the process for the background was on going. the white house had not received any specific papers -- >> the fbi submitted a completed background investigation in late july. >> when it went through the timeline, you say that's not what sarah sanders said. >> the white house is blaming its own personnel office. >> the president has confidence in his chief of staff. >> it seems to have changed since he's fallen into the orb of the president. kind of sad for me. president trump's personal lawyer says he paid thous thousands of his own money to a porn star who once said she had

an affair with mr. trump. >> michael cohen was compelled to answer this because a complaint was filed with the federal election commission. >> i don't know why they'd want to cover it up. cohen can going to have to prove this in a court of law. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, it's wednesday, february 14th, 8:00 in the east. happy valentine's day to all of you from all of us. did you finish my poem yet? >> no, i'm putting a lot of thought into after "violets are blue." >> the first part comes off -- she is the author. the trump white house has repeatedly just covered up what they knew and when they knew it. know this. the white house had every reason to know there were problems with rob porter and his background and allegations of domestic abuse, but they didn't act on it. the new fbi chief appointed by

president trump himself directly contradicting the narrative top trump aides have been spinning for days. the white house is trying to shift blame onto its internal personnel security office. >> the president's chief of staff john kelly remains in the eye of the storm. sources tell cnn conversations are heating up about who could replace kelly. cnn also reporting that rob porter was being considered for a white house promotion despite the allegations of domestic violence. so let's discuss. >> cnn political analyst and "wall street journal" white house reporter mike bender just interviewed john kelly yesterday, and cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. brother bender, you spoke to general john kelly. what is your sense of his secureness in his position? >> it was -- happy valentines to you, chris. it was a brief interview in the hallway in the white house. i'm over there every other day, every few days. the chief of staff and i have

passed by each other. we talked just briefly. it wasn't an in-depth conversation. we didn't get into how security feels. my sense which is what your question was, is that i think he does feel okay. he's someone who came into the office sort of trading on his honor and character. we've had reporting before that he's put that honor and character on the line, threatened to quit in the oval office. he's threatened to quit when he was secretary of the department of homeland security, when he felt he was being pushed around or not being listened to. i don't think it will be taken a lot to -- for general kelly to leave if that's what he wants to do. but we have been hearing chatter about trump talking about potential replacements for the better part of a month. we reported at the "wall street journal" several months ago that trump already figured out work-arounds to general kelly's

command and control, calling staff into the residence late at night, giving them orders, telling them don't tell general kelly. his friends and outside advisers using melania trump, the first lady, as a go-between in order to avoid john kelly's checks. so he's been slowly figuring out ways around general kelly. i do think the president appreciates a lot of the command and control that kelly has put in place. it's given him a lot of time to think and sort of focuses a lot of the conversation, a lot of his decisions, makes it a lot clearer for him. at the same time a lot of people lost their access in the white house under john kelly and have been looking for ways to get at john kelly for quite a while. as chaotic as we remember the first few months, it was an exciting time for a lot of people inside the white house who were able to go right into

the oval office, get their opinions heard and influence the president of the united states. >> mike, i want to stick with you for one more quick second. it bears repeating, exactly what you heard john kelly say about this rob porter fallout. you asked, does he think he should have handled it differently. the quote is, according to you, no, it was all done right. that is forehead slapping. that shows either just complete cluelessness, of all the questions that sarah sanders is being peppered with every day and all the miscommunication and how the fbi and white house story doesn't comport. >> i think it requires a little bit more explanation from the white house what exactly it means. sarah sanders' explanation, the white house's explanation of this all going right is that john kelly somehow didn't know about the extent of the allegations against rob porter for most of the six months he's been in the office.

