this has been something that the white house -- it's a huge embarrassment for the white house. they want to explain it the best they could. there was a period that it looked like they thought that porter would hang on to the job. he was a popular guy whose star was rising. he helped write the state of the union speech. they wanted to protect him. there was a point that it was untenable. >> shepard: you said they were trying to protect him after the photograph had been public and after all of this information had been written about in the white house and they knew about it. even if it had been locked up in the office of personnel security? >> yeah, it was clear that they thought that perhaps they could ride this out, get their story out and explain circumstances. there was a period that porter's future -- it was not certain that porter was on his way out. so there were efforts made to communicate their position. so this has been an evolving story for the white house and frustrating for reporters to try to lock down their position. >> shepard: and that's the reason that this conti

speaker, the speaker of the house is supposed to be the speaker of this entire house. and the entire will of this house and the democratic side and republican side is to pass a daca bill. but we are running out of time. instead of following the bipartisan consensus of the majority in this house, this speaker is yielding to the will of the majority party's anti-immigration french unilaterally. and that fringe is led by this president. bend to thise to fringe, this body, the shining be can on the hill, this light in this country will go dark. the senate was able to pass the bipartisan agreement due to the hard promise of leader mcconnell, and the good works of our democratic leadership as allow, theow, simply body to vote on a daca bill. we, however, have no such commitment on this side. 22,000 dreamers in the state of new jersey, their doctors, lawyers, they are connected to their churches, parents, teachers, they are business owners. i spent time in a church where a immigrant was taken from his family and put into a detention center. he was not a threat to anyone. my co

but the white house counsel and the white house chief of staff don mcgahn and john kelly apparently sat on that information and did nothing about it. they certainly did nothing to get rob porter out of that job or away from classified information that he was explicitly not cleared to see. when president trump decided to ignore the fact that jared kushner couldn't get a security clearance, presumably that decision was made on the basis of the president thinking he knows everything to know about jared kushner and the president felt comfortable and he cleared kushner to see everything. with rob porter the president had no idea that there was any sort of problem with him. and yet, he put him in this job. he allowed hip to continue in this job where he saw and handled every single piece of information that crossed the president's desk including classified materials. did the president not know, did the president not know that rob porter couldn't get a security clearance in did the president think that he had one? the white house chief of staff and white house counsel knew that rob porter coul

so the white house schiff wants to make it clear that the white house is involved. but they're not. hey are the ones looking at it not the white house. >> harris: david, there has not been as i seen or read push back on the actual memo the first one from the democrats. that there push back we want to make it longer or do some kind of politics. what's your take on that. >> as we were anticipating this memo heavily and it turned out not to be as much as a bombshell as everybody, you know, as everybody thought it was, right? i mean, that was the main issue in that it's reporting there is question about how or where the fisa court was. >> harris: is the democrats going to be bombshell? i know you haven't seen it but you run in democratic circles. >> the reality is this whole thing is a big smoke screen designed to draw, take away attention from mueller and the investigation. >> harris: you don't think there is a problem with using a document that is maybely unverified to spy on americans whomever they are? whether they work for the trump campaign or not? >> the fisa court. >> harris: do

house, and taking things from the house, and they are eating all of the food in the house, and sleep ing in the beds. and trying to imagine your position if this were your house, and all of the sudden, you had all of the uninvited guests taking over your house and basically abusing it. we know a lot of what happened here through the writings of young ada in her diary that she kept which we are fortunate to have which were donated to us by ada's great granddaughter. and so what she writes in the diary is very fascinating. she writes about the battle. she writes about her concern for her brother. she has three brothers that are all serving in the confederate army and their fate is unknown to her. she writes about the things that a teenaged girl would write about. she writes about not getting along with her parents. she writes a what about her hopes and dreams are for her future, a future, and we learn from the diary she is pro confederate. and when the union army is defeated, she gloats about it in the diary, and after two days' battle, david hunter and the soldiers were defeated and th

