patrick healey cnn political analyst and mary katherine ham, cnn political columnist. we just got it confirmed, and i think it's significant, that after the photo of one of rob porter's ex-wives was released -- the photo was public, sarah sanders, the press secretary, sets up an off-the-record meeting with rob porter accused of domestic abuse so porter could tell his version of the story to several reporters there. despite what she was saying at the podium about trying to push him out within 40 minutes of this stuff going public, the white house now we learned is trying to spin their way out of this, even after the photo was released. dana, this is a problem. for now, sarah sanders. >> there are so many problems. as you said, the timeline and the reality of what they're saying now about the swift action that they took versus the reality of what was going on and the fact that kaitlan collins, our white house correspondent just confirmed that sarah sanders brought in four print reporters to speak off the record to rob porter to get his side of the story on wednesday. wed

. >> with us this morning, julie davis, collin of the washington post, and mary katherine ham. the administration in a mess again. two aids resigned this past week because of allegations of domestic abuse. the president is angry about whether or not he should fire and replace his chief of staff. he is also suggesting this storm is unfair to them and to him. people's lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. some are true, some are false, some are old, some are new. there is no recovery for someone falsely accused. life and career are gone. is there no such thing as due process any more? to be clear, this is hardly, as the president put it, a mere allegation. porter's first photo provided these photos to the fbi this week. the second wife also spoke to the fbi months ago and said he feshlly -- verbally abused her regularly. and there was an episode where he grabbed her and pulled her out of the spouhower. >> it was a low grade terror all of the time, what i would do to set something off. he is not a monster, he is an intelligent, kind, smart man, but he is al

i have phil mattingly here with me, mary katherine hamm and also with me bill press, host of "the bill press show." good to see you guys. to you, sir, first just on what he was just laying out, what the president perhaps could support. that a what are the chances of that passing? >> i think boris laid out in good detail why this is a complicated issue. first, there's no trust on either side right now. on the right serve conservatives feel like people on the left want to take their guns away and on the left people think they are beholden to the nra and have blood on their hands. now, the bill that boris was talking about, senator john cornyn, senator chris murphy, it's small bore but it has bipartisan support. however, the house passed that bill and paired it with concealed reciprocity. that has no chance in the u.s. senate. it is a major issue that gun rights folks want to move forward. so as long as those two are paired together, there's no future there. i think the interesting element here is can you keep the debate narrow. can you keep it to just a background check and then it has a

relationship is innocent, it seems like he should be more willing to openly condemn -- >> i had mary katherine sitting in your seat yesterday. just because he seems nice to the president, the president doesn't need to be nice to putin. he needs to say russia, stop! >> forget whatever dirt russia may have on him. there are a lot of conspiracy theories about that. >> we don't know. >> right. but he has been very consistent to be unable to criticize anyone who says nice things about him. it's not just putin. neo nazis, david duke, unsavory characters who did not necessarily have the best interests of americans at heart but said nice things about him. he can't bring himself to say mean things back. >> criticizing his predecessor, president obama, saying i've been much tougher on russia than obama. just look at the facts. total fake news. obama personally warned putin against interfering, imposed sanctions on russian individuals, expeled 35 russian diplomats, closed two russian compounds in the u.s. >> the easiest way to get him to refuse a policy is say obama did the reverse. lots of democrats, in

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. >> here with me in studio, julia davis of "the new york times," and mary katherine ham with "the federalist." i don't think we need to translate, but just in case, when the speaker says, come on, everybody should be condemning domestic violence, there's a certain person who works at 1600 pennsylvania avenue who had rob porter in his employ who has not. that would be the president of the united states. >> that's right. he actually came out last week after the allegations were well known and after rob porter had resigned and said essentially it's a tough time for him, very sad, he expressed sympathy for porter, but no sympathy for the women who are his alleged victims. he didn't make any sort of generalized statement about domestic violence or no tolerance for that. he has sent out sara huckabee sanders to say that to reporters this week, but he's been given opportunity after opportunity, including as recently as yesterday at the white house by reporters who were present for events with him to say his own piece about domestic violence and if he considers it unacceptable. he's not taken that o

studio to share their reporting and insights, cnn's nia malika henderson, cnn's jeff zeleny, and mary katherine ham. for all the president's talk of being so unpredictable and how his unpredictability helps him, he's so predictable when there are bad headlines. or, as i like to say, he knows more than we know. he's being warming up to the today's disgraceful for a couple days. and he lashes out at the attorney general, who of course recused himself, getting bob mueller and the special investigation. what else do we know about the president's, let's call it, frustration? i think it's more than that. >> i think it is more than frustration. maybe another "f" word, i'm not sure we can say it on television. he's very furious at the attorney general. he makes that point clear. if you're the attorney general, you wondier why you endure this humiliation. i talked to someone who is friendly and supportive of jeff sessions. he actually believes in the work he's doing at the justice department, the conservative work he's done as attorney general. he's essentially, you know, t trying to ignore this as much

reporting and their insights today, cnn's nia malika henderson, michael shear, phil mattingly, and mary katherine ham. you heard leader pelosi there. they're mad. mitch mcconnell has promised let's do this, keep the government open, do a spending deal, then we'll move on to an immigration debate. an uncertain immigration debate, but we'll move on to it. she wants the same promise in the house. how much of that is a negotiating tactic? how much is she under pressure from the left that she can't personally sign on to what would be a big compromise? >> it's all of the above. it's a negotiating tactic. what you're going to hear from house democrats over the course of the next 24 hours, and that's how long it's going to take before they can vote on anything, is they're going to push repeatedly for a commitment from speaker ryan to have a similar process to what senator majority leader mcconnell has promised. speaker ryan says once the president signs off on something, i'll put it on the floor immediately. that's not good enough for democrats. if they don't get that, this will likely still pass. at lea

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