i've been told there was a conversation between rob porter and the chief of staff. we reported in the "wall street journal" that kelly heard sort of top line -- the broad contours of these allegations and didn't ask questions. a little bit more here for context, kelly did sort of tighten the reins, closed access to the oval office. one of the people who rose and became more important and influenced was rob porlter. >> there's plus-minus. maybe he did do some things well. this ain't one of them. chris cillizza. alisyn has a number, 34%, one in three plus people brought in by trump have left and very few for good reasons. so much for draining the swam. rob porter winds up becoming a reflection of that as much as anything, right? >> i think so. very quickly, chris, to mike's

point about that john kelly quote, you know that meme on the internet of the dog drinking cough fooe while everything around him is on fire and says this is fine. that's what the quote feels like to me, just an odd way to phrase it, particularly after your white house acknowledged through raj shah they could have handled things differently. >> perception is reality. he's going to put out what he wants. the problem is sometimes it transcends, ignoring victims of domestic abuse, too big a deal to be allowed under the category of political coverup. that's why the president will be hounded until he makes it right with people who are living that kind of systematic torture. also, dni coats comes up, chris cillizza, and says the security clearance process is broken. porter also an example of that. what kind of legs does that have? >> you have a couple of stories

beyond what you've touched on. this is a systemic problem in the united states, around the world, domestic abuse, and we need to address it in ways that the president appears untrtd in doing so in ways that past presidents would, a moral beacon, saying this is not who we are. i think there are a lot of other issues -- security clearances and national security candidly, you heard some of that yesterday from the intelligence community. rob porter was the guy handing the papers to donald trump. he was the ultimate gatekeeper. it's why i think john kelly made the calculation, yeah, this stuff was going on, but porter was too useful in narrowing the information field that donald trump was getting to get rid of him. obviously he was handling documents with a temporary security clearance. that to me is sort of the -- another piece of the story line that we have to pay attention to. maybe the security clearance

process is broken. let's look into that. how can someone with r be that close to the president of the united states operating not only on a temporary security clearance but with the knowledge that the chief of staff had that this person had issues, this person, porter, had issues with getting a permanent clearance and might never have gotten one. i think that's stuff we have to look at for the long-term continuity of government stuff, not just as it relates to rob porter, john kelly and donald trump. >> mike, correct me if i'm wrong, you spoke to rob porter right before he left the white house. can you share some of that conversation? >> well, i can tell you that there was an off-the-record meeting at the white house last week before rob porter left. i can't share the contents of that meeting. there has been some reports about it. what was interesting here about the meeting was that it was kind of at the -- why there's

attention on this, it was right at the nexus of where the white house's story started to change. last wednesday -- tuesday night the story came out in the daily mail. the full-throated endorsement of rob porter from john kelly. the white house, i can tell you, that morning, that early afternoon, was still very much defending rob porter and not pushing back on our reporting that john kelly was supportive of rob porter and trying to keep him from quitting. by that night, kelly issued a second statement saying they were shocked by the allegations. still now a week later we don't have a clear timeline -- clear understanding of what happened, why that change, why that second statement didn't come earlier. if you think about it, for all the controversies of the trump administration, all the internal drama, it's sort of on a day by day or at least week by week

basis. we're on day eight, day nine of the rob porter story. i try to think of what comparis comparison, we're on day nine of the rob porter story, it's pretty rare and unique for a one of trump's controversies to last this thing. these are serious allegations. maybe that's what it took, domestic abuse allegations. >> scaramucci got burned by being vulgar and getting burned by a reporter. this is about allegations of domestic abuse, one wife has a black eye, the other with an order of protection. a third woman had to call and express concerns about what was going on with him there. they had plenty of information to know. the president glossed it over by ignoring the reality of domestic abuse. this is orders of magnitude more significant than scaramucci.

>> porter is gone. the question is who else knew and who else needs to take some accountability here which has been scant. so chris, do we think john kelly -- hearing the names that might be replacing him, gary cohen, congressman kevin mccarthy, nick mulvaney. we have cnn reporting that talk about replacing him is heating um. why would the president hang on to him at this point? >> two things are competing here, alisyn. one, the president likes generals and likes to refer to them as my generals. that's an argument for kelly. the argument against kelly, we know donald trump hates negative press that he doesn't cause. this is, to mike's point, this is eight days or nine days of burying negative press that at least at the start he didn't cause. i would argue his tweet over the weekend inflamed things badly when he could have done something very different and more presidential. but in his mind this is john kelly's fault. i'm not sure -- those names you

pointed out, cohen, mulvaney, mccarthy, these are people that at the moment have their stars risen in donald trump's universe. john kelly was one of those people once, too. i think mike touched on it earlier. the most important thing to remember here is that donald trump is extremely difficult to work for. it doesn't matter who the chief of staff is. anyone who believed that john kelly was fundamentally going to alter donald trump after reince priebus couldn't, is probably going to believe, if we just got mull vane any in there, everything would be okay. the spoint the principle, not the chief of staff. could he make a change? sure. but don't expect him fundamentally to change. >> change doesn't create change. 34% of their staff has turned over, mostly not for good reason. >> including a lot of senior staff in that, it's not junior people.