rob porter inside the white house. an says that absolutely the president should publicly and vocally condemn domestic violence which the president has not done. he said clearly a breakdown happened inside the white house and needs to be addressed and kevin mccarthy, a rumored possible replacement said he has not spoken to the president about a job and said that there is no job opening right now. did not answer the question about whether he would like the job. that's notable. joining us now to discuss this. politics reporter from the guardian, sab rena and political commenter selena zito, i got the official letter just now from the chairman of the house oversight committee trey gowdy to john kelly. i have not had a chance to read the whole thing. but one part of this sticks out. trey gowdy tells john kelly that based on what christopher wray, the fbi director told congress yesterday, that christopher wray's comments might victim a statement by the white house press secretary in which he said he learned the extent of the

the white house. the world tunes in to see what president trump will do about a number of things, including gun control. his administration is in the spotlight because her former campaign aide rick gates just walked out of a courtroom, just pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring against the united states and making false statements. we'll dive in that but first the president finished up the joint press conference with malcolm turnbull and standing next to a prime minister of a country of an example of how to do gun rowe form -- reform control. the topic did come up. >> they have to be adept. i'm not talking about every teacher. i'm talking about a small percentage. but people that have great ability with weaponry and with guns, those are the only people i'm talking about. but they've protect the student. >> while he didn't take questions from other than friendly media today, the president has been speaking a great deal today. this time in front of audiences, live people and not the twitter following.

but then there's the house. the top democrat in the house of representatives says there's no deal without a promise to protect the dreamers. so what to do? plus, the memos. days after a republican document blasted the russian investigation, the democrats are trying to give their side, they say. now president trump is talking to his staffers and deciding whether to let the democrat version go public. nations like russia, france and north korea hold regular military parades. washington hasn't seen one since 91. president trump says it's time to roll out the tanks. i want a parade! let's get to it. >> good wednesday afternoon from the deck. senate leaders say they now have a deal. a deal to prevent another government showdown tomorrow night. but the top democrat in the house of representatives is threatening to derail it. nancy pelosi has been speaking nonstop on the house floor for the past five hours. the house minority leader says that democrats will not approve a spending bill unless the republican house speaker

republicans control the house, the senate and the white house. least they could do is keep the government open. we stand once again with no deal on dreamers and no agreement on a long-term spending bill. republicans have no strategy on funding the government. c.r. uld prefer to pass after c.r. after c.r. how long will republicans govern from crisis to crisis. no one can budget like the republicans are governing. this ignores urgent bipartisan priorities. the democrats have been fighting for it for months. the most urgent is passing a clean dream act. dackave recipients are american in every way except on paper. we have less than one month until daca expires, a deadline that the president himself created. this continuing resolution is morally bankrupt and fails to honor the protective status for immigrants and fails to raise the budget caps. this continuing resolution fails to honor the trare protective status for immigrants and fails to raise the caps and neglects to provide funding for hurricane and wildfire-impacted communities and our veterans.

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend vincent derose, st. francis xavier catholic church, washington, d.c. the chaplain: o god who are the hope of sinners and joy of the holy, grant this house a spirit of compunction for failures, perseverance for growth, and humility in success. for the good of our country we ask you to inflame the members of this chamber with wisdom, hope, courage, and all the other virtues necessary to secure prosperity throughout our land and equal justice unto the law. above all, help us to be a ople of loving and counter with our ther and neighbors around the world. establishing an ever more perfect society on earth we may one day know the joys of paradise with you. we ask this with our neighbors around the world. establishing an in your most ho name, amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his pproval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands

, it is up to the white house or whatever agency, it's up to that agency, the white house in this case, to make the judgment about the security clearance. interesting again hearing raj shaw today, he made, we counted, 25 references to the background clearance process. just have a listen as he was making this argument. >> the background investigation, process, the tried and true process. the security clearance process. we relied on a process. this is a process. the process was still ongoing. >> the decider in that process is the white house. the fbi does the background check, the white house has to make the decision. so the process is the administration's process here. so that attempt to kind of throw it off on someone else really just doesn't stand up to the facts. >> jim sciutto, thanks very much. >>> will the government shut down again? has rand paul managed to derail a compromise between republicans and democrats? that's ahead. >>> united states senate is grappling with the possibility of another government shutdown. yes, again. turns out it could be a long night. phil mattingl

