewalled the information, aldal allegedly got others to lie at the end of the day on such an incredibly important issue. to the white house as well as to the nation on domestic violence. i don't know how you survive that. >> at least 30, maybe 40 white house officers still operating with partiinterim security clea. is it time to tighten the rules who can operate within the administration without those types of clearances? >> i believe it is. there is a reason that people who have sensitive positions within the administration must go through a security clearance. it is to understand that those who will have access to the highest office in the land, those who will have access to information that is critical to both the national interests and the national security are people

who passed the highest standards. so the reality is that if we don't have individuals who have passed those standards, then you have to constrain who is able to have access to this information so you don't end up in situations like you have in this one. >> let's get to the immigration debate in the senate that's unfolding this week. the republicans have introduced an amendment that closely resembles president trump's immigration framework. is there a unified plan for the democrats right now? >> well, what democrats have been doing is building upon the gang of six of which i'm a member, proposition 6 with democrats and republicans. we are working with moderate republicans particularly who are looking for a pathway to find an opportunity for the dreamers to realize their dream, which is really what this debate is supposed to be all about. the reason we got this commitment, the reason we are having the debate in congress is

not about broad policy, it's about the dreamers and how we find a path for them and what's necessary to get 60 votes. we are on a fervid search with our colleagues to find out what's important to get to that 60-vote threshold so we can have something positive to move from the senate to the house and get those 60 votes in order to achieve that. what we can have 't have are th republican voices speaking into the public's ear. i don't want to talk about the 800,000, i want to talk about the 11 million. that's not what we're here for. we have to remember that narrow gets it done. >> can you get it done by thursday? mitch mcconnell says he wants it done by thursday. can you get 60 votes in favor of

a compromised immigration bill passed in the senate by thursday? >> well, that's a new obstacle that i was unaware of until today. never did we say that this was going to be a two-day or three-day debate on one of the most significant issues, contentious issues, that we have before us. so it is our hope to try to achieve that, but i don't think an arbitrary deadline should ultimately snuff out the dreams of these young people. these are young people who 91% of them are employed, gainfully employed, paying taxes. even the cato institute, a conservative think tank, talks about the economic consequence of these dreamers not having a pathway to the nation. so i believe that young people who came to this country through no choice of their own, whose only flag that they pledge allegiance to is that of the united states, whose only national anthem they know how to sing is "the star spangled banner" who the only country they know is america needs to

have faith they put in the federal government when they gave all their information and those of their parents to the federal government in trust that they would ultimately have a safety net in this country, that we need to keep our word to them as a government. >> the president says he's ready to give 1.8 million dreamers a pathway to citizenship eventually if the democrats agree to fund a border security, build the wall, end what he calls the chain migration, the lottery system. are you willing to compromise with him on that in order to allow 1.8 million dreamers to stay in the united states legally and eventually have a pathway to citizenship? >> well, first of all, wolf, the gang of six, three republicans, three democrats, largely responded to what the president wants. i find it obscene the phrase "chain migration." it is incredibly cruel to those whose ancestors were brought to

this country in chains in slavery. it is a dehumanizing element of what is, in essence, family reunification, which has been the core of american immigration principal for over a century, the belief that when we have families together, ultimately they strengthen not only themselves and help each other but they help build communities and help build our nation. so we gave on some of those elements. we gave very significant amount of moneys to the border wall. we gave on changing the nature of the diversity lottery, which is not, as the president says, you put your hand in arbitrarily and you pick out the worst of the worst. these people have to go through every background check and every criteria that anyone emigrating to the united states has to meet. nevertheless, in order to find a pathway, but we cannot be talking about a dramatic change in immigration policy when we're talking even about 1.8 million when you want to change the whole nature of even legal

immigration to this country. that's a much broader debate. what we should be doing is narrowing in on the focus of how to get 800,000 or even 1.8 million, as the president has defined, and what limits are necessary to achieve that. >> very quickly a final question before i let you go, senator, and put on your hat as the top democrat of the foreign relations committee. the sanctions against russia bill. it passed overwhelmingly in the senate, i think 98-2 in the house. that was back in august. but surprisingly, maybe not surprisingly, the president didn't oppose it. he signed it into law because he knew he couldn't override a veto. the president is going to decline any penalty. as you heard today, all of his intelligence chiefs are firm they believe the russians did it and are still trying to do it. what can you do to accomplish

your goals as far as the resolution to impose new sanctions against russia is concerned? >> well, we are pushing strong oversight. i started that in a classified briefing just yesterday. i don't understand how it is that six months after the law was passed with nearly unanimous votes in the senate and the house of representatives not one sanction under the legislation we're talking about has actually been levied. even though, for example, section 224 of the law requires -- requires, mandates, imposes sanctions -- on russia if they got caught undermining the cyber security of any individual or any institution globally or in the united states. we heard the cia director, national intelligence director both appointed by him say that