it's senior level people. >> chris cillizza, mike bender, thank you very much. we have breaking news to report. >> right now you're looking at live aerials, from cnn affiliate, wjla. this is one of the secure gates in ft. meade, maryland. there are reports of a shooting near one of the gates of what they call the campus. you would be able to see, if you look carefully, there are bullet holes in the front window of a block suv that appears to have crashed into white security barriers with the letters nsa on it. you see that there? you see the bags or curtains put up there. the nsa released a statement saying, quote, nsa police an law enforcement are addressing an incident that took place this morning at one of nsa's secure vehicle entry gates. >> they go on to say, the situation is under control.

there is no on going security or safety threat. anne arundel county police and fire are on the scene. obviously the details are just coming in to the cnn "newsroom." we don't know what the motivation is for this. we don't know who is behind the wheel. that is obviously a big deal, that this happened at the nsa gate. we will be bringing it to you as soon as we get more information into our newsroom. >> the video was a black suv -- we don't know if it's a government vehicle or not. that's one of the secure gates. there are many on that campus. it's a huge complex. there are supposedly bullet holes in it. the bags had gone off there and it hit a barrier that said nsa. there are reports of gunfire. this is what we're talking about. this is the vehicle, supposedly in the windshield, if you look close you'll see bullet holes. so type of incident. we have no news of injuries or the current disposition of who was involved. the fbi is disbatching people to the scene. local fire and rescue are

involved. as we know more, we will tell you more. >> just one last thing, they say the situation is under control. no on going security or safety threat at the moment. we'll bring you more when we have it. meanwhile, the rob porter scandal is exposing another crisis at the white house. there are dozens of staffers working without full security clearance one year into the administration. we'll talk with a top republican about what he thinks needs to be done next. yahoooo! ahoooo! plus, unlimited family plans come with netflix included. spectacular! so, you can watch all your netflix favorites on your new samsung phones. whoa! join the un-carrier and get a samsung galaxy s8 free. all on america's best unlimited network.

if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,

little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. other side effects include upper respiratory tract infection and headache. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you're pregnant or planning to be. ♪ otezla. show more of you.

this is the story of green mountain coffee roasters dark magic told in the time it takes to brew your cup. first, we head to vermont. and go to our coffee shop. and meet dave. hey. why is dark magic so spell-bindingly good, he asks? let me show you. let's go. so we climb. hike. see a bear. woah. reach the top. dave says dark magic is a bold blend of coffee with rich flavors of uganda, sumatra, colombia and other parts of south america. like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters packed with goodness. of being there for my son's winning shot. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how.

i have publicly stated, if that is the case, the access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive. >> that was the director of national intelligence telling lawmakers he's concerned about classified information in the hands of white house staffers without full security clearances. his testimony there was connected to the rob porter scandal. that's the former white house aide who did not have full clearance because of domestic violence allegations in his past. let's talk about this and more with republican congressman trey gowdy who announced he will be retiring from congress at the end of the year. we'll talk about that. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. how are you? >> are you troubled by rob porter's employment in the white house? >> yes. two levels. one is the interim security

clearance issue, but even more importantly, i spent two decades believing women and children who alleged abuse, even sometimes when no one else did. even if there's not a security clearance issue, i have questions about whether someone can be considered for employment whether there's a security clearance or not. i'm troubled by almost every aspect of this. now that we know, according to yesterday, chris wray's testimony, that they told the white house four times, they gave the white house four different installments of the report, some of them complete, that included the allegations from the ex-wives. so how could he still have a job at the white house? >> that's a great question. i can't answer. who knew what when and to what extent those are the questions that ought to be asked. congress has a role to play. so does the public and the