first i want to two to pam brown standing by at the white house. >> reporter: at the white house morale is low about the handling of the rob porter situation with the white house so fiercely coming to his defense in the wake of these domestic abuse allegations. in fact, you heard today a rare admission from the white house saying that this could have been handled better. there's still a lot of outstanding questions here tonight about what john kelly, the chief of staff knew and when today the white house said that he was not fully aware until yesterday. then when pressed on that, the deputy press secretary said he didn't know about the picture of rob porter's ex-wife where she had a black eye. before there, there were on the record allegations from two of rob porter ex-wives that they were physically and verbally abused by him. john kelly, the chief of staff and other top white house aides knew months ago about some of these allegations. it raises the question why wasn't there an internal review. why was he able to keep his security clearance. the white house explains that away by sayin

what could the white house have done better? >> again, i'm not getting into ticktock detailed specifics. i think a lot of individuals were involved with the white house response to this, and a lot of us could have done better. >> thanks, clarifying about the two questions for you, so rob porter was not fired by the trump administration. >> resigned, and we accepted resignation. >> to follow up, you spoke with the president about these allegations this morning. can you give us a better idea about the concerns president had? this is a gentleman who was in the oval office close to the president, numerous times throughout the first year of the administration, what did the president specifically say about allegations in. >> he was surprised. we did not see what the allegations have brought forward, and so he was surprised by it, disheartened by it, and he was saddened. >> asking you about the memo from the house intelligence committee. >> sure. >> any update on the timeline, has the president made a decision, and where does the review

and republican of the house to override the white house. indication yet the republicans are willing to buck the president, so discussions are going to continue behind the scenes. >> that would be pretty remarkable step. i want to ask you about hearings on chill, powerful force telling senators they fully back not only russia interfered in 2016 election but agreed that russia is likely to interfere in upcoming elections. let's have a listen. >> well, so no change in high view of the 2017 assessment and i support that. and i agree with director pompeo's assessment about the likelihood of the 2018 occurrence as well. >> and participated in that 2018 work, and i stand by it now, and i grew he with pompeo this will not change or stop. >> yes, it's not going to change or stop. >> throughout the entire community, we have not seen any evidence of any significant change from last year. >> i agree with director pompeo. >> as do i. >> one by one the senior most intelligence chiefs contradicting the president. you are speaking these folks on the had hi

the fbi was sending that information to the white house and the white house had to make a decision whatdo 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 p

surroundings of the house. e family recovered really well from the battle and from the war. the hutters continued to own sandusky until 1952 and that is when the house was broken up among the family members. that is why we have so much of the furniture is that they stayed in the house until 1952. another owner took over the house in 1952. as she got older she wanted to sell the house and she sold it to a small group of concerned community citizens who formed a nonprofit organization to purchase the house with the intent to turn it into a public museum. that effort has been ongoing since 2000. two years ago the house was acquired by lynchburg college who operate it as a public museum but also as a history lab for learning and teaching students about history, how to run a museum, how to run a business and we have several students working here, giving tours, doing bookkeeping, doing research, working in our archaeology lab. it is exciting to be in a site that serves dual functions of being both a public site but al

the house? poke to this last year. >> things have changed now, and you look at the numbers right now and the chances to take back the house are real and serious, and republicans are champing on the bit to campaign against her. >> they have been since 2010. this isn't something new. the president said it's a secret weapon. not so secret. we all know what's going to happen. they're running ads in western pa and the special election, trying to tie our candidate to leader pelosi. he said he's not voting for leader pelosi. he thinks paul ryan and our leadership should leave. he's distased himself a little bit for it. i'm on the team here. i did what i did a year ago. i ran against the house leadership. i made my case. i lost. so we're on the team now, and i think our voter intensity is very, very high right now. we just saw us win some huge state districts in missouri that trump won by 25 points. you saw what happened in virginia. democrats are coming out to vote, and that's why i think if we play our