russia interfered in our election, that they will continue to do so, that they did it in france. it is absurd the president won't look at the law passed against russia. it's like telling russia you were welcomed in 2016 to interfere in our election and we look forward to your intervention in 2018. that cannot stand, and we'll pressure anywhere we can, either through the appropriations process looking at nominations and maybe doing what is necessary to get these sanctions in force, because it is about changing behavio, in this case russia's behavior, and we need to do it before these 2018 elections take place. >> senator menendez, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. we have more breaking news. israeli media now reporting police in jerusalem believe they have enough evidence to indict the prime minister benjamin netanyahu on corruption charges. what they're saying. we'll go live to jerusalem right after this.

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in syria, seven days of horrific bloodshed that has now lasted some seven years and resulted in hundreds of thousands of people dead. pro-government forces aided by russian airstrikes are trying to drive opposition terror groups from their holdout. thousands have fled the fighting and the siege of aleppo. our journalists are the first to go inthere. >> he was born into syria who by anyone's standards was

especially punishing. his little body still trembles. and that's not because he was born prematurely, it's because the hospital he was at was bombed. the footage that night is a glimpse into the magnitude, the horror, the fear. there were around 300 people, staff, patients in intensive care and the most precious and vulnerable. in the span of just five days, six medical facilities in the province were targeted in airstrikes. >> this this is the lower level underground, and this is where they used to do all of the main emergency surgeries, and it's

also where right now they are storing whatever equipment they've managed to salvage. days before we arrived, as doctors were treating the wounded from an airstrike in the market, the facility was hit again. the dead from the market were outside not buried, not in graves, but somewhere in the crater left behind. this is a population that this is a population that feels like it's on borrowed time. an alleged chlorine strike took place. he vomited, couldn't breathe and thought that's it. my number is up. luckily, many of the women and children here had fled just days before. the two toxic shells impacted an empty field. >> there's still a bit of a stench.

as the world looks on and syria endured one of the bloodiest weeks of this conflict. she watches her baby fight in one of the last remaining facilities where he even stands a chance. but whoo wha kind of a world are these babies fighting to live in? >> arwa joins us now live. those were heartbreaking images. where do those people go now?

>> you have these sprawl iing, some sense, makeshift camps that are overcrowded. all that footage you saw there was shot inside a province meant to be part of these so-called deescalation zones. i was talking to a doctor by all accounts, he he said, it defies logic, wolf. >> heartbreaking story, indeed. unfortunately, it continues. any moumt now, here in the white house, controversy engulfing the

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breaking news out of israel. police are due to hand over their findings in the corruption investigation into the prime minister beng mjamin netanyahu. the prime minister is speaking about those charges over at the prime minister's residence in

injure u jerusalem. orin, tell our viewers what we're expecting. >> the police statement should arrive any moment right now. israeli media is saying there is enough evidence to invite netanyahu in two separate cases, known as case 1,000 and case 2,000. case 1,000, police say netanyahu has received from businessmen. and in one case where police say he negotiated with the publisher of a newspaper for more favorable coverage. what happens now, wolf? the investigation, the evidence from the police is handed over to the attorney general. it is up to the attorney general on whether to indict yetanyahu

on these charges. >> speaking right now, he's denying those charges. right? >> he has, from the very beginning here, saying that you don't take down a government simply on a police recommendation. that's been one of his defenses here. legally, he's right. in that sense, he doesn't have to step down until he is convicted and that conviction is up held through the entire appeals process, a process that theoretically could take years. if that police statement is damning, if it is so negative that they feel they can't, this could mark the beginning of the end of netanyahu. i will say right now the investigation is handed over to the attorney general. it is the attorney general who has suddenly become the most important person in the country right now. >> very quickly, oren, the attorney general usually accepts the recommendations from the police? >> that's inaccurate. in fact, netanyahu has pointed this out.

roughly half of cases police recommend an indictment and the attorney general decides not to indict. first term between '9 13w6 '99, two separate probes. attorney general said there wasn't enough evidence. >> we'll see what the attorney general does this time, oren. we'll get back to you. thank you very much for that report. that's it for me. the news continues right now here on cnn. >> breaking news. i'm brooke baldwin. deputy chief of staff. that is the job white house officials were considering for rob porter, despite knowing the allegations of domestic abuse against him. and today the evidence is mounting. that, from this administration once again, is not telling the truth on who knew what, when he they knew it and what they did not do about it. the scandal is blowing up in their faces and, oh, yeah, the president himself still has not commented on