media. who knew what when, and if you knew it in 2017 and the bureau briefs them three times, how in the hell was still he employed? the security clearance is a separate issue. it's an important issue, but separate. how do you have any job if you have credible allegations of domestic abuse? again, i am bias towards the victim. i spent two victims believing them. you don't have tobiased towards the victim to be asked how in the hell did this happen? >> our reporting is don mcgahn, white house chief counsel and chief of staff john kelly did know. what does this say about them? >> well, no offense to your reporting. i would want to know from don mcgahn and general kelly and anyone else what did you know, from whom did you hear it, to what extent did you hear it and what actions, if any, did you take. the chronology is not favorable from the white house. when you have the head of the fbi saying we told you three times in 2017 and once more in 2018 for good measure that i

think the really fair questions are what were you told, by whom were you told, did you have some reason to question what the bureau told you, and if none of that is true, why did you keep him on? so don is one person to ask, general kelly is one person to ask. there may be others to ask. those are the questions going through my mind. what did you know, when did you know it, to what extent were you told and did you have any reason in the world to doubt the information that was provided to you, because i can't think of what that reason would be. >> listen, those are great questions. you're the chairman of the oversight committee. are you going to investigate? >> we do have jurisdiction over the security clearance process. i do not have jurisdiction over who the president hires. that's a branch integrity issue. >> sure. listen, you could get into this, you could investigate what rob porter was doing there and certainly without full security clearance. so is your commit tee going to launch an investigation? >> the very first thing i did when i landed yesterday was sit down with my senior staff in

oversight and find out what we're going to do. alisyn -- >> what's answer? >> congress has lots of questions from the executive branch that go unanswered. >> what's your plan? >> there are three different people who have a role here. congress has a role. so do you and so does the public. i would imagine the public is trtd as well. sometimes it's harder to ignore the public than ignore congress. >> we've been asking questions and talking about it for eight days. what's your plan on the committee? >> to ask the fbi for a briefing because i want to hear from chris wray, what did you learn, when did you learn it and to whom did you communicate it? from that we'd develop a list of witnesses where you could go from there. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. we do have those answers from chris wray. he testified to them yesterday. march 2017 almost a year ago he submitted a report to the white house. >> alisyn, i've got the dates.

do you know what he told them? that's my question. the dates are really important. what i want to know from chris wray is what with specificity did you learn, when did you learn it and with whom did you share it and when did you share it. i got the dates. i heard that. my followup question is, okay, chris, how thorough was the investigation, what did you share, with whom did you share it and what were the updates? if you updated the information four times, what was the second, third and fourth iteration of that update? i'm with you on the chronology. i've got that. i have additional questions for the fbi and then once you get the answers to that, you know who to direct your inquiries at the white house. >> he was reluctant to answer those yesterday. he was asked for that. he was reluctant to answer those because i think he said he doesn't comment on any on going personnel issues or an investigation. so hopefully you can get -- >> welcome to our world. i told you a couple minutes ago,

congress can ask, but if the executive branch doesn't answer the questions, then that's when you need the public and the media to also increase the pressure. i get that he doesn't want to talk about an ongoing investigation. this does not appear to be on going to me anymore. >> just so that i'm clear, will the oversight committee be launching an investigation into this? >> we did last night. >> so it's official? >> that word probably means more to you than it does to me. what matters to me is we are directly inquiries to people that we think have access to information we don't have. you can call it official. you can call it unofficial. those words don't mean anything to me. what means something to me is i'm going to direct questions to the fbi that i expect them to answer. if they don't answer them, then they're going to need to give me a really good reason. you'll learn that reason, and you can judge whether or not it's a sufficient reason or not. unless you're jack bower, you can't make people answer questions. i've been trying for seven years

to get people to answer questions without a whole lot of success. we're going to try and we could use your help if they say no. >> for sure you can count on us for that. but the reason that i'm pressing in terms of whether it's official is because, as you know, the ranking democrat on your committee, elijah cummings has been, he says, pressing you to look into this, rob porter's employment and the reason that he was handling classified documents without full security clearance. he says he's been pressing you for months to do this and you've been resisting looking into this. is that true? >> no, ma'am. >> here is what the letter he sent to you says. this is from elijah cummings. it appears the oversight committee has constructed a wall around the white house. rob porter served as white house stach secretary, a critical gatekeeper in terms of vetting and managing all documents reaching the president's desk. if our committee does not investigate these allegations,