did they approach the white house? did they try to breach the white house grounds before? er the next couple hours. again, figure out what the intent was. >> as i've been listening to you, i think you've been following along. watching along west saw picture, i think it was our affiliate. what looked to be a white suv with smashed out windows. did you catch that? josh? >> reporter: this is john. >> i didn't know if josh -- he was following along. john. i don't know if you're in front of the tv but it looked like potentially, the car, or a car, that could be in question. go ahead. >> reporter: yeah. so the, it looks like a white mini van. >> yes. missing the back window. >> reporter: think of how dynamic these are. they went from condition normal to a vehicle rams the gate. at an unknown speed at this point. so the windows could have been smashed there impact but it could have been the instant response by law enforcement to take custody of the suspect. they may have to, they couldn't get window open in the back to quickly search the car for secondary devices or explosives. we

i want to start with the cover-up in the white house. the fbi chief contradicting the white house timeline today. we're going to talk nitty-gritty. but first, who's responsible for this? >> for what, don? the -- well, obviously, the white house -- >> the changing message and the screw up and -- >> the white house is responsible for it. and good on director wray for setting the record straight, as to what the fbi did. and so, you know, it's really disturbing to me, once again, to see this performance. it would have been so much better if they had just fessed up and said, you know, we didn't handle this very well. we critiqued ourselves, here's what happened, and here's what we're going to do to correct ourselves. but they just compound the errors here by changing their stories and not being forthright about this. and mistakes are going to happen, because even the white house prior administrations, you know, it's composed of people. people make mistakes. and i don't know why the reluctance to acknowledge that. >> yeah. should john kelly go,

ten minutes ago the house passed the budget deal earlier in the evening passed by the senate, house votedles on the progressive left and the conservative fiscal rate. a lot more coverage over the next few minutes on "fox and friends" first and coming up on "fox and friends". carly: this raises spending two years funding the government through march 23rd. let's go to more news. all about money. $1.7 billion obama administration paid the iranians went into the hands of iran back to terrorists, the washington times reports the government traced the transferred you as cash back to terrorist groups including hezbollah as well as several rebel groups. the obama administration maintained the payments made two years ago was paid part of the settlement over irani and claims to regime assets used for an arms deal in a 70s. rob: a journalist calls for a professor to drown their all conservative students. is the ferrari responding to a post about teachers lowering conservative student grades tweeting they shouldn't do that. it is not right. they should hold the conservative students heads underwater

the white house defending its handling of the rob porter abuse allegations. this much is clear. several top white house officials, they knew. they knew about the physical abuse allegations for months but did nothing about it. cnn's abby phillip live at the white house with the very latest. abby. >> reporter: good morning, john. the question is who knew what and when, specifically whether senior white house aides and chief of staff knew about the domestic abuse allegations against kelly's right-hand man rob porter. we are hearing president trump was not happy with how this played out in the public's sphere. it is is not going to cost kelly his job because right now there is simply no one to replace him. president trump reportedly dismayed about the unfolding scandal over the white house's handling of the abuse allegations involving awe former top aide rob porter. a source familiar with the president's recent on discussions with associates tell cnn that mr. trump remains uncertain about how to solve the problem. other sources tell cnn chief of staff john kelly's job is secure for n

the g.o.p. houseo, that details how mccabe testified without the dossier, the fisa warrant to surveilled, would never have been approved. mccabe is also tied to the clinton email cover up. the recent reports, andrew mccabe was forced to resign overer revelations and is soon o be released doj inspector general report and we are told all of the clinton email investigation. "the wall street journal" -- >> this is a fox news alert. i am marianne rafferty. all eyes on capitol hill this hour where we are past the deadline for another government shutdown. the hope is that it will be brief with the senate now casting a procedural vote. if that vote is successful, we could see a senate vote in my continuing budget and a couple of hours from now. the budget vote is expected to breeze through the senate but could face a tougher challenge once it arrives in the house. conservatives in the house are upset about too much spending and many democrats oppose it because it doesn't address daca. production for the so-ca