it is unclear who will. so why did he feel the need to tell you that this has to be investigated? he says that you were reluctant. >> you'll have to ask elijah that question. our committee has investigated travel. we have investigated use of private e-mail. we -- i'm smiling because i'm remembering how few inquiries elijah launched under the last administration. we're going to look into it. but elijah writes lots of letters and this is one, just like the gymnastics scandal. i wasn't prompted last night by what elijah asked me to do. i was prompted by the facts. >> i hear you. i'm trying to stay in the present. forget what happened in the past because we could be here all, but are you troubled that rob porter had access to classified documents without full security

clearance. something between 30 and 40 white house staffers with jared kushner? >> yes. i'm also troubled by the fact that someone with these allegations in his background get any information -- whether or not there's a security clearance at issue, that's an important point. what's also important to me, even if there were no classified information, how did someone with this allegation in his background get a job at the white house? those are two really important issues. alisyn, i'll tell you, you don't want people with domestic violence allegations hired, whether there's a security clearance at issue or not. >> is the security clearance process broken? >> yes. >> what's broken about it? >> any time you have a backlog, you have two issues, are there too many applicants or too few resources to process the applicants. we're all creatures of our own experience. i had a two-star general that

had to go through the security clearance background when he left the army and joined a committee of congress. i'm not sure how somebody with 30 years of government experience need eight months more of investigation. one of the best people i've ever met in my life, she's never broken curfew, it took her a year to get a security clearance. that's too long when you're hiring people for really fact centric jobs. a year is too long to wait. many you have too many applican applicants, any time you've got a backlog, you have to look at those two factors. >> you have announced you're retiring. why are you getting out of this racket? >> because i miss my old job. i miss the justice system. i like jobs where facts matter, where fairness matters. i like jobs where frankly where the process matters. it's not about winning or reaching a result. there's a proper way to do things. there are confessions thrown out because police didn't follow the right protocol.

there are search warrants thrown out. i'm more at peace with jobs that award fairness and are fact centric. >> so facts don't matter in congress? >> i think what matters in congress is finding a group and then validating or ratifying what they already believe. the art of persuasion -- in seven yearsi haven't seen anyone's mind changed by a speech, by a debate. it's about ratification and validation. i like the art of persuasion. i like finding 12 people who have not already made up their minds and then may the facts prevail. that's not where we are in politics. maybe we'll get back there. maybe my great granddaughter will have a different experience. right now i like the art of persuasi persuasion. i like it when facts matter and i don't see that in our current modern political environment. >> that is quite a testament to where we are today. congressman trey gowdy, we appreciate you coming all.

>> yes, ma'am. thank you. >> very interesting to hear trey gowdy, the man who saw the fisa application who is behind the nunes memo saying facts don't matter in congress, neither does fairness. breaking news, the fbi investigating a shooting at nsa headquarters in maryland. a black suv crashed into a security barrier. you can see bullet holes in the window. you can see the air bags were deployed as well. those barriers say nsa on them. this is one of the secure gates on the nsa campus. we have the latest breaking details coming up next. also this morning, chief of staff john kelly is in the eye of the storm, the rob porter issue. now there's talk intensifying about who can replace him. that's next.

we're following a breaking situation here. the fbi investigating a shooting outside nsa headquarters in ft. meade, maryland. authorities say it is not an ongoing situation. there is no on going risk. what happened? security gate near the campus -- look at your screen. you'll see a black suv. there are bullet holes, the bags were deployed. it hait a barrier there that says nsa. >> the nsa says the situation is now under control. local media is reporting as many as three people have been shot there. our cnn affiliate wjla reports the suspect is in custody. the white house says president trump has been briefed on this shooting at nsa headquarters. obviously this is an unfolding

situation. we'll bring you more information as soon as we get it into our newsroom. >> white house chief of staff john kelly is defending his handling of former top aide rob porter. he tells the "wall street journal," quote, it was all done right. everything we know about the situation fights that conclusion. sources tell cnn that conversations over who should succeed kelly are heating up. 34% of the people trump has brought in has left his administration, most of them under a cloud. joining us now democratic congresswoman jackie speier on the house intel committee. trey gowdy was just on. as we all know, he's leaving public office. it is amazing how that happens with you guys there's a whole new level of candor. even though he had no problem architecting the nunes memo, he says you guys down there are not about facts, about fairness. it's about finding like-minded people and advancing your own

cause. >> first of all, trey gowdy is a great man. i've worked for him, served with him on the intel committee. i have great respect for him. i would agree with him. i think we have this new normal that takes us to either extreme and doesn't allow us to come together in the middle. and we can point a lot of fingers at someone else, but we need to actually look internally as well. >> did you feel like that about gowdy during the benghazi hearings? i know the answer to that is no by what you said publicly at the time. >> i think the benghazi memos went off the rails. i've worked with him quietly in ethics committee subcommittees. he is a judicial person. so i would -- with the exception of benghazi. >> it's a big exception. this is the point i'm trying to make for the audience this morning. if you guys don't agree, you believe the other side is the worst possible thing that could

ever manifest itself in public service. we saw that with benghazi and how the left felt about those efforts. now we see the right feeling the same way about the russia probe. the president of the united states is not convinced that the russia interfered in the 2016 election. how can the people have any expectation of progress in that kind of environment? >> it creates an environment where the people only believe what they want to believe, and we have a president and frankly a white house that's a lying machine. when you have your own fbi director who you have selected sit before a senate committee and give a chronology that clearly is not in sync with what your chief of staff is saying, there's something wrong. there is a set of facts that is true, and we've got to get to a point where we're willing to both agree on a set of facts. we have a president who does not care about the truth. and it is infecting his entire

white house staff and probably a good part of his administration. i give a lot of credit to those who will stand up, like chris wray, and tell the truth. >> what happens next here? they say the security clearance system is broken, that this is proof of it with rob porter. what can you do down there in terms of oversight? trey gowdy said he started an investigation last night. when is the last time we saw those yield anything on any level? >> sometimes they do yield -- >> i'm cynical. >> i know you're cynical. i am too -- >> it's because of what i see every day. there are going to be political recommendations, this process needs to change. you can't change what's in the constitution. the executive has ultimate say over classification. the president can have anyone around him he wants. >> that's true. in the end, even though he had interim clearance, the president has the right to allow him to continue to work in that

position. the question for all of us is why when you have credible allegations of domestic violence would you have anyone in your administration with that kind of a tainted record. but there's no question that the president can declassify anything he wants. he can, in fact, give security clearance i guess to anyone he wants. that is the ultimate power of the presidency. let me just say, there are times when congress does come together, and the fact that we passed the me too congress act, that we came together on sexual harassment is a great example of how we can work together. >> amen on that. amen on that. we needed systemic change. let's be honest, that was low fruit. the idea that you can use my money to pay off your harassment claims is crazy. at least you guys made the move to fix that. look what we have on the heels of that. systemic change is good, it's good you guys acted on it. period, full stop.

you have the president of the united states go out there, and with full volition and full intentions dismiss victims of domestic abuse. the harshest echelon of the me too manifestation. this is systematic torture, ignored to different degrees by our justice system. shouldn't you guys be calling on him to come out and correct that statement? >> absolutely. i'm there. i've been saying it all weekend. i believe the president has to make a clear statement about how domestic violence is a crime, how there is no rationale to be able to have anyone working in the white house or frankly anyone in government service who has those kinds of allegations sitting over their heads. now, for him to suggest somehow that those haven't been proven is ridiculous. it's time for him to say i do believe the women instead of saying i believe the men. >> the reason i'm bringing that up is, just to circle back to what gowdy was talking about. facts do matter.

fairness matters. at some point you guys have to take stands that make that a baseline principle down there. you have a pretty easy layup right now. if a man won't come forward and say the victims of domestic abuse deserve respect and deserve to be believed, i don't know where else to start. congresswoman, appreciate you coming on and giving us your perspective. >> thank you. the breaking news, the fbi is investigating this shooting that just happened at nsa headquarters in maryland. a black suv crashed into a security barrier. you can see the suv, the front window has bullet holes in it. we have all the latest breaking details from officials on the ground for you next. (vo) i was born during the winter of '77. i first met james in 5th grade. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn't stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story.