not operating in the white house. then, the fbi director testifies and today, sarah sanders at the podium again and is asked what accounts for the discrepancy? >> the fbi portion was closed, the white house personnel security office, who is the one that makes a recommendation for adjudication, had not finished their process and not made a recommendation to the white house. >> wait a minute. who? the office of white house personnel security? that is who she's now pointing the finger at. remember, she just said yesterday, this is a process that doesn't operate in the white house. now, she's naming an office that has white house in the title and she's blaming them for not making a recommendation yet to the white house of which they are part. now, even if you believe this new story, and that is a big if, given how the story has changed, but if somehow the white house's credibility is in tact, then you have to disbelieve what they said yesterday. in the briefing room, reporters tried to get some clarity. >> so, those two st

the white house is embroiled in a fight over the decision to block the memo from house democrats, defending the government's investigation into contacts with the russians. >> this does not keep american lives safe. what it does is it reveals serious national security information that puts our lives at risk. >> democrats say they have a right to read the memo after the president quickly declassified the memo from devin nunes. >> i've read the documents. the schiff ploim show how deliberately misleading and dishonest the nunes memo is. i think it is worth showing you can't believe anything they put out. >> the message of the week rergs building the infrastructure. all part of it for next year. it would soar by $7 trillion over the next decade while spending more on border security and cutting programs like medicare. the president wants to see a big jump in spending. >> we have to do it. others are doing it. if they stop, we'll stop. if they're not stopping, we'll be so far ahead of everybody else in nuclear like you've never seen before. >> the president is seeking cuts in medicare despite pr

let the house work its will. some on their side are wanting a guarantee of a vote on goodlatte, give it to them. we want to have the debate and see where we go and the bipartisan proposal is heard. and it is bipartisan, it is unifying and great transparency. and if the senate comes up with something that they want to send over here, then let's consider that and see what that is and consider that as well. queen of the hill, put it all out there. let the house work its will. , t don't say to the house remove your dignity as your role in this important -- an issue that is being discussed as a country, but cannot be discussed in a legislative framework on the floor of the house of representatives. we just can't accept that. it has ramifications. reporter: are you against the tax deal or -- ms. pelosi: i'm telling people why i'm voting the way i am. [captions copyright national satellite corp. 2018] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. vis

so the house and the white house news it was in the works. and at least some of the leadership on the republican side has been broadly supportive of it. we heard from nancy pelosi who preempted this agreement saying it was not the kind of thing she could support because it doesn't deal with the issue of dreamers. there are a lot of liberals who in the house in particular who feel like they have not gotten the same kaind of assurances frm ryan that democrats got from mcconnell that immigration would be dealt with in an honest and open way. there will be conservatives who say why are we spending all of this money. particularly on domestic programs. i talked to one senate republican yesterday who said we need to spend this money on defense. i don't like the idea we're going to spend potentially hundreds of billions of dollars more on domestic programs that we don't need. that it being said, there's broad support for this deal in the senate already. and i think -- i don't want to step on halle's toes, but the idea this was not worked ob in a vacu

it's in the white house. it's politics. he white house president of the united states. >> let me say this we don't know exactly what was in the warning. we tone know if there was issues that came up in the interview. i was listening to one of the women talk on the "washington post" video. she may have been telling them she thought he was fine to serve. she said that on the video that he could do the job and do it well. but that also -- so, again, i don't know what he was told we don't know what the president was told. >> go ahead. >> just quickly you have the resources in the entire country -- you have the best source resources in the world at your disposal one woman in kirk particular. one had a blog up in april of 2017 in which she laid out the abuse that she suffered from this individual. and not only that but john kelly the chief of staff knew from the fbi and promoted the individual. this was a power struggle. this is a power struggle in the white house. and john kelly needed an ally that's why he was afraid to let him

who at the white house by the fbi?terms of just speaking with the women and sort of what frame of minds they were in, i will say, just having had extensive phone conversations with both of them, they are not interested, so they tell me, in seeing rob porter go down. they were not interested or motivated by, you know, final outcome in which his career would be ruined. the second ex-wife actually told me that the reason she decided to come out and because she saw that the first ex-wife had come out, and she felt like as a part of this me too movement, she didn't want her to stand alone. >> all right, you guys. i really, really appreciate it. david drucker, mj lee and -- . >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. deadline day on capitol hill. as congress rushes to spend a new budget plan, democrats are asking what happened to the plan to shrink the deficit and balance the budget? plus, what did they know and when did they know it? top officials protected a top aide accused o