and that's why we'll always drive a subaru. going somewhere? whoooo. here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more... ...than 200 booking sites - to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird's words. tripadvisor. the markets change... at t. rowe price... our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain... but you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. call us or your advisor... t. rowe price. invest with confidence.

we do have an update for you on the breaking news we've been following. there has been a shooting outside of nsa headquarters in ft. meade, maryland. you can see now on your screen the aftermath. this happened right near a security gate of the campus. if you look closely, that is a black suv. you can see bullet holes in the

front window of that vehicle. it appears to have crashed into a security barrier. we don't know the back story of the bullet holes, if that's what other security guards were using to stop the driver or if they came from the inside. the nsa says the situation is now under control. local media is reporting as many as three people have been shot. our cnn affiliate wjla reports the suspect is in custody. we don't have any information about the suspect. we don't have a description yet. we don't know even male, female, we don't know anything about who this person was. we hope authorities will share that with us. the white house says president trump has been beefriefed on th shooting. they, too, are awaiting more information. very scary situation. it looks like the security barriers stopped that car. this is nsa headquarters.

so you can imagine how much security was around there at ft. meade. we will let you know as soon as we know the situation with any of the injured people as well as the suspect. that's the latest information that we have, chris. >> we're following another breaking story as well. inflation is measured as rising faster than expected. so consumer prices are rising as well. we know what that means. all eyes on how this will impact the markets. this morning cnn's chief business correspondent christine romans joins us live from washington. we know the adage, you buy on speculation and sell on news. >> the news here today is that the consumer price index went up 2.1% in january. that's the fastest inflation growth in five months. it's mother than economists have expected. you're paying b more for things like rent, clothes, gasoline, health insurance, auto insurance. as you know, chris, all of this

volatility and these wild swings in the stock market have been triggered by this great inflation debate. is the era of low interest rates over and inflation going to come creeping back into the economy? this number would suggest that inflation is starting to come back. you can see futures down about 248 points, suggesting a triple digit decline at the opening bell if this holds. this number is feeding into those fears again that the economy is strong, there's a lot of stimulus in the economy and that could generate more inflation meaning you'll pay higher prices for things. >> christine, thank you for that reporting. we also have new reporting about white house chief of staff john kelly's future amid the rob porter scandal. "the bottom line" next.

new year, new phones for the family. join t-mobile, and when you buy one of the latest samsung galaxy phones get a samsung galaxy s8 free. yahoooo! ahoooo! plus, unlimited family plans come with netflix included. spectacular! so, you can watch all your netflix favorites on your new samsung phones. whoa! join the un-carrier and get a samsung galaxy s8 free. all on america's best unlimited network. than♪ you. imagine if the things you bought every day... earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag. two united club passes.

priority boarding. and earn fifty thousand bonus miles after you spend three thousand dollars on purchases in the first three months from account opening plus, zero-dollar intro annual fee for the first year, then ninety-five dollars. learn more at theexplorercard.com

of being there for my son's winning shot. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how. every great why theseare heading back home.y oil thanks to dawn, rescue workers only trust dawn, because it's tough on grease yet gentle. i am home, i am home, i am home white house press secretary sarah sanders tells cnn in the

past hour that president trump does still have confidence in chief of staff john kelly. cnn sources say multiple people, aids in the white house are blaming kelly for this bungled response to the rob porter scandal. and there's still conversation on going of replacing kelly. >> mayflies do more long-term planning than people in the trump administration. >> let's get "the bottom line" from cnn senior political analyst, guru, oracle -- >> maybe next chief of staff at the white house. who knows? >> you could be. your name is being bandied about, in your head. >> have a backup plan. >> sarah sanders, according to kaitlan collins that the president still has confidence in him. that's what we were waiting for. i guess john kelly is staying for the moment? >> honestly, i support, agree, understand what kaitlan is reporting, but it means nothing to me. what we've seen over and over again from this white house, they're willing to lie, willing