the white house pushing back tonight, as a matter of fact. an official saying that porter misled everyone in the west wing. plus president trump approved the release of a democratic rebuttal to the controversial nunes memo? the white house hinting he will providing there is no threat to national security. i'll talk to a democrat who is a member of the house intelligence committee. what we have got a lot of ground to cover. we'll bring in cnn's gloria borger, white house correspondent jim acosta, matt lewis, a commentator, as well. this story, gloria, is unbelievable. i understand you have new reporting before we dig into more details on rob porter, the outgoing secretary. what have you found out? >> my colleague dana bash have done some digging. he didn't know about all of this until "the daily mail" article was brought to his attention and he was not very happy, he was furious about it. we also know that his daughter ivanka was very unhappy about it. and as you reported before, chief of staff kelly knew about it. we're not sure to what extent

the white house and we are fully declassified the nunes memo. few ways to compromise their, where the white house would say we're not going to declassified a whole thing. reject a little bit, then it goes to the full house to override the decision. we are still several procedural steps away from seeing the democratic memo prepared by mr. schiff and his colleagues. again, that memo is an important next up to those that think we have not gotten to the bottom of the carter page fisa warrant and the potential scandal that so many things it -- so many think it represents. host: michael in georgia, democrat line. caller: i would like you to ask your guest, how do we know the white house did not conclude with nunes like they did before? in writing the memo? this is something that the democrats at the white house was working with republicans on. guest: there is no longer would prevent at least some kind of back-and-forth cooperation and discussion between senior members of the house intelligence committee and white house. pedro, there are strong norms a

the white house. e truth of the matter is because of the 60 rule boat in the senate is we need democratic support. they would not support our increase in defense spending without that tremendous increase in social welfare programs. >> chris: during her confirmation hearing for this job back in january of 2017, you criticized the obama presidency for overspending. here you are. >> i believe it's a matter of principle that it must be addressed sooner rather than later. i also know fundamental changes are necessary if we truly want a healthy economy. >> chris: but under this new plan with a new spending, the deficit will rise from $439 billion in 2015 under obama to a projected $1.2 trillion in 2019 and trillion dollar deficits for the years after that. there's always a reason. in other words you're saying it's the democrat's fault. obama might have said it was the republicans fault in the recession. bottom line, isn't president trump the big spender now? >> director mulvaney: go to your premise. your pre

i deemed it, thankfully i checked with the house counsel, had the full backing of the house counsel, i thought it was unconscionable, that the woman did not have representation but that the c.a.a. itself did not cover her. that was a terrible, terrible wrong that will be rectified forever by this legislation. again, i want to thank chairman harper for his leadership. this is a remarkable bill, an important bill, and will protoket -- protect employees from abuse. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. brady: i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: let me thank the ranking member, mr. brady, and acknowledge his long-standing leadership and friendship and as well the work he does with the chairman and for his leadership as well this is a highlight on the floor of the house for the bipartisanship that it represents. the tone of which we are speaking, even though we know that this is a matter of urg

why does everyone in the white house speaking in the room, get with don mcgahn, white house communication director hope hicks and former staff secretary rob porter? sarah huckabee sanders today defending the white house response to the allegations, and relaying what she describes as the president's words and the president's condemnation of domestic violence. >> the president and the entire administration take domestic violence very seriously and believe all allegations need to be investigated thoroughly. above all, the president supports the victims of domestic violence and believes everyone should be treated fairly and with due process. we have addressed this situation extensively and we have nothing more to add. >> why haven't we heard the president say exactly what you said right there, he takes domestic violence very seriously? a >> i spoke with the president directly. those are the words he gave me. >> why hasn't he said that? he had the opportunity -- >> it is my job to speak on behalf of the president. he relayed that message directly to me and i'm relaying it directly to you. >> d