to fib -- why use the word fib? they're willing to lie. when you get a public backing from sarah sanders and not from the president himself, that says something to me. >> we were positing on here. this situation can't die with rob porter. one, you've got 34% of your staff that have been bled off, often under a cloud of suspicion. you have an ongoing clearance issue with intelligence matters. they made classified information on how it's handled a big deal. they did it with clinton. they're continuing it now with this bs about the fisa courts, even though they're congressionally created as an oversight mechanism. the biggest reason, mark preston, do you believe that today is the day that the president of the united states says, listen, i support the victims of domestic abuse? that has to be said by the moral leader of this country. >> the reason it has to be said

and will be said, it's 180 degrees. >> won't go away. too big a deal. >> of course it's going to keep going. the bottom line is what's going to change today that hasn't changed every other day in president trump's life? the fact is he's going to stick by his own guns, allows others to give support for these women. but we're in the going to hear it from him. if he do hear it from him, it's not going to be as strong as it should. i would even argue that unless he's going to go out and give a full-throated endorsement or support for these women, maybe he shouldn't do it at all. >> let's talk about policy. the debate over immigration is supposed to start in earnest today. in the senate they've been haggling over process. so there are a couple of different bipartisan bills floating around. does anything have 60 votes or might it? >> the state of play is that immigration is going nowhere. votes will start within the next couple of hours. the bottom line, though, is democrats are sticking very hard on their opposition to president

trump's immigration proposal which includes an end to, quote, unquote, chain migration, which allows folks here in the united states to bring over family members, extended family members. they also want to end the visa lottery program. that is republicans, president trump, democrats don't want to do that. republicans on the other side will say, but we're going to give you a pathway to citizenship for these daca recipients. i don't view to come to the middle. right now neither side is moving. >> who is stronger do you think in terms of what hill they're willing to die on? dianne feinstein started with give us a clean bill on daca. i've got to tell you, logically that is a position. i don't know that they win. logically, what's going on with these daca people is separate from all of these other considerations. but it doesn't seem like the democrats are holding fast there. who is stronger to their won't bend to this point? >> depends on what the final proposal is going to look like. a lot will come down to the ten democratic senators up for re-election in states that president trump won.

of those ten senators, five of them trump won their state in 2016 by double digits. there could be an incredible amount of pressure on them to support some kind of compromise deal at the end. i do think that democrats at some point will blink. if it gets to the point where donald trump said the other day where this is the final chance to get it done, and they really believe it, i do think at the 11th hour you'll see democrats blink a little bit. by blinking they will have at least got these daca kids citizenship or at least on a path to citizenship. >> it will be another very interesting day in washington, d.c. that's safe to say. mark preston, thank you very much. >> happy valentine's day. >> i love you, chris. no, i don't. >> i love you. >> what's happening on this show? >> what's wrong with love? >> a lot of man love between you and our guests. >> what's wrong with it? >> nothing. >> we need more love. >> jim jordan saying happy

valentine's day to you. >> we need more of that. cnn "newsroom" with john berman after this. the lipstick on the collar, that's mine. he moved away but i got the he moved away but i got the collar. start winning today. book now at lq.com we know that when you're spending time with the grandkids start winning today. every minute counts. and you don't have time for a cracked windshield. that's why we show you exactly when we'll be there. saving you time, so you can keep saving the world. >> kids: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ this is the story of green mountain coffee roasters dark magic told in the time it takes to brew your cup.

first, we head to vermont. and go to our coffee shop. and meet dave. hey. why is dark magic so spell-bindingly good, he asks? let me show you. let's go. so we climb. hike. see a bear. woah. reach the top. dave says dark magic is a bold blend of coffee with rich flavors of uganda, sumatra, colombia and other parts of south america. like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters packed with goodness. feel the power of thenew power...smax.

...to fight back theraflu's powerful new formula to defeat 7 cold and flu symptoms... fast. so you can play on. theraflu expressmax. new power. we do have breaking news this morning. what could be a major development surrounding the controversy over rob porter, the key white house aide who was either fired or resigned after domestic abuse allegations surfaced. what did the white house know? when did they know it? this morning we just learned that congress is investigating. cnn in this exclusive interview just heard from the chairman of the house oversight committee, trey gowdy.