she ran screaming out of the house. and she died as a result of the fire on her clothes. and so he remembered that growing up. and also as a little boy at one point there was a small fire here in this house which he and his dad put out. around the dining room area. so it was something that remained with him throughout his life, this fear that there was going to be an awful fire in here. he and his mother were very close. actually, he was very close to his dad as well. but his father died when franklin was only 18 years old. so his mother became the main person in his life. eleanor and sarah roosevelt had an interesting relationship over time. i mean, when she and fdr were first married, eleanor roosevelt looked upon sarah as the mother that she really never had. and so they were, i would say, pretty close in the beginning. and sarah kind of helped eleanor with running of the household because eleanor roosevelt had no idea how to run a household, or even raise children. and sarah was very good at that. so she kind of took over. and then when eleanor roosevelt became more in

let's begin at the white house. kelly o'donnell, we are learning that rob porter, the staff secretary, accused of domestic violence by his ex-wives that he could be out as early as today, is that correct? >> reporter: that's our reporting and the issue is that rob porter offered his resignation and sarah huckabee sanders said there would be an extended time of transition, where he would be able to help facilitate a successor. that has changed in the sense that there has been a lot of controversy around this, a lot of attention drawn to the two former wives of rob porter. the statements they have made publicly alleging verbal abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse and porter has said that these are smears. he has said that these are baseless allegations and a coordinated campaign against him. we saw a shift, in fact, that at first, members of the white house senior team including chief-of-staff john kelly were very supportive of porter and he was described as a man of true integrity and character. that has changed

he's the top democrat on the house judiciary committee. uses republicans of trying to obstruct the russia probe by releasing that controversial nunes memo from congressman devin nunes on friday. on the rachel maddow show last night congressman adam schiff, ranking democrat on the house intel committee says this all started after former fbi director james comey hearing before his committee. take a listen. >> it was the very next day after that hearing that devin nunes went on the midnight run to his undisclosed location to get these incriminating documents that didn't stand for anything like he represented them. and the day after that he would present them back to the white house. so that whole gambut began and an effort to distract from the russia probe and try to put government on trial. >> joining us msnbc contributor for daily beast, jordan fabian and eugene scott, political reporter for "the washington post." betsy, let's start with that exclusive rebuttal coming from jerry nadler, the important point here is he has seen the fisa warran

just help us understand because you were in the white house in this role, does the white house grant ty clearance or does the fbi? >> the fbi doesn't grant the security clearance. at the end of the day, the decision is with the white house. and the reality is that from january 2017 when rob porter first reportedly told don mcgahn about these issues, there's no way this white house should have had this person in that position. there just isn't. as the fbi background process confirmed the very serious nature of what he had done, there's no way he should have been in this position. >> and so anita, what does it say that they did have him in this position? what does that tell you about how seriously they took these allegations? >> you know, who can know what was going through their minds. but what we can infer from the fact that we kept -- that they kept him in this position is that clearly domestic abuse is not an issue that they take seriously when it's compared to having someone who they think is moving paper well. and that's a value judgment that i think women across this country are

that the white house has laid about. can you speak to what the trect tore said. he seemed to indicate that first you would have known might have been in march, june and november and in january when the case was actually closed. ms. sanders: we explained the process last week. the white house personnel office received information last year and what they considered to be the final background information report in november but not made a final recommendation for ajudication to the white house because the process was still ongoing. in the view of personnel security office, the f.b.i.'s report required significant additional investigatory field work before personnel office could begin to evaluate the information for ajudication. as the director said information was coming to the white house personnel office in february. reporter: in the july report and back to march, what information was in those reports? ms. sanders: i wouldn't know the answer to that. raj said the nd investigation was ongoing. director wray said it was close

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. loving god we give you thanks for giving us another day, as we meditate on all the blessings of life, we especially pray for the pleasing of peace in our lives and in our world. may your special blessings be upon the members of this assembly as they return from a long weekend in their home districts. give them wisdom and charity, that they might work together for the common good. may all that is done this day in the people's house be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings announces to the house his approval. pursuant to rule 1, clause 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge of alieges will be led by mr. schneider. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with berty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempo

a lot of it coming from the white house, but even more coming from outside the white house. there is no question that people who have not been happy with the chief of staff, people whose own access has been restricted have taken this opportunity. they smell blood in the water, if you will, to go after john kelly to suggest that he's on the verge of being out. we've seen some officials and aides and former aides do this publicly, like anthony scaramucci. he said yesterday john kelly should go. others have been saying privately he should go. but john, the reality here is the president, we are told, still believes in and has confidence in and does not blame his chief of staff for this whole episode. not saying he's not particularly thrilled with him, but he does not blame him entirely for this. as we stand now, john kelly is still the chief of staff. we're told that's not changing any time soon. as always, john, it's a one day at a time proposition around here. >> so help me further on that. a couple days ago it was the president himself on phone calls floating the possibility o

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the white house chief of staff and the white house counsel knew rob porter couldn't get a security clearance and they knew why. the white house tonight is putting out word that the president had no idea. so that's legally important. who cleared this young man to see all this stuff that you need a top secret security clearance to see? who cleared him to do it? fbi did not grant him a clearance, did not provide information to the white house that said he deserves a clearance. who cleared him to see all this stuff? it is disturbing and unprecedented enough that this president decided to have blind faith in his son-in-law and agreed to give him access to classified information. it was his judgment call. but here this is not clear that this was the president's judgment call. this is a systemic problem. if the president didn't know there was a problem with this guy's clearance, that means somebody provided that guy with classified information without him being cleeshd to see it and without the president waving the clearance process. isn't that illegal? joining us now is congressman shawn patrick m

here and the white house chief of staff contacted the justice department on issues like that, you may want to clean house here, they have been cleaning house. what just happened today with rachel brand, this is a different thing. rachel brand as i said was a trump appointee and had only been in the number three job in the justice department for nine months. she's had a distinguished legal career, including having been a supreme court clerk but it was a gigantic promotion for her. when she got that job as the russia investigation was exploding into a crisis for this presidency, once she got that gigantic job given where she was at in her career, she became something else besides the number three official in the u.s. department of justice. she became the trap door underneath robert mueller's special counsel investigation of the president and his campaign. and that's because robert mueller gets to run his own team, gets to run his own investigation but he doesn't have total independence and free reign under the regula

the george w. bush white house. he is one of these folks who is always sort of a fuzzy person in the background of photos of people getting on helicopters and such. he knows the way white houses work. he knows the way white houses are supposed to work. and one big outstanding question tonight is was he familiar? was he aware of these shocking and deeply ugly allegations against rob porter. that's something that we can expect, particularly white house reporters to be digging into in the coming days. >> gabe sherman has been following this closely is tweeting tonight. he says widespread chatter tonight among republicans close to the white house that trump is nearing a decision to name gary cohn as kelly's replacement. peter nicholas, in "the wall street journal's" moments with john kelly, did it seem like the end could be near for him? >> well, replacing john kelly would be a risky thing to do. bear in mind he has only been in the job six months. he is the second chief of staff. if he is replaced that would only add to

the white house has avoided it all week. when you're attack fbi agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing. and in the last several minutes a white house official has told cnn, as for the fate of rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, that there is no consideration of or conversation about firing rosenstein. you have to ask the question, has anybody told the president? >> good question. thanks very much. jim acosta at the white house. let's bring in our legal experts. we're just learning that there was a message recently or just delivered by the fbi director christopher wray to the team. >> our colleague reports that he said he knows they're going through a tough time especially in the unsettling last few days, he said he was inspired by the fbi and the work that the employees do. he also said, quote, the american people read the newspapers and watch tv but your work is all that matters. actions speak louder handle the words. chris wray is in this tough spot. he was appointed by this president. it

and that's not good for the trump white house. >> from the white house to the "big brother" house. u. >>> coming up, director rob reiner talks about his eye-opening interview about the russian investigation with john brennan and james clapper. >>> that's a wrap of this hour of msnbc live. right now it's time for "am joy" with my good friend, joy reid. >> we're going to use our best people. >> we'll get the best people. >> we'll be using our best people. >> we have to get the best people. we can no longer be so politically correct. we do things today. we're so politically correct. people are afraid to walk, afraid to trucalk, they can't speak. >> good morning.